| Student Access to Colleges at the University of Oxford |
Seminar led by a panel of heads of colleges and senior tutors to discuss Oxford's student selection process |
Ivor Crewe, Helen King, Alan Rusbridger, Maggie Snowling, Simon Smith, Mark Wormald, Lucas Bertholdi-Saad |
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| Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today |
Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel. |
Avner Offer |
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| Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel |
Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state |
Eyal Chowers |
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| Unmasking Africana in British Art |
ASC seminar by Kimathi Donkor |
Kimathi Donkor |
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| Promoting fairer access to higher education: the necessity of contextualised admissions |
The ethical case for reducing entry requirements for disadvantaged learners |
Vikki Boliver, Andrew Bell, Peter Thonemann, Neil Harrison |
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| Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy? |
Is 'gig work' exploitative and injust? In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Daniel Halliday examines the common concerns from an ethical perspective. |
Daniel Halliday |
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| Guy Burton - Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947' |
How have rising power engaged with the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as their behaviour in international politics more generally? |
Guy Burton |
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| Ibrahim Khatib - Identity, Conflict perception and Reconciliation in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict |
Ibrahim Khatib discusses the correlations between identity, conflict perception, and willingness to reconcile. |
Ibrahim Khatib |
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| Loathly Ladies |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the loathly lady: the hideous hag who knows the secret that the hero seeks, and whom he must learn how to respect. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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| The long-term implications of President Nixon's healthcare programme |
A talk on President Nixon's radical new healthcare programme proposed in early 1971. |
John Price |
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| Has American democracy outstripped its institutional foundations? Principles without traction in 21st century governance |
Winant Lecture in American Government |
Stephen Skowronek |
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| Making Oscar Wilde |
Making Oscar Wilde reveals the untold story of young Oscar’s career in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Set on two continents, it tracks a larger-than-life hero on an unforgettable adventure to make his name and gain international acclaim. |
Michèle Mendelssohn |
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| Rethinking Teacher Education - The Problem with Accountability |
Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith argues why we need to “reclaim” teacher education accountability for the profession and in support of the larger democratic project. |
Marilyn Cochran-Smith |
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| The Alseran Ruling One Year On; Session 2: A Critical Assessment of Recent Investigations and Prevention Efforts |
On the first anniversary of the Alseran ruling, where it was found that detainees in British military custody in Iraq had suffered inhuman and degrading treatment, and had been unlawfully detained. |
Thomas Obel Hansen, Elizabeth Stubbins Bates, Dapo Akande |
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| The Alseran Ruling One Year On; Session 1: Alseran in Context |
On the first anniversary of the Alseran ruling, where it was found that detainees in British military custody in Iraq had suffered inhuman and degrading treatment, and had been unlawfully detained. |
Liora Lazarus, Nicholas Mercer, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Melanie Jacques |
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| Oxford Mathematics First Year Student Tutorial on Dynamics |
The Oxford Mathematics educational experience is a journey, a journey like any other educational experience. |
Ian Hewitt, Kate Adams, Farid Manzoor |
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| All Souls: 'Pervasive Punishment' Making sense of mass supervision |
Fergus McNeill introduces the main arguments from his recent book explaining the meanings of 'mass supervision’ and outlining its scale and social distribution, the processes by which it has been legitimated and its significance as a penal phenomenon. |
Fergus McNeill |
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| Fairies, Children and Changelings |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the strange interest that fairies take in human infants, and the plight of children who stumble into this world, and can’t get home. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Marry Waterson, Ben Nicholls, Barney Morse-Brown. |
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| Davos Doom and Gloom |
This year's World Economic Forum was punctuated by an overall sense of pessimism and concern for the future. One attendee, Oxford Saïd Business School Dean Peter Tufano, gives his take on the state of business. |
Peter Tufano |
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| Cricket to clinic via the lab |
Professor Giles Toogood talks about his background which combined sport and surgery, and discusses the advances in hepatobiliary. |
Giles Toogood |
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| The politics of distribution in Ethiopia's 'developmental state' |
ASC seminar by Tom Lavers |
Tom Lavers |
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| Public health and gender: Assumptions, disjunctures in practice, and implications for HIV prevention within marriages in Kenya |
ASC seminar by Roseanne Njiru |
Roseanne Njiru |
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| Why the world is simple - Prof Ard Louis |
The coding theorem from algorithmic information theory (AIT) - which should be much more widely taught in Physics! - suggests that many processes in nature may be highly biased towards simple outputs. |
Ard Louis |
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| Topology in Biology - Prof Julia Yeomans FRS |
