3 Failure and the Farewell to Academia.

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Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure?

The mere idea of leaving academia can feel like the greatest failure of them all. But the academic world need not be an unquestioned given: there are many other things you can do, and they are not less meaningful than doing academic research or teaching – and may not be as far removed from those activities as you imagine. We hear from people who work in academia or who left academic jobs to pursue careers outside the university, and ask why it’s so important that career change be a real and not an automatically devalued possibility.

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure

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Date Added: 22/05/2018

Duration: 00:34:10

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2 Failure and Other People

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Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them.

Failure can be a very lonely feeling, but it’s always shaped by other people, whether positively or negatively. Our contributors share reflections on how easy it is to let yourself be trapped by others’ expectations, how pernicious comparison can be, and how it helps to talk honestly about all this. We offer suggestions for how to build failure-related conversations into your everyday life, as part of breaking down the more harmful elements of the public/private distinction.

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Date Added: 22/05/2018

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1 The Feeling of Failure

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What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it?

This episode explores why it matters that we acknowledge our feelings of failure if and when they arise, not least in academia. We describe how this initiative came about, and provide a sequence of exercises that may help you investigate what you’re feeling and why, and what changes when you accept the feeling. We hear from contributors at many phases in their (outwardly highly successful) careers who have experienced objective and/or subjective failures and have developed varied ways of responding to them.

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Date Added: 22/05/2018

Duration: 00:32:56

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure

Many of us have phases where we have no idea what we’re doing, or everything feels like it’s going wrong: that we are failing, or even that we are failures. Sometimes such phases feel less like phases than a permanent default. And often we assume – wrongly – that no one else ever feels the same.

This is an initiative intended to help make it OK to think and talk about failure. It includes five podcasts and a workbook. Find out more about the contributors, download the workbook, and give feedback at http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/overcoming-failure/.

Genocide on Trial. Witnessing and Evidence at Rwanda's Gacaca Courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

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Julia Viebach investigates the everyday of witnessing at Rwanda’s Gacaca courts and contrasts its findings with the process of witnessing at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Please note, this episode ends abruptly.

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Department: Centre for Criminology

Date Added: 22/05/2018

Duration: 00:16:14

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Voice, Agency and Responsibility: Victimhood and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland

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Dr. Cheryl Lawther explore the construction and meaning of victimhood in post-conflict Northern Ireland.

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Date Added: 22/05/2018

Duration: 00:48:06

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European Union and Democratisation: Backsliding in Tow of Unsuccessful Conditionality?

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Dr Katarína Sipulova gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series.

In the context of the constitutional crises spreading through Hungary, Romania, and Poland and increasing doubts about the EU’s ability to safeguard its fundamental values and prevent the democratic backsliding of member states after the accession conditionality loses force, Dr Katarína Sipulova analyzes the EU’s democratizing influence and the political and legal measures chosen by different actors and EU institutions to exert it.

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Date Added: 22/05/2018

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English at Oxford

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Professor Lloyd Pratt delivers his inaugural lecture as Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature.

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Date Added: 22/05/2018

Duration: 00:48:55

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The Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds

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The 16th Hintze lecture, 25th April 2018 delivered by Professor René Doyon, Director, Mont-Mégantic Observatory & Institute for Research on Exoplanets, University of Montreal, Canada

It is now well established that planetary systems are very common in the Solar neighbourhood, in particular small rocky planets, similar to Earth, around low-mass stars. Thanks to new ground-and spaced-based infrared facilities soon to be deployed, it will be possible not only to find the closest habitable worlds but also to detect their atmosphere and obtain constraints on their composition. This will be a major stepping stone towards the detection of life outside the Solar system. This lecture will highlight recent exoplanet discoveries and present an overview of ongoing and future projects aiming for the detection and characterisation of nearby habitable worlds.
The detection of a biosignature, the evidence for biological activity beyond the Solar System, may be just a few decades away.

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Date Added: 22/05/2018

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Advancing the Rule of Law as part of the International Landscape

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The 21st century has seen significant progress and recent regression in terms of entrenchment of the rule of law. These developments have occurred not only in the domestic context but also within the international sphere.

This presentation by Kimberly Prost will explore some of these ‘rule of law’ changes and challenges within the international legal order.

The establishment of the international tribunals and the International Criminal Court represents a landmark advancement in terms of international criminal law and international humanitarian law. It also has contributed to establishing a rule of law culture. The background which led to the creation of these bodies will be explored along with consideration of the fundamental concepts underpinning them and an examination of the current key challenges to maintaining and strengthening these institutions and international criminal justice more broadly.

There will also be a brief reflection on ‘law making’ by the Security Council and whether this constitutes an appropriate role for the Council in terms of progressing the rule of law. In particular resolutions 827 (1993) and 955 (1994) which established the ICTY and the ICTR, resolution 1373 (2001) related to measures to counter terrorism and resolutions 2178 (2014) and 2396 (2017) on Foreign Terrorist Fighters will be considered.

Finally the presentation will explore the role of the Ombudsperson for the Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee and consider its successes and failures in terms of enhancing the rule of law in Security Council practice.