| An Uncommon Point of View: Military Diplomacy in an Active Theatre |
Brigadier Matthew Overton draws on his own professional experience to discuss the role of diplomacy in active conflict. |
Matthew Overton |
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| Religious and Nationalist Motivations in Insurgency: Evidence from the Caucasus |
Professor Monica Toft explores religious motivations in insurgency. |
Monica Toft |
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| Planning Future War |
The Director of CCW outlines the future of armed conflict and how we should be preparing for it. |
Rob Johnson |
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| Water Lives: forging a science-policy interface |
Exploring the interface between science and policy-making at Water Lives - a science-policy symposium for Freshwater life in Brussels, January 2014. Listen to find out what every scientist should know about policy-making. |
Paul Jepson, Helen Scales |
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| Reinventing politics: From the local to the regional and beyond |
Seesox annual lecture. Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania. |
Edi Rama |
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| Assertive outreach in psychiatry |
Dr Thurston is a psychiatrist at Oxford who has worked in assertive outreach for many years. He discusses the benefits of assertive outreach and their place in modern psychiatry and gives an overview of how psychiatry has changed over the past 20 years. |
David Thurston |
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| Suicide Assessment |
Professor Hawton is a world leading expert in suicide research. He has written books on the subject and has contributed to UK policy in this area. He speaks to Dr Daniel Maughan about this controversial area of psychiatric research. |
Keith Hawton |
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| Why there are no three-headed monsters, resolving some problems with brain tumours, divorce prediction and how to save marriages - James D Murray |
Professor James D Murray, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford and Senior Scholar, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, gives the annual Hooke Lecture. |
James D Murray |
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| Deduction and Induction: Classifying Arguments |
Lecture 3 of 6 in Marianne Talbot's series on critical reasoning for beginners. |
Marianne Talbot |
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| Ukraine and its Place in the World |
2014 Elliott Lecture, St Antony's College. |
Aleksander Kwasniewski, Javier Solana, Gwendolyn Sasse, Chris Patten |
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| Poland, Ukraine, and the Politics of History |
POMP Lecture by Timothy Snyder. |
Timothy Snyder |
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| Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Eight. |
Part Eight: Charles Powell. |
Charles Powell |
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| Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Three. |
Part Three: Dariusz Stola. |
Dariusz Stola |
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| Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Seven. |
Part Seven: Andras Mink. |
Andras Mink |
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| Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Six. |
Part Six: Colin Bundy. |
Colin Bundy |
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| Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Five. |
Part Five: David Ost. |
David Ost |
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| Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Four. |
Part Four: Anna Bikont. |
Anna Bikont |
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| Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part Two. |
Part Two: Timothy Garton Ash. |
Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Poland's Peaceful Revolution: 25 Years After the Polish Roundtable Talks. Part One. |
Part One: Keynote - Aleksander Smolar. |
Aleksander Smolar |
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| Peter D McDonald in conversation with Daljit Nagra |
Peter D. McDonald talks to the poet Daljit Nagra about cultural diversity, the contemporary life and history of the English language, the canons of English literature, and translation. |
Peter McDonald, Daljit Nagra |
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| POMP Seminar Series 6 |
From Kochanowski to Huelle and Beyond: Translating Polish Literature Before and After 1989. |
Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Ursula Phillips, George Gömöri, Jan Fellerer |
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| POMP Seminar Series 5 |
Vectors of Looking: Reflections on the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw, 1944. |
Ella Chmielewska, John Beck, Mikołaj Kunicki |
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| POMP Seminar Series 4 |
Poles and Germans into Silesians: Serial Nationalisation's in Late 20th Century Poland. |
Jim Bjork, Hugo Service, Paul Betts |
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| Bryce McLeod, a Life in Mathematics In conversation with John Ball |
A portrait of the contribution that Bryce McLeod has made to mathematics over his career together with his recollections of formative people and events. |
Bryce McLeod, John Ball |
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| Careers Seminar 2014 - Collections Management in a Historic House |
A careers event organised by Lucy Hawkins (Careers Service) and Rachel Woodruff, (History of Art Dept) with speakers from the Arts and Heritage sectors, including recent alumni of the Department, providing insights into their careers. |
Emily Roy |
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| Careers Seminar 2014 - Finding Yourself in Advertising |
A careers event organised by Lucy Hawkins (Careers Service) and Rachel Woodruff, (History of Art Dept) with speakers from the Arts and Heritage sectors, including recent alumni of the Department, providing insights into their careers. |
Elle Graham-Dixon |
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| Careers Seminar 2014 - Introduction |
A careers event organised by Lucy Hawkins (Careers Service) and Rachel Woodruff, (History of Art Dept) with speakers from the Arts and Heritage sectors, including recent alumni of the Department, providing insights into their careers. |
