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1 Divine kingdoms in the western Himalayas This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (22 February 2013) by William Sax of the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, focuses on 'oracular authority and distributed agency' in the western Himalayas. 0:47:23 William Sax 18 Apr 2013
2 Capital's new frontier Dr Catherine Dolan of the Saïd Business School, Oxford, discusses 'yoghurt mamas, solar sisters and the remaking of 'unusable Africa' at the bottom of the pyramid'. An Anthropology Departmental Seminar from 15 February 2013. 0:47:18 Catherine Dolan 18 Apr 2013
3 Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (8 February 2013) by Joost Fontein from the Department of Social Anthropology at Edinburgh focuses on northern Zimbabwe fieldwork and research 0:47:06 Joost Fontein 18 Apr 2013
4 Creative Commons Unexplored agencies: the case of Donna Sebastiana Carlo Severi (CNRS, Paris) presents an Anthropology Departmental Seminar (1 February 2013) 0:50:23 Carlo Severi 18 Apr 2013
5 Re-thinking 'Untamed Thoughts' Fifty Years On In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (25 January 2013), Dr Laura Rival discusses 'Claude Lévi-Strauss and the science of the concrete' 1:04:07 Laura Rival 18 Apr 2013
6 Synchrony and Similiarity in Human Cooperation This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (30 November 2012) is presented by Emma Cohen of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford 1:03:56 Emma Cohen 18 Apr 2013
7 The Evolution of Human Egalitarianism This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (9 November 2012) is by Dr Frank Marlowe (University of Cambridge, Department of Biological Anthropology) and is on the theme of evolutionary anthropology. 0:50:36 Frank Marlowe 18 Apr 2013
8 City Dwelling and the Cultures of Migrant Urbanism This Anthropology Departmental Seminar (19 October 2012), is presented by Professor Michael Keith, the Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, Oxford 0:53:35 Michael Keith 18 Apr 2013
9 The Biography of the Holy Ghost In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar (12 October 2012), Dr Ramon Sarró explores a prophetic landscape in Lower Congo 0:54:37 Ramon Sarró 18 Apr 2013
10 Crimes in (social) Contexts: The Influence of Police Legitimacy on Offending Behaviour How can we understand the influence of police on criminal behaviour? 1:10:17 Ben Bradford 30 Jan 2013
11 Creative Commons Social marketing and public health with Change4Life Podcast looking at the way in which public health campaigns, in particular the Change4Life campaign are marketed. By Kevin Chan, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge 0:33:04 Kevin Chan 21 Jan 2013
12 Creative Commons Department of Social Policy and Intervention Graduate Research Student Conference Keynote Speech 2 Prof Laurence Moore, Director of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement gives a talk for the Graduate Student Research Conference on 19 October 2012 0:34:14 Laurence Moore 14 Jan 2013
13 Creative Commons Department of Social Policy and Intervention Graduate Research Student Conference Keynote Speech 1 Dr Philip Davies, Deputy Director at the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, gives a keynote talk for the Department of Social Policy and Intervention Graduate Research Student Conference on October 19 2012 0:44:35 Philip Davies 14 Jan 2013
14 Delete: Forgetting in the Digital Age Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute Viktor Mayer-Schönberger gives the Keble London lecture 2012. 0:48:21 Viktor Mayer-Schonberger 11 Jan 2013
15 IPP 2012 (Big Data): Welcome and Plenary Panel Panellists discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making at the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". 1:00:14 Lance Bennett, Theo Bertram, Helen Margetts, Patrick McSharry 02 Jan 2013
16 IPP 2012 (Big Data) Keynote: Nigel Shadbolt Nigel Shadbolt discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". 0:34:08 Nigel Shadbolt 02 Jan 2013
17 Creative Commons IPP 2012 (Big Data) Keynote: Duncan Watts Duncan Watts discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". 1:10:57 Duncan Watts 02 Jan 2013
18 Creative Commons What is the evidence about migrant living conditions in the private rented sector and how could they be improved? Outlining a new report for the Housing and Migration Network UK, 'Migrants and the Private Rented Sector', published in February is the first national report to explore the needs and experience of new migrants who live in the private rented sector. 0:27:29 Gill Green, Neil Coles 27 Nov 2012
19 Creative Commons Social Mobility - The Greatest Challenge of our Time? Sir Peter Lampi, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust (which aims to improve social mobility through education) and founder of the Education Endowment Foundation. 0:32:41 Sir Peter Lampi 07 Nov 2012
