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# ODD   Programme Summer 2009  The Blue Mugge
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odd-programme-summer-2009-the-blue-mugge/
- Published: 2009-04-03T12:04:58.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T23:00:51.000Z
- Author: derek tatton
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ODDc Programme The Blue Mugge  
Summer 2009

Tue 28 Apl The USA - how’s Obama doing?  
 based on www.opendemocracy.net (odn)

Tue 5 May Local Railways based on N. Staffs experience.

Tue 12 May Feminism Reviewed based on New Left Review, Apl 09.

Tue 19 May TV - dumbing-down arguments put - and challenged…  
 based on BBC Thinking Allowed (TA)

Tue 26 May To be decided: topical issue or   
 Heidegger based on BBC In our Time (IoT)

Tue 2 June Confidence… 

Tue 9 June Book > Film: The Reader 

Tue 16 June Karl Marx - an up-date. (IoT)

Tue 23 June Cuba 2\. (Odn)

Tue 30 June To be decided: topical issue or  
 Humour and Stand-up Comedians  
  
Tue 7 July Local Government - with Democracy4Stoke, as case study  
 (Odn)

Tue 14 July The Lunar Men - inc. our debt to engineers (IoT, June 03))

Tue 21 July To be decided: topical issue or  
 Two poems from paintings   
  
Future themes: for Autumn 09 and 2010...

Suggestions from the group/s: English everywhere: why learn a second language? Intuition; A look back at ‘target culture’ and ‘performance management’; Singing; Science - public expenditure debated; The Honours List - Why? The Football Phenomenon - from Matthews to Beckham: Faith Schools re-visited.

Linked to Odn, Conflict Resolution - the Middle East; Burma - a history and up-date; New Technology - social and political implications; The Data-base State;  
'How to talk about things we know nothing about' (Feb 08); Climate Change 5: - nuclear fusion and other developments…The State of India; Journalism and Power; Renewal of Politics...  
  
Selection from IoT achive: A History of History, (Jan 09); Aristotle’s Politics - what makes a good society? (Nov 08); The Multiverse (Feb 08) & Galaxies - black holes etc (Jan 06); Numbers in Nature - the Fibonacci sequence (Nov 07) & Symmetry (Apl 07); Human Evolution (Feb 06) & The History of the Brain (May 08); Materialism (Apl 08); Socrates (Sep 07) Hobbes (Dec 05) The Arabian Nights - the art of story-telling (oct 07); King Lear (Feb 08); Samuel Johnson and his Circle (Oct 05); Jean Paul Sartre (Oct 04); John Ruskin (Mar 05) The Trial of Madame Bovary (Jul 07)   
  
Selection from Thinking Allowed: Demography and Death (Oct 08); Scotland Independence ((Mar 08); Gender Voting (Oct 07) & The Rational Voter (May 07); Grandparents (Dec 07); Cities and ethnicities (Apl 08) and Balti Britain (Sep\[ 08); The History of Hunger (Dec 07) & The Wealthy Irish (Jan 08);  
Chinese Capitalism - concepts in education (Dec 08); Women and domesticity (Nov 08). Adam Smith (Jul 07).