| Writing about the Nechung Oracle |
Christopher Bell's talk about oracles, protector deities, and other mysteries |
Christopher Bell |
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| Hot as mustard |
In this episode we look closely at Garlic mustard or Jack-by-the-hedge, a very common plant throughout the UK. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| May Morning, Oxford 1993 |
Thousands gather on the High Street on May Morning, Oxford 1993. |
Charles Beesley |
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| Young Lives Country Directors on Governance and Impact: Discussion and Q and A |
Young Lives’ country directors discuss the challenges they've faced when conducting longitudinal research and their different approaches, as well as answering questions from the audience. |
Jo Boyden, Santiago Cueto, Alula Pankhurst, Renu Singh |
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| Young Lives Country Directors on Governance and Impact |
In this GCRF-supported workshop, Young Lives’ country directors, from Ethiopia, India and Peru, draw on their considerable experience in research, governance and policy-engagement to highlight the strategies they’ve used to ensure research impact. |
Jo Boyden, Santiago Cueto, Alula Pankhurst, Renu Singh |
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| The sku bla of the Tibetan emperors and its metamorphosis in Yungdrung Bön |
In the late 12th century Yungdrung Bön text Grags pa gling grags a deity that has a special relationship to the Tibetan ruler plays a prominent part in the narrative of the Tibetan kings. |
Per Kværne |
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| Trinity: A Real Life Spy Story |
Frank Close tells the story of Klaus Fuchs and the Bodleian Library. Trinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. |
Frank Close |
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| One is the magic number |
Back Garden Biology takes a closer look at the insects in the garden including the solitary bee. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Pieces of Gold: Piecing together a mutilated Timurid masterpiece |
Shiva Mihan, Harvard Art Museums and Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries, gives a talk on her work in Persian arts. |
Shiva Mihan |
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| Is it Permissible for Healthcare Workers to Stop Working if They Lack PPE? |
Katrien Devolder interviews Udo Schüklenk. |
Udo Schuklenk, Katrien Devolder |
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| Accumulating narrative: Meaning and mutation in letterpress printing |
David Armes (Red Plate Press), the Bodleian’s Printer in Residence 2019-20, describes artists and ideas that influence his work, asking how meaning can mutate through the process of production. |
David Armes |
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| How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exacerbates Existing Inequalities |
An interview with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra. |
Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Katrien Devolder |
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| Stinker! |
In this episode we look at the cuckoo pint, which has an unusual flower with the central part, called a spadix, releasing a stench that to our nostrils is quite revolting. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Queen Bee |
Learn how to identify common garden bees and find out why they never seem to stay still. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Islamic manuscripts and bindings as a window on East-West relations |
The making, use and trade of manuscripts was an important part of Islamic culture, the technical developments influenced the making of books in the west from the later medieval period onward. |
Karin Scheper |
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| Triage in an Italian ICU During the Coronavirus Pandemic |
An interview with Dr Marco Vergano. |
Marco Vergano, Katrien Devolder |
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| Tackling the Cause of the Coronavirus Pandemic |
An interview with Professor Peter Singer. |
Peter Singer, Katrien Devolder |
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| Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa |
Ricardo Nogales gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Ricardo Nogales |
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| Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus |
Sara Polo, University of Essex, gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
Sara Polo |
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| The Russian Understanding of War |
Oscar Jonsson, Stockholm Free World Forum, gives a talk for the Changing Character of War Programme. |
Oscar Jonsson |
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| Terrorism and Recent Developments in Human Rights |
Lord John Alderdice gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series. |
John Alderdice |
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| How do mathematicians model infectious disease outbreaks? |
Models. They are dominating our Lockdown lives. But what is a mathematical model? We hear a lot about the end result, but how is it put together? What are the assumptions? And how accurate can they be? |
Robin Thompson |
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| The Lillies of the Fields |
The beautiful snake's-head fritillary is the flower of Oxfordshire. In this episode we look closely at the flowers it produces. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 2 |
Oxford Mathematician Peter Howell starts the second part of the 2nd year Differential Equations course which focuses on boundary problems. |
Peter Howell |
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| Deceived with ornament |
Plants attract pollinators through their colourful flowers but some plants aren't quite what they seem. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Strachey Lecture: Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics |
Medicine and Physiology in the Age of Dynamics: Newton Abraham Lecture 2020 |
Alan Garfinkel |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Alan Champneys - Why pedestrian bridges wobble: Synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd |
So much noise, so many opinions. Perhaps time for Occam's Razor to start its scientific shaving? |
Alan Champneys |
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| Sex and the single primrose |
In early spring, primroses and cowslips can be found in many gardens and parks. Their yellow flowers are certainly beautiful, but they also hold a secret: they come in two different types that can only mate with each other. |
Lindsay Turnbull |