20 Creative Commons Pandemics - Can we eliminate major worldwide epidemics? Larry Brilliant, President of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School 0:55:31 Larry Brilliant 06 Nov 2012
21 Creative Commons Eating NatureCulture: material feminism and maternal obesity Megan Warin, University of Adelaide, Australia, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series 0:48:06 Megan Waren 05 Nov 2012
22 Creative Commons Childhood obesity: what are its future health and social consequences? Jennifer Baker,Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series 0:40:33 Jennifer Baker 05 Nov 2012
23 Creative Commons Resilience building in trajectories towards sustainability: an examination of communal growing in the UK Rebecca White, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series 0:31:35 Rebecca White 05 Nov 2012
24 Creative Commons Visual political economies and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro Udi Butler, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series 0:38:19 Udi Butler 05 Nov 2012
25 Creative Commons Parents as gatekeepers: introduction to family therapy in obesity treatment Paulina Nowicka, Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series 0:40:41 Paulina Nowicka 05 Nov 2012
26 Creative Commons What is the relationship between new migration and community change? Migration is presumed to be a major driver of change at the neighborhood level. What is the evidence? This briefing explores current understanding and evidence about the neighborhood changes associated with new migration. 0:29:34 David Robinson 20 Aug 2012
27 Creative Commons Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights. 0:47:58 Nicholas de Genoa 14 Aug 2012
28 Creative Commons Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights. 0:47:58 Nicholas de Genoa 14 Aug 2012
29 Creative Commons Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons Ash Amin discusses his new book, "Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons". 0:33:48 Ash Amin 06 Aug 2012
30 Creative Commons Homophily is not an explanation Talja Blokland discusses notions of ethnicity, community, integration and migration, using empirical data to make a theoretical argument. She uses the notion of homophiliy - the idea that people that are similar come together 0:47:00 Talja Blokland 06 Aug 2012
31 Creative Commons Nostalgia and everyday multiculturalism: Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto Jayani Bonnerjee looks at the connections between Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in Calcutta through the space of neighbourhood and how the memory of neighbourhood carries over into diasporas. 0:54:15 Jayani Bonnerjee 06 Aug 2012
32 Creative Commons Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London suburbs David Gilbert considers the relationship between faith and suburbia with focus on migration. Part of the OMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2012: Everyday multiculturalism 0:54:40 David Gilbert 06 Aug 2012
33 Creative Commons Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground Katharine Tyler speaks about her new book, which explores what it means to be white modern post-colonial societies, drawing on her fieldwork in semi-rural, rural and urban spaces in Leicestershire. 0:44:59 Katharine Tyler 06 Aug 2012
34 Creative Commons New Geographies of Migration and Multiculture: Degrees of Intimacy between English Villagers and Eastern European Migrants in Rural Worcestershire Analysing the relationship between whiteness and Englishness, looking at processes of social inclusion and exclusion in the countryside, the migration of Eastern European workers to the countryside and rural discourses of community and multi-culture 0:35:39 Helen Moore 06 Aug 2012
35 Creative Commons Crossing the Threshold: Identity, Integration and Multiculturalism in British and German Muslim Ethnic Minority Neighbourhoods Sarah Hackett explores the idea of the neighbourhood as a site where citizenship is practiced and negotiated, with particular focus on historical developments and settlements in Newcastle, UK and Bremen, Germany. 0:46:26 Sarah Hackett 06 Aug 2012
36 Negotiating urban citizenship: British Muslim encounters with new migrants Deborah Phillips explores the 'neighbourhood' as a site where citizenship is practices and negotiated. She focuses particularly on the experiences of British Muslims in Bradford in their encounters with new migrants. 0:42:27 Deborah Phillips 06 Aug 2012
37 Experiences at the sharp end: Practitioners' perspectives on inclusion and exclusion (Panel Discussion) Four experts discuss their practical experiences of migrants' access to services and exclusion from services. Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series: Migrants and welfare states: inclusion or exclusion? 1:06:11 Fizza Qureshi, Ruthanna Barnett, Bill Bolloten, Nick Clark 06 Aug 2012
