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The Humanities Division is one of four academic divisions in the University of Oxford, bringing together the faculties of Classics; English; History; Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics; Medieval and Modern Languages; Music; Oriental Studies; Philosophy; and Theology, as well as the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
The Division offers world-class teaching and research, backed by the superb resources of the University’s libraries and museums, including the famous Bodleian Library, with its 11 million volumes and priceless early book and manuscript collections, and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Such historic resources are linked to cutting-edge agendas in research and teaching, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary study. Our faculties are among the largest in the world, enabling Oxford to offer an education in Arts and Humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects, from music and fine art to ancient and modern languages.
Series associated with Humanities Division
"British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction
2013 Carnegie-Uehiro-Oxford Ethics Conference: Happiness and Well-Being
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
Ancient Egypt
Ancient History HT2015: Digital Classics
Approaching Shakespeare
Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America
Bio-Ethics Bites
Broadcast Media
Cantemir Institute
Censorship in Literature in South Africa
Centre for the Study of the Book
Challenging the Canon
Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities
D.H. Lawrence
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
Diplomacy and culture at the Ottoman Court
Edward Lear's Feelings
English at Oxford
English Graduate Conference 2012
Euthydemus - Platonic Dialogue
Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme
Faculty of Classics
From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
General Philosophy
George Eliot
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series, 2016-2017
Great Writers Inspire
Great Writers Inspire at Home
Greece in Crisis: Culture, Identity, Politics
Greek and Roman Drama - Theatre History and Modern Performance (APGRD Public Lectures)
Hensley Henson Lectures 2018 - Thomas Cromwell: Enterprising Reformation
History Faculty
History of Art
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Hume's Central Principles
Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
Ian Ramsey Centre: The Deist Controversy
Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
Indian Traces in Oxford
Institute for Visual Research
Interviews on Great Writers
Interviews with Philosophers
Introducing the Qur'an
Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
Journal of Practical Ethics
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
La Bella Principessa: A Leonardo Discovered
Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
Les Liaisons dangereuses in 5x5
Literature and Form
Literature, Art and Oxford
Medea, a performance history (APGRD multimedia ebooks)
Medieval English
Medieval German Studies
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues
Modern Languages
MSt English Language
Musical Abstracts
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
Oriental Institute
Origins of Nature
Oscar Wilde
Oxford Humanities - Research Showcase: Global Exploration, Innovation and Influence
Oxford Writers' House Talks
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness
Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Special Lectures
Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography
Poetry with Simon Armitage
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Practical Ethics Bites
Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities
Reformation 2017
Reid's Critique of Hume
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment
Renegotiations of History in light of the 'Greek Crisis'
Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction
Rothermere American Institute
Ruskin School of Art
Russian Ab Initio Students: Pre-Course Listening Material
Sacrifice and Modern Thought
Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques
Samuel Johnson
Science and Religious Conflict Conference
Shakespeare's first folio
Social Media and Faith
Spain: 1959 - 1992
Staging Shakespeare
Stories, Spaces and Societies - Globalising and Localising the Great War
Teaching the Codex
The Beazley Archive - Classical Art Research Centre
The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China
The End of Journalism
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Bryan Ward-Perkins)
The King James Bible Lecture Series
The New Madhyamaka
The Remedy
The Value of Humanities
The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation
The Zaharoff Lecture
Theology Faculty
Tolkien at Oxford
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
Unlocking Late Schumann
Voltaire Foundation
Was there a Russian Enlightenment?
What is Tragedy?
What is Translation?
