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Peter D Mcdonald - What is a decolonial curriculum?

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Peter D Mcdonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018.
Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decolonising the University (Pluto Press, 2018) has written, any student and academic-led decolonisation movement must not only 'rigorously understand and define its terms, but locate the university as just one node in a network of spaces where this kind of struggle must be engaged with. To do this...is to enter the university space as a transformative force

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Peter D McDonald
Keywords
Colonialism
politics
education
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:09:31

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Jok Madut Jok - What is a decolonial curriculum?

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Jok Madut Jok, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018.
Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decolonising the University (Pluto Press, 2018) has written, any student and academic-led decolonisation movement must not only 'rigorously understand and define its terms, but locate the university as just one node in a network of spaces where this kind of struggle must be engaged with. To do this...is to enter the university space as a transformative force

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Jok Madut Jok
Keywords
Colonialism
politics
education
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:06:32

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Kwame Dawes - What is a decolonial curriculum?

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Kwame Dawes, TORCH Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018.
Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decolonising the University (Pluto Press, 2018) has written, any student and academic-led decolonisation movement must not only 'rigorously understand and define its terms, but locate the university as just one node in a network of spaces where this kind of struggle must be engaged with. To do this...is to enter the university space as a transformative force

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Kwame Dawes
Keywords
humanities
Colonialism
education
teaching
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:05:35

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Why the world is simple - Prof Ard Louis

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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The coding theorem from algorithmic information theory (AIT) - which should be much more widely taught in Physics! - suggests that many processes in nature may be highly biased towards simple outputs.
Here simple means highly compressible, or more formally, outputs with relatively lower Kolmogorov complexity. I will explore applications to biological evolution, where the coding theorem implies an exponential bias towards outcomes with higher symmetry, and to deep learning neural networks, where the coding theorem predicts an Occam's razor like bias that may explain why these highly overparamterised systems work so well.

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Ard Louis
Keywords
Physics
biology
Kolmogorov complexity
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:38:47

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Topology in Biology - Prof Julia Yeomans FRS

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Active systems, from cells and bacteria to flocks of birds, harvest chemical energy which they use to move and to control the complex processes needed for life.
A goal of biophysicists is to construct new physical theories to understand these living systems, which operate far from equilibrium. Topological defects are key to the behaviour of certain dense active systems and, surprisingly, there is increasing evidence that they may play a role in the biological functioning of bacterial and epithelial cells.

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Julia Yeomans
Keywords
Physics
biology
bacteria
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:38:38

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Welcome from the Head of the Physics Department

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Ian Shipsey delivers the welcome speech for the Saturday Mornings of Theoretical Physics.

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Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Ian Shipsey
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Physics
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:13:41

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Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Undergraduate Lecture James Sparks - Dynamics

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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For the first time ever, Oxford Mathematics has live streamed a student lecture. It took 800 years but now you can see what it is really like. We hope you find it familiar and intriguing and challenging.
James Sparks is Professor of Mathematical Physics and Director of Graduate Studies (Research).

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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James Sparks
Keywords
mathematics
undergraduate
dynamics
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:50:58

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James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Prime Numbers are fascinating, crucial and ubiquitous. The trouble is, we don't know that much about them. James Maynard, one of the leading researchers in the field explains all (at least as far as he can).
Oxford Research Professor James Maynard is one of the brightest young stars in world mathematics at the moment, having made dramatic advances in analytic number theory in recent years.

The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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James Maynard
Keywords
mathematics
prime numbers
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:45:17

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North Korea and The Bomb: A National Mission

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Why did North Korea nuclearize? Are we on the cusp of nuclear war with North Korea? Join us in the first episode of Alliance as we talk to Historian Cheehyung Harrison Kim about North Korea, nuclear weapons and existential risk.
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Alliance
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Cheehyung Harrison Kim
Alice Evatt
Henry Tann
Keywords
North Korea
nuclear warfare
nuclear weapons
history
Existential Risk
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 15/02/2019
Duration: 00:23:33

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Alliance
Welcome to Alliance: a podcast about the humanities and existential risk. Existential risks are risks that threaten to wipe out humanity or destroy human civilisation, like nuclear warfare, climate change and artificial intelligence. Join us as we discover what the humanities - history, philosophy, literature and the arts - have to say about them.

This series is run by Alice Evatt (DPhil Philosophy, Balliol College) and Henry Tann (DPhil, History, Balliol College). The series is sponsored by the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) and the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute. It was also the recipient of the AHRC/TORCH Graduate Fund 2017/2018.
Please visit https://www.humanitiesxrisk.com for more information.

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