38 Creative Commons Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire, and the Chinese Labour Question Professor Glover outlined the moral panic around aliens and Chinese labour in the 1906 election, relating the debate to the 1905 Aliens Act and to Chinese indentured layout to South Africa. 0:47:58 David Glover 06 Aug 2012
39 Creative Commons Gender and interventions in integration Eleonore Kofman discusses gender's role in relation to integration discourses, policies and practices. Part of the Interrogating Integration: Discourses, Policies and Everyday Practices (COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010) Series 0:31:59 Eleonore Kofman 06 Aug 2012
40 Creative Commons The national integration paradigm: where are we now? Adrian Favell discusses his book 'Philosophies of Integration', taking a theoretical and philosophical approach to integration. 0:42:51 Adrian Favell 06 Aug 2012
41 Creative Commons When is an asylum seeker not an asylum seeker? The representation of immigration in the UK press 1996-2005 Paul Baker talks about how asylums seekers and refugees were presented in the national press and the variations in discourses over time and across types of press. 0:48:32 Paul Baker 06 Aug 2012
42 Creative Commons UK Immigration Policy and the Political Functions of Research Talk looking at the ways in which public administration and policy makers make use of academic research immigration policy making, looking at the British Home Office, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the European Commission 0:49:57 Christina Boswell 06 Aug 2012
43 Creative Commons Immigration and Political Trust in Europe Lauren McLaren looks at immigration and political trust, with focus on recent research data. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series 0:47:35 Lauren McLaren 06 Aug 2012
44 Creative Commons Numbers and Needs - the urban and the rural: Immigrant settlement in Shropshire and Tower Hamlets Anne Kershen discusses the comparisons between immigrant settlements in Shropshire and London's Tower Hamlets, exploring different issues of the migrant experience arising in the two areas. 0:58:44 Anne Kershen 06 Aug 2012
45 Creative Commons What is the role of schooling in the integration and settlement process of new Polish migrants to the UK? The EU Enlargement of 2004 entailed an intensive large-scale migration wave from Eastern European countries to the UK, in particular from Poland. 0:26:56 Pauline Trevena 16 Jul 2012
46 Creative Commons Migration policy and skills policy: substitutes or complements? There is a very significant tension at the heart of UK immigration policy. Basic economic intuition, as well as considerable empirical evidence, suggests that skilled immigrants will benefit the economy. 0:25:02 Jonathan Portes 09 Jul 2012
47 Learning that emerges in 'Times of Trouble' In this Ethnicity and Identity Seminar, Professor Joy Hendry (Oxford Brooks University) presents a few cases from Japan. 2 March 2012. 0:50:04 Joy Hendry 27 Jun 2012
48 Epidemiological crises, epistemological divisions In this seminar held by the Anthropology Research Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines and Religions (ArgO-EMR), Assoc. Professor Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) discusses 'the new discourse on epidemics in 17th-18th century China'. 7 March 2012. 0:52:20 Marta Hanson 27 Jun 2012
49 Creative Commons Everyday aesthetics in forced displacement In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester) looks at 'material culture and Karenni forced migrants in a Thai-Burma border camp'. 10 February 2012 1:01:32 Sandra Dudley 27 Jun 2012
50 Sweetness and Light In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Ann Gold (Syracuse University) examines 'ordinary pluralisms in a North Indian town'. 24 February 2012 0:49:52 Ann G Gold 27 Jun 2012
51 Negotiating Space, Buying Time In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University) discusses 'the performance of housing politics in a Bangkok community under siege'. 2 December 2011. 0:52:06 Michael Herzfeld 27 Jun 2012
52 What Shan ethnography can tell us about Theravada Buddhism Nicola Tannenbaum, Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University in the United States, discusses Theravada Buddhism for this Anthropology Departmental Seminar. 4 May 2012. 0:55:11 Nicola Tannenbaum 27 Jun 2012
53 Conflict in the Plural In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Jonathan Spencer (University of Edinburgh) examines 'eastern Sri Lanka as a complex religious field'. 18 May 2012. 0:57:06 Jonathan Spencer 27 Jun 2012
