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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
Hume 2018/5: Probability and the Idea of Necessity	Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/4: Induction and Belief	Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/3: Faculties and Relations, to Causation	Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/2: Ideas, Impressions, and Abstraction	Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
Hume 2018/1: Hume’s Background and Chief Aims	Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series.	Peter Millican	21 May, 2020
The Mortality of the Dalai Lama and its Scriptural Sources: A Study in Tibetan Buddhist Political Theology	I am currently focusing on the problem of the Dalai Lama’s mortality that is, the question of how to come to terms with his suffering and death, in light of the association between Tibetan kingship and the deity Avalokiteśvara.	Ian MacCormack	21 May, 2020
Smartphones v COVID 19	Smartphones will help save lives. Smartphones' value is exaggerated. What is the reality? And, as ever, what is the Maths behind it all? Leading Network Scientist Renaud Lambiotte downloads the facts in this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture.	Renaud Lambiotte	19 May, 2020
Translating Illness: The Case of COVID-19	Marta Arnaldi (Principal Investigator, Translating Illness, Oxford) in conversation with author Nicola Gardini (Oxford).	Marta Arnaldi, Nicola Gardini	15 May, 2020
Preliminary Practices: Bloody Knees, Calloused Palms and the Transformative Nature of Women’s Labor	The Preliminary Practices not only initiate practitioners into a specific tradition, but also more fundamentally, into Vajrayana Buddhism as it is practiced in contemporary Tibet.	Kati Fitzgerald	14 May, 2020
Ursula K. Le Guin	A brief introduction to the writer Ursula K. Le Guin.	Caroline Batten	13 May, 2020
T. H. White	A brief introduction to the writer T. H. White.	Gabriel Schenk	12 May, 2020
Diana Wynne Jones	A brief introduction to the writer Diana Wynne Jones.	Gabriel Schenk	12 May, 2020
Why 'Game of Thrones' Matters	'Game of Thrones' and storytelling.	Carolyne Larrington	12 May, 2020
Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century	A guest lecture by Dr Maria Cecire (Bard College) discussing children's fantasy literature.	Maria Cecire	12 May, 2020
Interview: Catherine Butler	An Interview with Dr Catherine Butler, author of the book 'Four British Fantasists'.	Catherine Butler, Will Brockbank	12 May, 2020
Alan Garner	A brief introduction to the British fantasy writer, Alan Garner.	Felix Taylor	12 May, 2020
Approaching Fantasy Literature	A short introduction to reading and studying fantasy literature.	Stuart Lee	12 May, 2020
H. P. Lovecraft	A brief introduction to the writer, H. P. Lovecraft.	Stuart Lee	12 May, 2020
Garden Safari: The Bug Five!	Did you know that just five groups of insects dominate your garden? And can you tell the difference between bugs and beetles?	Lindsey Turnbull	12 May, 2020
Product Management and Luxury Motorcars	Art, innovation, and the world of product management through the lens of high-end motorcars. In this episode we sit down with Daniel Canbanllias a Product Manager at Rolls Royce Motorcars.	Daniel Canbanllias	12 May, 2020
M&A - Past, present and the future	We sit down with Timothy Galpin, Academic director of the MBA program at Said Business School, consultant to numerous boards and senior management, and an author to discuss what drives M&A, the hiccups and the waves of M&A over the years.	Timothy Galpin	12 May, 2020
Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading	In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Arthur Schafer outlines the current contours of the Canadian euthanasia debate.	Arthur Schafer	11 May, 2020
Seeds of Change	In this episode we take a look at the strange life-cycle of ferns and find out why they are so dependent on water.	Lindsay Turnbull	10 May, 2020
Writing about the Nechung Oracle	Christopher Bell's talk about oracles, protector deities, and other mysteries	Christopher Bell	7 May, 2020
Hot as mustard	In this episode we look closely at Garlic mustard or Jack-by-the-hedge, a very common plant throughout the UK.	Lindsay Turnbull	4 May, 2020
May Morning, Oxford 1993	Thousands gather on the High Street on May Morning, Oxford 1993.	Charles Beesley	1 May, 2020
Young Lives Country Directors on Governance and Impact: Discussion and Q and A	Young Lives’ country directors discuss the challenges they've faced when conducting longitudinal research and their different approaches, as well as answering questions from the audience.	Jo Boyden, Santiago Cueto, Alula Pankhurst, Renu Singh	30 April, 2020
Young Lives Country Directors on Governance and Impact	In this GCRF-supported workshop, Young Lives’ country directors, from Ethiopia, India and Peru, draw on their considerable experience in research, governance and policy-engagement to highlight the strategies they’ve used to ensure research impact.	Jo Boyden, Santiago Cueto, Alula Pankhurst, Renu Singh	30 April, 2020
The sku bla of the Tibetan emperors and its metamorphosis in Yungdrung Bön	In the late 12th century Yungdrung Bön text Grags pa gling grags a deity that has a special relationship to the Tibetan ruler plays a prominent part in the narrative of the Tibetan kings.	Per Kværne	30 April, 2020
