| Live Event: Could you be arrested for planting flowers in your street? |
What guerrilla gardening reveals about our relationship with urban nature and culture. |
JC Niala, Elizabeth Ewart |
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| Did The Romans Recycle? |
We all know the Romans liked wine, but what happened to all the smashed glass when the party was over? Dr Victoria Sainsbury tells the story of what the Romans did with all their broken glass, and why archaeologists care about recycling. |
Victoria Sainsbury |
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| The Leszek Kołakowski Lecture: Is Poland still a liberal democracy? Constitutional breakdown and potential revival |
Wojciech Sadurski (University of Sydney and University of Warsaw), gives the 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture. |
Wojciech Sadurski |
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| 30 Years after the Velvet Revolutions of 1989: Time for a New Liberation? |
In this lecture, Professor Timothy Garton Ash will explore the peculiar character of populism in post-communist Europe, and the considerable forces of resistance to it. |
Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Normalization, annexation, and the Palestinians |
Piotr Schulkes, Frederike Brockhoven, and Michael Memari discuss the impact of the normalization of the UAE-Israeli relationship on Netanyahu’s annexation plan, why it's yet more bad news for Palestinians, and American reticence to improve the situation. |
Michael Memari, Frederike Brockhoven, Piotr Schulkes |
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| Crowdsourcing conservation with Meredith Palmer |
On this episode, Sofia and Julia talk to ecologist Meredith Palmer about the power of citizen science, the importance of inclusivity and some of the surprising discoveries her research has uncovered in the Serengeti. |
Meredith Palmer, Sofia Castello y Tickell, Julia Migne |
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| OxPeace 2020: Opening and keynote address on 'Feminine Peace, Human Security' |
Dr Liz Carmichael MBE opens the OxPeace 2020 Conference; Teohna Williams gives keynote on “Feminine Peace, Human Security” |
Liz Carmichael, Teohna Williams |
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| OxPeace 2020: Twenty Years of UNSCR 1325 |
Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini MBE gives the keynote address on 'Twenty Years of UNSCR 1325' at the OxPeace 2020 conference. |
Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini |
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| OxPeace 2020: Using the PA-X Database to Understand Gender Perspectives in Peace Agreements |
Dr Kevin McNicholl presents 'Using the PA-X Database to Understand Gender Perspectives in Peace Agreements' at the OxPeace 2020 conference. |
Kevin McNicholl |
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| OxPeace 2020: Women's participation in peacebuilding and mediation |
Quhramaana Kakar presents 'Women's participation in peacebuilding and mediation' at the OxPeace 2020 conference. |
Quhramaana Kakar |
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| OxPeace 2020: UNSCR 1325 and the Experience of Women in Sudan |
Dr Suad Musa presents 'UNSCR 1325 and the Experience of Women in Sudan' at the OxPeace 2020 conference. |
suad musa |
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| OxPeace 2020: Uniformed Women in South Sudan |
Captain Sophie Piper presents 'Uniformed Women in South Sudan' at the 2020 OxPeace conference. |
Sophie Piper |
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| OxPeace 2020: Seeking Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict |
Baroness Helić presents 'Seeking Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict' at the 2020 OxPeace conference. |
Arminka Helic |
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| Combatting loneliness with Jessie Panazzolo |
Combatting loneliness with Jessie Panazzolo On this episode, Sofia and Julia talk to Jessie Panazzolo the founder of Lonely Conservationists, an online platform which supports conservationists. |
Jessie Panazzolo, Julia Migne, Sofia Castello y Tickell |
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| Cinematic Translations: Visualising the Invisible Path of Contagion |
Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) talks with Kirsten Ostherr (Rice) in another episode of Translating Illness. |
Marta Arnaldi, Kirsten Ostherr |
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| One billion years a slave |
Peering into a drop of pondwater allows you to look back in time and see key events in the history of life on Earth. |
Lindsay Turnbull, Stuart West |
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| Feed the birds? |
What do birds like eating and what decisions do they have to make when visiting a bird feeder? |
Lindsay Turnbull, Friederike Hillemann, Annette Fayet |
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| Cyclone Amphan: Living through the Climate Crisis |
In May 2020 a deadly tropical cyclone struck Eastern India and Bangladesh. Named ‘Amphan’ and classified as a ‘Super Cyclone’ this was almost certainly a climate change induced extreme event. |
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Jason Cons, Annu Jalais, Megnaa Mehtta, Kasia Paprocki, Nayanika Mather, Amanda Power |
