| Tolkien and Beowulf |
A talk by Dr Laura Varnam on Tolkien's long engagement with the Old English poem 'Beowulf' as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series. |
Laura Varnam |
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| A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England? |
A talk by PhD candidate Grace Khuri, University of Oxford, on Tolkien's Elvish history and English 'mythology', as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series. |
Grace Khuri |
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| Ecology - Chapter 10 |
Learn the key concepts in ecology and what makes populations change over time, with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Plants - Chapter 9 |
Plants are awesome, with photosynthesis being the most disruptive invention ever! Join Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford to understand why |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Vertebrates - Chapter 8 |
Take a guided tour of the biology and ancestry of the vertebrates with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Animals - Chapter 7 |
Take a whistle-stop tour of the Animal Kingdom with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Eukarotyes - Chapter 6 |
Explore the mysterious origins of the cells all multicellular organisms are made from - eukaryotic cells - with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Bacteria - Chapter 5 |
Learn about the microbiome, the amazing flexibility of bacteria, and why we have an antibiotic resistance crisis with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford |
Lindsey Turnbull |
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| Energy in Cells - Chapter 4 |
Learn how cells generate energy by harnessing chemical reactions, with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Sexual Reproduction - Chapter 3 |
Almost all species use sex to reproduce, but biologists struggle to understand why; join Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford as she explains the costs and benefits |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Evolution - Chapter 2 |
Learn the theory of evolution in a simpler, more intuitive way than ever before with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Information in Cells - Chapter 1 |
Learn how cells use the information in DNA and the key components that make up a cell, with Professor Lindsay Turnbull from the University of Oxford |
Lindsey Turnbull |
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| The Dancing Master in Context: Playford’s publishing and music-making in 17th century England |
In this session, we explore what Playford’s publishing activities can tell us about how music was incorporated into different social environments in seventeenth-century English society and the role music played in peoples lives. |
Rebecca Herissone, Alice Little, Helen Cook |
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| Cash Transfer Grants in South Africa during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Work Behind the ESRC Outstanding Public Policy Impact Award 2023 |
The CSAE's Kate Orkin has won the ESRC award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact 2023. Stefan Dercon talks to Kate about the work behind the cash grant programme in South Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic that reached an extra 26.2 million people. |
Stefan Dercon, Kate Orkin |
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| Human security versus national security: have we lost our capacity for collective action? |
Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, explores the implications of growing paralysis, polarisation and uncertainty for a world in a race against time to achieve systemic and transformational change. |
Achim Steiner |
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| The United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities in the 21st Century: some challenges and opportunities |
Adama Dieng, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, July 2012 to July 2020, discusses the UN's role in the global collective responsibility to prevent genocide and other mass atrocities. |
Adama Dieng |
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| Unseen Beings and Tibetan Eco-Daemonology |
Erik Jampa Andersson's presentation delves into the intricate world of Tibetan eco-daemonology and advocates for a deeper understanding of Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
Erik Jampa Andersson |
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| The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation |
A.E. Stallings gave her inaugural lecture as the Oxford Professor of Poetry on 20 November 2023. She talked on 'The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation'. |
Alicia Stallings |
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| Hegel's Enlightenment |
Professor Richard Bourke delivers the 2023 Annual Besterman Lecture. |
Richard Bourke |
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| Strachey Lecture: How Can Algorithms Help to Protect our Privacy |
In this term's Strachey lecture, Professor Monika Henzinger gives an introduction to differential privacy with an emphasis on differential private algorithms that can handle changing input data. |
Monika Henzinger |
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| Recalibrating the Perspective on Tibetan and Himalayan History: Identity- and Nation-Building in Bhutan |
In this talk, Dr. Dagmar Schwerk presents the work-in-progress of her current research project, an investigation into identity- and nation-building in eighteenth-century Bhutan |
