| Why the Responses to Address Intrastate Armed Conflicts fail? |
Michael von der Schulenburg will discuss the shortcomings of the UN Charter to regulate foreign military interventions and paradoxes in UN peacekeeping |
Michael von der Schulenburg |
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| Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| The Law and Practice of Cross-border Humanitarian Relief Operations: Syria as Case Study |
Dapo Akande and Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard from ELAC (Oxford) discuss humanitarian relief in Syria |
Dapo Akande, Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard |
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| Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context |
Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context |
Judith Gardner |
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| The Constitution of Illicit Orders: Contested Sovereignty in Territorial Domains |
Within the context of modernity and globalisation, this research project investigates the processes by which governance arises in territories subjected to illicit forms of social order that contest state sovereignty and authority. |
Christopher Lilyblad |
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| Using evidence to overcome fake news about healthcare |
Professor Carl Heneghan has extensive experience of working with the media. In this talk he will discuss some recent case examples, working with the BBC amongst others. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Are we really advancing qualitative methods in health research? |
For many good reasons, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis, and realist tales have become key tools within the qualitative researcher's methodological toolkit. |
Cassandra Phoenix |
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| Size matters a tous les temps, a tous les peuples |
Dr. Martyn Sene is Deputy CEO of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), here, he gives an introduction to the importance of measurement and metrology (the science of measurement). |
Martyn Sene |
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| Strachey Lecture: Doing for our robots what evolution did for us |
Professor Leslie Kaelbling (MIT) gives the 2019 Stachey lecture. The Strachey Lectures are generously supported by OxFORD Asset Management. |
Leslie Kaelbling |
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| The role of network meta-analysis in the evaluation of antidepressants for depression |
Andrea Cipriani is NIHR Research Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford. |
Andrea Cipriani |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marc Lackenby - Knotty Problems |
Knots are a familiar part of everyday life, for example tying your tie or doing up your shoe laces. They play a role in numerous physical and biological phenomena, such as the untangling of DNA when it replicates. |
Marc Lackenby |
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| Faith and Sexuality – A Safeguarding Crisis? |
Ozanne outlines clear evidence of the harm that certain teachings have caused the LGBT community and what can be done to address this major safeguarding issue affecting young LGBT Christian teenagers today. |
Jayne Ozanne |
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| Electron Paramagnetic Resonance - Past, Present and Future |
Professor Mark Newton describes some of the key events in the discovery and development of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR). |
Mark Newton |
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| All Souls Seminar Series: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse |
The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse |
Prabha Kotiswaran |
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| Student Access to Colleges at the University of Oxford |
Seminar led by a panel of heads of colleges and senior tutors to discuss Oxford's student selection process |
Ivor Crewe, Helen King, Alan Rusbridger, Maggie Snowling, Simon Smith, Mark Wormald, Lucas Bertholdi-Saad |
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| Unmasking Africana in British Art |
ASC seminar by Kimathi Donkor |
Kimathi Donkor |
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| Promoting fairer access to higher education: the necessity of contextualised admissions |
The ethical case for reducing entry requirements for disadvantaged learners |
Vikki Boliver, Andrew Bell, Peter Thonemann, Neil Harrison |
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| 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 |
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| The long-term implications of President Nixon's healthcare programme |
A talk on President Nixon's radical new healthcare programme proposed in early 1971. |
John Price |
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| Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance |
Winant Lecture in American Government |
Stephen Skowronek |
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| Making Oscar Wilde |
Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. |
Michèle Mendelssohn |
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| Rethinking Teacher Education - The Problem with Accountability |
Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith argues why we need to “reclaim” teacher education accountability for the profession and in support of the larger democratic project. |
Marilyn Cochran-Smith |
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| All Souls: 'Pervasive Punishment' Making sense of mass supervision |
Fergus McNeill introduces the main arguments from his recent book explaining the meanings of 'mass supervision’ and outlining its scale and social distribution, the processes by which it has been legitimated and its significance as a penal phenomenon. |
Fergus McNeill |
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| Fairies, Children and Changelings |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the strange interest that fairies take in human infants, and the plight of children who stumble into this world, and can’t get home. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Marry Waterson, Ben Nicholls, Barney Morse-Brown. |
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| The politics of distribution in Ethiopia's 'developmental state' |
ASC seminar by Tom Lavers |
Tom Lavers |
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| Public health and gender: Assumptions, disjunctures in practice, and implications for HIV prevention within marriages in Kenya |
ASC seminar by Roseanne Njiru |
Roseanne Njiru |
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| Access and Participation at Postgraduate level: research findings and their implications for policy and practice |
This seminar will review the evidence on access to postgraduate study, identify what this might mean for funders, universities and their communities, and outline outstanding gaps in our knowledge. |
Paul Wakeling, Mike Bonsall, Nick Brown, Paul Martin |
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| Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books |
A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. |
Emily Martin |
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| Access and Participation in English HE: A Fair and Equal Opportunity for All? |
The seminar will identify how universities and government have sought to make progress in this area during the last two decades and the patterns of participation arising from this. |
Simon Marginson, Chris Millward, Martin Williams |
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| Fairy Wives and Fairy Lovers |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about love and marriage between humans and fairies. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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| 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 |
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| Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the digital era is transforming Kenya |