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| What Tolkien learnt from 'Beowulf': Representations of Evil |
Monsters and evil in Tolkien |
Rafael J. Pascual |
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| Interview with a Vampire |
Find out how plants like mistletoe and hayrattle extract resources from their hosts and how hayrattle engages in a game of rock, paper, scissors, that makes managing meadows a whole lot easier. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Interview with Water |
This is the first ever online lecture by a Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In the lecture, Alice Oswald explores the strange connection between water and grief. |
Alice Oswald |
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| Fair Access to Covid-19 Treatment in Mexico |
Philosopher César Palacios-González talks about how corruption and racism in Mexico created serious hurdles for developing federal guidelines for deciding who gets to access scarce medical resources. |
César Palacios-González, Katrien Devolder |
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| 15 years of longitudinal mixed methods research with children: Insights from Peru |
Young Lives’ Principal Investigators from Peru discuss what it takes to successfully administer a longitudinal mixed methods research study, working with children, and keeping attrition levels low. |
Mary Penny, Alan Sanchez, Lucie Cluver |
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| Masks, Vaccine and Cure: Translating Medical Evidence During and After the Pandemic |
Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) presents another Translating COVID-19 video conversation, with Eivind Engebretsen (Oslo). |
Marta Arnaldi, Eivind Engebretsen |
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| Much ado about mothing |
Dedicated to moths, this episode explores how and why these unsung heroes deserve more attention. |
Lindsay Turnbull, Doug Boyes, Ben Sheldon |
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| 'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50 |
This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment. |
Mitch Robertson, Alan Curtis, Gary Younge |
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| Saving species with Carl Jones |
On this episode, Sofia and Julia talk with Carl Jones, a Welsh biologist renowned for saving multiple bird species in Mauritius. |
Carl Jones, Julia Migne, Sofia Castello y Tickell |
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| What’s beneath the words: a paper journey |
Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book. |
Andrew Honey, David Armes, Alexandra Franklin |
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| The Science Media Centre and its work |
Fiona Lethbridge, Science Media Centre, gives a talk on the Science Media Centre and it's work. |
Fiona Lethbridge |
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| GenPhil 2018/8: God and Morality |
Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. |
Peter Millican |
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| GenPhil 2018/7: Free Will and Responsibility |
Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. |
Peter Millican |
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| GenPhil 2018/6: Identity, Self-Interest, Free Will |
Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. |
Peter Millican |
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| GenPhil 2018/5: The Mind, and Personal Identity |
Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. |
Peter Millican |
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| GenPhil 2018/4: Facing Up to Scepticism |
Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. |
Peter Millican |
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| GenPhil 2018/3: Scepticism and Induction |
Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. |
Peter Millican |
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| GenPhil 2018/2: Matter, Mind, and Humanity |
Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. |
Peter Millican |
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| GenPhil 2018/1: Historical Introduction |
Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 General Philosophy series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury |
Recording of the New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar on surrogate decision-making after severe brain injury. |
Mackenzie Graham, Doug McConnell |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture Europe's Story: Phoenix or Phantom? |
Timothy Snyder (Yale) gives the 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf lecture on Friday May 3rd 2019. Introduced by Manfred Lahnstein (ZEIT-Stiftung) and chaired by Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford). |
Timothy Synder, Timothy Garten-Ash, Manfred Lahnstein |
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| Global Healing: Towards a World Policy of Care |
The third Translating COVID-19 video conversation, with Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) and Karen Thornber (Harvard). |
Marta Arnaldi, Karen Thornber |
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| Germany, Europe and the West - 2020 Annual Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture |
