Academic Talk

Academic Talk is a section of the Academic Conferences International website on which we are placing a links to interesting talks and discussions. This website will contain links to both pre-recorded talks and discussions on such platforms as TED and Youtube etc and also material which we will create for the use of members of the academic community. All academics are welcome to use this facility including teachers, researchers, and students.

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The contents of Academic Talk will be categorised under major headings and each talk will be described. We trust that this website will be useful to all those involved in teaching and in research as well as the community of students. There is no cost associated with using this website.

	Category	Subject	Description	Time Required	Speaker	Affiliation	Source
1	*Research & Philosophy*	Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle	Hermeneutics – an Introduction	46mins	Paul H Fry	Yale University	Academicearth
2		Grounded Theory	A practical workshop	48mins	Tony Bryant	Leeds Metropolitan University	You Tube
3		What is Ethnography?	Engaging people on their own terms	43mins	Penny Harvey	University of Manchester	@Manchester
4		eResearch	What is eResearch?	52mins	Peter Halfpenny	University of Manchester	@Manchester
5		Major Research Paradigms	Defining research paradigms	5mins	Ian Robertson	University of Manchester	You Tube
6		A map of social theories	An overview 1000-2000	42mins	Alan McFarlane	University of Cambridge	You Tube
7		Lecture on Karl Marx	Overview of Social Anthropology	53mins	Alan McFarlane	University of Cambridge	You Tube
8		Lecture on Adam Smith	Overview of Social Anthropology	47mins	Alan McFarlane	University of Cambridge	You Tube
9		Introduction: Science, Magic, and Religion	Research on Science, Magic, and Religion	1h07mins	Courtenay Raia	University of California – Los Angeles	Academicearth
10	*Academic Writing*	Reflections on Writing – especially dissertations	Developing dissertations	59mins	Alan McFarlane	University of Cambridge	You Tube
11		How to Write a Scientific Research Paper	A (somewhat) Tongue-in-Cheek Guide	8mins	Anonymous	Unknown	You Tube
12	*Education*	Open Education	Educational issues of the 21^st Century	14mins	David Wiley	Brigham Young University	You Tube
13		Schools kill creativity	Educational Issues	19mins	Ken Robinson	University of Warwick	TED
14		Bring on the learning revolution!	Educational Issues	17mins	Ken Robinson	University of Warwick	TED
15	*General*	On the paradox of choice	The Paradox of Choice	19mins	Barry Schwartz	Swarthmore College	TED
16		Bad Ideas?	Public engagement with science	1h11mins	Robert Winston	Imperial College	You Tube
17		Anthropology – Science and Humanity	The Origins of Language	1h19mins	Lowell Gustafson	Villanova University	You Tube
18	*ICT Developments*	The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology	New ITC developments referred to as SixthSense	13mins	Pranav Mistry	Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	TED
19		How technology evolves	asks “What does technology want”	19mins	Kevin Kelly	Long Now Foundation	TED
20		Tech’s Long Tail	Petite unified theory of predicting the future	14mins	Chris Anderson	WIRED magazine	TED
21	*General Philosophy*	The Morality of Murder	Philosophy – a first course	54mins	Michael Sandel	Harvard University	Academicearth