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The Power of Social Entrepreneurship – The Transformative Potential
What IS social entrepreneurship? The first session of our series will help you get familiar with the concept of social entrepreneurship and understand why it is gaining popularity...
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The Power of Social Entrepreneurship – Can entrepreneurship help to reduce poverty?
Building on the foundation from week 1, this session will give you a deeper dive into the relationship between poverty and entrepreneurship. Professor Michael Morris will have a...
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The Power of Social Entrepreneurship – Why the business community holds the key to poverty alleviation
How can the private sector contribute to poverty alleviation and community impact? Why should business leaders care about poverty? Leaders in corporate social responsibility will...
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome – From the dark wood to Rome
When Dante is lost in the dark wood of sin, the soul of the Roman poet Virgil is sent from Heaven to rescue him and guide him on his way to salvation through Hell and Purgatory....
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome – Paolo and Francesca: Words of Desire (Inferno 5)
Dante and his guide Virgil are in the second circle of Hell, where lust, one of the sins of incontinence, is eternally punished in the 'hellish squall.' Here, the two poets meet...
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome – Hell’s Vineyard (Inferno 13)
Dante and Virgil are in the seventh circle of Hell where violence is punished. In the second section, those who had been violent to themselves have been transformed into trees....
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A Hell of a City: Dante’s Inferno on the Road to Rome – Infernal Rome (Inferno 18 & 27)
In Inferno 18, Dante and Virgil enter Malebolge (or Evil Pouches) in the eighth circle of Hell where fraud is punished. In the first pouch, the crowd of panderers and seducers...
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London Book Club – London in Song: “Jack Hall”
We begin with "Jack Hall," an old ballad that has its origins in the early eighteenth century. It begins as a narrative of the life of a convicted criminal who was executed at...
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London Book Club – London in Song: “The Jolly Young Waterman”
In week 2 of our book club, we will discuss the song "The Jolly Young Waterman," which was originally written by Charles Dibdin for his ballad opera The Waterman: Or The First of...
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London Book Club – London in Song: “Jerusalem”
This week we focus on what has become the national anthem for England (as opposed to Great Britain): the song known as "Jerusalem." With words by the poet William Blake and music...
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London Book Club – London in Song: “A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square”
In the final week of London in Song, we focus on one of the most successful London songs of the twentieth-century. Written in 1939, with words by Eric Maschwitz and music by...
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Understanding the Body with W.B. Yeats & James Joyce – The Body & Mind
In this segment, Professor Declan Kiberd will situate the series within our current collective experience of the coronavirus pandemic as daily attention is drawn to the...
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