Lucy Hawkins |
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| Future Proofing Business: Beyond CSR |
Pamela Hartigan, Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, discusses some emerging models of entrepreneurial ventures that have a social and/or environmental mission at their core. |
Pamela Hartigan |
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| Understanding Financial Control |
Simon Husband, Director, Richardsons Financial Group gives some frank advice on taxes, record-keeping and financial control for entrepreneurs in the early stage of business. |
Simon Husband |
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| POMP Seminar Series 1 |
Legal Culture in the Process of Integration. Polish post-EU Accession migrants in the United Kingdom. |
Agnieszka Kubal, Jan Fellerer, Kalypso Nicolaidis |
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| Geography, Inequality and Oxford |
Danny Dorling delivers his inaugural lecture as Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography on 'Geography, Inequality and Oxford'. |
Danny Dorling |
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| Building a Business 2013-14: The Art and Practice of Negotiation |
Ian Kessler, Professor of International Human Resource Management, King's College London, gives a talk for the 2013-14 Building a Business series |
Ian Kessler |
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| Raising capital, doing deals |
Henry Davis, Senior Associate, Index Ventures, gives a talk for the 2013-14 Series of Building a Business |
Henry Davis |
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| A Short Guide To Managing Your Time |
Sally LePage and Liz Timoney White |
Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson, Luke Ogilvie-Thomson |
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| A Schuman Compact for the Euro Area |
Ashoka Mody, Princeton University gives a seminar for the PEFM programme. The discussant was David Vines, Balliol College, Oxford and the chair was Kalypso Nicolaïdis, St. Antony's College, Oxford. |
Ashoka Mody, David Vines, Kalypso Nicolaidis |
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| Sustainable mental health |
An introduction to key aspects of sustainable mental health, and how this can be applied across the NHS more widely. |
Daniel Maughan |
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| The causes of early onset psychosis |
An interview with Dr Lennox discussing her career in academic psychiatry, and her current research into the causes of early onset psychosis. |
Belinda Lennox |
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| Partial Differential Equations: Origins, Developments and Roles in the Changing World - Gui-Qiang George Chen |
Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen presents in his inaugural lecture several examples to illustrate the origins, developments, and roles of partial differential equations in our changing world. |
Gui-Qiang George Chen |
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| Prime Numbers - Richard Earl |
Dr Richard Earl of the Mathematical Institute, Oxford presents a talk about prime numbers. What they are and their role in internet security. |
Richard Earl |
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| Computation and the Future of Mathematics - Stephen Wolfram |
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, gives a talk about the future of mathematics and computation. |
Stephen Wolfram |
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| The Irrational, the chaotic and incomplete: the mathematical limits of knowledge - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about how much we can understand of the world through maths |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The Secret Mathematicians: the connections between maths and the arts - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about the connections beween art and mathematics |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Symmetry: a talk based on his second book, Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk about symmetry and how the rules of symmetry influences our lives and the choices we make. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The Music of the Primes: a talk about the Riemann Hypothesis and primes - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk on 5th September 2013. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Maths in Music: The Secret Mathematicians - Marcus du Sautoy |
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Evolutionary Mechanisms in Business. |
Warden's Distinguished Lecture: Dr Leszek Czarnecki, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Getin Noble Bank, gives a talk on dual nature of business. |
Leszek Czarnecki |
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| Political Extremism in the Interwar Period and its Economic Roots. |
Kevin O'Rourke, Chichele Professor of Economic History, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, gives a seminar for the PEFM programme. The discussant was Othon Anastasa and the chair was Paul Betts, St. Antony's College, Oxford. |
Kevin O’Rourke, Othon Anastasakis, Paul Betts |
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| Hassan Rohani's Strategy to Avoid War |
Thomas Flichy reflects on the current politics of Iran and its role in the wider region. |
Thomas Flichy de la Neuville |
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| 5. Wilde's Plays |
Fifth lecture in the Osar Wilde series. Sos Eltis talks about Oscar Wilde's plays including an Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Ernest and A Woman of No Importance. |
Sos Eltis |
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| 4. Wilde and Sexuality |
Fourth lecture in the Oscar Wilde series. Looking at Wilde's sexuality and how it influenced his literature. |
Sos Eltis |
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| Why should we study Old English Literature? |
Dr Francis Leneghan of St Cross College, Oxford, discusses his current research around Beowulf and proposes why we should still study Old English Literature. |
Francis Leneghan |
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| The Morality of Private War |
The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies. |
James Pattison |
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| Restoring Confidence in the Euro Area. |