Dagmar Schwerk |
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| Emptiness, War and Migration |
In the UK, migration debates tend to be about the idea of fullness – concepts of arrivals, overcrowding, competition for resources – but what about emptiness? We learn why it is such an important part of understanding migration. |
Maria Gunko, Volodymyr Artiukh, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead, Delphine Boagey |
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| Time To Look Up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisis |
After a summer of extreme heatwaves, devastating wildfires and deadly flooding across the world, all made worse by climate change, the Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma, President of COP26 in Glasgow 2021, will discuss the ongoing climate crisis. |
Alok Sharma, Charles Godfray |
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| Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories |
Pervez Hoodbhoy seminar given as part of the Modern South Asian Seminar series in October 2023 |
Pervez Hoodbhoy |
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| Automating Immigration in the Digital Age |
What do advancements in AI mean for immigration? We discuss the current and emerging practices of new technologies in the field, and explore developments in the use of predictive analytics, automated risk assessment and profiling. |
Derya Ozkul, Caterina Rodelli, Rob McNeil, Jacqui Broadhead, Delphine Boagey |
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| Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective |
Professor Avi Shlaim gives the George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023, examining the Jewish exodus from Iraq in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and arguing the Zionist movement played an active part in the uprooting of Iraqi Jews. |
Avi Shlaim, Eugene Rogan |
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| Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan's Paradiplomacy' |
Dr. Diana Galeeva introduces her book which examines the relations between the Gulf States and Russia from the Soviet era to the present day. |
Diana Galeeva, Roy Allison, Eugene Rogan |
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| Strachey Lecture: Use or Be Used - Regaining Control of AI |
It’s said that Henry Ford’s customers wanted “a faster horse”. If Henry Ford was selling us artificial intelligence today, what would the customer call for, “a smarter human”? |
Neil Lawrence |
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| 12 - Young Chan Kim |
As a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, Wolfson JRF, Lecturer and NHS doctor at the John Radcliffe, a father and a husband to a DPhil student, Young Chan Kim talks about keeping busy helps him balance it all. |
Young Chan Kim, Femke Gow |
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| 11 - Estelle Paulus |
DPhil Candidate and Vice Chair of General Meeting at Wolfson, Estelle studying sustainable food systems and is on a journey to make a real impact on the world. |
Estelle Paulus, Femke Gow |
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| Memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE and Celia Kerslake |
The Director and Fellows of the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College convened a memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) and Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023). |
Eugene Rogan, Roger Goodman, Gina Rowland, Rosie MacGregor, Michael Willis, Dimitris Antoniou, Linda Schilcher, Laurent Mignon, Ahmed al-Shahi |
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| Indian Encounters with Early Photography: Camera, Cannon, and the ‘Exhibitionary Complex’ |
Sean Willcox: Indian Encounters with Early Photography: Camera, Cannon, and the ‘Exhibitionary Complex’ |
Sean Willcox |
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| Materiality and ‘Substance’: Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing |
Francesca Strobino: Materiality and ‘Substance’: Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing |
Francesca Strobino |
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| The early history of photography in relation to three notions of “fixity”: chemistry, politics, and meaning |
Chitra Ramalingam: The early history of photography in relation to three notions of “fixity”: chemistry, politics, and meaning. |
Chitra Ramalingam |
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| Early descriptions of the process of photography |
Michael Pritchard: Early descriptions of the process of photography. |
Michael Pritchard |
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| The global engagement of two British photographers, James William Newland (1810-57) and Louisa How (1821-93) |
Elisa deCourcy: The global engagement of two British photographers, James William Newland (1810-57) and Louisa How (1821-93). |
Elisa deCourcy |
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| John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials in 1839 |
Olena Chervonik: John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials in 1839. |
Olena Chervonik |
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| Photographic images published in books and newspapers show how early British photographers represented racial and class differences in their work |
Geoffrey Batchen: Photographic images published in books and newspapers show how early British photographers represented racial and class differences in their work |
