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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on trial	Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is especially good for people who have suffered the most debilitating forms of depression. The evidence for its effectiveness is overwhelming and continues to grow.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	28 November, 2011
Permissible Preventive Cyberwar	Professor George Lucas (United States Naval Academy), gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 22 Nov 2011.	George Lucas	23 November, 2011
Rights, Liability, and the Moral Equality of Combatants	Professor Uwe Steinhoff (University of Hong Kong) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar series on 9th Nov 2011.	Uwe Steinhoff	17 November, 2011
Henry IV part 1	Like generations of theatre-goers, this lecture concentrates on the (large) figure of Sir John Falstaff and investigates his role in Henry IV part 1. Lecture 11 in the Approaching Shakespeare series.	Emma Smith	16 November, 2011
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A new approach to treating depression	Mindfulness therapy is an extremely effective treatment preventing relapse in depression. But what does it entail and how does it work?	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	14 November, 2011
The Tempest	That the character of Prospero is a Shakespearean self-portrait is a common reading of The Tempest: this tenth Approaching Shakespeare lecture asks whether that is a useful reading of the play.	Emma Smith	14 November, 2011
Does War Have a Meaning?	Professor Michael Boylan (Marymount) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict/Changing Character of War Seminar Series.	Michael Boylan	11 November, 2011
The Shadow of the ICC: Positive Complementarity and the Situation in Kenya	Professor Chandra Sriram (SOAS) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict/Changing Character of War Seminar Series. Introduced by Jennifer Welsh (Oxford).	Chandra Sriram	11 November, 2011
Antony and Cleopatra	What kind of tragedy is this play, with its two central figures rather than a singular hero? The ninth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series tries to find out.	Emma Smith	10 November, 2011
Realism	Dr Catherine Brown, English Faculty, Oxford, gives a lecture exploring the nature of realism in verbal and visual art.	Catherine Brown	8 November, 2011
Can treatments such as Cognitive Therapy help?	Depression tends to return even if it has been successfully treated. Scientists now understand why this happens and have developed therapies that reduce the risks of relapse and help lift the burden of depression should it return.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	7 November, 2011
Richard II	Lecture eight in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks the question that structures Richard II: does the play suggest Henry Bolingbroke's overthrow of the king was justified?	Emma Smith	1 November, 2011
Selling Organs	Everyday people die in hospitals because there aren't enough organs available for transplant. In most countries of the world - though not all - it is illegal to sell organs.	Tim Lewens	1 November, 2011
Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century	Commodore Steve Jermy (Royal Navy) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.	Steve Jermy	26 October, 2011
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture	Josh Phillips, journalist, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series.	Josh Phillips	25 October, 2011
The Legacy of 9/11	Panel discussion from the oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict on The Legacy of 9/11.	Jennifer Welsh, David Rodin, Dapo Akande	25 October, 2011
How is depression treated?	Doctors and psychiatrists once believed that patterns of thinking played little or no role in depression, but this is now known to be wrong. Professor Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss how the treatment of depression has evolved in recent years.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	21 October, 2011
What is depression?	Depression is expected to impose the second biggest health burden globally by 2020; greater even than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer. Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss the driving forces behind this startling trend.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	21 October, 2011
Twelfth Night	The seventh Approaching Shakespeare lecture takes a minor character in Twelfth Night - Antonio - and uses his presence to open up questions of sexuality, desire and the nature of romantic comedy.	Emma Smith	20 October, 2011
Titus Andronicus	Focusing in detail on one particular scene, and on critical responses to it, this sixth Approaching Shakespeare lecture on Titus Andronicus deals with violence, rhetoric, and the nature of dramatic sensationalism.	Emma Smith	19 October, 2011
Bio-Ethics Bites	Demand for health care is infinite, but money is finite. So how should we distribute resources? Whom should we help, and why?	Jonathan Wolf	3 October, 2011
Trust	Radically new techniques are opening up exciting possibilities for those working in health care - for psychiatrists, doctors, surgeons; the option to clone human beings, to give just one example.	Onora O'Neill	1 September, 2011
Pre-Emptive Strikes - Israel and Iran	Dr Tamir Meisels, Tel Aviv University, gives a seminar for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar Series.	Tamir Meisels	24 August, 2011
Migration, Digital Images and the Future of Insurgency	Dr John Mackinlay (King's College London) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW lunchtime seminar series.	John Mackinlay	9 August, 2011
Status Quo Bias	Suppose a genetic engineering breakthrough made it simple, safe and cheap to increase people's intelligence.	Nick Bostrom	1 August, 2011
