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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
Europe: still a common vision?	Dr Wolfgang Schäuble (German Federal Minister of Finance) delivers a lecture for the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College on 29th October 2012.	Wolfgang Schäuble, Chris Patten, Othon Anistasakis, Margaret MacMillan	3 December, 2012
Addressing the crisis in Europe and the global economy: Lessons from the 1920s and 1930s?	A lecture at the St Anthony's College Oxford, European Studies Centre, given by Professor's David Vines and Patricia Clavin chaired by Maxwell Watson on 28th November 2012.	Maxwell Watson, David Vines, Patricia Clavin	3 December, 2012
Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert	Short podcast looking at Enlightenment philosopher Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert, housed in the Bodleian Library.	Nathalie Ferrand	23 November, 2012
Rousseau: Archive et Invention.	Professor Nathalie Ferrand (École Normale Supérieure Paris) gives the 2012 Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation. This lecture is in French.	Nathalie Ferrand	23 November, 2012
The Merchant of Venice	This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are shaped by models of financial transaction, using the casket scenes as a central example.	Emma Smith	20 November, 2012
Radiation and Reason	Professor Wade Allison gives a talk about his book 'Radiation and Reason; The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear'.	Wade Allison	14 November, 2012
Taming of the Shrew	Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the question of whether Katherine is tamed at the end of the play.	Emma Smith	9 November, 2012
A Midsummer Night's Dream	This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire.	Emma Smith	5 November, 2012
Much Ado About Nothing	Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John, drawing on gender and performance criticism to think about male bonding, the genre of comedy, and the impulses of modern performance.	Emma Smith	30 October, 2012
01. Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century	Professor David Coleman gives the first lecture in his Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World series.	David Coleman	26 October, 2012
02. Numbering the people: the Census, Vital Registration and Population Registers	Professor David Coleman gives the second lecture on Demographics, where he looks at different ways in which governments and demographers have collected population data.	David Coleman	26 October, 2012
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 1: Abortion	The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement: Abortion.	Charles Camosy, Julian Savulescu	24 October, 2012
Hamlet	The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's nostalgia, drawing on biographical criticism and the religious and political history of early modern England.	Emma Smith	23 October, 2012
As You Like It	Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches.	Emma Smith	23 October, 2012
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 2: Euthanasia	The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement: Euthanasia.	Charles Camosy, Julian Savulescu	23 October, 2012
Great Writers Inspire Great Writing	Alex Pryce considers how writers are readers, influenced and inspired by the works of other writers.	Alex Pryce	19 September, 2012
5c. Of the Ancient and Modern Philosophies	Third and Final part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
5b. Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses	Second part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
5a. Of Skepticism with Regard to Reason	First part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
4f. The Point of Hume's Analysis of Causation	Sixth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
4e. Understanding Hume on Causation	Fifth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
4d. Of the Necessary Connection	Fourth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
4c. Belief and Probability	Third part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
4a. Relations, and a Detour to the Causal Maxim	First part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
4b. The Argument Concerning Induction	Second part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
3b. Space and Time	Second part of Lecture 3 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
3a. Hume's Theory of General (or Abstract) Ideas	First part of Lecture 3 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
2. Hume's Theory of Relations	Lecture 2 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
1c. Hume's Faculty Psychology	Third part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
1b. The Theory of Ideas	Second part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
1a. Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties	First part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One.	Peter Millican	1 August, 2012