Geoffrey Batchen |
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| Women’s Movements and Citizenship in the Middle East |
Women's Rights Research Seminar where guest speaker, Dr Roel Meijer (Guest Lecturer in Islam Studies, Radboud Universiteit) presents on Women’s movements and citizenship in the Middle East. |
Roel Meijer, Maryam Alemzadeh, Marilyn Booth |
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| ‘Treasures’ (gter ma) and treasure-finders in Yungdrung Bön: a Tibetan tradition spanning a thousand years (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) |
This talk presents an outline of the Yungdrung Bön ’Treasure’ tradition |
Per Kværne |
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| The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story |
Dr Haytham Alhamwi draws on his personal experiences to explain the story of the conflict in Syria. |
Haytham Alhamwi |
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| Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East |
This lecture explores Israel’s secret relations with its neighbors during the years 1948-2022. |
Elie Podeh, Eugene Rogan |
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| Professor Sara Khalid |
Georgina Ferry interviews Sara Khalid, Associate Professor, 31 March 2023. |
Sara Khalid, Georgina Ferry |
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| Professor David Eyre |
Georgina Ferry interviews David Eyre, Professor of Infectious Diseases, 28 March 2023. |
David Eyre, Georgina Ferry |
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| Yi-Chun Wang |
Georgina Ferry interviews Yi-Chun Wang, Research Scientist and PhD Student, 24 March 2023. |
Yi-Chun Wang, Georgina Ferry |
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| Dr Claas Kirchhelle |
Georgina Ferry interviews Claas Kirchhelle, former Honorary Fellow in Vaccine History (Oxford Vaccine Group/Oxford Martin School), 22 March 2023. |
Claas Kirchhelle, Georgina Ferry |
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| Elizabeth Stafford |
Georgina Ferry interviews Elizabeth Stafford, Clinical Research Nurse Manager, 22 March 2023. |
Elizabeth Stafford, Georgina Ferry |
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| Sam Foster |
Georgina Ferry interviews Sam Foster, former Chief Nursing Officer (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust), 22 March 2023. |
Sam Foster, Georgina Ferry |
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| Professor Mary Daly |
Georgina Ferry interviews Mary Daly, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, 20 March 2023. |
Mary Daly, Georgina Ferry |
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| Sumali Bajaj |
Georgina Ferry interviews Sumali Bajaj, DPhil student (Department of Biology), 17 March 2023. |
Sumali Bajaj, Georgina Ferry |
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| Dr Andrew Brent |
Georgina Ferry interviews Andrew Brent, Consultant in Infectious Diseases & General Internal Medicine and Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), 17 March 2023. |
Andrew Brent, Georgina Ferry |
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| Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war |
Why did Iraq fail to prove its WMD absence before the 2003 invasion? This seminar examines new evidence from Iraq and United Nations sources to shed light on the internal debates leading up to the 2003 war. |
Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Neil Ketchley |
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| The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State |
This talk examines the Shi‘ite political parties linked to Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) and their influence over the state, exploring their strategies for legitimacy in politics, religion, and society. |
Inna Rudolf, Maryam Alemzadeh |
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| The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism |
This talk explores the impact of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 on militant Islamism using new evidence. |
Thomas Hegghammer, Neil Ketchley |
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| Dr Xin Xu |
Georgina Ferry interviews Xin Xu, Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) and Junior Research Fellow (Kellogg College), 15 March 2023. |
Xin Xu, Georgina Ferry |
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| Professor Kate Orkin |
Georgina Ferry interviews Kate Orkin, Associate Professor in Economics and Public Policy, 15 March 2023. |
Kate Orkin, Georgina Ferry |
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| Professor Daniel Prieto-Alhambra |
Georgina Ferry interviews Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Professor of Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology, 14 March 2023. |
Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Georgina Ferry |
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| Dr Rajarshi Banerjee |
Georgina Ferry interviews Rajarshi Banerjee, CEO Perspectum and former student of Oxford Medical School, 14 March 2023. |
Rajarshi Banerjee, Georgina Ferry |
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| Tony Brett |
Georgina Ferry interviews Tony Brett, Director of Medical Sciences Division IT Services, 28 February 2023. |
Tony Brett, Georgina Ferry |
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| Professor Sheetal Silal |
Georgina Ferry interviews Sheetal Silal, Associate Professor (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town) and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Disease Modelling (Nuffield Department of Medicine), 28 February 2023. |