Trinity: A Real Life Spy Story	Frank Close tells the story of Klaus Fuchs and the Bodleian Library. Trinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945.	Frank Close	29 April, 2020
One is the magic number	Back Garden Biology takes a closer look at the insects in the garden including the solitary bee.	Lindsay Turnbull	27 April, 2020
Pieces of Gold: Piecing together a mutilated Timurid masterpiece	Shiva Mihan, Harvard Art Museums and Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries, gives a talk on her work in Persian arts.	Shiva Mihan	24 April, 2020
Is it Permissible for Healthcare Workers to Stop Working if They Lack PPE?	Katrien Devolder interviews Udo Schüklenk.	Udo Schuklenk, Katrien Devolder	23 April, 2020
Accumulating narrative: Meaning and mutation in letterpress printing	David Armes (Red Plate Press), the Bodleian’s Printer in Residence 2019-20, describes artists and ideas that influence his work, asking how meaning can mutate through the process of production.	David Armes	23 April, 2020
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exacerbates Existing Inequalities	An interview with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra.	Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Katrien Devolder	21 April, 2020
Stinker!	In this episode we look at the cuckoo pint, which has an unusual flower with the central part, called a spadix, releasing a stench that to our nostrils is quite revolting.	Lindsay Turnbull	20 April, 2020
Queen Bee	Learn how to identify common garden bees and find out why they never seem to stay still.	Lindsay Turnbull	20 April, 2020
Islamic manuscripts and bindings as a window on East-West relations	The making, use and trade of manuscripts was an important part of Islamic culture, the technical developments influenced the making of books in the west from the later medieval period onward.	Karin Scheper	20 April, 2020
Triage in an Italian ICU During the Coronavirus Pandemic	An interview with Dr Marco Vergano.	Marco Vergano, Katrien Devolder	20 April, 2020
Tackling the Cause of the Coronavirus Pandemic	An interview with Professor Peter Singer.	Peter Singer, Katrien Devolder	20 April, 2020
Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa	Ricardo Nogales gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	Ricardo Nogales	16 April, 2020
Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus	Sara Polo, University of Essex, gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	Sara Polo	16 April, 2020
The Russian Understanding of War	Oscar Jonsson, Stockholm Free World Forum, gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme.	Oscar Jonsson	16 April, 2020
Terrorism and Recent Developments in Human Rights	Lord John Alderdice gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	John Alderdice	16 April, 2020
How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks?	Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can they be?	Robin Thompson	15 April, 2020
The Lillies of the Fields	The beautiful snake's-head fritillary is the flower of Oxfordshire. In this episode we look closely at the flowers it produces.	Lindsay Turnbull	13 April, 2020
Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 2	Oxford Mathematician Peter Howell starts the second part of the 2nd year Differential Equations course which focuses on boundary problems.	Peter Howell	9 April, 2020
Deceived with ornament	Plants attract pollinators through their colourful flowers but some plants aren't quite what they seem.	Lindsay Turnbull	6 April, 2020
Strachey Lecture: Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics	Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics: Newton Abraham Lecture 2020	Alan Garfinkel	2 April, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Alan Champneys - Why pedestrian bridges wobble: Synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd	So much noise, so many opinions. Perhaps time for Occam's Razor to start its scientific shaving?	Alan Champneys	31 March, 2020
Sex and the single primrose	In early spring, primroses and cowslips can be found in many gardens and parks. Their yellow flowers are certainly beautiful, but they also hold a secret: they come in two different types that can only mate with each other.	Lindsay Turnbull	26 March, 2020
Machine learning techniques in modern quantum-mechanics experiments	In this talk, Dr Elliott Bentine shall discuss how recent experiments have exploited machine-learning techniques, both to optimize the operation of these devices and to interperet the data they produce.	Elliott Bentine	22 March, 2020
Machine Learning and String Theory	Professor Andre Lukas will discuss how string theorists have started to use methods from data science - particularly machine learning - to analyse the vast landscape of string data.	Andre Lukas	22 March, 2020
An Introduction to deep learning	Professor Ard Louis gives a basic introduction to deep learning for physicists and addresses a few questions such as: Is the hype around deep learning justified, or are we about to hit some fundamental limitations?	Ard Louis	22 March, 2020
Welcome by Ian Shipsey Head of the Department of Physics	Ian Shipsey give an update on the department and introduces the next three talk on 'AI in Physics'.	Ian Shipsey	22 March, 2020
