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1909: The People's Budget
Academic Blogging: Political Analysis in the Digital Age
Annual Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lectures in International Relations
Centre for International Studies Podcasts
Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
German Politics: An Introduction
Israel Studies Seminar
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin
Political Demonology: The Logic of Evil in Contemporary Literature and Theology
Politics and International Relations Podcasts
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Spain: 1959 - 1992
The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On
The Engagement of Theory
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
The State of the State
US China Relations: An Introduction
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| 1 | Creative Commons | Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today | Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel. | Avner Offer | 06 Mar 2019 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel | Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state | Eyal Chowers | 06 Mar 2019 |
| 3 | Should the state pay for journalism? | Polly Curtis considers how journalism has become unsustainable and what role the state should play in making it widely available | Polly Curtis | 05 Mar 2019 | |
| 4 | Guy Burton - Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947' | How have rising power engaged with the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as their behaviour in international politics more generally? | Guy Burton | 27 Feb 2019 | |
| 5 | Ibrahim Khatib - Identity, Conflict perception and Reconciliation in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict | Ibrahim Khatib discusses the correlations between identity, conflict perception, and willingness to reconcile. | Ibrahim Khatib | 27 Feb 2019 | |
| 6 | Diving Deep. Slow News and Reader Engagement | Chris Cook of 'slow news' start-up Tortoise on providing an alternative to the 24/7 news cycle | Chris Cook | 18 Feb 2019 | |
| 7 | India's Social Media Elections | Dr Vidya Narayanan of the Oxford Internet Institute on how India's 2019 general elections will be affected by the influence of social media | Vidya Narayanan | 18 Feb 2019 | |
| 8 | Creative Commons | Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed | Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. | Menachem Klein | 06 Feb 2019 |
| 9 | Short and strong: Making the Economist Espresso | Lane Greene, language columnist and editor of the Economist's daily briefing, Espresso, on creating the ultra-concise news app and email | Lane Greene | 05 Feb 2019 | |
| 10 | Creative Commons | The Coldest Story Ever Told: Kanye and the Up Next Algorithm | Caithlin Mercer, Managing Editor, Yahoo!, uses the hip-hop star as an example of how social media's algorithms can enforce biased perspectives | Caithlin Mercer | 01 Feb 2019 |
| 11 | Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan | Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives. | Khaled Furani | 23 Jan 2019 | |
| 12 | Creative Commons | Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948 | How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine? | Netta Cohen | 16 Jan 2019 |
| 13 | Voice, podcasts and the future of audio | How are news organisations embracing voice-activated technology as smart speakers and other devices become more commonplace? Nic Newman, lead author of the groundbreaking study, the Future of Voice, discusses his research. | Nic Newman | 13 Dec 2018 | |
| 14 | Behind the lens: The impact and implications of visual storytelling | Award-winning photojournalist and documentary maker Hazel Thompson talks about shedding light on marginalised communities around the world. | Hazel Thompson | 10 Dec 2018 | |
| 15 | Creative Commons | Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and the Jews | Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the criticism of Zionism. | Brian Klug | 28 Nov 2018 |
| 16 | Orna Sasson-Levy - Gendered citizenship: The case of Women Breaking the Silence | Orna Sasson-Levy discusses the cast of women soldiers who decide to speak | Orna Sasson-Levy | 21 Nov 2018 | |
| 17 | Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny | Is popular feminism adequate for tackling partriarchy and misogyny in society? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Head of the Department of Media and Communication, LSE, discusses this in light of the Weinstein allegations, the MeToo movement, 'incel' attacks and more. | Sarah Banet-Weiser | 20 Nov 2018 | |
| 18 | Networked solidarity in the age of Trump | Gina Neff of the Oxford Internet Institute, and author of book 'Trump and the Media', discusses the fracturing of society's bonds and the media's role in creating networks of solidarity. | Gina Neff | 20 Nov 2018 | |
| 19 | Creative Commons | Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building | Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern Hebrew literature. | Adriana X Jacobs | 16 Nov 2018 |
| 20 | David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships | David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships. | David Tal | 16 Nov 2018 | |
