De Gaulle in Beirut- The Chehab Experiment, 1958-1964

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Anne Sa'adah (Dartmouth College) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Seminar series.

Anne Sa'adah holds an A.B. in Social Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University and is the Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science Emerita at Dartmouth College, where she taught from 1984 to 2017. She is currently writing a book about the Middle East, States of Disorder: Explaining the Vicious Circles of Middle East Politics; the book explores institutional paths, leadership and reform strategies, and coalitions. Her past research, including three books, focused on political development and democratic politics (including both democratic failure and democratic renewal) in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States.

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Department: Middle East Centre

Date Added: 03/04/2018

Duration: 00:43:36

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Women's Rights Research Seminar- A Global History of the Struggle for Women’s Rights: The Women’s Movement in Istanbul in the Context of International Feminism in the Early 20th Century

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Dr Elife Bicer-Deveci, postdoctoral fellow of Swiss National Science Foundation and academic visitor at the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series.

Bicer-Deveci is specialised in the field of gender studies, history of women’s movement, history of Iran and Turkey. She published several papers and a peer-reviewed monography based on her Phd-project about the history of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement and international women’s organisations. Both the Phd-project and the publication of the monography were granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She has defended her Phd-thesis at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern and was a fellow of the Graduate School for Gender Studies and Center for Global Studies in Bern. Her recent research project is about the history of international prohibitionist policies and their impacts on Iran and Turkey from 1900 until today.

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Department: Middle East Centre

Date Added: 03/04/2018

Duration: 00:43:10

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Thailand's Post-2014 Foreign Policy: Riding on the International Trend

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Pavin Chachavalpongpun speaks at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 8 November 2017.

Thai foreign policy is traditionally shaped by the changing international environment. The coup of 2014 has exacerbated the political conflict and powerfully prescribed the way in which the country pursued its relations with the outside world. This talk argues that changing international circumstances have allowed the military regime to entrench itself in the political realm and to exploit the latest global trend to achieve self-legitimization. In this new trend, China has emerged to shift the regional balance of power and contest the hegemony of the US, now with President Donald Trump at a wobbly helm. Elsewhere, democracy and regionalism is being seriously challenged, as seen in Europe and Asia. Riding on such trend, the Thai military government is steering the country closer towards not-so-democratic states in the region while moving its foreign policy away from its traditional allies in the West. The military government is taking advantage from the growing anti-democratic tendency as a way to fulfil its legitimacy on the global stage.

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Asian Studies Centre

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Department: St Antony's College

Date Added: 29/03/2018

Duration: 00:51:26

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ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures

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The 2018 Astor Visiting Lecture 14th March 2018 delivered by Professor Adam Leroy, Ohio State University.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is the largest, most complex ground-based telescope ever built. From its perch high in the Chilean Andes, ALMA is now unveiling the birth of planets, stars, and galaxies. I will give a taste of the revolution ushered in by ALMA. This includes resolving the disks that form new Solar systems, finding the seeds of gaseous giant planets, weighing – and maybe even directly imaging – black holes, and watching galaxies form at the edge of the universe. Then, I will show how my colleagues and I are using ALMA to understand the origins of stars in galaxies. As part of ALMA’s largest project to date, we are studying all of the stellar nurseries across the nearby universe. We see that the cold clouds of gas and dust that form stars appear to be shaped by violent, dynamic processes that vary from galaxy to galaxy. We also see that the birth of stars from these clouds is both inefficient and terribly destructive.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures

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Department: Department of Physics

Date Added: 28/03/2018

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Médecins Sans Frontières: The Role of Humanitarian Aid in Global Surgery

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures

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Professor Kathryn Chu gives an introduction to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF); what it is and who they are, and talks about MSF surgery and the role of MSF in global surgery.

Professor Kathryn Chu is Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Cape Town and on the board of Médecins Sans Frontières Southern Africa.

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Department: Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences

Date Added: 28/03/2018

Duration: 00:40:30

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The 26th Ockham Lecture - From Neurons to Perception: How Physics Opened the Black Box

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The Ockham Lecture - The Merton College Physics Lecture

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A lecture given by Professor Irene Tracey, Nuffield Chair of Anaesthetic Science and Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and Warden-elect of Merton College.

With over 85 billion neurons making approximately 1.5x1014 connections (synapses) and a similar quantity of non-neuronal cells all within the adult human brain, it's a feat of brilliance and beauty that our perceptions and creative thinking arise from their interplay. Our knowledge of how this occurs has grown significantly in the past few decades, and physicists have been at the forefront of this wave in understanding. In this talk, Professor Irene Tracey, Nuffield Chair of Anaesthetic Science and Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and Warden-elect of Merton College walks you through some of the landmark discoveries and their application to the brain, highlighting Oxford’s major role in developing the modern field of neuroscience. Finally, she gives a brief overview of her own work using advanced neuroimaging to understand pain perception, pain relief and anaesthesia-induced altered states of consciousness.

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The Ockham Lecture - The Merton College Physics Lecture

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Irene Tracey

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Department: Merton College

Date Added: 28/03/2018

Duration: 01:09:18

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Grave Stones: Panel-led Workshop 2

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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

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This workshop explored the significance of plastic commemoration, both sacred and secular, focusing on places of worship, funerary sites and sculpture, and memorial monuments.

The second workshop in our Monumental Commemoration strand took place on Saturday 3 March 2018 at Harris Manchester College. It investigated the interactions between space, place, object and memory, and considered how we might create new commemorative forms for our own time and beyond. Panellists included: Pfarrerin Dr Cornelia Kulawik (Pastor of Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Berlin-Dahlem; former pastor of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtnis-Kirche, Berlin); The Very Reverend John Witcombe (Dean of Coventry Cathedral); Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine (Reader in Memory, Media and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London); Charles Gurrey (sculptor and carver); Chair: Dr Joshua Hordern (Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford).

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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

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Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Date Added: 28/03/2018

Duration: 00:41:38

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Daniel Libeskind speaks to Niall Munro

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Architect Daniel Libeskind talks to Niall Munro about civic responsibility, the shock of memory and the role of the monument as a bridge between the past and the future.

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Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Date Added: 28/03/2018

Duration: 00:10:04

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Mark Johnston speaks to Alex Donnelly

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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

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Mark Johnston talks to Alex Donnelly about the work of the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum and the importance of an arts engagement approach to commemoration in improving the well-being of veterans and their families.

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Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Date Added: 28/03/2018

Duration: 00:15:31

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Jane Potter speaks to Kate McLoughlin

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Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation

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Dr Jane Potter, Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University, talks to Kate McLoughlin about textual and material commemorative cultures and the central role of words and language in the reconstruction and renegotiation of memory.