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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
Art History and Museum as Medium	Cai Guo-Qiang, Artist, gives the eighth and final presentation in the symposium.	Cai Guo-Qiang	13 January, 2020
In the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii	Jerome Neutres, Independent Curator, gives the seventh talk in the symposium.	Jerome Neutres	13 January, 2020
Cai Guo-Qiang: In Search of El Greco	Saul Nelson, Ruskin School of Art, DPhil Candidate, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium.	Saul Nelson	13 January, 2020
Yi 羿 - Myth: Shooting the Suns	Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum, Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium.	Paul Bevan	13 January, 2020
Two Gunpowder Drawings and Cai Guo-Qiang in Japan	Lena Fritsch, Ashmolean Museum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, gives the fourth presentation in the symposium.	Lena Fritsch	13 January, 2020
Cai Guo-Qiang and the Depths of Spectacle	David Taylor, University of Oxford, Associate Professor of English, gives the third presentation in the symposium.	David Taylor	13 January, 2020
Context and Influence in Cai Guo-Qiang's Work	David Eliott, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, Vice Director and Senior Curator, gives the second talk for the symposium.	David Eliott	13 January, 2020
Welcome and Introduction	Shelagh Vainker, Curator of Chinese Art and Exhibition Curator, gives the first talk in the symposium.	Shelagh Vainker	13 January, 2020
Cases of complicated surgery for 'high-risk' prostate cancer	Professor Shin Egawa delivers the Burdette Lecture with striking array of high-risk salvage surgery for prostate cancer and bladder cancer.	Shin Egawa	13 January, 2020
Facing the future with our eyes wide open: What does the future hold for (cardiac) surgery that will change the way we practice?	Many of the things that will be in this talk may never happen, some of them will happen and some of them are already happening. How they will evolve and to what extent, and how all of these things will blend into one future will be interesting to explore.	George Krasopoulos	10 January, 2020
Clouds and climate	Tapio Schneider discusses the influence of clouds on climate, and how advances in the modelling of clouds can help us predict our climate future more accurately.	Tapio Schneider	6 January, 2020
Using research to change paradigms in diagnosing and managing early prostate cancer	Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam provides an overview of the big questions in prostate cancer.	Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam	6 January, 2020
Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power - Introduction	Introduction to Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power podcast series.	Jozie Kettle	6 January, 2020
Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 4: Queering Christianity and gender transition.	Olivia Sharrard (PRM) talks to Lance about changing representation in the Pitt Rivers museum, navigating life in Oxford and how they’ve ‘queered’ objects within the collections related to Christianity.	Lance Millar, Olivia Sharrard	6 January, 2020
Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 3: Bacchus – queer party god of contradictions?	Jozie Kettle (Pitt Rivers Museum), talks to Harriet Haugvik and Cameron Wallis about their involvement in the 2020 exhibition Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power. Harriet and Cam explore Bacchus’ complex and intriguing connections to queerness.	Harriet Haugvik, Cameron Wallis, Jozie Kettle	6 January, 2020
Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 2: Uncovering queerness within the collections	Jozie Kettle (Pitt Rivers Museum), talks to Mara Gold about her involvement in the 2020 exhibition Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power.	Mara Gold, Jozie Kettle	6 January, 2020
Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 1: Museums, beadwork and Indigenous agency	Jozie Kettle (Pitt Rivers Museum), talks to Dan Laurin about his involvement in the 2020 exhibition Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power.	Dan Laurin, Jozie Kettle	6 January, 2020
All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights	All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights	Eddie Bruce-Jones	2 January, 2020
UK Supreme Court: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22	Session 3 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Nick Barber, Richard Ekins, Jeff King, Helen Mountfield	20 December, 2019
Kenyan Supreme Court: Raila Odinga and Another v IEBC and Others, 2017	Session 2 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Anne Makena, John Ambani, Nic Cheeseman, Luis Franceschi	20 December, 2019
International Criminal Court: Appeal against the decision under article 87(7)of the Rome Statute on the non-compliance by Jordan with the request by the Court for the arrest and surrender of Omar Al-Bashir (ICC- 02/05-01/09 OA2) 6 May 2019	Session 1 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019	Catherine O’Regan, Dapo Akande, Evelyne Asaala, Dire Tladi	20 December, 2019
IceCube: Opening a New Window on the Universe from the South Pole	Particle Physics Christmas Lecture, hosted by Prof. Daniela Bortoletto, Head of Particle Physics and senior members of the department with guest speaker, Professor Francis Halzen.	Daniela Bortoletto, Francis Halzen	20 December, 2019
How effective can litigation be in foreseeing and preventing human rights abuse?	Alejandra Ancheita delivers the keynote address at the Justice for Transnational Human Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship Conference June 2019	Alejandra Ancheita	20 December, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture: Chris Budd - Why does Rudolf have a shiny nose?	From the unfairness of voting on TV shows to how Santa gets down so many narrow chimneys. Chris Budd take a mathematical look at the traditions of Christmas.	Chris Budd	19 December, 2019
Small intestinal neuroendocrine tumours - surgery and science in Cambridge	Mr Simon Buczacki presents his clinical and scientific data on small intestinal neuroendocrine tumours.	Simon Buczacki	16 December, 2019