Writers in Dialogue
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| 1 | Party Balance, Partisan Polarization, and Policy Conflict: The Evolution of American Politics, 1932-2014 | The 2015 Winant Lecture in American Government. Byron Shafer is Hawkins Chair of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. | Byron Shafer | 29 Aug 2018 | |
| 2 | Teaching the Codex 13: 2017 Summary | Teresa Webber (Cambridge) gives closing remarks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium. | Teresa Webber | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 3 | Teaching the Codex 12: Continental and Anglophone Approaches 2 | Marigold Norbye speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex colloquium about learning palaeography at the École des chartes. | Marigold Norbye | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 4 | Teaching the Codex 11: Continental and Anglophone Approaches 1 | Daniel Sawyer (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about the teaching of palaeography and codicology in Oxford’s Faculty of English. | Daniel Sawyer | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 5 | Teaching the Codex 10: Manuscripts and Outreach 4 | Pauline Souleau (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about the Manuscript Outreach Network and the Wadham-Luton Access Project. | Pauline Souleau | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 6 | Teaching the Codex 9: Manuscripts and Outreach 3 | Anna Boeles Rowland (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about the Manuscript Outreach Network. Introduction by Pauline Souleau (Oxford). | Anna Boeles Rowland, Pauline Souleau | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 7 | Teaching the Codex 8: Manuscripts and Outreach 2 | Sian Witherden (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about palaeography and undergraduate engagement. Introduction by Pauline Souleau (Oxford). | Sian Witherden, Pauline Souleau | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 8 | Teaching the Codex 7: Manuscripts and Outreach 1 | Sarah Laseke (Leiden, Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about a public engagement approach to teaching palaeography. Introduction by Pauline Souleau (Oxford). | Sarah Laseke, Pauline Souleau | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 9 | Teaching the Codex 6: Teaching Art History in Manuscripts | Spike Bucklow (Cambridge) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about the materiality of manuscript images. Introduction by Emily Guerry (Kent). | Spike Bucklow, Emily Guerry | 28 Aug 2018 | |
| 10 | Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature | A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ros Ballaster, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert J. C. Young | 26 Jul 2018 | |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Methusela and the unity of mankind: late Renaissance and early Enlightenment conceptions of time | Martin van Gelderen delivers a talk for the Besterman Lecture 2018 | Martin van Gelderen | 25 Jul 2018 |
| 12 | Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature | A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ros Ballaster, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert J. C. Young | 18 Jul 2018 | |
| 13 | Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power and Media | Cultural Citizenship in India argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study. | Lion König, Polly O'hanlon, Sundas Ali, Peter Frankopan | 13 Jul 2018 | |
| 14 | Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (4) The great disappearing George Washington: history and the head of state in contemporary American art | Professor Miguel de Baca gives his final Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on Gilbert Stuart’s unfinished painting of George Washington. | Miguel De Baca | 28 Jun 2018 | |
| 15 | Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (3) Modernism disfigured: cult and illicit ritual in New Mexico in the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and Martha Graham | Professor Miguel de Baca gives his third Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and Martha Graham. | Miguel De Baca | 28 Jun 2018 | |
| 16 | Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (2) Skin and absence: the radical ceramics and poetry of the enslaved Dave the Potter | Professor Miguel de Baca gives his second Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on the work of Dave the Potter. | Miguel De Baca | 28 Jun 2018 | |
| 17 | Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (1) Suicide in white and black: Thomas Cole’s Destruction and the American empire | Professor Miguel de Baca gives his first Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on two depictions of suicide. | Miguel De Baca | 28 Jun 2018 | |
| 18 | Reni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Rebecca Surender | Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and winner of the Jhalak Prize 2018), in conversation with Dr Rebecca Surender (Pro Vice-Chancellor and Advocate for Diversity, University of Oxford). | Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Surender | 28 Jun 2018 | |
