Programme Of Events Spring Term 2012

Wed. 18th. Jan. 2012 7.30.p.m. FCH, Room HC203. Dr. William Large, University of Gloucestershire. " Emmanuel Levinas' 'Other'.

Wed. 25th. Jan. 2012. 7.30.p.m. FCH Dr. Jane Monckton-Smith, University of Gloucestershire. "Michel Foucault and the Forensic Narrative: rationalising dangerous love". (Based on her new book).

Wed. 1st. Feb. 2012. 10.30am. Norwood Arms (junction of A46 and Leckhampton Hill). Starting with coffee at 10.30am. GPS Seminar.
"History: Versions of the Past".
A J P Taylor thought that history was ‘A version of the past’, but he also said: ‘History does not repeat itself; historians repeat each other’. Whereby lies a clue regarding the problem of ‘schools of history’: Whig, Marxist, Liberal, Cyclical, Christian, Islamic, Secular, Feminist, Green, Post-Modern, etc. The seminar hopes not only to address these matters, but also to explore the issues of historical standpoint, and history in education. Is history a narrative, a chronicle, a congeries of skills – or all or none of these? Come to the Norwood Arms on 1 Feb 2012 (CE) and help to cast a beam into the Past, assuming that there was or is one.

Wed. 15th. Feb. 2012. 7.30.p.m. FCH. Dr. Samaya Faroq, University of Gloucestershire. "Muslim Women in Sport".

Wed. 22nd. Feb. 2012. 7.30.p.m. FCH. Ronald Green, Author and Lecturer. "Nothing". (Based on his recent book "Nothing Matters: A book about Nothing").

Wed. 7th. March. 2012. GPS Post-New Year Meal (details tbc).

The cost of each of the evening meetings will be £3 or £2 if unwaged. An annual subscription of £25, £15 if unwaged, will entitle you to attend all of the evening meetings from October 2011 to June 2012 without further charge. A contribution of £1 per head is expected from attendees at the Norwood Arms seminars.