What’s New? Emerging Disruptive Models for High-Value, Longer Term University-Industry Partnering	This session identifies and explores emerging partnership models that are disrupting the way universities and businesses work together to develop high-value and mutually beneficial relationships for the longer term.	Dave Bembo, Wade Brown, Karl Koster, Karen Kennedy	19 March, 2020
Crowdsourcing Innovation: Changing the world one good idea at a time	A high proportion of research, IP and knowledge remains ‘on the shelf’ at worst, and under-utilised at best. Rob (Crowdicity) explores why this is, and shares real-world stories of how applying open innovation and co-creation is helping to change this.	Rob Wilmot	18 March, 2020
Human Centred Futures: The Critical Role of the Social Sciences	This session will examine the fundamental importance of social sciences research to the fourth industrial revolution.	Georgia Chao, Rick Delbridge, Daniel Sui, Mike Willardson, Bridget Sealey	18 March, 2020
What intermediaries are for?	In many countries, we have seen the rise of intermediaries that should bridge the intellectual, material and organisational divide between the worlds of science and business innovation. Do or do they not, that is the fundamental question?	Kate Ronayne, Simon Andrews, Stuart Martin, Jay Walsh	18 March, 2020
Are R and D Targets a Must For Innovation?	R and D targets and metrics have become common place (e.g. 3% norm by EC, 2.4% norm in UK). However, what do those norms signal? What is their effect, if any? And, if such targets are deemed not relevant, what should then replace them?	Emmo Meijer	18 March, 2020
Tackling Wicked Problems: Partnering for Impact	UC San Diego VC for Research Sandra Brown presents recommendations from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU’s) Public Impact-Focused Research (PIR) Initiative.	Sandy Brown	18 March, 2020
Oxford UIDP Summit 2019	Overview of the Oxford UIDP Summit 2019	Anthony Boccanfuso, Anna-Marie Greenaway, Coleen Burrus, Neeta Khurana, Derek Newton, Phil Clare, Jeremy Long, Nicky Athanassopoulou	18 March, 2020
Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health	Can every doctor understand health statistics? Gerd Gigerenzer will describe the efforts towards this goal, a few successes, but also the steadfast forces that undermine doctors’ ability to understand and act on evidence.	Gerd Gigerenzer	18 March, 2020
What will it take to Educate the World - Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor Distinguished Panel Lecture 2018	Many developing countries suffer from poorly performing educational systems that fail to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate productively in the modern economy. How can educational outcomes be improved?	Richard Peto, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennester	13 March, 2020
Maths and Stats in Action – Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus	Providing a whirlwind tour of the quantitative analyses currently underway to understand the transmission and control of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV). Recorded on 31st January 2020.	Christl Donnelly, Robin Thompson, Christophe Fraser	11 March, 2020
Oxford Mathematics 3rd Year Student Lecture - Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives	Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the third year course on Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives from Sam Cohen where we hear that the role of derivatives is not to make money but to avoid being exploited.	Sam Cohen	2 March, 2020
Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II	Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the second term introductory course on Linear Algebra from leading Oxford Mathematician James Maynard.	James Maynard	2 March, 2020
Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics	How do you make a star-shaped Cheerio? How do they make the glass on your smartphone screen so flat? And how can you make a vacuum filter that removes the most dust before it blocks?	Ian Griffiths	26 February, 2020
Hizky Shoham - The Emotional Scripting of Boycotts: The Nazi-Zionist Agreement in Jewish Public Culture During the 1930s	Hizky Shoham discusses the 'emotionologies' surrounding the Nazi-Zionist 'Transfer agreement.'	Hizky Shoham	26 February, 2020
From Inclusion to Exclusion from School: Transforming the lives of young people with special educational needs and disabilities?	This seminar explores the process of formal and informal exclusion from the macro, meso and micro level to understand some of the complex interactions between policy, school and individual factors.	Jill Porter, Ruth Moyse	25 February, 2020
Being a working class queer in theatre	Louise Wallwein MBE, a renowned and award-winning poet, playwright and performer, gives the 11th annual LGBT History Month lecture	Louise Wallwein	25 February, 2020
Race and the problem of the public in postwar America	Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government	Margaret Weir	25 February, 2020
Imitating Authors	Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors	Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell	24 February, 2020
The political life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship	Simukai Chigudu launches his book, 'The political life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship'. He explains the cholera epidemic, the response to it in Zimbabwe and from the world and life after the epidemic, remembering the epidemic	Simukai Chigudu	24 February, 2020