| 19 | The Gaisford Lecture 2018: The Greeks and a short long History of the Joke - Dr Nick Lowe | Gaisford Lecture 2018 | Nick Lowe | 27 Jun 2018 | |
| 20 | Minds Without Spines: Toward a More Comprehensive Animal Ethics | In this OUC-WEH Joint Seminar, Irina Mikhalevich argues that the moral status of invertebrate animals is often overlooked, and sets out why animal ethics should be more inclusive and comprehensive. | Irina Mikhalevich | 19 Jun 2018 | |
| 21 | Rethinking 'Disease': A Fresh Diagnosis and a New Philosophical Treatment | In this OUC-WEH Joint Seminar, Russell Powell explores the concept of 'disease' | Russell Powell | 19 Jun 2018 | |
| 22 | Creative Commons | The Fowler Lecture 2018: Livy's Faliscan schoolmaster (5.26-7) | The Fowler Lecture 2018 delivered by Professor Christina Kraus 'Livy's Faliscan schoolmaster (5.26-7)'. | Christina Kraus | 18 Jun 2018 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | Lost in Print? Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Reggae Music Archive | Louisa Layne investigates the reggae music archive, exploring music and poetry through Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub club. | Louisa Layne | 13 Jun 2018 |
| 24 | Creative Commons | Lost and Found: Till Damaskus III | Travel back with Leah Broad to 1926 and hear recently found music by Swedish composter Ture Rangstrom, composed for a Strindberg play. | Leah Broad | 13 Jun 2018 |
| 25 | The Monk, the Memorist, the Mushroom and the MRI | Discover how we create and store ideas, and how modern neuroscience process 16th century theories on memory. | Dan Holloway | 13 Jun 2018 | |
| 26 | Creative Commons | A Lost Victorian Utopia: Living to 100 | An exploration of a Victorian blue-print for a city of health and happiness, where everyone could live to 100. | Sally Shuttleworth | 13 Jun 2018 |
| 27 | The Religion of Thomas Cromwell (part 2) | Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, gives the fourth and final lecture in the Hensley Henson 2018 series. | Diarmaid MacCulloch | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 28 | Cromwell and the Monasteries (part 2) | Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, gives the third lecture in the Hensley Henson 2018 series. | Professor of the History of the Church | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 29 | Cromwell and the Monasteries (part 1) | Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, gives the second lecture in the Hensley Henson 2018 series. | Diarmaid MacCulloch | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 30 | The Religion of Thomas Cromwell (part 1) | Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, gives the first lecture in the Hensley Henson 2018 series. | Diarmaid MacCulloch | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 31 | Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity | Book at Lunchtime, Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity | Philip Bullock, Antonia Fitzpatrick, Cecilia Trifogli, William Wood | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 32 | Cost-benefit analysis | In this special lecture, Professor Matt Adler argues that social welfare function is a better methodology than cost-benefit analysis. | Professor Matthew Adler | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 33 | Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well | An inter-disciplinary collaboration on music, mortality and ethics. | Dominic Wilkinson | 08 Jun 2018 | |
| 34 | Creative Commons | Artist Talk: Made in Imagination | Find out how Anne Griffiths’ work, Lost in Imagination, reimagines intriguing objects lost within the Pitt Rivers archive. | Anne Griffiths | 06 Jun 2018 |
| 35 | Creative Commons | Identity beyond Borders: Ethnicity in the American Pacific | Evan Matsuyama gives a short talk on Japanese mortality, identity, and ethnicity in the Nikkei struggle against mass incarceration during World War II. | Evan Matsuyama | 06 Jun 2018 |
| 36 | Creative Commons | Lost and Found: The story of a Museum store | Andrew Hughes gives a short talk on the discovery unusual things lost and found during a move of 100,000 Pitt Rivers Museum objects. | Andrew Hughes | 06 Jun 2018 |
| 37 | 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (3/3): Illness and Attitude | Lecture 3 of 3.Who we are depends in part on the social world in which we live. In these lectures I look at some consequences for three mental health problems, broadly construed: dementia, addiction, and psychosomatic illness. | Richard Holton | 05 Jun 2018 | |
| 38 | 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (2/3): Addiction, Desire and the Polluted Environment | Lecture 2 of 3. Who we are depends in part on the social world in which we live. In these lectures I look at some consequences for three mental health problems, broadly construed: dementia, addiction, and psychosomatic illness. | Richard Holton | 05 Jun 2018 | |
