| Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries |
An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron |
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| Introducing Fairies and Fairyland |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the Modern Fairies project and talk about traditional imaginings of fairyland. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon |
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| Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future |
Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary. |
Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani |
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| Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth |
A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. |
Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
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| What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau |
ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo |
Teresa Almeida Cravo |
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| Student activism in an era of decolonization |
ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck. |
Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre, Marcia Schenck |
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| Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan |
Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives. |
Khaled Furani |
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| Genes, Hands, Nerves, and Brains |
Professor Dominic Furniss and Dr Akira Wiberg discuss the tremendous connection we have between the hand and the brain, focusing their talk on Dupuytren's Disease and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. |
Dominic Furniss, Akira Wiberg |
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| Admissions Testing Preparation Effects |
This seminar is the first of a five-part seminar series on 'Student Access to University'. This seminar discusses the relationships between student characteristics and test performances with Oxford University admissions tests data. |
Jo-Anne Baird, Karen O'Brien, Samina Khan, Rebecca Surender |
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| Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice |
The peacebuilding literature has long emphasised that youth involvement is key to ensuring long-term peace. In the aftermath of the 'no' victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements' push for peace. |
Elena Butti |
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| Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials |
Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series. |
David Torgerson |
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| All Souls Blog: The Politics of Global Policing |
Professor Ben Bowling |
Ben Bowling |
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| Process thinking in four modes |
Professor Ann Langley, Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings, HEC Montréal discusses her research work. |
Ann Langley |
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| Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC |
Focusing on the 'male perpetrator,' this paper first examines how, why, and with what effect gendered and raced imaginaries became encoded in international peace and security policy. |
Chloe Lewis |
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| Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts |
Dr Katerina Tkacova, member of CCW, introduces the seminar series based on the CCW research project - Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts. |
Katerina Tkacova |
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| The application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice interface: NICE work if you can do it |
Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Mike Kelly |
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| How imperfect can a study be? |
Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods'. |
Alan Silman |
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| Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England |
Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english. |
Julia Mattison |
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| Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and the Jews |
Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the criticism of Zionism. |
Brian Klug |
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| Writing Rights in 1789 |
Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the constituent articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. |
Keith M Baker |
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| Creating More Peaceful Societies - Global Strategies to Reduce Interpersonal Violence by 50 Percent in 2040 |
Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge |
Manuel Eisner |
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| Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building |
Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern Hebrew literature. |
Adriana X Jacobs |
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| David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships |
David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships. |
David Tal |
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| The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum |
Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. |
Richard Ovenden, Julia Smith, Helen Snaith, David Clark |
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| The Quantum and the Cosmos |
The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago. |
Rocky Kolb |
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| Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? The 2018 Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture |
Marcus du Sautoy and Professor Rosalind Picard for 2018's annual Simonyi Lecture: Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? |
Marcus du Sautoy, Rosalind Picard |
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| How 'gangsters' become jihadists (and why most don't): Bourdieu, criminology and the crime-terrorism nexus |
Professor Sveinung Sandberg |
Sveinung Sandberg |
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| Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her work focusses on obesity and tobacco control and her particular interests lie in evidence synthes |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
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| More than meet the eye: Hyperspectral imaging |
How many colours we see is limited by our eye, which contains only three types of colour sensors. Using advanced techniques, vision scientists can take images of this “invisible” information and make it visible. |
Sérgio Nascimento |
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| Neurons code the colour we see |
All activity in your brain – including those which mediates your perception of colour – is based on electrical messages between neurons. Vision scientists can measure these signals at the eye, and at the back of the brain. |
Neil Parry |
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| Seeing neurons inside the living eye |
Using techniques borrowed from astronomy, vision scientists can take high-resolution images of the retina, the fine layer of cells in the back of your eye. |
Hannah Smithson, Laura Young |
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| Panel discussion: #TheDress – What do we know? |
In early 2015, an image of a dress polarised the internet: Some people saw it as black-blue, and some as white-gold. Three years on, we revisit the dress and discuss how vision science can explain this phenomenon. |
Manuel Spitschan, Anya Hurlbert, Karl Gegenfurtner, David Brainard |
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| Old Norse |
Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse. |
Eleanor Parker |
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| Old English |
Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english. |
Mark Atherton |
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| Gothic |
Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest. |
Elizabeth Solopova |
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| Can antibiotics make you pregnant? |
Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| History of evidence synthesis |
Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Mike Clarke |
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| Criminology at the periphery: understanding police work in the remote Northern islands of Scotland |
Dr Anna Souhami, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, gives a talk for the Criminology seminar series on 11th October 2018. |
Anna Souhami |
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| Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges |
Professor Steven Hoffman discusses legal mechanisms available for coordinating international responses to transnational problems, their prospects, and their challenges. |
Steven J Hoffman |
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| Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Fake News and the Politics of Truth |
Fake news spread online is a clear danger to democratic politics. One aspect of that danger is obvious: it spreads misinformation. But other aspects, less often discussed, is that it also spreads confusion and undermines trust. |
Michael Lynch |
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| Oxford Mathematics and the Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Roger Penrose - Eschermatics |
In this lecture Roger Penrose uses M.C Escher's work to illustrate and explain important mathematical ideas and their connections to the visual arts. |
Roger Penrose |
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| All Souls Seminar: 'Shared Beginnings? The Role of Race' |
Dr. Coretta Philips and Dr. Alpa Parmar London School of Economics and University of Oxford |
Alpa Parmar, Coretta Philips |
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| The jugglers and the black cat |
There has never been such a high demand for our personal data, such that it is often said that individuals are the product, not just the client. |
Kerina Jones |
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| Zaharoff Lecture 2017: Penser dans les mots |
Penser dans les mots. (This lecture is in French.) |
Tiphaine Samoyault, Catriona Seth |
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| The 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Poland between Europeanism and Nationalism: National Exception or Regional Norm? |
Jacques Rupnik gives the 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture |
Jacques Rupnik |
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| Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain |
In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blinding is important and why a placebo control may be necessary, even in surgical trials. |
Karolina Wartolowska |
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| How do we find planets around other stars? |
The 3rd Wetton lecture, 19th June 2018 delivered by Professor David W. Hogg, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University |
David W Hogg |
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| The shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data |
Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series. |
Carol Lefebvre |
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| The Enemy In-Between: Ambivalence, Hostility, and Joint Enterprise |
Dr Henrique Carvalho, University of Warwick |
Henrique Carvalho |
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| Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work? |
Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work? - at the European Studies Centre on June 1, 2018 |
John Erik Fossum, Matthew Broad, Hans Petter, Kalypso Nicolaidis |
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| Kfir Cohen - Israeli Literature as Global Literature |
Kfir Cohen discusses Israeli literature as global literature (broadly defined) |
Kfir Cohen |
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| Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality |
Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure. |
Annalise Weckesser |
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| Public trust and police legitimacy: Diversity and complexity in the 'global city' |
Prof. Ben Bradford, University College London |
Ben Bradford |
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| Roger Hood Lecture: Portals to Politics: Grassroots Narratives of Policing in the 'Low End', Downtown Baltimore, South L.A., and the 53206 |
Vesla M. Weaver: Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology. |
Vesla Weaver |
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| 2018 Disability Lecture: That Way Lies Madness - Poets, Power, Health |
The Equality and Diversity Unit and TORCH are delighted to announce that Gwyneth Lewis will give the 2018 Disability Lecture. |
Gwyneth Lewis, Dan Holloway |
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| Bashir Abu-Manneh - Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948 |
Bashir Abu-Manneh discusses Emile Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948. |
Bashir Abu-Manneh |
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| Rami Ginat - Egyptian Communist Voices of Peace (1947-1958) |
Rami Ginat discusses the Egyptian Communist Party's stance on Israel in its formative first decade of statehood. |
Rami Ginat, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| The Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds |
The 16th Hintze lecture, 25th April 2018 delivered by Professor René Doyon, Director, Mont-Mégantic Observatory & Institute for Research on Exoplanets, University of Montreal, Canada |
Rene Doyon |
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| Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health economics? |
Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health economics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare? |
Muir Gray, Lucy Abel |
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| Offensive Cyber, Ecology and the Competition for Security in Cyberspace: The UK’s Approach |
The Strategic Cyber Security model illustrates how offensive cyber capability has been operationalised as a critical component in the delivery of the UK's cyber security strategy |
Graham Fairclough |
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| Cyber Strategy: The Evolution of Cyber Power and Coercion |
Brandon Valeriano examines cyber strategies in their varying forms through quantitative analysis and questions their level of impact |
Brandon Valeriano |
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| Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Conflict |
Al Brown discusses new technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence entering armed conflict |
Al Brown |
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| The Replication Crisis in Biomedicine. What (kind of) crisis? |
Professor Alexander Bird, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, King's College London, gives a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine. |
Alexander Bird |
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| ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies |
The 2018 Astor Visiting Lecture 14th March 2018 delivered by Professor Adam Leroy, Ohio State University. |
Adam Leroy |
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| Defence Cooperation in Europe: Driving Forces and New Formats |
Dr Matlary discusses the driving forces behind defence cooperation, the key players and cooperatives within Europe, as well as Russia’s effect on defence policy. |
Janne Haaland Matlary |
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| Yuval Evri: Andalusian Legacies: the role of al-Andalus/Sepharad in the political and cultural history of Israel/Palestine |
Yuval Evri discusses the uses of the the image of Al-Andalus in political and cultural discourses in the turn of the 20th Century. |
Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference? |
A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doesn’t happen. |
