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Creolizing Country Homes and the Dutch Jewish Pastoral

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Laura Leibmann (Reed College) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first panel, The Lure of the Land.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Laura Leibmann
Keywords
history
judaism
country houses
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 23/05/2018
Duration: 01:21:45

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Jewish Country Houses Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Abigail Green (Oxford) introduces the conference, held in the Radcliffe Humanities Building on 5th March 2018.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Abigail Green
Keywords
history
judaism
country houses
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 23/05/2018
Duration: 00:07:50

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Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Numbers are Serious but they are also Fun - Michael Atiyah

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Archimedes, who famously jumped out of his bath shouting "Eureka", also 'invented' the number pi. Euler invented e and had fun with his formula e^(2 pi i) = 1. The world is full of important numbers waiting to be invented. Why not have a go?
Michael Atiyah is one of the world's leading mathematicians and a pivotal figure in twentieth and twenty-first century mathematics. His lecture is followed by an interview with Sir John Ball, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy here in Oxford, where Michael talks about his lecture, his work and his life as a mathematician.

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

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Michael Atiyah
Keywords
mathematics
Archimedes
Euler
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 23/05/2018
Duration: 00:59:04

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5 What to do About Failure: Personal Actions.

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
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How to take action to change the role failure plays in your life.
In this episode we provide practical guidance on concrete failure-related steps that start with you: from writing your CV of failures to finding a mentor (or a mentee) and making and testing out an alternative career plan. We conclude with contributors’ answers to the question ‘what does failure mean to you?’.
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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
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Susan Blackmore
Julia Bray
Rachel Bray
Barbara Gabrys
Adam Hart-Davis
Jaz Hill-Valler
Leanne Hodson
Dan Holloway
Ritchie Robertson
Emily Troscianko
Keywords
academia
actions
Careers
cv
failure
mentoring
success
Department: Careers Service
Date Added: 22/05/2018
Duration: 00:25:50

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4 What to do About Failure: Personal Attitudes.

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
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How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret.
This and the following episode offer more in-depth suggestions for how to put insights about failure into practice. Our contributors describe personal attitudes that may be helpful, like looking your failures right in the eye, or constructively doubting yourself, or adopting a distanced or curious stance on your own experiences, or acknowledging the importance of pretence and performance, or working out what is worth caring about. We explore the overlaps and the differences between failure and regret.
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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
People
Susan Blackmore
Julia Bray
Chiara Cappellaro
Barbara Gabrys
Adam Hart-Davis
Jaz Hill-Valler
Leanne Hodson
Dan Holloway
Ritchie Robertson
Emily Troscianko
Chris Wickham
Keywords
academia
attitudes
Careers
compassion
doubt
failure
regret
success
Department: Careers Service
Date Added: 22/05/2018
Duration: 00:28:41

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3 Failure and the Farewell to Academia.

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
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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
People
Susan Blackmore
Julia Bray
Rachel Bray
Chiara Cappellaro
Adam Hart-Davis
Jaz Hill-Valler
Emily Troscianko
Chris Wickham
Keywords
academia
achievement
Careers
failure
family
happiness
job security
money
success
writing
Department: Careers Service
Date Added: 22/05/2018
Duration: 00:34:10

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2 Failure and Other People

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
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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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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
People
Susan Blackmore
Julia Bray
Chiara Cappellaro
Barbara Gabrys
Adam Hart-Davis
Jaz Hill-Valler
Leanne Hodson
Dan Holloway
Ritchie Robertson
Emily Troscianko
Chris Wickham
Keywords
academia
Careers
comparison
failure
rejection
social life
storytelling
success
Department: Careers Service
Date Added: 22/05/2018
Duration: 00:39:52

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1 The Feeling of Failure

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic 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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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
People
Susan Blackmore
Julia Bray
Chiara Cappellaro
Barbara Gabrys
Adam Hart-Davis
Jaz Hill-Valler
Leanne Hodson
Dan Holloway
Ritchie Robertson
Emily Troscianko
Chris Wickham
Keywords
academia
Careers
emotion
failure
mindfulness
perspective
success
Department: Careers Service
Date Added: 22/05/2018
Duration: 00:32:56

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure

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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/.

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

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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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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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Julia Viebach
Keywords
law
justice
politics
Rwanda
Department: Centre for Criminology
Date Added: 22/05/2018
Duration: 00:16:14

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