ODDc Programme The Blue Mugge
Summer 2009
Tue 28 Apl The USA - how’s Obama doing?
based on www.opendemocracy.net (odn)
Tue 5 May Local Railways based on N. Staffs experience.
Tue 12 May Feminism Reviewed based on New Left Review, Apl 09.
Tue 19 May TV - dumbing-down arguments put - and challenged…
based on BBC Thinking Allowed (TA)
Tue 26 May To be decided: topical issue or
Heidegger based on BBC In our Time (IoT)
Tue 2 June Confidence…
Tue 9 June Book > Film: The Reader
Tue 16 June Karl Marx - an up-date. (IoT)
Tue 23 June Cuba 2. (Odn)
Tue 30 June To be decided: topical issue or
Humour and Stand-up Comedians
Tue 7 July Local Government - with Democracy4Stoke, as case study
(Odn)
Tue 14 July The Lunar Men - inc. our debt to engineers (IoT, June 03))
Tue 21 July To be decided: topical issue or
Two poems from paintings
Future themes: for Autumn 09 and 2010...
Suggestions from the group/s: English everywhere: why learn a second language? Intuition; A look back at ‘target culture’ and ‘performance management’; Singing; Science - public expenditure debated; The Honours List - Why? The Football Phenomenon - from Matthews to Beckham: Faith Schools re-visited.
Linked to Odn, Conflict Resolution - the Middle East; Burma - a history and up-date; New Technology - social and political implications; The Data-base State;
'How to talk about things we know nothing about' (Feb 08); Climate Change 5: - nuclear fusion and other developments…The State of India; Journalism and Power; Renewal of Politics...
Selection from IoT achive: A History of History, (Jan 09); Aristotle’s Politics - what makes a good society? (Nov 08); The Multiverse (Feb 08) & Galaxies - black holes etc (Jan 06); Numbers in Nature - the Fibonacci sequence (Nov 07) & Symmetry (Apl 07); Human Evolution (Feb 06) & The History of the Brain (May 08); Materialism (Apl 08); Socrates (Sep 07) Hobbes (Dec 05) The Arabian Nights - the art of story-telling (oct 07); King Lear (Feb 08); Samuel Johnson and his Circle (Oct 05); Jean Paul Sartre (Oct 04); John Ruskin (Mar 05) The Trial of Madame Bovary (Jul 07)
Selection from Thinking Allowed: Demography and Death (Oct 08); Scotland Independence ((Mar 08); Gender Voting (Oct 07) & The Rational Voter (May 07); Grandparents (Dec 07); Cities and ethnicities (Apl 08) and Balti Britain (Sep[ 08); The History of Hunger (Dec 07) & The Wealthy Irish (Jan 08);
Chinese Capitalism - concepts in education (Dec 08); Women and domesticity (Nov 08). Adam Smith (Jul 07).