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3 FRIDAY
APRIL 2009
Susie Orbach interviewed
by Joan Bakewell
Bodies
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Wolsey’s Great Hall
12pm / Garden Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Humans have been adoring and reshaping our bodies
throughout history – but never to such extremes as
today. To be slim, youthful, wrinkle-free has become
a moral responsibility for women and for men.
Indeed, we have never been under so much pressure
to perfect and design ourselves. In her bracing
examination of our contemporary fascination with
everything from liposuction to botox, Susie Orbach
argues that we humans no longer manufacture
things: we manufacture our bodies. In this telling
intervention, Orbach, the therapist who treated
Princess Diana for her eating disorders, offers
brilliant insights and some stark home truths.
Guy Claxton, Malcolm Gillies
and Mary Warnock
Chaired by Jenny Cuffe
The Future of
Education in England
630
Niall Ferguson 640
The Ascent of Money:
A Financial History of the World
12pm / Hall, Christ Church / £8.00
This easily accessible and entertaining history of finance
ranges from the clay tokens of Mesopotamia in use
5,000 years ago, to the hedge funds of today. Niall
Ferguson examines the financial subplot behind
some of the major historical powers, including the
denarius in Roman society and gold and silver in the
civilisation of the Incas. In this work he chronicles
not only the history of money, but makes a case for
liberalised finance, pointing out that the history of
finance is a process of creative destruction.
Sponsored by Blackwell
12pm / Newman Rooms, St Aldates / £7.50
Major questions are being raised about every level of
our educational system. Should traditional subjects
in primary schools be replaced by ‘new areas of
learning’ What is the future of sats following their
abolition for 14 year olds Are we dumbing down
GCSEs and A levels Is the government target of
50% of younger people entering higher education
realistic Is the current system failing our children
and how can we best educate the next generation
These and other issues will be discussed by
Baroness Mary Warnock, philosopher of morality and
education, Guy Claxton, Co-Director of the Centre for
Real-World Learning and author of What’s the Point
of School, and Malcolm Gillies, Vice-Chancellor
of City University, London. Chaired by Jenny Cuffe,
a BBC journalist for Radio 4 and World Service.
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