| Meet the Manuscripts: judging a book by its cover |
The covers can tell us as much about a book as its contents. This workshop explores the secrets which bookbindings reveal about the uses and histories of medieval manuscripts. |
Matthew Holford, Andrew Honey |
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| The Laws of War in International Thought |
Professor Pablo Kalmanovitz, International Studies Division at CIDE, Mexico City, gives a talk for the Oxford PIL discussion group. |
Pablo Kalmanovitz |
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| Andrew Pollard and the Development of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine |
Andrew Pollard discusses the development of the COVID-19 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine with Stanley Ulijaszek |
Andrew Pollard, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| Ashmolean Museum - Middle East Centre: Owning the Past: A troubled century of Anglo-Iraqi relations |
A webinar that explores the complex history binding Iraq and the U.K. from the First World War through the mandate and creation of the Hashemite monarchy, and Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. |
Eugene Rogan, Dina Rizk Khoury, Charles Tripp, Myfanwy Lloyd |
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| March 2021 with special guest Professor Caitlin Notley |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Professor Caitlin Notley. |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Nicola Lindson, Caitlin Notley |
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| Platforming Artists Podcasts: Fiona Macintosh |
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. |
Fiona Macintosh, Shivaike Shah |
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| LGBT+ History Month with Corinne Humphreys & Michael Gunning |
Watch the 2021 LGBT History Month lecture with Stonewall Sport Champions |
Corinne Humphreys, Michael Gunning |
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| Translation and Retranslation: priorities, discoveries, pleasures |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events 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. |
Sasha Dugdale, Oliver Ready, Wes Williams |
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| The Black Chicago Renaissance Women: Lives and Legacies in Music | Dr. Samantha Ege |
Held on International Women's Day 2021, Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities - in collaboration with Lincoln College, Oxford. |
Samantha Ege |
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| Gut Instinct Ep. 2 - Long-term drains for ascites, the developing gut, and drugs for obesity |
A smorgasbord of research for you this week; we discuss quantitative and qualitative data about long-term drains for ascites, an incredible atlas of the developing gut, drugs for obesity, fibrates for itch, and pharmacokinetics in pregnancy. |
Michael Fitzpatrick, Tamsin Cargill |
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| Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered? |
Sponsored in association with Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, Founder and Chair, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute. With Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University) |
Anoush Ehteshami |
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| Beyond zero: the role of negative emissions |
What are the different ways to remove carbon dioxide from air? How much potential do they have, and how can we scale them up? Perhaps most importantly, will negative emissions be a vital addition to action on emissions or a costly distraction? |
Tim Kruger, Steve Smith |
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| The stymieing effect of unresolved ethical issues on the conservation of biodiversity |
In this presentation, Professor John Vucetich & Professor David MacDonald, will examine how the terms “ecosystem health” and “endangered species” are underdetermined to the point of being increasingly problematic for advancing real-world conservation |
John Vucetich, David Macdonald |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 1: Performing Innocence: Belated |
Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the first in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. |
Emily C. Burns, Peter Gibian |
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| Leading and teaching Evidence-Based Health Care |
Professor Kamal Mahtani and David Nunan interview Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University, about his experience of leadership and his work in capacity building through teaching and supervision. |
Kamal Mahtani, David Nunan, Paul Glasziou |
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| Distribution-dependent generalization bounds for noisy, iterative learning algorithms |
Karolina Dziugaite (Element AI), gives the OxCSML Seminar on 26th February 2021. |
Karolina Dziugaite |
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| Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring |
Dr Marc Owen Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) and Dr Sahar Khamis (University of Maryland) give a talk for the MEC Friday Seminars Series. Chaired by Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford). |
Marc Owen Jones, Sahar Khamis, Walter Armbrust, Eugene Rogan |
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| The Mongolian Kanjur - Should Tibetologists Care? |
Kirill Alekseev presents his latest research on the Mongolian Kanjur and its ramifications in Tibetan Studies |
Kirill Alekseev |
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| Matthew Snape on running COVID-19 vaccine trials |
Matthew Snape discusses the running COVID-19 vaccine trials with Stanley Ulijaszek |
matthew snape, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| The challenge of anti-microbial resistance |
In conversation with Chris Dye, Sally Davies will explore the major challenge of anti-microbial resistance and discuss whether people’s greater appreciation of medical risk due to the pandemic will help the development of effective countermeasures. |
Dame Sally Davies, Chris Dye |
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| Thinking again about the future and prospects for humanity |
In conversation with Charles Godfray, Martin Rees will explore how the global experience of the COVID-19 pandemic might change the way societies and policymakers grapple with the major challenges of the 21st century. |
Martin Rees, Charles Godfray |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 3; Performing Innocence: Primitive / Incipient |
Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the third in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. |
Emily C. Burns, James Smalls |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 2 Performing Innocence: Puritan |
Professor c, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the second lecture in the The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914 series. |
Emily C. Burns, Wanda M. Corn |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 4; Performing Innocence: Baby Nation |
Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the fourth in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. |
Emily C. Burns, Alastair Wright |
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| The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands |
In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands". |
David Anderson |
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| Tunisia: Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society) |
Hela Ammar (Artist) and Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. Chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College, Oxford), the discussant was Professor Charles R H Tripp (SOAS). |
Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou, Michael Willis, Charles R H Tripp |
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| Among the Supporting Cast |
Sir Timothy Sainsbury (1953) on his memoir, Among the Supporting Cast. |
Sir Timothy Sainsbury |
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| 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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