Models, muddles and metaphors

This seminar, on the theme of Art and Creativity, explores the anthropology of artistic and imaginative processes, a field that is interdisciplinary by nature. 23 May 2014.

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 01:08:16

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Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle

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This Anthropology seminar, on the theme of Diasporas and Migration, presents emerging findings from a collaborative ethnography in a 'super-diverse' South London area. 30 May 2014

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:59:03

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Heroes, Villains and Victims: The dangerous politics of international migration

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Alumni Weekend

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This panel debate discusses key facts and fiction in international migration, and presents new ideas for a better politics of immigration.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:53:50

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Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture

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Alumni Weekend

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World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, or 6-fold.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:55:01

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70 Years On: My, how you’ve changed!

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Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of Oxford University draws upon his experience at the highest levels in the public sector to share his unique perspective on Britain over the last seven decades.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:48:59

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Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Environmentalism without nature

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This lecture by Jamie Lorimer explores new ways of thinking and doing environmentalism that need not make recourse to nature.

The diagnosis of the ‘Anthropocene’ marks the public end of the idea of nature as a pure place removed from society and revealed by natural science. This problematic idea has been central to much Western environmentalism. This lecture explores new ways of thinking and doing environmentalism that need not make recourse to nature. It focuses on the promise and pitfalls of rewilding – a novel mode of wildlife conservation – illustrated through an experiment in the Netherlands.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:47:53

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Black Land, Red Land: The Nile Valley and Egypt’s Western Desert

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Illustrated with photographs from previous trips, this talk by Professor Mark Smith contrasts the Nile Valley and the desert and explore how the relationship between them developed over the course of Egyptian history.

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Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 01:05:47

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The Biogeography of Madagascar: A Gondwanan island

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Alumni Weekend

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This lecture given by Dr Matt Friedman will look at the evolution of the unique flora and fauna of Madagascar and how it is intertwined with the geological history of the island.

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Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 01:10:44

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Oxford: Then and Now

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Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

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We compare and contrast locations in and around the city from the 1940s, and the present day. How have the places and people changed? How present is the Second World War in 1940s Oxford? After 70 years how different is Oxford?