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Tagore and the theology of the global

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Asian Studies Centre
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Professor Pradip Dutta speaks on Tagore at the South Asia Seminar
Vishwabharati, the university that Tagore founded, was an early experiment in producing a global habitation. While many of the ideas that motivated this institution hold out resonances for the contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism, Tagore worked in the field of modern Indian thought. The tradition was strongly inflected by Vedantism.
In its modern incarnation Vedantism produced a universalism that announced its location. The presentation will look at how Tagore extended the theology of neo-Vedantism, shifting it away from its metaphysical orientation to outline a theory of global survival of which Vishwabharati, established in the rural hinterlands of Bengal, was designed as the institutional beginnings.

Professor Pradip Datta has worked on communal relations in Bengal and in contemporary India. He is now exploring non-antagonistic modes of identity formations through his work on Vishwabharati , the global university founded by Tagore. His publications include Carving Blocs (1999), Khaki Shorts Saffron Flags (co-author, 1993), Heterogeneities (2008).

This seminar series is organised with the support of the History Faculty.
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Asian Studies Centre
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Pradip Dutta
Keywords
tagore
theology
poetry
india
Department: St Antony's College
Date Added: 16/06/2016
Duration: 00:53:33

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Quantum Sensors sans Frontier

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Physics Colloquium 10th June 2016 delivered by Professor Swapan Chattopadhyay

Tremendous advances have been made in the last two decades in precision ‘Quantum’ technologies and techniques in multiple disciplines e.g. cavity electrodynamics, atomic beam interferometry, SQUIDS, quantum optical “squeezed state” techniques for noise-free single photon detection, qubit-based quantum entanglement techniques, high-Q superconducting cavities, precision NMR detection via designer materials, etc. These advances promise to enable transformational research using ultra-sensitive probes to explore very “weak effects” on a laboratory scale. These weak effects are manifest everywhere in nature in material and living systems from the laboratory to outer space. Potential “mezzo-scale” experiments and facilities can be envisaged using “quantum sensors” to search for ultra-weak physical, chemical or biological signals of fundamental significance to the material and living world around us as well as explore the “inner” and “outer” dimension of “vacuum” believed to be manifest in the so-called “dark” universe. This talk will illustrate this potential via a few exciting examples discussed at the recent US DOE Round Table on Quantum Sensors in February 2016.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Swapan Chattopadhyay
Keywords
Physics
particle physics
quantum sensors
cavity electrodynamics
atomic beam
interferometry
quantum optical
photon detection
quantum entanglement techniques
high-Q superconducting cavities
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 16/06/2016
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Oxford Writers' House Talks

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Oxford Writers' House Talks
A series of talks exploring writing mediums, methods, interests, and approaches.

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The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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3rd Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor Raymond T Pierrehumbert.

Atmospheres are dynamic entities, formed from the volatile substances that accrete when a planet is formed and later in its history, cooked out in the hot-high pressure interior of the planet, and exchanging with the interior through crustal processes (for planets which have a solid surface) or mixing into the deep interior (for fluid planets). Loss of atmosphere to space is also a major mechanism whereby the chemical composition of entire planets evolve. There is thus no distinct boundary between the disciplines of planetary geology and planetary atmospheres, and the dawning age of exoplanet discovery has made it even more essential to think across the boundaries of the two disciplines. The likely characteristics of known exoplanets greatly expand the range of substances that have to be thought of as atmospheric components, with many things thought of as “rocks and minerals” on Earth being atmospheric or cloud forming substances. There are planets hot enough to have permanent magma oceans which may give rise to rock vapor atmospheres, and others where clouds may be formed of enstatite or even sapphire (or more prosaically, corundum). Some of these atmospheres are supersonic and local; others may be global and subsonic. There is also a host of new problems to be thought about in connection with “gas midgets,” which are mostly fluid but small enough that they need not have a hydrogen dominated composition. In this lecture, I will provide a survey of the emerging field of integrated planetary science, and conclude with some thoughts on how to train the next generation of planetary scientists to deal with the leading-edge problems of the future.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Raymond T Pierrehumbert
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exoplanet
Planetary Geology
planetary atmospheres
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 15/06/2016
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FMR 52 General - We have, I believe, won acceptance for the argument

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Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions (Forced Migration Review 52)
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From a statement made to the United Nations General Assembly, 20 November 1967.

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Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions (Forced Migration Review 52)
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Sadruddin Aga Khan
Keywords
fmr
forced migration review
refugee
forced migrant
asylum seeker
asylum
Department: Refugee Studies Centre
Date Added: 15/06/2016
Duration: 00:03:08

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The Prime Number Theorem

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Oxford Students discuss the Prime Number Theorem.
Prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians since there were mathematicians to be fascinated, and The Prime Number Theorem is one of the crowning achievements of 19th century mathematics. The theorem answers, in a precise form, a very basic and naive-sounding question: how many prime numbers are there? Proved in 1896, the theorem marked the culmination of a century of mathematical progress, and is also at the heart of one of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics today.

Host: Aled Walker, 2nd year DPhil, Mathematics, Magdalen College
Guests: Simon Myerson, 4th year DPhil, Mathematics, Oriel College: Sofia Lindqvist, 1st year DPhil, Mathematics, Keble College, Jamie Beacom, 1st year DPhil, Mathematics, Balliol College.

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The Secrets of Mathematics
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Aled Walker
Simon Myerson
Sofia Lindqvist
Jamie Beacom
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maths
mathematics
Department: Mathematical Institute
Date Added: 15/06/2016
Duration: 00:38:02

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

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Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions (Forced Migration Review 52)
The new issue of FMR explores the ideas and practices that are being tried out in order to engage both development and humanitarian work in support of ‘transitions’ and ‘solutions’ for displaced people. What we need, says one author, is “full global recognition that the challenge of forced displacement is an integral part of the development agenda too”. FMR issue 52 includes 32 articles on ‘Thinking ahead: displacement, transition, solutions’, plus ten ‘general’ articles on other aspects of forced migration. See more at http://www.fmreview.org/solutions.html

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Exploring the city's 'sutures'

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Anthropology
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Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016)

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Anthropology
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Filip De Boeck
Keywords
anthropology
society
urban
Africa
congo
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 15/06/2016
Duration: 00:51:48

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Plantain island sirens

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Jennifer Diggins (Oxford Brookes) discusses 'tales of poverty, fish, and seduction from maritime Sierra Leone' (26 February 2016)

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Anthropology
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Jennifer Diggins
Keywords
anthropology
society
sierra leone
maritime
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 15/06/2016
Duration: 00:55:46

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Science, stories and indigenous wisdom: is the wider world waking up at last?

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Anthropology
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Joy Hendry (Oxford Brookes) examines indigenous knowledge and specific projects across the world, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand (13 May 2016)

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Anthropology
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Joy Hendry
Keywords
anthropology
society
indigenous science
australasia
canada
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 15/06/2016
Duration: 00:45:49

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