| Fighting against Poverty in the African Great Lakes Region: a question of Power and Resistance |
AfOx Visiting Fellow, Dr Aymar Bisoka from the Catholic University of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo delivered this seminar co-hosted by AfOx and the African House at Christ Church College. |
Aymar Bisoka |
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| Social ecology of cocoa farming in Ghana |
AfOx Visiting Fellow, Dr Rebecca Asare from the Nature Conservation Research Centre delivered this seminar co-hosted by AfOx and the African House at Christ Church College. |
Rebecca Asare |
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| Gender and water access- leveraging on social capital for inclusive access |
AfOx Visiting Fellow Professor Salome Bukachi, University of Nairobi delivered this seminar co-hosted by AfOx and the African House at Christ Church College. |
Salome Bukachi |
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| Medical advice and negotiations of medical authority in Nigerian HIV consultations |
AfOx Visiting Fellow, Dr Eniola Boluwaduro delivered this talk at All Souls College. Using the methodology of conservation analysis, Eniola examined the way in which doctors negotiate medical authority with patients during HIV consultations in Nigeria. |
Eniola Boluwaduro |
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| Gravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy |
Professor Barry C Barish gives a talk on the quest for the detection of gravitational waves. |
Barry C. Barrish |
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| Finding aliens – An update on the search for life in the Universe |
Bill Diamond, President & CEO The SETI Institute gives an an update on the search for life in the Universe. Hosted by Ian Shipsey, Head of Physics. |
Bill Diamond, Ian Shipsey |
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| Using Formative Assessment to Catalyse Self-Regulated Learning |
This 2019 Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment lecture is delivered by Professor Nancy Perry. |
Nancy Perry |
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| Diabetes, blood sugar, and red wine: a personal study |
This talk was delivered by Martin Bland. |
Martin Bland |
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| (De)constructing the crimmigrant other: migration, citizenship, and penal power |
Annual Roger Hood Lecture: Professor Katja Franko University of Oslo |
Katja Franko |
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| The Shamima Begum case: Citizenship Stripping and Belonging in Britain |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Devyani Prabhat, University of Bristol |
Devyani Prabhat |
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| "Doing Civilization's Heavy Lifting": The State of Injustice in the United States |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Dr Tony Platt, University of California, Berkeley |
Tony Platt |
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| Historicising American Exceptionalism in Crime, Punishment and Inequality |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Prof. Niki Lacey |
Niki Lacey |
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| The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia (Book Launch) |
ASC seminar with Marco Di Nunzio |
Marco Di Nunzio |
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| Joao Lourenco's reform agenda in post Dos Santos Angola: Ambiguities and asymmetries |
ASC seminar with Rui Verde |
Rui Verde |
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| Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership |
ASC and Oxford Africa Society special lecture with Dr Max Price, former Vice Chancellor of UCT. |
Max Price |
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| Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 3. Applied Mathematics at Oxford |
Our Open Days are intended to give an insight in to Maths at Oxford, whether you are a potential applicant or are just curious. |
Dominic Vella |
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| Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 2. Pure Mathematics at Oxford |
In this talk Vicky Neale gives a glimpse of the undergraduate Pure Maths courses through the lens of elliptic curves. |
Vicky Neale |
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| Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 1. Introduction to Mathematics |
In this talk, Admissions Guru James Munro explains how we teach, how you can apply and what your Oxford mathematical life might be like. |
James Munro |
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| Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture: The XENON Project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection |
What is the Dark Matter which makes 85% of the matter in the Universe? We have been asking this question for many decades and used a variety of experimental approaches to address it, with detectors on Earth and in space. |
Elena Aprile |
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| The secret diary of a health ethnographer - what's it *really* like doing qualitative observation in operating rooms, ambulances, triage call centres and other health care settings? |
This guest lecture draws on nearly thirty years' experience of doing qualitative research in a variety of health settings that contain people, blood, injury, disease, emotions, and technologies. |
Catherine Pope |
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| Big data in heart failure - opportunities and realities |
The global health burden of heart failure is high, both as the common end-point for many cardiovascular diseases (e.g. hypertension and heart attacks) and a common point on the trajectory of non-cardiovascular diseases (e.g. chronic respiratory disease). |
Amitava Banerjee |
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| Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019) |
Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019) |
Carolyn Hoyle, Respondent Hannah Quirk |
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| Evolving, Maturing, Rejuvenating: 30 Years of University-Industry Engagement |
The interactions between university and industry have firmly been on the agenda of policy making and university administration for more than 30 years now. |
David Gann |
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| Keynote Panel - Investing for the Future, Research, and Industrial Competitiveness |
With changing international landscapes, now, more than ever, the interplay between government-funded research and industrial strategies is in sharp focus. |
Alison Campbell, Sir Mark Walport, Walt Copan |
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| Welcome |