The 2020 Dahrendorf Lecture, given by Dr Norbert Röttgen (Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, German Bundestag). The discussant is Gideon Rachman (Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times). Chaired by Professor Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's). |
Norbert Röttgen |
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| Stop the pigeon? Never! |
Woodpigeons are common garden birds, whose familiar call has been likened to someone complaining about their feet. But woodpigeons make fantastic parents, and like all pigeons and doves produce a kind of 'milk' to feed their young. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 8. Concluding discussion:from cacophony to polyphony? |
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Natalie Nougayrede (Guardian), Daniel Judt (Oxford) Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford). |
Natalie Nougayrède, Daniel Judt, Timothy Garton Ash |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 7. Europe's stories seen from outside |
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Ashoka University, Delhi), Sonia Lucarelli (University of Bologna), Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge) Chair: Faisal Devji (Oxford). |
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sonia Lucarelli, Khaled Fahmy, Faisal Devji |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 6. Europe's insider outsiders |
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Ayyam Sureau (Association Pierre Claver, Paris), Katalin Barsony (Romedia, Budapest), Ayse Kadioglu (Sabanci University, Istanbul), Chair: Ruth Harris (Oxford). |
Ayyam Sureau, Katalin Barsony, Ayse Kadioglu, Ruth Harris |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 5. Europe's (his)story in schools, museums, theatre and foundations |
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. |
Steffen Sammler, Constanze Itzel, Katie Ebner-Landy, Michael Schwarz, Karl-Heinz Paque |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 4. Writing a history of Europe |
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. |
Ian Kershaw, Andreas Wirsching, Margaret MacMillan, Paul Betts |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 3. The power and perils of narrative |
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Andrew Hurrell (Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaidis (Oxford), Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford) Chair: Rasmus Nielsen (Oxford). |
Andrew Hurrell, Kalypso Nicolaidis, Carolin Duttlinger, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 2. Contested narratives of today's Europe |
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. |
Andras Lanczi, Slawomir Sierakowski, Damian Boeselager, Gisela Stuart, Rana Mitter |
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| 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 1.What do Europeans know? What do they care? |
What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Isabell Hoffmann (eupinions, Bertelsmann Foundation), Katrin Bennhold (New York Times), Christian Rauh (WZB), Daniel Judt (Oxford). |
Isabell Hoffmann, Katrin Bennhold, Christian Rauh, Daniel Judt, Hartmut Mayer |
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| TORCH (en)coding Heritage Network Digital Launch - Exploring Ancient Rome through Immersive Technologies |
This digital event explores how 3D-modelling technologies and virtual reality can open new understandings of the past. |
Lia Costiner, Richard Smith, Matthew Nichols |
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| How To Set Up Continuous Integration to Make Your Code More Robust, More Maintainable, and Easier to Publish |
Dr Fergus Cooper, Research Software Engineer, Oxford RSE Group, gives a talk for the department of Statistics on 5th June 2020. |
Fergus Cooper |
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| Developing better code with automated testing |
Graham Lee, Research Software Engineer, Oxford RSE Group, gives talk for the department of Statistics on 22nd May 2020. |
Graham Lee |
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| Cluster-Randomised Test Negative Designs: Inference and Application to Vector Trials to Eliminate Dengue |
Nick Jewell, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, gives a talk for the departmental of Statistics on 28th May 2020. |
Nick Jewell |
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| MCMC for Hierachical Bayesian Models Using Non-reversible Langevin Methods |
Radford M. Neal (University of Toronto), gives a talk for the department of Statistics. |
Radford M Neal |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Squirrels, Turing and Excitability - Mathematical Modelling in Biology, Ecology and Medicine |
The Grey Squirrel invasion explaining tumour cell proliferation? Alan Turing explaining football shirt patterns? The close relationship between slugs and the human heart? What is the common link? Mathematics of course. And Philip Maini. |
Philip Maini |
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| Managing Stress and Overcoming Anxiety |
Managing Stress and Overcoming Anxiety is the first talk in the Department of Experimental Psychology’s Our Mental Wellness Series. Associate Professor Jennifer Wild explores how certain people overcome enormous stress while others struggle. |
