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Alice Starlings

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Pirates, Poets, and "Plagiarism"

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Poetry with A.E. Stallings
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How Lord Byron translated, and was translated by, Greek poetry and reality.
A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things (in rhyming fourteeners!), Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. A selected poems, This Afterlife, is just out from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.

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Poetry with A.E. Stallings
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Alicia Stallings
Keywords
pirates
poets
plagiarism
Byron
greek
ancient greek
classics
professor of poetry
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 17/05/2024
Duration: 00:57:51

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Beth Kume-Holland

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Tim Roughgarden

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2024 Disability Lecture: Changing the disability narrative - from unseen to understood

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The Disability Lectures
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Oxford and Harvard alumna Beth Kume-Holland shares her personal journey from Oxford undergraduate and researcher to award-winning CEO and international disability rights advocate.

Disabled people make up 24% of the UK population and 1.85 billion people globally, but all too often disability and accessibility are afterthoughts across institutions, business and society. Beth Kume-Holland will delve into some of the key issues around disability and accessibility, why it matters and crucially, how we can each play our part to make institutions and society more accessible, with some practical tips that we can all implement immediately. 

Please note the BSL signing mentioned is not available on this video.

About Beth:
Named one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK by the Shaw Trust, Beth is an award-winning social entrepreneur and passionate advocate for disability inclusion. She is the founder of Patchwork Hub, a disabled-led social enterprise providing an accessible jobs board, bespoke recruitment services and training and consultancy for employers. A graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford, and a Harvard University Kennedy Scholar, Beth has previously worked for Scope, Oxford University and Citibank, is a co-founder of the Disabled Entrepreneurs Network and was recently announced as a Commissioner on the UK's Independent Commission on Healthier Working Lives. 
Beth's website: https://www.bethkh.com/
Patchwork Hub website: https://patchworkhub.org/

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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 Disability Lectures
People
Beth Kume-Holland
Sarah Stephenson-Hunter
Irene Tracey
Keywords
disability
accessibility
inclusion
female entrepreneurs
businesswoman
female CEO
disabilities
chronic pain
chronic fatigue
neurodivergent
Department: University Administration and Services (UAS)
Date Added: 16/05/2024
Duration: 00:59:23

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Strachey Lecture: The Computer in the Sky

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Strachey Lectures
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The talk will emphasize the diversity of mathematical tools necessary for understanding blockchain protocols and their applications

The talk will emphasize the diversity of mathematical tools necessary for understanding blockchain protocols and their applications (e.g., distributed computing, game theory, mechanism design, and continuous-time stochastic processes) and the immediate practical impact that mathematical work on this topic has had (e.g., Ethereum's EIP-1559 and LVR for automated market makers).

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Strachey Lectures
People
Tim Roughgarden
Keywords
computer
protocols
open access
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 16/05/2024
Duration: 01:02:09

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Christienna Fryar

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Chris Kowalski

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Simone Titus-Dawson

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Heba El-Shazli

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