Department of Education Public Seminars |
Building Research Capacity in Teacher Education |
Seminar 8 of 8 on teacher education reforms. Alis unpacks the notion of 'capacity' through a historiography of initiatives and a review of attempts at conceptual development. |
Alis Oancea |
19 June, 2019 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
APGRD/TORCH panel discussion of 'We Are Not Princesses' |
Nur Laiq (TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow), Hal Scardino (producer) and Fiona Macintosh (APGRD) discuss We Are Not Princesses, a documentary about Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut telling their stories through the ancient Greek play, Antigone. |
Fiona Macintosh, Nur Laiq, Hal Scardino |
18 June, 2019 |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
Changing technology, changing economics |
Prof Diane Coyle discusses how digital technologies are changing economics. |
Diane Coyle |
14 June, 2019 |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
Is the human species slowing down? |
Prof Danny Dorling discusses the idea that that humanity is slowing down in almost everything that we do, and what this means for our future. |
Danny Dorling |
14 June, 2019 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions |
6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'. |
Matthew Landrus |
12 June, 2019 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Particles in space |
Join Dr Donal Hill for a tour of the invisible, as he describes how particle detectors measure 3D information to help uncover the secrets of tiny fundamental particles. |
Donal Hill |
12 June, 2019 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D |
Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau. |
Kerstin Timm, Justin Lau |
12 June, 2019 |
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Evidence-Based Health Care |
Behavioural Interventions to Improve the Quality of the Grocery Shopping |
This evening lecture is given in conjunction with the Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods accredited short course, part of the Evidence-Based Healthcare programme at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education. |
Carmen Piernas |
11 June, 2019 |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
Navigating knowledge: new tools for the journey |
Like the wind, knowledge can be difficult to see or grasp, but if well-harnessed, it can help us do extraordinary things. |
Penny Mealy |
11 June, 2019 |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
Unlocking digital competition |
Is competition in the digital economy desirable? Does it currently exist? Is it possible? Is there anything policy can do? |
Jason Furman |
11 June, 2019 |
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History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art |
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (4) The Stones of Civil War |
Dr John Blakinger speaks about iconoclasm in American history and the vandalism of Confederate monuments. |
John Blakinger |
5 June, 2019 |
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History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art |
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (3) Dismantling the Gallows |
Dr John Blakinger discusses 'Scaffold', Sam Durant's contentious sculpture. |
John Blakinger |
5 June, 2019 |
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History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art |
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (2) The Body of Emmett Till |
Dr John Blakinger speaks about the controversy surrounding Dana Shutz's painting of the body of Emmett Till exhibited at the 2017 Whitney Biennnial. |
John Blakinger |
5 June, 2019 |
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History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art |
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (1) Warhol in Safariland |
Dr John Blakinger talks about demonstrations against the Whitney Museum of American Art related to its connections with the tear gas manufacturer Safariland. |
John Blakinger |
5 June, 2019 |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
From global to local - the relationship between global climate and regional warming |
Professor David Battisti, The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences, will be talking about global climate sensitivity controlling regional warming uncertainty and its role in impacting on human health, particularly heat stress. |
David Battisti |
4 June, 2019 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
'The Mask of a Very Definite Purpose': Edith Wharton and the Classics |
The annual Classics & English lecture given in May 2019: Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths) discusses Edith Wharton and the Classics. |
Isobel Hurst |
3 June, 2019 |
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Department of Education Public Seminars |
The Connections and Disconnections in Teacher Education Policy, Research and Practice Future Research Directions |
This seminar examines the alignments and tensions between teacher education research, policy and practice. This is the sixth seminar in a series of eight public seminars on 'Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy'. |
Diane Mayer |
3 June, 2019 |
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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II) |
The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Rethinking Key Moments |
What explains the rise of investor-state arbitration? To the extent that investor-state arbitration had founding fathers, what were their motivations, what constraints did they have, what was their thinking? |
Taylor St John |
31 May, 2019 |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
City region food systems: potential for impacting planetary boundaries and food security |
Dr Mike Hamm will explore the opportunity for regional food systems in-and-around cities for mutual benefit. |
Michael Hamm |
30 May, 2019 |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