54 Creative Commons Opportunistic violence and the impossibility of intimacy In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dhana Hughes (St John's College, University of Oxford) examines 'memories of revenge and denunciation in Sri Lanka's Southern Terror'. 11 May 2012. 0:38:14 Dhana Hughes 27 Jun 2012
55 Creative Commons Neighbouring China in Northern Nepal In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Martin Saxer (National University of Singapore)discusses 'Hidden Valleys, New Roads and Remote Cosmopolitans' in northern Nepal. 25 May 2012. 0:45:03 Martin Saxer 27 Jun 2012
56 Creative Commons How Universal is Liberalism? Professor Ronald Dworkin, New York University, delivers the 2012 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with response from Professor Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy. 1:35:24 Ronald Dworkin, Timothy Garton Ash, Adam Roberts 30 May 2012
57 Beyond globalisation and localisation In this Departmental Seminar, Holger Jebens discusses local Christianity and 'Pluralism in a Papua New Guinea village'. 18 November 2011. 0:45:01 Holger Jebens 24 May 2012
58 2012 Annual Lecture in Law and Society: The Strange History of the American Federal Bill of Rights: England, the United States and the Atlantic World Pauline Maier, Professor of American History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology gives the 2012 Annual Lecture in Law and Society. Introduced by Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford 0:58:55 Pauline Maier, Denis Galligan 23 May 2012
59 Hybrid reality: the emerging human-technology co-evolution Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna; Directors of The Hybrid Reality Institute, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School public lecture series. With Professor Ian Goldin; Director, Oxford Martin Institute 0:42:35 Parag Khanna, Ayesha Khanna, Ian Goldin 19 May 2012
60 Creative Commons Excesses of Responsibility and the Power of Political Approaches to Accountability Dr. Kirsten Ainley, Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series on 1st May 2012 0:34:22 Kirsten Ainley 08 May 2012
61 Creative Commons Shifts in the Public/Private Divide as mode of inclusion and exclusion Sarah van Walsum discusses Dutch and EU law's approach to care work and protection of rights. 0:55:22 Sarah van Walsum 08 May 2012
62 Creative Commons Somalia after the London Meeting: How Much Difference Does a Day Make? Laura Hammond (SOAS) gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series. In association with the Horn of Africa Seminar 0:44:37 Laura Hammond 08 May 2012
63 Creative Commons Environmental Governance and Resilience: Resilience and social-ecological systems Professor Carl Folke Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, gives the final talk in the Environmental Governance and Resilience series 0:47:25 Carl Folke 17 Apr 2012
64 Creative Commons Environmental Governance and Resilience: Solutions for a Sustainable and Desirable Future Professor Robert Costanza, Director, Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University, gives a talk for the Environmental Governance and Resilience series 0:54:46 Robert Costanza 17 Apr 2012
65 Creative Commons Environmental Governance and Resilience: Governance, genomes, Gaia Professor Gísli Pálsson, Dept of Anthropology, University of Iceland, gives a talk for the Environmental Governance and Resilience series 0:58:01 Gísli Pálsson 17 Apr 2012
66 Creative Commons Environmental Governance and Resilience: Enframing and poiesis in environmental management Professor Andy Pickering, University of Exeter, gives a talk for the Environmental Governance and Resilience series 0:49:15 Andy Pickering 17 Apr 2012
67 Creative Commons Environmental Governance and Resilience: Planning for ecological resilience on landscapes: the importance of the past to plan for the future Professor Kathy Willis, Director, Biodiversity Institute gives a talk for the Environmental Governance and Resilience series 0:38:41 Kathy Willis 17 Apr 2012
68 Environmental Governance and Resilience: Social-ecological resilience: A framework for stewardship in an uncertain and rapidly changing world Professor Stuart Chapin Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks gives the first lecture in the Environmental Governance and Resilience series. 0:42:51 Stuart Chapin 17 Apr 2012
69 Creative Commons Migrants' access to goods and services in the context of international human rights law Aoife Nolan (Durham Law School) takes us through the relationship between migrants' rights and international human rights instruments. 0:43:37 Aoife Nolan 16 Apr 2012
70 Creative Commons What is the impact of new migration on cohesion and integration? The government and the media regularly make the case that migration must be restricted in order to ensure community cohesion and encourage integration. 0:21:44 Robert Ford, Will Somerville, Shamit Saggar 16 Apr 2012
