Sentences with phrase «interesting university lecture»

I sort of wish that his vibrant personality shone through in I Am as well as it did in person; his statements here were delivered like an interesting university lecture, whereas the movie feels a bit more hectoring in its approach.

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
Prior to that, Chris spent 11 years at AMP Capital Investors, including as the head of interest rates and currencies, and has also fulfilled various roles at Bankers Trust, Credit Suisse First Boston and Reserve Bank of Australia, and lectured for the Faculty of Commerce, University of New South Wales and the SIA.
I'd be interested to know what others think — are non-believers expecting churches to look just like a business meeting, a university lecture, a marketing presentation?
I had been asked by the university of a non-Christian religious community, especially interested in the history of Christian missions, to give a lecture on the origin of Protestant missions in German Pietism and English Puritanism of the eighteenth century.
Her interest in social work education led Bridget to become a practice teacher and training manager, going on to lecture at Coventry University, and becoming head of the social work department at Oxford Brookes University.
The KITPC outreach develops a series of scientific activities including public science lectures and science research group classes in order to popularize natural science, arouse interest in science and improve the scientific research abilities among the students and teachers of Universities and high schools.
As an undergraduate at University of Montpellier in France in the early 2000s, Sébastien Granier's interest in science was stoked by the passionate lectures of a renowned plant physiologist who studied the architecture of trees, and tropical forest canopies in particular.
The 1st session included lectures related to clinical implementation of Pharmacogenomics, featuring the keynote lecture by Prof. Julie Johnson (University of Florida, Tampa, FL, USA), followed by Prof. Markus Paulmichl (Paracelsus University, Salzburg, Austria), who provided an overview of the implementation of Pharmacogenomics in Austria and Prof. Magnus Ingelman - Sundberg (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), who talked about sequencing of rare variants of pharmacogenomics interest.
Rising University of Washington (UW) freshman and current YSP participant, Eun Tae Ki, developed an interest in neural engineering when he attended lectures by Dr. Eric Chudler, Dr. Chet Moritz and Dr.
The audio commentary by director Danny Boyle is probably the DVD's only highlight, while an additional commentary track (by Dr. Brian Cox from the University of Manchester) is probably about as interesting as one of his lectures.
«It was her who encouraged me to pursue what I am truly interested in, who helped me altruistically with my academic learning and who introduced me to lectures, activities, and professors in Harvard,» says Fang Jia, of Lesley University.
After teaching for years at Nottingham University and Camberwell, he accepted a lecturing post at the University of California in 1968, where he became interested in computers.
An interest in African art and culture is a recurrent concept throughout Sonnier's oeuvre, dating back to his time spent as a teaching assistant to Carroll Janis, who lectured on the subject while at Rutgers University.
With an interest in research, Index collaborates with many universities and art academies in Sweden and beyond through lectures, ongoing partnerships and co-operations.
Her approach bears the influence of Asian belief systems; at university she had attended lectures by a Zen Buddhist scholar and become deeply interested in such ways of thought — not as a religion but as a practical how - to approach to life.
The main reason I started blogging was to organise all the interesting stuff I was collecting for my introduction to oceanography lecture at the University of Bergen in one place, so I would...... Read more»
«Forbes relates an interesting story about how Stanford University is putting course lectures and other Cardinal content on the Web through Apple's iTunes for free download (I was unable to find it on iTunes before I hit my deadline...).
NAR's Research department provides this lecture series, in association with REALTOR ® University, featuring leading experts in fields related to real estate discussing topics of interest to REALTOR ® University students.
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