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04.02.10.

Introducing at the Oxford Literary Festival

This year's Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, which runs in the city from 20th - 28th March, will feature not just one but TWO Introducing-themed events:

The first, at 2pm on Saturday 20th March, tackles the most challenging science but revolutionary science mankind has come up with:

Quantum theory is one of science's most thrilling challenging and even mysterious areas. Join our discussion based on Icon Books' series of graphic guides to big ideas which introduce subjects from Capitalism to Chaos, philosophy to Postmodernism.

Speakers will be Manjit Kumar, author of Quantum which was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, Marcus Chown, author of the bestselling Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and Dr Joseph Schwartz (Chair), author of Introducing Einstein.

See more on this event, and buy tickets, via this link (scroll down to find the event).

The second, on Tuesday 23rd March, tackles Freud's most famous and engimatic disciple, Carl Jung:

Carl Gustav Jung was the most enigmatic and controversial of the early depth psychologists, who supplemented Freud's work with crucial questions about religion and the soul. Join our discussion based on one of our most popular titles in Introducing series. The discussion will cover Jung's life and work, his science and scholarship, and his exploration into the psychology of religion, alchemy and astrology, as well as his infamous Red Book.

Speakers will be Maggie Hyde, author of Introducing Jung, Jane Haynes, the author of Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? The Journal of a Psychotherapist, and Roderick Main PhD (Chair), Director of the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex and author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung's Critique of Modern Western Culture.

More info and tickets for this one here.