Larissa Remennick - The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin: Back to Being Jewish?	Larissa Remeniick discuss the origins and present condition of the new (post-2010) Israeli diaspora in Berlin	Larissa Remennick	19 February, 2020
Powering the future: switching on the renewables	Globally, renewable energy has a foot in the door. But significant challenges remain.	Malcolm McCulloch	18 February, 2020
Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective	In this talk, Neil Armstrong uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility.	Neil Armstrong	17 February, 2020
Road to somewhere? Resilient infrastructure for sustainable development	Professor Hall will share experiences of establishing long-term plans for sustainable infrastructure in many countries around the world.	Jim Hall	17 February, 2020
Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening	Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival - The desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise.	Carl Heneghan	14 February, 2020
2020 Colin Ford Lecture	Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight into his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne.	Larry Schaaf	14 February, 2020
Law and Exclusion from School	Combining legal analysis, theory, and evidence from practice, Lucinda Ferguson argues that the law is ill-equipped to support children at risk of permanent exclusion from school, particularly children with disabilities or other additional needs.	Lucinda Ferguson	13 February, 2020
Exclusion and Mental Health: Exploring the Role of Improved Provision in Schools	This talk discusses the latest understanding of mental health needs in adolescent populations in the UK and the potential role that mental health services in schools can play.	Mina Fazel	13 February, 2020
Effective learning from serious incidents	Dr Helen Higham delivers a talk on the human factors approach to incident analysis.	Helen Higham	11 February, 2020
Why is contemporary Africa poor: insights from archaeology and deep history	Professor Shadreck Chirikure, University of Cape Town, gives a talk for on using archaeology to learn about present day Africa.	Shadreck Chirikure	11 February, 2020
All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations	All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations	Simon Cole	10 February, 2020
A Forum for Reason: Reflections on the Role of South Africa’s Constitutional Court	Prof Kate O'Regan, Director, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court, gives a talk for the Africa Oxford Initiative.	Kate O'Regan	10 February, 2020
3f. Values and AI: view from public policy	Jo Wolff and Vafa Ghazavi, Blavatnik School of Government, gives the sixth and final talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Jo Wolff, Vafa Ghazavi	10 February, 2020
3e. AI and business	Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, gives the fifth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Alan Morrison	10 February, 2020
3d. AI and finance	Nir Vulkan, Saïd Business School, gives the fourth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Nir Vulkan	10 February, 2020
3c. Population health and AI: efficiency, accuracy and trust	Angeliki Kerasidou, Ethox Centre, gives the third talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Angeliki Kerasidou	10 February, 2020
3b. AI in healthcare	Claire Bloomfield, National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, gives the second talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Claire Bloomfield	10 February, 2020
3a. Rethinking ethics and humanities for the 21st Century	Mike Parker, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities gives the first talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020.	Mike Parker	10 February, 2020
Is Moral Status Good for You?	Thomas Douglas, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019.	Thomas Douglas	7 February, 2020
The Tenuous Connection between Moral Status and Proper Political-Legal Status	Benjamin Sachs, University of St Andrews, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019.	Benjamin Sachs	7 February, 2020
Moral Status: A Convenient Label	Udo Schuklenk, Queen's University, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019.	Udo Schuklenk	7 February, 2020
The Ever Conscious View and the Contingency of Moral Status	Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019.	Elizabeth Harman	7 February, 2020
The Moral Status of Conscious Subjects	Joshua Shepherd, Carlton University and the University de Barcelona, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019.	Joshua Shepherd	7 February, 2020
The Moral Status of So-called Moral Machines	John Harris, University of Manchester, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019.	John Harris	7 February, 2020
Moral Status and Moral Significance	Ingmar Persson, University of Gothenburg and University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019.	Ingmar Persson	7 February, 2020
Chimeras, Superchimps and Post-persons; Specie Boundaries and Moral Status Enhancements	Sarah Chan, Univesity of Edinburgh, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019.	Sarah Chan	7 February, 2020