71 Creative Commons Why the Internet won't get you any more friends Professor Robin Dunbar, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford, gives a talk as part of the Keble College Creativity Lecture series 1:07:28 Robin Dunbar 28 Mar 2012
72 Creative Commons Squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle Dr Noor Nieftagodien (University of Witwatersrand) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre on 8th March 2012 0:35:07 Noor Nieftagodien 12 Mar 2012
73 Creative Commons Motivations for marriage and marital (un)happiness: Discourses in Japanese women's magazines Dr Barbara Holthus (Senior Research Fellow, Social Science Section, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo) gives a talk for the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies on Thursday 16th February 2012 1:04:43 Barbara Holthus 12 Mar 2012
74 Creative Commons Conclusion Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser concludes the ESRC/OISP Workshop on Comparative Methods 0:01:39 Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 12 Mar 2012
75 Creative Commons Merging Macro and Micro Data? Session 6 of the ESRC/OISP Workshop on Comparative Methods - Merging Macro and Micro Data? with Dr Mark Tomlinson 0:39:00 Mark Tomlinson 12 Mar 2012
76 Creative Commons An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling in Comparative Social Analysis Session 5 of the ESRC/OISP Workshop on Comparative Methods: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling in comparative Social Analysis - Dr Mark Tomlinson 0:47:04 Mark Tomlinson 12 Mar 2012
77 Creative Commons Challenges and Limits of Macro-Quantitative Analysis Session 4 of the ESRC/OISP workshop on Comparative Methods: Challenges and Limits of Macro-Quantitative Analysis with Dr Emanuele Ferragina 0:58:45 Emanuele Ferragina 12 Mar 2012
78 Creative Commons Ideal Types and Welfare Regimes: An Application Session three of the ESRC/OISP Workshop in Comparative Methods. Ideal Types and Welfare Regimes: An Application 0:53:32 Emanuele Ferragina 12 Mar 2012
79 Creative Commons Introduction to Comparative Analysis (part 2) Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser gives the second part of his introduction to Comparative Methods 0:27:45 Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 12 Mar 2012
80 Creative Commons Introduction to Comparative Analysis (part 1) Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser gave an introduction to what comparative analysis is. 0:40:35 Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 12 Mar 2012
81 Creative Commons Victim Participation in International Criminal Proceedings: Are Retributive and Restorative Principles Enhancing the Prospect for Justice? Rudina Jasini, DPhil Candidate in Law, University of Oxford; Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) gives a talk for the OTJR Hilary term seminar series on 31st January 0:28:57 Rudina Jasini 21 Feb 2012
82 Creative Commons Can the West Live with Islam? Sir Jonathan Phillips of Keble College, Oxford, chairs a debate between Professor Nigel Biggar, Theology Faculty, University of Oxford, and Islamic Studies lecturer, Tim Winter, University of Cambridge; on the topic : Can the West Live with Islam? 0:58:10 Nigel Biggar, Timothy Winter, Jonathan Phillips 17 Feb 2012
83 Creative Commons Is Nothing Sacred? Free Speech and Religion Professor A C Grayling delivers the 2011 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with responses by Charles Moore and Dr. Usama Hasan. Filmed on 10 June 2011. 1:01:36 A.C. Grayling, Charles Moore, Usama Hasan, Timothy Garton Ash 02 Feb 2012
84 Creative Commons What are the impacts of restrictions on participation in the labour market and civic life on young migrants? COMPAS Breakfast Briefing Part of the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. 0:18:43 Les Back 01 Dec 2011
85 Creative Commons What are the impacts of restrictions on participation in the labour market and civic life on young migrants? COMPAS Breakfast Briefing Part of the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. 0:18:43 Les Back 01 Dec 2011
86 Dept Seminar: Beyond 'terroir' In this Anthropology Dept Seminar Marion Demossier of the University of Bath discusses 'territorial construction, hegemonic discourses and French wine culture'. 11 November 2011. 0:54:52 Marion Demossier 29 Nov 2011
87 Dept Seminar: Discovering Anthropological Practice through Fieldwork In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Professor Judith Okely of Hull University (and an associate of ISCA, Oxford) looks back over her anthropological career, especially her time spent working with gypsies. 4 November 2011. 0:51:39 Judith Okely 29 Nov 2011
