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Alternative Academics in Oxford

sociétélibre (from osan) | 04.11.2004 19:37 | Education | Oxford

Interested in challenging orthodox, mainstream academia? A new series of workshops is starting this weekend: the Alternative Academics. The idea is to discuss about alternative topics usually excluded from mainstream academia, in an alternative format as well (no speaker meeting where the speaker is on a platform and tells you what to think). I won't say more about it; just come and take part in it!

Poster
Poster


The first one will be about Permaculture. This is a good chance to know about a innovative way of looking at how humans design their lives, borrowing patterns from the natural systems to make our lifestyles more sustainable.

Sunday November 7th
3-5 pm
Wadham College, Old Refectory

"Permaculture is the use of ecology as the basis for designing integrated systems of food production, housing appropriate technology and community development. It offers a practical, creative approach to the problems of diminishing resources and threatened life support systems now facing the world."

 http://www.permaculture.net
 http://www.permaculture.org.uk

The second one will be about Post Autistic Economics, on Sunday November 21st, same place, same time. I'll tell you more about it later! ;-)

sociétélibre (from osan)
- Homepage: http://osan.org.uk/

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An alternative to what?

04.11.2004 23:25

I was briefly interested until I saw that you are taking a lead from JFK: What sort of alternative vision of the future are you offering when it takes a cue from one of the contributors to post war US imperialism? This is JF 'Vietnam' K we're talking about? JF 'Cuba' K, yeah?

TVE

dont mean its not true

06.11.2004 16:21

tve - jfk committed atrocities, but that dont mean every word he uttered was a lie

kev whyte

ALSO

10.11.2004 19:49


I think the word Mr Kennedy may have been searching for was 'conformity'; not'conformism'. But then he also publicly announced that he was a doughnut, so go figure...

wordlover