Klaus Regling, European Stability Mechanism, gives a talk for the European Studies Centre seminar series on banking and the economic recession. Chaired by Max Watson, St Antony's College. |
Klaus Regling, Max Watson |
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| Banking Reform Five Years On. |
John Vickers, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, gives a talk for the European Studies Centre seminar series on banking and the economic recession. Chaired by Max Watson, St Antony's College. |
John Vickers |
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| 3. Art and Morality |
Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's concept of morality shown in his works including the Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Devoted Friend. |
Sos Eltis |
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| Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About War |
Professor Christopher Coker looks at the presentation of war in fiction, focussing in particular on the different character types commonly portrayed. |
Christopher Coker |
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| 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist |
Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the modernist tradition. |
Sos Eltis |
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| Psychological medicine |
Interview with Professor Sharpe about psychological medicine and his randomised controlled trial investigating the treatment of depression in people with cancer. |
Michael Sharpe |
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| Community treatment orders |
An interview with Professor Burns about social psychiatry and his randomised controlled trial into community treatment orders. |
Tom Burns |
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| Dementia |
An overview of the aetiology, clinical diagnosis and management of dementia. |
Charlotte Allan, Daniel Maughan |
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| Delirium |
An overview of the clinical diagnosis, investigation and management of delirium. |
Charlotte Allan, Daniel Maughan |
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| Anxiety disorders |
An overview of the aetiology, clinical diagnosis and management of anxiety disorders. |
Charlotte Allan, Daniel Maughan |
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| Schizophrenia |
An overview of the aetiology, clinical diagnosis and management of schizophrenia. |
Charlotte Allan, Daniel Maughan |
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| Bipolar Disorder |
An overview of the aetiology, clinical diagnosis and management of bipolar disorder. |
Charlotte Allan, Daniel Maughan |
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| 1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art |
First lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his work, De Profundis. |
Sos Eltis |
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| Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre? |
Professor Tiffany Stern of University College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Elizabethan Theatre. |
Tiffany Stern, Ilana Lassman |
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| Manipulation and Independence in Humanitarian Action: Ethical Challenges in Recent Crises (partial recording) |
Professor Antonio Donini (Tufts University) gives a talk on 7th November 2012. This is a Oxford Humanitarian Group Event. |
Antonio Donini |
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| The Craft of Humanitarian Work: Reflection, Political Judgment and Strategic Intervention Spring' and Future Humanitarian Challenges |
Professor Greg Johnson, Pacific Lutheran University gives a talk on 1st May 2013. This is a Oxford Humanitarian Group Event. |
Greg Johnson |
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| What Works in Protecting Civilians: Lessons from Recent Humanitarian Action |
Urban Reichhold (Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin) gives a talk on 4th March 2012. This is an Oxford Humanitarian Group Event. |
Urban Reichhold |
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| Negotiating Humanitarian Agreements with Everybody: Geneva Call's Experience with Armed Non-State Actors |
Elisabeth Decrey-Warner (President, Geneva Call), gives a talk on 25th Feb 2012. This is an Oxford Humanitarian Group Event. |
Elisabeth Decrey-Warner |
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| Negotiating Space: Redefining Civilian-Military Roles During Complex Crises (partial recording) |
Dr Marcia Byrom Hartwell (Visiting Scholar, United States Institute of Peace, (USIP) Washington DC) gives a talk for the Oxford Humanitarian Group seminar series. |
Marcia Byrom Hartwell |
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| Why should we study medieval romance? |
Dr Nicholas Perkins of St Hugh's College, Oxford, discusses his current research and proposes why we should still study medieval romance. |
Nicholas Perkins, Sarah Wilkin |
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| An introduction to Medical Statistics with Carl Heneghan and Rafael Perera |
Dr Carl Heneghan talks to Rafael Perera about medical statistics and gives an introduction to the subject. |
Carl Heneghan, Rafael Perera |
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| Preventative War |
Professor Deen Chatterjee gives a talk for the ELAC semianar series on 21st May 2013. With Professor Cheyney Ryan and Dr David Rodin. |
Deen Chatterjee, David Rodin, Cheyney Ryan |
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| The Ethics of Humanitarian Accountability |
Alice Obrecht (One World Trust) and Philip Tamminga (DARA) give a talk for Oxford Humanitarian Group/ELAC seminar series. Introduced by Hugo Slim. |
Alice Obrecht, Phillip Tamminga, Hugo Slim |
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| Influence Operations and Psyops: Information Warfare in the 21st Century |
Bob Seeley, MOD, gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW seminar series on 13th November 2012. |
Bob Seeley |
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| Liberalism and State Violence: Reflections on the Liberal Way of War |
Director of Liberal Way of War Program Professor Alan Cromartie gives a talk for the ELAC/CCW Seminar series on 9th October 2012. Introduced by Dr Robert Johnson. |
Alan Cromartie, Robert Johnson |
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| Why should we study the humanities? |
