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Updated 15 Oct 2012 | 21 episodes | St Anne's College
St Anne's stands out in Oxford as a college that is down to earth, modern, informal and open to the world. It also has a determined sense of its academic purpose. It began in 1879 offering a university education to women who otherwise would have found it unaffordable. It became a full College of the University in 1952. It has taken both men and women since 1979, and is now one of Oxford's...
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Updated 22 May 2013 | 30 episodes | St Antony's College
St Antony's College is the most international of the six graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relations, economics, politics and history of particular parts of the world.
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Updated 22 Apr 2013 | 7 episodes | St Catherine's College
Podcasts from St Catherine's - Oxford's youngest mixed (undergraduate and graduate) college and also one of its largest and most diverse communities. St Catherine's celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2012.
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Updated 06 Nov 2009 | 2 episodes | St Cross College
Audio files of lectures given at St Cross College covering a variety of subjects
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Updated 09 Feb 2011 | 15 episodes | St Cross College
A series of talks given on a weekly basis during term by college members, detailing their area of expertise.
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Updated 28 Feb 2013 | 9 episodes | St Edmund Hall
St Edmund Hall is a friendly, informal college with a strong sense of community; an excellent place for academic and social life. We admit about 115 undergraduates every year, evenly divided between sciences and arts, who bring a wide range of intellectual, sporting and other interests. We take a keen interest in students' careers: our Bridge to Business programme, funded by the generosity of...
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Updated 07 Apr 2009 | 5 episodes | St Hilda's College
St Hilda’s is one of the 38 colleges of the University, rnspectacularly set in four acres of gardens on the banks of the Cherwell River, yet still close to the town centre. St Hilda’s has a particularly dynamic and diverse community of about 400 undergraduates and 100 rngraduates. The College is committed to encouraging its students to excel, both academically and personally.
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Updated 16 Aug 2010 | 2 episodes | St Hugh's College
Podcasts from St Hugh's College at Oxford.
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Updated 23 May 2013 | 5 episodes | St John's College
Today, St John's is home to approximately 390 undergraduates, 200 graduate students, 100 fellows and 25 College lecturers. Nearly every subject studied at the University is represented in St John's. A vibrant international community, it fosters intellectual rigour, creativity, and independence in its students, teachers, and researchers. St John's was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas White, a...
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Updated 22 Oct 2012 | 2 episodes | St Peter's College
Podcasts from St Peter's College. St Peter's is one of Oxford's younger colleges, noted for its friendliness, flexibility and informality, with modern facilities for teaching and research.
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Updated 04 Dec 2008 | 2 episodes | St Cross College
St Cross is one of the 38 colleges of the University of Oxford, noted within the collegiate community for its diversity and academic excellence. The College offers a unique inter-disciplinary environment, spanning and integrating the arts and sciences, to scholars from all nations. It is a caring and progressive community, committed to its tradition of egalitarianism and to supporting all...
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Updated 23 Aug 2012 | 11 episodes | English Faculty
Staging Shakespeare is series of video commentaries on performing and directing Shakespeare including extracts of two plays- 'The Tempest' and 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. An English teacher also explains how she uses IT resources to engage students.
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Updated 04 Jun 2013 | 31 episodes | Department of Physics
Find out more about our night sky, from new planets to far-off galaxies and the vastness of the Universe. A series of short talks and presentations for the general public from leading astronomy researchers at the Oxford University Physics department - http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/
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Updated 30 Nov 2010 | 26 episodes | Law Faculty
This series of interviews, followed by a lecture, provides a unique insight in the process by which legislation is created in the United Kingdom. All the interviewees are involved in the making of legislation in Whitehall, in Parliament or in the wider worlds of politics. These materials were produced by the Statute Law Society, an educational charity devoted to promoting knowledge and...
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Updated 14 Dec 2012 | 1 episode | Estates Services
Podcasts relating to sustainable travel presented by guest speakers and lecturers at the University of Oxford.
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Updated 27 Feb 2013 | 1 episode | Oxford Dept of International Development
The Technology and Management for Development (TMD) Centre aims to promote interdisciplinary research into the development of technology and management in the developing world as well as address some of the most important issues related to technology and management facing public and private policymakers today.
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Updated 11 Mar 2010 | 3 episodes | Faculty of Classics
The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and its collection and reception since antiquity, the Beazley archive (established in 1956 by Sir John Beazley) studies the antiquities of ancient Greece and Rome, within the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. The archive has a collection of over a quarter of a million photographs, prints, books, catalogues and gem impressions.
