FMR 52 General - Sweden's U-turn on asylum

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Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions (Forced Migration Review 52)

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Sweden's recent turnaround on asylum was triggered by various factors, including insufficient domestic preparedness and the humanitarian failures of other EU countries.

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Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions (Forced Migration Review 52)

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Bernd Parusel

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Department: Refugee Studies Centre

Date Added: 07/07/2016

Duration: 00:07:42

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FMR 52 General - Responding to LGBT forced migration in East Africa

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Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions (Forced Migration Review 52)

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Following the passage of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act in December 2013, hundreds of LGBT individuals fled to Kenya seeking safety.

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Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions (Forced Migration Review 52)

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Gitta Zomorodi

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Date Added: 07/07/2016

Duration: 00:14:27

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Evaluation of HIFU ablation for uterine fibroids

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IDEAL Collaboration Conference 2016

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A multicenter IDEAL study.

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IDEAL Collaboration Conference 2016

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Department: St Catherine's College

Date Added: 07/07/2016

Duration: 00:17:35

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Graphic Motifs as an Aid to Handwritten Archive Transcription and Searching

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

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Chris Powell, (The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.

Institutions like Universities and Museums possess considerable volumes of handwritten personal archives, the content of which may be of research interest. However, these archives remain largely untranscribed and their content unknown. We describe our early investigation of word shape analysis, and particularly the decomposition of those shapes in to graphic motifs, as an assistive technology for the researcher wishing to transcribe entire documents, or to locate likely pages of interest within untranscribed documents.

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

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Department: Humanities Division

Date Added: 07/07/2016

Duration: 00:49:24

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Linked Data and Leitmotifs – Digitally Researching the Reception of Richard Wagner’s Music-Dramas

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

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Carolin Rindfleisch, (Faculty of Music, University of Oxford), gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.

Richard Wagner’s music, and particularly his composition with ‘leitmotifs’ (musical entities with a characteristic identity, that are used to construct musical form and to convey musical meaning) have been interpreted differently in a wide variety of academic as well as audience-aimed introductory literature. A comprehensive analysis of these interpretations can help us find out how Wagner’s music-dramas have been heard, seen and understood in different historical and cultural environments. Using this example, the lecture presents how methods and techniques of Linked Data and Semantic Web can facilitate a large-scale reception study that can deal with a wide range of source material and still compare interpretations in detail. It will discuss different ways of digitally enhancing the study of the reception and interpretation of artworks, and address the question of how we can reconcile these methods with more traditional methodologies in the Humanities. It will focus particularly on presenting the design of an ontology that not only enables the linking and structuring of digitised source material, but also enables the systematic representation and comparison of the interpretations contained in the sources.

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Department: Humanities Division

Date Added: 07/07/2016

Duration: 00:47:22

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TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network, Seminar 1, University of Oxford, 2 March 2016

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Gender and Authority

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TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network, Seminar 1 featuring Mary Harrod and Susan Garrard.

The TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network jointly funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute hosted its first Seminar on March 2 at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
The two speakers are:
Mary Harrod (University of Warwick), ‘Cine-filles: Genre, Pastiche and Contemporary Popular Women’s Filmmaking in France’
Susan Garrard (University of St Andrews), ‘Searching for arcadia: reimagining the working-class pastoral fantasy in the poetry of factory-girl, Fanny Forrester, 1868-1882’
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Adele Bardazzi, David Bowe, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Julia Caterina Hartley
womencanonconference@gmail.com
https://womenandthecanon.wordpress.com | http://torch.ox.ac.uk/genderandauthority
@WomenCanonOx

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Julia Caterina Hartley

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

Date Added: 06/07/2016

Duration: 01:34:08

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TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network, Seminar 2, University of Oxford, 11 May 2016

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Gender and Authority Seminar 2: Amy Donovan Blondell, ‘Gender, Self-determination and Authority: Homeless Young Women Navigate Life on the Road’.

The TORCH Gender and Authority Research Network jointly funded by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute hosted its second Seminar on May 11 at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Here an extract from the seminar featuring Amy Donovan Blondell (University of Oxford), ‘Gender, Self-determination and Authority: Homeless Young Women Navigate Life on the Road’.

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Adele Bardazzi, David Bowe, Natalya Din-Kariuki, Julia Caterina Hartley

womencanonconference@gmail.com

https://womenandthecanon.wordpress.com | http://torch.ox.ac.uk/genderandauthority

@WomenCanonOx

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Julia Caterina Hartley

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

Date Added: 06/07/2016

Duration: 00:35:34

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Imaging Beyond the Institution: How DIY Digitization Impacts Research

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

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Judith Siefring, (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.

The sight of readers taking their own photographs of books, manuscripts and other objects in special collections reading rooms and museum study spaces is becoming increasingly commonplace. This kind of ‘DIY digitization’ reflects changing technologies but also evolving research practices and institutional policies. Its prevalence warrants proper reflection. Why do users want to take their own photographs of special collections? What are the curatorial concerns around allowing them to do so? How does this relate to institutional digital collections delivery? How is user-led photography changing research? And what challenges does it pose for research libraries like the Bodleian and for individual researchers?

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Department: Humanities Division

Date Added: 06/07/2016

Duration: 00:44:00

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Perioperative Outcomes, Health Care Costs and Survival After Robotic-assisted Versus Open Radical Cystectomy

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IDEAL Collaboration Conference 2016

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A national comparative effectiveness study

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IDEAL Collaboration Conference 2016

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Department: St Catherine's College

Date Added: 06/07/2016

Duration: 00:06:21

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Modelling genes: the backwards and forwards of mathematical population genetics - Alison Etheridge

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The Secrets of Mathematics

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In this lecture Professor Alison Etheridge explores some of the simple mathematical caricatures that underpin our understanding of modern genetic data.

How can we explain the patterns of genetic variation in the world around us? The genetic composition of a population can be changed by natural selection, mutation, mating, and other genetic, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms. How do they interact with one another, and what was their relative importance in shaping the patterns we see today?