Opening remarks from the Oxford UIDP Summit. With Phil Clare, University of Oxford, Jay Walsh, Northwestern University and Patrick Grant, University of Oxford. |
Patrick Grant, Jay Walsh, Phil Clare |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: John Bush - Walking on water: from biolocomotion to quantum foundations |
In this Public Lecture, which contains more technical content than our norm, John Bush presents seemingly disparate topics which are in fact united by a common theme and underlaid by a common mathematical framework. |
John Bush |
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| The Space Episode! |
Venture with us to the ‘final frontier’ for a very special episode on the future of space. |
Chad Anderson |
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| Defying Hitler: The White Rose Resistance Group |
Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Lecturer in German, Magdalen College and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, gives a talk on the White Rose Resistance Group. |
Alexandra Lloyd |
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| New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene |
Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system. |
Eric Beinhocker |
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| From pollution to solution: will China save the planet? |
Barbara Finamore discusses whether China will take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe. |
Barbara Finamore, Radhika Khosla |
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| Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace |
Professor Seumas Miller defines fake news, hate speech and propaganda, discusses the relationship between social media and political propaganda. |
Seumas Miller |
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| The future of the corporation, economy and society |
Professor Sir Paul Collier and Professor Colin Mayer CBE will share the latest thinking and research into the future of capitalism and the corporation to understand how business might be changed to make it work better for society. |
Colin Mayer, Paul Collier |
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| Protecting the high seas (Oxford Green Week talk) |
As part of Oxford Green Week, Prof Alex Rogers and Dr Gwilym Rowlands discuss the importance of protecting the high seas, and how marine protection areas can be enforced. |
Alex Rogers, Gwilym Rowlands |
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| What are Teachers' Professional Competencies? |
This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice. |
Auli Toom |
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| Building Research Capacity in Teacher Education |
Seminar 8 of 8 on teacher education reforms. Alis unpacks the notion of 'capacity' through a historiography of initiatives and a review of attempts at conceptual development. |
Alis Oancea |
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| One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics |
In this special lecture, Professor Mitt Regan discusses the latest research in moral perception and judgment, and the potential implications of this research for ethics education in general and military ethics training in particular. |
Mitt Regan |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 6: The Way Forward |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Thandabantu Nhlapo, Geoff Budlender, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 5: The Scope of Chiefly Power |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Jason Brickhill, Janine Ubink, Michael Mbikiwa, Monica De Souza Louw, Maame Mensa Bonsu |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 4: Traditional Leaders and Communities, Money and Accountability |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Jonny Steinberg, Sonwabile Mnwana, Wilmien Wicomb; |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 3: Mining and Resources: issues arising from recent litigation |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Nolundi Luwaya, Johan Lorenzen, Michael Bishop, William Beinart |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 2: What is Living Customary Law? And how should the courts identify it and apply it? |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Nick Barber, Thandabantu Nhlapo, Nolundi Luwaya, Kate O'Regan |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 1: Where are we now? The Constitution, Traditional Leaders and Customary Law |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, Peter Delius, Aninka Claassens |
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| Changing technology, changing economics |
Prof Diane Coyle discusses how digital technologies are changing economics. |
Diane Coyle |
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| Is the human species slowing down? |
Prof Danny Dorling discusses the idea that that humanity is slowing down in almost everything that we do, and what this means for our future. |
Danny Dorling |
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| 2019 Disability Lecture: The Triple Cripples... creators, educators, rule breakers, and the personification of empowerment |
Jay Abdullahi and Kym Oliver, a team of two black disabled women, reclaim the word ‘cripple’ in their fight against three layers of discrimination. |
Jay Abdullahi, Kym Oliver |
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| Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions |
6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'. |
Matthew Landrus |
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| Particles in space |
Join Dr Donal Hill for a tour of the invisible, as he describes how particle detectors measure 3D information to help uncover the secrets of tiny fundamental particles. |
Donal Hill |
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| Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D |
Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau. |
Kerstin Timm, Justin Lau |
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| Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings |
Dr Karl Kinsella introduces a 12th-century manuscript which explores the mystical visions of the prophet Ezekiel and contains some of the earliest architectural drawings in existence. |
Karl Kinsella |
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| Parallel lines down the centuries |
For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. |
Christopher Hollings |
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| Behavioural Interventions to Improve the Quality of the Grocery Shopping |
This evening lecture is given in conjunction with the Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods accredited short course, part of the Evidence-Based Healthcare programme at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education. |
