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The Varieties of Forgiveness

In this lecture the varieties of forgiveness will be presented and the integrity, value and limits of each type explored.

Reforming Corporate Governance

This talk will discuss rigorous evidence on what optimal governance should look like – including issues such as boardroom diversity, independence of directors, employee representation, and whether directors’ fiduciary duty should be to shareholders or all of society.

Executive Pay: What's Right, What's Wrong, and What Could Be Fixed?

Evidence will be presented on which aspects of pay are working well and which are indeed dysfunctional, and on how pay should be reformed.

The Romantic Lakes from Wordsworth to Beatrix Potter

Jonathan Bate will follow in the footsteps of the 18th-century inventors of the ‘picturesque’ and show how Wordsworth shaped the vision of his native region, leading to the foundation of the National Trust and the idea of a National Park.

The Romantic Child

In the third of his lectures on the rhetoric of Romanticism, Jonathan Bate will explore how they did so, with particular emphasis on the role of children in the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth.

Shakespeare's Stages

Leading actor and Shakespeare scholar Michael Pennington discusses the direct effect on the dramatist's writing of the theatres he wrote for, so different from ours.

Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Poetic Revolution

Jonathan Bate will explain what Hazlitt meant and why Lyrical Ballads, the product of Wordsworth's intimate friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the greatest and most influential volumes of poetry ever written.

Purposeful Business: The Evidence and the Implementation

The talk will highlight how change cannot be piecemeal but involves holistic reform across many dimensions of a company.

How To Be An Atheist In Medieval Europe

This lecture will take a tour of medieval unbelief, showing how and why some medieval people defied the powerful orthodoxies of their day.

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