Sheetal Silal, Georgina Ferry |
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| Dr Ane Ogbe |
Georgina Ferry interviews Ane Ogbe, former Senior Immunologist (Frater Lab) and Group Leader (Evox Therapeutics), 23 Febrauary 2023. |
Ane Ogbe, Georgina Ferry |
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| Professor Nicole Zitzmann |
Georgina Ferry interviews Nicole Zitzmann, Professor of Virology and Principal Investigator (Department of Biochemistry), 22 February 2023. |
Nicole Zitzmann, Georgina Ferry |
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| Dr Chia Chen (Jane) Hsu |
Georgina Ferry interviews Chia Chen (Jane) Hsu, Chief Operating Officer (SimCell) and former postdoctoral researcher (Institute of Biomedical Engineering), 20 February 2023. |
Chia Chen (Jane) Hsu, Georgina Ferry |
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| Chris Price |
Georgina Ferry interviews Chris Price, Divisional Registrar and Chief Operating Officer for Medical Sciences, 8 February 2023. |
Chris Price, Georgina Ferry |
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| Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine and Japanese Manuscripts |
An introduction to the analysis of painted Byzantine and Japanese manuscripts by the Bodleian Libraries' new Heritage Scientist. |
Kate Fulcher |
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| Speedy or sloppy?: The opportunities and challenges of rapid qualitative research |
Using a variety of examples of fast and slow qualitative research this talk explores the affordances of rapid methods, and help researchers decide if and where to use them in their own work. |
Anna Dowrick |
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| Harmohinder Bahl |
Meet Worcester's Home Bursar. |
Harmohinder Bahl, David Isaac |
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| Queer Bibliography: A Discussion |
What is queer bibliography? How does it intersect with other critical bibliographies, (feminist, Black and liberation bibliography)? How does it relate to traditional bibliographic practice? What opportunities might queer methods and approaches provide? |
Sarah Pyke, James Sargan, Adam Smyth |
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| Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor |
Ajay Skaria - University of Minnesota, speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 1 May 2023. |
Ajay Skaria |
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| 2023 Disability Lecture: Going beyond standards in technology and accessibility |
Dr Jessica Boland shares her experiences as a hard-of-hearing/deaf academic in science and technology, and her passion for improving accessibility in higher education. |
Jessica Boland, Tim Soutphommasane, Sarah Stephenson-Hunter |
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| Realist inquiry in global health practice: trials, tribulations (& triumphs?) |
Dr Sara Van Belle, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp gives a talk on the practice of realist inquiry in global health. |
Sara Van Belle |
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| Choreographing Sophocles |
A podcast episode with Leo Aylen and David Wiles |
Leo Aylen, David Wiles |
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| How the weird and wonderful properties of magnetised laser plasmas could ignite fusion-energy research |
Archie Bott explains how a promising scheme for fusion relies on a novel feature of hot laser-plasmas: introducing a magnetic field of the correct strength alters the plasma’s fundamental properties in a highly counterintuitive yet beneficial manner. |
Archie Bott |
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| Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion |
Georgia Acton introduces stellarators, discusses the features that distinguish them from tokamaks, highlight the challenges we currently face, and discusses how we might overcome them. |
Georgia Acton |
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| Magnetic confinement fusion: Science that’s hotter than a Kardashian Instagram post |
Michael Barnes introduces the basic concepts behind magnetic confinement fusion, he describes why it is so challenging and discusses possibilities for the future. |
Michael Barnes |
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| Foreign Policy and Human Values |
Sir Laurie Bristow KCMG, President of Hughes Hall Cambridge and three times Ambassador for the United Kingdom, delivers the 2023 Tanner lecture |
Laurie Bristow |
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| Shaping legacies |
Lecture 5 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series |
Ann M Blair |
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| Complicating attributions |
Lecture 4 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series |
Ann M Blair |
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| Mechanical and intellectual |
Lecture 3 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series |
Ann M Blair |
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| Invisible and visible |
Lecture 2 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series |
Ann M Blair |
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| Amanuenses in the longue durée |
Lecture 1 of the 2023 Lyell lecture series |
Ann M Blair |
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| Testing usability and impact of the OxRisk prediction models |
