| The Pitt River's Catamaran |
History DPhil student, Morgan Breene, contextualizes the catamaran displayed in the Pitt Rivers' Museum. Part of the Oxford and Empire series. |
Morgan Breene |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. |
Ushashi Dasgupta, Jeremy Tabling, Sophia Psarra, Wes Williams |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Elana Shapira: Berta Zuckerkandl and Her Circle: Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism |
Elana Shapira discusses the tangled relationship between Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism |
Elana Shapira |
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| Libya: Past, Present and Future |
Anas El Gomati (Sadeq Institute) and Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London) give a talk on Libya for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). |
Anas El Gomati, Mary Fitzgerald |
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| Greed is dead: politics after individualism |
Economists Paul Collier and John Kay discuss their book, Greed is Dead, with Sir Charles Godfray |
Paul Collier, John Kay, Charles Godfray |
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| Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs |
In this seminar we hosted Professor Francis Nyamnjoh as he presented his lecture titled Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs. |
Francis Nyamnjoh |
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| Zero carbon energy systems |
Join Nick Eyre and Steve Smith for a discussion on a renewable energy, energy efficiency and carbon emissions. |
Nick Eyre, Steve Smith |
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| A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic |
Guest author Dr Fatemeh Shams (Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania) talks with Booktalk host Dr Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford). |
Fatemeh Shams, Zuzanna Olszewska |
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| 'The Lady Collationers': women and the study of medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries |
A look at the careers of the Parker sisters known as the Lady Collationers |
Hope Williard |
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| Learning since our mothers day |
Oxford's registrar gives a personal account of her mother's journey through education and early career, and the expectations for women at the time, and how that has shaped her own career. |
Gill Aitken |
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| The architecture of women’s higher education in England, 1869–1914 |
How University architecture reflects the presence of women and their perceived needs, and the generosity of female benefactors |
Geoffrey Tyack |
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| Diversifying portraiture: women’s place in a project to change the representation of Oxford success |
Alice Prochaska discusses the Diversifying Portraiture project designed by the Equality and Diversity Unit at Oxford University |
Alice Prochaska |
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| A subject ‘for Honours men’: women in the early School of Geography |
A look at early women geography students at Oxford |
Elizabeth Baigent |
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| Women of the Bodleian: personal stories behind progressive steps |
A look at the early women librarians of the Bodleian Library |
Anne Lawrence |
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| The domestic work of women at Oxford colleges |
A look at the history of the women service sector workers at Oxford Colleges and upon whom the comfortable academic life depended |
Kathryne Crossley |
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| Women college principals and their views on degrees, 1879–1920 |
Anne Keene explores the views of the 10 women principals of the 5 women's colleges estabished between 1879-1920 |
Anne Keen |
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| The most woman-studentish? Somerville College and student life |
A look at early women students at Somerville College Oxford |
Mo Moulton |
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| All but absent from history? Women in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Womens roles in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Jane Garnett |
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| ‘Must it be a man?’: the women who helped to make the Oxford English Dictionary |
Peter Gilliver discusses the contribution women made to the Oxford English Dictionary |
Peter Gilliver |
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| Women workers at OUP |
A look back at women who worked at the Oxford University Press. Delivered by Peter Gilliver on behalf of Martin Maw |
Martin Maw, Peter Gilliver |
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| Women in the Oxford English Dictionary |
A fascinating insight into the role of women in the Oxford English Dictionary |
Charlotte Brewer |
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| Introduction |
Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Library, gives a short introduction to the event |
Richard Ovenden |
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| Layers of Protection: Everyday Life with Empowered Objects |
In her talk, Inger Vasstveit discusses “empowered objects” - small Buddhist objects that people wear on their person - in relation to the broader socio-political and cosmological environment in India |
Inger Vasstveit |