How complexity can resolve the crisis in economics |
Professor Doyne Farmer will discuss the constraints of current economic models and propose complexity economics as a solution. |
J Doyne Farmer |
30 May, 2019 |
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Department of Education Public Seminars |
OES Annual Lecture: The Quest for Better Teaching |
This lecture explores why efforts to improve teaching too often fail and outlines new research on pedagogy and teacher development, which has been achieving promising signs of real change. |
Jenny Gore (Visiting Professor, Department of Education) |
29 May, 2019 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
Homer and the Discovery of the Pacific |
An APGRD public lecture given in May 2019: Henry Power (Exeter) discusses Homeric resonances in the work of Alexander Pope, John Keats, and Thom Gunn. |
Henry Power |
21 May, 2019 |
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African Studies Centre |
The earth compels: Forces of destruction and creation in the history of African popular culture |
Prof Karin Barber delivers keynote lecture for 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop |
Karin Barber |
16 May, 2019 |
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Evidence-Based Health Care |
The BMJ's open data campaign |
Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of The BMJ, gives a talk for the EBHC podcast series |
Fiona Godlee |
13 May, 2019 |
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Sir Tim Hitchens and Tony Rayns on Hirokazu Kore-eda's film The Third Murder and the death penalty in Japan |
Former UK Ambassador to Tokyo Sir Tim Hitchens and East Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns introduce a FLJS Films screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2017 film The Third Murder |
Tim Hitchens, Tony Rayns |
8 May, 2019 |
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Department of Education Public Seminars |
Classroom-based Interventions Across Subject Areas: Research to Understand What Works in Education |
Seminar two of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy". This seminar is based on a recent book, which aims to help researchers and practitioners understand how and why interventions can be successful or not. |
Gabriel Stylianides, Ian Thompson, Katharine Burn, Nicholas Andrews, Alexandra Haydon, Ann Childs, Trevor Mutton |
7 May, 2019 |
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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics |
Religion, War and Terrorism |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Tony Coady argues that religion does not have an inherent tendency towards violence, including particularly war and terrorism. |
Professor Tony Coady |
1 May, 2019 |
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Changing Character of War |
Why the Responses to Address Intrastate Armed Conflicts fail? |
Michael von der Schulenburg will discuss the shortcomings of the UN Charter to regulate foreign military interventions and paradoxes in UN peacekeeping |
Michael von der Schulenburg |
1 May, 2019 |
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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures |
Innovations to improve outcome and patient safety in low and middle income countries |
Ms Sarah Kessler discusses and shows clips from ‘The Checklist Effect’, the award-winning documentary inspired by the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. |
Shafi Ahmed, Sarah Kessler |
1 May, 2019 |
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Future of Business |
Future of workspaces, connected devices and smart cities |
We interviewed Vanessa Lee Butz, CEO and Founder of District Technologies to understand what smart cities are and what the connected future would look like? |
Vanessa Lee Butz |
29 April, 2019 |
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Talking Sense |
Episode 2: The Workshop Days |
Jonathan Lawrence and Christy Callaway-Gale, two participants in the TORCH-Ashmolean Talking Sense project, introduce the workshop days. |
Jonathan Lawrence, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jim Harris |
18 April, 2019 |
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Talking Sense |
Episode 1: Introduction to Talking Sense |
Jonathan Lawrence and Christy Callaway-Gale, two participants in the TORCH-Ashmolean Talking Sense project, introduce the inter-disciplinary research project. |
Jonathan Lawrence, Christy Callaway-Gale, Hugo Shakeshaft, Helena Guzik, Carrie Ryan, Raphaela Rohrhofer |
18 April, 2019 |
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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures |
OUCAGS and clinical academic training in the UK |
Professor Chris Pugh gives a talk on clinical academic training and the role OUCAGS (Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School) plays. |
Chris Pugh |
17 April, 2019 |
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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures |
Gastrointestinal (GI) haemorrhage |
Dr Raman Uberoi talks about interventional radiology and gastrointestinal haemorrhage. |
Raman Uberoi |
12 April, 2019 |
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Evidence-Based Health Care |
Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare |
Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the BBC amongst others. |
Carl Heneghan |
9 April, 2019 |
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Lincoln College |
Lincoln Leads in Law 2018 |
What are the limits of the law? |
Barbara Havelkova, Shabana Mahmood, Lukas Wagner, Paul Stephens |
9 April, 2019 |
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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures |
Communication in Healthcare: A Failure in Need of Rescue? |
Professor Amir Ghaferi discusses the current state of communication in healthcare and in particular surgery. Is there a failure in need of rescue? |
Amir Ghaferi |
3 April, 2019 |
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Israel Studies Seminar |
