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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
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
Ending Wars in a Wilsonian World: Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919	Professor Leonard Smith (Oberlin) gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar Series on 24 Jan 2012.	Leonard Smith	26 January, 2012
Richard III	In this thirteenth lecture in the Approaching Shakespeare series the focus is on the inevitability of the ending of Richard III: does the play endorse Richmond's final victory?	Emma Smith	25 January, 2012
The Comedy of Errors	Lecture 12 in the Approaching Shakespeare series asks how seriously we can take the farcical exploits of Comedy of Errors, drawing out the play's serious concerns with identity and selfhood.	Emma Smith	23 January, 2012
Humanitarian Ethics in Armed Conflict: Aid Agency Dilemmas and Responsibility	Dr Hugo Slim (Visiting Fellow, ELAC) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed conflict seminar series on 17 Jan 2012.	Hugo Slim	19 January, 2012
Brain Chemistry and Moral Decision-Making	Answers to moral questions, it seems, depend on how much serotonin there is flowing through your brain. In the future might we be able to alter people's moral behaviour with concoctions of chemicals?	Molly Crocket	4 January, 2012
Not Vital: Art is Global	International artist, Not Vital, gives a talk about his art and his work.	Not Vital	13 December, 2011
Guided Meditation	Professor Mark Williams offers a brief guided meditation in the last of four short videos in this series.	Mark Williams	6 December, 2011
Supporting Mindfulness	Professor Mark Williams explains how you can support the work of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in the third of four short videos.	Mark Williams	6 December, 2011
The Science of Mindfulness	Professor Mark Williams examines the neuroscience of mindfulness in the second of four short videos.	Mark Williams	6 December, 2011
Introduction to Mindfulness	Professor Mark Williams introduces Mindfulness in the first of four short videos in this series.	Mark Williams	6 December, 2011
Mindfulness and the brain	In this final episode Professor Mark Williams and Danny Penman discuss how imaging studies show that Mindfulness may have numerous profoundly positive effects on the brain.	Mark Williams, Danny Penman	5 December, 2011
Responsibility	If someone caught me shoplifting, and I was later diagnosed with kleptomania, should I be held responsible? Should I be blamed?	Hanna Pickard	1 December, 2011
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