Writer and political activist Nanjala Nyabola delivers our first insaka of 2019. In this podcast, Nanjala explores shifts in power, popular action and social capacity in the digital age. |
Nanjala Nyabola |
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| Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems |
Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too much medicine and overdiagnosis. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| A Rational Approach to Evidence-Based Decision Making in Education Policy |
If education policy-making is based strictly on rigorous evidence there is a risk of bias towards simple, discrete, measurable interventions. We present a framework for considering inconclusive evidence. |
Matthew Jukes |
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| Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries |
An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron |
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| Introducing Fairies and Fairyland |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the Modern Fairies project and talk about traditional imaginings of fairyland. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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| Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future |
Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary. |
Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani |
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| Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth |
A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. |
Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
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| What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau |
ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo |
Teresa Almeida Cravo |
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| Student activism in an era of decolonization |
ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck. |
Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre, Marcia Schenck |
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| Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan |
Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives. |
Khaled Furani |
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| Genes, Hands, Nerves, and Brains |
Professor Dominic Furniss and Dr Akira Wiberg discuss the tremendous connection we have between the hand and the brain, focusing their talk on Dupuytren's Disease and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. |
Dominic Furniss, Akira Wiberg |
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| Admissions Testing Preparation Effects |
This seminar is the first of a five-part seminar series on 'Student Access to University'. This seminar discusses the relationships between student characteristics and test performances with Oxford University admissions tests data. |
Jo-Anne Baird, Karen O'Brien, Samina Khan, Rebecca Surender |
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| Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice |
The peacebuilding literature has long emphasised that youth involvement is key to ensuring long-term peace. In the aftermath of the 'no' victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements' push for peace. |
Elena Butti |
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| Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials |
Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series. |
David Torgerson |
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| All Souls Blog: The Politics of Global Policing |
Professor Ben Bowling |
Ben Bowling |
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| Process thinking in four modes |
Professor Ann Langley, Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings, HEC Montréal discusses her research work. |
Ann Langley |
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| Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC |
Focusing on the 'male perpetrator,' this paper first examines how, why, and with what effect gendered and raced imaginaries became encoded in international peace and security policy. |
Chloe Lewis |
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| Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts |
Dr Katerina Tkacova, member of CCW, introduces the seminar series based on the CCW research project - Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts. |
Katerina Tkacova |
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| The application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice interface: NICE work if you can do it |
Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Mike Kelly |
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| How imperfect can a study be? |
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods'. |
Alan Silman |
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| Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England |
Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english. |
Julia Mattison |
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| 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 |
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| Writing Rights in 1789 |
Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the constituent articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. |
Keith M Baker |
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| Creating More Peaceful Societies - Global Strategies to Reduce Interpersonal Violence by 50 Percent in 2040 |
Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge |
Manuel Eisner |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum |
Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. |
Richard Ovenden, Julia Smith, Helen Snaith, David Clark |
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| The Quantum and the Cosmos |
The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago. |
Rocky Kolb |
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| Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? The 2018 Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture |
Marcus du Sautoy and Professor Rosalind Picard for 2018's annual Simonyi Lecture: Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? |
Marcus du Sautoy, Rosalind Picard |
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| How 'gangsters' become jihadists (and why most don't): Bourdieu, criminology and the crime-terrorism nexus |
Professor Sveinung Sandberg |
Sveinung Sandberg |
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| Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her work focusses on obesity and tobacco control and her particular interests lie in evidence synthes |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
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| More than meet the eye: Hyperspectral imaging |
How many colours we see is limited by our eye, which contains only three types of colour sensors. Using advanced techniques, vision scientists can take images of this “invisible” information and make it visible. |
Sérgio Nascimento |
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| Neurons code the colour we see |
All activity in your brain – including those which mediates your perception of colour – is based on electrical messages between neurons. Vision scientists can measure these signals at the eye, and at the back of the brain. |
Neil Parry |
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| Seeing neurons inside the living eye |
Using techniques borrowed from astronomy, vision scientists can take high-resolution images of the retina, the fine layer of cells in the back of your eye. |
Hannah Smithson, Laura Young |
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| Panel discussion: #TheDress – What do we know? |
In early 2015, an image of a dress polarised the internet: Some people saw it as black-blue, and some as white-gold. Three years on, we revisit the dress and discuss how vision science can explain this phenomenon. |
Manuel Spitschan, Anya Hurlbert, Karl Gegenfurtner, David Brainard |
