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Mary Beard, Homi Bhabha and Se谩n Williams join Shahidha Bari to look at the etiquette of talks on zoom and the history of lectures. Lecturing someone can be a negative: you鈥檙e patronising or boring or telling them what to think. And yet, today we have TED talks, university staff are routinely recording lectures using video conferencing technology, and the history of thought is a history of persuasive speakers setting out their ideas before audiences.

Dr Se谩n Williams is a 大象传媒/AHRC New Generation Thinker who lectures in German intellectual and cultural history at the University of Sheffield.
Mary Beard is a Dame and Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and has given various lectures at universities, the British Museum and the London Review of Books, the Society for Classical Studies, the Gifford Lecture Series. She also presents on TV and has authored many books.
Homi Bhabha is a Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and is the author of many books. He considers Memory and Migration in this Free Thinking Lecture recorded in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature /programmes/m0005gt9

Readings: Ewan Bailey

Other programmes exploring aspects of language:
What is Speech : Matthew Sweet's guests include Trevor Cox and Rebecca Roache /programmes/b0b1q2f3
The Impact of Being Multi-Lingual: John Gallagher talks to Katrin Kohl, Rajinder Dudrah and Wen-chin Ouyang /programmes/m000mq6k
Language and Belonging: Preti Taneja's guests include Michael Rosen, Guy Gunaratne and Momtaza Mehri /programmes/p07fvbhn
The Free Thinking Festival Lecture on Feelings from Professor Thomas Dixon /programmes/m0003rsw
The Free Thinking Festival Lecture on Knowledge from Karen Armstrong /programmes/p02tw41j

Producer: Eliane Glaser