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| Towards a plasticity of the mind – New-ish ethical conundrums in dementia care, treatment, and research |
A New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar with Dr David M Lyreskog. |
David M Lyreskog |
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| Net zero – why and how? |
The first discussion in the Oxford Net Zero Series, hosted by the Oxford Martin School, hones in on the fundamental motivation of the research programme: ‘Why net zero? |
Myles Allen, Kaya Axelsson, Sam Fankhauser, Steve Smith |
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| Finding Today’s Slaves: Lessons Learned From Over A Decade of Measurement in Modern Slavery |
Professor Davina Durgana, award-winning international human rights statistician and professor with almost 15 years of experience developing leading global models to assess risk to modern slavery, gives a talk on their work on modern slavery. |
Davina Durgana |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson. |
Oliver Taplin, Karen Leeder, Lucy Jackson, Wes Williams |
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| Writing and Resistance – The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading |
At around 11am on Thursday 18 February 1943 two students in Munich were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. By Monday they had been interrogated, tried, and executed along with another member of the resistance circle. |
Alexandra Lloyd, Eve Mason, Sophie Caws, Sam Thompson |
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| Lines by Alice Oswald |
It's fifty years since the publication of From the Life and Songs of the Crow (by Ted Hughes). This is a lecture about lines and other sound barriers and how Crow flies straight through them. |
Alice Oswald |
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| The Recognition of a Right to be Rescued at Sea |
Professor Seline Trevisanut, Utrecht University, gives a talk for the Public International Law discussion group series. |
Seline Trevisanut |
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| Veridical Data Science for biomedical discovery: detecting epistatic interactions with epiTree |
Bin Yu, Chancellor's Professor, Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, gives a seminar for the Department of Statistics. |
Bin Yu |
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| The Place of Religion After the Uprisings |
Dr. Shadi Hamid (Brookings Institution; contributing writer, The Atlantic) and Professor Nadia Oweidat (Kansas State University) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). |
Shadi Hamid, Nadia Oweidat, Usaama al-Azami |
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| Platforming Artists Podcasts: Simran Uppal |
Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. |
Simran Uppal, Shivaike Shah |
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| The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution |
In this seminar we hosted Jennifer Riggan as she gave a lecture entitled: The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution |
Jennifer Riggan |
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| February 2021 with special guest Dr Rachna Begh |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Dr Rachna Begh. |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Nicola Lindson, Rachna Begh |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Maja Gildin Zuckerman: The Pragmatism of Proto-Zionism: Tracing Jewish Nation-building through a Cultural Sociological Framework |
Maya Gildin Zuckerman discusses a 1897 tour from London to Palestine as a moment in the Zionist meaning making process. |
Maja Gilding Zuckerman |
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| Mainstream |
Nathan Evans (1993) explores the anthology Mainstream |
Nathan Evans |
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| Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism? |
Maha Yahya (PhD, Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre) Maysoon Pachachi (Film director) give a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford). |
Maha Yahya, Maysoon Pachachi, Eugene Rogan |
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| Two Visions of the International Rule of Law |
Professor Monica Hakimi, University of Michigan, gives a talk for the PIL discussion series. |
Monica Hakimi |
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| Dan Hicks discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums with Stanley Ulijaszek |
Dan Hicks, British archaeologist and anthropologist discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums with Stanley Ulijaszek |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Dan Hicks |
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| Protein structure and AI: the excitement about the recent advance made by Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold Programme |
Why is it important to understand the 3-D structures of protein, why are they difficult to construct, and what is the nature of AlphaFold’s advance? Why is this so exciting and what further advances in medicine and the other biosciences may result? |
Yvonne Jones, Phil Biggin, Charles Godfray |
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| Transitional Justice Through the Lens of Art |
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. This panel discussion explores the role of art in transitional justice and the depiction of transitional justice through art. |
Leslie Thomas, Bernadette Vivuya, Nadia Siddiqui |
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| The Justice of Visual Art - Creative State-Building in Times of Transition |
