| 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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| The Stabilisation Discourse and ending War.’ British experience in Helmand, Afghanistan |
Breakout session on ‘Post-conflict reconstruction and Peacebuilding’, first talk: Dr Stuart Gordon, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. |
Stuart Gordon |
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| The Politics and Peace and Justice: the Role of the ICC in Uganda |
Breakout session on ‘Peace and Transitional Justice’, third talk: Lydiah Kemunto Bosire, D.Phil. Candidate, Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. |
Lydiah Kemunto Bosire |
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| Sierra Leone’s transition: A Road to Peace in the Short Term |
Breakout session on ‘Peace and Transitional Justice’, second talk: Chris Mahony, D.Phil Candidate, Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. |
Chris Mahony |
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| Reconciliation’s Citizen: Insights from the Peace Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina |
Breakout session on ‘Peace and Transitional Justice’, first talk: Briony Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, Manchester University; Student Chair, Oxford Transitional Justice Research. |
Briony Jones |
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| To Heal and to Create: Healing Violent Conflict and re-creating Peace with Equity, Inclusion and Art |
Breakout session on ‘Grassroots Peacebuilding – and linking it to national and international levels’, second talk: Dr Rama Mani, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University. |
Rama Mani |
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| NGO Peacebuilding in Complex Emergencies: the case of Eastern Africa |
Breakout session on ‘Grassroots Peacebuilding – and linking it to national and international levels’, first talk: Fr Elias Omondi Opongo, Ph.D. candidate, Dept of Peace Studies, Bradford University. |
Fr Elias Omondi Opongo |
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| Misplaced Analogies: 'Coordination' and 'Learning' in the Building of Peace |
Breakout session on 'The Role of International and Regional Organizations in Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping', third talk: Dr Jochen Prantl, Oxford University, reflects on a lack of effective learning from peacebuilding experience. |
Jochen Prantl |
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| The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet |
Episode 2, with Dr Faisal Devji, (St Antony’s College, Oxford), talks with Joshua Craze (University of Chicago) and writer Aaron Tugendhaft about Aaron's new book The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet, University of Chicago Press 2020. |
Faisal Devji, Joshua Craze, Aaron Tugendhaft |
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| Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads |
First episode of Booktalk, where host Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) talks with David Rundell on his book Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads, Bloomsbury Publication (2020. |
Eugene Rogan, David Rundell |
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| Strings and Fields |
Will strings be the theory of everything?, presented by Prof Luis Fernando Alday. |
Luis Fernando Alday |
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| Classical and Quantum Black Holes |
Prof March-Russell explains our latest understanding of black holes, some of the most mysterious objects in the Universe. |
John March-Russell |
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| Why is Quantum Gravity so hard? |
A pressing question in our quest to understand the Universe is how to unify quantum mechanics and gravity, the very small and the very large. |
John Wheater |
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| Building Peace in Georgia: International Organizations and Conflict Resolution in South Ossetia and Abkhazi |
Breakout session on 'The Role of International and regional Organizations in Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping,' second talk: Professor Neil MacFarlane, Lester Pearson Professor of International Relations, Oxford University. |
Neil MacFarlane |
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| SADC and the Zimbabwe Crisis |
Breakout session on 'The Role of International and Regional Organizations in Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping’, first talk: Miles Tendi, D.Phil. candidate, Dept of Overseas Development, Oxford University. |
Miles Tendi |
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| Different Approaches to Institutionalizing the Study of peace |
Breakout session on 'The Study of Peace in Schools and Higher Education’, third talk: Professor Mary King, Fellow, Rothermere Institute, Oxford University. |
Mary King |
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| Building Peace into the UK HE Curriculum |
Breakout session on 'The Study of Peace in Schools and Higher Education’, second talk: Dr Neil Ferguson, Director, Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Associate Professor of Political Psychology, Liverpool Hope University. |
Neil Ferguson |
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| In The Footsteps Of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 3 |
Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University Of Oxford, heads for Paris in her pursuit of Marie-Antoinette. |
Cecile Rives, Catriona Seth, Chantal Thomas |
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| In The Footsteps Of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 2 |
Catriona Seth, visits Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, built in the 19th century by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, a great collector of 18th century decorative arts, especially objects associated with Marie-Antoinette. |
Catriona Seth, Pippa Shirley, Rachel Jacobs, Mia Jackson |
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| In the Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 1 |
Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford, visits the Wallace Collection in London on the trail of objects that once belonged to Marie-Antoinette. |
Catriona Seth, Helen Jacobsen |
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| Turing 2018/8: Searle versus Turing - Conclusion |
Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Turing 2018/7: Blockhead, the Chinese Room, and ELIZA |
Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Turing 2018/6: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" - Overview of Turing's 1950 paper |
Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Turing 2018/5: Settling Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem, and the Halting Problem |
Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Turing 2018/4: Enumerating the Computable Numbers, and the Universal Turing Machine |
Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Turing 2018/3: "On Computable Numbers" - Turing's 1936 Paper |
Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Turing 2018/2: Hilbert's Programme and Gödel's Theorem |
Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Turing 2018/1: Types of number, Cantor, infinities, diagonal arguments |
Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’ |
Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X |
Peter Millican, Sarah Gilbert, Peter Horby, Jimmy Whitworth, John Bell, Erica Charters |
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| Ebola |
Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. |
Peter Millican, Kevin Decock, Katie Ewer, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
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| HIV/AIDS |
In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV. |
Peter Millican, Harold Jaffe, John Frater, Kevin Decock, Jimmy Whitworth |
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| The 'Spanish' Flu |
Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak. |
Peter Millican, John Oxford, Brian Angus, Claas Kirchhelle |
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| 'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't? |
In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak... |
Peter Millican, Julia Mannherz, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
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| Cholera |
Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow |
Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti |
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| Constructing the defences of peace in the 'minds of man' |
Professor David Johnson, Dept of Comparative Education, Oxford University, on 'Constructing the defences of peace in the "minds of man."' On improving peace education curricula in schools in conflict-affected countries. |
David Johnson |
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| Sources for Peacebuilding in Islam |
Breakout session on 'Religion, Peace and Conflict'. Third talk, Imam Monawar Hussein, Eton College and Central Oxford Mosque, on 'Sources for Peacebuilding in Islam.' |
Monawar Hussein |
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| Christianity, Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland |
Breakout session on 'Religion, Peace and Conflict.' Second talk: Dr David Tombs, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, Dublin. on 'Christianity, Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland'. |
David Tombs |
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| Forcing the End Times: US Christian Zionism and Israel |
Breakout session on 'Religion, Peace and Conflict.' First talk: Carlo Aldrovandi, Ph.D. candidate, Peace Studies, Univ. of Bradford, on 'Forcing the End Times: US Christian Zionism and Israel'. |
Carlo Aldrovandi |
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| Security and Development |
Dr Anke Hoeffler, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, gives the second plenary address. |
Anke Hoeffler |
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| Strategic Peacebuilding for the 21st Century |
Professor Scott Appleby, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame |
Scott Appleby |
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| Oxpeace 2009: The Serious Study of Peace Introduction |
At the morning plenary, Saturday 2 May, Revd Dr Liz Carmichael MBE (Oxford University, Theology) introduces the Conference. |
Liz Carmichael |
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| Oxpeace 2009: The Serious Study of Peace Keynote |
Professor Neil MacFarlane, Lester Pearson Professor of International Relations (Oxford) introduces Jonathan Powell to give the keynote address at the Conference dinner, on his experience of peacemaking and implementing peace in Northern Ireland. |
Neil MacFarlane |
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| Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society |
Professor Deborah Ashby, President of the RSS, gives the 2020 Florence Nightingale lecture. |
Deborah Ashby, David Cox, David Spiegelhalter |
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| Seeing the Wood for the Trees |
In winter the bones of the trees are laid bare, giving us a chance to see their skeletons. Join Lindsay as she takes a tour round Wytham Woods in Oxford, showing you how to identify our common native trees from their bark and the shape of their branches. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| An van Camp in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek at the Young Rembrandt exhibition |
As part of the St Cross College Shorts podcast series, Fellow and Ashmolean Museum Curator An van Camp discusses the Young Rembrandt exhibition with Stanley Ulijaszek, in October 2020. |
An Van Camp, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop – Song of Simeon |
In this online choir workshop you will learn to sing along with a simple voice part from the Candlemas Nunc Dimittis and see the 15th-century manuscript from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen where the music is preserved in the Bodleian Libraries |
Henrike Lähnemann, Nick Swarbrick, Andrew Dunning, Alexandra Burgar, Jasmine Lowe, Timothy Powell |
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| December 2020, with special guest Professor Mark Eisenberg |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss their Cochrane Review and emerging evidence. |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Nicola Lindson |
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| Re-imagining urban mobility after COVID-19 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented disruptions to urban mobility systems across the globe yet also presented unique opportunities for people to drive less, walk/cycle more and reduce carbon emissions. |
Tim Schwanen, Jennie Middleton, Jim Hall |
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| Reynard the Fox |
In this BodCast from the Friends of the Bodleian, Professor Dame Marina Warner interviews Anne Louise Avery, writer and art historian, on the subject of Avery's recent book, Reynard the Fox https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/reynard-the-fox |
Dame Marina Warner, Anne Louise Avery |
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| The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships |
Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (2019) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar series. Chaired by Dr Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, Oxford). |
Ece Temelkuran, Laurent Mignon |
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| Ideas for a Complex World - Anna Seigal |
Science and maths are full of smart tools for explaining the world around us. Those tools can feel far removed from the way the rest of us understand that world. Can we reconcile the two approaches? Oxford Mathematician Anna Seigal provides some answers. |
Anna Seigal |
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| Does AI threaten Human Autonomy? |
This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Peter Millican, Jonathan Pugh, Jessica Morley, Carina Prunkl |
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| The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries? |
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. |
William Doyle, Karen O'Brien, Gregory S Brown, Lauren Clay |
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| Probabilistic Inference and Learning with Stein’s Method |
Part of the Probability for Machine Learning seminar series. Presented by Prof Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research New England and Stanford University). |
Lester Mackey |
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| The Role of Prophecies in the Construction of the Geluk Tradition |
In this talk, Michael Ium explores the role of prophecies in the legitimation and construction of the Geluk tradition. |
Michael Ium |
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| Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There |
Dr Lina Khatib, Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham, Jeremy Bowen (Middle East Editor, BBC News) give a talk on Syria and it's current political situation. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford). |
Lina Khatib, Jeremy Bowen |
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| Introduction to Deep Learning and Graph Neural Networks in Biomedicine |
Dr. Ekaterina Volkova-Volkmar, Senior Data Scientist, pRED Informatics - Data Science, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche, Basel, Switzerland, gives a talk on deep learning and graph neural networks in biomedicine. |
Ekaterina Volkova-Volkmar |
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| Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years |
Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University, discusses his new book 'Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years' |
Ian Goldin |
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| A tale of two crises: COVID-19 and the financial system |
Dr Julia Giese, Bank of England, discusses the impact of Covid-19 on the financial system and how banks can play their part in economic recovery. |
Julia Giese, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Smallpox, and Jenner |
Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries. |
Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Erica Charters |
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| The Great Plague |
in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England. |
Peter Millican, Paul Slack, Emma Smith, Kees Windland |
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| The Black Death |
Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak. |
Peter Millican, Samuel Cohn, Blanche Oguti |
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| The Plague of Justinian |
Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced. |
Peter Millican, Michael McCormick, Abigail Buglass |
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| Athens: the first plague? |
Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted. |
Peter Millican, Tim Rood, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Nicolette D'Angelo |
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| Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Professor Sarah Smith, Professor Almudena Sevilla and Professor Cameron Hepburn discuss the gender division of childcare during the covid-19 pandemic, and the impact of this on welfare and employment. |
Sarah Smith, Almudena Sevilla, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Privacy is Power |
Carissa Véliz discusses her new book 'Privacy is Power', focusing on the importance of understanding how our data is used and how we can protect our privacy. |
Carissa Véliz, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Rose Stair (Oxford): Age and gender in German-language cultural Zionism |
The fourth lecture in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies seminar series. Rose Stair discusses cultural Zionism through a focus on age and gender. |
Rost Stair |
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| Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: The Anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek |
For this podcast, we co-hosted Tim Allen of LSE with Oxford's Anthropology Department. |
Tim Allen |
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| Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' |
Local historian, Liz Wooley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. |
Liz Wooley |
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| Dr Dexnell Peters on 'Politician Scholar: Dr Eric Williams' |
Dr Dexnell Peters, Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, reflects on the life and enduring legacy of eminent historian, Dr Eric Williams. |
Dexnell Peters |
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| Dr Ben Grant on 'Richard Francis Burton |
Dr Ben Grant, departmental lecturer in English and author of Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge, 2009) reflects on Richard Francis Burton's sojourn in Oxford in the 1840s. |
Ben Grant |
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| Dr Priya Atwal on 'Princesses Bamba and Catherine Duleep Singh at Oxford' |
Historian, Dr Priya Atwal, takes a look at the lives of some of the University of Oxford's first Indian students. |
Priya Atwal |
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| Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion |
Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities. |
Tade Thompson, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| Looking back on 4 years in data science |
Jonny Brooks-Bartlett, Senior machine learning engineer at Spotify, gives a talk on his experiences as a data scientist and as machine learning engineer in top rated companies around the world. |
Jonny Brooks-Bartlett |
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