Active systems, from cells and bacteria to flocks of birds, harvest chemical energy which they use to move and to control the complex processes needed for life. |
Julia Yeomans |
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| Welcome from the Head of the Physics Department |
Ian Shipsey delivers the welcome speech for the Saturday Mornings of Theoretical Physics. |
Ian Shipsey |
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| Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Undergraduate Lecture James Sparks - Dynamics |
For the first time ever, Oxford Mathematics has live streamed a student lecture. It took 800 years but now you can see what it is really like. We hope you find it familiar and intriguing and challenging. |
James Sparks |
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| James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all |
Prime Numbers are fascinating, crucial and ubiquitous. The trouble is, we don't know that much about them. James Maynard, one of the leading researchers in the field explains all (at least as far as he can). |
James Maynard |
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| Access and Participation at Postgraduate level: research findings and their implications for policy and practice |
This seminar will review the evidence on access to postgraduate study, identify what this might mean for funders, universities and their communities, and outline outstanding gaps in our knowledge. |
Paul Wakeling, Mike Bonsall, Nick Brown, Paul Martin |
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| Helpful Fairies |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss how fairies and humans can co-operate and assist each other. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Lucy Farrell, Ewan McPherson |
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| Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books |
A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. |
Emily Martin |
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| The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09 |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history. |
Simukai Chigudu |
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| Access and Participation in English HE: A Fair and Equal Opportunity for All? |
The seminar will identify how universities and government have sought to make progress in this area during the last two decades and the patterns of participation arising from this. |
Simon Marginson, Chris Millward, Martin Williams |
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| Fairy Wives and Fairy Lovers |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about love and marriage between humans and fairies. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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| Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed |
Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. |
Menachem Klein |
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| Neo banks vs traditional banks - Are we witnessing disruption in the banking industry? |
Can banks survive without caring about customers? |
Tom Blomfield, Alice Truswell |
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| Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the digital era is transforming Kenya |
Writer and political activist Nanjala Nyabola delivers our first insaka of 2019. In this podcast, Nanjala explores shifts in power, popular action and social capacity in the digital age. |
Nanjala Nyabola |
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| Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems |
Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too much medicine and overdiagnosis. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| A Rational Approach to Evidence-Based Decision Making in Education Policy |
If education policy-making is based strictly on rigorous evidence there is a risk of bias towards simple, discrete, measurable interventions. We present a framework for considering inconclusive evidence. |
Matthew Jukes |
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| Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries |
An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Hooke Lecture - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere |
In some of the world’s rivers, an incoming high tide can arrive as a smooth jump decorated by undulations, or as a breaking wave. The river reverses direction and flows upstream. |
Michael Berry |
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| Introducing Fairies and Fairyland |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the Modern Fairies project and talk about traditional imaginings of fairyland. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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| Machine perfusion – a new dawn or optimistic hyperbole? |
Professor Peter Friend, Dr David Nasralla and Dr Carlo Ceresa discuss liver transplantation and why they are replacing conventional cold storage in an ice box with normothermic automated, transportable liver preservation. |
Peter Friend, David Nasralla, Carlo Ceresa |
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| Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future |
Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary. |
Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani |
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| Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth |
A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. |
Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
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| What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau |
ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo |
Teresa Almeida Cravo |
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| Student activism in an era of decolonization |
ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck. |
Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre, Marcia Schenck |
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| Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan |
Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives. |
Khaled Furani |
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| Oxford Mathematics Student Lectures: An Introduction to Complex Numbers - Vicky Neale |
Much is written about life as an undergraduate at Oxford but what is it really like? |
Vicky Neale |
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| Genes, Hands, Nerves, and Brains |
Professor Dominic Furniss and Dr Akira Wiberg discuss the tremendous connection we have between the hand and the brain, focusing their talk on Dupuytren's Disease and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. |