The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Israel: a dialogue between Yehouda Shenhav (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Yadgar (Oxford) |
Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in Israel. Session 3 in a series of three. |
Yehouda Shenhav, Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
3 April, 2019 |
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Israel Studies Seminar |
The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 2: Liberalism and Secularism: a dialogue between Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern) and Yolanda Jansen (Amsterdam) |
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Yolande Jansen discuss the notion of the “secular,” liberal politics of the nation-state. Session 2 in a series of three |
Elisabeth Shakman Hurd, Yolande Jansen |
3 April, 2019 |
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Israel Studies Seminar |
The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 1 Religion and Politics: a dialogue between William Cavanaugh (DePaul) and Timothy Fitzgerald (Centre for Critical Research on Religion) |
Timothy Fitzgerald and William Cavanaugh discuss the politics and history of the conceptual duality and its current usages. First session in a series of three |
Timothy Fitzgerald, William Cavanaugh |
3 April, 2019 |
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Lincoln College |
Lincoln Leads in Material Culture |
Material Culture: The Power of the Image? |
Joshua Thomas, Robert Kerr, Sarah Bochicchio, Emily Glassford |
2 April, 2019 |
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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics |
The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel |
Professor Seumas Miller sets out how the use of lethal and coercive forces may erode moral character and cause moral injury. |
Seumas Miller |
26 March, 2019 |
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Future of Business |
On Purpose and Profit: Deciphering the Economics of Mutuality |
What is the right level of profit for a company? |
Bruno Roche |
26 March, 2019 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
The Dancer and the Ubermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance |
An APGRD / DANSOX public lecture given in February 2019: Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh) discusses the work of Isadora Duncan and Edward Gordon Craig. |
Olga Taxidou |
25 March, 2019 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
Classics and Social Justice |
An APGRD public lecture in October 2017: Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) tells us about her work bringing Classics into prisons. |
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz |
20 March, 2019 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
The Politics of Greece's Theatrical Revolution, ca. 500 - ca. 300 BCE |
An APGRD public lecture given in April 2018: Peter Wilson (Sydney) discusses the relationship between Greek theatre and politics. |
Peter Wilson |
20 March, 2019 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
Gestures and Postures: the construction and reception of the tragic in Jean-Georges Noverre's dance-drama Agamemnon Vengé |
An APGRD / DANSOX public seminar given in November 2018: Nicole Haitzinger (Salzburg) discusses Noverre's use of gesture and the tragic. |
Nicole Haitzinger |
20 March, 2019 |
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Museum of Natural History Public Talks |
The Gut-Brain Axis and How What We Eat Affects How We Feel |
For Brain Awareness Week, Dr Phil Burnet (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford) speaks about how the gut microbiome can affect mood and mental health. |
Phil Burnet |
19 March, 2019 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
Emily Wilson: A Reading |
A public reading at the APGRD from November 2017: Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania), discusses and reads from her new translation of Homer's Odyssey. |
Emily Wilson |
19 March, 2019 |
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Europe's Stories Project |
The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Central European philosophy and the search for truth in dark times |
The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture was given by Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University. |
Marci Shore, Timothy Garton Ash |
18 March, 2019 |
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Africa Oxford Initiative |
Bolder Action for health in Africa |
This talk was delivered by Dr Tolullah Oni, Clinical Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge. |
Tolullah Oni |
15 March, 2019 |
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Africa Oxford Initiative |
Is energy bad for Africa? |
This talk was delivered by Prof Malcolm McCulloch, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy. Many utility companies are setting up large scale energy projects in African countries. |
Malcolm McCulloch |
15 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Race and Empire, 1660-1760 |
Ruth Scobie lectures on race and empire, 1660-1760. |
Ruth Scobie |
14 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Drama and the Theatre, 1660-1760 |
Abigail Williams lectures on the staging of Restoration drama. |
Abigail Williams |
14 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Theatre, 1660-1760 - The Arrival of the Actress |
David Taylor on the arrival of female actors on the stage. |
David Taylor |
14 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Theatre, 1660-1760 - Restoration and Change |
David Taylor lectures on the reopening of the theatres in the 1660s. |
David Taylor |
14 March, 2019 |
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Criminology |
All Souls Seminar Series: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse |
The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse |
Prabha Kotiswaran |
13 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760 |
Carly Watson outlines the material forms in which literary texts circulated between 1660 and 1760. |