Professor Seena Fazel, University of Oxford gives a talk on recent advances in prognostic modelling in psychiatry. |
Seena Fazel |
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| Alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Is moderate drinking really beneficial for cardiovascular disease? |
Dr Derrick Bennett, University of Oxford gives a talk on the epidemiological evidence of alcohol and cardiovascular disease. |
Derrick Bennett |
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| Pakistan: Political Economy of an Elite Captured State |
Miftah Ismail Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance gives a lecture |
Miftah Ismail |
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| Slade Lecture Series 2023: Defiant Sculpture: Isek Bodys Kingelez and Mobutu Sese-Seko’s Authenticité, 1990s |
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu argues that the extravagant hypermodernity of Isek Bodys Kingelez’s architectural sculptures, as with segments of popular arts, constitute a distinctive form of imaginative resistance to official culture under Mobutu. |
Chika Okeke-Agulu |
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| Slade Lecture Series 2023: Drawing the Line: Obiora Udechukwu and Nigeria’s Smiling General 1980s-1990s |
In the 1980’s, the painter and poet Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946), a leading figure of the Nsukka School, was at the height of his powers, with drawings and paintings celebrated for their lyrical power and trenchant social commentary. |
Chika Okeke-Agulu |
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| Slade Lecture Series 2023: Prison Drawing: Ibrahim El Salahi in Al Nimeiry’s Sudan, 1970s |
In this lecture, Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu focuses on the calligraphic figuration of Ibrahim El Salahi (b. 1930), the country’s leading modernist and onetime political prisoner. |
Chika Okeke-Agulu |
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| Slade Lecture Series 2023: To speak in Parables: Dumile Feni in Hendrik Verwoerd’s South Africa, 1960s |
Chika Okeke-Agulu examines art & politics in 1960s South Africa paying particular attention to Hendrik Verwoerd, the self-styled “Great Induna,” & architect of Apartheid, whose assassination in 1966 slowed the triumphant march of Afrikaner racist ideology |
Chika Okeke-Agulu |
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| Slade Lecture Series 2023: Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian artists in the Nasserite State, 1950s-1960s |
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu follows the formal and tonal shifts in Gazbia Sirry’s work as it responded to, and was shaped by Nasser’s and post-revolutionary Egypt’s political fortunes. |
Chika Okeke-Agulu |
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| Sūtra in Early Buddhist Treasure Texts (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) |
Reinier Langelaar’s talk on early Tibetan treasure literature’s influences, inspirations, and narrative themes |
Reinier Langelaar |
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| Helen Parish |
Meet Worcester's Senior Tutor. |
Helen Parish, David Isaac |
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| Russia and Christian nationalism: the background of a conflict |
How the global resurgence of traditionalist, religion-based nationalism relates to the specifics of the present conflict between Russia and Ukraine. |
Rowan Williams |
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| Exiting Russia: the effects of multinational withdrawal |
Can corporate action contribute to human rights, peace, and conflict prevention? |
Bennett Freeman |
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| The Global Food Crisis and the Ukraine War |
Exploring the three elements that intersect and contribute to the global food crisis. |
Alex de Waal |
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| The early medieval history of Ukraine: mythology and historical logics |
The history of early Slavs as a point for debunking historical misconceptions that benefit one state at the expense of another. |
Andrii Pastushenko |
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| Ukraine and the fragmentation of world order |
Using the unfolding crisis of the Ukraine war as a lens to consider the drivers of conflict and transformation in the contemporary world order. |
Luke Cooper |
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| Being a Social Entrepreneur in a War Zone |
How did I evacuate over 30,000 women and children from the warzone, not knowing Ukraine and not speaking a word of Ukrainian? I drew on my business, political and organisation skills to move quickly to save thousands of lives. This is my story. |
Brooks Newmark |
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| The work of the media during the Russian-Ukrainian war |
How the media in Ukraine transitioned to covering the war with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. |
Yaroslava Bukhta |
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| Understanding the Ukraine's Grassroots in the Russia-Ukraine War |
The need to consider grassroots nuances in Ukraine in order to understand the Russia-Ukraine war, and possible strategies for peace going forward. |
Marnie Howlett |
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| Sleep, Light, Architecture |
How can a neuroscientist and an architect help us to understand the world of sleep and the rhythms that govern our lives? |
Russell Foster, Ian Ritchie, Sally Shuttleworth, Ruth Abrahams, Madeleine Morris |
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