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Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building

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Israel Studies Seminar
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Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern Hebrew literature.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as the European literary enclaves of Hebrew literature began to move and consolidate their operations in Palestine, translation reinforced its status as a major, indispensable component of modern Hebrew literary production. In this talk, I will discuss the Hebrew translation economy in Mandatory Palestine and specifically address the role that the translation of poetry played in the development of Hebrew as a national literary language. Drawing my examples from the 1942 anthology, Shirat rusiya (Russian Poetry), I will show how Hebrew poet-translators engaged literary translation as a mode that simultaneously supported and unsettled the nation-building project.
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Israel Studies Seminar
People
Adriana X Jacobs
Keywords
Israel
hebrew literature
Department: School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS)
Date Added: 16/11/2018
Duration: 00:30:40

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OxPeace 2018: How to maximize business contributions to peace? Insights from a practitioner-researcher

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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Josie Lianna Kaye gives a talk titled ‘How to maximize business contributions to peace? Insights from a practitioner-researcher’ at the 2018 OxPeace Conference.
Josie Lianna Kaye is the Director and Founder of TrustWorks Global, a London-based company which prevents and manages natural resource-related conflicts in high-risk settings.

Drawing upon her experience as a researcher-practitioner, Josie’s intervention will seek to explore insights and lessons associated with three inter-linked key questions: first, how can multi-nationals in high-risks contexts prevent conflict and ‘sustain peace’? Second, what role does the United Nations – and other multi-lateral entities - have to play in enabling and/or supporting businesses to play such a role? Third, how can research in this domain catalyse a relationship between businesses and UN actors that fosters more constructive contributions to conflict prevention and sustaining peace?

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Josie Lianna Kaye
Keywords
sustaining peace
United Nations
business
conflict prevention
oxpeace
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 16/11/2018
Duration: 00:06:23

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OxPeace 2018: Equality and Business in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: Building shared space and community

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
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Tina McKenzie discusses ‘Equality and Business in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland: Building shared space and community’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference.
Tina McKenzie is an award-winning business leader, having worked across Europe over the last 20 years to connect people with the right skills with the right jobs.

Whilst leading three multimillion pound turnover businesses in Ireland, Tina won awards from Women in Business and led Staffline Group to win the Fast Growth Business of the Year Award from UTV/Business Eye in 2015; going on to be named the European Ambassador for Women’s Entrepreneurship in 2016. Tina was then awarded Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors in 2017 and has recently been appointed as Chair of the FSB’s Policy Unit in Northern Ireland. Tina is also a board member for the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building, and a passionate advocate for building a better Northern Ireland.

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Building Peace 2010 to 2019
People
Tina McKenzie
Keywords
northern ireland
business
equality
community
oxpeace
Department: St John's College
Date Added: 16/11/2018
Duration: 00:21:56

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Live panel on digital engagement

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Future of Business
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In this live panel, we sit down with Resident Advisor founder Nick Sabine and fellow MBA slash film producer Yetunde Dada to discuss community engagement through digital media.

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Future of Business
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Nick Sabine
Yetu Dada
Keywords
business
corporations
digital
engagement
Department: Saïd Business School
Date Added: 16/11/2018
Duration: 00:50:42

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BCorps: the future firm What is a bcorp? How do people know what this is

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Future of Business
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Can businesses lead the charge for social good? That is the idea behind B Corps, a movement of 2,500 businesses in 50 countries committed to having a positive impact in the world.
We talk to Charmain Love, former COO and co-founder of B Labs UK and Michaelanne Butler, MBA student, who run us through the potential opportunity.

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Future of Business
People
Michaelanne Butler
Charmain Love
Keywords
business
corporations
society
social good
Department: Saïd Business School
Date Added: 16/11/2018
Duration: 00:45:16

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David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships

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Israel Studies Seminar
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David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships.
In December 1962 President John F. Kennedy told Israel’s foreign minister, Golda Meir that “the United States has a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East really comparable only to that which it has with Britain.” While agreeing that indeed, the Israeli- American relations could be labelled as ‘special,’ most students of American- Israeli relations argued over the question since when the Israeli-American relationship became really special, and what was it that made them “special.” The debate took place between students of the realistic school of thought, who argued that only after the 1967 war, or after the 1970 Black September events in Jordan that Israel became a strategic asset for the United States, and it was since than that the relations between the two countries became ‘special’. The proponents of the idealistic school of thought argue that idealism and religion were the determining factors that decided American special attitude toward Israel. While both realism and idealism existed in the American – Israel relationship, it was applied differently by each state. While the American approach toward Israel was mostly idealistic, based on religion, idealism and history, the Zionist and later Israeli approach toward the United States was realistic.

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Israel Studies Seminar
People
David Tal
Keywords
Israel
United States of America
Department: School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS)
Date Added: 16/11/2018
Duration: 00:31:43

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The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
Panellists: Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, Professor Julia Smith, Chichele Professor of Medieval History, Research Director, Faculty of History, Helen Snaith, Senior Policy Advisor, Research England, David Clark, Head of Academic Division, OUP
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
People
Richard Ovenden
Julia Smith
Helen Snaith
David Clark
Keywords
open access
Monographs
Libraries
Academic freedom
research
publishing
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 16/11/2018
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The Quantum and the Cosmos

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago.

In daily life we do not experience the quantum nature of the world on the scale of elementary particles, nor do we sense the expansion and evolution of the universe on cosmic scales. Humans, midway in size between quantum and cosmic scales, evolved to perceive nature not as it actually is, but merely as required to survive in our environment. How remarkable that we have developed an understanding of the quantum realm and the cosmic realm, and realized that the inner space of the quantum and the outer space of the cosmos are intimately connected. In this lecture I will highlight some of the remarkable connections between the quantum and the cosmos.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Rocky Kolb
Keywords
Physics
astrophysics
universe
hintze
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 14/11/2018
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Shashi Tharoor on Confronting the Colonial Present of the British Raj

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Asian Studies Centre
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In conversation with Kira Huju from the Oxford Working Group on Colonialism, Indian Member of Parliament Dr Shashi Tharoor discusses the need to confront the living legacies of the British Raj in UK society and universities.
Building on his 2016 book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, Dr Tharoor explains why a frank conversation about colonialism is necessary but is yet to be had, and how to go about conducting it.

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Asian Studies Centre
People
Shashi Tharoor
Kira Huju
Keywords
politics
india
Colonialism
Department: St Antony's College
Date Added: 14/11/2018
Duration: 00:11:20

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The Consequences of Brexit

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
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Since the 24 June 2016, the politics of Brexit – in both the UK and the EU – has driven the negotiations and discussion surrounding the UK's departure from the EU.
It is the international legal framework, however, that has framed those negotiations and will shape the UK's future trading relationship with the EU and the rest of the world after March 2019, in whatever form Brexit takes. Andrew Hood will examine some of the structural and practical realities of public international law that have governed – and will continue to govern – the future of the UK and the EU in a post-Brexit world.

About the speaker:
Andrew has almost 20 years of experience as an EU, trade, regulatory and public international lawyer working in both the public and private sectors. He is currently a partner at the law firm Fieldfisher and has previously spent over 13 years as a lawyer and negotiator for the UK Government, including as a lawyer at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a UK negotiator in Brussels, Head of International and EU Law at the Attorney General’s Office and the General Counsel in 10 Downing Street for Prime Minister David Cameron.

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Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
People
Andrew Hood
Keywords
Brexit
politics
public international law
trading
post-Brexit
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 13/11/2018
Duration: 00:44:01

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