Jennifer Wild, Catharine Creswell, Robin Dunbar, Polly Waite |
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| Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries |
Join Rebecca Abrams in conversation with Samuel Fanous to discuss her riveting and beautiful new book, edited with César Merchan-Hamann, Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries. You can purchase the book https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/jewish-treasures |
Rebecca Abrams, Samuel Fanous |
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| Second Keynote and Concluding Remarks; The Hegemonic Rememberance in Post Communist Eastern Europe |
Jelena Subotic gives the second and final keynote of the conference, chaired by Jessie Barton-Hronesova. Followed by concluding remarks and next step plans by Jessie Barton-Hronesova and Johana Wyss. |
Jelena Subotic, Jessie Barton-Hronesova, Johana Wyss |
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| Panel 3: How do Local Memories and Grassroots Mnemonic Actors Challenge National Grand Narratives? |
Andreza de Souza Santos, Graham Dawson and Jocelyn Alexander give presentations the third panel. Chaired by Kathrin Bachleitner. |
Andreza de Souza Santos, Graham Dawson, Jocelyn Alexander, Kathrin Bachleitner |
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| Panel 2: What is the Relationship between Hegemonic Memories, Silence and Nationalism? |
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Craig Larkin give presentstions in the second panel of the conference. Chaired by Johana Wyss. |
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Kateřina Králová, Craig Larkin, Johana Wyss |
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| Panel 1: What is the Role of International Actors in Shaping the Hierarchy of Memory? |
Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Lord John Alderdice, Rachel Ibreck give presentations in the first panel of the conference. Chaired by Jessie Barton-Hronesova. |
Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Lord John Alderdice, Rachel Ibreck, Jessie Barton-Hronesova |
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| Opening Remarks and First Keynote; Curated Stories and the Misuses of Storytelling |
Jessie Barton-Hronesova, Johana Wyss and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea introduce the conference and Sujatha Fernandes gives the first keynote to the conference. |
Sujatha Fernandes, Jessie Barton-Hronesova, Johana Wyss, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea |
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| All that glitters |
Find out how birds, insects and plants exploit iridescence. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? The Social Reality behind Kha stag ʼDzam yag’s "Diary" and Lhag pa Don grub’s "Life of a mule driver" |
Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? Lucia Galli's talk on self-representation and the social reality behind two Tibetan memoirs |
Lucia Galli |
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| 2020 Disability Lecture: #WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut |
Dr Kate West, a neurodivergent student-turned-academic, reflects on the neurotypical University. |
Kate West, Sarah Stephenson-Hunter, Louise Richardson, Catherine Walter, Tirion Hughes |
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| Past the Peak of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Triage of Non-Covid-19 patients |
Katrien Devolder interviews Dominic Wilkinson. |
Dominic Wilkinson, Katrien Devolder |
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| Three little birds |
Blue and great tits commonly use nest-boxes in gardens. In this episode we explore their nesting behaviour and get a priviledged view inside the nest-boxes at Wytham Woods. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Translating Cultures in an Age of Confinement |
Marta Arnaldi (Oxford) in conversation with Charles Forsdick (Liverpool). |
Marta Arnaldi, Charles Forsdick |
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| The Nechung Oracle and the Construction of Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora |
The Oracle in Exile: Pema Choedon's talk on the Nechung Oracle and identity construction in the Tibetan Diaspora |
Pema Choedon |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Number Theory: Primitive Roots |
In this, the second online lecture we are making widely available, Ben Green introduces and delivers a short lecture on Primitive Roots, part of the Number Theory Lecture course for Second Year Undergraduates. |
Ben Green |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Graph Theory: Shortest Paths |
Oxford has gone online for lockdown. So how do our student lectures look? Let Marc Lackenby show you as he looks at paths between vertices in a graph with a view to finding the shortest route between any two vertices. Works for your Satnav for example. |
Marc Lackenby |
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| Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Carolyne Larrington introduces the writing of Sylvia Townsend Warner. |
Carolyne Larrington |
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| Why is the world green? |