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| Old Norse |
Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse. |
Eleanor Parker |
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| Old English |
Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english. |
Mark Atherton |
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| Gothic |
Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest. |
Elizabeth Solopova |
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| Can antibiotics make you pregnant? |
Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| History of evidence synthesis |
Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Mike Clarke |
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| Criminology at the periphery: understanding police work in the remote Northern islands of Scotland |
Dr Anna Souhami, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, gives a talk for the Criminology seminar series on 11th October 2018. |
Anna Souhami |
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| Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges |
Professor Steven Hoffman discusses legal mechanisms available for coordinating international responses to transnational problems, their prospects, and their challenges. |
Steven J Hoffman |
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| Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Fake News and the Politics of Truth |
Fake news spread online is a clear danger to democratic politics. One aspect of that danger is obvious: it spreads misinformation. But other aspects, less often discussed, is that it also spreads confusion and undermines trust. |
Michael Lynch |
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| Oxford Mathematics and the Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Roger Penrose - Eschermatics |
In this lecture Roger Penrose uses M.C Escher's work to illustrate and explain important mathematical ideas and their connections to the visual arts. |
Roger Penrose |
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| All Souls Seminar: 'Shared Beginnings? The Role of Race' |
Dr. Coretta Philips and Dr. Alpa Parmar London School of Economics and University of Oxford |
Alpa Parmar, Coretta Philips |
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| The jugglers and the black cat |
There has never been such a high demand for our personal data, such that it is often said that individuals are the product, not just the client. |
Kerina Jones |
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| Zaharoff Lecture 2017: Penser dans les mots |
Penser dans les mots. (This lecture is in French.) |
Tiphaine Samoyault, Catriona Seth |
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| The 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Poland between Europeanism and Nationalism: National Exception or Regional Norm? |
Jacques Rupnik gives the 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture |
Jacques Rupnik |
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| Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain |
In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blinding is important and why a placebo control may be necessary, even in surgical trials. |
Karolina Wartolowska |
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| How do we find planets around other stars? |
The 3rd Wetton lecture, 19th June 2018 delivered by Professor David W. Hogg, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University |
David W Hogg |
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| The shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data |
Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series. |
Carol Lefebvre |
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| The Enemy In-Between: Ambivalence, Hostility, and Joint Enterprise |
Dr Henrique Carvalho, University of Warwick |
Henrique Carvalho |
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| Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work? |
Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work? - at the European Studies Centre on June 1, 2018 |
John Erik Fossum, Matthew Broad, Hans Petter, Kalypso Nicolaidis |
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| Kfir Cohen - Israeli Literature as Global Literature |
Kfir Cohen discusses Israeli literature as global literature (broadly defined) |
Kfir Cohen |
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| Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality |
Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure. |
Annalise Weckesser |
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| Public trust and police legitimacy: Diversity and complexity in the 'global city' |
Prof. Ben Bradford, University College London |
Ben Bradford |
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| Roger Hood Lecture: Portals to Politics: Grassroots Narratives of Policing in the 'Low End', Downtown Baltimore, South L.A., and the 53206 |
Vesla M. Weaver: Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology. |
Vesla Weaver |
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| 2018 Disability Lecture: That Way Lies Madness - Poets, Power, Health |
The Equality and Diversity Unit and TORCH are delighted to announce that Gwyneth Lewis will give the 2018 Disability Lecture. |
Gwyneth Lewis, Dan Holloway |
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| Bashir Abu-Manneh - Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948 |
Bashir Abu-Manneh discusses Emile Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948. |
Bashir Abu-Manneh |
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| Rami Ginat - Egyptian Communist Voices of Peace (1947-1958) |
Rami Ginat discusses the Egyptian Communist Party's stance on Israel in its formative first decade of statehood. |
Rami Ginat, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| The Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds |
The 16th Hintze lecture, 25th April 2018 delivered by Professor René Doyon, Director, Mont-Mégantic Observatory & Institute for Research on Exoplanets, University of Montreal, Canada |
Rene Doyon |
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| Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health economics? |
Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health economics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare? |
Muir Gray, Lucy Abel |
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| Offensive Cyber, Ecology and the Competition for Security in Cyberspace: The UK’s Approach |
The Strategic Cyber Security model illustrates how offensive cyber capability has been operationalised as a critical component in the delivery of the UK's cyber security strategy |
Graham Fairclough |
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| Cyber Strategy: The Evolution of Cyber Power and Coercion |
Brandon Valeriano examines cyber strategies in their varying forms through quantitative analysis and questions their level of impact |
Brandon Valeriano |
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| Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Conflict |
Al Brown discusses new technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence entering armed conflict |
Al Brown |
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| The Replication Crisis in Biomedicine. What (kind of) crisis? |
Professor Alexander Bird, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, King's College London, gives a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine. |
Alexander Bird |
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| ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies |
The 2018 Astor Visiting Lecture 14th March 2018 delivered by Professor Adam Leroy, Ohio State University. |
Adam Leroy |
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| Defence Cooperation in Europe: Driving Forces and New Formats |
Dr Matlary discusses the driving forces behind defence cooperation, the key players and cooperatives within Europe, as well as Russia’s effect on defence policy. |
Janne Haaland Matlary |
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