Dominic Furniss, Akira Wiberg |
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| Achieving the Holy-Grail: The Humanising Healthcare Methodology |
Mr Hamish Dibley, a senior management consultant, explores a new and refreshing approach to how we understand and improve healthcare systems. |
Hamish Dibley |
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| Effect of metformin on breast cancer metabolism |
Dr Simon Lord presents a clinical study to understand the effect of metformin - one of the most commonly prescribed treatments worldwide for diabetes - on breast cancer metabolism. |
Simon Lord |
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| Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948 |
How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine? |
Netta Cohen |
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| Admissions Testing Preparation Effects |
This seminar is the first of a five-part seminar series on 'Student Access to University'. This seminar discusses the relationships between student characteristics and test performances with Oxford University admissions tests data. |
Jo-Anne Baird, Karen O'Brien, Samina Khan, Rebecca Surender |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Num8er My5teries |
With topics ranging from prime numbers to the lottery, from lemmings to bending balls like Beckham, Professor Marcus du Sautoy provides an entertaining and, perhaps, unexpected approach to explain how mathematics can be used to predict the future. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice |
The peacebuilding literature has long emphasised that youth involvement is key to ensuring long-term peace. In the aftermath of the 'no' victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements' push for peace. |
Elena Butti |
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| Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials |
Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series. |
David Torgerson |
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| Strachey Lecture: Steps Towards Super Intelligence |
Why has AI been so hard and what are the problems that we might work on in order to make real progress to human level intelligence, or even the super intelligence that many pundits believe is just around the corner? |
Rodney Brooks |
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| All Souls Blog: The Politics of Global Policing |
Professor Ben Bowling |
Ben Bowling |
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| Process thinking in four modes |
Professor Ann Langley, Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings, HEC Montréal discusses her research work. |
Ann Langley |
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| Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC |
Focusing on the 'male perpetrator,' this paper first examines how, why, and with what effect gendered and raced imaginaries became encoded in international peace and security policy. |
Chloe Lewis |
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| Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts |
Dr Katerina Tkacova, member of CCW, introduces the seminar series based on the CCW research project - Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts. |
Katerina Tkacova |
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| The application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice interface: NICE work if you can do it |
Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Mike Kelly |
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| How imperfect can a study be? |
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods'. |
Alan Silman |
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| Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England |
Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english. |
Julia Mattison |
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| Marconi lecture 2018: Imperial Wave: how empire shaped the network of wireless in South Asia at the turn of the twentieth century |
Dr Medha Saxena (Delhi, and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow), gives the 2018 annual Marconi lecture. |
Medha Saxena |
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| Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and the Jews |
Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the criticism of Zionism. |
Brian Klug |
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| Writing Rights in 1789 |
Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the constituent articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. |
Keith M Baker |
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| Orna Sasson-Levy - Gendered citizenship: The case of Women Breaking the Silence |
Orna Sasson-Levy discusses the cast of women soldiers who decide to speak |
Orna Sasson-Levy |
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| Creating More Peaceful Societies - Global Strategies to Reduce Interpersonal Violence by 50 Percent in 2040 |
Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge |
Manuel Eisner |
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| Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building |
Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern Hebrew literature. |
Adriana X Jacobs |
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| Live panel on digital engagement |
In this live panel, we sit down with Resident Advisor founder Nick Sabine and fellow MBA slash film producer Yetunde Dada to discuss community engagement through digital media. |
Nick Sabine, Yetu Dada |
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| BCorps: the future firm What is a bcorp? How do people know what this is |
Can businesses lead the charge for social good? That is the idea behind B Corps, a movement of 2,500 businesses in 50 countries committed to having a positive impact in the world. |
Michaelanne Butler, Charmain Love |
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| David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships |
David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships. |
David Tal |
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| The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum |
Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. |
Richard Ovenden, Julia Smith, Helen Snaith, David Clark |
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| The Quantum and the Cosmos |
The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago. |
Rocky Kolb |
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| Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? The 2018 Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture |
Marcus du Sautoy and Professor Rosalind Picard for 2018's annual Simonyi Lecture: Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? |
Marcus du Sautoy, Rosalind Picard |
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| How 'gangsters' become jihadists (and why most don't): Bourdieu, criminology and the crime-terrorism nexus |
Professor Sveinung Sandberg |
Sveinung Sandberg |
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| Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her work focusses on obesity and tobacco control and her particular interests lie in evidence synthes |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
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| More than meet the eye: Hyperspectral imaging |
How many colours we see is limited by our eye, which contains only three types of colour sensors. Using advanced techniques, vision scientists can take images of this “invisible” information and make it visible. |
Sérgio Nascimento |
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| Neurons code the colour we see |
All activity in your brain – including those which mediates your perception of colour – is based on electrical messages between neurons. Vision scientists can measure these signals at the eye, and at the back of the brain. |
Neil Parry |
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| Seeing neurons inside the living eye |
Using techniques borrowed from astronomy, vision scientists can take high-resolution images of the retina, the fine layer of cells in the back of your eye. |
Hannah Smithson, Laura Young |
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| Panel discussion: #TheDress – What do we know? |
In early 2015, an image of a dress polarised the internet: Some people saw it as black-blue, and some as white-gold. Three years on, we revisit the dress and discuss how vision science can explain this phenomenon. |
Manuel Spitschan, Anya Hurlbert, Karl Gegenfurtner, David Brainard |
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| Roger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry - Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures |
In our Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture Roger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry reveals his latest research, a veritable chain reaction of universes, which he says has been backed by evidence of events that took place before the Big Bang. |
Roger Penrose, Hannah Fry |
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| Political Bioethics |
How should members of a liberal democratic political community, open to value pluralism, decide bioethical issues that generate deep disagreement? |
Benjamin Gregg |
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| Old Norse |
Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse. |
Eleanor Parker |
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| Old English |
Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english. |
Mark Atherton |
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| Gothic |
Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest. |
Elizabeth Solopova |
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| Research Seminar: Aesop, Velazquez and War |
This lecture was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department’s Research Seminar series by T.J Clark Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley. |
T.J Clark |
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| Can antibiotics make you pregnant? |
Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| The Search for Life on Earth, In Space and Time |
Dr James Green, current Chief Scientist of NASA gives a talk on the how life may be distributed on Earth and in the Solar System with consideration of the age of our sun. |
James Green |
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| History of evidence synthesis |
Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Mike Clarke |
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| Yakov Rabkin - Israel: The Russian Connection |
Yakov Rabkin (University of Montreal) discusses the roots of Israeli political culture in the Zionist beginnings in the Yiddish speaking regions of the Russian Empire. |
Yakov Rabkin |
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| Criminology at the periphery: understanding police work in the remote Northern islands of Scotland |
Dr Anna Souhami, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, gives a talk for the Criminology seminar series on 11th October 2018. |
Anna Souhami |
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| Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges |
Professor Steven Hoffman discusses legal mechanisms available for coordinating international responses to transnational problems, their prospects, and their challenges. |
Steven J Hoffman |
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| Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Yaacov Yadgar - The Nation-State bill and the meaning of Israel’s Jewish identity |
Yaacov Yadgar discusses the recently passed Basic-Law: Israel the Nation State of the Jewish People, and discusses how it plays into Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis |
Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Fake News and the Politics of Truth |
Fake news spread online is a clear danger to democratic politics. One aspect of that danger is obvious: it spreads misinformation. But other aspects, less often discussed, is that it also spreads confusion and undermines trust. |
Michael Lynch |
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| Oxford Mathematics and the Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Roger Penrose - Eschermatics |
In this lecture Roger Penrose uses M.C Escher's work to illustrate and explain important mathematical ideas and their connections to the visual arts. |
Roger Penrose |
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| How to make a trillion dollars |
Can cryptocurrencies make the first trillionaire? Between September 2017 and January 2018 the price of bitcoin rocketed to around $13,000. One MBA student, Mike Wigrizer, was not only betting on bitcoin but also created his own cryptocurrency. |
Michael Wigrizer |
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| Future proofing banks |
How would you like to have your own personal banker? The traditional model of banks as a store of value and source of liquidity, and of bankers as trusted personal financial advisors, is under threat like never before. |
Steve Gotz, Alec Mclauren |
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