| A little known law of numbers |
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series, |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan |
Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics. |
David Southwood |
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| The End of Peace and Optimism: Assessing the Changing Character of War |
A 'deliberately provocative' assessment of contemporary conflict. |
Rob Johnson |
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| Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World |
The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health |
Carl Heneghan |
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| The Problem of Evil |
Oxford students discuss the problem posed by the existence of evil in the world to the Christian and Hindu gods. |
Alice Harberd, Frazer MacDiarmid, Luke Martin, Tilak Parekh |
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| Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help |
Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research. |
Shaun Treweek |
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| Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities |
In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods. |
Felicity Bishop |
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| The Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal |
The study of networks offers a fruitful approach to understanding human behaviour. Sanjeev Goyal is one of its pioneers. In this lecture Sanjeev presents a puzzle: |
Sanjeev Goyal |
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| Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy |
The 2017 Halley Lecture 7th June 2017 delivered by Professor Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration |
Rainer Weiss |
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| Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light |
Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow |
Miles Padgett |
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| Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary |
Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
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| Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats |
The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven |
Connie Aerts |
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| Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars |
4th Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor John Grotzinger, Caltech, USA |
John Grotzinger |
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| Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices |
Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA |
Howard Milchberg |
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| Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows |
Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK |
Tom McLeish |
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| The applied side of Bell nonlocality |
Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani |
Valerio Scarani |
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| Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto |
The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Moving Beyond Punitivism: Anthropological Engagements with Punishment and State Failure |
Insa Koch, LSE - 19 Jan 2017 |
Insa Koch |
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| Exploring the Long Term Effects of 'Thatcherite' Social and Economic Policies for Crime |
Stephen Farrall, University of Sheffield - 02 Feb 2017 |
Stephen Farrall |
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| Crime, Order and the Two Faces of Conservatism |
Ian Loader, University of Oxford - 10 Nov 2016 |
Ian Loader |
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| The Problems of Long-term Imprisonment |
Ben Crewe, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge - 6 October 2016 |
Ben Crewe |
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| The Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider |
Physics Colloquium 3 February 2017 delivered by Professor Val Gibson, Cambridge |
Val Gibson |
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| From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope |
Physics Colloquium 27 January 2017 delivered by Professor Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zurich |
Nicola Spaldin |
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| The Ontology of Autonomy for Autonomous Weapons Systems |
Dr Heather Roff discusses the role of autonomous weapons systems within the international community. She provides a theoretical framework for defining and classifying these systems, examining the diplomatic and moral concerns that they pose. |
Heather Roff |
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| Technology and the Rise of Boundless Warfare |
Professor David Galbreath gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
David Galbreath |
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| Social Pluralism Religious Cleansing and Hybrid Warfare in Syria |
Since the ‘Arab Spring’ uprising of 2011, the United States and a network of European and regional Sunni allies have applied instruments of coercion against Syria that collectively take on the character of ‘hybrid warfare’. |
John Eibner |
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| Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit |
Lecture with Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). Respondent: Anand Menon (King’s College London) Convenors: Timothy Garton Ash and Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). |
Kalypso Nicolaidis, Anand Menon, Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Imaginary Invalids? Euro-Atlantic Populisms and the Crisis of Democracy |
Richard von Weizsåcker Lecture with Paul Nolte (Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow St Antony’s College), the chair is Paul Betts (St Antony's College). |
Paul Nolte |
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| A new politics of globalization? Taking stock of what 2016 brought Europe and America |
ESC Lunchtime Seminar. A talk given by Robert Howse (NYU Law School), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College)on 13th January 2017. |
Robert Howse |
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| Rethinking the epidemic of overdiagnosis |
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. Newer, more accurate technologies, and the desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Criminology |
Oxford graduate students discuss Criminology, and the societal affects of real-life crime documentaries. |
Aled Walker, Kate Evans, Liz Kullmann, Jess Jo |
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| Évariste Galois |
Oxford graduate students discuss the life and work of 19th century French mathematical prodigy Évariste Galois |
Aled Walker, Chris Nicholls, Benjamin Green. |
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| Resuscitating poor quality research |
Healthcare research is all too often plagued by biases that are rooted in poor methods, leading to the wrong result and conclusions and preventing uptake into practice. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| The Mathematics of Visual Illusions - Ian Stewart |