| 39 | 2018 Annual Uehiro Lectures (1/3): Dementia and the Social Scaffold of Memory | Lecture 1 of 3. Who we are depends in part on the social world in which we live. In these lectures I look at some consequences for three mental health problems, broadly construed: dementia, addiction, and psychosomatic illness. | Richard Holton | 05 Jun 2018 | |
| 40 | What made a Jewish country home Jewish? | Leora Auslander (University of Chicago) gives the keynote talk for the JCH conference. | Leora Auslander | 23 May 2018 | |
| 41 | Philip Sassoon: perfectionism and the English country house | Jane Stevenson (University of Oxford) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth panel; Building New. | Jane Stevenson | 23 May 2018 | |
| 42 | Charles-de-Gaulle – The castle of Ferrières, an emblematic house | Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy (Université gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth session; Building New. | Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy | 23 May 2018 | |
| 43 | Renaissance as locus: Bakst and the imaginary chateau in the Sleeping Beauty panels | Olga Medvedkova (CNRS) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. | Olga Medvedkova | 23 May 2018 | |
| 44 | The Sterns, the Singers and Cross-Cultural Exchanges | Tom Stammers (University of Durham) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. | Tom Stammers | 23 May 2018 | |
| 45 | In Walpole’s footsteps - Braham and Stern at Strawberry Hill | Silvia Davoli (Strawberry Hill House) and Nino Strachey (National Trust) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. | Silvia Davoli | 23 May 2018 | |
| 46 | Schloss Freienwalde: a Jewish restoration of a Prussian legacy | Martin Sabrow (ZZF Potsdam/ Humboldt University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House. | Martin Sabrow | 23 May 2018 | |
| 47 | Disraeli at Hughenden - A Fish out of Water? | Todd Endelman (University of Michigan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House. | Todd Endelman | 23 May 2018 | |
| 48 | Sommerfrische, Connoisseurship, Scandal and the Temporary in the Jewish Country House in Austria: Baron Nathaniel Rothschild’s castle in Reichenau and Dr. Josef Kranz’ Villa Raach | Mimi Schmidt (Jindal Global University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's second session; Villas and Chateaux. | Mimi Schmidt | 23 May 2018 | |
| 49 | Torre Alfina: A Cahen d’Anvers Manor in Italy | Alice Legé (University of Amiens/University of Milan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's second session; Villas and Chateaux. | Alice Lege | 23 May 2018 | |
| 50 | Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925: a Rothschild Family Villa | Diana Davis gives a talk for the JCH conference's second panel, Villas and Chateaux. | Diana Davis | 23 May 2018 | |
| 51 | Property and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Provincial Austria | Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first conference The Lure of the Land. | Lisa Silverman | 23 May 2018 | |
| 52 | Places, Symbols and Images of an Elite: the Country Houses of the Italian Jewish Nobility | Paolo Pellegrini (Scuola di Archivistica, Paelografica e Diplomatica dell'Archivio di Stato di Perugia) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first session; The Lure of the Land. | Paolo Pellegrini | 23 May 2018 | |
| 53 | Creolizing Country Homes and the Dutch Jewish Pastoral | Laura Leibmann (Reed College) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first panel, The Lure of the Land. | Laura Leibmann | 23 May 2018 | |
| 54 | Jewish Country Houses Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks | Abigail Green (Oxford) introduces the conference, held in the Radcliffe Humanities Building on 5th March 2018. | Abigail Green | 23 May 2018 | |
| 55 | Free Reading | Professor Lloyd Pratt delivers his inaugural lecture as Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature. | Lloyd Pratt | 22 May 2018 | |
| 56 | Art and Emergency | Book at Lunchtime, Art and Emergency | Emilia Terracciano, Partha Mitter, Lion König, Naiza Khan | 22 May 2018 | |
| 57 | The Future of Mobility: How and why will we transport ourselves in the next decades | Digitisation has entered the mobility arena. The car has evolved from a mechanical device into a “data producing embedded software platform”, and the internet is quickly linking the supply and demand to effectively fulfil our transport needs. | Carlo van de Weijer | 21 May 2018 | |
| 58 | Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres | Simon Armitage delivers the Trinity 2018 poetry lecture entitled "Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres". | Simon Armitage | 17 May 2018 | |
| 59 | Creative Commons | The Polish Italian Royal Wedding of 1518: Dynasty, Memory & Language | Natalia Nowakowska (Tutor and Fellow in History, Somerville College and Principal Investigator 'The Jagiellonians Project') gives a talk for the History Faculty. | Natalia Nowakowska | 16 May 2018 |
| 60 | Reading Bass Culture | On 26 April 2018, Linton Kwesi Johnson read from a selection of his poetry and discussed with Professor Paul Gilroy the inter-generational and transatlantic relationships that had nurtured it. | Linton Kwesi Johnson, Paul Gilroy, Louisa Layne | 16 May 2018 | |