Carmen Piernas |
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| Early childhood development – A blue ocean opportunity? |
This talk was recorded as part of the Future of Business Series. |
Tarun Varma, Laura White and Puja Balachander |
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| Navigating knowledge: new tools for the journey |
Like the wind, knowledge can be difficult to see or grasp, but if well-harnessed, it can help us do extraordinary things. |
Penny Mealy |
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| Unlocking digital competition |
Is competition in the digital economy desirable? Does it currently exist? Is it possible? Is there anything policy can do? |
Jason Furman |
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| The 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History |
Health and disease history of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: two syndemics |
John R. McNeill |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (4) The Stones of Civil War |
Dr John Blakinger speaks about iconoclasm in American history and the vandalism of Confederate monuments. |
John Blakinger |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (3) Dismantling the Gallows |
Dr John Blakinger discusses 'Scaffold', Sam Durant's contentious sculpture. |
John Blakinger |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (2) The Body of Emmett Till |
Dr John Blakinger speaks about the controversy surrounding Dana Shutz's painting of the body of Emmett Till exhibited at the 2017 Whitney Biennnial. |
John Blakinger |
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| Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2019 - A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War (1) Warhol in Safariland |
Dr John Blakinger talks about demonstrations against the Whitney Museum of American Art related to its connections with the tear gas manufacturer Safariland. |
John Blakinger |
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| Driving Africa's prosperity through sustainable and innovative practices |
Guest lecture by the 6th President of Mauritius- Prof Ameenah Gurib-Fakim. |
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim |
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| From global to local - the relationship between global climate and regional warming |
Professor David Battisti, The Tamaki Endowed Chair of Atmospheric Sciences, will be talking about global climate sensitivity controlling regional warming uncertainty and its role in impacting on human health, particularly heat stress. |
David Battisti |
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| Is Dark Matter Made of Black Holes |
The 2019 Halley lecture |
Marc Kamionkowski |
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| The Role of Gas in Galaxy Evolution |
Professor Jacqueline van Gorkom delivers the 18th Hintze Lecture. |
Jacqueline van Gorkom |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Creativity Code: how AI is learning to write, paint and think |
In this fascinating and provocative lecture, Marcus du Sautoy both tests our ability to distinguish between human and machine creativity, and suggests that our creativity may even benefit from that of the machines. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The Connections and Disconnections in Teacher Education Policy, Research and Practice Future Research Directions |
This seminar examines the alignments and tensions between teacher education research, policy and practice. This is the sixth seminar in a series of eight public seminars on 'Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy'. |
Diane Mayer |
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| City region food systems: potential for impacting planetary boundaries and food security |
Dr Mike Hamm will explore the opportunity for regional food systems in-and-around cities for mutual benefit. |
Michael Hamm |
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| How complexity can resolve the crisis in economics |
Professor Doyne Farmer will discuss the constraints of current economic models and propose complexity economics as a solution. |
J Doyne Farmer |
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| OES Annual Lecture: The Quest for Better Teaching |
This lecture explores why efforts to improve teaching too often fail and outlines new research on pedagogy and teacher development, which has been achieving promising signs of real change. |
Jenny Gore (Visiting Professor, Department of Education) |
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| Doing good while doing well - impact investing unpacked |
What is behind the rise of impact investing and is the hype warranted? |
Aunnie Patton Power |
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| Comparative teacher education research: Global perspectives in teacher education past, present and future |
Seminar five of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy". |
Maria Teresa Tatto |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Graham Farmelo - The Universe Speaks in Numbers |
An old-fashioned tale of tale of romance and estrangement, of hope and despair. |
Graham Farmelo |
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| Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture Discussion |
The discussion after the lecture, with an international guest panel on decolonising education and reimagining the higher education space in Africa and the Diaspora. |
Running Grass, Sizwe Mkwanazi, Shaeera Kalla, Nompendulo Mkatshwa. |
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| Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture |
The Oxford Africa Society will host an annual lecture delivered by the Director of the University of Oxford’s African Studies Centre and Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, Wale Adebanwi. |
Wale Adebanwi |
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| Decay and closure of libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (6) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the sixth and final lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| ... from collisions to the Higgs boson |
To study the Higgs boson at the LHC we also need to understand how highly energetic quarks and gluons interact, among themselves and with the Higgs. |
Fabrizio Caola |
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| From protons to collisions… |
We learn about the Higgs Boson and its interactions at the LHC by examining the debris produced by colliding protons head-on at unprecedented high energies. |
Lucian Harland-Lang |
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| What the Large Hadron Collider is telling us about the Higgs sector and its new interactions |
