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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 a former student, is particularly popular. We also have a strong commitment to graduate students and graduate study. Graduate students form an increasing proportion of the Hall and represent a diverse population of students from across the world studying a wide range of subjects. With our roots in the early 13th century, we are the only medieval academic Hall to have survived. St Edmund Hall formally became a college on being granted a Royal Charter in 1957. Our architecture is a happy blend of ancient and modern. The library was the medieval church of St Peter-in-the-East, a large and beautiful building; much of the front quadrangle is 16th- and 17th-century; the remainder of our buildings are modern. Our graduates include Terry Jones (of Monty Python), John Wells (co-founder of Private Eye), Anna Botting (Sky News journalist) and Dr Michael Nazir-Ali (former Bishop of Rochester).

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Emden History Lectures

Emden History Lectures

The Emden Lecture is an annual event at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, given by ...
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St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2017: Teddy Talks

St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2017: Teddy Talks

The Research Expo is a biennial event at St Edmund Hall, designed to showcase the bread...
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Shakespeare and the Brain

Shakespeare and the Brain

A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for...
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The Geddes Memorial Lectures

The Geddes Memorial Lectures

The Lecture commemorates Philip Geddes, who studied at St Edmund Hall and was a journal...
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St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Teddy Talks

St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Teddy Talks

St Edmund Hall’s inaugural Research Expo took place on 28 February 2015. It was a celeb...
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Teddy Talks

Teddy Talks

Recordings of talks by guest speakers at networking breakfast events for alumni of St E...
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Oxford Chinese Economy Programme

Oxford Chinese Economy Programme

A series of lectures looking at China's rapidly-changing economy and society, from the ...
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St Edmund Hall

St Edmund Hall

St Edmund Hall is a friendly, informal college with a strong sense of community; an exc...

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A Conversation about Bipolar Disorder and Creative Process: Lucy Newlyn and Richard Lawes A Conversation about Bipolar Disorder and Creative Process: Lucy Newlyn and Richard Lawes. This followed the publication, earlier this year, of Lucy's 15-year memoir, Diary of a Bipolar Explorer. Lucy Newlyn, Richard Lawes, Will Donaldson 30 May, 2018
Empire of Things: A New History of Humans and Their Stuff Professor Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London) sketches the history of consumption to the present day, and examines the historical dynamics that have shaped our material lifestyles. Frank Trentmann 4 December, 2017
UK National Debt: A Historical Perspective The UK national debt is currently the highest it's ever been, and a lot larger than many other countries. This talk takes a look behind the figures, and asks why it is important, whether we should be worried, and looks at the reasons for its growth. Martin Slater 7 April, 2017
Ending Poverty? Linda Yueh (Fellow by Special Election in Economics) talks about ending poverty. Linda Yueh 3 April, 2017
Was There History in the Middle Ages? Did medieval writers think they were writing history? This talk takes a closer look at the various forms of ‘history’ during this period. Emily A. Winkler is (John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History). Emily A Winkler 3 April, 2017
What Does Philosophy Have to Do with Neuroscience? When you examine the brain, you can learn a lot and see chemical interactions, but you cannot find anything about the first-person nature of things we experience as humans, such as colours and pain. Paul Skokowski 3 April, 2017
Advanced LIGO: the New Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy Why has the recent detection of gravitational waves been one of the most important discoveries in modern times for astrophysics? And what are the implications of the new Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave detector for future discoveries about black holes? Philipp Podsiadlowski 3 April, 2017
Lithium-ion Batteries and Beyond Batteries are one of the most efficient ways to store energy, and there has been a massive increase recently in the use of lithium-ion batteries, particularly in electric cars. Mauro Pasta 3 April, 2017
‘Boom, ratatata, hui-hui-sss-ttt, woouum’ - Children’s Views of World War II How do people remember the past? Alex Lloyd (Lecturer, German Language and Literature) looks at essays written by children in Germany after the Second World War–examining the words and tone; the political framing; and the challenges for translating them. Alex Lloyd 3 April, 2017
Banned Books: Hus and Luther in the Teddy Hall Library This talk focusses on a first edition of the collected works of Jan Hus, from the collection in St Edmund Hall’s Old Library, written in the fifteenth century but first printed in 1558 together with letters of recommendation from Martin Luther. Henrike Lähnemann 3 April, 2017
Merchants’ Marks in Medieval English Books Merchants’ marks were used initially as a tool of commerce, on consignments of goods, in the Middle Ages. In the sixteenth century, however, they became more like a coat of arms for people who didn’t have one – a form of professional identity. Thomas Kittel 3 April, 2017
Extreme Clocks: Physics with Pulsars An introduction to pulsars: objects that have more mass than the sun but are only around 20km in diameter, possessing an extremely high rotational stability and a very strong magnetic field. Aris Karastergiou 3 April, 2017

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