SCREENING AND Q&A WITH EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
&MEMORY
Country: USA
Year: 2014
Director: Michael Rossato-Bennett;
Producers: Michael Rossato-Bennett, Alexandra McDougald
Runtime: 78 mins
Language: English
BBFC: n/a
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Overview /Sypnosis
The documentary follows social worker Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, as he fights against a broken health-care system to demonstrate music’s ability to combat memory loss and restore a deep sense of self to those suffering from it. Rossato-Bennett visits family members who have witnessed the miraculous effects of personalized music on their loved ones, and offers illuminating interviews with experts including renowned neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks (Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain) and musician Bobby McFerrin (“Don’t Worry, Be Happy”).
Followed by a Q&A session with Manon Bruinsma – European Director of Music & Memory and Music Therapist.
Country: USA
Year: 2015
Director: Michael Moore
Producers: Michael Moore, Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Runtime: 120 mins
Language: English
BBFC: 15 A
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Overview /Sypnosis
To show what the USA can learn from rest of the world, director Michael Moore playfully visits various nations in Europe and Africa as a one-man “invader” to take their ideas and practices for America. Whether it is Italy with its generous vacation time allotments, France with its gourmet school lunches, German with its industrial policy, Norway and its prison system, Tunisia and its strongly progressive women’s policy and Iceland and its strong female presence in government and business among others, Michael Moore discovers there is much that American should emulate.
Recollection Lecture by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware (Assistant Bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain)
Recollection Lecture by Professor Carol Harrison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Christ Church.
Recollection Lecture: The Rev’d Dr Mark Clavier (St Stephen’s House, Oxford)
To churches struggling to challenge both the excesses and the underlying potency of consumerism, Augustine offers a God whose Eloquent Wisdom can supersede all worldly rhetoric. By reading consumer culture through the lens of his rhetorical theology, Christians can be awakened to the true destiny of their restless hearts.
Event starts with tea and coffee at 3.30
The Confession details the first-hand experiences of Moazzam Begg, British Muslim and former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, as he chronicles the rise of modern jihad, its descent into terror and the reaction of the West.
This one off screening will be followed by a Q&A with Moazzam himself, director Ashish Ghadiali and chaired by Dr Tina Managhan, Senior Lecturer of International Relations, Oxford Brookes.
Tim Newell was a prison governor for 38 years, with the last ten governing Grendon and Springhill prisons. Grendon is a unique therapeutic community prison for people who have committed serious crimes. Springhill is for people coming to the end of long and medium term sentences and preparing for release in open conditions. Both would be considered partially restorative. My talk will help people to understand the power of restorative approaches.
The Institute of Historical Research collates and classifies a large variety of material relating to History in UK Higher Education. With the rise of open access publishing and the proliferation of web resources, keeping up has become more and more difficult. Funding from the AHRC has allowed the IHR’s digital team to explore ways of automatically classifying works based on features such as book blurbs, article abstracts, titles and metadata.
This talk will cover the challenges the AHRC-funded TOBIAS project has met in classifying this material, using the Royal Historical Society’s fine-grained vocabulary of British and Irish history. Techniques the team is trying range from “bag of words” string matching to machine learning.
Simon Baker is the editor of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH).
Jonathan Blaney is the Project Editor for British History Online.
Marty Steer is the Website Manager at the Institute of Historical Research.
All three speakers are engaged with the TOBIAS project, funded under the AHRC’s Follow-on Funding Impact & Engagement Scheme.
Paul Nurse gives an open lecture on a ‘new enlightenment’ that values science and benefits society.
Adrian Reynard gives an open lecture on teaching engineering at a time of changing technology.