| Communicating the Diagnosis of Life Threatening Conditions to Children |
Professor Alan Stein, Head of Section, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Oxford delivered this talk at an AfOx insaka. |
Alan Stein |
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| Future of Cannabusiness |
As restrictions on medical cannabis use loosen around the world, companies and entrepreneurs are entering the marijuana market in a big way. We learn more from leading players in this space and the first publicly-listed cannabis company. |
Tejinder Verk, Paul Steckler |
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| The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters |
New Yorker fiction through the decades |
Deborah Treisman |
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| Health Policy Evaluation |
Professor Karla Hemming discusses using evidence-based policy in the evaluation of policy interventions and answers the question 'how useful is the stepped-wedge study as an evaluation design? |
Karla Hemming |
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| Strachey Lecture: Can one Define Intelligence as a Computational Phenomenon? |
Can we build on our understanding of supervised learning to define broader aspects of the intelligence phenomenon. Strachey Lecture delivered by Leslie Valiant. |
Leslie Valiant |
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| The Art of Erosion |
Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools. |
Alice Oswald |
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| Nano comes to life: how nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology |
In this book talk, Professor Sonia Contera will talk about how Nanotechnology is transforming medicine and the future of biology. |
Sonia Contera |
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| Why we need a fourth revolution in healthcare |
William bird discusses how healthcare focused on communities and acitve lifestyles can lead to greater wellbeing. |
William Bird |
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| Plant genetics from Mendel to Monsanto |
Ottoline Leyser discusses the ability to target and/or select specific genetic changes in plant genomes, and the impact of this on the governance of our food system. |
Ottoline Leyser |
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| Psychologically informed micro-targeted political campaigns: the use and abuse of data |
Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a key part of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and whether it is relevant to regulate political candidates' access to data. |
Jens Koed Madsen |
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| The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation |
Carl Frey discusses his book 'The Technology Trap' |
Carl Benedikt Frey |
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| Diet, obesity and health: from science to policy |
Susan Jebb discusses how science and policy can help us make wiser choices for our health. |
Susan Jebb |
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| Tamar Calahorra, Competition between Members of Parliament and Governmental ministries on Policy Outcomes through Legislation – Israel as a Test case |
Dr. Calahorra studies some dramatic changes in the ways legislation is conducted in Israel |
Tamar Calahorra |
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| Essai, roman, film: réflexion sur les métamorphoses de l'écriture |
Dr Chantal Thomas delivers the 2019 Zaharoff lecture (in french) |
Chantal Thomas |
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| Jon Chapman - Waves and resonance: from musical instruments to vacuum cleaners, via metamaterials and invisibility cloaks |
Via guitars, clarinets and a musical saw to the noise reduction in a vaccum cleaner, Jon Chapman explains the role of waves in the sounds we hear and don't hear. |
Jon Chapman |
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| Fitting it in, filling it out: from Christopher Saxton's survey to Ralph Sheldon's tapestry maps |
This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium |
Hilary Turner |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Quantum Theory |
Our latest student lecture is the first in the Quantum Theory course for second year students. Fernando Alday reflects on the breakdown of the deterministic world and describes some of the experiments that defined the new Quantum Reality. |
Fernando Alday |
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| The Catholic Gentry in Ralph Sheldon’s Midlands |
This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium |
Katie McKeogh |
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| Power, Propaganda, Magnificence: the cartographic background to the Sheldon tapestry maps |
This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium |
Peter Barber |
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| One stitch at the time: Returning the Sheldon Tapestry Maps to life |
This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium |
Nick Millea, Virginia llado-Buisan |
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| Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present |
Robin Cohen discusses migration throughout history and in the present day. |
Robin Cohen |
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| Linking people, nature, food and climate: progress and implications |
David Nabarro, former Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition, will give a talk on what implications there will be for the planet and us in linking nature, food and the climate. |
David Nabarro |
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| Hornless Cattle - is Gene Editing the Best Solution? |
In this talk, Prof. Peter Sandøe argues that, from an ethical viewpoint, gene editing is the best solution to produce hornless cattle. There are, however, regulatory hurdles. |
Peter Sandøe |
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| Realist research in practice - informing a new TB policy in Georgia |
Professor Bruno Marchal gives a talk illustrating the principles of realist evaluation using the case of the development of a new Tuberculosis control policy in Georgia. |
Bruno Marchal |
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| Nancy Hawker - Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism |
Nancy Hawker (The Aga Khan University) considers the developing place of Arabic in official nation-statist platforms in Israel |
Nancy Hawker |
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| Operationalising the potential of Applied Digital Health research |
