What's for dinner and why does it matter?

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Join us in this episode to listen to Sustainable Food Systems Expert Melissa Benn talk about the future of food systems that are already here, and how it will impact not just our meal choices but also our production and consumption patterns...

and the fight against climate change. The future of food systems is not just the future of business, but quite literally the future of humanity.

Guest: Melissa Benn
Host: Andreas Finzel

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Department: Saïd Business School

Date Added: 17/12/2021

Duration: 00:25:05

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Graffiti, music, and football ultras: expressing dissent in MENA (Middle East and North Africa)

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Almanac – The Oxford Middle East Podcast

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Piotr Schulkes, Adam Abdallah, and Kalyani Nedungadi discuss non-official ways in expressing dissent, comparing Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, and Palestine.

They highlight the role of music and graffiti, and the unique position football ultras have in MENA culture.

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Department: Middle East Centre

Date Added: 17/12/2021

Duration: 00:49:16

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'Poets in Purgatory' Video

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Contemporary poets read from their translations of the Purgatorio and from their poems about Dante.

After Dante: Poets in Purgatory, edited by Nick Havely with Bernard O'Donoghue, was published by Arc Poetry in July and marks the 700th anniversary of the poet's death in exile at Ravenna on 14 September 1321. This new complete version of Dante's Purgatorio is by sixteen contemporary poets who enter into dialogue with the original by rendering it into a variety of Anglophone voices: American, Australian, British, Irish, Jamaican,Scottish, Singaporean.

The video of the launch (on 10 November 2021) includes nine of the poets reading parts of the cantos they have translated and some of their poems about Dante's Purgatory; it also features poems by a predecessor and a contemporary of Dante. The programme begins with an introduction to another book on Dante's work: John Dickson Batten: Illustrations for Dante's 'Inferno', edited by Pater Hainsworth, also published this year (by Panarc International). The event was supported by TORCH, the Oxford Dante Society and Lady Margaret Hall.

Speakers/contributors (alphabetical order):
Jane Draycott; Steve Ellis; Andrew Fitzsimons; Lorna Goodison; Peter Hainsworth; Nick Havely; Angela Jarman; Jan Kemp; Jamie McKendrick; Bernard O'Donoghue; A.E. Stallings; Patrick Worsnip.

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Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Date Added: 17/12/2021

Duration: 01:14:38

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Episode 6: Wales

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This episode features Boudica, a tortoise, Pegasus and Chris Martin, and that’s before we meet our panellists!

Listen to Ellie’s experiences studying on both sides of the border, learn more about Roman funerary monuments, Lewys’ favourite parts of his Classical Archaeology and Ancient History course, how Reem nearly became a doctor, her passion for journalism, and what advice our undergraduates would give to Welsh students.

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Reem Ahmed (https://www.linkedin.com/in/reem-ahmed-030039157/) – Reem studied Classics (Course IB) at Christ Church from 2016-20. She grew up in Cardiff and fell in love with Latin at school. Having not studied Greek or the Greek world before coming to university, one of her favourite aspects of her degree was learning about Hellenistic poetry, art and archaeology. Outside of her studies, she could be found writing and editing for student publications. She also enjoyed teaching Latin and Greek community classes based in a local school in Oxford. She's now a trainee reporter for WalesOnline based in Cardiff. One day she hopes to do a Masters in Classics and go into teaching.

Lewys Griffiths (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewys-griffiths-452a60167/) studied Classical Archaeology & Ancient History (CAAH) at St John’s College from 2018-2021, having previously studied at a Welsh Language Comprehensive School called Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni. He is originally from a small village called Groeswen in South Wales. Outside of studying the Roman side of Classics, he enjoys travelling to Italy and walking his dog. Following his degree, he is undertaking training to become a commercial solicitor at the London office of a US Law firm.

Ellie Williams studies Classics and English (Course IIB) at Regent’s Park College, having previously studied at Hereford Sixth Form College and John Beddoes Campus. She is the first in her family to go to university. When she’s not translating Latin texts, she enjoys going on long walks around Oxford which is very different to walking back home in Mid-Wales.

Katrina Kelly (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrina-kelly-3925a216b/), the host of this podcast, studied Classics (Course IA) at Magdalen College from 2015-19 after being home-educated in Lytham St Annes on the Lancashire coast. Now a researcher at the Faculty, she hopes to help make Oxford Classics an ever more accessible, inclusive and exciting place to study and work. Katrina is also the Education Co-ordinator and Branches Officer for the Classical Association.

* Things we mention:

The Iris Project (http://irisproject.org.uk/index.php)

The Oxford Welsh Society (https://www.facebook.com/groups/cymdeithasdafyddapgwilym/))

UNIQ (https://www.uniq.ox.ac.uk/)

Oxford Pathways (https://www.pathways.ox.ac.uk/)

Manny the Tortoise (https://www.rpc.ox.ac.uk/about-regents/history/emmanuelle/)

* How can I get involved?