| 21 | Transformations in news organisations | Anita Zielina, former Chief Product Officer of the Austrian Neue Zürcher Zeitung Media Group, and Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute, talks about how to implement change in news organisations. | Anita Zielina | 08 Nov 2018 | |
| 22 | Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism | Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the Guardian, talks about the newspaper industry, what makes good journalism, the role of social media and tech giants and the future of journalism. | Alan Rusbridger | 02 Nov 2018 | |
| 23 | Yakov Rabkin - Israel: The Russian Connection | Yakov Rabkin (University of Montreal) discusses the roots of Israeli political culture in the Zionist beginnings in the Yiddish speaking regions of the Russian Empire. | Yakov Rabkin | 26 Oct 2018 | |
| 24 | Creative Commons | Protecting whistleblowers and sources in the digital age | Julie Posetti, Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute, talks about the threats to journalists using confidential sources, and practical steps and evolving frameworks to protect journalists and whistleblowers. | Julie Posetti | 18 Oct 2018 |
| 25 | How The Economist uses newsletters to drive engagement and subscription | Sunnie Huang, Newsletters Editor of the Economist talks about the strategy behind the publication's newsletters | Sunnie Huang | 12 Oct 2018 | |
| 26 | Yaacov Yadgar - The Nation-State bill and the meaning of Israel’s Jewish identity | Yaacov Yadgar discusses the recently passed Basic-Law: Israel the Nation State of the Jewish People, and discusses how it plays into Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis | Yaacov Yadgar | 10 Oct 2018 | |
| 27 | Creative Commons | Kfir Cohen - Israeli Literature as Global Literature | Kfir Cohen discusses Israeli literature as global literature (broadly defined) | Kfir Cohen | 25 Jun 2018 |
| 28 | Innovation and the conversation on the rise of China | Gary Liu, CEO, South China Morning Post, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Gary Liu | 15 Jun 2018 | |
| 29 | Creative Commons | Statistics and the battle against misinformation | Denise Lievesley gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Denise Lievesley | 08 Jun 2018 |
| 30 | In pursuit of repertoires of news consumption. Analysing how people use news media in everyday life | Kim Schroder gives the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Kim Schroder | 01 Jun 2018 | |
| 31 | Bashir Abu-Manneh - Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948 | Bashir Abu-Manneh discusses Emile Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948. | Bashir Abu-Manneh | 31 May 2018 | |
| 32 | Rami Ginat - Egyptian Communist Voices of Peace (1947-1958) | Ramit Ginat discusses the Egyptian Communist Party's stance on Israel in its formative first decade of statehood. | Rami Ginat, Yaacov Yadgar | 30 May 2018 | |
| 33 | Creative Commons | Political actors and the manipulation of social media audience groups through the use of junk news and other forms of automation | Vidya Narayanan (Director of Research, Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford Internet Institute) delivers a lecture for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Vidya Narayanan | 08 May 2018 |
| 34 | Creative Commons | Faisal Devji: Jewish Pecedents and Muslim Nationalism | Faisal Devji discusses the surprising relations between Pakistani nationalism and Zionism. | Faisal Devji, Yaacov Yadgar | 02 May 2018 |
| 35 | Reporting The World | Roula Khalaf, deputy editor, The Financial Times, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Roula Khalaf | 27 Apr 2018 | |
| 36 | Creative Commons | The King of Whoppers and political factchecking in the 2016 US presidential race | The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Lucas Graves (Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute, Oxford University) delivers a lecture for the Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series. | Lucas Graves | 21 Mar 2018 |
| 37 | Yuval Evri: Andalusian Legacies: the role of al-Andalus/Sepharad in the political and cultural history of Israel/Palestine | Yuval Evri discusses the uses of the the image of Al-Andalus in political and cultural discourses in the turn of the 20th Century. | Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar | 07 Mar 2018 | |
| 38 | Creative Commons | There are many roads to power – How to build a career in journalism | Alexandra Borchardt, Director of strategic development, RISJ, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Alexandra Borchardt | 27 Feb 2018 |
| 39 | Creative Commons | Galia Sabar: African Migration to Israel - Chronicle of a Failure Foretold | The history and politics of African migration to Israel | Galia Sabar, Yaacov Yadgar | 21 Feb 2018 |
| 40 | Creative Commons | Journalism and the Underworld | Antonio Sampaio, research associate for security and development, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Antonio Sampaio | 16 Feb 2018 |
| 41 | Almog Behar - Between Hebrew and Arabic | The politics, culture, and reality of Hebrew and Arabic in Israel and beyond. | Almog Behar, Yaacov Yadgar | 14 Feb 2018 | |
| 42 | Eugene Rogan - The Myth of the Campbell-Bannerman Report: Arab views on Israel after the Suez Crisis | On the origins and context of a little know (for some obvious reasons) chapter in the history of the Zionism. | Eugene Rogan | 08 Feb 2018 | |