Carly Watson |
7 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
What is a Literary Period? |
Clare Bucknell considers how we define a literary period. |
Clare Bucknell |
7 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Nineteenth-Century Stuff - Dickens, Paperwork and Paper Sorrows |
Sophie Ratcliffe investigates the material culture of the Victorians, using examples from Charles Dickens. |
Sophie Ratcliffe |
7 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Literature and Gender, 1660-1760 |
Kathleen Keown considers representations of gender in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
Kathleen Keown |
7 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
What is a War Poem? |
Kate McLoughlin explores how we might define a war poem. |
Kate McLoughlin |
7 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Diaries as Literature - The Case of Virginia Woolf |
Michael Whitworth considers whether diaries are literature, looking particularly at the diaries of Virginia Woolf. |
Michael Whitworth |
7 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Character in Modern Drama |
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr investigates 'character' in Modern Drama |
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr |
7 March, 2019 |
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Israel Studies Seminar |
Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today |
Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel. |
Avner Offer |
6 March, 2019 |
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Israel Studies Seminar |
Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel |
Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state |
Eyal Chowers |
6 March, 2019 |
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African Studies Centre |
Unmasking Africana in British Art |
ASC seminar by Kimathi Donkor |
Kimathi Donkor |
5 March, 2019 |
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Faculty of English - Introductions |
Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial |
Sos Eltis looks at Oscar Wilde’s 1895 trial. |
Sos Eltis |
4 March, 2019 |
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Oxford German Exchange Series on Brexit |
Oxford Goettingen conversation on Brexit |
A conversation on Brexit between scholars of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes from the Georg-August-University Goettingen in Germany and DPhil students from the University of Oxford. |
Talip Alkhayer, Maria Mironova, David Nguyen, Arnulf Quadt, Benjamin Schneider, Willi Ullrich, Alex Wulfers, Christoph Weisser |
22 February, 2019 |
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Criminology |
All Souls: 'Pervasive Punishment' Making sense of mass supervision |
Fergus McNeill introduces the main arguments from his recent book explaining the meanings of 'mass supervision’ and outlining its scale and social distribution, the processes by which it has been legitimated and its significance as a penal phenomenon. |
Fergus McNeill |
19 February, 2019 |
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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures |
Cricket to clinic via the lab |
Professor Giles Toogood talks about his background which combined sport and surgery, and discusses the advances in hepatobiliary. |
Giles Toogood |
19 February, 2019 |
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Alliance |
North Korea and The Bomb: A National Mission |
Why did North Korea nuclearize? Are we on the cusp of nuclear war with North Korea? Join us in the first episode of Alliance as we talk to Historian Cheehyung Harrison Kim about North Korea, nuclear weapons and existential risk. |
Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann |
15 February, 2019 |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books |
A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. |
Emily Martin |
12 February, 2019 |
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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics |
The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09 |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history. |
Simukai Chigudu |
12 February, 2019 |
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Israel Studies Seminar |
Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed |
Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. |
Menachem Klein |
6 February, 2019 |
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Middle East Centre |
European Policy on the Middle East: Making a Difference? |
Nick Westcott (Director Royal African Society and Associate at SOAS) gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre on 1st February 2019. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College). |
Nick Westcott |
6 February, 2019 |
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Evidence-Based Health Care |
Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems |
Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too much medicine and overdiagnosis. |
Carl Heneghan |
6 February, 2019 |
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The Coldest Story Ever Told: Kanye and the Up Next Algorithm |
Caithlin Mercer, Managing Editor, Yahoo!, uses the hip-hop star as an example of how social media's algorithms can enforce biased perspectives |
Caithlin Mercer |
1 February, 2019 |
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Anthropology |
Why are men muscular? Reproductive, hormonal, and ecological hypotheses to explain variation in human male muscularity within populations of Bangladeshi and British men |
An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Kesson Magid (Department of Anthropology, University of Durham) on 7 November 2018 |
Kesson Magid |
31 January, 2019 |
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Anthropology |
Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: A systematic review and meta-analysis |
An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Dr Gillian Pepper (Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, University of Newcastle) on 28 November 2018 |