History of Oxford's Experimental Psychology Department	Professors Oliver Braddick and Larry Weiskrantz give a talk on the history of Oxford University's Experimental Psychology Department as part the department's 113th anniversary.	Larry Weiskrantz, Oliver Braddick	13 July, 2011
Life and Death	If a patient decides she doesn't want to live any longer, should she be allowed to die? Should she be allowed to kill herself?	Peter Singer	4 July, 2011
2nd St Cross Special Ethics Seminar TT11: Museum Ethics	Museum Ethics.	Nick Mayhew	29 June, 2011
Human Rights vs Religion?	Professor Roger Trigg gives the St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Trinity Term 2011.	Roger Trigg	20 June, 2011
Morality and Law in War	Dr Seth Lazar (Research Associate, ELAC, Oxford) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 7th June 2011.	Seth Lazar	13 June, 2011
Intervention in Libya and Implications for European and Transatlantic Defence Cooperation	Camille Grand (Director Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique (FRS, Paris) gives a talk for the ELAC/OHG (Oxford Humanitarian Group) on 31st May 2011.	Camille Grand	13 June, 2011
Humanitarianism and History: Rethinking the Neutrality Debate	Tom Smith (QEH, Oxford), gives a talk for the ELAC/Oxford Humanitarian Group seminar series on 6th June 2011. Introduced by Urvashi Aneja.	Tom Smith, Urvashi Aneja	13 June, 2011
Intervening to Protect Civilians: Debating the NATO-led mission in Libya	Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, Dr Cheyney Ryan and Dapo Akande (ELAC) debate the recent NATO led mission in Libya.	Jennifer Welsh, David Rodin, Dapo Akand, Cheyney Ryan	13 June, 2011
Targeted Killings: A Modern Strategy of the State (partial)	Please note this is only a partial recording, we apologise for the inconvenience. William F. Owen (Cranfield Defence and Security, UK Defence Academy) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on.	William F Owen	13 June, 2011
Designer Babies	The term 'designer baby' is usually used in a pejorative sense - to conjure up some dystopian Brave New World. There are already ways to affect what kind of children you have - most obviously by choosing the partner to have them with.	Julian Savulescu	31 May, 2011
Moral Status	A stone on the beach, we assume, has no moral status. We can kick or hammer the stone, and we have done the stone no harm. Typical adult human beings do have moral status. We shouldn't, without a very good reason, kick a man or woman.	Jeff McMahan	31 May, 2011
Sovereign Equality and Moral Disagreement: Premises of a Pluralist International Legal Order	Professor Brad Roth, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Wayne State, Detroit, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 17th May 2011. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.	Brad Roth	18 May, 2011
Stabilisation, Security and Capacity Building - What the Business Schools and Sociologists might tell the Military	Colonel Duncan Barley, British Army (Retired) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 10th May 2011.	Duncan Barley	18 May, 2011
Killing in Humanitarian Wars	Professor Cecile Fabre, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford University, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW lunchtime seminar series on the 3rd May, 2011. Introduced by Dr David Rodin.	Cecile Fabre	16 May, 2011
After "Returning to Europe": Divides and Challenges in the Enlarged European Union	Professor Claus Offe (Professor of Political Sociology, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin) delivers the 2011 European Studies Centre Annual Lecture on 4th March 2011.	Claus Offe, Margaret MacMillan	11 May, 2011
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 1: Automatism and chance: Surrealist strategies and their legacies in contemporary art and film	Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University, gives the first Slade lecture in Surrealism and Art History on 20th January 2010.	Dawn Ades	18 April, 2011
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 2: Beyond painting: collage, objects, installations	Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University gives the second Slade lecture in Surrealism and Art History on 27th January 2010.	Dawn Ades	18 April, 2011
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 3: Beyond art: 'the enemy within', Georges Bataille and Documents	Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University, gives the third lecture in the Slade lecture series on Surrealism and Art History.	Dawn Ades	18 April, 2011
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 4: The experimental demonstration of critical paranoia: Salvador Dalí's The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus	Fourth Slade lecture from Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University, given on 10th February 2010.	Dawn Ades	18 April, 2011
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 5: Poetry, politics, and sexuality: Surrealism in Latin America	Fifth lecture in the Slade lecture series given by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University in Surrealism and Art History on 17th February 2010.	Dawn Ades	18 April, 2011
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 6: Monuments and ruins: Surrealism and archaeology in the New World	Sixth lecture in the Slade lecture series on Surrealism and Art given by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University on 24th February 2010.	Dawn Ades	18 April, 2011
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 7: Transnational Surrealism: Tropiques and the role of the little magazine	Seventh lecture in the Slade lecture series on Surrealism and Art History given by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University on 3rd March 2010.	Dawn Ades	18 April, 2011
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 8: Walking distance from the studio: cities, maps, and myths	Eighth and final Slade Lecture in Surrealism and Art History given by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University on 10th March 2010.	Dawn Ades	18 April, 2011