| 43 | Creative Commons | Restoring trust in news | Alessandra Galloni, global news editor, Reuters, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Alessandra Galloni | 07 Feb 2018 |
| 44 | Is there a future for photojournalists in the digital age? | Adrian Hadland, senior lecturer, University of Stirling, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Some videos have been edited out of the recording due to Copyright and/or distorted sound. | Adrian Hadland | 05 Feb 2018 | |
| 45 | Creative Commons | Haim Yacobi - Israel, Africa: Identity, Culture and Politics | Haim Yacobi (UCL) gives a talk on Israel in Africa, Africa (and Africans) in Israel. | Haim Yacobi, Yaacov Yadgar | 30 Jan 2018 |
| 46 | Not-for-Profit Journalism: A New Model | Rachel Oldroyd (Managing Editor, Bureau of Investigative Journalism), gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Rachel Oldroyd | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 47 | Creative Commons | Is it true? Why questions about the news are changing | Liz Corbin, editor, BBC Reality Check, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Liz Corbin | 19 Jan 2018 |
| 48 | Creative Commons | What’s happening to our news? | Nic Newman, research associate and lead author of Digital News Report at RISJ, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Nic Newman | 04 Dec 2017 |
| 49 | The evolution of digital journalism and tapping into tech for story-telling | Lianna Brinded, Europe editor at Quartz, gives a talk as part of the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Lianna Brinded | 04 Dec 2017 | |
| 50 | Under pressure: the global decline in media freedom | Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive, Index on Censorship gives a talk for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Jodie Ginsberg | 01 Dec 2017 | |
| 51 | Creative Commons | Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation - Panel discussion | Panel discussion looking at Lucy Kueng's report 'Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation'. | Renee Kaplan, David Levy, Lucy Keung, Madhav Chinnappa | 01 Dec 2017 |
| 52 | Creative Commons | Going Digital - A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation | Lucy Kueng, Google Digital News Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute gives a talk about a new research report 'Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation'. | Lucy Kueng | 01 Dec 2017 |
| 53 | Avi Shlaim - A Jordanian Perspective on Israel | Prof. Avi Shlaim reviews the history of the Jordanian-Israeli relations, and considers how Israel is viewed and understood from the Jordanian side | Avi Shlaim, Yaacov Yadgar | 29 Nov 2017 | |
| 54 | Creative Commons | Reporting from Yemen and other inaccessible war zones: risk and how to find out if you're in trouble | Laura Silvia Battaglia, foreign correspondent and documentary maker, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Please note that there are videos in the seminar, so sound may be slightly distorted. | Laura Silvia Battaglia | 28 Nov 2017 |
| 55 | Britain, Brexit and the new political chaos | Jack Blanchard, editor, London playbook at Politico, gives a talk as part of the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. | Jack Blanchard | 08 Nov 2017 | |
| 56 | Birth of the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Controversy on the ‘Arab Question’ (1910-12) | On 'the mother' of all ensuing Mizrahi–Ashkenazi ethnic controversies. | Moshe Behar, Yaacov Yadgar | 01 Nov 2017 | |
| 57 | Jews, Israel and Debate: Understanding Israel in the Diaspora | Why and how should we study Diaspora Jews' relation to Israel? | Ilan z Baron, Yaacov Yadgar | 31 Oct 2017 | |
| 58 | Creative Commons | What's happening to our media | The Reuters Institute's Director of Research, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, gives the first seminar of our 'The Business and Practice of Journalism' series for Michaelmas Term, 2017. | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen | 13 Oct 2017 |
| 59 | Broadcasting in the age of Brexit and Trump | Justin Webb, BBC Today presenter, Radio 4 gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by David Levy. | Justin Webb | 16 Jun 2017 | |
| 60 | Producing news videos that young people care about | Sakhr Al-Makhadhi, Acting Executive Producer, AJ+, gives a talk for the Reuters Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook | Sakhr Al-Makhadhi | 13 Jun 2017 | |
| 61 | Creative Commons | The Optician of Lampedusa – opening the world’s eyes to the human story behind mass migration | Emma Jane Kirby, BBC correspondent and author of the ‘Optician of Lampedusa’ gives a talk for the Reuters Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by James Painter. | Emma Jane Kirby | 05 Jun 2017 |
| 62 | News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in | Tom Standage, deputy editor, the Economist gives a talk as part of the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series, with an introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Tom Standage | 19 May 2017 | |
| 63 | Women on Air – where are the experts? | Suzanne Franks, professor of journalism, City University, London, gives a talk for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Suzanne Franks | 11 May 2017 | |