Implementation of Robot Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy (RAMIE)	Professor Richard van Hillegersberg shares his experience with robotic esophagectomy over the years.	Richard van Hillegersberg	16 December, 2019
The Elders know Nothing: the Inversion of Tradition in the New Mining Context	Ramon Sarró and Marina P. Temudo deliver paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Ramon Sarró, Marina P. Temudo	14 December, 2019
Youth, insecurity and intimacy in the popular arts of the Niger Delta	David Pratten delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	David Pratten	14 December, 2019
Artistic Movements: Music, Popular Painting and Cultural Exchanges on the central African Copperbelt	Enid Guene delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Enid Guene	14 December, 2019
Mobutist Modernism: Art Education, State Sponsorship and the Visual Arts in Zaire	Sarah Van Beurden delivers paper at 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop.	Sarah Van Beurden	14 December, 2019
The Future of UK-Africa Research Partnerships Development Research and Beyond	Gill Wells is the Head of Research Services European and International Team and Strategic Lead on GCRF at the University of Oxford.	Gill Wells	13 December, 2019
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	13 December, 2019
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	12 December, 2019
The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters	New Yorker fiction through the decades	Deborah Treisman	12 December, 2019
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	12 December, 2019
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	11 December, 2019
The Art of Erosion	Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools.	Alice Oswald	9 December, 2019
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	6 December, 2019
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	6 December, 2019
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	6 December, 2019
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	4 December, 2019
The technology trap - capital, labour and power in the age of automation	Carl Frey discusses his book 'The Technology Trap'	Carl Benedikt Frey	4 December, 2019
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	4 December, 2019
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	3 December, 2019
Essai, roman, film: réflexion sur les métamorphoses de l'écriture	Dr Chantal Thomas delivers the 2019 Zaharoff lecture (in french)	Chantal Thomas	2 December, 2019
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	2 December, 2019
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	2 December, 2019
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	2 December, 2019
The Catholic Gentry in Ralph Sheldon’s Midlands	This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium	Katie McKeogh	2 December, 2019
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	2 December, 2019
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	2 December, 2019
Migration: the movement of humankind from prehistory to the present	Robin Cohen discusses migration throughout history and in the present day.	Robin Cohen	2 December, 2019
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	2 December, 2019
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	2 December, 2019
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	29 November, 2019
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	27 November, 2019
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	27 November, 2019
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	27 November, 2019
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	27 November, 2019
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	27 November, 2019
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	27 November, 2019
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	22 November, 2019
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	22 November, 2019
Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris	Professor Lorraine Daston delivers the 2019 Besterman Lecture	Lorraine Daston	21 November, 2019
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	20 November, 2019
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	20 November, 2019
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	19 November, 2019
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	19 November, 2019
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	13 November, 2019
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	13 November, 2019
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	13 November, 2019
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	12 November, 2019
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	12 November, 2019
All Souls Seminar Series: Democracy and the Mafia.	Democracy and the Mafia.	Federico Varese	12 November, 2019
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	11 November, 2019
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	11 November, 2019
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	11 November, 2019
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	11 November, 2019
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	11 November, 2019
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	11 November, 2019
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	11 November, 2019
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	11 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
Litigating Rights : The Right to Health	Litigating Rights : The Right to Health – Mark Heywood and Maya Foa in Conversation	Mark Heywood, Maya Foa	8 November, 2019
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	8 November, 2019
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	6 November, 2019
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	6 November, 2019
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	5 November, 2019
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	4 November, 2019
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	4 November, 2019