Gillian Pepper |
31 January, 2019 |
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Anthropology |
How war is shaping the Ukrainian HIV epidemic: A phylogeographic analysis |
An Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health seminar presented by Tetyana Vasylyeva (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) on 24 October 2018 |
Tetyana Vasylyeva |
31 January, 2019 |
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Anthropology |
Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa |
Michelle Pentecosts, King's College London, presented the Anthropology Departmental Seminar on 2 November 2018 |
Michelle Pentecost |
31 January, 2019 |
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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures |
Genes, Hands, Nerves, and Brains |
Professor Dominic Furniss and Dr Akira Wiberg discuss the tremendous connection we have between the hand and the brain, focusing their talk on Dupuytren's Disease and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. |
Dominic Furniss, Akira Wiberg |
21 January, 2019 |
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Asian Studies Centre |
CSASP Event - The Political Crisis in Sri Lanka |
Disscussion on the Political Crisis in Sri Lanka |
Gehan Gunatilleke, Rajesh Venugopal, Asanga Welikala, Shamara Wettimuny |
18 January, 2019 |
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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures |
Achieving the Holy-Grail: The Humanising Healthcare Methodology |
Mr Hamish Dibley, a senior management consultant, explores a new and refreshing approach to how we understand and improve healthcare systems. |
Hamish Dibley |
16 January, 2019 |
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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures |
Effect of metformin on breast cancer metabolism |
Dr Simon Lord presents a clinical study to understand the effect of metformin - one of the most commonly prescribed treatments worldwide for diabetes - on breast cancer metabolism. |
Simon Lord |
16 January, 2019 |
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Israel Studies Seminar |
Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948 |
How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine? |
Netta Cohen |
16 January, 2019 |
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Middle East Centre |
And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news |
Karl Sharro (architect, satirist and Middle East commentator), gives a seminar for the Middle East Studies Centre. Chaired by Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College). |
Karl Sharro, Walter Armbrust |
7 December, 2018 |
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Middle East Centre |
Iraq after the elections: A new beginning? |
Panel discussion with Harith Hasan (Central European University), Hayder al-Khoei (University of Exeter), Renad Mansour (Chatham House) and chaired by Toby Matthiesen (St Antony's College). |
Harith Hasan, Hayder al-Khoei, Renad Mansour, Toby Matthiesen |
7 December, 2018 |
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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures |
Likely Terpsichore? (Fragments), a solo durational dance work |
Created by APGRD Artist in Residence Marie-Louise Crawley |
Marie-Louise Crawley |
4 December, 2018 |
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Asian Studies Centre |
Freedom Behind Bars: Indira Gandhi's Emergency |
Public lecture by Professor Gyan Prakash (Princeton University) from 31 October 2018 |
Gyan Prakash |
3 December, 2018 |
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Asian Studies Centre |
Love thy neighbour as you love thyself? |
Alenka Zupancic's lecture on 'Love thy neighbour as theyself' from 6 November 2018 |
Alenka Zupancic |
3 December, 2018 |
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Israel Studies Seminar |
Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and the Jews |
Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the criticism of Zionism. |
Brian Klug |
28 November, 2018 |
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Middle East Centre |
Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS for women in the Middle East |
Dr Kamiar Alaei (Co-president, Institute for International Health and Education), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Kamiar Alaei |
26 November, 2018 |
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Middle East Centre |
Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley |
Dr Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Naysan Adlparvar |
26 November, 2018 |
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Middle East Centre |
Reconsidering Marshall Hodgson |
Professor Edmund Burke III (UC Santa Cruz) gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Edmund Burke III |
26 November, 2018 |
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Middle East Centre |
Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam |
Dr Christian C Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies), talks about his new book, the discussants are Phil Booth (Faculty of Theology) and Professor Julia Bray (Oriental Institute). |
Christian C Sahner, Phil Booth, Julia Bray |
26 November, 2018 |
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Middle East Centre |
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo |
Dr Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. |
Seth Anziska |
26 November, 2018 |
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Rationing antibiotics in the face of drug resistance: ethical challenges, principles and pathways |
Practical medical ethics symposium: Rationing responsibly in an age of austerity |
Christian Munthe |
22 November, 2018 |
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Moralising medicine: is it ethical to allocate treatment based on responsibility for illness? |
Practical medical ethics symposium: Rationing responsibly in an age of austerity |
Rebecca Brown |
22 November, 2018 |
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