Puzzling things happen in human perception when ambiguous or incomplete information is presented to the eyes. |
Ian Stewart |
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| Militant Jihadi Culture: Poetry as a Weapon |
The power of poetry to move Arab listeners and readers emotionally, to infiltrate the psyche and to create an aura of authenticity around the ideologies it enshrines, make it a perfect weapon for militant jihadist causes. |
Elisabeth Kendall |
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| What we are missing about the Missing; searching for the disappeared victims of armed conflict |
One of the aspects of the changing character of war is an increased awareness of and attention to those who go missing due to armed conflict. |
Derek Congram |
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| Strategy Evolves from apes to Artificial Intelligence |
Kenneth Payne explores the evolutionary basis of strategic behaviour, and assesses the impact of non-biological intelligence on the future of warfare. From chimpanzees to computers, via a dose of Clausewitz: hopefully something for everyone. |
Kenneth Payne |
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| Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays |
Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder |
Jamie Holder |
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| Blogging and Social Media in Criminology |
Sarah Turnbull and Ines Hasselberg, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015. |
Sarah Turnbull, Ines Hasselberg |
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| Doing Research with or without Impact: Policing Studies as a Global Field of Interest |
Ian Loader and Ben Bradford, Centre for Criminology, give a talk for the Centre for Criminology seminar series on 5th June 2015. |
Ian Loader, Ben Bradford |
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| Prisons and the problem of trust: contrasting approaches to risk, radicalisation and personal growth in two high security prisons |
Professor Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Centre for Criminology on 5th June 2015. |
Alison Liebling |
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| Zaharoff Lecture 2016: Ecrire et ne pas écrire |
Ecrire et ne pas écrire. (This lecture is in French.) |
Marie Darrieussecq, Catriona Seth |
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| Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress |
Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress’. |
Ritchie Robertson |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
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| Exotic combinations of quarks - A journey of fifty years |
Physics Colloquium 11 November 2016 delivered by Professor Jon Rosner |
Jon Rosner |
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| Our Simple but Strange Universe |
The 13th Hintze Biannual Lecture delivered by Professor David Spergel |
David Spergel |
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| Trials and Tribulations in Africa |
Dr Merlin Willcox gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series. |
Merlin Willcox |
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| Science and Politics |
Oxford DPhil students discuss the relationship between scientific advice and government policy |
Aled Walker, Kathryn Boast, Rob Shalloo |
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| Searching for - and finding! Gravitational Waves |
Physics Colloquium 27th October 2016 delivered by Professor Gabriela Gonzalez |
Gabriela Gonzalez |
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| Visualizing Quantum Matter |
Physics Colloquium 28 October 2016 delivered by Professor Séamus Davis |
Séamus Davis |
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| Atmospheric Circulation and Climate Change |
Physics Colloquium 21st October 2016 delivered by Professor Theodore (Ted) Shepherd |
Theodore (Ted) Shepherd |
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| Better evidence for better health care |
Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care programme. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Autism and Minds Wired for Science |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism. |
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcus du Sautoy |
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| The explosion mechanism of massive stars |
Physics Colloquium 14th October 2016 delivered by Professor Thierry Foglizzo |
Thierry Foglizzo |
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| The American election of 1896 |
Host Aled Walker is joined by DPhil students Nonie Kubie and Daniel Rowe to discuss the American presidential election of 1896, a fascinating and pivotal moment in American history. |
Aled Walker, Nonie Kubie, Dan Rowe |
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| As he retires from the the Savilian Chair of Geometry, Oxford Mathematician Nigel Hitchin reflects |
From early mathematical inspiration at school in Duffield, Derbyshire, Nigel recalls his often unplanned progress via Jesus College, Oxford, Princeton, Cambridge and Warwick, before his final return to Oxford. |
Nigel Hitching, Martin Bridson |
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| Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose |
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, scientists are immune to trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? |
Roger Penrose |
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| PDEs (5.6) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Fourier, Laurent, and Chebyshev. Then, Chebyshev series and interpolants |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.5) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Fourier spectral discretization and Fourier spectral discretization via FFT. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses finite differencing in general grids and multiple space dimensions. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses order of accuracy and reaction-diffusion equations and other stiff PDEs. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses numerical instability and implicit 1D finite differences. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses PDEs in science and engineering, and explicit 1D finite differences. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses stability regions, stiffness, and looks at BVPs in Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses planetary motions, chaos and Lyapunov exponents, the Lorenz equations, and lastly Sinai billiards and the SIAM 100-digit challenge. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses order of accuracy, convergence and stability, and adaptive ODE codes. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| ODEs and Nonlinear Dynamics (4.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses ODEs and IVPs, Runge-Kutta and multistep formulas, IVP codes in MATLAB and Simulink, and in the end reviews IVP solutions in Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.8) |
In this concluding lecture, Professor Nick Trefethen discusses the question Who invented the great numerical algorithms? |
Nick Trefethen |