| 61 | Creative Commons | ‘Edward Lear’s Vision’, by Professor Matthew Bevis | A talk given at the Ashmolean Museum on Edward Lear’s life, art, and poetry. | Matthew Bevis | 10 May 2018 |
| 62 | In search of the Phoenicians | Book at Lunchtime, In search of the Phoenicians | Josephine Quinn, Hindy Najman, Stephanie Dalley, John Watts | 10 May 2018 | |
| 63 | Slade Lectures 2018 (7): Barocci: The Madonna del Popolo | Professor David Ekserdjian gives his seventh Slade Lecture on Barocci’s drawings for the Madonna del Popolo. | David Ekserdjian | 09 May 2018 | |
| 64 | Slade Lectures 2018 (5): Parmigianino: The Madonna of the Long Neck | Professor David Ekserdjian gives his fifth Slade Lecture on Parmigianino’s drawings for the Madonna of the Long Neck. | David Ekserdjian | 09 May 2018 | |
| 65 | Slade Lectures 2018 (4): Correggio: The Dome of Parma Cathedral | art, drawing, painting, visual arts, italy | David Ekserdjian | 09 May 2018 | |
| 66 | Slade Lectures 2018 (3): Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura | Professor David Ekserdjian gives his third Slade Lecture on Raphael’s drawings for the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace. | David Ekserdjian | 09 May 2018 | |
| 67 | Slade Lectures 2018 (2): Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling | Professor David Ekserdjian gives his second Slade Lecture on Michelangelo’s drawings for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. | David Ekserdjian | 09 May 2018 | |
| 68 | Slade Lectures 2018 (1): Drawing in Italy before 1500 | Professor David Ekserdjian gives his first Slade Lecture on Drawing in Italy before 1500. | David Ekserdjian | 09 May 2018 | |
| 69 | Sermon on Indulgences | Relay Reading for the Launch of the 'Sermon von Ablass und Gnade' in the Taylor Editions. | Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Emma Huber, Martin Kessler | 02 May 2018 | |
| 70 | Teaching the Codex 5: Teaching Music Palaeography 2 | Margaret Bent (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about music palaeography in the classroom. | Margaret Bent | 10 Apr 2018 | |
| 71 | Teaching the Codex 4: Teaching Music Palaeography 1 | Eleanor Giraud (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick) speaks about music palaeography in the classroom. | Eleanor Giraud | 10 Apr 2018 | |
| 72 | Photography and Tibet | Author, Clare Harris, talks about her book on photography in Tibet - a place that has for centuries been a source of fascination for outsiders and a captivating yet troublesome subject for photographers. | Clare Harris, Thupten Kelsang, Elizabeth Edwards, Geraldine Johnson | 05 Apr 2018 | |
| 73 | Weeping | 'He weeps by the side of the ocean, He weeps on the top of the hill', the poet wrote of himself in 'How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear'. | Jasmine Jagger | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 74 | Laughter | Lear once spoke of 'this ludicrously whirligig life which one suffers from first and laughs at afterwards.' | Matthew Bevis | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 75 | Disgust | This programme explores appetite, desire, and disgust in Lear. | Jasmine Jagger | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 76 | Wonder | This programme examines different meanings of 'wonder' in Lear - as both a positive and a negative emotion, and as something in between. | Jasmine Jagger | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 77 | Introduction | This programme introduces Lear and outlines the structure of the programmes. | Matthew Bevis | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 78 | Like, Elizabeth Bishop | Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage delivers a lecture on the american writer and poet Elizabeth Bishop. | Simon Armitage | 20 Mar 2018 | |
| 79 | Creative Commons | Creative Media Lecture 02 | In the second lecture, Stig Abell discusses the future of modern and social journalism. | Stig Abell | 12 Mar 2018 |
| 80 | Creative Commons | Creative Media Lecture 01 | In the first lecture, Stig Abell discusses the pros and cons of old fashioned journalism as well as modern forms of journalism such as social media. | Stig Abell | 12 Mar 2018 |
| 81 | Modal Epistemology and the Formal Identity of Intellect and Object | A defence of the Formal Identity Thesis and of the immateriality of the human intellect, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths, including especially essential truths about value. | Robert Koons | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 82 | Hylomorphism, natural science, mind and God | Howard Robinson argues that the early moderns were right to think that Aristotelian or scholastic hylomorphism was inconsistent with modern science. | Howard Robinson | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 83 | Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation | David Yates argues that some physically realised qualitative properties have their causal roles solely in virtue of being the qualities they are, and not in virtue of the powers bestowed by their physical