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| Machine learning techniques in modern quantum-mechanics experiments |
In this talk, Dr Elliott Bentine shall discuss how recent experiments have exploited machine-learning techniques, both to optimize the operation of these devices and to interperet the data they produce. |
Elliott Bentine |
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| Machine Learning and String Theory |
Professor Andre Lukas will discuss how string theorists have started to use methods from data science - particularly machine learning - to analyse the vast landscape of string data. |
Andre Lukas |
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| An Introduction to deep learning |
Professor Ard Louis gives a basic introduction to deep learning for physicists and addresses a few questions such as: Is the hype around deep learning justified, or are we about to hit some fundamental limitations? |
Ard Louis |
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| Welcome by Ian Shipsey Head of the Department of Physics |
Ian Shipsey give an update on the department and introduces the next three talk on 'AI in Physics'. |
Ian Shipsey |
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| What’s New? Emerging Disruptive Models for High-Value, Longer Term University-Industry Partnering |
This session identifies and explores emerging partnership models that are disrupting the way universities and businesses work together to develop high-value and mutually beneficial relationships for the longer term. |
Dave Bembo, Wade Brown, Karl Koster, Karen Kennedy |
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| Crowdsourcing Innovation: Changing the world one good idea at a time |
A high proportion of research, IP and knowledge remains ‘on the shelf’ at worst, and under-utilised at best. Rob (Crowdicity) explores why this is, and shares real-world stories of how applying open innovation and co-creation is helping to change this. |
Rob Wilmot |
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| Human Centred Futures: The Critical Role of the Social Sciences |
This session will examine the fundamental importance of social sciences research to the fourth industrial revolution. |
Georgia Chao, Rick Delbridge, Daniel Sui, Mike Willardson, Bridget Sealey |
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| What intermediaries are for? |
In many countries, we have seen the rise of intermediaries that should bridge the intellectual, material and organisational divide between the worlds of science and business innovation. Do or do they not, that is the fundamental question? |
Kate Ronayne, Simon Andrews, Stuart Martin, Jay Walsh |
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| Are R and D Targets a Must For Innovation? |
R and D targets and metrics have become common place (e.g. 3% norm by EC, 2.4% norm in UK). However, what do those norms signal? What is their effect, if any? And, if such targets are deemed not relevant, what should then replace them? |
Emmo Meijer |
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| Tackling Wicked Problems: Partnering for Impact |
UC San Diego VC for Research Sandra Brown presents recommendations from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU’s) Public Impact-Focused Research (PIR) Initiative. |
Sandy Brown |
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| Oxford UIDP Summit 2019 |
Overview of the Oxford UIDP Summit 2019 |
Anthony Boccanfuso, Anna-Marie Greenaway, Coleen Burrus, Neeta Khurana, Derek Newton, Phil Clare, Jeremy Long, Nicky Athanassopoulou |
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| Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health |
Can every doctor understand health statistics? Gerd Gigerenzer will describe the efforts towards this goal, a few successes, but also the steadfast forces that undermine doctors’ ability to understand and act on evidence. |
Gerd Gigerenzer |
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| What will it take to Educate the World - Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor Distinguished Panel Lecture 2018 |
Many developing countries suffer from poorly performing educational systems that fail to equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate productively in the modern economy. How can educational outcomes be improved? |
Richard Peto, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennester |
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| Maths and Stats in Action – Real-time Analysis to Understand the Novel Coronavirus |
Providing a whirlwind tour of the quantitative analyses currently underway to understand the transmission and control of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV). Recorded on 31st January 2020. |
Christl Donnelly, Robin Thompson, Christophe Fraser |
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| Oxford Mathematics 3rd Year Student Lecture - Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives |
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the third year course on Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives from Sam Cohen where we hear that the role of derivatives is not to make money but to avoid being exploited. |
Sam Cohen |
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| Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Student Lecture - Linear Algebra II |
Our latest student lecture features the first lecture in the second term introductory course on Linear Algebra from leading Oxford Mathematician James Maynard. |
James Maynard |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics |
How do you make a star-shaped Cheerio? How do they make the glass on your smartphone screen so flat? And how can you make a vacuum filter that removes the most dust before it blocks? |
Ian Griffiths |
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| Hizky Shoham - The Emotional Scripting of Boycotts: The Nazi-Zionist Agreement in Jewish Public Culture During the 1930s |
Hizky Shoham discusses the 'emotionologies' surrounding the Nazi-Zionist 'Transfer agreement.' |
Hizky Shoham |
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| From Inclusion to Exclusion from School: Transforming the lives of young people with special educational needs and disabilities? |
This seminar explores the process of formal and informal exclusion from the macro, meso and micro level to understand some of the complex interactions between policy, school and individual factors. |
Jill Porter, Ruth Moyse |
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| Being a working class queer in theatre |
Louise Wallwein MBE, a renowned and award-winning poet, playwright and performer, gives the 11th annual LGBT History Month lecture |
Louise Wallwein |
