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    Onur Güntürkün
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    Anson Mackay
    Fresh Water and Climate Change
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    Materiality in the History of Christianity
    Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce objects just down to their function or purpose
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    History of Laughter
    Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was perceived in the Medieval Europe
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    Love and Pain
    Peter Jones on love as a contract, religious love in middle ages and why love is tied to self-sacrifice
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    Theory-Change and Scientific Realism
    Professor of Philosophy of Science John Worrall on scientific revolutions, continuity of science, and the change of Newtonian physics by Einstein's theory
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    Modern Nationalism
    Historian Richard Bourke on the components of nationalism, national identity, and the role of ideology and the state
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    Monetary Revolution in the 11th century England
    Historian Rory Naismith on the monk Ælfric Bata, the formation of the English monetary system, and the silver standard
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    Science and Spectacle in the 18th Century Russia
    Historian of Science Simon Werret on the Russian Academy of Sciences, the foundation of Saint Petersburg, and the application of a spectacle in order to develop scientific tradition
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    Social Сondenser and Socialist Urban Planning
    Social anthropologist Michal Murawski on the soviet constructivism in architecture, the origins of the concept 'microrayon', and the ideas behind soviet Khrushchevki-buildings
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    Renaissance Maps of Paradise
    Historian Alessandro Scafi on the four rivers of paradise, Calvin's mapping of Eden, and the first attempts to imagine heaven not on Earth
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    Shlomo Izre'el on the myths about the Hebrew language, its relations with Yiddish, and how children teach their parents
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