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Activism and Accountability in Contemporary Lebanon: A Quiet Revolt?

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Middle East Centre
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Seminar by Habib Battah (Research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) at The Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, 10th February 2016.
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Middle East Centre
People
Habib Battah
Keywords
lebanon
activism
grassroots
YouStink
accountability
Beirut
reuters
Department: Middle East Centre
Date Added: 15/02/2016
Duration: 01:00:31

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Who is acting for what change? A relational approach to transnational engagements of Afghans in Britain and Germany

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International Migration Institute
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This paper investigates why Afghans in the wider diaspora take action in certain ways.
This paper investigates why Afghans in the wider diaspora take action in certain ways. It builds on the analysis of transnational activities and different ‘spheres of engagement’ (Van Hear 2015). With the help of qualitative data obtained through in-depth interviews and participant observation I first explain how informants come to direct their activities towards certain spheres of engagement and how these engagements implicate ideas of change. In a further step I use my findings to discuss the notion of diasporas as agents of change. I show how relational sociology helps to specify the structuring effects of the social context of my informants. In particular, I identify enabling and constraining structures and explore how informants exercise agency and creatively use available resources by taking action in one or several spheres of engagement. The relational approach disentangles the effects and variabilities of multi-layered structures and thus develops a more precise understanding of why people engage with their home countries in certain ways and what forms of agency are involved if people take action.
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International Migration Institute
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Carolin Fischer
Keywords
afghanistan
diaspora
politics
transnationalism
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Date Added: 15/02/2016
Duration: 00:39:57

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Medieval German Studies

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Medieval German Studies
Medieval German Studies in Oxford cover the full range of the literary, cultural and linguistic heritage of the German speaking lands from 800 to 1600. Special areas of interests are the transmission of text in manuscript and early print, mysticism and devotional writing and courtly literature. We work in close collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Medieval Studies and the wider Humanities context of TORCH. http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/medievalgerman

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7th Annual Access Lecture 2016

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University College
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What does widening participation mean? An Historical Perspective.

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University College
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Peter Mandler
Keywords
access
education
schools
politics
Department: University College
Date Added: 15/02/2016
Duration: 00:51:29

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Ordering Disorder: Mental Disorder, Brain Disorder and Therapeutic Intervention

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2013 Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School
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This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health.
Presented by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department for Continuing Education, this event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health.

Philosophy of psychiatry includes within its ambit questions about the nature of mental disorder as distinct from purely neurological disorder, questions about the psychological conditions required for moral responsibility and legal culpability, and questions about the appropriate kinds of explanations that can be provided for mental disorder. Addressing these questions requires drawing on the resources of many branches of philosophy, including legal philosophy, ethical theory and philosophy of value, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind and psychology.

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2013 Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School
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George Graham
Keywords
philosophy
psychiatry
Department: Oxford Lifelong Learning
Date Added: 11/02/2016
Duration: 01:34:50

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Karl Jaspers and the Ethics of Incomprehensibility

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2013 Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School
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This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health.
Presented by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department for Continuing Education, this event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health.

Philosophy of psychiatry includes within its ambit questions about the nature of mental disorder as distinct from purely neurological disorder, questions about the psychological conditions required for moral responsibility and legal culpability, and questions about the appropriate kinds of explanations that can be provided for mental disorder. Addressing these questions requires drawing on the resources of many branches of philosophy, including legal philosophy, ethical theory and philosophy of value, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind and psychology.

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2013 Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School
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Giovanni Stanghellini
Keywords
philosophy
psychiatry
Department: Oxford Lifelong Learning
Date Added: 11/02/2016
Duration: 00:55:14

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Mental Health and Moral Virtue

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2013 Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School
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This event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health.
Presented by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department for Continuing Education, this event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health.

Philosophy of psychiatry includes within its ambit questions about the nature of mental disorder as distinct from purely neurological disorder, questions about the psychological conditions required for moral responsibility and legal culpability, and questions about the appropriate kinds of explanations that can be provided for mental disorder. Addressing these questions requires drawing on the resources of many branches of philosophy, including legal philosophy, ethical theory and philosophy of value, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind and psychology.
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2013 Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School
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Terence Irwin
Keywords
philosophy
psychiatry
Department: Oxford Lifelong Learning
Date Added: 11/02/2016
Duration: 00:51:28

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Best-selling economist, Tim Harford (Brasenose, 1992)

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Alumni Voices
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Tim Harford shares his prize-winning economic insights, explaining why you can’t buy a decent used car and why you should exercise caution with big data.
The author of the million-selling The Undercover Economist talks about the numbers of everyday life and his journalistic career, including writing for the Financial Times and presenting More or Less on BBC Radio 4.
In this podcast interview, the Economics Commentator of the Year for 2014 describes how his interest in economics developed unexpectedly. After his state school education, Harford studied PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) at Brasenose College in Oxford due to a timetabling clash at an Open Day. Harford later wanted to drop Economics, but continued with the subject because of advice from his tutor. A Master’s in Economics followed, and today he maintains his links with the University of Oxford as he is a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College.
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Alumni Voices
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Tim Harford
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economics
PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics)
Brasenose College
Nuffield College
journalism
Department: Alumni Office
Date Added: 11/02/2016
Duration: 00:15:23

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Wharton in Wartime

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Alice Kelly's critical edition of Edith Wharton's First World War reportage Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).
Panellists; Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford), Dr Shafquat Towheed (Open University), Dr Alice Kelly (TORCH, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director, TORCH).

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Alice Kelly
Shafquat Towheed
Dame Hermione Lee
Elleke Boehmer
Keywords
literature
world war one
Edith Wharton
war
first world war
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 11/02/2016
Duration: 01:05:05

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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: a first step towards a sino-centric regional order?

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Asian Studies Centre
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Drs Matteo Dian and Silvia Menegazzi give a talk on the AIIB at the International Political Economy of East Asia Seminar
This presentation will analyse the strategy that led China to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and its likely consequences for the regional and global economic order. The creation of the AIIB embodies a considerable shift for the Chinese approach to regional and global governance, constituted by an increasing will to promote a transition from a 'Western-led governance' to a more inclusive 'East-West co -governance'.
Is the AIIB initiative just an instrument created to sustain China’s economic prosperity and Xi Jinping’s call for a 'Chinese Dream'? Is it a consequence of China's growing frustration with the Bretton Woods' architecture? Or, is it rather a first stepping stone towards a new China-centered financial and economic order? Does this entail a relevant threat to the world's economic order and its institutions? Or is it more simply a symptom of the increasing normative and institutional plurality of the current international order?
In this light, the seminar will scrutinize Beijing's new multilateral project taking into account China's growing regional role, and in particular, it’s renewed centrality in the East Asian region. In the course of the seminar, particular attention will be devoted to the analysis of the challenges and priorities as discussed by Chinese scholars, policy analysts and think tank experts.
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Asian Studies Centre
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Matteo Dian
Silvia Menegazzi
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asian infrastructure investment bank
china
Department: St Antony's College
Date Added: 11/02/2016
Duration: 00:55:19

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