Precarious Migrants

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We often think of migration in binary terms of regular or irregular migration; legal or illegal, but often people move in between these states and are left in an insecure status. How does this precarity effect a migrant’s access to services in cities?

In this episode we discuss precarious migrants and are joined by Dr Marie Mallet-Garcia, Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, Shams Asadi, Human Rights Commissioner and head of the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna and Wanjiku Ngotho-Mbugua, Acting Chief Executive at Bawso. With the help of our panel, we will look at three different cities Cardiff, Frankfurt and Vienna.

Guests: Dr. Marie Mallet-Garcia, Shams Asadi, Wanjiku Ngotho-Mbugua
Hosts: Rob McNeil and Jacqui Broadhead
Producer: Sophie Smith
Communications and Coordination: Delphine Boagey

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The Migration Oxford Podcast

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Marie Mallet-Garcia

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Department: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)

Date Added: 19/05/2023

Duration: 00:23:51

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The Pandemic People: Fergus Walsh

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The Oxford Colloquy

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Journalist Fergus Walsh talks about covering disease outbreaks & his medical journalism career. Accuracy, fact-checking, and communicating complex scientific findings are important to him. He discusses this passion for reliable information with Sir Andrew

Sir Andrew Pollard sat down with, British journalist Fergus Walsh the medical editor of the BBC. The episode delved into Fergus’s early days at the BBC and how his career in medical journalism has developed over the years.

Fergus shared insights on how he approaches health stories and makes complex health information understandable to the public. They talk about his work on reporting various disease outbreaks over the years that has earned him recognition as a trusted source of information during times of health crises.

One notable experience Fergus shared was his journey to Vietnam to report on the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu. He recounted the challenges he faced while covering the outbreak and the importance of providing accurate information to the public during such critical situations.

The conversation also touched on how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of journalism, and the challenges of providing a balanced perspective without succumbing to biases. He emphasized the importance of fact-checking and verifying information, especially in the era of social media where misinformation can easily spread.

His in-depth conversation with Fergus Walsh provided a fascinating insight into the challenges and nuances of reporting on health and science news, and the evolving role of journalists in disseminating accurate information in an era of fast-paced media consumption has evolved over the years.

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Department: Department of Paediatrics

Date Added: 19/05/2023

Duration: 00:44:49

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Stories from the Archive - Part 1

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Their Finest Hour

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First episode of a new Their Finest Hour podcast mini-series examining a selection of stories submitted to the Online Archive.

In this first episode of "Stories from the Archive", Dr Joseph Quinn guides us through the Online Archive by introducing us to a selection of 5 personal stories submitted by participants from across the UK. These stories include a heart-warming tale of local friendships with Italian prisoners-of-war in Hampshire and an excerpt from a memoir which details one family's experience of the Canterbury Blitz in June 1942.

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 19/05/2023

Duration: 00:18:10

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Authentic Leadership: Episode 3 - Authenticity and perseverance: "It became clear it wasn't about me"

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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In this episode, we look at how one young woman leader found the courage to negotiate an array of challenges in the newsroom and how the stories we craft for ourselves can help us persevere through challenging times.

Host: Ramaa Sharma is an award-winning Digital Leader, Consultant and Executive Coach. Until recently she was the Senior Digital Editor in BBC News, driving digital transformation across the division of 8,000 journalists. She also worked with the BBC News Board to help facilitate a more diverse and inclusive newsroom. Prior to that Ramaa spent a decade of her career presenting and reporting across multiple BBC platforms, before moving into digital leadership. At the World Service, Ramaa pioneered the first ever digital leadership and social media courses for editors and executives on the World Service Board. In her time Ramaa also edited a number of award winning editorial and digital projects.

Guest: Yvette Dimiri is Head of Growth at Stears Insights which provides in-depth, data-driven stories on the major topics affecting Nigeria. After graduating in political science from the University of Chicago she returned to Nigeria eventually leading audience engagement strategies at daily finance title Business Day.

Read a full transcript here: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/our-podcast-authentic-leadership-episode-3-authenticity-and-perseverance-it-became-clear-it

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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 19/05/2023

Duration: 00:24:03

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The Pandemic People: Dame Jennifer Margaret Harries DBE

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The Oxford Colloquy

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Dame Jennifer Harries shares insights on her career, family influence, and managing public health threats with Sir Andrew Pollard. Highlights include Salisbury novichok incident preparedness, COVID19 response efforts.

Sir Andrew Pollard, sat down with Dame Jennifer Margaret Harries DBE, the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health in the UK, to discuss the critical role of public health in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During their conversation, Dame Jennifer shared insights into her early career, her motivations for working in medicine, and her family's connection to public health research.

