Fighting Extremism Through Islamic Moderation

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Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir (Menteri Besar - Chief Minister - of Perak, Malaysia) speaks at St Antony's College

Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir was appointed as the 11th Chief Minister of Perak, a state in West Malaysia, in 2009. His academic background includes a PhD in Political Thought from Temple University, Pennsylvania and a Master's degree in Political Philosophy and Comparative Religion, also from Temple University.

He became active in Malaysian politics upon his return from the United States in 1995. Starting his political journey in the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) as the Pangkor (in Perak) UMNO branch chief, Dr Zambry rose to the position of the Perak UMNO Youth Chief. In the 2004 general election, he contested and won the Perak State Legislative Assembly seat for Pangkor and successfully defended the seat in the 2008 and 2013 general elections. Dr Zambry is currently the head of Perak UMNO. He has had his share of political bitterness when he was detained under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act in 1998.

Dr Zambry's academic specialisation includes political economy, political thought, Southeast Asian contemporary politics, Malaysian politics and Islamic political thought. In addition to his political duties and responsibilities, he also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor in the political science faculty at the International Islamic University, Malaysia.

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Department: St Antony's College

Date Added: 31/05/2016

Duration: 00:54:00

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'Land, Sea and Air' Part 1 - How mountains are made

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

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How do we discover the origins of mountains?

Rock climber, mountaineer and geologist, Professor Mike Searle, explains how his work to understand mountain ranges, particularly the Himalayas, can unearth clues about the origins of mountains. From trekking across mountains to map them, to using new technology to understand how the continents have moved in the past, and how they're behaving today. He also discusses last years tragic Earthquake in Nepal. Read more about his work at http://www.travelinggeologist.com/tg-mike-searle/.

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Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)

Date Added: 27/05/2016

Duration: 00:11:35

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The 3rd Workshop in the Physics of Fine Tuning-discussion

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning

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The 3rd Workshop in the Physics of Fine Tuning - Stars, Galaxies, and the Multiverse, audience and panel discussion

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Department: Department of Physics

Date Added: 27/05/2016

Duration: 00:33:07

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How do Galaxies know when, where and how quickly to form stars?

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning

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The 3rd Workshop in the Physics of Fine Tuning - Stars, Galaxies, and the Multiverse, Adrianne Slyz (Oxford) talks about How do Galaxies know when, where and how quickly to form stars?

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Department: Department of Physics

Date Added: 27/05/2016

Duration: 00:39:32

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The Limits of Cosmology

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The 3rd Workshop in the Physics of Fine Tuning - Stars, Galaxies, and the Multiverse, Joe Silk (Oxford, IAP; John Hopkins) talks about The Limits of Cosmology

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Department: Department of Physics

Date Added: 27/05/2016

Duration: 00:47:21

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Observer Selection and Fine-Tuning Puzzles in Cosmology

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The 3rd Workshop in the Physics of Fine Tuning - Stars, Galaxies, and the Multiverse, John Peacock (Edinburgh) talks about Observer Selection and Fine-Tuning Puzzles in Cosmology

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Department: Department of Physics

Date Added: 27/05/2016

Duration: 00:50:46

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Emerging Market Multinationals in the 21st Century

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Green Templeton College

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Professor Avinash Dixit, the Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor 2016, leads a panel discussion reviewing and explaining the rapid growth of emerging market multinationals over the last three decades.

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Green Templeton College

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Department: Green Templeton College

Date Added: 26/05/2016

Duration: 01:18:52

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The life of Oscar Wilde

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In Our Spare Times

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Oxford students discuss the life of Oscar Wilde.

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." "True friends stab you in the front." This great wit of the English language needs no introduction: a courter of controversy for his whole life, and ultimately a tragic martyr, in his own eyes at least, as a young man he spent four years studying at Magdalen College Oxford. There, the friends he made, and the influence of two tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin, remained with him for the rest of his brief life.
Host: Aled Walker (2nd year DPhil, Mathematics, Magdalen College). Guests: Davis Rivera (Masters, Film Aesthetics, Pembroke College), Yannick Lambert (DPhil student, Classical Indian Religion and Language, Pembroke College), Conor Malloy (Masters, French Literature, Pembroke College).

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Department: Magdalen College

Date Added: 26/05/2016

Duration: 00:44:28

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The cultural tranmission of the fertility transition: Evidence from internal migrations in 19th century France

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International Migration Institute

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Hillel Rapoport (Paris School of Economics) looks at theories of migrants' social remittances in a historical context relating to fertility in 19th century France

France experienced a demographic transition earlier than richer and more educated countries. This presentation offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasises the diffusion of culture and information through internal migration. It tests how migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861–1911. The identification strategy uses exogenous variation in transportation costs resulting from the construction of railways. The results suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants, especially by migrants to and from Paris.

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 25/05/2016

Duration: 00:45:13

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Empire and Identity: Imperial Rule and Peoplehood across Time and Place

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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A round table discussion of empire's role in identity formation across time and place.

Ilya Afanasyev’s thematic introduction to the round table, longer papers on Ancient Rome, late medieval and early modern Iran and early modern Russia by Emma Dench (Harvard University), Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) and Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University Chicago), and shorter interventions on Late Antiquity, medieval Britain, Spanish colonialism, and post-colonial African nationalism by Bryan Ward-Perkins, Eliza Hartrich, Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard and Miles Larmer (all – University of Oxford).