Global Language: An Interview with Heidi Byrnes
German professor Heidi Byrnes discusses the ways in which learning global languages is relative to international communication; especially as it relates to diplomacy, economics, world trade, and the military.
Getting started on Classical Latin
Latin is the basis for many languages in the world. This unit will provide you with a general introduction to learning Latin allowing you to assess whether you would like to learn more. You will look at the links that exist between Latin and English, examine the structure of sentences and gain an awareness of the fundamentals of pronunciation in Latin.
Religion today: Themes and issues
There is a widespread perception in the West that we live in a secular age, an age in which religion is at best an optional extra, if not a false delusion completely out of place. However, religion still arouses passion and causes controversy; it controls and transforms lives. An informed understanding of the contemporary world thus requires an appreciation of the role of religion in shaping ideas, world-views and actions that have an impact on the social as well as on the personal life of the i
V&A CultureCast: May 2006 (no images)
This month's CultureCast features an interview with Christopher Wilk, the curator of 'Modernism: Designing a New World', a preview of 'Che Guevara: Revolutionary and Icon' and a review of April's Friday Late 'Utopia' event.
4.5 The cases in Latin
Latin is the basis for many languages in the world. This unit will provide you with a general introduction to learning Latin allowing you to assess whether you would like to learn more. You will look at the links that exist between Latin and English, examine the structure of sentences and gain an awareness of the fundamentals of pronunciation in Latin.
1.2 The Sandham Memorial Chapel So let us turn first of all to the visual arts, and see how one artist, Stanley Spencer, created a memorial to those who died in the First World War. Spencer was profoundly affected by his experience of the war, and decorated the walls of a chapel especially designed to display his work. First of all, it will help to have a few biographical details. This is not because you could not understand his painting without knowing about him: you could certainly pick up a lot of information about
UT Matters Gastroenterology Patient Story: Lisa Czerwiec
Because of UT's extensive expertise and access to leading endoscopic technologies, patients and physicians throughout northwest Ohio have more options to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal disorders.
UMMC Physician Profile: Stephen T. Bartlett, M.D.
This two-minute video introduces viewers to Stephen T. Bartlett, M.D., the Barbara Baur Dunlap Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery for the University of Maryland School of Medicine and transplant surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Bartlett's special interests include kidney transplantation, pancreatic transplantation, islet cell transplantation and vascular surgery. Watch this video to learn more about his practice at UMMC.
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Hania Sholkamy from the Woman's Empowerment Research Programme Consortuim in English
The Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium are revisiting the vocabulary of empowerment and how it translates into Arabic. Over the course of three workshops involving activists and researchers, participants will discuss issues around empowerment and language with the aim of contributing to the process of women’s empowerment in the Arabic world.
IDS/BBC World Service Trust, 'Fragile States and the Media'
The role of a free media in underpinning democratic development is consistently highlighted in much development literature, however, little research attention has been paid to why communication matters, how and under what conditions the media’s effect is felt on development outcomes. Furthermore, the role of an increasingly fragmented media in fractured and fragile states is particularly poorly understood, especially in relation to conflict and marginalisation. With this picture as the bac
Episode 3: Nuclear Power: Cure or Curse Duration: 19 min 38 sec
Energy resources: Alternative energy in perspective
Alternative energy sources are seen by many people as potential solutions to the many economic and environmental challenges posed by the current dominance of world energy supply by fossil and nucler fuels. Just how realistic are these hopes? This unit summarises the technical and geographic challenges posed by each alternative source. It is left to you to judge the feasiibility of imploementing these changes against the claims for 'alternative' solutions to global energy challenges that are regu
Equity finance
Private equity, venture capital, stock exchange listing: all are methods of raising equity finance. This unit looks at the processes used and the markets available across the world for raising such finance, as well as looking into the reasons why some companies choose cross-listing on stock exchanges.
Dialogue, Justice and Peace
Our interdependent world creates both new opportunities and new challenges. The gravest danger today is insecurity, which has taken on global proportions. In order to deal with the threat of this insecurity, it is imperative for the world community to engage in constructive dialogue, but this must be based on two foundations: a deep comprehension of civilisations, religions and cultures; and justice. Indeed, in our insecure world, full of extremism and conflict, only serious di
Inaugural Crawford-Nishi Lecture on Japan and Australia: A Vision for the Future
The Minister for Foreign Affairs discusses where the Australian Government is taking a relationship that Prime Minister Aso recently described as having reached the most productive time in its history. Particularly focussing on:
quick, coordinated action through the G20 to get the global economy working again
enhancing our already close economic relationship through the early conclusion of a comprehensive free trade agreement
turning our bilateral defence cooperation to efforts to improve
The Global Migration of Skill
This lecture examined the growing phenomenon of international skilled migration with particular attention to its impact on developing countries. A framework was developed for understanding the different measures of ‘brain drain' and how they are related to wage and income differences across countries around the world. Based on new data sources, differences in the prices of skill across countries were estimated and were used to explore how skill price differentials affect the magnitud
China and the West in the 21st Century
China’s phenomenal economic growth is paralleled in scale and speed
only by the rise of the United States between the Civil War and the
First World War in 1914. Since 1978 the economy has grown ninefold, and
is set to become the second largest within a decade. From inauspicious
beginnings, China has become a $2 trillion economy because the
Communist Party has channelled huge savings into investment, and
encouraged millions of workers into its booming cities, the biggest
migration in histor
Immunity & Altered Self - The Struggle Between Our Self, Our Genome Sequence & Our Microbes
World Day of Immunology 2008 Public Lecture
What defines us as individuals? What makes us both similar and different to other individuals, other species?
These are great philosophical questions throughout the history of human
thought, they are a source of angst in teenagers, and they are
fundamental issues in medicine. In this lecture Professor Goodnow
explores these questions from the perspective of our immune system,
whose raison d’etre is to distinguish our self from the legions of
viru
Rising to Global Power How Australia could supply the whole world's energy needs
In this exciting presentation, he examines the question of how – by expanding our vision to consider energy supply on a massive scale – an Australian collaboration between electrical engineers, economists and chemical engineers could potentially power the entire world.
The social in social science
In a complex and rapidly changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves, understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This unit provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions and outlines the important relationship between philosophical thinking and practical research methods in social sciences.
