Trials of the everyday: spaces of global health in South Africa

An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

With: Miranda Seymour, biographer of Mary Shelley, Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, Stephen Hebron, curator and author of Shelley's Ghost
Recorded on Saturday, 24 March, 2018, for Frankenreads 2018

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

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Department: Bodleian Libraries

Date Added: 29/01/2019

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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Hooke Lecture - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere

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The Secrets of Mathematics

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In some of the world’s rivers, an incoming high tide can arrive as a smooth jump decorated by undulations, or as a breaking wave. The river reverses direction and flows upstream.

In this lecture Michael Berry explains tidal bores via analogies with tsunamis, rainbows, horizons in relativity, and ideas from quantum physics; the concept of a ‘minimal model’ in mathematical explanation; different ways in which different cultures describe the same thing; and the first unification in fundamental physics.

Michael Berry is Emeritus Professor of Physics, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol.

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The Secrets of Mathematics

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Department: Mathematical Institute

Date Added: 28/01/2019

Duration: 00:52:22

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Introducing Fairies and Fairyland

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Modern Fairies

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Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the Modern Fairies project and talk about traditional imaginings of fairyland.

Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield in conversation about traditional British tales about fairies. In this first episode they talk about the ways in which mortals come into contact with the fairies, what happens when humans are taken into the Other World – the strange tricks that time plays, the dangers that human-fairy encounters run. They also introduce the Modern Fairies project in which writers, musicians and artists come together to make new creative responses to the fairy themes explore and outlines in the series. Brian McMahon reads some excerpts from the tales about fairies that are focused on this episode.

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 28/01/2019

Duration: 00:34:25

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'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness

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Poetry with Simon Armitage

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The Hilary Term Professor of Poetry lecture, delivered by Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage.

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Poetry with Simon Armitage

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 28/01/2019

Duration: 01:06:05

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Machine perfusion – a new dawn or optimistic hyperbole?

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures

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Professor Peter Friend, Dr David Nasralla and Dr Carlo Ceresa discuss liver transplantation and why they are replacing conventional cold storage in an ice box with normothermic automated, transportable liver preservation.

Professor Peter Friend is Professor of Transplantation at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, and Dr David Nasralla and Dr Carlo Ceresa are Clinical Research Fellows in Transplant Surgery at NDS, University of Oxford.

This research has been published in the journal Nature. Please visit: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0047-9