| Seeing the Wood for the Trees |
In winter the bones of the trees are laid bare, giving us a chance to see their skeletons. Join Lindsay as she takes a tour round Wytham Woods in Oxford, showing you how to identify our common native trees from their bark and the shape of their branches. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| An van Camp in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek at the Young Rembrandt exhibition |
As part of the St Cross College Shorts podcast series, Fellow and Ashmolean Museum Curator An van Camp discusses the Young Rembrandt exhibition with Stanley Ulijaszek, in October 2020. |
An Van Camp, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop – Song of Simeon |
In this online choir workshop you will learn to sing along with a simple voice part from the Candlemas Nunc Dimittis and see the 15th-century manuscript from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen where the music is preserved in the Bodleian Libraries |
Henrike Lähnemann, Nick Swarbrick, Andrew Dunning, Alexandra Burgar, Jasmine Lowe, Timothy Powell |
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| December 2020, with special guest Professor Mark Eisenberg |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss their Cochrane Review and emerging evidence. |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Nicola Lindson |
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| Re-imagining urban mobility after COVID-19 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented disruptions to urban mobility systems across the globe yet also presented unique opportunities for people to drive less, walk/cycle more and reduce carbon emissions. |
Tim Schwanen, Jennie Middleton, Jim Hall |
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| Reynard the Fox |
In this BodCast from the Friends of the Bodleian, Professor Dame Marina Warner interviews Anne Louise Avery, writer and art historian, on the subject of Avery's recent book, Reynard the Fox https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/reynard-the-fox |
Dame Marina Warner, Anne Louise Avery |
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| The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships |
Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (2019) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar series. Chaired by Dr Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, Oxford). |
Ece Temelkuran, Laurent Mignon |
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| Ideas for a Complex World - Anna Seigal |
Science and maths are full of smart tools for explaining the world around us. Those tools can feel far removed from the way the rest of us understand that world. Can we reconcile the two approaches? Oxford Mathematician Anna Seigal provides some answers. |
Anna Seigal |
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| Does AI threaten Human Autonomy? |
This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Peter Millican, Jonathan Pugh, Jessica Morley, Carina Prunkl |
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| The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries? |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
William Doyle, Karen O'Brien, Gregory S Brown, Lauren Clay |
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| Probabilistic Inference and Learning with Stein’s Method |
Part of the Probability for Machine Learning seminar series. Presented by Prof Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research New England and Stanford University). |
Lester Mackey |
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| The Role of Prophecies in the Construction of the Geluk Tradition |
In this talk, Michael Ium explores the role of prophecies in the legitimation and construction of the Geluk tradition. |
Michael Ium |
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| Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There |
Dr Lina Khatib, Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham, Jeremy Bowen (Middle East Editor, BBC News) give a talk on Syria and it's current political situation. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford). |
Lina Khatib, Jeremy Bowen |
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| Introduction to Deep Learning and Graph Neural Networks in Biomedicine |
Dr. Ekaterina Volkova-Volkmar, Senior Data Scientist, pRED Informatics - Data Science, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche, Basel, Switzerland, gives a talk on deep learning and graph neural networks in biomedicine. |
Ekaterina Volkova-Volkmar |
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| Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years |
Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University, discusses his new book 'Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years' |
Ian Goldin |
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| A tale of two crises: COVID-19 and the financial system |
Dr Julia Giese, Bank of England, discusses the impact of Covid-19 on the financial system and how banks can play their part in economic recovery. |
Julia Giese, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Smallpox, and Jenner |
Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries. |
Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Erica Charters |
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| The Great Plague |
in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England. |
Peter Millican, Paul Slack, Emma Smith, Kees Windland |
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| The Black Death |
Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak. |
Peter Millican, Samuel Cohn, Blanche Oguti |
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| The Plague of Justinian |
Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced. |
Peter Millican, Michael McCormick, Abigail Buglass |
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| Athens: the first plague? |
Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted. |
Peter Millican, Tim Rood, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Nicolette D'Angelo |
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| Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic |
Professor Sarah Smith, Professor Almudena Sevilla and Professor Cameron Hepburn discuss the gender division of childcare during the covid-19 pandemic, and the impact of this on welfare and employment. |
Sarah Smith, Almudena Sevilla, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Privacy is Power |
Carissa Véliz discusses her new book 'Privacy is Power', focusing on the importance of understanding how our data is used and how we can protect our privacy. |
Carissa Véliz, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Rose Stair (Oxford): Age and gender in German-language cultural Zionism |
The fourth lecture in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies seminar series. Rose Stair discusses cultural Zionism through a focus on age and gender. |
Rost Stair |
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| Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: The Anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek |
