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Josephine Balmer: A Reading

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
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Poet, classical translator, research scholar and literary critic, Josephine Balmer reads from her latest collection, The Paths of Survival - inspired by the surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons.
This reading is followed by a discussion with Josephine Balmer, Laura Swift, and Oliver Taplin.

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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
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Josephine Balmer
Keywords
poetry
performance
reading
aeschylus
Department: Faculty of Classics
Date Added: 13/03/2019
Duration: 01:07:04

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All Souls Seminar Series: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse

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Criminology
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The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse

The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse

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Criminology
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Prabha Kotiswaran
Keywords
criminology
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 13/03/2019
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Lighting up Africa

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Future of Business
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There are currently over one billion people without access to electricity. A significant number of these people live in Africa where inadequate infrastructure restricts access.
Greta-Talbot Jones and Laurence Copson from BBOXX are tackling this challenge by selling commercial solar home systems using an innovative pay as you go model.

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Future of Business
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Greta Talbot-Jones
Laurence Copson
Keywords
business
Africa
solar
Energy
distributed
Said Business School
Department: Saïd Business School
Date Added: 12/03/2019
Duration: 00:20:18

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What is Historically Informed Performance?

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Transforming Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Practice
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In this introductory episode, postdoctoral researcher Marten Noorduin discusses amongst others the broad history of HIP, the authenticity debate, new sources for research, and what the TCHIP project aims to do.
In this introductory episode, postdoctoral researcher Marten Noorduin discusses the characteristics of HIP, the influence it has had on the mainstream, its success in the 1980s and the crossovers afterwards, the authenticity debate, new sources for research, and what the TCHIP project aims to do.

Parts of the following recordings are included:

Beethoven, Ludwig van, Symphonies 1-9, Overtures, London Classical Players, cond. Roger Norrington (EMI 0724356194328, 1999; reissue of recordings between 1987 and 1989).

Bach, J.S., Matthius-Passion, Munich Bach Orchestra and Munich Bach Choir, cond. Karl Richter (Deutsche Grammophon 00044007341490, 2006; reissue of a 1971 recording).

Bach, J.S., Matthius-Passion, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig, cond. Riccardo Chailly (Decca 4782194, 2010).

Beethoven, Ludwig van, Symphonies 1, 8, and 9, Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein (Deutsche Grammophon 0734497, 2008; reissue of recordings from 1978 and 1979).

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Transforming Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Practice
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Marten Noorduin
Keywords
HIP
research
Nineteenth-Century Music
Performance Practice
Department: Faculty of Music
Date Added: 11/03/2019
Duration: 00:18:19

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Transforming Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Practice

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Transforming Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Practice
In this series, members of the Transforming Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Practice research team (TCHIP) discuss aspects of their ongoing research on the project. Each episode will focus on a different aspect of the project, from new historical research into under-examined musicians and practices, empirical approaches using new technologies into the current practices of musicians, and other research strands that ultimately aim to re-invigorate the historical performance of nineteenth-century music.

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15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database

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History of the Book 2017-2019
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Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019.

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History of the Book 2017-2019
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Marco Bertagna
Keywords
literature
history
books
printing
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 08/03/2019
Duration: 00:40:55

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Personalised external aortic root support: the Oxford experience

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
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Miss Renata Greco talks about personalised external aortic root support and in particular the Oxford experience with this technique.
Miss Renata Greco is a Senior Aortic Fellow for the Complex Aortic Surgery Team at the Oxford Heart Centre.

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
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Renata Greco
Keywords
surgery
surgeons
surgical
Medicine
clinical
heart
aortic
complex aortic
Department: Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
Date Added: 08/03/2019
Duration: 00:32:25

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The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat

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Middle East Centre
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Relli Shechter (St Antony’s College) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre, on 29th January 2019.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Egypt experienced swift economic growth-the result of a regional oil boom. Oddly, this economic growth hardly registered in Egyptian public discourse, which continuously claimed that the country was experiencing multiple economic crises that became social and cultural crises, as well. In my lecture, and based on a recently published book, I investigate this discrepancy. I document the massive socio-economic mobility in Egypt by analysing relevant statistical data and ethnographic evidence, indicating the changes in the employment structure and the spread of mass consumption. I later examine a wide array of cultural resources, such as Egyptian academic writing, the press, the cinema and the literature, in which critics lamented 'what went wrong' in Egypt. The narrative suggested here offers a local version of a wider, Middle Eastern and international story-the global formation of middle-class societies, whose members strive for respectable lives with only partial success.

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Middle East Centre
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Relli Shechter
Keywords
middle east
politics
egypt
economics
class
Department: Middle East Centre
Date Added: 08/03/2019
Duration: 00:36:47

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Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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The themes raised by Matthew Reynolds' Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation will be discussed by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School), Dr Adriana Jacobs (Oriental Studies) and Dr Nick Halmi (English).
Translation, illustration and interpretation have at least two things in common. They all begin when sense is made in the act of reading: that is where illustrative images and explanatory words begin to form. And they all ask to be understood in relation to the works from which they have arisen: reading them is a matter of reading readings. Likenesses explores this palimpsestic realm, with examples from Dante to the contemporary sculptor Rachel Whiteread. The complexities that emerge are different from Empsonian ambiguity or de Man's unknowable infinity of signification: here, meaning dawns and fades as the hologrammic text is filled out and flattened by successive encounters. Likenesses follows on from the argument of Reynolds's The Poetry of Translation (2011), extending it through other translations and beyond into a wide range of layered texts. Browning emerges as a key figure because his poems laminate languages, places, times and modes of utterance with such compelling energy. There are also substantial, innovative accounts of Dryden, Stubbs, Goya, Turner, Tennyson, Ungaretti and many more. Matthew Reynolds teaches at Oxford where he is a Fellow of St Anne's College and The Times lecturer in the English Faculty. It has been said of him that 'the best critics, like the best poets (in Browning's words) impart the gift of seeing to the rest: Reynolds has this gift of seeing and imparting' (TLS). His earlier books are The Poetry of Translation, The Realms of Verse 1830-1870, the novels The World Was All Before Them and Designs for a Happy Home(/i), and editions of Dante in English and of Manzoni.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Matthew Reynolds
Jason Gaiger
Adriana Jacobs
Nick Halmi
Ben Morgan
Keywords
literature
book at lunchtime
translation
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 08/03/2019
Duration: 00:40:12

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Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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The closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019.
Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2-day conference, jointly convened by the National Trust and the University of Oxford, which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019 at St Hugh’s College in Oxford. The conference brought together professionals from across the academic and heritage sectors to reflect on programming around the 2018 centenary of the Representation of the People Act which granted some women the right to vote and to look to the future of researching and programming women’s histories.

The conference featured papers from a range of heritage, cultural and academic institutions who marked the centenary anniversary. Many of the programmes, exhibitions and events that responded to the centenary not only explored the stories of 100 years ago but openly questioned the representation of women’s lives in the histories inherited by curators and researchers, and experienced in public life, today.

This film captures the closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019.

Speakers:

Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust

For more information about the Women and Power conference and the National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please visit:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Helen Antrobus
Keywords
women
national trust
women's rights
feminism
suffragettes
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 07/03/2019
Duration: 00:04:21

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