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    Marzena Szymanska
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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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    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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    The Role of Science in Art
    Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the art market, the ‘American Leonardo’ and why connoisseurship doesn't work in a court of law
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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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    The New Science of Culture
    Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the division into natural sciences and humanities, how to read art using the machine learning and why culture should be studied as an evolutionary science
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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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    Dante’s Heaven
    Alessandro Scafi on Divine Comedy story line, the desire of God, and Mark Twain
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    Historian of Art Martin Kemp on Leonardo da Vinci's intellectual contribution to engineering, Madonna Lisa, and the history of Earth
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