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Supernova Explosions and their Role in the Universe

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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In this talk, Philipp Podsiadlowski will explain how this energy (sometimes) creates a visible fireball, before going on to explain the role of supernovae in the production of the heaviest elements in the periodic table.

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Philipp Podsiadlowski
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Physics
supernovae
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 01/11/2019
Duration: 00:48:49

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What makes stars go bang?

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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In this talk, James Binney will outline the physics that leads to prodigeous release of energy in core-collapse and deflagration supernovae.

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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James Binney
Keywords
Physics
supernovae
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 01/11/2019
Duration: 00:46:51

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The Legal Evolution of the Climate Change Regime: Past, Present, and Future

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Public International Law Part III
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What have been the key themes in the legal evolution of the UN climate regime?
How were these themes addressed In the recently adopted Paris Rulebook? And what are the principal legal issues going forward? The talk will review the legal evolution of the international climate change regime, and preview the upcoming conference of the parties (COP25) in Santiago in December.

Daniel Bodansky is Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He served as Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. State Department from 1999-2001. His book, The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, received the 2011 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association as the best book that year in the field of international environmental studies. His latest book, International Climate Change Law, co-authored with Jutta Brunnée and Lavanya Rajamani, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2017, and received the 2018 Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law as the best book in a specialized area of international law published the previous year. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a graduate of Harvard (A.B.), Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Yale (J.D.).

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Public International Law Part III
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Daniel Bodansky
Keywords
evolution
climate change
public international law
COP25
UN climate regime
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 31/10/2019
Duration: 00:50:38

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Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

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The Faculty is one of the leading centres for the study of European language, literature, and culture world-wide, offering expertise in the entire chronological range from the earliest times to the present day, and with specialists in film studies, cultural studies, and cultural history as well as languages and literatures.

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Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria

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African Studies Centre
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In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat this hardship. Dr Obani also analyzes how these strategies could be improved for the betterment of the community as a whole.

Most fast growing cities across Africa are experiencing the negative impacts of the convergence of urbanisation and climate change. Climate change itself exposes individuals, communities, common goods and infrastructure to flooding, heat, and other extreme weather events in a way that compromises the delivery of basic services and human wellbeing. Very often, the negative impacts are exacerbated by intervening factors such as poverty and the failure of relevant institutions to support effective adaptation and mitigation. This research explores individual adaptation strategies to flooding and assesses their impacts and sustainability in the context of a low income urban setting in Benin City, Nigeria. It further examines the interplay between urban planning laws and processes, and local adaptation strategies. In practice, when faced with extreme weather events such as flooding, the affected individuals (including households) and communities adapt using the resources available in their environment and networks. Nonetheless, tensions between actor rationality and the optimal collective outcomes are likely to affect the quality of adaptation with community-wide consequences because individuals often appear to prefer strategies that maximize the personal rather than the collective benefits. This research identifies four heuristic types of relationships that are observable from individual adaptation strategies for flooding in low income urban settings, namely: isolation, competition, alliance, and cooperation. Furthermore, the paper makes recommendations for improving the coherence between personal adaptation strategies on the one hand, and the maximisation of the collective utility on the other hand as a means of achieving transformation towards sustainability.

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African Studies Centre
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Dr Pedi Obani
Keywords
flooding
Africa
strategic adaptations
Department: Centre for African Studies
Date Added: 30/10/2019
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Everything is a poison

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, gives a talk on dose-response curves for the EBHC podcast series.

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Jeffrey Aronson
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EMB
Evidence-Based Medicine
Primary Care
Health Sciences
EBHC
Evidence-Based Health Care
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 29/10/2019
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The Global History of Capitalism

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The Global History of Capitalism
Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism Conference

The Global History of Capitalism project, housed within the Oxford Centre for Global History, is a focal point for ongoing scholarship on the history of capitalism. The project promotes an explicitly global perspective that contextualises the history of capitalism beyond the West and investigates the deep institutional roots of capitalist systems.
The Global History of Capitalism project hosted the conference ‘Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism’ on September 28-29 2019. The conference brought together cultural, economic, and political historians of global capitalism with the aim of starting a new conversation about the relationship between capitalism and global history.
The conference organisers took the broad theme of global divergences and convergences (from the 1500s to the present) as the starting point for discussion. Global historians and historians of capitalism continue to debate whether there was a “Great Divergence” between the West and Asia in the nineteenth-century. Presenters discussed the timing and causality of the Great Divergence, tales of convergence between Europe and Asia, and new frameworks of discussion for global economic history.
The conference received funding from the Global History of Capitalism Project and Brasenose College, Oxford.

