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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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Michael Berry
Keywords
mathematics
tidal bore
tsunamis
Physics
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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Modern Fairies
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Carolyne Larrington
Fay Hield
Brian McMahon
Keywords
fairies
loathly ladies
other world
folksong
folktales
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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Simon Armitage
Keywords
poetry
literature
clarity
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

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
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Peter Friend
David Nasralla
Carlo Ceresa
Keywords
surgery
surgeons
surgical
Medicine
transplantation
organ perfusion
liver preservation
liver transplantation
Department: Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
Date Added: 28/01/2019
Duration: 00:43:20

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Teachers' professional development on summative assessment of practical science: perspectives from Project Calibrate

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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This seminar will focus on the teacher education aspect of the project. It will outline the approaches being implemented to develop the teachers' knowledge and understanding to implement strategies to teach and assess practical science.
Project Calibrate addresses a systematic approach to improving practical science at GCSE level. It is a joint project with researchers from Oxford University, AQA and Key Stage 4 teachers and students. This project is striving for curriculum innovation that couples the design of novel assessments, accompanied by teacher engagement to ensure effective implementation of curricular goals worth teaching. This seminar will focus on the teacher education aspect of the project. It will outline the approaches being implemented to develop the teachers' knowledge and understanding to implement strategies to teach and assess practical science which aims to result in a more coherent understanding of how science works.

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Department of Education Public Seminars
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Sibel Erduran
Ann Childs
Alison Cullinane
Keywords
science
learning
practical
teaching
development
assessment
GCSE
Department: Department of Education
Date Added: 28/01/2019
Duration: 00:41:26

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Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary.

Mike Clarke and Iain Chalmers [1], Iain Chalmers (James Lind Library and Fellow of CEBM), Carl Heneghan ( Professor of EBM and Director CEBM) and Kamal Mahtani (Associate Professor and Director of the MSc in Systematic Reviews) talk about the history and development of systematic reviews, their current delivery and the shortcomings in current review production and the future directions of systematic reviews, including the launch of CEBM's Evidence Synthesis Toolkit.

This talk was held as part of the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care course which is part of the Evidence-Based Health Care Programme.
[1] Clarke M, Chalmers I Reflections on the history of systematic reviews. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2018;23:121-122.

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Iain Chalmers
Carl Heneghan
Kamal Mahtani
Keywords
EBM
evidence based medicine
primary health care
Health Sciences
EBHC
Evidence-Based Health Care
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 28/01/2019
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The Legal Metamorphosis of War

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
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War does not escape the transformations global governance has experienced in the past decades.
The research presented identifies a move from a binary War-Peace framework to a global security governance, characterized by techno-managerial normative assemblages aiming at taming risk.Core to the project of international law throughout the 20th century, peace has been occupying a central role in the development of international legal regimes aiming at governing armed violence. But the promise of peace is being increasingly sided by an adjacent, concurrent project, one that promises a more secure world, where risks are forecasted and mitigated or are at least measured. Global security aims at preventing violence and conflict together with health, financial and environmental crises that are predicted and mapped to be better managed. Lists, corporate social responsibility instruments, indicators, ratings and algorithmic devices – the instruments that regulate global security – are produced by means of a technical expertise, resting on a mathematical and behaviorist rationality aiming at taming risk. International legal categories and distinctions do not disappear but are transformed. War and peace are being reimagined and placed on a spectrum of measurable violence and insecurity, combatant and civilian categories are fragmented and made increasingly dependent on more contained behavioral patterns.

Dr Delphine Dogot’s research is at the intersection of law, philosophy and social sciences in particular in relation to globalization and technology. She is a Research Fellow at the Law Department of HEC Paris where she develops several research projects investigating the transformation of law and regulation when embedded with algorithmic and data-driven technologies.

Delphine Dogot holds a Ph.D. in Law from Sciences Po, a Master's and Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, as well as Master's degree in Sociology and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the Université Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne. She has previously been Exchange Researcher at Harvard Law School, Fellow at the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy (ULB), and OXPO Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
Delphine writes in transnational legal theory, international and global law, conflict and security law and law and technology. She has taught or is currently teaching courses on company law, contract law, global law, international law, philosophy and theory of human rights, legal theory & methodology and at ULB, Sciences Po, HEC Paris, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and Faculté Libre de Droit de Lille.

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
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Delphine Dogot
Keywords
war
public international law
armed violence
regimes
international
Global Governance
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 25/01/2019
Duration: 00:46:20

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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi.
The panel of guests will consider the origins and the uses of myth-making as a literary genre, the motivation which lay behind Tolkien's own myth creation, and the rise in fantasy literature during his lifetime.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Marina Warner
Verlyn Flieger
Dimitra Fimi
Keywords
literature
Tolkien exhibition
tolkien
history
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 25/01/2019
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What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau

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African Studies Centre
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ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo

Abstract: This talk presents a critique of aid discourses of success and failure as the basis for intervention in Africa, using Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau as case studies. By questioning why such discourses emerge, how they evolve and what their implications are, I seek to contribute to constructivist theories of international relations and development, whilst also offering an analysis of how this instrument of global governance has played out in the two countries.

Short bio: Teresa Almeida Cravo is currently a Visiting Fellow at the African Studies Centre of the University of Oxford, working on a book manuscript on the politics of discourse in the context of western donors' relations with specific African countries. She is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies.

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African Studies Centre
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Teresa Almeida Cravo
Keywords
mozambique
Africa
GUINEA-BISSAU
development
donors
post-structuralism
construction
discourse
Department: Centre for African Studies
Date Added: 25/01/2019
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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, MBE: Women in STEM or how to stop killer robots.

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Mansfield College
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Co-founder of STEMettes and one of the BBC's 100 inspirational and innovative women for 2017.
Co-founder of STEMettes and one of the BBC's 100 inspirational and innovative women for 2017.

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Mansfield College
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Anne-Marie Imafidon
Keywords
STEM
stemettes
killer robots
Mansfield College
lecture series
anne-marie Imafidon
Department: Mansfield College
Date Added: 25/01/2019
Duration: 00:38:56

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