Young Lives Country Directors on Governance and Impact |
In this GCRF-supported workshop, Young Lives’ country directors, from Ethiopia, India and Peru, draw on their considerable experience in research, governance and policy-engagement to highlight the strategies they’ve used to ensure research impact. |
Jo Boyden, Santiago Cueto, Alula Pankhurst, Renu Singh |
30 April, 2020 |
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One is the magic number |
Back Garden Biology takes a closer look at the insects in the garden including the solitary bee. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
27 April, 2020 |
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Is it Permissible for Healthcare Workers to Stop Working if They Lack PPE? |
Katrien Devolder interviews Udo Schüklenk. |
Udo Schuklenk, Katrien Devolder |
23 April, 2020 |
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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exacerbates Existing Inequalities |
An interview with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra. |
Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Katrien Devolder |
21 April, 2020 |
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Stinker! |
In this episode we look at the cuckoo pint, which has an unusual flower with the central part, called a spadix, releasing a stench that to our nostrils is quite revolting. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
20 April, 2020 |
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Queen Bee |
Learn how to identify common garden bees and find out why they never seem to stay still. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
20 April, 2020 |
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Islamic manuscripts and bindings as a window on East-West relations |
The making, use and trade of manuscripts was an important part of Islamic culture, the technical developments influenced the making of books in the west from the later medieval period onward. |
Karin Scheper |
20 April, 2020 |
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Triage in an Italian ICU During the Coronavirus Pandemic |
An interview with Dr Marco Vergano. |
Marco Vergano, Katrien Devolder |
20 April, 2020 |
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Tackling the Cause of the Coronavirus Pandemic |
An interview with Professor Peter Singer. |
Peter Singer, Katrien Devolder |
20 April, 2020 |
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Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa |
Ricardo Nogales gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Ricardo Nogales |
16 April, 2020 |
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Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus |
Sara Polo, University of Essex, gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Sara Polo |
16 April, 2020 |
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The Russian Understanding of War |
Oscar Jonsson, Stockholm Free World Forum, gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme. |
Oscar Jonsson |
16 April, 2020 |
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Terrorism and Recent Developments in Human Rights |
Lord John Alderdice gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
John Alderdice |
16 April, 2020 |
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How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks? |
Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can they be? |
Robin Thompson |
15 April, 2020 |
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The Lillies of the Fields |
The beautiful snake's-head fritillary is the flower of Oxfordshire. In this episode we look closely at the flowers it produces. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
13 April, 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 2 |
Oxford Mathematician Peter Howell starts the second part of the 2nd year Differential Equations course which focuses on boundary problems. |
Peter Howell |
9 April, 2020 |
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Deceived with ornament |
Plants attract pollinators through their colourful flowers but some plants aren't quite what they seem. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
6 April, 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Alan Champneys - Why pedestrian bridges wobble: Synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd |
So much noise, so many opinions. Perhaps time for Occam's Razor to start its scientific shaving? |
Alan Champneys |
31 March, 2020 |
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Sex and the single primrose |
In early spring, primroses and cowslips can be found in many gardens and parks. Their yellow flowers are certainly beautiful, but they also hold a secret: they come in two different types that can only mate with each other. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
26 March, 2020 |
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Machine learning techniques in modern quantum-mechanics experiments |
In this talk, Dr Elliott Bentine shall discuss how recent experiments have exploited machine-learning techniques, both to optimize the operation of these devices and to interperet the data they produce. |
Elliott Bentine |
22 March, 2020 |
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Machine Learning and String Theory |
Professor Andre Lukas will discuss how string theorists have started to use methods from data science - particularly machine learning - to analyse the vast landscape of string data. |
Andre Lukas |
22 March, 2020 |
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An Introduction to deep learning |
Professor Ard Louis gives a basic introduction to deep learning for physicists and addresses a few questions such as: Is the hype around deep learning justified, or are we about to hit some fundamental limitations? |
Ard Louis |
22 March, 2020 |
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Welcome by Ian Shipsey Head of the Department of Physics |
Ian Shipsey give an update on the department and introduces the next three talk on 'AI in Physics'. |
Ian Shipsey |
22 March, 2020 |
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Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health |
Can every doctor understand health statistics? Gerd Gigerenzer will describe the efforts towards this goal, a few successes, but also the steadfast forces that undermine doctors’ ability to understand and act on evidence. |
Gerd Gigerenzer |
18 March, 2020 |
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What will it take to Educate the World - Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor Distinguished Panel Lecture 2018 |
Many developing countries suffer from poorly performing educational systems that fail to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate productively in the modern economy. How can educational outcomes be improved? |
Richard Peto, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennester |
13 March, 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics 3rd Year Student Lecture - Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives |
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the third year course on Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives from Sam Cohen where we hear that the role of derivatives is not to make money but to avoid being exploited. |
Sam Cohen |
2 March, 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II |
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the second term introductory course on Linear Algebra from leading Oxford Mathematician James Maynard. |
James Maynard |
2 March, 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics |
How do you make a star-shaped Cheerio? How do they make the glass on your smartphone screen so flat? And how can you make a vacuum filter that removes the most dust before it blocks? |
Ian Griffiths |
26 February, 2020 |
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Hizky Shoham - The Emotional Scripting of Boycotts: The Nazi-Zionist Agreement in Jewish Public Culture During the 1930s |
Hizky Shoham discusses the 'emotionologies' surrounding the Nazi-Zionist 'Transfer agreement.' |
Hizky Shoham |
26 February, 2020 |
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From Inclusion to Exclusion from School: Transforming the lives of young people with special educational needs and disabilities? |
This seminar explores the process of formal and informal exclusion from the macro, meso and micro level to understand some of the complex interactions between policy, school and individual factors. |
Jill Porter, Ruth Moyse |
25 February, 2020 |
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Being a working class queer in theatre |
Louise Wallwein MBE, a renowned and award-winning poet, playwright and performer, gives the 11th annual LGBT History Month lecture |
Louise Wallwein |
25 February, 2020 |
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Race and the problem of the public in postwar America |
Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government |
Margaret Weir |
25 February, 2020 |
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Imitating Authors |
Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors |
Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell |
24 February, 2020 |
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Larissa Remennick - The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin: Back to Being Jewish? |
Larissa Remeniick discuss the origins and present condition of the new (post-2010) Israeli diaspora in Berlin |
Larissa Remennick |
19 February, 2020 |
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Powering the future: switching on the renewables |
Globally, renewable energy has a foot in the door. But significant challenges remain. |
Malcolm McCulloch |
18 February, 2020 |
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Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective |
In this talk, Neil Armstrong uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility. |
Neil Armstrong |
17 February, 2020 |
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Road to somewhere? Resilient infrastructure for sustainable development |
Professor Hall will share experiences of establishing long-term plans for sustainable infrastructure in many countries around the world. |
Jim Hall |
17 February, 2020 |
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Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening |
Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival - The desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. |
Carl Heneghan |
14 February, 2020 |
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2020 Colin Ford Lecture |
Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight into his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne. |
Larry Schaaf |
14 February, 2020 |
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Law and Exclusion from School |
Combining legal analysis, theory, and evidence from practice, Lucinda Ferguson argues that the law is ill-equipped to support children at risk of permanent exclusion from school, particularly children with disabilities or other additional needs. |
Lucinda Ferguson |
13 February, 2020 |
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Exclusion and Mental Health: Exploring the Role of Improved Provision in Schools |
This talk discusses the latest understanding of mental health needs in adolescent populations in the UK and the potential role that mental health services in schools can play. |
Mina Fazel |
13 February, 2020 |
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All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations |
All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations |
Simon Cole |
10 February, 2020 |
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British politics after Brexit: reflections on the last three years and the next fifty |
Lord Sumption will discuss the impact on our constitution and political system of the referendum of 2016 and its aftermath. |
Lord Sumption |
7 February, 2020 |
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S1E4: Adolescence, narrative and storytelling |
This episode hosts a discussion reflecting on the meeting points between narrative and adolescence. |
Elleke Boehmer, Oluwafemi Oyebode, Caroline Adjimi, Hermann Wittenberg |
6 February, 2020 |
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S1E3: Performance and Adolescence |
This episode explores the relationship between performance and selfhood in adolescent lives. |
Elleke Boehmer, Alude Mahali, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Kopano Ratele |
6 February, 2020 |
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S1E2: Adolescence and Care |
This epsiode addresses the role of care in adolescence in African contexts. |
Chris Desmond, Olayinka Omigbodun, Cindi Katz, Lucie Cluver |
6 February, 2020 |
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S1E1: Violence and Adolescence |
This episode explores the impact of violence in the lives of young people, both in African contexts and beyond. |
Elleke Boehmer, Diana Walters, Patricia Daley, Heidi Stöckl |
6 February, 2020 |
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Lotem Perry-Hazan: Ethnic segregation in the Haredi education in Israel: Policies and practices |
Lotem Perry-Hazzan discusses ethnic discrimination in admissions to Haredi schools in Israel |
Lotem Perry-Hazzan |
5 February, 2020 |
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Alternative Provision and School Exclusions |
This presentation will discuss the place of Alternative Provision (AP) in the process of exclusion in England, with a particular focus on issues related to social justice. |
Martin Mills |
4 February, 2020 |
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A world without work: technology, automation and how we should respond |
Daniel Susskind discusses ideas from his new book 'A World Without Work' |
Daniel Susskind |
3 February, 2020 |