88 Dept Seminar: Saints of Justice, Spirits of Devastation In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Helene Basu of Münster University examines 'Sorcery, Madness and Modernity in Western India'. 28 October 2011. 0:47:06 Helene Basu 29 Nov 2011
89 Dept Seminar: The Oil Company, 'Partnership' and the Moralities of Giving and Receiving In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Katy Gardner of the University of Sussex examines the impact of oil companies on 'corporate community engagement' in Bangladesh. 21 October 2011. 0:58:40 Katy Gardner 29 Nov 2011
90 Dept Seminar: Spirit in Motion In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Thomas Kirsch of Konstanz University, discusses the 'Morphology and Mobility of the Holy Spirit in Africa'. 14 October 2011. 0:42:49 Thomas Kirsch 29 Nov 2011
91 Creative Commons How will climate change impact on migration? Allan Findlay, Professor of Population Geography, School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St. Andrews, gives a talk for the COMPAS breakfast briefing series 0:31:25 Allan Findlay 18 Nov 2011
92 900 years of making a difference: the history of philanthropy at the University of Oxford Chris Day reflects on how generous philanthropic support from organisations and individuals has inspired the success of the University of Oxford. 1:09:14 Chris Day 11 Oct 2011
93 900 years of making a difference: the history of philanthropy at the University of Oxford Chris Day reflects on how generous philanthropic support from organisations and individuals has inspired the success of the University of Oxford. 1:09:14 Chris Day 11 Oct 2011
94 Body Arts: Feathers, Beads and Paint Professor Peter Rivière and Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Dr Mike O'Hanlon, discuss decorative applications of feathers, beads and paint to the body, 0:15:26 Peter Rivière, Mike O'Hanlon 22 Aug 2011
95 Body Arts: Scent, Pain and Exchange Professor Jeremy MacClancy of Oxford Brookes University talks to Helen Hales of the Pitt Rivers Museum about themes including scent and perfume, 0:13:31 Jeremy MacClancy, Helen Hales 22 Aug 2011
96 Creative Commons Who are the UK's new citizens? This briefing presents a profile of Britain's new citizens, and what we can learn from them about the relationship between settlement, citizenship and integration 0:18:02 Ben Gidley 16 Aug 2011
97 Creative Commons Where is the UK going on migrant integration policy? A comparison to Europe and North America - COMPAS Breakfast Briefing Exactly how does the UKís policy framework measure up to other countries in Europe and North America? What has changed? 0:23:48 Thomas Huddleston 16 Aug 2011
98 Creative Commons What are the key evidence gaps in Britain's migration debate, and what are the implications for policy? COMPAS Breakfast Briefing Informed public debate and evidence-based policy-making on immigration requires clarity and transparency about what we know and don't know about migration and its impacts. 0:16:14 Martin Ruhs, Scott Blinder 16 Aug 2011
99 Creative Commons What does the "Big Society" mean for migrant communities? - COMPAS Breakfast Briefing The Coalition government's policy agenda on 'the Big Society' marks a major shift in the landscape. It has been described as radically passing power from the state to citizens and civil society. 0:22:08 Vaughan Jones 16 Aug 2011
100 Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Autopathographies - How 'sick lit' shapes knowledge and the illness experience This presentation by Dr Rachel Hall-Clifford (Primary Health Care, Oxford) was delivered at the conference Medical Anthropology at Oxford: 10 Years at the Intersections 0:22:09 Rachel Hall-Clifford 25 Jul 2011
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1 IPP 2012 (Big Data): Welcome and Plenary Panel Panellists discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making at the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". 1:00:14 Lance Bennett, Theo Bertram, Helen Margetts, Patrick McSharry 02 Jan 2013
2 IPP 2012 (Big Data) Keynote: Nigel Shadbolt Nigel Shadbolt discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". 0:34:08 Nigel Shadbolt 02 Jan 2013
3 Creative Commons IPP 2012 (Big Data) Keynote: Duncan Watts Duncan Watts discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". 1:10:57 Duncan Watts 02 Jan 2013
4 Creative Commons Social Mobility - The Greatest Challenge of our Time? Sir Peter Lampi, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust (which aims to improve social mobility through education) and founder of the Education Endowment Foundation. 0:32:41 Sir Peter Lampi 07 Nov 2012
5 Creative Commons How Universal is Liberalism? Professor Ronald Dworkin, New York University, delivers the 2012 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with response from Professor Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy. 1:35:24 Ronald Dworkin, Timothy Garton Ash, Adam Roberts 30 May 2012
