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The
St. Clare's Senior Seminar Series has been devised as a forum for
sustained academic reflection for our undergraduates and other adult
students. The series takes place in various locations in Oxford,
within St. Clare's and elsewhere. It provides the perfect social
setting - informal, yet conducive to lively debate.
The Senior Seminar Series offers students an opportunity to discuss
a range of interesting issues and ideas as well as a chance to interact
with scholars from Oxford University and other renowned academic
institutions.
Villains - Spring Semester 2002
The Seminar Series is linked by a common theme which will be considered
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives - Art, Religion, Literary
Studies, Philosophy, Politics and the social sciences. The theme
of this semester's series is Villains: our invited speakers will
reassess the villainous reputations of six of history's darkest,
most notorious and complex figures.
Seminar 1: Machiavelli: "..in the actions of men, and especially
of princes, from which there is no appeal, the end justifies the
means". Machiavelli and ‘Machiavellianism’. Re-evaluating the reputation.
Speaker: Dr David Merrill - Tutor in Political Philosophy (visiting
students’ programme)
Seminar 2: Rasputin: Catalyst of the Revolution?
Speaker: Dr Harold Shukman - St Anthony's College, University of
Oxford
Seminar 3: King David: Messiah or Over-sexed Bandit?
Speaker: Fr Henry Wansbrough OSB MA (Oxon) STL LSS - Master, St
Benet's Hall, Oxford
Seminar 4: Stalin: Madman or Badman?
Speaker: Mr Andrew Young - Department of History, St Clare's, Oxford
Seminar 5: Eve: Temptress or Liberator?
Speaker: Dr Beverley Clack - Senior Lecturer in Theology, Roehampton
Institute, University of Surrey
Seminar 6: Mussolini: Revolutionary or Megalomaniac?
Speaker: Professor Roger Griffin - Oxford Brookes University
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