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The St. Clare's Seminar Series is a forum for sustained academic reflection for our undergraduates and other adult students. The Series offers our students an opportunity to discuss a range of stimulating issues and ideas as well as a chance to interact with scholars from Oxford University and other renowned academic institutions.

Grading and credit
The Seminar Series is central to the semester's learning experience, and all students on the Programme are encouraged to participate. In addition, students who complete coursework associated with this Series to a satisfactory level will be eligible for three extra units of credit.

The Seminar Series is linked by a common theme which will be considered from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Spring Semester 2005

Revolutions
The theme for this semester is Revolutions. Our speakers will consider the impact of a number of crucial social, political, cultural and scientific revolutions.

Seminar 1: The Russian Revolution
Speaker: Dr Harold Shukman, St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford

Seminar 2: Revolutions at our table
Speaker: Dr Ines Molinaro, St. Clare's, Oxford

Seminar 3: Picasso's Demoiselles D'Avignon: the birth of cubism
Speaker: John Rolfe, St. Clare's, Oxford

Seminar 4: American Revolution or American Rebellion?
Speaker: Andrew Young, St. Clare's, Oxford

Seminar 5: The Sexual Revolution
Speaker: Dr Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes University

Seminar 6: James Joyce and the Modernist Revolution
Speaker: Keith Hopper, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

Seminar 7: The English Revolution
Speaker: Dr Claire Fitzpatrick, University of Exeter

Seminar 8: Darwinian (R)evolution
Speaker: Keith Allen, St. Clare's, Oxford

Seminar 9: The Psychoanalytic Revolution
Speaker: Dr Brian Clack, St. Clare's, Oxford