6 Creative Commons Why the Internet won't get you any more friends Professor Robin Dunbar, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford, gives a talk as part of the Keble College Creativity Lecture series 1:07:28 Robin Dunbar 28 Mar 2012
7 Creative Commons Conclusion Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser concludes the ESRC/OISP Workshop on Comparative Methods 0:01:39 Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 12 Mar 2012
8 Creative Commons Merging Micro and Macro Data? Session 6 of the ESRC/OISP Workshop on Comparative Methods - Merging Micro and Macro Data? with Dr Mark Tomlinson 0:39:00 Mark Tomlinson 12 Mar 2012
9 Creative Commons An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling in comparative Social Analysis Session 5 of the ESRC/OISP Workshop on Comparative Methods: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling in comparative Social Analysis - Dr Mark Tomlinson 0:47:04 Mark Tomlinson 12 Mar 2012
10 Creative Commons Challenges and Limits of Macro-Quantitative Analysis Session 4 of the ESRC/OISP workshop on Comparative Methods: Challenges and Limits of Macro-Quantitative Analysis with Dr Emanuele Ferragina 0:58:45 Emanuele Ferragina 12 Mar 2012
11 Creative Commons Ideal Types and Welfare Regimes: An Application Session three of the ESRC/OISP Workshop in Comparative Methods. Ideal Types and Welfare Regimes: An Application 0:53:32 Emanuele Ferragina 12 Mar 2012
12 Creative Commons Introduction to Comparative Analysis (part 2) Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser gave an introduction to Comparative Methods part two 0:27:45 Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 12 Mar 2012
13 Creative Commons Introduction to Comparative Analysis (part 1) Professor Martin Seeleib-Kaiser gave an introduction to comparative analysis 0:40:35 Martin Seeleib-Kaiser 12 Mar 2012
14 Creative Commons Can the West Live with Islam? Sir Jonathan Phillips of Keble College, Oxford, chairs a debate between Professor Nigel Biggar, Theology Faculty, University of Oxford, and Islamic Studies lecturer, Tim Winter, University of Cambridge; on the topic : Can the West Live with Islam? 0:58:10 Nigel Biggar, Timothy Winter, Jonathan Phillips 17 Feb 2012
15 Creative Commons Is Nothing Sacred? Free Speech and Religion Professor A C Grayling delivers the 2011 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with responses by Charles Moore and Dr. Usama Hasan. Filmed on 10 June 2011. 1:01:36 A.C. Grayling, Charles Moore, Usama Hasan, Timothy Garton Ash 02 Feb 2012
16 900 years of making a difference: the history of philanthropy at the University of Oxford Chris Day reflects on how generous philanthropic support from organisations and individuals has inspired the success of the University of Oxford. 1:09:14 Chris Day 11 Oct 2011
17 900 years of making a difference: the history of philanthropy at the University of Oxford Chris Day reflects on how generous philanthropic support from organisations and individuals has inspired the success of the University of Oxford. 1:09:14 Chris Day 11 Oct 2011
18 Creative Commons Myth and reality in the search for the wider benefits of transport Professor Roger Vickerman, University of Kent, gives a talk for the Transport Studies Unit 2011 Hilary Term seminar series. 0:47:48 Roger Vickerman 07 Mar 2011
19 Life Chances and Early Childhood Investments 2010 Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture given by Professor Gøsta Esping-Andersen at St Antony's College. 0:56:20 Gøsta Esping-Andersen 08 Nov 2010
20 We are the Web: The future of the social machine The Web 2.0 world is commonplace but the promise of massive scale human computing has barely been exploited. This seminar explores the potential, challenges, and promises for next-generation technologies that can empower humanity to address key problems 1:27:21 Jim Hendler 30 Apr 2010
21 Creative Commons 2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1 Part 2.1. A brief recap on the first lecture describing how Aristotle's view of the universe, dominant throughout the middle ages in Europe, came to be gradually phased out by a modern, mechanistic view of the universe. 0:05:47 Peter Millican 16 Mar 2010
22 Creative Commons Treasures of Oxford - Athenian Wine Drinking Cup Sir John Boardman talks about a wine drinking cup made in Ancient Athens; he also talks about what we can learn from it about Ancient Greek culture and the kind of lifestyle the Greeks had 0:04:51 John Boardman 11 Mar 2010
23 Those Golden Eggs Come From Somewhere: Internet Regulation at a Crossroads A discussion of how largely well-intentioned political and legal reactions to the highest-profile risks of ICT creates a danger of perhaps killing the goose that is giving us golden eggs of innovation, decentralization, and personal empowerment. 1:11:30 Michael Froomkin 08 Mar 2010