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When meta-analyses of the same question find different things |
Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce discusses a case study of systematic reviews of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, looking across meta-analyses in this area. |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
3 February, 2020 |
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Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia |
In this seminar, Christine Cheng explores how states and extra-legal groups work together and analyzes how our definitions of what is legal affect our view of the state and governance. |
Christine Cheng |
30 January, 2020 |
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Heather Munro: Ashkenazi Hegemony in Haredi Israeli Society and Implications for the Future |
Heather Monro discusses the implications of Ashkenazi Hegemony in the Israeli Haredi society. |
Heather Munro |
28 January, 2020 |
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The Making of the Israeli Far Right Book Talk by Peter Bergamin |
Peter Bergamin discusses his new book: The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology |
Peter Bergamin |
22 January, 2020 |
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Seyed Ali Alavi - Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future |
Ali Alavi discusses the history of Iran's relations with Palestinian organisation and the Palestinian cause, and their implication to Iranian-Israeli relations. |
Ali Alavi |
22 January, 2020 |
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We Are Not Good at Translating Lab Science Into New Medicines for Patients |
Inaugural lecture delivered by Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine at Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford |
Chas Bountra, Marta Arnaldi, Magdalena Kubiak |
22 January, 2020 |
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Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it’s time for a UK Sunshine Act |
Should doctors with commercial interests lead research on their products? Should we forget ‘conflicts’ and discuss ‘declarations of interest’ instead? Who should hold and maintain conflicts of interest registers for doctors? |
Carl Heneghan |
21 January, 2020 |
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Ethics at the Edge of Madness |
Ethics at the Edge of Madness - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Anand Vivek Taneja |
20 January, 2020 |
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The Opioid Epidemic in India |
The Opioid Epidemic in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Bhrigupati Singh |
20 January, 2020 |
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Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom |
Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Ankhi Mukherjee |
20 January, 2020 |
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Issues in Public Health in India |
Issues in Public Health in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Keshav Desiraju |
20 January, 2020 |
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The Indian Oedipus |
The Indian Oedipus - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Shruti Kapila |
20 January, 2020 |
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Welcome |
Welcome - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Roger Goodman, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon |
20 January, 2020 |
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Mental health and stress the multi-disciplinary teams approach |
Mental health and stress the multi-disciplinary teams approachl - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Georgia Watson |
20 January, 2020 |
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Community-based interventions for common mental disorders in low and middle-income countries |
Community-based interventions for common mental disorders in low and middle-income countries - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Soumitra Pathare |
20 January, 2020 |
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Public Health England’s Global Mental Health initiative |
Public Health England’s Global Mental Health initiative - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Anees Pari |
20 January, 2020 |
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Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries |
Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Prathap Tharyan |
20 January, 2020 |
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Opening address |
Opening address - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Premila Webster |
20 January, 2020 |
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Responsive mental health systems to address the poverty, homelessness and mental illness nexus |
Responsive mental health systems to address the poverty, homelessness and mental illness nexus - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Lakshmi Narasimhan |
20 January, 2020 |
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Innovative provision of primary mental health care in rural India |
Innovative provision of primary mental health care in rural Indial - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Pallab Maulik |
20 January, 2020 |
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Ecology and Mental Health in India |
Ecology and Mental Health in India - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Maan Barua, Sushrut Jadhav |
20 January, 2020 |
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Identifying perinatal depression in resource-constrained settings |
Identifying perinatal depression in resource-constrained settings - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Gracia Fellmeth |
20 January, 2020 |
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Differences in rates of school exclusions in the four jurisdictions to the UK |
This seminar reports on the ongoing work of the multi-disciplinary and multi-site Excluded Lives Group whose work has led to the ESRC funds project The Political Economies of School Exclusion and their Consequences. |
Harry Daniels, Ian Thompson, Alice Tawell |
20 January, 2020 |
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The Mental Health Act in India - what next? |
The Mental Health Act in India - what next? - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Keshav Desiraju |
20 January, 2020 |
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Working outside the traditional clinical model |
Working outside the traditional clinical model - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Anna Tharyan |
20 January, 2020 |
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A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI, involving experts from fields across Oxford - Seminar 1 |
An introduction by Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt; The place of Ethics in AI, AI Ethics and legal regulation, Ethics of AI in healthcare |