| 64 | Why Facebook matters and what you need to know about digital | Esra Dogramaci, Senior Digital Editor, Deutsche Welle, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Esra Dogramaci | 08 May 2017 | |
| 65 | Creative Commons | The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy: the polarized media landscape in Syria | Rima Marrouch, freelance journalist for Reuters, BBC, CBS, and Al Jazeera, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar Series, Introduction by Richard Sambrook. Please note, that there are videos within this presentation which may sound distorted. | Rima Marrouch | 28 Apr 2017 |
| 66 | Creative Commons | Fear and Loathing International Relations - Cyril Foster Lecture 2017 | Although the 2003 Iraq War was linked to the "War on Terror" the case for the war was presented, at least in the UK, within the terms of the established framework of international relations, with the UN at the centre. | Lawrence Freedman | 16 Mar 2017 |
| 67 | Creative Commons | Investigative journalism in the age of social news | Tom Warren, investigations correspondent, BuzzFeed UK gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Tom Warren | 10 Mar 2017 |
| 68 | Creative Commons | Newsweek: Legacy title as startup | Part of The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series, with Owen Matthews, Contributing editor and former Moscow and Istabul Bureau, Chief, Newsweek. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Owen Matthews | 01 Mar 2017 |
| 69 | Creative Commons | Freedom of information and the informed citizen | Part of the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series, with Heather Brooke, investigative journalist, author and Professor of journalism at City University, introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Heather Brooke | 24 Feb 2017 |
| 70 | Creative Commons | The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series - ‘Reporting Africa: New storytellers, new stories?’ | Melanie Bunce, senior lecturer in Journalism, City University, co-editor of Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century gives a talk for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. | Melanie Bunce | 15 Feb 2017 |
| 71 | Creative Commons | Digital transformation - the organisation challenges | Introduction by Richard Sambrook | Lucy Küng | 09 Feb 2017 |
| 72 | Creative Commons | Is censorship stifling China's media? | Introduction by Richard Sambrook | Vincent Ni | 09 Feb 2017 |
| 73 | Creative Commons | Making an impact with journalism in today's 24/7 digital news landscape | Part of the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series, with Rachel Oldroyd, managing editor, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Rachel Oldroyd | 27 Jan 2017 |
| 74 | Old media, new media, and politics in Brazil | Part of the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series, by Americo Martins, editor, Global Editorial Partnerships, BBC, and former director general of Brazil's public broadcasting company. | Americo Martins | 20 Jan 2017 | |
| 75 | The Responsibility to Protect in a Time of Trump: Can Human Protection Weather the Storm? | Professor Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland) discusses new challenges for implementing Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principles in the current age. | Richard Caplan, Alex Bellamy | 09 Dec 2016 | |
| 76 | Statistics, the BBC and impartiality | Jil Matheson, former UK national statistician and leader of BBC Trust Review gives a talk for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. With an introduction by Denise Lievesley. | Jil Matheson | 05 Dec 2016 | |
| 77 | Catastrophic Success: President Erdogan of Turkey and the opposition media | Kerim Balci, editor in chief, Turkish Review gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. With an introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Kerim Balci | 05 Dec 2016 | |
| 78 | Reuters: innovating to stay ahead - from pigeons to multimedia The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series | Jane Barrett, global head of multimedia, Editorial, Reuters, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Jane Barrett | 22 Nov 2016 | |
| 79 | Reuters: innovating to stay ahead - from pigeons to multimedia The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series | Jane Barrett, global head of multimedia, Editorial, Reuters, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Jane Barrett | 22 Nov 2016 | |
| 80 | Creative Commons | Strength in numbers - how journalists cracked the Panama Papers | Holly Watt, investigations correspondent, at the Guardian talks about how journalists cracked the Panama Papers. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Holly Watt | 14 Nov 2016 |
| 81 | Creative Commons | Quartz: a mobile-first approach to news | Part of the the Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series, by Akshat Rathi, Reporter, Quartz. Introduction by RIchard Sambrook. | Akshat Rathi | 04 Nov 2016 |
| 82 | How the BBC reaches digital audiences in South Asia | Roopa Suchak, South Asia workstream lead, BBC gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Roopa Suchak | 31 Oct 2016 | |
| 83 | From Afghanistan to a more dangerous world | Christina Lamb, Foreign affairs correspondent, Sunday Times, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Christina Lamb | 31 Oct 2016 | |