24 When the Audience Clicks: Buying Attention in the Digital Age Discussion of media buying and the attention-creation industry - showing how the fixation on audiences' click-like behaviour is a disruptive institutional force, and how buyers' new approaches to attention are creating new forms of social discrimination. 1:27:56 Joseph Turow 08 Mar 2010
25 Creative Commons Russia is Back: Jenifer Hart Memorial Lecture Professor MacFarlane gives a talk about modern Russia; from the fall of the Berlin Wall to today; including the rise of Vladimir Putin, the conflict between Chechnya, alleged human rights violations and Russia's relationship with the rest of the world 0:36:49 Neil MacFarlane 25 Nov 2009
26 National Broadband Policies: Perspectives from the US and Britain Robert Hahn discusses his recent paper responding to the US Federal Communications Commission's request for guidance in designing a national US broadband plan 1:27:27 Robert Hahn 13 Nov 2009
27 Using the Web to do Social Science Duncan Watts discusses how the Internet is beginning to lift a long-time constraint of social science research on emergent collective behaviour: the difficulty of measuring interactions between people, at scale, over time, while also observing behaviour 0:51:42 Duncan Watts 09 Nov 2009
28 The crisis of global capitalism: towards a new economic culture? Manuel Castells draws on arguments from his book Communication Power in discussing the structural causes and implications of the 2008 economic crisis, and in claiming that we are moving, without much understanding, towards a new form of global capitalism 1:29:00 Manuel Castells 09 Nov 2009
29 The Growth of the Corporate Blog: 'Letting go' of Information Control or Maintaining the Official Line? What do companies expect to gain from maintaining an online 'social media' presence? What are the implications of these trends for the development of traditional public relations strategies and business journalism? 0:28:13 Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb, Kara Swisher, Simon Hampton, Mark Rogers 09 Nov 2009
30 Blogging at 20? The Future and Potential of Social Media If social media are the defining advance of Web 2.0, whereby the network-as-platform enabled users not just to download content but to create it, tag it and share it ... what will the next decade hold? Will we continue to Tweet? 0:16:59 William Dutton, Nigel Shadbolt, Dave Sifry, Richard Allan 09 Nov 2009
31 Parties, Campaigns and Representation: The Political Impact of Blogs and Social Media Are social media tools likely to prove effective in engaging any voters except those who are already interested in politics? Is their apparent 'democratisation' of traditional party structures to be believed? 0:30:12 Helen Margetts, Iain Dale, Andrew Rasiej, Matthew McGregor 07 Oct 2009
32 Social Media, So What? Assessing the Impact of Blogs and Social Media Can Web 2.0 tools (eg blogs, social networking and wikis) enhance our democratic freedoms? Or can we dismiss the socially egalitarian and politically democratic potential of these social media? Have any significant social impacts been ignored so far? 0:44:26 Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Stefan Niggemeier, Evgeny Morozov, Richard Allan 07 Oct 2009
33 FLJS part 4: The Relationship between Political and Judicial Branches Aharon Barak discusses how the political and judicial branches of government balance their sometimes conflicting interests with the rights of the citizens. Part 4 of the 2009 Foundation for Law Justice and Society Annual Lecture. 0:04:43 Aharon Barak 24 Jul 2009
34 2009 Annual Lecture: Human rights and their limitations: the role of proportionality The former President of the Israeli Supreme Court Aharon Barak addresses the appropriate balance between security and the safeguarding of human rights. 0:59:07 Aharon Barak 24 Jul 2009
35 Urban Informatics: The Internet, locative media and mobile technology for urbanites Marcus Foth overviews various urban informatics projects, exploring the communicative ecology of urban residents, community engagement using public history and digital storytelling, and social navigation for mobile urban information systems 1:18:56 Marcus Foth 03 Jul 2009
36 Regulating Technologies Roger Brownsword argues that the legal community should be concerned to contribute to debates about the implications and regulation of rapidly developing and converging technologies (eg ICTs, biotech / nanotech). 1:05:29 Roger Brownsword 08 May 2009
37 Through the Network (of Networks): The Fifth Estate The Internet and web are creating a new space for networking people, information and other resources: this has the potential to become an important 'fifth estate' to support greater accountability in politics, the media and other institutional arenas. 0:48:27 William Dutton 12 Sep 2008