Over the past two years, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has started to directly probe a qualitatively new class of interactions, associated with the Higgs boson. |
Gavin Salam |
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| The earth compels: Forces of destruction and creation in the history of African popular culture |
Prof Karin Barber delivers keynote lecture for 'Cultural Production in Africa's Extractive Communities' workshop |
Karin Barber |
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| Growth, competition, stability, loss, renewal - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (5) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fifth lecture inthe 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| The BMJ's open data campaign |
Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of The BMJ, gives a talk for the EBHC podcast series |
Fiona Godlee |
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| Africa in transformation: economic development in the age of doubt with Prof Carlos Lopes |
Carlos Lopes will deliver an overview of the critical development issues facing the African continent today. |
Carlos Lopes |
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| Making Change Happen - The Reform of Initial Teacher Education in Wales |
This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice. |
John Furlong |
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| Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fourth lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy |
Richard Sharpe |
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| Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture: Analysis III - Integration |
The third in our popular series of filmed student lectures takes us to Integration. This is the opening lecture in the 1st Year course. |
Ben Green |
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| When business and karma collide |
Simon Coley and Albert Tucker of Karma Cola tell the Future of Business podcast how they built a company, a foundation, and a "virtuous circle," bringing organic sodas to consumers and vital investment to communities in Sierra Leone. |
Simon Coley, Albert Tucker |
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| Library books and personal books - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (3) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the third lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| Classroom-based Interventions Across Subject Areas: Research to Understand What Works in Education |
Seminar two of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy". This seminar is based on a recent book, which aims to help researchers and practitioners understand how and why interventions can be successful or not. |
Gabriel Stylianides, Ian Thompson, Katharine Burn, Nicholas Andrews, Alexandra Haydon, Ann Childs, Trevor Mutton |
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| English medieval library catalogues - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (2) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the second lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism |
Dan Edelstein from Stanford University gives the Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture, the convenor is Avi Lifschitz, Magdalen College. |
Dan Edelstein, Avi Lifschitz |
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| A Westphalia for the Middle East? |
This talk will discuss the parallels between the Thirty Years War and today’s Middle East and suggest ways in which lessons drawn from the congress and treaties of Westphalia. |
Patrick Milton |
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| The Consequences of Refugee Repatriation for Stayees: A Threat to Stability and Sustainable Development? |
Using longitudinal data from Burundi collected in 2011 and 2015, this paper explores the consequences of repatriation for stayee households i.e. those who never left the country during the conflict |
Carlos Vargas-Silva |
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| Religion, War and Terrorism |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Tony Coady argues that religion does not have an inherent tendency towards violence, including particularly war and terrorism. |
Professor Tony Coady |
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| Why the Responses to Address Intrastate Armed Conflicts fail? |
Michael von der Schulenburg will discuss the shortcomings of the UN Charter to regulate foreign military interventions and paradoxes in UN peacekeeping |
Michael von der Schulenburg |
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| Innovations to improve outcome and patient safety in low and middle income countries |
Ms Sarah Kessler discusses and shows clips from ‘The Checklist Effect’, the award-winning documentary inspired by the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. |
Shafi Ahmed, Sarah Kessler |
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| Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
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| How and why did a large majority of Jews survive the Holocaust in France? |
Professor Jacques Semelin (Sciences Po, Paris) presents a multifactorial analysis which can explain the survival of Jews in occupied France, without forgetting the dead. Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College, Oxford) chairs. |
Jacques Semelin, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris |
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| The Law and Practice of Cross-border Humanitarian Relief Operations: Syria as Case Study |
Dapo Akande and Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard from ELAC (Oxford) discuss humanitarian relief in Syria |
Dapo Akande, Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard |
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| Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context |
Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context |
Judith Gardner |
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| The Constitution of Illicit Orders: Contested Sovereignty in Territorial Domains |
Within the context of modernity and globalisation, this research project investigates the processes by which governance arises in territories subjected to illicit forms of social order that contest state sovereignty and authority. |
Christopher Lilyblad |
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| Future of workspaces, connected devices and smart cities |
We interviewed Vanessa Lee Butz, CEO and Founder of District Technologies to understand what smart cities are and what the connected future would look like? |
Vanessa Lee Butz |
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