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		<title>Different Class: Do We Learn Better From Books Or Teachers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a time when a vast amount of information is available online, are we better off teaching ourselves through study or going to an expert for instruction? Is teaching yourself more effective, more creative or more authentic than learning from someone else? Are gurus dangerous or is learning at its best always a social encounter?]]></description>
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		<title>Different Class: Can Excellence Be Taught?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We kick off with a classic of ancient Greek thought: Plato’s dialogue Meno, which deals with questions of what it means to learn and be educated and what we should teach our young people to prepare them for civic life.]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/can-excellence-be-taught/</link>
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		<title>Errors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How, and under what conditions is error productive, and is there anything consistent to its productiveness?  What kinds of errors and mistakes are constitutive, for instance, of science, political praxis, art, philosophy and psychoanalysis?]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/errors/</link>
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		<title>Different Class: Is Knowledge Power?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone's familiar with the idea that "knowledge is power". But how does power really operate and what's its relationship to knowledge? Is it exercised solely by the elite or are its formations more complex?]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/is-knowledge-power/</link>
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		<title>What is a Legitimate Enhancement in Sport?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sprinter Oscar Pistorius is a double amputee who runs on a pair of artificial feet known as &#8220;blades&#8221;; he has won medals competing against &#8220;able-bodied&#8221; as well as &#8220;disabled&#8221; athletes, a fact that has led some to question whether the blades do not in fact confer an unfair advantage.
Tonight&#8217;s event begins with the question of what counts as a &#8220;fair&#8221; or &#8220;legitimate&#8221; enhancement in sport, and whether we can draw a line that seems natural and offers clear-cut criteria. It extends far beyond Pistorius&#8217;s own case to cover the use ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/what-is-a-legitimate-enhancement/</link>
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		<title>How Do Art And Science Visualise Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital technology has permeated everyday life and filled it with reproducible images. This has affected art and science too and their inter-relation: for example, older illustrations of flora and fauna have been replaced by photography and filmed nature documentaries.
Do different ways of seeing the world and presenting life depend on different, distinct and exclusive interpretations? How far can artistic practice advance science through image-work under these new conditions?
Rob Kesseler is Professor of Ceramic Art and Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art &#38; Design. His books, Fruit, Pollen: the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/how-do-art-and-science-visualise-life/</link>
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		<title>Landscape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The term landscape, derived from the sixteenth-century Dutch word landschap, was originally used for the demarcation of land but has subsequently become associated with a way of seeing space from a distance. This sense of landscape as a visual panorama — developing initially through landscape art — has subsequently expanded and diversified in the modern era to include a variety of urban and industrial spaces and their representations in art, cinema and literature. To what extent does our concept of landscape determine how we experience these spaces and representations? What ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/landscape/</link>
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		<title>Different Class: What Does It Mean To &#8220;Be Yourself&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Erving Goffman wasn't the first to suggest that the human world is like theatre but in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life the dramatic metaphor is central. ]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/what-does-it-mean-to-be-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Different Class: Who Are &#8220;The Elite&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a time when the phrase “We are the 99%” has gained popularity, the idea that somehow an elite – the 1% – has taken more than its fair share by stealth has been transformed into a rallying cry for protesters across the United States and elsewhere. There is nothing new in this analysis, however. C. Wright Mills classic, The Power Elite, was published in 1956 and brought to the attention of the American public the possibility that a relatively small set of interlocking elite groups had gained effective control of their country. It ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/who-are-the-elite/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Social</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join us for the traditional Big Ideas Christmas Social. There’s no speaker and no particular theme: it’s a good opportunity for us to get to know each other better and discuss some of the events of the past year. No doubt there’ll be puzzles, games and other seasonal activities for those that want, but as usual most of us will just want to have a few beers and set the world to rights.
This year we&#8217;re holding the event on a Friday, which hopefully won&#8217;t be a school night for most ...]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/events/christmas-social-4/</link>
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