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Climate change: do individual actions matter?

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Futuremakers
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Is there still potential for actions on an individual level to shape the future of the planet?
With a lot of Government work relying on geo-political understanding between nation states and large multinational corporations, is there still potential for actions on an individual level to shape the future of the planet? Do actions such as changing our diets, varying how we commute or even joining in with mass demonstrations, have the possibility of being anywhere near as effective as changes that can be made on an international level? Can one person save the planet? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with Professor Susan Jebb, a nutrition scientist who is co-director of the Livestock, Environment and People (or LEAP) project, Dr Tina Fawcett, a senior researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, who works on the ECI’s energy programme, and Tristram Walsh, President of the Oxford Climate Society, a student society dedicated to developing informed climate leaders.

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Futuremakers
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Peter Millican
Susan Jebb
Tina Fawcett
Tristram Walsh
Keywords
climate change
global warming
climate
Environment
Energy
food
Waste
Plastics
water
biodiversity
transport
food
vegan
carbon
protest
Extinction Rebellion
Youth Strikes for Climate
Net Zero
infrastructure
greener country
Department: Oxford University Development Office
Date Added: 28/10/2019
Duration: 00:55:30

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How do you build a greener country?

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Futuremakers
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What does the current infrastructure in the UK look like, and how far is it from where we need to be to meet our international commitments?
What does the current infrastructure in the UK look like, and how far is it from where we need to be to meet our international commitments, or even our own challenge to be Net Zero by 2050? 
How much do our working practices and lives contribute to how ‘green’ the country is, and how can we promote and preserve biodiversity across the globe?
How do we compare to other countries, and what can we learn from them?
Finally, how do you build a ‘greener’ country? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with Professor Cameron Hepburn, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, who has provided advice on climate policy to a number of governments; Alison Smith, a senior researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, who’s worked on a number of EU climate projects and is the author of ‘The Climate Bonus: co-benefits of climate policy’; and April Burt, who has spent the past eight years working in conservation management in the western Indian ocean and is now part of Oxford’s Environmental Research team. 

Find out more about Oxford’s climate research at http://po.st/true_planet

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Futuremakers
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Peter Millican
Cameron Hepburn
April Burt
Alison Smith
Keywords
climate change
infrastructure
Net Zero
green
greener country
Department: Oxford University Development Office
Date Added: 28/10/2019
Duration: 00:59:38

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Climate change and politics - why haven’t we done more?

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Futuremakers
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With the IPCC warning that policymakers have limited time to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5° C - why haven’t we done more?
With the IPCC warning that policymakers have limited time to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5° C, beyond which the climate-related risks to humans and natural systems rise quickly, it’s clear that we need to act sooner rather than later. This may be why we’re seeing increasing public action from the likes of Extinction Rebellion and the Youth Strikes for Climate, but what action have we seen from governments in the UK and beyond since this stark warning was delivered? What confidence can we have in our leaders to bring about the changes we need over the next decade? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with Caroline Lucas MP, Green Party politician and Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion, Dr Ryan Rafaty, a political scientist at the University of Oxford working with our Climate Econometrics project, and Tristram Walsh, President of the

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Futuremakers
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Peter Millican
Caroline Lucas
Ryan Rafaty
Tristram Walsh
Keywords
climate change
climate research
politics
Green Party
Extinction Rebellion
Youth Strikes for Climate
Department: Oxford University Development Office
Date Added: 28/10/2019
Duration: 00:55:05

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