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    Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities
    Historian Peter Jones on Peter Abelard, logical analysis of the Scripture and what was the role of the universities in the Middle Ages
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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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    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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    Education in the Middle Ages
    Historian Peter Jones on monastic education, cathedral schools and apprenticeship in the Middle Ages
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    Panopticon in Russia
    Historian of Science Simon Werret on Michel Foucault, the Grigory Potemkin’s estate and theatricality of Samuel Bentham’s panopticon
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    Knowledge in Art
    Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on connoisseurship, how can we tell an original painting from a copy and why lesser details are so important in art
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    Materiality in the History of Christianity
    Historian 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
    Historian 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
    Historian 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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