New Imaging Evidence for the Neural Bases of Moral Sentiments: Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour	2nd Annual Wellcome Lecture in Neuroethics, given by Professor Jorge Moll on 18th January 2011 on the subject of new evidence for Neural bases for moral sentiments.	Jorge Moll	28 March, 2011
Prioritarianism, Levelling Down and Welfare Diffusion	Lecture and discussion from Professor Ingmar Persson (Gothenburg University), the discussant is Derek Parfit (Oxford).	Ingmar Persson, Derek Parfit	28 March, 2011
Building a Business: Entrepreneurship and the Ideal Business Plan	Fiona Reid (Former Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) talks about communicating your vision and the ideal business plan.	Fiona Reid	24 March, 2011
Building a Business: Marketing: Creating and Keeping Customers	Jonathan Reynolds (Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management) discusses principles of marketing, including using the internet and social media.	Jonathan Reynolds	24 March, 2011
5. Making a Livelier Drawing	Lesson 4. Making a livelier drawing, where the line and tone have an energy because they have been applied at speed with a brush.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
9. Creativity	Lesson 8. Invention!	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
8. Field Notes	Lesson 7. Strategies for collecting information and recording ideas as an aid to memory.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
7. With Colour	Lesson 6. The most complex form of drawing. Starting with a pencil outline, the drawing is developed with a brush in clearly defined layers.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
6. Measured Drawing	Lesson 5. Making a drawing that is dependent for its success on mathematical accuracy.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
4. Toned Paper	Lesson 3. How toned paper can be used to provide the mid-tone in a drawing, which records where light and shade fall as a means of picturing an object.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
3. The Edge of the Pencil	Lesson 2. We use tone, light, dark and the shades in-between to create illusions of volume and depth.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
2. The Tip of the Pencil	Lesson 1. We use line to define spaces and things. It is not a question of magically getting the line right first time, but of first turning a contour into a line, and then systematically correcting that line until it looks right.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
1. Introduction to the Elements of Drawing	Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin's teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.	Stephen Farthing	24 March, 2011
Hug me daddy I hate you: the ethical challenges of a C21 business	Dr Mick Blowfield, Fellow of St Cross College, gives the second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on The Ethical Challenges of 21st Century Businesses.	Mick Blowfield	22 March, 2011
Idealisms and their refutations	Lecture 5/8. The very possibility of self-awareness (an "inner sense" with content) requires an awareness of an external world by way of "outer sense". Only through awareness of stable elements in the external world is self-consciousness possible.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
The discipline of reason: The paralogisms and Antinomies of Pure Reason.	Lecture 8/8. Reason, properly disciplined, draws permissible inferences from the resulting concepts of the understanding. The outcome is knowledge.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
The "Self" and the Synthetic Unity of Apperception	Lecture 7/8. Kant argues that: "The synthetic unity of consciousness is... an objective condition of all knowledge.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
Concepts, judgement and the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories	Lecture 6/8. Empiricists have no explanation for how we move from "mere forms of thought" to objective concepts. The conditions necessary for the knowledge of an object require a priori categories as the enabling conditions of all human understanding.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
How are a priori synthetic judgements possible?	Lecture 4/8. Kant claims that, "our sense representation is not a representation of things in themselves, but of the way in which they appear to us.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
Space, time and the "Analogies of Experiences"	Lecture 3/8. Kant's so-called "Copernican" revolution in metaphysics begins with the recognition of the observer's contribution to the observation.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
The broader philosophical context	Lecture 2/8. The significant advances in physics in the 17th century stood in vivid contrast to the stagnation of traditional metaphysics, but why should metaphysics be conceived as a "science" in the first place?	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
Just what is Kant's "project"?	Lecture 1/8. Both sense and reason are limited. Kant must identify the proper mission and domain of each, as well as the manner in which their separate functions come to be integrated in what is finally the inter-subjectively settled knowledge of science.	Dan Robinson	16 March, 2011
8. Defining Art	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his eight and final lecture in the Aesthetics series on Defining Art.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
7. Musical Expression	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his seventh lecture in the Aesthetics series on the expression of emotion in music.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
6. Literary Interpretation	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his sixth lecture in the Aesthetics series on the interpretation of literature.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
5. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 2	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford concludes his discussion of Kant's Critique of Judgement in the fifth lecture of the Aesthetics series.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
4. Kant's Critique of Judgement: Lecture 1	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his fourth lecture in the Aesthetics series on Kant's Critique of Judgement.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
3. Hume and the Standard of Taste	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his third lecture in the Aesthetics series on Hume and the Standard of Taste.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
2. Aristotle's Poetics	James Grant, lecturer in philosophy, University of Oxford gives his second lecture in the Aesthetics series on Aristotle's Poetics.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
1. Plato's Philosophy of Art	James Grant, lecturer in philosop-hy, University of Oxford gives his first lecture in the Aesthetics series on Plato's philosophy of Art.	James Grant	15 March, 2011
Aiding the Peace in Southern Sudan: A Multi-donor Evaluation of Support to Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities in Southern Sudan 2005-2010	Jon Bennet, Director of Oxford Development Consultants, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar series on 7th March 2011. An Oxford Humanitarian Group Event. Introduced by Urvashi Aneja.	Jon Bennet	14 March, 2011
Core Course: Painting as visual and material culture in Ming China	This lecture is one of a series of eight relating to an optional third year undergraduate course, 'Painting and Culture in Ming China' which can be taken by History of Art and History students.	Craig Clunas	11 March, 2011
Core Course: Women as Patrons of the Arts in Early Modern Europe	This lecture forms part of series entitled 'Introduction to the History of Art', a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.	Geraldine Johnson	11 March, 2011
Core Course: Modernism and Mass Culture	This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.	Alastair Wright	11 March, 2011
Military Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Limits of the Philosophical Approach	Professor Martin Cook gives a talk for the ELAC seminar series.	Martin Cook	8 March, 2011
The Untold War	Nancy Sherman, University of Glasgow, gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict Seminar Series, in this, she talks about the philosophical concept of guilt in war. Introduced by Hew Strachan.	Nancy Sherman	8 March, 2011
Know4Go - EBM lecture	Dr Janet Martin, Director of Health Technology Assessment, London Health Services Centre gives a special lecture for EBM entitled; Know4Go: An Instrument for decision-making when resources are limited and demands are relentless.	Janet Martin	24 February, 2011
The Information Revolution	Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Office, NHS, gives a special guest lecture for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Sir Muir Gray	24 February, 2011
The Future of Evidence Based Medicine	Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, gives a special lecture on the future of EBM.	Paul Glasziou	24 February, 2011
Interpreting Results - Stats in Small Doses	Dr Amanda Burls delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine.	Amanda Burls	24 February, 2011
Diagnostic Tests	Dr Carl Heneghan delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Carl Heneghan	24 February, 2011
Appraisal of Clinical Trials	Dr Rafael Perera delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Rafael Perera	24 February, 2011
Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine	Professor Paul Glasziou gives an introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare.	Paul Glasziou	24 February, 2011
Does the Internet Help People Power?	Evgeny Morozov, author of "The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom", delivers a lecture on the political use of the internet, particularly during protests and demonstrations.	Evgeny Morozov, John Lloyd, Timothy Garton Ash	23 February, 2011
The Battlefield from Afar: Independently Operating Systems and their Compatibility with the laws of Armed Conflict	Markus Wagner, Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami Law School, gives a talk for the 2011 Hilary term ELAC/CCW seminar series.	Markus Wagner	21 February, 2011
Being Humanitarian: Personal Morality and Political Project in Today's Wars	Dr Hugo Slim, Visiting Fellow in the department of politics and international relations, gives a talk for the 2011 Hilary term ELAC/CCW seminar series on armed conflict.	Hugo Slim	21 February, 2011
Contemporary Security Challenges (partial)	Dr Paul Cornish (Chatham House) gives a talk for the Hiliary Term 2011 ELAC/CCW seminar series. Please note: this is only a partial recording. we apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.	Paul Cornish	21 February, 2011
Special Responsibilities in World Politics	Professor Ian Clark and Professor Christian Reus-Smit give a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict 2011 Hilary Term seminar series.	Ian Clark, Christian Reus-Smit	11 February, 2011
Riding the Perfect Storm: World on the Edge, When will the Big Bubble Burst	Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington DC, gives a lecture for the Linacre Lecture Series; Riding the Perfect Storm.	Lester Brown	8 February, 2011
Earth: A Three Act Structure	Relevance of geological ideas to contemporary environmental issues.' Professor Iain Stewart, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth.	Iain Stewart	28 January, 2011
Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar	Dr Adrian Walsh delivers a St Cross College Lecture entitled Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony.	Adrian Walsh	24 January, 2011
Cosmopolitanism, Self-Determination and National Self-Defence - Why We Fight Conference Lecture 5	Part of the Why we Fight Conference held in Nuffield College October 2010. Lecturer in Law, Monash University, Patrick Emerton gives his paper followed by a discussion.	Patrick Emerton	5 January, 2011