For those wanting a further challenge, Professor Helen Small of Pembroke College, Oxford, discusses the difficulties facing the study of the humanities today. |
Helen Small, Ilana Lassman |
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| Why should we study Johnson? |
Professor Ros Ballaster of Mansfield College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes we should still study Samuel Johnson. |
Ros Ballaster, Sarah Wilkin |
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| Why should we study Dickens? |
Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and proposes why we should still study Dickens. |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Ilana Lassman |
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| Why should we study Chaucer? |
Dr Laura Ashe of Worcester College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Chaucer. |
Laura Ashe, Ilana Lassman |
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| Why should we study Postcolonial Literature? |
Professor Elleke Boehmer of Wolfson College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should study Postcolonial writers such as Achebe. |
Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin |
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| Why should we study Shakespeare? |
Dr Emma Smith of Hertford College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Shakespeare. |
Emma Smith, Ilana Lassman |
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| A behavioural perspective of translating evidence to policy and practice |
Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology, UCL, gives a talk at Kellogg College for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. |
Susan Michie |
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| How Youtube is being used as a platform to share opinions and experiences of a controversial treatment for Multiple Sclerosis |
Brandon O'Neill, DPhil Candidate, PCHS, gives a lecture on treating Multiple Sclerosis and how social media is being used to share experiences of patients. |
Brandon O'Neill |
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| Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics |
Dr Carl Heneghan and John Balla discuss the evidence relating to diagnostics. |
Carl Heneghan, John Balla |
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| 'New Wars' and the Horn of Africa |
New wars and the Horn of Africa. |
Peter Woodward |
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| Peter D McDonald in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri |
Peter D. McDonald talks to Amit Chaudhuri about his work as a novelist, critic and musician, focusing on his interest in the specificity of the many media he uses and on the challenge of thinking about cultural interconnectedness in new ways. |
Peter McDonald, Amit Chaudhuri |
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| Peter D McDonald in conversation with Antjie Krog |
Peter D. McDonald talks to Antjie Krog about her relationship to Afrikaans, English and African languages, about the promise and perils of translation, and about the challenges of and for writing in a multilingual democracy. |
Peter McDonald, Antjie Krog |
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| Peter D McDonald in conversation with Derek Attridge |
Peter D. McDonald and Derek Attridge reflect on their different approaches to the questions of literature and public value, and on the bearing this has for teaching and research today. |
Peter McDonald, Derek Attridge |
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| MSc in EBHC: Introduction to the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care |
Annette Pluddermann, Senior researcher DPCHS, gives an introduction to the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care |
Annette Pluddermann |
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| War Crimes, Character, and Responsibility |
A discussion of military ethics and war crimes. |
Jessica Wolfendale |
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| The global and Euro area crises: Will next time be different? |
Sean Berrigan Director for Financial Stability and Monetary Affairs in DG ECFIN at the European Commission gives a seminar on the Euro crisis. Chaired by Max Watson of St Antony's College, Oxford. |
Sean Berrigan, Max Watson |
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| "Europe Nothing Left to Die for?" NATO's European Allies, Military Capabilities and Political Will |
Drawing on her recent book, Janne Matlary addresses the question of burden-sharing in NATO and the role of the US's European allies. |
Janne Matlary |
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| Insurgencies: The Challenges of Intervention |
Professor Beatrice Heuser looks at the systemic challenges of intervening in insurgency. |
Beatrice Heuser |
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| How to Clear a Room: Towards a Sociology of Contemporary Urban Combat |
A discussion of the sociology of contemporary urban combat and professionalism in the military. |
Anthony King |
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| The 'Arab Spring' and Future Humanitarian Challenges |
25 April 2013, Special lecture co-hosted by ELAC, the new Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations and the Oxford Humanitarian Group by Yves Daccord (Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC). |
Yves Daccord |
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| Peter D. McDonald in conversation with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra |
Peter D. McDonald talks to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra about his work as a poet, critic and translator, focusing on the idea of triangulation and his interest in the intersections between languages and literary traditions. |
Peter McDonald, Arvind Mehrotra |
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| Political-Military Strategy-Making in Regional Command South Afghanistan |
Drawing from his own experience, Todd Greentree discusses political-military strategy-making in regional Command South Afghanistan. |
Todd Greentree |
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| Where to Now for Just War Theory? |
Professor Jeff McMahan (Rutgers) with Dr Janina Dill and Dr Hugo Slim (ELAC, Oxford) discuss the Just War theory for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series on 8th February 2013. |
Hugo Slim, Jeff McMahan, Janina Dill |
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