Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), founding President of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, is regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. He was famous as an extempore lecturer, and his inimitable speaking style is well illustrated in this series of podcasts.

Defence of Women and Imagination in French Medieval Literature

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St Hilda's College Podcasts

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Interview with St Hilda's College Fellow and teacher of Medieval French Literature Dr Helen Swift about her book; Gender, Writing, and Performance: Men Defending Women in Late Medieval France as well as other developments in Medieval Literary Studies.

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St Hilda's College Podcasts

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Department: St Hilda's College

Date Added: 07/04/2009

Duration: 00:26:20

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Sinful Cretans and Sacred Groves

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St Hilda's College Podcasts

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Landon Newby talks to Fellow and Teacher of Classics Dr Rebecca Armstrong about her work on the Greek myths of sexual deviancy of Pasiphae, Ariadne and Phaedra and their adaptations in Roman literature.

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St Hilda's College Podcasts

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Department: St Hilda's College

Date Added: 06/04/2009

Duration: 00:27:48

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Data Protection, Freedom of Expression and the Media

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Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

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Antony White QC delivers a seminar on the laws of data protection, the media and freedom of expression and the right to privacy and how the laws are adapting in the light of the Naomi Campbell-Mirror Group and the Michael Douglas-OK magazine cases.

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Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

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Freedom of Expression

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Department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Date Added: 31/03/2009

Duration: 01:28:53

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Podcasts from the Centre of Socio-Legal Studies.

G20: Solutions to Global Depression?

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The Credit Crunch and Global Recession

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In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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The Credit Crunch and Global Recession

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Department: Department for Continuing Education

Date Added: 31/03/2009

Duration: 00:26:39

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G20: Solutions to Global Depression?

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Kellogg College

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In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF.

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Department: Kellogg College

Date Added: 31/03/2009

Duration: 00:26:39

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G20: Solutions to Global Depression?

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St Edmund Hall

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In this fourth podcast Linda Yueh and Jonathan Michie discuss the G20 debates over co-ordinated fiscal expansion, global regulation, and the role of the IMF.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Department: St Edmund Hall

Date Added: 31/03/2009

Duration: 00:26:39

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Escaping North Korea

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Refugee Studies Centre

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This podcast was recorded at a talk and book signing by the author Mike Kim which was on Tuesday 10th March 2009 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

This podcast was recorded at a talk and book signing by the author Mike Kim which was on Tuesday 10th March 2009 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. The talk was on the subject of 'Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country'.

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Refugee Studies Centre

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Department: Oxford Department of International Development

Date Added: 27/03/2009

Duration: 00:47:10

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Societies in Transition: Technology and Transition in the 21st Century

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Societies in Transition

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Professor Rayner talks about society in the 21st century the impacts of science and technology, particularly cyber-technology and the Internet. He also asks how new technology will change society and what it means to be a person.