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| PDEs (5.7) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Chebyshev spectral discretization. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| On Criminal Strategy |
Do criminal groups use 'strategy'? Are crime wars really wars? This talk will reveal criminal groups using force and other means to determine political outcomes to suit their own agendas and competing with states in a common 'market for government'. |
James Cockayne |
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| Optimization (3.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses NEOS and COIN-OR, constraints and linear programming, and quadratic programming and linear constraints. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Optimization (3.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Newton's methods for minimizing a function of several variables. He then moves on from Newton's method to practical optimization. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Optimization (3.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses Newton's methods for 1) a single equation, 2) a system of equations, and 3) minimizing a function of 1 variable. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.5) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen provides a demonstration of Chebfun. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses matrix factorizations and SVD. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses floating point arithmetic and backward error analysis. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses QR factorization, the computation of the QR factorization, and linear least-squares. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Dense Linear Algebra (2.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses matrices, vectors and expansions, including orthogonal vectors and matrices. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.4) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethon provides a definition of numerical analysis and provides an overview of matrix iterations, including a discussion on the Lanczos iteration. He also reviews various numerical software tools and information sources. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.3) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses preconditioned CG and also provides examples of preconditioners |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.2) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen discusses the topic of conjugate gradients and the convergence of CG. |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Sparse Matrices and Iterative Methods (1.1) |
In this lecture, Professor Trefethen first provides an overview of the field of linear algebra and optimization. Secondly, he discusses the question of how fast we can solve Ax=3Db? Thirdly, he discusses sparse matrices |
Nick Trefethen |
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| Roger Heath-Brown a Life in Mathematics |
Roger Heath-Brown is one of Oxford's foremost mathematicians. |
Roger Heath-Brown, Ben Green |
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| Jan Brueghel and his Views of Italian Ruins |
This lecture forms part of a series entitled "Antiquity After Antiquity" and is for first year Undergraduate History of Art students. It was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department. |
An Van Camp |
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| Environment, Energy and Economics and the Structure of our Geo-Political Future |
Steven Jermy gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Steven Jermy |
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| Clan and Conflict: The Intersection between State Violence and Societal Violence in Somalia |
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis |
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| Children and War: Victims, Villains, and the United Nations |
Discussing the issues involved in using children in conflict, assesses the changing characteristics of security and war, and explains the complex international system and interwoven constraints and opportunities on government policy in this field. |
Robert Jackson |
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| Strategy and War in the Modern Age: CCW Annual Lecture 2016 |
Professor Jeremy Black from the University of Exeter delivers the CCW Annual Lecture on the theme of "Strategy and War in the Modern Age". |
Jeremy Black |
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| Mare Liberum and Mare Clausum: Maritime sovereignty, emerging countries and war |
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes |
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| Responsibility to Protect on its Tenth Anniversary: Point of Collapse or Resurgence? |
Joanne Neenan gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Joanne Neenan |
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| Strategy and Democracy |
Sir Hew Strachan gives a valedictory lecture for the Changing Character of War upon stepping down as Chichele Professor of the History of War. |
Hew Strachan |
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| The Utility of Force in Cities: Calibrating Security and Development Tools for Urban Stability |
Rapid and unmanaged urbanisation is leading to protracted armed violence in key cities of the developing world. This seminar analyses the conduct of recent stabilisation operations within large and mega-cities. |
Antonio Sampaio |
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| Prisoners of the Past, Preparing for the Future: The Influence of Institutions, Experience, and Culture on Military Adaptability |
Jason Clark gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme seminar series. |
Jason Clark |
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| The Morality of Unconventional Force |
Tom Simpson gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Tom Simpson |
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| Concentration and Asymmetry in Air Combat |
Historical Lessons for the Defensive Employment of Air Power |
Niall Mackay |
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| Diplomacy: The First Line of Defence |
James Kidner gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
James Kidner |
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| Towards Mobilization? The Evolution of Russian Grand Strategy |
This talk will explores the various aspects of Russian strategic thinking and planning, the conducting of the orchestra and what appears to be a move towards mobilisation measures. |
Andrew Monaghan |
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| Arrangements of Convenience Among Violent Non-state Actors |
This talk will discuss how rebels, paramilitaries and criminals cooperate in borderland areas, and what this means for security. |
Annette Idler |
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| The Evolution of Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice |
Lucas Milevski gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series. |
Lucas Milevski |
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| War in the Time of Terror |
This talk attempts to set out what IS aims are, whether there are negotiating possibilities and what the West's response to this new phenomenon should be. |
Ivor Roberts |
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