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Updated 06 Jun 2013 | 67 episodes | Bodleian Libraries
The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford form the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. They include the principal University library-the Bodleian Library-which has been a library of legal deposit for 400 years; major research libraries; and libraries attached to faculties, departments and other institutions of the University. The combined library collections...
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Updated 15 Mar 2010 | 8 episodes | Department of Economics
A podcast series about the credit crunch and global recession featuring Oxford academics. This series will examine how the current crisis developed, analyse market and government responses to it, and look at what might happen next.
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Updated 16 Apr 2010 | 4 episodes | Humanities Division
Dr Xiaoxin Wu from the University of San Francisco, delivers the 2010 Martin D'Arcy Memorial lectures to mark the 400th anniversary of Father Matteo Ricci's death, the missionary responsible for introducing Christianity into China. The lecture series; The Dragon and the Cross will offer contemporary perspectives on Christianity in China.
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Updated 25 May 2012 | 47 episodes | Politics and International Relations
An international conference marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution through an interdisciplinary gathering, held at the Department of Politics and International Relations. Conference panels ranged over the causes, characteristics and fortunes of the revolution and brought together scholars and activists from inside and outside Egypt and the Arab world.
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Updated 24 Mar 2011 | 9 episodes | Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing. This series accompanies 'The Elements of Drawing', a searchable and browsable online version of the teaching collection and catalogues assembled by John Ruskin for his Oxford drawing schools. For further information please visit...
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Updated 13 Sep 2008 | 1 episode | Humanities Division
Bryan Ward-Perkins, a leading historian of Late Antiquity at Trinity College, Oxford, discusses the transitional period between the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages.
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Updated 20 May 2010 | 10 episodes | Department for Continuing Education
Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion has been a run away best seller. It has stimulated global debate, not always very charitable, about whether Dawkins is right to say that it is probably the case that God does not exist. During this weekend philosophers Marianne Talbot and Stephen Law will discuss the debate from a philosophical point of view. What are Dawkins' arguments? Are they good...
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Updated 29 May 2012 | 6 episodes | Wolfson College
The Isaiah Berlin Lecture (Annual lecture in the History of Ideas) is held at Wolfson College, Oxford.
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Updated 25 Jul 2011 | 10 episodes | Humanities Division
Manifold greatness: Oxford Celebrations of the King James Bible 1611-2011. Lecture series held in Corpus Christi College to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the first publication of the King James Bible.
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Updated 09 Apr 2013 | 1 episode | Politics and International Relations
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Updated 06 Jul 2011 | 3 episodes | Department of Engineering Science
This annual lecture, sponsored by the Medtronic Foundation, is given by an internationally-renowned scholar in the field of Biomedical Engineering. In addition to giving the lecture, the lecturer spends a week in Oxford interacting with students, including thse sponsored by Medtronic, and with academics all who are working in biomedical engineering and medicine. There is a programme of...
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Updated 12 Sep 2008 | 2 episodes | Computing Services
Oxford's museums and collections are world renowned. They provide an important resource for scholars around the world, and welcome visits from members of the public. More than a million people visit the University’s museums and collections every year. The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. The University Museum of Natural History. The Pitt Rivers Museum. The Museum of the History of...
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Updated 06 Dec 2011 | 10 episodes | Department of Experimental Psychology
We live in a world filled with material wealth, live longer and healthier lives, and yet anxiety, stress, unhappiness, and depression have never been more common. What are the driving forces behind these interlinked global epidemics? In this series, Professor Mark Williams (Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at Oxford University) and Dr Danny Penman discuss the recent scientific...
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Updated 05 Jun 2013 | 1 episode | Merton College
The Merton College Physics Lecture (the Ockham, or Occam, Lecture, so named in honour of one of the greatest alumni of the College and of his philosophical principle of intellectual discipline) started in 2009 and is held once a term. It is organised by the physics tutors of the College to promote both intellectual curiosity and social cohesion of the Merton Physics community.
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Updated 13 Jul 2012 | 5 episodes | Oxford University Development Office
The University takes great pride in the role that our alumni have played in past Olympics, and looks forward to London 2012. This podcast series looks at Oxford University's involvement in the Olympics.
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Updated 14 Apr 2010 | 8 episodes | Computing Services
On February 12th and 13th, Oxford University hosted the OCF 2010; the UK's first student conference to respond to the disappointing outcomes of Copenhagen. One hundred student leaders gathered to produce a plan of action to place students at the forefront of the UK's battle against climate change, the biggest social issue of our times.