The increased reliance of health systems on the digital record as the primary mechanism for storing data on consultations and other health interactions has opened new opportunities for research, healthcare innovation, and health policy. |
Richard Hobbs |
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| Ending energy poverty: reframing the poverty discourse |
The President of the Rockefeller Foundation discusses the need for new solutions for energy transformation and economic development. |
Rajiv J. Shah |
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| Sustainability scenarios for the global food and land-use system |
Michael Obersteiner presents new insights from co-producing a set of new sustainability scenarios. |
Michael Obersteiner |
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| Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture: Timothy Gowers - Productive generalization: one reason we will never run out of interesting mathematical questions |
In our Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture Tim Gowers uses the principle of generalization to show how mathematics progresses in its relentless pursuit of problems. |
Tim Gowers, Hannah Fry |
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| Oxford Mathematics Newcastle Public Lecture: Vicky Neale - in Maths |
Mathematics has no place for emotion, its practitioners are positively unemotional. True? Well, no. In fact 10 out of 10 untrue. Mathematics and mathematicians are also on the emotional rollercoaster. Vicky Neale is one of them. |
Vicky Neale |
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| Organ preservation research in Oxford: an update |
The talk focusses on kidney preservation with Mr Simon Knight talking about some of the clinical research that has been done, while Mr James Hunter discusses their translational and lab research. |
Simon Knight, James Hunter |
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| Oxford University Global Surgery Group: female genital mutilation |
Dr Anita Makins discusses 'Female genital mutilation (FGM): a global perspective', and Dr Katy Newell-Jones presents ‘Medicalisation of female genital cutting: decision making dilemmas and competing priorities’. |
Anita Makins, Katy Newell-Jones |
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| Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris |
Professor Lorraine Daston delivers the 2019 Besterman Lecture |
Lorraine Daston |
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| Yoav Ronel - 'Love, Zionism and Melancholy in the Prose of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky' |
Yoav Ronel (Bezalel and BGU) considers representations of a melancholic national and subjective desire in the prose of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky (1865-1921) |
Yoav Ronnel |
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| Rethinking Work from A Uganda Marketplace |
William Monteith explores the marketplaces of Uganda, specifically larger ones in Kampala, to discuss how the differences between waged and non-waged labour are viewed. He also discusses the role of different types of work in this context. |
William Monteith |
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| The First Image of a Black Hole |
Professor Heino Falcke of Radboud University, Nijmegen delivers the 19th Hintze Lecture - reviewing the latest results of the Event Horizon Telescope, its scientific implications and future expansions of the array |
Heino Falcke |
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| Argument, Evidence and Continuity in the Augar Report |
Released in May 2019, the Augar report was a result of a 6 person panel chaired by Philip Augar and was the first in England to have a remit for the whole of tertiary education. Parry argues whether its features are the nature of expert panels. |
Gareth Parry |
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| Book Launch: State and Society in Nigeria |
Portia Roelofs and Gavin Williams discuss in this podcast Gavin's influential book, State and Society in Nigeria. |
Gavin Williams, Portia Roelofs |
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| Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research |
Respecting patients' autonomy is increasingly important in the digital age, yet researchers have raised concerns over the barriers of access to medical data useful for data-driven medical research. |
Sebastian Porsdam Mann |
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| Avihu Shoshana - 'Nocturnal Inequality: Ethnographies of Social Selection and Waiting in Line for Night Clubs in Tel-Aviv' |
Avihu Shoshana (Haifa University) discusses findings from his ethnography of social selection in Israeli night-clubs. |
Avihu Shoshana |
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| Integrating and AugmentingTertiary Education Students' Experiences in Workplace Settings |
Drawing upon three large studies in Australian higher education, this presentation sets out a case for the kinds of curriculum practices, as well as a range of pedagogic practices that can be enacted prior to, during and after students’ work placements. |
Stephen Billett |
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| Artificial Intelligence and Social Relations in Schools: Who are the 'Digital winners'? |
This lecture explores the different types of artificial intelligence systems in common use in education, before relating this to the covert use of algorithms in influencing educational journeys. |
Sandra Leaton-Gray |
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| All Souls Seminar Series: Democracy and the Mafia. |
Democracy and the Mafia. |
Federico Varese |
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| 1g. Ethics and AI at the Oxford Big Data Institute |
Gil McVean, Big Data Institute, gives the seventh talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Gil McVean |
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| 1h. Ethics of AI in healthcare |
Jess Morley, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the eigth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Jess Morley |
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| 1f. Re-uniting ethics and the law for AI |
Brent Mittelstadt, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the sixth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Brent Mittelstadt |
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| 1e. When AI disrupts the law |
Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the fifth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Sandra Wachter |
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| 1c. AI-ethics research at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy |
Tom Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy gives the third talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Tom Douglas |
