The Prospect of Global History

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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How can global history can be applied instead of advocated?

The new volume The Prospect of Global History examines this question and explores the fast growing field of global history across a wide geographical and chronological range. One of the book's editors, James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, University of Oxford) discusses this along with TORCH Director Professor Elleke Boehmer, Richard Drayton (Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London), and Hannah-Louise Clark (Departmental Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford).

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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

Date Added: 27/07/2016

Duration: 00:48:05

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Tackling Climate Change and Slavery

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Global insights in impact investing

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Larry Kramer, President of the Hewlett Foundation and Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, discuss how their organisations are addressing some of the world's most complex 'wicked' problems.

And how to build organisations that can operate effectively in this difficult field.

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Global insights in impact investing

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Department: Saïd Business School

Date Added: 27/07/2016

Duration: 01:31:31

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Mark Haddon, Daisy Johnson, and KJ Orr in Conversation

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Oxford Writers' House Talks

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Award-winning author Mark Haddon discusses his writing process and interests with local poet and writer Daisy Johnson. The conversation is moderated by KJ Orr.

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Oxford Writers' House Talks

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Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Date Added: 27/07/2016

Duration: 00:57:01

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'Light' Part 2 - Harnessing a single photon

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

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What's the use of just one photon, the smallest bit of light? And what does it take to study it?

We speak to Joelle Boutari about her work in quantum photonics where she's harnessing single photons, trying to understand their beheaviour better, all part of paving the way to better understand quantum features - the weird and unintuitive phenomena that you see at the smallest scales. Joelle describes her experiments and her hopes for the research.

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

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Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)

Date Added: 27/07/2016

Duration: 00:06:39

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Maya Literary Traditions and Present-day Concerns

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts

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Manuel May Castillo discusses Maya literary traditions and present-day concerns.

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts

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Department: Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

Date Added: 27/07/2016

Duration: 00:23:35

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Learning from the Tlamatque

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts

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Raul Macuil discusses learning from the Tlamatque.

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts

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Department: Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

Date Added: 27/07/2016

Duration: 00:19:54

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The Materiality of Codex Mendoza

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts

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Jorge Gomez Tejada discusses the materiality of the Codex Mendoza.

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts

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Department: Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

Date Added: 27/07/2016

Duration: 00:31:08

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MOLAB non-invasive investigations of Mesoamerican codices

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts

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Antonio Sgamellotti discusses MOLAB non-invasive investigations of Mesoamerican codices.

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Department: Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

Date Added: 26/07/2016

Duration: 00:09:32

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The Codex Laud: Materiality and the problem of its provenance

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Mesoamerican Manuscripts

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Maria Isabel Alvarez Icaza discusses the Codex Laud: Materiality and the problem of its provenance.

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Maria Isabel Alvarez Icaza

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Department: Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

Date Added: 26/07/2016

Duration: 00:23:11

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'Light' Part 1 - Connecting to the internet through your lights

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

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Can we receive information through our lighting?

Prof Dominic O'Brien explains how light might be the answer to adding more capacity to our wireless internet connections. You might be used to connecting to the internet through a wireless network that works through radiowaves, but what if we could use lights in buildings to send information; like data from the internet? Dominic describes where he's at with his work and where the challenges are.