Podcasts
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Something to play every day: rural retirement culture
8 September, 2016
- Channel:
- Alumni
- Presented by:
- The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Artist:
- Professor Catherine Driscoll
Retiring from the city to the country is a popular dream. But what are the lives of these retirees like, and what do we need to know to improve them?
- 1 hour
- Download (MP3, 55.0Mb)
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Environmental Conservation and Archaeology
8 August, 2016
- Channel:
- Alumni
- Presented by:
- The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Artist:
- Tom Austen Brown
Archaeologists increasingly contribute data and perspectives to conservation biology, restoration ecology, and environmental science.
- 1 hour, 8 mins
- Download (MP3, 124.8Mb)
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For a political economy of space and place
4 August, 2016
- Channel:
- Alumni
- Presented by:
- The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Artist:
- Professor Adam Morton
Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet?
- 1 hour, 9 mins
- Download (MP3, 47.6Mb)
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The Chinese Enigma: China through European eyes 1700-1900
16 June, 2016
- Channel:
- Alumni
- Presented by:
- The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Artist:
- Professor Yixu Lu
Was China a land of wisdom, a senescent giant incapable of change, or a fractious adolescent with enormous industrial potential? Did going there help Europeans decide?
- 56 mins
- Download (MP3, 38.9Mb)
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The conversation machine
10 March, 2016
- Channel:
- Alumni
- Presented by:
- The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Artist:
- Nicola Piper, Professor of International Migration
What makes language possible in our species? This lecture outlines new understandings of our unique skill, with a focus on human cooperative capacities and the ultrasocial mind.
- 1 hour, 6 mins
- Download (MP3, 45.1Mb)
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