realizers on a given occasion. | David yates | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 84 | A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism | Utilising recent advances in developmental biology, Christopher Austin argues that the hylomorphic framework is an empirically adequate and conceptually rich explanatory schema with which to model the nature of organisms. | Christopher J Austin | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 85 | Hylomorphic Structure, Emergence, and Supervenience | William Jaworski argues why the hylomorphic structure is the best (and perhaps only) thing that can explain the persistence of individuals that change their matter over time. | William Jaworski | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 86 | The Qur'an as literature | A principal reason for why the Qur’an managed to establish itself as a text believed to constitute divine revelation is that it is compelling literature. How do Islamic and modern Western scholars approach the Qur’an’s literary dimension? | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 87 | Confirming and Clarifying: The Qur'an in conversation with earlier Judaeo-Christian traditions | The Qur’an’s original addressees must have been familiar with earlier Jewish and Christian traditions, which the Qur’an claims both to “confirm” and to “clarify”. Narratives about Abraham and the death of Pharaoh serve to exemplify what this means. | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 88 | Rekindling Prophecy: The Qur'an in its historical milieu. | This second episode examines the historical context in which the material now collected in the Qur’an was first promulgated. Special attention is paid to the various groups of addressees who figure in the Qur’an. | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 89 | Hovering about the Qur'an without entering into it? On the academic study of the Qur’an. | What does it mean to study the Qur’an historically? In this initial episode we consider how historically oriented research on the Qur’an relates to religious belief and to traditional Islamic scriptural interpretation. | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 90 | A Celebration of the Centenary of the Birth of Olive Gibbs | 100 years since the Representation of the People Act, the act which gave women the vote. | Susanna Pressel, Liz Woolley, Bruce Kent, Simon Gibbs | 26 Feb 2018 | |
| 91 | Ethnicised Religion and Sacralised Ethnicity in the Past and the Present | An expert panel discusses the phenomenon of ethnicisation of religious identifications focussing especially on the nexus of religious, ethnic and national identifications in colonial, anti-colonial and postcolonial settings from Ireland to South Asia. | Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, Faisal Devji, Peter Leary, Ilya Afanasyev | 22 Feb 2018 | |
| 92 | Valuing Women With Disabilities | Valuing Women With Disabilities: Infantilised, Medicalised, Pauperised? | Marie Tidball, Helen Brookman, Julie Jaye Charles | 21 Feb 2018 | |
| 93 | Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action | In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Tom Buller reflects on the causal relationship between movement goals and bodily awareness and challenges the idea that BMI-enabled movement and intentional bodily movement are equal actions. | Tom Buller | 19 Feb 2018 | |
| 94 | Creative Commons | Trade - Merchants' books of Venice and Florence | Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Library, Dilts Research Fellow in Palaeography, Lincoln College, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Seminar in the History of the Book on 9th February 2017. | Irene Ceccherini | 16 Feb 2018 |
| 95 | James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film | Book at Lunchtime, James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film | Katherine Morris, Ulrika Maude, Jeri Johnson, Cleo Hanaway-Oakley | 16 Feb 2018 | |
| 96 | Creative Commons | Politics After God | The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government. | David Sehat, Hal Jones | 15 Feb 2018 |
| 97 | Early Modern Publishing Policies - Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, 1664-75 | Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College), gives the third seminar in the History of the Book series, looking at the early modern period publishing policies in Europe on February 2nd, 2018. | Ian Maclean | 06 Feb 2018 | |
| 98 | Creative Commons | Collective inaction and group-based ignorance | In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Anne Schwenkebecher discusses morally wrongful collective inaction and the problem of group-based ignorance. | Anne Schwekenbecher | 06 Feb 2018 |
| 99 | Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin | Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. | Julia Bray | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 100 | Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy | Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series. | Alan Stahl | 29 Jan 2018 |
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