For this podcast, we co-hosted Tim Allen of LSE with Oxford's Anthropology Department. |
Tim Allen |
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| Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' |
Local historian, Liz Wooley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. |
Liz Wooley |
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| Dr Dexnell Peters on 'Politician Scholar: Dr Eric Williams' |
Dr Dexnell Peters, Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, reflects on the life and enduring legacy of eminent historian, Dr Eric Williams. |
Dexnell Peters |
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| Dr Ben Grant on 'Richard Francis Burton |
Dr Ben Grant, departmental lecturer in English and author of Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge, 2009) reflects on Richard Francis Burton's sojourn in Oxford in the 1840s. |
Ben Grant |
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| Dr Priya Atwal on 'Princesses Bamba and Catherine Duleep Singh at Oxford' |
Historian, Dr Priya Atwal, takes a look at the lives of some of the University of Oxford's first Indian students. |
Priya Atwal |
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| Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion |
Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities. |
Tade Thompson, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| Looking back on 4 years in data science |
Jonny Brooks-Bartlett, Senior machine learning engineer at Spotify, gives a talk on his experiences as a data scientist and as machine learning engineer in top rated companies around the world. |
Jonny Brooks-Bartlett |
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| Liu pin fo lou (Building of Six Classes of Sutra and Tantra), the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon in the Forbidden City |
Ziyi Shao takes us to the reign of the Qianlong Emperor and will show us around the Fan hua lou (Hall of Buddhist Efflorescence), one of the most complex and prominent Buddhist monuments in the Forbidden city |
Ziyi Shao |
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| Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat); 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh |
Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. |
Sarah Ansari |
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| Exploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part Two |
Professor Kamal Mahtani continues his interview with Professor Carl Heneghan, discussing where your motivation as a leader comes from, succession planning, seeking mentoring, how leaders can engage with the wider world. |
Kamal Mahtani, Carl Heneghan |
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| Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) |
Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford), author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (2019), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series on 20th November 2020. |
Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis |
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| Peter Bergamin (Oxford): Guns and Moses: Jewish anti-British Resistance during the Mandate for Palestine |
Peter Bergamin presents some findings and conclusions from his recent research on the British Mandate for Palestine, focusin on the phenomena of Jewish illegal immigration and anti-British terrorism, and their role in Britain’s eventual abandonment of the |
Peter Bergamin |
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| Verse and Prose in Fantasy Literature |
An analysis of two forms that dominate fantasy literature. |
Katherine Olley |
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| Guy Gavriel Kay |
A short introduction to the writer Guy Gavriel Kay. |
Katherine Olley |
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| ‘God Does not Discriminate’: Inclusive Mosques Politics in France and the United Kingdom |
Benjamin Dubrulle (Maison Française d'Oxford), gives a seminar for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Dr Soraya Tremayne (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford) on 18th November 2020. |
Benjamin Dubrulle |
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| Managing Depression and Low Mood |
Sadness and low mood are normal parts of human experience. But what happens when they become more pervasive and disabling? |
Willem Kuyken, Catherine Harmer, Andrea Cipriani. |
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| Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China |
Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent. |
Ken Liu, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| Affect, Value and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity |
MT20 New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar with Assoc. Professor Jennifer Hawkins |
Jennifer Hawkins |
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| Avi Shlaim on Revisionist History and Israel |
Piotr Schulkes and Avi Shlaim, Fellow of the British Academy, sit down to discuss Israel’s New Historians; who they are, what they believe, and the popular reception to it. |
Avi Shlaim, Piotr Schulkes |
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| Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation |
This event is supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones of the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Geoffrey Batchen, Lena Fritsch |
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| Talking Afropean |
Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. |
Johny Pitts, Elleke Boehmer, Simukai Chigudu |
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| Culture of Emotions: Uses and Interpretations of Musical Heritage in the Tibetan Refugee Community of Dharamsala |
Chloé Lukasiewicz talk on the significance of music in the Tibetan refugee community in Dharamsala, India |
Chloé Lukasiewicz |
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| Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana |
For this seminar we hosted George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology). Professor Bob-Milliar's lecture is titled Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana. |
George Bob-Milliar |
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| Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates form |
EJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives. |
EJ Swift, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures |
Professor Sami Zemni (Ghent) gives a talk on the Tunisian Revolution on its 10 year anniversary. Part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series, chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Anthony's College). |
Sami Zemni |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yuval Evri (KCL) - The Return to Al-Andalus: Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew |
Yuval Evri discusses his new book, The Return to Al-Andalus, Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew |
Yuval Evri |
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| 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (3/3): The case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAYG) pension |
Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the final of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions' |
Michael Otsuka |
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| 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (2/3): The case for collective defined contribution (CDC) |
Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the second of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions' |
Michael Otsuka |
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| 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (1/3): The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB) |
Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the first of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions' |
Michael Otsuka |
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| Resetting our relationship with nature in a post-COVID world |
Professor E.J. Milner-Gulland and Professor Sir Charles Godfray discuss our relationship with nature, how it relates to the Covid-19 pandemic, and what we need to do differently in the future. |
E.J. Milner-Gulland, Charles Godfray |
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| Supply and demand shocks in the COVID-19 pandemic: an industry and occupation perspective |
In this recorded talk, Professor Doyne Farmer and Maria del Rio-Chanona talk about their new paper on supply and demand shocks, and the impacts on society, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic |
Doyne Farmer, Maria del Rio-Chanona, Ian Goldin |
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| Panel Discussion 4: Working to Establish Tomorrow's Names |
Taous Dahmani chairs a discussion with Fiona Rogers, Max Houghton and Anna Fox |
Taous Dahmani, Fiona Rogers, Max Houghton, Anna Fox |
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| Panel Discussion 3: Feminist Multi-taskers: Being a Photographer, a Writer and a Curator |
Taous Dahmini chairs a discussion with Patrizia Di Bello and Deborah Cherry |
Taous Dahmani, Patrizia Di Bello, Deborah Cherry |
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| Panel Discussion 2: Unveiling the Archive, Revealing Photographers |
Taous Dahmini chairs a discussion with Erika Lederman and Jessica Sutcliffe |
Taous Dahmani, Jessica Sutcliffe, Erika Lederman |
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| Panel Discussion 1: Historiography's Origin Stories |
Taous Dahmani chairs a discussion with Val Williams |
Taous Dahmani, Val Willams |
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| The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia |
Madawi Al-Rasheed (KCL and LSE), author of Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (2018) and Ben Hubbard (The New York Times), author of MBS: The Rise to Power of MBS (2020) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Madawi al-Rasheed, Ben Hubbard |
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| Fast Forward: Women in Photography |
Anna Fox gives an overview of Fast Forward - a research project designed to promote and engage with women in photography across the globe. |
Anna Fox |
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| David Beeson |
David Beeson, Professor in Molecular Neurosciences, talks with Stanley Ulijaszek |
David Beeson, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| Adriana X Jacobs |
Adriana X Jacobs, Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek |
Adriana X Jacobs, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| After the lockdown: macroeconomic adjustment to the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa |
In this talk, Professor Chris Adam, Professor of Development Economics looks beyond the public health aspects of the pandemic to examine the medium-term macroeconomic adjustment challenge confronting domestic policy-makers and international donors. |
Chris Adam, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Global macroeconomic cooperation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic |
Professor David Vines, Professor of Economics at INET Oxford, discusses the need for international cooperation to support emerging economies after the covid-19 crisis. |
David Vines, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Write or be Written Off: the work of Jo Spence (1934-1992) as photography 'theory' |
Patrizia Di Bello discusses the work of Jo Spence as a writer, organiser and photographer |
Patrizia Di Bello |
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| The Isabel Project: Uncomvering 19th Century Institutional Photographers, One Woman at a Time |
Erika Lederman talks about her practice and the work of the V & A museum's first in house photographer, Isabel Cowper. |
Erika Lederman |
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| Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age |
Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series on Mughal India and the Rajput. |
Cynthia Talbot |
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| Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms |
Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives. |
Jaren Shurin, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| Of parasites, dinosaurs, and other model animals |
Elaine Charwat has been on a journey into the attic storerooms behind the scenes of the Museum to discover 19th-century wax models of parasites. |
Elaine Charwat, Mark Carnall, Péter Molnár |
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| Global histories of hierarachy? Reflections from India on Caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement |
Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) and Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford) give a talk for the Modern South Asian Studies seminars on the Black Lives Matter movement. |
Nayanika Mathur, Rosalind O'Hanlon |
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| Nahshon Perez (Bar-Ilan) and Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv): Governing the Sacred: Political Toleration in Five Contested Sacred Sites |
Nachshon Perez discusses Perez and Jobani's co-authored book on the politics of contested sacred sites |
Nachshon Perez |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe written by Professor Judith Herrin. Date: 4 November 2020. |
Judith Herri, Peter Frankopan, Dame Averil Cameron, Conrad Leyser |
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| Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt |
Dalia Fahmy (Long Island University) editor of Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (2017), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Dalia Fahmy, Daanish Faruqi, Usaama al-Azami |
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| Overcoming Sleep Problems |
What sleep is for, how does it work and how can we deal with tricky sleep problems? This is the second talk in the Department of Experimental Psychology’s Our Mental Wellness series. |