Oxford For Wales - https://www.ox.ac.uk/oxfordcymru (in English) or https://www.ox.ac.uk/rhydychen-cymru (in Welsh).

Welsh Classics network (https://classicsforall.org.uk/what-we-do/our-networks/welsh-classics-network)

Find a Classical Association branch near you (https://classicalassociation.org/branches/)

* Link Colleges:

Jesus College (https://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/access-outreach/)

New College (https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/working-schools; https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/oxfordforwales)

St Catherine’s College (https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/outreach/)

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Department: Faculty of Classics

Date Added: 17/12/2021

Duration: 00:39:15

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How 2021 changed journalism

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In this episode of our Future of Journalism podcast we look at how events of 2021 and other trends in society and politics have affected how journalism is practised and consumed and how newsrooms are addressing these challenges.

In many ways 2021 saw a continuation of the world-changing events that took place in 2020. Far from emerging from COVID-19, deadly waves of the pandemic continued to have a marked impact on livelihoods, economies and health systems worldwide. We also saw an acute focus on the climate crisis, through extreme weather events and the landmark COP26 summit.

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 17/12/2021

Duration: 00:28:25

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Culture and conservation with Miriam Supuma

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In this episode, Julia and Sofia talk to conservationist Miriam Supuma about traditional knowledge, birds of paradise and the role of cultural identity in preserving biodiversity.

The full transcript for this episode can be found here:
https://conservationoptimism.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GN_S02EP06.pdf

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Department: Department of Zoology

Date Added: 17/12/2021

Duration: 00:27:15

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Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”

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Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 18 October 2021.

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Department: St Antony's College

Date Added: 17/12/2021

Duration: 00:55:04

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Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense

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Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 25 October 2021.

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Department: St Antony's College

Date Added: 16/12/2021

Duration: 00:41:55

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How does climate crisis change the curriculum?

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A Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences event. Shifting the question from ‘how should climate change be put into the curriculum?’ to ‘how does it transform the curriculum?’ opens up the subject in new ways across the world.

How does it change the way in which each subject (including humanities) is conceptualised, taught and related to other subject areas? What education do students need to equip them with the information, critical abilities and practical adaptability to build liveable futures? How can they develop the skills and vocabularies to deal with emotions around instability, uncertainty and loss? In the coming decades, what will employers want from their employees? What will drive sustainability and innovation in the world of work? What effects will choices embedded in curricula have on the capacity of societies to adapt to change and to manage it in ways that are just and productive? Educators and makers of education policy need a clear picture of the purpose of education in these contexts as well as a nuanced sense of what roles educators can and should play. Countries like the UK have been slow to introduce these issues into education systems, so what can be learned from educators in countries and regions that have been at the forefront of this thinking?

Participants: Rahul Chopra (IISER, Pune; TROP ICSU project) Kim Polgreen (Wytham Woods/Oxford teachers) Amanda Power (History, Oxford) Steve Puttick (Education, Oxford) James Robson (SKOPE, Oxford) Arjen Wals (Wageningen, NL; UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development) Chair: William Finnegan (OUCE, Oxford)

Learn more about the Climate Crisis Thinking i the Humanities and Social Science here: torch.ox.ac.uk/climate-crisis-thinking-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences

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Date Added: 15/12/2021

Duration: 01:31:47

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Under the Hood: Randomised Control Trials on Distance Education During Covid-19 in Botswana

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A discussion about some of the first experimental evidence on distance education during the covid-19 pandemic in Botswana.

The conversation goes under the hood of the randomised control trials to discuss some critical implementation lessons and research insights that don’t always make it into the final academic paper, and what is next on the horizon. The Botswana paper is available here (School’s Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using “Low-Tech” in a Pandemic) and was co-authored by Noam Angrist, Peter Bergman, and Moitshepi Matsheng. The intervention and trial were the product of a collaboration between the Botswana Ministry of Basic Education and Young 1ove, in partnership with CSAE and J-PAL. A series of flexible funders and partners enabled the rapid COVID-19 response and trial in Botswana, including the Mulago Foundation, the Douglas B. Marshall Foundation, J-PAL Post-Primary Education (PPE) Initiative, TaRL Africa, the Global Challenges Research Fund, and Northwestern University’s “economics of nonprofits” class.

Speakers featured:
Noam Angrist (Fellow at the CSAE, University of Oxford, and Co-founder of Young 1ove)
Claire Cullen (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Young 1ove and University of Oxford)
Thato Letsomo (Senior Manager for Content and Training, Young 1ove)
Moitshepi Matsheng (Co-founder and country coordinator Young 1ove, Chairperson Botswana National Youth Council)