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“A mind, once stretched by
a new idea never regains its
original dimensions.”
Oxford Masterclass
There is real skill in presenting
difficult material in a way
that is challenging and
2019/2020 for the
comprehensible. It is good to
see young people at these
conferences engaged in deeper
More Able and thinking about important topics.
Ambitious
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The Lectures The Speakers
Knowing what you Know and What you Science and the Secret of Happiness Julie Arliss Mike Grenier
Don’t Know. Examining Epistemology. Dr. Christopher O’Neill Recently awarded a Farmington Schol- Alumni of St Peter’s College, Oxford
Julie Arliss We all want to be happy, so how is that achieved? Is arship by Harris Manchester College, Mike works with highly able students
Knowledge is not the same as belief. What things can happiness found in fame and fortune? Or in material Oxford, Julie Arliss is a highly accom- at Eton College where his students rate
we know, ‘beyond reasonable doubt’? This is the task possessions: house, car, garden, great job? Or maybe plished teacher and author. She is a him as ‘a legend’. He is a radical thinker
for a jury sitting in a court room and is the opening the true secret of happiness is accepting that there well-known international educator of gifted students who leads a number of initiatives all focused on find-
question of this session. A range of ideas will be pre- isn’t one! What’s your guess? Can science tell us how with a gift for making the complex simple, and the ing the optimal challenge for each student: “Teach-
sented from across the curriculum to explore the dif- to be happy? Dr. O’Neill will review the scientific lit- simple complex. She is committed to the provision of ers need to find out precisely which bowl of porridge
ference between that which can rationally be said to erature on the secret of happiness. world-class extension activities for these students, to suits every student – not too hot too cold, too big or
be ‘proved’ and what it is reasonable to believe. This extend their reach well beyond the curriculum to new too small.” Widely published in the education world
session will give academically able students, thinking
Philosophy, Love and Relationships areas of knowledge. She is on the examining team for and passionate about a broader view of education
tools with which to test factual claims. In addition Julie Arliss Cambridge International Examinations and founder which goes well beyond marching bright young stu-
there will be an evaluation of the claim that there are of Academy Conferences. dents through examinations on the basis of their date
Relationships are the most important part of human
some areas of human experience, such as claims to re- life and have the power to make us happy, or utterly of birth. He argues that this risks ‘dehumanising each
ligious experience, which require different tests. Dr. Chris O’Neill and every one of them.’
miserable! No wonder then, that so many people have
thought so hard about how to achieve the perfect re- Dr. O’Neill is a fellow of Harris Man-
Key theme: ‘BODIES’ with a lationship. David Hume argued that reason is slave to chester College, University of Oxford Professor Charles Foster
Guest Academic the passions, but was he right? Is it reasonable to ex- and is a polymathic thinker. He is a psy- Oxford
pect something more than blind passion to regulate chologist, registered psychotherapist Charles Foster is a writer, traveller, vet-
A different guest academic will speak in each region
our relationships, or not? This session will start by ex- and trained counsellor. He initiated the large-scale erinarian and barrister. He is a Fellow of
on the theme of BODIES.
amining Plato’s philosophical examination of love and MYRIAD research project in Oxford University inves- Green Templeton College, Oxford. His
London: Professor Charles Foster. Green Templeton other ancient ideas about relationships before con- tigating resilience and well-being in young people. He books cover many fields. They include books on trav-
College Oxford & Faculty of Law, Oxford. Ig Nobel sidering the world of online dating, Love Island and has forty years’ experience of working with students el, evolutionary biology, natural history, anthropology,
Prize winner. Why I lived like a badger, an otter, a deer Tinder. How and why have the rules of relationships and staff in schools and is an exceptional educator. theology, archaeology, philosophy and law. Ultimately
and a swift changed, and are people happier? If we ‘dare to be they are all attempts to answer the questions ‘Who or
wise,’ Immanuel Kant, what does that mean in terms Dr. Andrew Pinsent what are we?’, and ‘what on earth are we doing here?
Cambridge: Dr. James Orr. Former Corporate Lawyer,
Cambridge University Philosophy. Cambridge. of relationships, and is ‘not hurting anybody’, Jeremy Oxford His latest book is ‘Being a Beast’, which is published
Embodied Cognition – Can the BODY have knowledge? Bentham, enough? Dr. Pinsent is an international speaker, in the UK by Profile Books and in the US by Metro-
in great demand across the globe. He politan Books. He read veterinary medicine and law at
Oxford, Wellington: Mike Grenier. Shakespeare- hu- The BIG Debate is a polymath with doctorates in both Cambridge, and is a qualified veterinary surgeon. He
mors and appetites. A polymathic look at how Shake- physics and philosophy. Dr. Pinsent is a former par- holds a PhD in law/bioethics from the University of
“What is more important? A healthy mind or a
speare viewed the body, and our appetites. How does ticle physicist at CERN, being a named author on Cambridge. He teaches Medical Law and Ethics at the
healthy body?”
Shakespeare use science to create dynamic dramatic thirty-one papers of the DELPHI experiment. He is a University of Oxford.
characters and situations? How do melancholic moods An opportunity for students to contribute to this member of the United Kingdom Institute of Physics.
create tragic heroes and why is it not entirely bad to great debate topic. What do you think and can you Dr. Pinsent also has a second doctorate in philoso- Dr. James Orr
have the appetites of Jack Falstaff? persuade others to agree with you? An opportunity phy and is currently the Research Director of the Ian Cambridge
for persuasive speech and creative thinking on your Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, a Research
Gateshead, Manchester: Dr. Andrew Pinsent - Ian Ram- Dr. James Law left corporate law ten
feet. Dr. O’Neill and Julie Arliss will introduce the de- Fellow of Harris-Manchester College and a member
sey Centre, Theology Faculty University of Oxford, For- years ago to become a student again and
bate with just a few brief comments setting out some of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at Oxford
mer CERN physicist. A new look at Heavenly Bodies. has recently secured a lectureship at
of the questions, and students who wish to contrib- University.
ute will be given a time-limit of 30 seconds to make Cambridge University. Formerly McDonald Postdoc-
an impact. toral Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford, Dr. Orr holds
a PhD and MPhil from St. John’s College, Cambridge,
and a Double First in Literae Humaniores from Balliol
College, Oxford. His publications and policy papers
cover many fields including ‘The Discarded Mind’
‘Created Equal’ and ‘Being and Eternity’. An impres-
sive polymathic mind keen to inspire curious young
minds in the search for knowledge.
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