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8th Annual Access Lecture 2017

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University College
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Who should and who shouldn’t come up to Oxford as an Undergraduate
Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. Previously he was a Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield, and has worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand. He is also a member of the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster.
Danny’s work concerns issues of inequality and injustice, wealth and poverty, housing, health, employment, and education. Much of Danny’s work is available at www.dannydorling.org via open access. His most recent books include Geography: Ideas in Profile; A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier; People and Places: A 21st Century Atlas of the UK; Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists; Inequality and the 1%, and All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster.

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University College
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Danny Dorling
Keywords
access
housing
housing crisis
politics
Department: University College
Date Added: 02/06/2017
Duration: 00:43:10

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Should I take a selfie with a wild animal?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Travel companies around the world profit from some of the cruellest types of wildlife tourist attractions on earth.
Travel companies around the world profit from some of the cruellest types of wildlife tourist attractions on earth. Whether it is riding elephants, taking selfies with tigers, or performing dolphin shows, these activities can cause lifelong suffering for wild animals. In the latest edition of the Oxford Sparks Big Questions podcast, we visit Conservation Ecologist Dr Tom Moorhouse to ask: should I take a selfie with a wild animal?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Tom Moorhouse
Keywords
animal
animal welfare
animal selfie
selfie
wild animal
wildlife
animal creulty
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 02/06/2017
Duration: 00:13:49

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What does Hollywood get right and wrong when science is in the storyline?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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What does hollywood get right?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Neil Ashton
Colin Wilson
Eleanor Stride
Jason Nurse
Ingmar Posner
Keywords
movies
film
hollywood
science
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 02/06/2017
Duration: 00:12:33

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How open should open data be?

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Open data impacts everybody. Through it we can access healthcare services, understand our governments better and, of course, travel to places more easily. But, how open should open data be?
Do you remember life before Citymapper? Thanks to Transport for London opening its data, a new wave of innovative transport apps were made possible. This is just one example of how open data has contributed to our everyday lives financially, socially, culturally and more.
Open data impacts everybody. Through it we can access healthcare services, understand our governments better and, of course, travel to places more easily. But, how open should open data be?

To find the answer for this episode of the Big Questions podcast we visited Sir Nigel Shadbolt, professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, principal at Jesus College and co-founder and chair of the open data institute.

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Keywords
science
technology
big data
information security
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 02/06/2017
Duration: 00:13:54

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Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine

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Voltaire Foundation
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A highly critical account of Adam Smith's views on famine, which fail to recognize that you can have starvation in the midst of plenty.
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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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Voltaire Foundation
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David Wootton
Keywords
Famine; Adam Smith; Edmund Burke; Amartya Sen; Edward Thompson
Department: Voltaire Foundation
Date Added: 02/06/2017
Duration: 00:50:40

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Dr Tom Crawford, mathematician and presenter (St John's College, 2008)

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Alumni Voices
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Dr Tom Crawford, also known as the Naked Mathematician, shares his love of Maths and describes how he is dispelling stereotypes to explain Maths to teenagers.
Dr Tom Crawford, also known as the Naked Mathematician, shares his love of Maths and describes how he is dispelling stereotypes to explain Maths to teenagers. He speaks about his new Naked Maths video series, in which he explores mathematical patterns in an entertaining and hands-on way, from the formation of ocean waves to hexagonal honeycombs. Dr Crawford talks about how his mission to popularise Maths began with his work for The Naked Scientists - a weekly podcast with about one million listeners. He also explains his own mathematical tattoos, his undergraduate days studying Maths at Oxford, and the creative insights gained from completing his PhD in Maths at Cambridge about fluid dynamics.
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Alumni Voices
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Tom Crawford
Keywords
maths
mathematics
fluid dynamics
st john's college
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 01/06/2017
Duration: 00:15:13

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Of Nomadology and India(n-ness)

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Asian Studies Centre
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Avishek Ray speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 11 October 2016
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Asian Studies Centre
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Avishek Ray
Keywords
nomadism
india
subtaltern studies
Department: St Antony's College
Date Added: 01/06/2017
Duration: 00:43:55

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A Zionist Passage to India?

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Asian Studies Centre
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Arie Dubnov speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 18.10.2016
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Asian Studies Centre
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Arie Dubnov
Keywords
zionism
india
Colonialism
Department: St Antony's College
Date Added: 01/06/2017
Duration: 00:50:53

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Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen

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Reformation 2017
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Relay Reading for the Launch of the Taylorian Pamphlet Series.
Speakers in order they are reading: Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Nigel Palmer, Catriona Seth, Andrew Allen, Alexandra Lloyd, Helmut Kollig, Kathrin Luddecke, Ed Wareham, Alderik Blom, John Partridge, Johanneke Sytsema, Ulla Weinberg, Ewa Wegrzyn, Jennifer Bunselmeier, Brigitta Poppe, Christine Baro-Hone, Patrizia Zachhuber, Hans Hahn, Elsa Voak , Eleanor Voak , Charlie Louth, David Murray, Franziska Kohlt, Katrin Kohl, Hannah Jackson, Claudia Piller, Tiziana Imstepf, Emma Huber, Sophie Hall, Maren Fichter, Susanne Herrmann-Sinai, Lena Vosding, Martin Christ, John Flood.
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Reformation 2017
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Henrike Lähnemann
Howard Jones
Emma Huber
Keywords
reading
martin luther
speakers
pamphlet
Department: Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Date Added: 31/05/2017
Duration: 00:56:11

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The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation

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Middle East Centre
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Dr Reza Zia-Ebrahimi (King's College London) gives a lecture on Iranian nationalis, this is a joint event with the Oxford University Iranian Society.
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to Europe and the Aryan race, this ideology remains the most politically potent form of identity in Iran.

Akhundzadeh and Kermani's nationalist reading of Iranian history has been drilled into the minds of Iranians since its adoption by the Pahlavi state in the early twentieth century. Spread through mass schooling, historical narratives, and official statements of support, their ideological perspective has come to define Iranian culture and domestic and foreign policy. Zia-Ebrahimi follows the development of dislocative nationalism through a range of cultural and historical materials, and he captures its incorporation of European ideas about Iranian history, the Aryan race, and a primordial nation. His work emphasizes the agency of Iranian intellectuals in translating European ideas for Iranian audiences, impressing Western conceptions of race onto Iranian identity.

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Middle East Centre
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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi
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middle east
iran
nationalism
Department: Middle East Centre
Date Added: 30/05/2017
Duration: 00:51:43

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