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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.

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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.

Autumn Semester - Dreams & Nightmares

Seminar 1: Fuseli's Nightmare Speaker: John Rolfe, St. Clare's, Oxford - (Art History) Seminar 2: Dreams: the Freudian Theory Speaker: Dr Brian Clack, St. Clare's, Oxford - (Psychology) Seminar 3: Daydreams of Hunger: Freud, Hamsun and literary fiction Speaker: Dr Peter Jackson, St. Clare's, Oxford - (Literature) Seminar 4: Dreams of a better world: the United Nations Speaker: Keith Allen, St. Clare's, Oxford - (International Affairs) Seminar 5: Catholic dreams and Protestant nightmares in early modern England Speaker: Victoria Staveley, St. Clare's, Oxford - (History) Seminar 6: The physiology of sleep Speaker: Dr Ann Sharpley, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford - (Neuroscience) Seminar 7: Social nightmares and popular culture Speaker: Michelle Paule, Oxford Brookes University - (Cultural Studies) Seminar 8: Fears, fictions and fantasies: Christians imagining Jews in the Middle Ages Speaker: Paul Sinclair, St. Clare's, Oxford - (History) Seminar 9: American Dream or American Nightmare Speaker: Andrew Young, St. Clare's, Oxford - (Cultural History)