Trish Greenhalgh |
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| The Decision Point: Military Command in the 21st Century |
Professor Anthony King gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Anthony King |
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| Adapting to Sanctions: How Russia Responded to Western Economic Statecraft |
Dr Richard Connolly gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Richard Connolly |
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| Seeing and Seeing-as: Building a politics of visibility in criminology |
All Souls Seminar: 1st February 2018. |
Sarah Armstrong |
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| Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research |
Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues the important biases affecting health and medical research. |
Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Sir Iain Chalmers |
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| Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State |
All Souls Seminar, Centre for Criminology, Univeristy of Oxford, 18th January 2018. |
Vanessa Barker |
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| Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests |
Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or carer of a patient, without the need for samples to be transported to laboratories. |
Phil Turner |
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| Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business? |
Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
Katherine Pollard |
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| How To Think About Limited War (Without Limiting Your Thinking) |
'Limited War' is one of the terms making a frequent appearance in the strategic studies, international relations, and military history realms over the last 70 years. |
Donald Stoker |
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| The Role of Deterrence in Managing Great Power Competition |
This seminar will not only offer a core foundation in the concept of deterrence, from a practitioner's perspective, but explore its utility and application to present day conflict scenarios in Europe, in particular the case of Russia and NATO. |
Michael Kofman |
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| The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based |
Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals. Here he gives a talk on improving healthcare systems. |
Muir Gray |
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| The Culture of New Wars |
Mary Kaldor discussing her pioneering work on the concept of new wars and global civil society. Her work on the practical implementation of human security has directly influenced European and national politics. |
Mary kaldor |
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| Regional Opportunities and Challenges Facing the West in the Middle East |
The focus of this presentation is on post-ISIS Syria and Iraq, Iranian ascendancy in the region, and the reaction of the US, UK and their allies in the region. It also considers prospects for Saudi Arabian reform and leadership of the Arab world. |
Jonathan Paris |
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| 'Art and Attunement', by Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia and Southern Denmark |
In this talk Rita Felski reported at new research on how we engage with works of art across a broad range (including cat videos) and considered the puzzling question of why we are drawn by some pieces of music, art and literature, and not by others. |
Rita Felski |
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| The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona. |
Emma Smith |
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| Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos |
In our Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture Alex Bellos challenges you with some festive brainteasers as he tells the story of mathematical puzzles from the middle ages to modern day. |
Alex Bellos |
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| Core Course: Architects or Artisans? The Builders of the Medieval Cathedrals |
This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students. |
Gervase Rosser |
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| Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly |
Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit. |
Jonathan Cook |
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| Avi Shlaim - A Jordanian Perspective on Israel |
Prof. Avi Shlaim reviews the history of the Jordanian-Israeli relations, and considers how Israel is viewed and understood from the Jordanian side |
Avi Shlaim, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research |
Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in evidence based medicine. |
Paul Aveyard |
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| And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic? |
Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course. |
Andrew Booth |
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| The State of the Universe |
Our Universe was created in 'The Big Bang' and has been expanding ever since. Professor Schmidt describes the vital statistics of the Universe, and tries to make sense of the Universe's past, present, and future. |
Brian Schmidt |
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| Lessons From a Study in Failure - The Force Intervention Brigade and the United Nations Mission in Congo, 2012-2017 |
This seminar is concerned with the broad issues raised by the UN’s long-running mission in the DRC and what it tells us about the deeper challenges facing the UN as it continues to grapple with civil war and protection crises in different parts of Africa. |
Mats Berdal |
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| Wall Street Goes to War |
In this provocative seminar, Dr Sean McFate, author, novelist and expert in foreign policy and national security strategy, looks at the neglected area of the economics of war. |
Sean McFate |
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| Working 'up' and 'out': how qualitative researchers approach analysis |
Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series. |
John MacArtney |
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| Henry VI, Part 2 |
Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2. |
Emma Smith |
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| Jews, Israel and Debate: Understanding Israel in the Diaspora |
Why and how should we study Diaspora Jews' relation to Israel? |
Ilan z Baron, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Soft War: The Ethics on Unarmed Conflict |
Soft war tactics, including cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, propaganda and non-violent resistance are of increasing importance but largely unexplored in just war theory. This talk illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict. |
Michael L. Gross |
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| The Merry Wives of Windsor |
Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. |
Emma Smith |
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| All's Well That Ends Well |
Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well. |
Emma Smith |
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| Superconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive |
A family-friendly demonstration of superconductors in action. Fran explores the low temperatures we need to make them work, and how we can use superconductors for levitating trains. |
Fran Kirschner |
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| Cymbeline |
Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline. |
Emma Smith |
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| Giving Up The Gun: Disengaging from Politically Motivated Violence in Northern Ireland |
Is de-radicalisation of former terrorists helpful or even possible? This presentation explores the processes involved in leaving social movements or disengaging from terrorist activities. |
Neil Ferguson |
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