Physics and Philosophy: An Introduction	On the inextricable links between physics and philosophy and the ways in which one can lead to the other - how they complement each other in answering the big questions.	Ankita Anirban	30 July, 2012
From Argument to Experiment	Dr Christopher Palmer on the historical ties between physics and philosophy - from ancient philosophical thought through to the scientific revolution and the pioneers of modern physics.	Christopher Palmer, Ankita Anirban	30 July, 2012
Space and Time	Prof. Frank Arntzenius on whether space and time are absolute entities or simply relational properties derived from the idea of motion - an old debate between Newton and Leibniz, carried on today.	Frank Arntzenius, Ankita Anirban	30 July, 2012
Quantum Paradoxes	Prof. Vlatko Vedral on the mind-boggling and paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics and its consequences on modern technology - the possibilities of superfast computing and teleportation.	Vlatko Vedral, Ankita Anirban	30 July, 2012
Parallel Worlds	Dr. David Wallace on the many-worlds theory, an explanation of the baffling results that quantum mechanics provides us with - and that there may be more worlds than just our own.	David Wallace, Ankita Anirban	30 July, 2012
Consciousness and Computability	Prof. Sir Roger Penrose on the idea of artificial intelligence and whether consciousness can be replicated by a computer - a discussion of new physics which may take us closer to explaining the mind.	Roger Penrose, Ankita Anirban	30 July, 2012
The Impact of European Court of Human Rights' Decisions and Turkish Code Reforms Pertaining to the Headscarf on Islamist Women in Turkey: Enabling Emancipation or Legitimizing Discrimination?	Sarah Ficher, (American University), gives a talk for the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region held on Tuesday 12 June, 2012 in St Antony's College.	Sarah Ficher	20 July, 2012
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3	Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a judge for many other literary prizes to offer a response to the question, 'What is a Classic?'.	Helena Kennedy	19 July, 2012
11. Does Government belong in the bedroom?	There are many examples, from the ancient world to Nazi Germany, of attempts to protect or to increase the birth rate and hence population size. Slides to accompany Prof David Coleman's talk on birth control from governments.	David Coleman	18 July, 2012
10. Who's afraid of population decline?	Fear of population decline has haunted states ever since states existed. Population size was the basis of the power, security and prosperity of any political entity. Slides to accompany Professor David Coleman's on the fear of population decline.	David Coleman	16 July, 2012
09. Bringing down the birth rate - family planning in the developing world	Traditionally, high birth rates were high. But as they were balanced by high death rates, population growth rates were usually very low. Prof David Coleman looks at family planning in the developing world.	David Coleman	12 July, 2012
08. After the demographic transition in the developing world	Fertility in all but 12 countries in the world is now falling. Where will it stop? In this talk, Prof David Coleman looks at the demographic transition in the developing world.	David Coleman	10 July, 2012
'Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean' and 'A New Era: The Iranian Navy, Strategy Expansion and Soft Power'	Cdre Keith Winstanley (CCW RN Hudson Fellow) and Cdr Tracy Vincent (CCW US Navy Hudson Fellow give talks for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 12 June 2012. Introduced by Dr Jan Lemnitzer.	Keith Winstanley, Tracy Vincent, Jan Lemnitzer	2 July, 2012
Melina Mercouri's cultural activity and its continuation: Europe-economy and the power of culture	Spyros Mercouris delivers a lecture on 7 June 2012 at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.	Spyros Mercouris	19 June, 2012
Balancing Reason and Revelation: The Status of Women in the Jurisprudence of Ayatullah Yusuf Sani'i.	Concluding lecture from the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference by Saiyad Ahmad (American University Cairo).	Saiyad Ahmad	13 June, 2012
Political reconciliation as women's democratic citizenship: Women's rights-claiming around the drafting of a new constitution in Turkey	Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference: Politicizing Women and Women's Issues by Burcu Ozcelik (University of Cambridge):.	Burcu Ozcelik	13 June, 2012
Before the 'Days of Rage': Registers of Bahraini Women's Activism	Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference: Politicizing Women and Women's Issues by Nova Robinson (Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey).	Nova Robinson	13 June, 2012
Changing state-society relations in Morocco through family law reform: 'the state enters the home of the citizen'.	Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference: Legal Reforms in Theory and Practice by Dörthe Engelcke (University of Oxford):.	Dörthe Engelcke	13 June, 2012
Custody regulations in the United Arab Emirates: Legal reforms and social realities.	Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region conference: Legal Reforms in Theory and Practice by Lena-Maria Möller (Max-Planck-Institute Hamburg).	Lena-Maria Möller	13 June, 2012