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Art is a radical form of political participation in times of transition. |
Eliza Garnsey |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 10 - Medicine |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Beinn Khulusi, Annie Roberts and Bethan Storey about applying for Medicine at Oxford and what it's like to study Medicine at Queen's. |
Kyla Thomas, Beinn Khulusi, Annie Roberts, Bethan Storey |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 9 - Music |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Rhiannon Harris, Rachel Howe and Rowan Ireland about what it's like to be involved in music at Queen's, including the Eglesfield Music Society and the Queen's Chapel Choir. |
Kyla Thomas, Rhiannon Harris, Rachel Howe, Rowan Ireland |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 8 - Access and Outreach |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Julia Duddy and Jack Wilson about the various access initiatives that happen at Queen's and what it's like to be a Student Ambassador. |
Kyla Thomas, Julia Duddy, Jack Wilson |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 7 - Sports |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Hamish Smeaton, Katie Humphreys and Ying Wong about the different ways to be involved in sports in College and in the University as a whole. |
Kyla Thomas, Hamish Smeaton, Katie Humphreys, Ying Wong |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 6 - Food |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Katie Belok and Charlotte Murphy, current JCR Food Reps, about all things food at Queen's. |
Kyla Thomas, Katie Belok, Charlotte Murphy |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 5 - Leadership |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Isabelle Gibbons, former Vice President for the JCR, about what a JCR does, the elections process, and how you can be involved in student leadership. |
Kyla Thomas, Isabelle Gibbons |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 4 - Domestic Life |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Esme Weeks and Marte van der Graaf about all of the important things you need to know when living in college. |
Kyla Thomas, Esme Weeks, Marte van der Graaf |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 3 - Social Life |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Luke Geoghegan, Pandora McKenzie and Hannah Cole about social life within College and in Oxford more generally, and all things clubs and societies. |
Kyla Thomas, Luke Geoghegan, Pandora McKenzie, Hannah Cole |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 2 - Tutorials |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Francis Lawson, Jessica Wen and Austin Haynes about their experiences of the tutorial system and work in general at Oxford - and more specifically at Queen's. |
Kyla Thomas, Francis Lawson, Jessica Wen, Austin Haynes |
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| The Queen's Access Podcast: Episode 1 - Welfare |
Kyla Thomas, Queen’s JCR Access and Outreach Rep, talks to Seren Ford, Female Welfare rep for the JCR, about how Queen's supports the welfare of its students and what to do if you're in need of some help. |
Kyla Thomas, Seren Ford |
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| How to prevent future pandemics |
Katrien Devolder and Jeff Sebo on factory farms as breeding grounds for pandemics |
Jeff Sebo, Katrien Devolder |
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| Dangerous proportions: Means and Ends in Non-Finite War |
Professor Nehal Bhuta, University of Edinburgh and Dr Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, University of Amsterdam, give a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. |
Nehal Bhuta, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi |
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| The Concept of Race in International Criminal Law - and Beyond |
Carola Lingaas, VID Specialised University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. |
Carola Lingaas |
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| Jamie Stern-Weiner: IHRA: The Politics of a Definition |
Jamie Stern-Weiner (Oxford) traces the genesis and evolution of a controversial 'working definition' of antisemitism. |
Jamie Stern-Weiner |
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| Data work: the hidden talent and secret logic fuelling artificial intelligence |
Professor Gina Neff discusses artificial intelligence and data work, and the ethical and social implications of integrating these tools into organisations. |
Gina Neff, Ian Goldin |
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| The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought |
Join us for the fourth MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Andrew March about his new book, The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, published by Harvard University Press, 2021 |
Usaama al-Azami, Andrew March |
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| Gut Instinct Ep.1 - COVID and cancer, ACLF, and the downfall of biomarkers |
The first episode! We talk through the impact of COVID-19 on colorectal cancer, transcriptomics in ACLF, the pitfalls of biomarker studies in IBD, microscopic colitis and cancer risk, HBV and PBC treatment, and more... |
Michael Fitzpatrick, Tamsin Cargill |
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| Ken Loach in Conversation |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Ken Loach, Judith Buchanan |
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| An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion) |