| 84 | Creative Commons | How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour | Part of the The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series by Nic Newman, digital media strategist and research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. | Nic Newman | 14 Oct 2016 |
| 85 | Creative Commons | Book Launch: 'Citizens' Wealth' | Author Angela Cummine gives a brief overview of her book on Sovereign Wealth Funds: what they are, and who actually owns them. | Angela Cummine, Charles Conn | 29 Sep 2016 |
| 86 | British Press Coverage of the EU Referendum | Launch of RISJ report on the press coverage of the EU referendum, Tuesday 20th September at European Parliament Office Europe House. David Levy (Director, RISJ) presented the of key findings of the report. | David Levy, Matthew Elliott, Lucy Thomas, Jonathan Isaby | 27 Sep 2016 | |
| 87 | Creative Commons | Shakespeare and Machiavellian Politics of Violence, Closing Keynote | Closing Keynote: Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford) gives the closing keynote for the Political Demonologies conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016. | Elizabeth Frazer | 13 Sep 2016 |
| 88 | Creative Commons | The pessimistic anthropology of liberalism vs. the Good | Adrian Pabst (University of Kent) gives a talk for Session 3: Demonologies of the Soul – Beyond Evil, part of the Political Demonologies conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016. | Adrian Pabst | 13 Sep 2016 |
| 89 | Creative Commons | Going Beyond Evil in Theory, Politics and Practice | Max Muir (University of Oxford) gives a talk in session 3 Demonologies of the Soul – Beyond Evil, part of the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016. | Max Muir | 13 Sep 2016 |
| 90 | Creative Commons | ‘“Political Theology” or “Occasional Decisionism”? On the Formal Character of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology’ | Bruno Godefroy (Universities of Erlangen and Lyon) gives a talk in Session 2: Political (Dis-) Orders, part of the Political Demonologies conference held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016. | Bruno Godefroy | 13 Sep 2016 |
| 91 | Creative Commons | The Dialectics of Individualism and Totalitarianism in Charles de Koninck, David Foster Wallace, and Michel Houellebecq | Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. (Heiligenstift, Austria), gives the first talk in Session 2: Political (Dis-) Orders, part of the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016. | Edmund Waldstein | 13 Sep 2016 |
| 92 | Creative Commons | Modernist Myths of the Fall | Henry Mead (Teesside University) gives the third talk in Session 1, (Demono-) Logics, at the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College on 20th May 2016. | Henry Mead | 13 Sep 2016 |
| 93 | Creative Commons | The Two Deaths of Osama Bin Laden –Demonic Repetition in Contemporary Culture | Tom Grimwood (University of Cumbria) gives the second talk for Session 1; (Demono-) Logics Political Demonology conference, held in Worcester College on 20th May 2016. | Tom Grimwood | 13 Sep 2016 |
| 94 | Creative Commons | The Nightmare that Dreams: The Soul and Nihilism - Opening Keynote | Conor Cunningham (University of Nottingham) gives the opening keynote in the Political Demonology conference, held at Worcester College Oxford on 20the May 2016. | Conor Cunningham | 13 Sep 2016 |
| 95 | Creative Commons | Twenty-five Years in the Search for Peace: Reflections on the Nobel Peace Prize | Geir Lundestad, a Norwegian historian, who until 2014 served as the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, delivered the 2016 Cyril Foster Lecture, 'Twenty-five Years in the Search for Peace: Reflections on the Nobel Peace Prize', on 3rd March 2016. | Geir Lundestad | 22 Aug 2016 |
| 96 | 'A Feminist Voyage Through International Relations' | Professor Emerita J. Ann Tickner (University of Southern California) delivers a lecture on the role of feminist theory in the field of international relations. | J. Ann Tickner, Andrew Hurrell | 22 Jun 2016 | |
| 97 | Creative Commons | 'The Case for Offshore Balancing' with John Mearsheimer | Professor John J. Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) presents the conclusions of his latest article published in 'Foreign Affairs' on offshore balancing. | John J. Mearsheimer, Duncan Snidal, Ulrike Franke | 22 Jun 2016 |
| 98 | Elliot Lecture: 'The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul' | St Antony's College hosts the 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, for a discussion of her the Soviet soul and her current and former projects. | Svetlana Alexievich, Margarita Vaysman, Oliver Ready, Margaret MacMillan | 17 Jun 2016 | |
| 99 | 'Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World' | Professor Timothy Garton Ash discusses the premise of his new book titled 'Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World.' | Timothy Garton Ash, Margaret MacMillan, Adam Roberts, Patricia Thornton | 16 Jun 2016 | |
| 100 | Creative Commons | News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in | Tom Standage, Deputy Editor, The Economist, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook. | Tom Standage | 09 Jun 2016 |
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