Humanitas: Mark Thompson at the University of Oxford, Lecture One
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/06/18
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Mark Thompson, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Rhetoric and the Art of Public Persuasion 2012-2013, delivering his inaugural lecture 'Is Plato Winning the Argument?', November 2012. Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge designed to bring leading academics, practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the programme is managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and co-ordinated in Cambridge by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) and in Oxford by the Humanities Division.
