Jenkin Lecture The Oxford RobotCar

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Paul Newman talks about the UK’s first self-driving car – being developed at the Department of Engineering Science. He’ll explain the project’s motivation, its underlying technology, and its impact on the transport sector and beyond.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 03/10/2014

Duration: 01:07:08

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The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks

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Alumni Weekend

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Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Ian Goldin argues that it also has the potential to destabilise our societies.

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Alumni Weekend

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Date Added: 03/10/2014

Duration: 00:53:57

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Living with Flooding: Science, democracy and the complex challenge of managing environmental risk

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Alumni Weekend

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Professor Whatmore, who focuses on the interface between cultural geography, political theory and science and technology studies, will draw upon her recent research to propose a new approach to living with flooding.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 03/10/2014

Duration: 00:43:22

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The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East

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Drawing on European and Middle Eastern sources, historian Eugene Rogan provides an overview of the Great War in the Middle East from both sides of the trenches.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 03/10/2014

Duration: 00:39:25

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The Future of the Past: Dating archaeology using radiocarbon and particle accelerators

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Tom Higham examines some of the projects the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit has been involved with over the last few years; from dating the Neanderthal extinction, to identifying the bones of Richard III and Alfred the Great.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 03/10/2014

Duration: 00:38:57

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Water, human evolution and diet

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Anthropology

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This public lecture on the role of water in human evolution took place at Somerset House in London as part of its 'Month of Water'. 17 June 2014.

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:38:27

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Marett Memorial Lecture 2014: How to capture the wow. Awe and the study of religion

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Professor Birgit Meyer delivered the 2014 Marett Memorial Lecture on the interplay of religious things and bodily sensations. Introduced by James Grant. 2 May 2014

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:49:03

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Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell

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This Anthropology seminar looks at the role of dance and movement of the body as a theme in itself; using dance to understand embodied experience. 21 February 2014

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:45:07

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Models, muddles and metaphors

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This seminar, on the theme of Models in Anthropology, draws on examples from the fields of Amazonian and obesity studies. 9 May 2014

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Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Date Added: 02/10/2014

Duration: 00:56:43

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Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency

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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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