Lecture Topic

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Christopher Clark revisits the century-old debate on the outbreak of the First World War, highlighting the complexity of a crisis that involved sudden changes in the international system. Clark proposes fresh perspectives on an old question.

 

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Richard J. Evans: Politics & WWI

The First World War put unprecedented strains on the economic, social and political systems of all the combatant nations. A year after the war ended, the Great European Empires had collapsed, and new, extremist ideologies, from fascism to communism, had emerged to disturb the postwar political world.

This lecture explores the reasons for the radical political changes that made the First World War the seminal catastrophe of twentieth-century Europe.

 

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A presentation by Hamilton Gregory, author of McNamara's Folly: The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War.

Because so many college students were avoiding military service during the Vietnam War, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara lowered mental standards to induct 354,000 low-IQ men. Their death toll in combat was appalling.

 

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Stephen Kotkin: Stalin’s Propaganda & Putin’s Information Wars (2018)

 

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Napoleon the Great?

Andrew Roberts vs. Adam Zamoyski

 

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Dr Q Van Meter: The Terrible Fraud of Transgender Medicine

 

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Christopher R. Browning: The Decisions For The Final Solution

 

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Het tij keren met Rosa Luxemburg & Hannah Arendt

Jezus...

 

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Jan Grabowski: The Polish Blue Police (WWII)

 

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Richard J. Evans: Waterloo: Causes, Courses & Consequences (2015)

On the 200th anniversary of the battle, Professor Sir Richard Evans discusses the Battle of Waterloo, and places it in its historical context with proper credit given to the Prussian General Blucher.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18th June 1815. The 200th anniversary has prompted widespread commemoration. But what was the battle about? Who fought it? Why did it take place in 1815 and at Waterloo? Finally, what were its consequences?

The answers to these questions are by no means as simple or straightforward as they seem, and will be explored in this illustrated lecture.

 

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[Link Dood]

 

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Richard Werner, the inventor of the term 'quantitative easing' argues that the way QE has been implemented recently is failing at stimulating the real economy. Instead, quantitative easing should be targeted to transactions contributing to productive investments such as renewable energies, sustainable industries, infrastructure, education, research and development or even as a baby bonus.

 

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Richard J. Evans: The Weimar Republic: Germany's First Democracy (2019)

 

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Professor Joanna Bourke: Evil Women

Joanna is Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.

She is a well-known social and cultural historian. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and outgoing Chair of its Modern History Section, as well as holding the Global Innovations Chair at the University of Newcastle (Australia). She is the prizewinning author of thirteen books, including histories on modern warfare, medicine and science, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions, pain, what it means to be human, and sexual violence. Her books have been translated into many languages. Her book An Intimate History of Killing won the Wolfson Prize and the Fraenkel Prize. She is a prolific public speaker and is College Orator at Birkbeck, as well as a frequent and award-winning contributor to TV and radio programmes. She was a Visiting Professor of History at Gresham College from 2017-19.

Professor Joanna Bourke said: “I am very excited to become Gresham Professor of Rhetoric because Gresham College’s four centuries of service to London, the UK, and the international community are an inspiration. Like all professors at Gresham College, I strongly believe in the power of education to improve our world. People who attend lectures at Gresham College (or watch them online) are intellectually engaged thinkers: as the next Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, I am thrilled to be able to continue discussing topics of interest with them.

“I chose the theme of my first series of lectures – the body – for its considerable contemporary importance. In my series, I hope to reveal the historically varied ways that people have understood bodies. These variations are often surprising; always intriguing. The changing medical, scientific, moral, economic, and political meanings given to the material body have radical implications for human culture. Understanding these meanings change tell us a great deal about what it means to be human."

Professor Bourke's lecture series are as follows:

2020/21 Evil Women

2019/20 Exploring the Body

2018/19 Understanding Human Violence cont.

2017/18 Understanding Human Violence

All lectures by the Gresham Professors of Rhetoric can be accessed here.

 

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't Is eens wat anders dan David Wilson. Wat een vermoeiende man!

 

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Veel interessante talks daar.

 

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Richard Evans: The Scramble for Africa

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to formal imperial acquisitions. Between this point and the outbreak of the First World War, more colonial territory was acquired by European states than in the previous three-quarters of a century. New states entered the business of imperialism, notably Belgium, Germany and Italy. So fierce was the competition that in 1884 an international congress was held in Berlin to establish demarcation lines between the new colonial possessions. The ‘Scramble for Africa’ extended in fact to other parts of the globe and brought in new possessions in Asia, North Africa and the Pacific. Many explanations have been advanced for this sudden expansion of empire, ranging from changes in the European economy to the rise of European nationalism, from the need perceived by some European statesmen to provide an outlet for popular discontent at home to the exploitation of colonial issues by Bismarck for diplomatic purposes. This lecture analyses the process of partition and assesses the best way to explain it. This is a part of the lecture series The Rise and Fall of European Empires from the 16th to the 20th Century.

 

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Deze zijn ook erg fijn.

(vele jaren oud, maar de kwaliteit van de lectures is wel wat beter dan dit intro filmpje. wou iets visueels bij de link plaatsen anders is het zo kaal hier)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFaYLR_1aryjfB7hLrKGRaQ/videos