Tom Douglas, Carissa Véliz, Vicki Nash, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Gil McVean, Jess Morley |
20 January, 2020 |
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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Carlo Rovelli - Spin networks: the quantum structure of spacetime from Penrose's intuition to Loop Quantum Gravity |
Carlo Rovelli delivers The Roger Penrose Lecture on the Quantum structure of Spacetime. |
Carlo Rovelli |
16 January, 2020 |
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Clouds and climate |
Tapio Schneider discusses the influence of clouds on climate, and how advances in the modelling of clouds can help us predict our climate future more accurately. |
Tapio Schneider |
6 January, 2020 |
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All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights |
All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights |
Eddie Bruce-Jones |
2 January, 2020 |
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UK Supreme Court: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22 |
Session 3 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019 |
Nick Barber, Richard Ekins, Jeff King, Helen Mountfield |
20 December, 2019 |
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Kenyan Supreme Court: Raila Odinga and Another v IEBC and Others, 2017 |
Session 2 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019 |
Anne Makena, John Ambani, Nic Cheeseman, Luis Franceschi |
20 December, 2019 |
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International Criminal Court: Appeal against the decision under article 87(7)of the Rome Statute on the non-compliance by Jordan with the request by the Court for the arrest and surrender of Omar Al-Bashir (ICC- 02/05-01/09 OA2) 6 May 2019 |
Session 1 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019 |
Catherine O’Regan, Dapo Akande, Evelyne Asaala, Dire Tladi |
20 December, 2019 |
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How effective can litigation be in foreseeing and preventing human rights abuse? |
Alejandra Ancheita delivers the keynote address at the Justice for Transnational Human Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship Conference June 2019 |
Alejandra Ancheita |
20 December, 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose? |
From the unfairness of voting on TV shows to how Santa gets down so many narrow chimneys. Chris Budd take a mathematical look at the traditions of Christmas. |
Chris Budd |
19 December, 2019 |
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The Elders know Nothing: the Inversion of Tradition in the New Mining Context |
Ramon Sarró and Marina P. Temudo deliver paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. |
Ramon Sarró, Marina P. Temudo |
14 December, 2019 |
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Youth, insecurity and intimacy in the popular arts of the Niger Delta |
David Pratten delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. |
David Pratten |
14 December, 2019 |
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Artistic Movements: Music, Popular Painting and Cultural Exchanges on the central African Copperbelt |
Enid Guene delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. |
Enid Guene |
14 December, 2019 |
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Mobutist Modernism: Art Education, State Sponsorship and the Visual Arts in Zaire |
Sarah Van Beurden delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop. |
Sarah Van Beurden |
14 December, 2019 |
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The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters |
New Yorker fiction through the decades |
Deborah Treisman |
12 December, 2019 |
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Health Policy Evaluation |
Professor Karla Hemming discusses using evidence-based policy in the evaluation of policy interventions and answers the question 'how useful is the stepped-wedge study as an evaluation design? |
Karla Hemming |
12 December, 2019 |
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Can one Define Intelligence as a Computational Phenomenon? |
Can we build on our understanding of supervised learning to define broader aspects of the intelligence phenomenon. Strachey Lecture delivered by Leslie Valiant. |
Lesley Valiant |
11 December, 2019 |
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Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare |
William bird discusses how healthcare focused on communities and acitve lifestyles can lead to greater wellbeing. |
William Bird |
6 December, 2019 |
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Plant genetics from Mendel to Monsanto |
Ottoline Leyser discusses the ability to target and/or select specific genetic changes in plant genomes, and the impact of this on the governance of our food system. |
Ottoline Leyser |
6 December, 2019 |
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Psychologically informed micro-targeted political campaigns: the use and abuse of data |
Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a key part of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and whether it is relevant to regulate political candidates' access to data. |
Jens Koed Madsen |
4 December, 2019 |
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The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation |
Carl Frey discusses his book 'The Technology Trap' |
Carl Benedikt Frey |
4 December, 2019 |
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Diet, obesity and health: from science to policy |
Susan Jebb discusses how science and policy can help us make wiser choices for our health. |
Susan Jebb |
4 December, 2019 |
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Tamar Calahorra, Competition between Members of Parliament and Governmental ministries on Policy Outcomes through Legislation – Israel as a Test case |
Dr. Calahorra studies some dramatic changes in the ways legislation is conducted in Israel |
Tamar Calahorra |
3 December, 2019 |
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Essai, roman, film: réflexion sur les métamorphoses de l'écriture |
Dr Chantal Thomas delivers the 2019 Zaharoff lecture (in french) |
Chantal Thomas |
2 December, 2019 |
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Jon Chapman - Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks |
Via guitars, clarinets and a musical saw to the noise reduction in a vaccum cleaner, Jon Chapman explains the role of waves in the sounds we hear and don't hear. |
Jon Chapman |
2 December, 2019 |
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Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Quantum Theory |
Our latest student lecture is the first in the Quantum Theory course for second year students. Fernando Alday reflects on the breakdown of the deterministic world and describes some of the experiments that defined the new Quantum Reality. |
Fernando Alday |
2 December, 2019 |
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