Lindsay searches for the truth about our verdant green world and tackles a mystery about her rose-bushes: who ate all the greenfly? |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Hume 2018/8: Sceptical Crisis and Second Thoughts |
Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Hume 2018/7: Scepticism about Body, Soul and Self |
Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Hume 2018/6: Causal Interpretation, to Scepticism |
Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Hume 2018/5: Probability and the Idea of Necessity |
Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Hume 2018/4: Induction and Belief |
Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Hume 2018/3: Faculties and Relations, to Causation |
Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Hume 2018/2: Ideas, Impressions, and Abstraction |
Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. |
Peter Millican |
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| Hume 2018/1: Hume’s Background and Chief Aims |
Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Hume series. |
Peter Millican |
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| The Mortality of the Dalai Lama and its Scriptural Sources: A Study in Tibetan Buddhist Political Theology |
I am currently focusing on the problem of the Dalai Lama’s mortality that is, the question of how to come to terms with his suffering and death, in light of the association between Tibetan kingship and the deity Avalokiteśvara. |
Ian MacCormack |
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| Smartphones v COVID 19 |
Smartphones will help save lives. Smartphones' value is exaggerated. What is the reality? And, as ever, what is the Maths behind it all? Leading Network Scientist Renaud Lambiotte downloads the facts in this Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture. |
Renaud Lambiotte |
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| Translating Illness: The Case of COVID-19 |
Marta Arnaldi (Principal Investigator, Translating Illness, Oxford) in conversation with author Nicola Gardini (Oxford). |
Marta Arnaldi, Nicola Gardini |
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| Preliminary Practices: Bloody Knees, Calloused Palms and the Transformative Nature of Women’s Labor |
The Preliminary Practices not only initiate practitioners into a specific tradition, but also more fundamentally, into Vajrayana Buddhism as it is practiced in contemporary Tibet. |
Kati Fitzgerald |
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| Ursula K. Le Guin |
A brief introduction to the writer Ursula K. Le Guin. |
Caroline Batten |
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| T. H. White |
A brief introduction to the writer T. H. White. |
Gabriel Schenk |
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| Diana Wynne Jones |
A brief introduction to the writer Diana Wynne Jones. |
Gabriel Schenk |
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| Why 'Game of Thrones' Matters |
'Game of Thrones' and storytelling. |
Carolyne Larrington |
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| Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century |
A guest lecture by Dr Maria Cecire (Bard College) discussing children's fantasy literature. |
Maria Cecire |
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| Interview: Catherine Butler |
An Interview with Dr Catherine Butler, author of the book 'Four British Fantasists'. |
Catherine Butler, Will Brockbank |
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| Alan Garner |
A brief introduction to the British fantasy writer, Alan Garner. |
Felix Taylor |
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| Approaching Fantasy Literature |
A short introduction to reading and studying fantasy literature. |
Stuart Lee |
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| H. P. Lovecraft |
A brief introduction to the writer, H. P. Lovecraft. |
Stuart Lee |
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| Garden Safari: The Bug Five! |
Did you know that just five groups of insects dominate your garden? And can you tell the difference between bugs and beetles? |
Lindsey Turnbull |
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| Product Management and Luxury Motorcars |
Art, innovation, and the world of product management through the lens of high-end motorcars. In this episode we sit down with Daniel Canbanllias a Product Manager at Rolls Royce Motorcars. |
Daniel Canbanllias |
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| M&A - Past, present and the future |
We sit down with Timothy Galpin, Academic director of the MBA program at Said Business School, consultant to numerous boards and senior management, and an author to discuss what drives M&A, the hiccups and the waves of M&A over the years. |
Timothy Galpin |
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| Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading |
In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Professor Arthur Schafer outlines the current contours of the Canadian euthanasia debate. |
Arthur Schafer |
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| Seeds of Change |
In this episode we take a look at the strange life-cycle of ferns and find out why they are so dependent on water. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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