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| Race and the problem of the public in postwar America |
Margaret Weir of Brown University, delivers the Winant Lecture in American Government |
Margaret Weir |
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| Imitating Authors |
Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors |
Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell |
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| The political life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship |
Simukai Chigudu launches his book, 'The political life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship'. He explains the cholera epidemic, the response to it in Zimbabwe and from the world and life after the epidemic, remembering the epidemic |
Simukai Chigudu |
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| Larissa Remennick - The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin: Back to Being Jewish? |
Larissa Remeniick discuss the origins and present condition of the new (post-2010) Israeli diaspora in Berlin |
Larissa Remennick |
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| Powering the future: switching on the renewables |
Globally, renewable energy has a foot in the door. But significant challenges remain. |
Malcolm McCulloch |
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| Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective |
In this talk, Neil Armstrong uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility. |
Neil Armstrong |
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| Road to somewhere? Resilient infrastructure for sustainable development |
Professor Hall will share experiences of establishing long-term plans for sustainable infrastructure in many countries around the world. |
Jim Hall |
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| Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening |
Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival - The desire to detect disease even earlier means Overdiagnosis is on the rise. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| 2020 Colin Ford Lecture |
Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight into his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne. |
Larry Schaaf |
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| Law and Exclusion from School |
Combining legal analysis, theory, and evidence from practice, Lucinda Ferguson argues that the law is ill-equipped to support children at risk of permanent exclusion from school, particularly children with disabilities or other additional needs. |
Lucinda Ferguson |
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| Exclusion and Mental Health: Exploring the Role of Improved Provision in Schools |
This talk discusses the latest understanding of mental health needs in adolescent populations in the UK and the potential role that mental health services in schools can play. |
Mina Fazel |
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| Effective learning from serious incidents |
Dr Helen Higham delivers a talk on the human factors approach to incident analysis. |
Helen Higham |
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| Why is contemporary Africa poor: insights from archaeology and deep history |
Professor Shadreck Chirikure, University of Cape Town, gives a talk for on using archaeology to learn about present day Africa. |
Shadreck Chirikure |
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| All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations |
All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations |
Simon Cole |
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| A Forum for Reason: Reflections on the Role of South Africa’s Constitutional Court |
Prof Kate O'Regan, Director, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and a former judge of the South African Constitutional Court, gives a talk for the Africa Oxford Initiative. |
Kate O'Regan |
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| 3f. Values and AI: view from public policy |
Jo Wolff and Vafa Ghazavi, Blavatnik School of Government, gives the sixth and final talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. |
Jo Wolff, Vafa Ghazavi |
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| 3e. AI and business |
Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, gives the fifth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. |
Alan Morrison |
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| 3d. AI and finance |
Nir Vulkan, Saïd Business School, gives the fourth talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. |
Nir Vulkan |
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| 3c. Population health and AI: efficiency, accuracy and trust |
Angeliki Kerasidou, Ethox Centre, gives the third talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. |
Angeliki Kerasidou |
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| 3b. AI in healthcare |
Claire Bloomfield, National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, gives the second talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. |
Claire Bloomfield |
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| 3a. Rethinking ethics and humanities for the 21st Century |
Mike Parker, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities gives the first talk in the third Ethics in AI seminar, held on February 10th 2020. |
Mike Parker |
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| Is Moral Status Good for You? |
Thomas Douglas, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
Thomas Douglas |
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| The Tenuous Connection between Moral Status and Proper Political-Legal Status |
Benjamin Sachs, University of St Andrews, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
Benjamin Sachs |
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| Moral Status: A Convenient Label |
Udo Schuklenk, Queen's University, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
Udo Schuklenk |
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| The Ever Conscious View and the Contingency of Moral Status |
Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
Elizabeth Harman |
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| The Moral Status of Conscious Subjects |
Joshua Shepherd, Carlton University and the University de Barcelona, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
Joshua Shepherd |
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| The Moral Status of So-called Moral Machines |
John Harris, University of Manchester, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
John Harris |
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| Moral Status and Moral Significance |
Ingmar Persson, University of Gothenburg and University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