In this podcast we hear from Selina Molteno, Publisher, Oxford & Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, as they discuss their lecture titled An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War. |
Selina Molteno, Robin Cohen |
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| Delusional states: Love, Citizenship and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan |
This talk examines the emotional and intimate logics of occupation, citizenship, and state-making in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested borderland between India and Pakistan that forms part of the Kashmir dispute. |
Nosheen Ali |
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| Rethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemic |
Prof Susan Jebb and Sir Charles Godfray discuss the possible implications of the pandemic on health policy and tackling obesity. |
Susan Jebb, Charles Godfray |
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| Platforming Artists Podcasts: Azan Ahmed |
Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. |
Azan Ahmed, Shivaike Shah |
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| Lebanon’s Economic and political crisis |
Piotr Schulkes, Felix Walker, and Michael Memari cover the ongoing crises in Lebanon’s political and economic systems. |
Michael Memari, Felix Walker, Piotr Schulkes |
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| The Worm that Turned |
The species with the biggest biomass in any garden is almost certainly the earthworm. These humble denizens of our soil provide essential services by turning over soil and promoting plant growth. |
Lindsay Turnbull, Peter Holland |
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| Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition |
Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. |
Ahmed El Shamsy, Usaama al-Azami |
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| More than a Morbid Quest: obituaries and mapping the invisible college of international lawyers |
Luíza Leão Soares Pereira, Lecturer in International Law at the University of Sheffield, and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. |
Luíza Leão Soares Pereira |
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| Platforming Artists Podcasts: Francesca Amewudah-Rivers |
Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. |
Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Shivaike Shah |
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| In Conversation with Anne Boyd |
Internationally-renowned composer Anne Boyd is in conversation with composer Thomas Metcalf, discussing her life and music ahead of a performance of her String Quartet No. 2 ’Play on the Water’ later this year. |
Anne Boyd, Thomas Metcalf |
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| (Not) Aggregating Data: The Corcoran Memorial Lecture |
Professor Kerrie Mengersen, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty, gives the The Corcoran Memorial Lecture, held on 21st January 2021. |
Kerrie Mengersen |
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| Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Panel Session |
The Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Lecture was followed by a Panel Session with Professor Deborah Ashby, Professor David Cox and Professor David Spiegelhalter. The Panel was chaired by Professor Jennifer Rogers about the role of statistics in society |
Deborah Ashby, David Cox, David Spiegelhalter |
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| Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa |
In this seminar, Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) jointly provide a lecture titled: Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa. |
Rogers Orock and Peter Geschiere |
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| Death by Poisoning: Cautionary Narratives and Inter-Ethnic Accusations in Contemporary Sikkim |
Kikee Bhutia talks about the contemporary discourses around ‘othering’ in Sikkim and analyse the region’s inter-ethnic challenges |
Kikee Bhutia |
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| Dr Juliet Henderson on 'Decolonising Florence Park Street Names' |
Dr Juliet Henderson and Florence Park community members discuss their new project to decolonise local street names. |
Juliet Henderson |
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| Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' (longer version) |
Local historian, Liz Woolley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. |
Liz Woolley |
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| Healthcare after the COVID-19 pandemic: the walls are coming down |
Join Professor Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine and Professor Sir Charles Godfray as they discuss how the healthcare system has had to adapt due to the Covid-19 pandemic and what this means in the future. |
Chas Bountra, Charles Godfray |
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| A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan |
Manan Amend (Columbia), gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. |
Manan Amend |
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| Book at Lunchtime: The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe written by Professor Simukai Chigudu. |
Simukai Chigudu, Sloan Mahone, Jon Schubert, Wes Williams |
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| Achillefs Kapanidis on developing a new rapid test for COVID-19 |