Colin Espie, Felicity Waite, Dimitri Gavriloff, Catharine Creswell |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play |
Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. |
Joseph Moshenska, Lorna Hutson, Alexandra Walsham, Kenneth Gross, Matthew Bevis, Wes Williams |
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| Globalisation in the post-COVID world |
Professor Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, discusses the recent developments in international trade and the link between trade finance and resilience of trade flows ready for a post-COVID world |
Beata Javorcik, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Lie machines: misinformation in a Post-COVID world |
Phil Howard, author of Lie Machines and Nicola Aitken, Policy Manager at Full Fact, discuss the implications of fake news and misinformation. |
Phil Howard, Nicola Aitken |
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| Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement |
Part of the Middle East Centre Women's Rights Research Seminars. With Dr Mine Yildirim Chair: Dr Nazila Ghanea (Department for Continuing Education,University of Oxford). |
Mine Yildirim, Nazila Ghanea |
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| Humanity, Inclusive Positivism and the Law of Armed Conflict |
Humanitarian personnel from time to time find themselves transporting desperate civilian residents forced out of besieged areas into long-term or even permanent displacement |
Nobuo Hayashi |
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| Looking back; Moving Forwards: The History of Black Lives Matter |
Wolfson College marks Black History Month 2020 with an engaging discussion with Britain's foremost experts on the history of black lives and communities in Britain. |
Olivette Otele, Hakim Adi |
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| Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya |
For this seminar we hosted Fred Ikanda from Maseno University. Professor Ikanda's spoke about his research and fieldwork experiences with the Dagahaley Refugee Camp. |
Fred Ikanda |
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| John Ledingham |
Peggy Frith interviews John Ledingham, professor of Clinical Medicine and former Director of Clinical Studies, 23 April 2012. |
Peggy Frith, John Ledingham, Rosie Fitzherbert Jones |
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| Buddhism and the Rise of ‘the Tibetans’ (bod pa): Religion, Myth and the Promotion of Ethnicity in the Pre-modern Period |
Apropos 'the Tibetans': Reinier Langelaar's talk focuses on the mythical origins and the promotion of ethnicity in historical Tibet |
Reinier Langelaar |
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| Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy |
Unlike ever before in India’s history, domestic political calculations and audience costs dictate the shaping of the country’s foreign and security policy. |
Happymon Jacob |
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| Recipes for transforming food production and beyond |
Paul Clarke, Ocado's Chief Technology Officer, will focus on the disruptive ingredients and recipes at the heart of Ocado's ongoing journey of self-disruption and reinvention. |
Paul Clarke |
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| What is life? |
For this year's James Martin Memorial Lecture, Sir Paul Nurse will consider some of the fundamental ideas of biology with the aim of identifying principles that define living organisms. |
Paul Nurse |
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| Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis |
Conjunctures and crises reveal the fault lines of a society. Covid 19 and the resultant lockdown in India have brought back memories of the devastation wrought by the flu epidemic of 1918 and the political crackdown by the colonial government. |
Dilip Menon |
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| Privacy Is Power |
Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Carissa Véliz, Sir Michael Tugendhat, Stephanie Hare, John Tasioulas |
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| Algorithms Eliminate Noise (and That Is Very Good) |
Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
John Tasioulas, Ruth Chang, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Cass Sunstein |
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| Ethics in AI Education |
This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Peter Millican, Milo Phillips-Brown, Max Van Kleek, Helena Webb |
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| Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning |
Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late. |
Mahvesh Murad, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
Maryam Alemzadeh (Princeton) Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St Andrews), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Maryam Alemzadeh, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi |
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| Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Katie Mitchell in conversation with Ben Whishaw |
Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 'Liveness'. |
Ben Whishaw, Katie Mitchell, Wes Williams |
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| Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week |
Oliver Taplin, Fiona Shaw |
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| Exploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part One |
Professor Kamal Mahtani interviews Professor Carl Heneghan, exploring his leadership; how it all started, the challenges he has faced, emotional intelligence, the importance of clear communication and being a tortoise rather than a hare as a leader. |
Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War |
Join us for an online TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War written by Dr Alice Kelly. |
Alice Kelly, Michael Whitworth, Laura Rattray, Jay Winter |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Semina: Danielle Drori (Oxford): Yosef Klausner in Translation: Zionism and Christianity |
The second seminar in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalism Sereis. Danielle Drori discusses Zionism and translation, with a focus on Klausner's Life of Jesus |
Danielle Drori |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty |
Mathematicians get up to all sorts. Geometers and Topologists in particular occupy a world of inconceivable shapes, concepts and dimensions. But how do you visualise such ideas? Sure, there's computer graphics, but what about over here, in the real world? |
Henry Segerman |
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| Mathematics Public Lecture: How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life - David Sumpter |
Mathematics has a lot going for it, but David Sumpter argues that it can not only provide you with endless YouTube recommendations, and even make you rich, but it can make you a better person. |
David Sumpter |
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