Comparing family law reform in the MENA: Reflections on regional patterns following economic globalization.	Part of the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region confernce: Legal Reforms in Theory and Practice by Rania Maktabi (Ostfold University College).	Rania Maktabi	13 June, 2012
Imagining NATO: Past and Present Futures for the Western Alliance	Dr Kristian Søby Kristensen (Copenhagen/ CCW Visiting Fellow) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 6 June 2012.	Kristian Søby Kristensen	11 June, 2012
One War at a Time: Britain, the War of 1812 and the Defeat of Napoleon	Professor Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, King's College London, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series.	Andrew Lambert	6 June, 2012
How Universal is Liberalism?	Professor Ronald Dworkin, New York University, delivers the 2012 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with response from Professor Sir Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy.	Ronald Dworkin, Timothy Garton Ash, Adam Roberts	30 May, 2012
Common moral arguments: 'morality? It's all a matter of opinion'	Final of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Common moral arguments: 'it's too risky' (the Precautionary Principle)	Eighth of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Common moral arguments: 'it's not natural' and 'it's disgusting'	Seventh of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Induction	Sixth of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Deduction	Fifth of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Arguments	Fourth of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Utilitarianism	Third of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Deontology	Second of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
Virtue Ethics	First of nine short introductory podcasts on Bioethics by Marianne Talbot.	Marianne Talbot	29 May, 2012
The Kosova Liberation Army - a Living Inheritance?	ELAC/CCW Seminar Series with Professor James Pettifer (Oxford) on 15 May 2012.	James Pettifer	23 May, 2012
Taking Soldiers Seriously	ELAC/CCW Seminar Series podcast with Professor Cheyney Ryan (Oregon/ ELAC Visiting Fellow) on 22 May 2012.	Cheyney Ryan	23 May, 2012
The ICC at 10	ELAC Panel Discussion with Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, Janina Dill and Dapo Akande (ELAC)on 20th May 2012.	Jennifer Welsh, David Rodin, Dapo Akande, Janina Dill	23 May, 2012
Religion in War and Peace	Professor Nigel Biggar (Oxford), Professor Tony Coady (CAPPE) and Dr Rama Mani (Oxford) discuss the issue of religion in war and peace as part of the ELAC/CCW lecture series. Moderated by Jennifer Welsh (Oxford).	Nigel Biggar, Tony Coady, Rama Mani, Jennifer Welsh	21 May, 2012
Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"?	Dr Catherine Brown gives the fourth and final lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. With a philosophical discussion on what Comparative Literature is and how we can study 'literature in comparison'.	Catherine Brown	21 May, 2012
Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting	Dr Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the Literature and Form lecture series. Including the differing ways writers plot their work; from multi-plotted works like Ulysses (Joyce) to double plotted works like Daniel Deronda (George Eliot).	Catherine Brown	21 May, 2012
Literature and Form 2: Chapters	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series of talks introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the second lecture, Brown talks about the ways in which writers choose to break up their works into chapters, parts, and volumes.	Catherine Brown	21 May, 2012
Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators	Dr. Catherine Brown offers a series introducing different writing forms and their use in great novels: In the first lecture, Brown discusses the use of the unreliable narrator, particularly in Nabokov's Lolita and McEwan's Atonement.	Catherine Brown	21 May, 2012
Delegation of Powers and Authority in International Criminal Law	Dr Shlomit Wallerstein (Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 8th May 2012. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.	Shlomit Wallerstein	15 May, 2012
Intervention in Libya: A Humanitarian Success?	Professor Alan Kuperman (Texas) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 24th April 2012.	Alan Kuperman	30 April, 2012
07. 'Old Europe' - pensions, taxes and alternatives	Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about the issue of population ageing.	David Coleman	27 April, 2012
06. Demographic behaviour of immigrant and minority populations	Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about immigrant and minority populations.	David Coleman	27 April, 2012
05. International migration: guest workers, dependents, asylum and others	Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about international migration.	David Coleman	27 April, 2012