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| 1d. AI ethics and legal regulation |
Vicki Nash, Oxford Internet Institute gives the fourth talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Vicki Nash |
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| 1b. The place of philosophy in the ethics of AI |
Carissa Véliz, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, gives the second talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Carissa Véliz |
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| 1a. Background and Aims of the Institute for Ethics in AI |
Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College, Department of Computer Science, gives the first talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Nigel Shadbolt |
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| Network-based learning for understanding collective human behaviour |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Xiaowen Dong |
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| Statistical concepts: A framework for research |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Sir David Cox |
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| Eliciting Data in Challenging Intercultural Settings |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Sonja Vogt |
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| Advances in Computational and Experimental Social Sciences |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Ray Duch |
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| Workshop on non-probability surveys |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Roberto Cerina |
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| Computational Text Analysis (part 2) |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Taylor Brown |
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| Computational Text Analysis (part 1) |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Taylor Brown |
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| Africa Works: Reflections on Failures and Successes in Healthcare Innovation |
Jake McKnight talks about the failures and successes of projects he’s studied or been involved in, reflecting on the idea that ‘Africa Works’, and as researchers and implementors, it’s up to us to fit local cultures rather to try to ‘fix’ them. |
Jake McKnight |
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| Gbagba and Jaadeh! as Anti-Corruption Revolutions from 'Below' |
Corruption is often bandied about in adult circles as the misuse of public influence for private gain. But, what if children could articulate how corruption is enmeshed in everyday human interactions? |
Robtel Neajai Pailey |
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| Digital trace data (part 2) |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Ridhi Kashyap |
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| Digital trace data (part 1) |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Ridhi Kashyap |
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| Litigating Rights : The Right to Health |
Litigating Rights : The Right to Health – Mark Heywood and Maya Foa in Conversation |
Mark Heywood, Maya Foa |
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| Mapping human populations and mobility in low and middle income countries for malaria elimination. |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Nick Ruktanonchai |
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| Jonathan Leslie - Fear and Insecurity: Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship |
Jonathan Leslie considers the history of Iran's "becoming" and existential threat in Israel |
Jonathan Leslie |
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| Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory Book launch of Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa |
Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in prison are central to this interesting discussion. |
Carli Coetzee |
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| Moriel Ram, 'A tale of sand and snow: Bar-Lev line and the Hermon ski site as material fantasies' |
Moriel Ram (SOAS) discusses how sand and snow produce potent imageries and physical realities in Israeli political culture. |
Moriel Ram |
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| Re and De-contextualizing global citizenship education – systematic analysis of the scholarship in the field |
With the rising interest in GCE, understanding the current research landscape could be useful for policy-makers, educators and scholars who seek to build upon the existing body of knowledge and develop it in new directions. |
Miri Yemini |
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| Genetic Selection and Enhancement |
Professor Julian Savulescu and Dr Katrien Devolder discuss the use of genetic testing to select which children to bring into the world. |
Julian Savulescu, Katrien Devolder |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 1 |
We continue with our series of Student Lectures with this first lecture in the 2nd year Course on Differential Equations. |
Philip Maini |
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| Oxford Mathematics 1st year Student Lecture - Introductory Calculus |
In our latest student lecture we would like to give you a taste of the Oxford Mathematics Student experience as it begins in its very first week. |
Dan Ciubotaru |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: David Sumpter - Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician? |
What do you need to win the Premier League? Money? Sure. Good players? Yup. A great manager? It helps. Mathematics? Really? 100%. |
David Sumpter |
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| Cosmic acceleration revealed by Type la supernovae? |
In this talk Subir Sarkar will explain how deflagration supernovae have been used to infer that the Hubble expansion rate is accelerating, and critically assess whether the acceleration is real and due to `dark energy’. |
Subir Sarkar |
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| Supernova Explosions and their Role in the Universe |
In this talk, Philipp Podsiadlowski will explain how this energy (sometimes) creates a visible fireball, before going on to explain the role of supernovae in the production of the heaviest elements in the periodic table. |
Philipp Podsiadlowski |
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| What makes stars go bang? |
In this talk, James Binney will outline the physics that leads to prodigeous release of energy in core-collapse and deflagration supernovae. |
James Binney |
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| Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria |
