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Reverse Transitions, Squeezed Civic Space and Human Rights

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Antoine Buyse, Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, gives a talk for the OTJR Seminar Series.

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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Antoine Buyse
Keywords
politics
law
human rights
Department: Centre for Criminology
Date Added: 30/06/2017
Duration: 00:38:47

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Lecture 05: Populist Skepticism: Paine and Watson

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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This lecture begins the account of the sceptics who appealed to the common working man, with the main focus of this first lecture on Thomas Paine, with responses by Bishop Richard Watson.

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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Timothy McGrew
Keywords
populist scepticism
common man
Thomas Paine
Age of Reason
Richard Watson
William Paley
Timothy Dwight IV
Richard Carlile
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 29/06/2017
Duration: 00:43:54

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Lecture 04: Urbane Skepticism: Mill and Arnold

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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This second and final lecture on urbane scepticism deals with the work of the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill and the English poet Matthew Arnold.

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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Timothy McGrew
Keywords
urbane scepticism
john stuart mill
Matthew Arnold
miracle
prophecy
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 29/06/2017
Duration: 00:52:24

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Lecture 03: Urbane Skepticism: Gibbon vs. Watson

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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Urbane scepticism, an extension of English Deism, is presented in this lecture mostly through the lens of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with a response by Bishop Richard Watson.

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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Timothy McGrew
Keywords
urbane scepticism
English deism
Edward Gibbon
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Richard Watson
miracle
Pliny
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 29/06/2017
Duration: 00:41:00

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Lecture 02: Continental Skepticism

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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The focus of this lecture is continental scepticism, primarily a French movement influenced by Deism, and its main proponents: Voltaire and Rousseau.

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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Timothy McGrew
Keywords
continental scepticism
French scepticism
deism
voltaire
Candide
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
miracle
prophecy
Emile
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 29/06/2017
Duration: 00:38:25

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Lecture 01: Introduction and Course Overview

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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This lecture introduces the course and the seven sceptical challenges of the period: continental, urbane, populist, scholarly, transcendental, establishment, and Dutch and German.

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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Timothy McGrew
Keywords
continental scepticism
urbane scepticism
populist scepticism
scholarly scepticism
transcendental scepticism
establishment scepticism
Dutch theology
German theology
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 29/06/2017
Duration: 00:16:24

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Aiming for Moral Mediocrity

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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In this talk, Eric Schwitzgebel considers whether it's acceptable to aim for peer-relative mediocrity.
Most of us aim to be morally mediocre. That is, we aim to be about as morally good as our peers, not especially better, not especially worse. This mediocrity has two aspects. It is peer-relative rather than absolute, and it is middling rather than extreme. We look around us, notice how others are acting, then calibrate toward so-so. This is a somewhat bad way to be, but it's not a terribly bad way to be. We ought to be somewhat disappointed in ourselves. A possibly helpful comparison is being mediocre in other things you care about intensely: being a mediocre parent, a mediocre friend, a mediocre teacher, a mediocre philosopher.

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Uehiro Oxford Institute
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Eric Schwitzgebel
Keywords
moral mediocrity
Department: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Date Added: 29/06/2017
Duration: 00:43:41

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History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art

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History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art
A series of lectures delivered by Terra Visiting Professors of American Art, as part of their year at University of Oxford’s History of Art Department. Find out more about other History of Art events, lectures and courses on the History of Art Department homepage https://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/

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The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon

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Asian Studies Centre
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Su Su (Mandalay Technological University) speaks on 'The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon' at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 26 October 2016
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Asian Studies Centre
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Su Su
Keywords
urban
yangon
myanmar
burma
heritage
Department: St Antony's College
Date Added: 28/06/2017
Duration: 00:25:58

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Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2017: Picturing a Nation: (4) Frozen in History: The Arrival of the Kennedys at Love Field

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History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art
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Professor David Lubin gives his final Terra Lecture in American Art on the Kennedys.
David M. Lubin is the Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor 2016-17 at Oxford University, as well as the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Professor Lubin is the author of Act of Portrayal (Yale, 1985), Picturing a Nation (Yale, 1994), Titanic (BFI, 1999), and Shooting Kennedy (California, 2003), which was awarded the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Eldredge Prize for distinguished scholarship in American art. His most recent book is Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War (Oxford, 2016). He also co-edited World War I and American Art (Princeton, 2016), the exhibition catalogue for a blockbuster show at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later the New-York Historical Society.
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History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art
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David M. Lubin
Keywords
art
history
photography
visual arts
america
Department: Department of History of Art
Date Added: 28/06/2017
Duration: 00:55:23

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