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Shakespeare and the Lower Register of Constitutional Thought

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
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Professor Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford will deliver this lecture as part of the new programme on Law, Film and Literature from the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society podcast series
The great speech of Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida gives a conventional and orthodox view of the organic constitution, in which all is orderly and all are in their place. It is a view from above, from the upper end of society, from an upper register of thought. The purpose of this lecture is to draw out from selected plays a quite different view, one from below, one shared by the common people. This lower register of constitutional thought proves to be more authentic, grounded in social reality, and the key to understanding constitutionalism and constitutional history. Professor Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford will deliver this lecture as part of the new programme on Law, Film and Literature.

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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
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Denis Galligan
Keywords
law
justice
constituion
constitutional law
shakespeare
elizabethan
history
Department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Date Added: 10/03/2014
Duration: 01:22:35

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The archaeology training excavation at Dorchester-on-Thames

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Study Programmes at Continuing Education
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Students on the Undergraduate Certificate in Archaeology learn a range of archaeological techniques on the training excavation at Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

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Study Programmes at Continuing Education
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Wendy Morrison
Jeanne Peskett
William Garrard
David Griffiths
Marie-Elizabeth Keil
Keywords
archaeology
fieldwork
dorchester-on-thames
digging
Department: Oxford Lifelong Learning
Date Added: 10/03/2014
Duration: 00:05:46

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Study Programmes at Continuing Education

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Study Programmes at Continuing Education
Find out more about the range of programmes we run within the Department for Continuing Education. From creative writing to archaeology to political theory, there is something for everyone at Continuing Education.

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Challenges to Universal Education ahead of the Millennium Development Goals

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ODID Distinguished Speaker Lectures
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Kevin Watkins, Director of the Overseas Development Institute, examines current progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in education and draws out some lessons for the post-MDG period.

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ODID Distinguished Speaker Lectures
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Kevin Watkins
Keywords
education
MDGs
development
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Date Added: 07/03/2014
Duration: 00:55:45

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ODID Distinguished Speaker Lectures

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ODID Distinguished Speaker Lectures
The Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) is the focus at Oxford for teaching and research on international development: the understanding of change and inequality in developing countries, and the interaction of these countries with the rest of the world. We are known for a critical and multi-disciplinary approach, translating social science theory into empirical understanding and providing rigorous evidence for change that can benefit ordinary people in a global context. The Department offers four taught masters courses, an MPhil in Development Studies and a DPhil in International Development. The ODID Distinguished Speaker series brings leading figures from the field of development studies to speak about current issues and challenges.

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The better angels of our nature: A history of violence and humanity

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Wolfson College Podcasts
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Steven Pinker gives a compelling account of the unacknowledged worldwide decline of violence in the 2014 Haldane Lecture
Professor Pinker details how humanity has gone through a series of stages over the past 6,000 years through which rates of violence have declined dramatically. For example it has been determined that approximately 15% of Palaeolithic skeletons found show signs of unhealed violent trauma, suggested violence caused deaths, while the comparative worldwide number for the twentieth century is 0.06%. From interstate warfare to homicide, he shows how we are far less likely to die a violent death than any previous generation. Pinker concludes by assessing the various reasons for this decline in violence. He believes that the move towards peace is helped by ‘our better angels’: self-control, empathy, moral sense, and reason. A number of historical developments have contributed to this move, particularly the state monopolising violence, increasing commerce, an expanding circle of empathy, and the increase in literacy, education, and public discourse. He cautions, however, that this movement was not teleological and could be subject to pauses and reversals.

The lecture is introduced by the President of Wolfson College, Professor Dame Hermione Lee.
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Wolfson College Podcasts
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Steven Pinker
Keywords
Haldane Lecture
conflict
anthropology
Department: Wolfson College
Date Added: 06/03/2014
Duration: 01:00:58

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Innovation in China: a Policy Perspective

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Technology and Management for Development
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Professor Xiaolan Fu (Director of the Technology and Management of Development Centre, Department of International Development at the University of Oxford) speaks on the subject of industrial upgrading and technology policies in China.

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Technology and Management for Development
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Xiaolan Fu
Keywords
economic policy
china
Chinese economy
OXCEP
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Date Added: 05/03/2014
Duration: 00:45:38

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Science and the Humanities

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Are the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and a common, contemporary predicament?
Are the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and a common, contemporary predicament?

Presenter: Howard Hotson, Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History, University of Oxford (Chair, Cultures of Knowledge network, TORCH)

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Ian Walmsley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Oxford
Mark Pagel, Professor and Head of the Bioinformatics Laboratory, University of Reading

Chair: Sally Shuttleworth, Professor of English, University of Oxford

This seminar is part of "Humanities and the Public Good", a special series of events bringing together leading scholars in the arts and sciences and influential figures beyond academia, to consider the role of the Humanities in addressing contemporary challenges.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Howard Hotson
Ian Walmsley
Mark Pagel
Sally Shuttleworth
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science
humanities
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 04/03/2014
Duration: 01:16:25

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Where's the Virtue in the Humanities?

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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How can the Liberal Humanities own up to – and promote – its public service as a matrix of civic virtue?
Whether in banks or on the battlefield, in the NHS or in national newspapers, the need for virtuous leadership is now patent. An education in the humanities is, in fact, an education in virtues that are at once intellectual and civic, underscoring its importance for non-economic public flourishing. Such moral formation would be much more effective, however, were it openly professed and discussed. But the predominant liberal ideal, aspiring to neutrality on the Good Life, tends to suppress such profession. How, then, can Liberal Humanities own up to – and promote – its public service as a matrix of civic virtue?

Part of Humanities and the Public Good series (www.torch.ox.ac.uk/publicgood)

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Nigel Biggar
Donald Drakeman
Steven Biel
Jonathan Bate
Keywords
humanities
virtue
civic engagement
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 04/03/2014
Duration: 00:46:27

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“If you do not want to see God’s hand in everything, even in the most unbearable, you are lost.” Experiencing the First World War Alongside Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures
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Leeds University's Professor of Central European History, editor of An Improbable War?The Outbreak of World War I and European Politicsl Culture before 1914, views the war through the letters of one of the Kaiser's generals to his wife.
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Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures
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Holger Afflerbach
Keywords
world war one
ww1
war
religion
Germany
Kaiser Willhelm II
Department: Christ Church
Date Added: 04/03/2014
Duration: 00:52:40

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