In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat this hardship. Dr Obani also analyzes how these strategies could be improved for the betterment of the community as a whole. |
Dr Pedi Obani |
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| Everything is a poison |
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, gives a talk on dose-response curves for the EBHC podcast series. |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| Poverty Matters: Family income, parenting and child outcomes |
Naomi Eisenstadt presents evidence that low income itself reduces the chances of good outcomes for children and causes stress in families which exacerbates the risk. |
Naomi Eisenstadt |
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| Litigating Rights - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation |
Litigating Rights Series - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation |
Wolfgang Kaleck, Ben Wizner, Annelen Micus |
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| Safe and effective drugs: The need to use all the available evidence to inform the effectiveness of commonly used medicines |
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, employs evidence-based methods to research diagnostic reasoning, test accuracy and communicating diagnostic results to a wider audience. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Zaharoff Lecture 2018: Je n'ai pas la tentation du silence |
Pierre Michon, writer, gives the 2018 Zaharoff lecture. Introduced by Catriona Seth. |
Pierre Michon |
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| The Many Universes of Quantum Materials |
Professor Stephen Blundell explores the many universes of quantum materials for the 2019 Quantum Materials Public Lecture. |
Stephen Blundell |
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| From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context |
In November 2018, a Chinese scientist announced the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies and sparked outrage across the world. Professor Nie considers how China's complex socio-ethical approach paved the way for this controversial experiment. |
Jing-Bao Nie |
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| Wrap up and reflection part 2 |
Patricia Clavin (Professor of International History, Oxford) gives a lecture on history and public policy. |
Patricia Clavin |
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| Wrap up reflection part 1 |
Jeremy Adelman (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton) gives a lecture on history and public policy. |
Jeremy Adelman |
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| Strange Legacies of Divergence: The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910 |
Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia) gives a lecture on ‘Strange Legacies of Divergence: The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910’. |
Mae Ngai |
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| Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy |
Peter Hill (Northumbria) gives a lecture on ‘Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy’. |
Peter Hill |
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| Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa |
Andreas Eckert (Professor of African History, Humboldt-University Berlin) gives a lecture on ‘Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa’. |
Andreas Eckert |
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| China and the West: Many Great Divergences |
Joel Mokyr (Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern) gives a lecture on ‘China and the West: Many Great Divergences’. |
Joel Mokyr |
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| Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe |
Dagmar Schafer (Director, Max Planck Institute) and Giorgio Riello (Professor of Early Modern Global History, EUI) give a lecture on ‘Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe’. |
Dagmar Schafer, Giorgio Riello |
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| Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China |
Patrick O’Brien (Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China’. |
Patrick O’Brien |
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| The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality |
Eli Cook (Assistant Professor of American History, Haifa) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality’. |
Eli Cook |
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| Water and the Economic History of India |
Tirthankar Roy (Professor in Economic History, Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Water and the Economic History of India’. |
Tirthankar Roy |
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| Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business |
William Clarence-Smith (Emeritus Professor of History, SOAS) gives a lecture on ‘Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business’. |
William Clarence-Smith |
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| The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America' |
Kaoru Sugihara (Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America'’. |
Kaoru Sugihara |
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| Asia and the Great Divergence |
Bishnu Gupta (Professor of Economics, Warwick) gives a lecture on ‘Asia and the Great Divergence’. |
Bishnu Gupta |
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| Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence? |
Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Professor of Economic History, Carlos III University, Madrid) gives a lecture on ‘Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?’ |
Leandro Prados de la Escosura |
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| The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and Trade Finance in the Early Modern Period |
Alejandra Irigoin (Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and The Early Modern Period’. |
Alejandra Irigoin |
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| The World Historical in China’s Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality |
Rebecca Karl (Professor of History, NYU) gives a lecture on ‘The World Historical in China’s Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality’. |
Rebecca Karl |
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| The Spaces In Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism? |
Andrew Edwards (Career Development Fellow for the Global History of Capitalism project, Oxford) gives a lecture on ‘The Spaces in Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism?’ |
Andrew Edwards |
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