St Cross Fellow Achillefs Kapanidis talks with Stanley Ulijaszek about how his research group developed a new rapid test for SARS CoV2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 |
Achillefs Kapanidis, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| Anna Prashizky: Connecting Ethnicity and Space: The New Russian-Mizrahi-Mediterranean Pop Culture in Israel’s Periphery |
Ann Prashizky discusses 'self orientalistation' by the 1.5 generation of FSU immigrants to Israel. |
Anna Prashizky |
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| Fervent admiration and devotion: Exploring devotional literature in the collected works of the 3rd Dodrupchen |
Renée Ford's introduction to the devotional literature in the collected works of the 3rd Dodrupchen composed in admiration of his late teacher Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. |
Renée Ford |
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| Sharks, Death, Surfers |
Melissa McCarthy (1994) on her book, Sharks, Death, Surfers |
Melissa McCarthy |
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| The ages of globalization |
Professor Jeff Sachs discusses his new book 'The Ages of Globalization' with Professor Ian Goldin. |
Jeff Sachs, Ian Goldin |
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| Michael Parker and the COVID-19 response |
St Cross College Fellow Michael Parker is Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and of the Ethox Centre, all at the University of Oxford. |
Michael Parker, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| Rana Mitter and the implications of COVID-19 for China |
St Cross College Fellow Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, in a conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek about China and the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Rana Mitter, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire, written by Dr Priya Atwal. |
Priya Atwal, Faisal Devji, Polly O’Hanlon, Wes Williams |
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| January 2021 with special guest Professor Jasjit Ahluwalia |
Jamie & Nicola review 4 new studies & interview Prof Jasjit Ahluwalia. |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Nicola Lindson, Jasjit Ahluwalia |
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| The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived |
Professor Morten L. Kringlebach explains how recent advances in neuroimaging offer an insight into hedonia and eudaimonia, and draws out implications for neuropsychiatric disorders. |
Morten L. Kringelbach |
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| Etiquette |
Isabel Parkinson (2015) on her debut novel, Etiquette |
Isabel Parkinson |
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| Adam Sutcliffe: Light Unto the Nations - The Idea of Jewish Purpose and the Emergence of Zionism (Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar) |
Adam Sutcliffe (KCL) discusses how Zionist ideologues have viewed the notion of Jewish purpose. |
Adam Sutcliffe |
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| 21st century technologies for tackling 21st century pandemics |
Christophe Fraser of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, who advises the UK’s NHS COVID-19 Tracing app, and Prof Oliver Pybus discuss the opportunities and challenges of successfully applying new technologies to pandemics past, present, and future. |
Christophe Fraser, Oliver Pybus |
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| Political Crimes and Amnesties: Scope and Limitations to Transitions to Democracy |
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. |
Renata Barbosa |
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| New Year’s Episode |
The whole team gets together to discuss what their moment of note of 2020 was, what they are looking out for in 2021, and what their favourite book on the Middle East is. |
Piotr Schulkes, Helena Murphy, Frederike Brockhoven, Max Randall, Rose Johnson, Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker, Michael Memari |
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| Binding and Non-binding International Agreements (as explored by the OAS Juridical Committee) |
Professor Duncan Hollis, Temple University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series on 21st January 2021. |
Duncan Hollis |
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| Seeing the Wood for the Trees (Part II) |
We take a walk around a local park to admire more winter trees and see why conifers win over broadleaved trees as we move further North, but even they have to drop their needles during the winter in the farthest reaches of the Boreal forest. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Tal Shamur (Cambridge): The emergence of melancholic citizenship at the urban periphery: The case of south Tel Aviv protest against global migration |
Tal Shamur presents his work on the melancholic protest of Hatikva residents. |
Tal Shamur |
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| What the Communities Say: Ex-Combatant Integration and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone |
Breakout session on ‘Post-conflict reconstruction and Peacebuilding’, third talk: Johanna Boersch-Supan, D.Phil. Candidate, Politics and International relations, Oxford University. |
Johanna Boersch-Supan |
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| Evaluating Stability: An Impossible dream?’ The challenges of evaluation in Afghanistan |
Breakout session on ‘Post-conflict reconstruction and Peacebuilding’, second talk: Bjorn Muller-Wille, Royal Military Academy , Sandhurst. |
Bjorn Muller-Wille |
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