Ingmar Persson |
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| Chimeras, Superchimps and Post-persons; Specie Boundaries and Moral Status Enhancements |
Sarah Chan, Univesity of Edinburgh, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
Sarah Chan |
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| Variable Moral Status |
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University, gives a talk for the Conference on Rethinking Moral Status, held in 13th and 14th June 2019. |
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong |
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| British politics after Brexit: reflections on the last three years and the next fifty |
Lord Sumption will discuss the impact on our constitution and political system of the referendum of 2016 and its aftermath. |
Lord Sumption |
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| S1E4: Adolescence, narrative and storytelling |
This episode hosts a discussion reflecting on the meeting points between narrative and adolescence. |
Elleke Boehmer, Oluwafemi Oyebode, Caroline Adjimi, Hermann Wittenberg |
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| S1E3: Performance and Adolescence |
This episode explores the relationship between performance and selfhood in adolescent lives. |
Elleke Boehmer, Alude Mahali, Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Kopano Ratele |
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| S1E2: Adolescence and Care |
This epsiode addresses the role of care in adolescence in African contexts. |
Chris Desmond, Olayinka Omigbodun, Cindi Katz, Lucie Cluver |
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| S1E1: Violence and Adolescence |
This episode explores the impact of violence in the lives of young people, both in African contexts and beyond. |
Elleke Boehmer, Diana Walters, Patricia Daley, Heidi Stöckl |
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| Lotem Perry-Hazan: Ethnic segregation in the Haredi education in Israel: Policies and practices |
Lotem Perry-Hazzan discusses ethnic discrimination in admissions to Haredi schools in Israel |
Lotem Perry-Hazzan |
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| Alternative Provision and School Exclusions |
This presentation will discuss the place of Alternative Provision (AP) in the process of exclusion in England, with a particular focus on issues related to social justice. |
Martin Mills |
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| A world without work: technology, automation and how we should respond |
Daniel Susskind discusses ideas from his new book 'A World Without Work' |
Daniel Susskind |
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| When meta-analyses of the same question find different things |
Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce discusses a case study of systematic reviews of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, looking across meta-analyses in this area. |
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce |
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| Book Launch: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia |
In this seminar, Christine Cheng explores how states and extra-legal groups work together and analyzes how our definitions of what is legal affect our view of the state and governance. |
Christine Cheng |
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| Heather Munro: Ashkenazi Hegemony in Haredi Israeli Society and Implications for the Future |
Heather Monro discusses the implications of Ashkenazi Hegemony in the Israeli Haredi society. |
Heather Munro |
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| 2e. Artificial Intelligence and the news |
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, gives the fifth talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). |
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen |
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| 2d. Computational propaganda |
Vidya Narayanan, Oxford Internet Institute, |
Vidya Narayanan |
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| 2c. Use, users and the social context for AI |
Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute, gives the third talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). |
Gina Neff |
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| 2b. Capital, labour and power in the age of automation |
Carl Benedikt Frey gives the second talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). |
Carl Benedikt Frey |
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| 2a. AI Governance and Ethics |
Allan Dafoe and Carina Prunkl, Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy give the first talk in the second Ethics in AI seminar, held on January 27th 2020 (postponed from December 2nd 2019). |
Allan Dafoe, Carina Prunkl |
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| Image Consciousness in the Emergency Department - Developing and Evaluating Novel Radiological Pathways and Technologies in the Acute Healthcare Setting |
A brief portfolio of four distinct projects - scaphoid injuries, blunt chest trauma in the elderly, acute gallstone disease, and a mobile x-ray machine with embedded AI technology. |
Alex Novak, Lois Brand, Phil Hormbrey |
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| The Making of the Israeli Far Right Book Talk by Peter Bergamin |
Peter Bergamin discusses his new book: The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology |
Peter Bergamin |
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| Seyed Ali Alavi - Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future |
Ali Alavi discusses the history of Iran's relations with Palestinian organisation and the Palestinian cause, and their implication to Iranian-Israeli relations. |
Ali Alavi |
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| We Are Not Good at Translating Lab Science Into New Medicines for Patients |
Inaugural lecture delivered by Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine at Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford |
Chas Bountra, Marta Arnaldi, Magdalena Kubiak |
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| Conflicts of Interest in Medicine: Why it’s time for a UK Sunshine Act |
Should doctors with commercial interests lead research on their products? Should we forget ‘conflicts’ and discuss ‘declarations of interest’ instead? Who should hold and maintain conflicts of interest registers for doctors? |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Ethics at the Edge of Madness |
Ethics at the Edge of Madness - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap |
Anand Vivek Taneja |
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