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Updated 10 Dec 2009 | 5 episodes | Computing Services
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Updated 31 Jan 2012 | 10 episodes | Oxford University Development Office
The Romanes Lecture is an annual public lecture at Oxford University. The first was given in 1892 by William Gladstone. Subsequent speakers have included Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Iris Murdoch, Edward Heath, AJP Taylor, Tony Blair and Sir Paul Nurse.
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Updated 05 Jan 2012 | 7 episodes | Politics and International Relations
The State of the State lecture series focuses on the transformation of the modern state, with an emphasis on Western Europe and European integration, from a multidisciplinary perspective. The lecture series took place at the University of Oxford and was organized by Dr. Reidar Maliks of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme. The programme, which is funded by the Volkswagen...
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Updated 19 Jul 2010 | 8 episodes | Oxford Dept of International Development
Podcasts from the workshop on the theory and practice of Immigration Detention Centres in both the UK and the rest of the world. This series of lectures look at the legal and political frameworks as well as the social impact of Immigration Detention Centres and the ideas of Asylum in the eyes of the government, human rights groups and those referred to as 'Asylum Seekers'.
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Updated 13 May 2013 | 7 episodes | Humanities Division
This series of 6 lectures is intended for graduates and undergraduates interested in the challenge of how we best defend the work of the humanities in today's political and economic climates. The lectures offer a critical taxonomy of the ways in which advocacy for the humanities conventionally proceeds. Don't expect polemic. My aim is to put the arguments through their paces: to work...
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Updated 05 Jul 2011 | 1 episode | Oxford e-Research Centre
The World of Art is an interdisciplinary research programme at the University of Oxford.
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Updated 22 May 2013 | 3 episodes | Theology & Religion Faculty
Theology is one of the oldest faculties in this ancient University. One of the first courses of lectures given at Oxford was in Theology, over 800 years ago. Alexander Neckham, from St Albans, is recorded as giving biblical and moral lectures as early as 1193, on the Psalms of David and the Wisdom of Solomon. One of the first major University buildings was the Divinity School, which was begun...
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Updated 21 Mar 2011 | 8 episodes | English Faculty
Podcasts that explore the relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien and Oxford University, where he both studied and worked.
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Updated 28 Apr 2008 | 3 episodes | Computing Services
The University of Oxford hosted the 'Towards Low Carbon ICT' conference to stimulate discussion on the practical measures that can be taken to build ICT services that both reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and mitigate the effects that higher energy prices will have on our institutions.
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Updated 08 May 2012 | 27 episodes | Christ Church
Tower Poetry is a dynamic organization based at Christ Church, University of Oxford, which offers opportunities and resources for young British poets. Tower Poetry exists to encourage and challenge everyone who reads or writes poetry. Established following a bequest to Christ Church, Oxford, by the late Christopher Tower, the aims of Tower Poetry are clear: to stimulate an enjoyment and...
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Updated 29 Apr 2013 | 8 episodes | NDM Experimental Medicine
Translational and Clinical Medicine is the ongoing effort to bring basic science from the bench to the patient, as well as to elucidate safety and effectiveness of the medicines on which we depend. The NDM podcasts on translational and clinical medicine detail our work in this wide-ranging field, from the identification and design of new medicines to clinical trials and trial design and...
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Updated 28 May 2013 | 126 episodes | NDM Experimental Medicine
Research in Medicine needs to ultimately translate into better treatment of patients. Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, collaborate to develop better care and improved preventive measures. Findings in the laboratory are translated into changes in clinical practice, from Bench to Bedside.
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Updated 11 Apr 2012 | 39 episodes | Oxford University Centre for the Environment
These online audio resources consist of lectures, seminars and interviews from the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford.
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Updated 03 Jul 2008 | 1 episode | Trinity College
Podcasts from Trinity College, Oxford.
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Updated 07 Mar 2012 | 1 episode | Philosophy Faculty
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Updated 18 Jun 2013 | 73 episodes | Faculty of Philosophy
The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics was established in 2002 with the support of the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education of Japan. It is an integral part of the philosophy faculty of Oxford University, one of the great centres of academic excellence in philosophical ethics.
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Updated 11 Aug 2009 | 12 episodes | Oxford University Centre for the Environment
The UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) helps organisations to adapt to inevitable climate change. While it’s essential to reduce future greenhouse gas emissions, the effects of past emissions will continue to be felt for decades. Since 1997 UKCIP has been working with the public, private and voluntary sectors to assess how a changing climate will affect construction, working practices,...