Dame Jennifer explained that her interest in public health was sparked at an early age. Her father had worked in the Salisbury Common Cold Unit where they conducted human challenge studies, which piqued her curiosity about the intersection of medicine and public health. This early exposure to the field inspired her to pursue a career in healthcare.

Throughout her career, Dame Jennifer has been at the forefront of managing external threats to health, including chemical and radiation incidents, as well as pandemics. She shared that much of the work happens behind the scenes, with her team responding to various challenges all across the UK, often unbeknownst to the general public. She emphasized the importance of their swift response and diligent efforts to ensure the health and safety of the population.

Dame Jennifer also discussed her experience during the poisoning event in Salisbury, where her team had to quickly step up their game. She highlighted the readiness of the national plans and how they were able to respond effectively to the incident. This experience further reinforced the importance of preparedness and coordination in public health responses.

As the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, Dame Jennifer took on a crucial role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She shared that she was aware of the emerging news about the virus at the end of 2019 and was actively involved in preparing the health service for the potential impacts.

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Department: Department of Paediatrics

Date Added: 19/05/2023

Duration: 00:28:37

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Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State

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Asian Studies Centre

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Miftah Ismail Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance gives a lecture

Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judiciary and especially the army have evolved into self-perpetuating elite institutions that resist change and seek to maintain the status quo. And over the years they have co-opted politicians, religious leaders, the landed gentry and also large industrial conglomerates and together they have neither pursued inclusive economic growth nor a liberal, tolerant society. Resultantly Pakistan is falling behind all its peer nations in South Asia in income and human development. The economic and political crises today, the worst in Pakistan’s history, offer an opportunity to build a new ruling coalition that will sue for growth, inclusivity and human development. The alternative is a secular decline towards a failed state.
Miftah Ismail is Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance. He holds a PhD in Public Finance and Political Economy from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Department: St Antony's College

Date Added: 19/05/2023

Duration: 00:52:46

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Slade Lecture Series 2023: Defiant Sculpture: Isek Bodys Kingelez and Mobutu Sese-Seko’s Authenticité, 1990s

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History of Art: Slade Lecture Series

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Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu argues that the extravagant hypermodernity of Isek Bodys Kingelez’s architectural sculptures, as with segments of popular arts, constitute a distinctive form of imaginative resistance to official culture under Mobutu.

In this lecture, Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu discusses Mobutu Sese-Seko who, as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (1965-1996), exemplified the theatrical Big Man ruler in postcolonial Africa. By deploying anti-Communist rhetoric, he secured Western Bloc support of his spectacularly kleptocratic regime and, through his anti-Western Authenticité program, created a national culture in his own image. Against Mobutu’s repressive political practice and ideology, Okeke-Agulu reads the architectural sculptures of Isek Bodys Kingelez (1948-2015). He argues that their extravagant hypermodernity, as with segments of popular arts, constitute a distinctive form of imaginative resistance to official culture under Mobutu.

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History of Art: Slade Lecture Series

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Department: Department of History of Art

Date Added: 18/05/2023

Duration: 01:03:43

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Slade Lecture Series 2023: Drawing the Line: Obiora Udechukwu and Nigeria’s Smiling General 1980s-1990s

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In the 1980’s, the painter and poet Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946), a leading figure of the Nsukka School, was at the height of his powers, with drawings and paintings celebrated for their lyrical power and trenchant social commentary.

Nigeria witnessed its first military coup in 1966, a civil war (1967-70), oil boom in the 1970s. In the 1980s, General Ibrahim Babangida, the smiling, brutal dictator, enforced Structural Adjustment, raised corruption to statecraft and impoverished the citizenry. In that same decade, the painter and poet Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946), a leading figure of the Nsukka School, was at the height of his powers, with drawings and paintings celebrated for their lyrical power and trenchant social commentary. Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu considers the fate of art and the broader critical culture during the long decade, in the shadow of the military regimes.

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Department: Department of History of Art

Date Added: 18/05/2023

Duration: 00:59:47

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Slade Lecture Series 2023: Prison Drawing: Ibrahim El Salahi in Al Nimeiry’s Sudan, 1970s

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In this lecture, Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu focuses on the calligraphic figuration of Ibrahim El Salahi (b. 1930), the country’s leading modernist and onetime political prisoner.

Two years after its political independence from Egypt and Britain in 1956, Sudan witnessed the first of many military coups that have been a recurring feature of the country’s postcolonial history. In this lecture, Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu focuses on the calligraphic figuration of Ibrahim El Salahi (b. 1930), the country’s leading modernist and onetime political prisoner. Okeke-Agulu shows how the sophisticated formalism of Salahi’s drawings constituted a meditative critique of General Jaafar Al Nimeiry’s dictatorship (1969-1985), which survived multiple coups d’état, by stoking religious and ethnic crises, and systematic suppression of all political opposition.

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