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Liberal Arts Curriculum

Daniel Kontowski on the freedom of students, prescribed curriculum and a ‘cafeteria’ model of education

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Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

David Dussault on human relationships, life experience and how to understand the influence that IT has on our everyday life

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Student Life in the Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the seven liberal arts, first textbooks and drinking as part of the student culture

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Classical Education

Daniel Kontowski on trivium and quadrivium, the great books tradition and what are the arguments against classical education

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Higher Education and Employability

David Dussault on the ideal type of students, gig economy and the difference between skills and knowledge

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Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the first European universities, different models of the education regulation and the proliferation of universities at the end of the Middle Ages

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Liberal Arts Education

Daniel Kontowski on the idea of liberal education, its learning outcomes and the consumerist approach to education

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Crossmedia, Multimedia and Transmedia

Media Scientist Renira Rampazzo Gambarato on three different types of transmedia stories, ‘The Matrix’ and why do we need transmedia stories

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Scientific Examination of Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the documentation techniques in art forensics, types of paints and how can we use spectrum analysis to detect art forgeries

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Cultural Evolution of Altruism

Philosopher Jonathan Birch on memes, cultural evolution and the difference in altruistic behaviour between humans and chimpanzees