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Julia Bray
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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 1 | Creative Commons | What to do About Failure: Personal Actions. | How to take action to change the role failure plays in your life. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | What to do About Failure: Personal Attitudes. | How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 3 | Creative Commons | Failure and the Farewell to Academia. | Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure? | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Chiara Cappellaro | 22 May 2018 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Failure and Other People | Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them. | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | The Feeling of Failure | What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it? | Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys | 22 May 2018 |
| 6 | Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin | Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. | Julia Bray | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 7 | Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin | Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. | Julia Bray | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 8 | Tombstone of a Muslim girl | On what were people’s feelings about death and the dead in North Africa a thousand years ago? What does this tombstone tell us? With Professor Julia Bray, Arabic, University of Oxford. | Julia Bray | 23 Jan 2017 | |
| 9 | The Role of Religion in Identity | Julia Bray (University of Oxford) delivers a keynote lecture on the role of religion in identity | Julia Bray | 07 Jul 2016 | |
| 10 | Reading the Corpus | LAL’s contribution to cultural diplomacy, diffusion, literary exchanges, and education. Wen-chin Ouyang and Chip Rossetti lead discussion with Philip Kennedy, Sean Anthony, Julia Bray, Robert Irwin and Mohamed-Salah Omri. | Wen-Chin Ouyang, Chip Rossetti, Philip Kennedy, Julia Bray | 29 May 2015 | |
| 11 | Editing the Corpus | Methods and approaches to establishing the texts, linguistic difficulty, history of transmission, literary character, audience. Michael Cooperson leads discussion with Julia Bray, Joseph Lowry, and Devin Stewart. | Michael Cooperson, Julia Bray, Joseph Lowry, Devin Stewart | 29 May 2015 | |
| 12 | Remembering the Corpus [Part 2] | Different genres embraced by LAL and modes of writing. Julia Bray and James Montgomery lead discussion with Beatrice Gruendler and Shawkat Toorawa. | Julia Bray, James Montgomery, Beatrice Gruendier, Shawkat Toorawa | 29 May 2015 | |
| 13 | Human Chain | Is the study of Arabic literature in the western academy going round in circles or moving forward? What has been the most important recent development in the field? | Julia Bray | 12 Jun 2014 |