It consists of talks, quick internships, thought provoking lectures, and movie watching.
Both subjects provoke passionate lectures espousing personal worldviews, and minds are seldom, if ever, changed.
In a thought-provoking lecture Maurice Obstfeld of the University of California, Berkeley pointed out that the euro crisis had decisively undermined the notion that large current-account deficits don't matter as long as governments budget wisely.
The recent commemorative evening included a thought-provoking lecture by Damani Davis, an archivist at the National Archives, who highlighted the informational value of the bank's records.
This paper analyses laughter in spoken academic discourse, with the aim of discovering why lecturers provoke laughter in their lectures.
All revved up Back from the Edinburgh Television Festival where James Murdoch's public roughing up of the BBC at the JamesMacTaggart Memorial Lecture provoked an angry exchange between the News Corp boss and the BBC's business editor Robert Peston, who shared a table at the post-MacTaggart dinner.
In a thought-provoking TED lecture 25-year-old reducetarian movement co-founder Brian Kateman addresses the gulf that happens when two people meet for lunch and one is vegan -- it "changes their perception of each other forever," he notes.
Carver was all craft and no substance," Matt lectures, provoked into a rare moment of eloquence by his disdain for Raymond Carver's "little tales of suburban paralysis".
The political and cultural landscape was unrecognisable 50 years ago, when Hugh MacDiarmid delivered his lecture on a 'national literature', provoking his famous spat with Alexander Trocchi.
McDonnell's speech on the economy comes before Labour begins a series of free public lectures and seminars aimed at provoking debate on economic policy.
But it's the punching, shooting and bouncing off walls which provide the only real point of interest, with a pay-off lecture about violence not solving anything (after 85 minutes of bullet-spraying fun) provoking hollow laughter.