04. The retreat of mortality - 20th and 21st century trends	Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about trends in mortality.	David Coleman	27 April, 2012
03. The 'Second Demographic Transition' - new forms of family	Professor David Coleman from Dept of Social Policy, University of Oxford, gives a talk from his "Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World" series talking about the 'Second Demographic Transition'.	David Coleman	26 April, 2012
DH Lawrence 7. Reception History	Catherine Brown gives the Seventh and final lecture in the DH Lawrence series.	Catherine Brown	19 March, 2012
DH Lawrence 6. Birds, Beasts and Children	Catherine Brown gives the sixth lecture in the DH Lawrence series.	Catherine Brown	19 March, 2012
Iran's Nuclear Programme and International Law	Professor Daniel Joyner (University of Alabama School of Law) gievs a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 6th March 2012. Introduced by Professor Dapo Akande.	Daniel Joyner	7 March, 2012
UN Conflict Management in East Timor	Olav Ofstad (ELAC Visiting Fellow 2011), gives a talk for the ELAC Discussion Event on 28 Feb 2012.	Olav Ofstad, Jennifer Welsh	6 March, 2012
Alan Turing: The One Who Became a Zero	Andrew Hodges (author of Alan Turing: The Enigma) delivers a lecture on Alan Turing, the founder of modern computer science. This is the third annual lecture for LGBT history month.	Andrew Hodges	2 March, 2012
DH Lawrence 5. The Alps	Catherine Brown gives the fifth lecture in the DH Lawrence series.	Catherine Brown	28 February, 2012
DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large	Catherine Brown gives the fourth lecture in the DH Lawrence series.	Catherine Brown	28 February, 2012
DH Lawrence 3. Christianity	Catherine Brown gives the third lecture in the DH Lawrence series.	Catherine Brown	28 February, 2012
King Lear	Showing how generations of critics - and Shakespeare himself - have rewritten the ending of King Lear, this sixteenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture engages with the question of tragedy and why it gives pleasure.	Emma Smith	22 February, 2012
Gendering Counterinsurgency	Dr Laleh Khalili (SOAS) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 21 Feb 2012.	Laleh Khalili	22 February, 2012
Building a Business: Marketing and Product Development	Patrick Mawhood (Head of Product Manufacturing at Sky IQ) discusses marketing and developing your product or service.	Patrick Mawhood	22 February, 2012
Building a Business: Managing People, Managing Teams	Tim Cook (Non-Executive Director of Isis Innovation) discusses managing people and teams.	Tim Cook	22 February, 2012
Living With the Enemy: The Ethics of Belligerent Military Occupation	Professor Cecile Fabre (Fellow in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC seminar series on 14th February 2012.	Cecile Fabre	21 February, 2012
Targeted Killing: Exploring its Legality, Morality and Effectiveness	Professor Amos N. Guiora (University of Utah) with respondent Professor Jeremy Waldron (New York University School of Law and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford) give a talk for the ELAC seminar series on 6 Feb 2012.	Amos Guiora, Jeremy Waldon	21 February, 2012
DH Lawrence 2. Humour	Catherine Brown gives the second lecture in the DH Lawrence series.	Catherine Brown	15 February, 2012
DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness	Catherine Brown gives her first lecture in the D.H. Lawrence series.	Catherine Brown	15 February, 2012
King John	At the heart of King John is the death of his rival Arthur: this fifteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series looks at the ways history and legitimacy are complicated in this plotline.	Emma Smith	10 February, 2012
The People's Planet: Reconnecting climate science, climate policy and reality	Myles Allen (Professor of Geosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics) delivers his inaugural lecture on 28 Nov 2011.	Myles Allen	7 February, 2012
Neuroscience Can Tell Us About Morality	What can science tell us about morality? Many philosophers would say, 'nothing at all'. Facts don't imply values, they say. you need further argument to move from facts about us and about the world to conclusions about what we ought to do.	Patricia Churchland	3 February, 2012
Is Nothing Sacred? Free Speech and Religion	Professor A C Grayling delivers the 2011 Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture, with responses by Charles Moore and Dr. Usama Hasan. Filmed on 10 June 2011.	A.C. Grayling, Charles Moore, Usama Hasan, Timothy Garton Ash	2 February, 2012
Pericles, Prince of Tyre	Pericles has been on the margins of the Shakespearean canon: this fourteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series shows some of its self-conscious artistry and contemporary popularity.	Emma Smith	1 February, 2012
Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis	Professor Fernando Teson (Florida State University College of Law) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 31 Jan 2012. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.	Fernando Teson	1 February, 2012