| 1a. Background and Aims of the Institute for Ethics in AI |
Nigel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College, Department of Computer Science, gives the first talk in the first Ethics in AI seminar, held on November 11th 2019. |
Nigel Shadbolt |
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| Network-based learning for understanding collective human behaviour |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Xiaowen Dong |
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| Statistical concepts: A framework for research |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Sir David Cox |
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| Eliciting Data in Challenging Intercultural Settings |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Sonja Vogt |
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| Advances in Computational and Experimental Social Sciences |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Ray Duch |
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| Workshop on non-probability surveys |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Roberto Cerina |
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| Computational Text Analysis (part 2) |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Taylor Brown |
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| Computational Text Analysis (part 1) |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Taylor Brown |
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| Africa Works: Reflections on Failures and Successes in Healthcare Innovation |
Jake McKnight talks about the failures and successes of projects he’s studied or been involved in, reflecting on the idea that ‘Africa Works’, and as researchers and implementors, it’s up to us to fit local cultures rather to try to ‘fix’ them. |
Jake McKnight |
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| Gbagba and Jaadeh! as Anti-Corruption Revolutions from 'Below' |
Corruption is often bandied about in adult circles as the misuse of public influence for private gain. But, what if children could articulate how corruption is enmeshed in everyday human interactions? |
Robtel Neajai Pailey |
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| Digital trace data (part 2) |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Ridhi Kashyap |
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| Digital trace data (part 1) |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Ridhi Kashyap |
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| Litigating Rights : The Right to Health |
Litigating Rights : The Right to Health – Mark Heywood and Maya Foa in Conversation |
Mark Heywood, Maya Foa |
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| Mapping human populations and mobility in low and middle income countries for malaria elimination. |
One in a series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. |
Nick Ruktanonchai |
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| Jonathan Leslie - Fear and Insecurity: Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship |
Jonathan Leslie considers the history of Iran's "becoming" and existential threat in Israel |
Jonathan Leslie |
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| Ruth First's Red Suitcase: In and Out of the Strongroom of Memory Book launch of Written Under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa |
Carli Coetzee discusses her book and surrounding themes in this talk. Ideas of femininity and issues about Ruth First regarding her time in prison are central to this interesting discussion. |
Carli Coetzee |
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| Moriel Ram, 'A tale of sand and snow: Bar-Lev line and the Hermon ski site as material fantasies' |
Moriel Ram (SOAS) discusses how sand and snow produce potent imageries and physical realities in Israeli political culture. |
Moriel Ram |
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| Re and De-contextualizing global citizenship education – systematic analysis of the scholarship in the field |
With the rising interest in GCE, understanding the current research landscape could be useful for policy-makers, educators and scholars who seek to build upon the existing body of knowledge and develop it in new directions. |
Miri Yemini |
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| Genetic Selection and Enhancement |
Professor Julian Savulescu and Dr Katrien Devolder discuss the use of genetic testing to select which children to bring into the world. |
Julian Savulescu, Katrien Devolder |
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| Oxford Mathematics 2nd Year Student Lecture - Differential Equations 1 |
We continue with our series of Student Lectures with this first lecture in the 2nd year Course on Differential Equations. |
Philip Maini |
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| Oxford Mathematics 1st year Student Lecture - Introductory Calculus |
In our latest student lecture we would like to give you a taste of the Oxford Mathematics Student experience as it begins in its very first week. |
Dan Ciubotaru |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: David Sumpter - Soccermatics: could a Premier League team one day be managed by a mathematician? |
What do you need to win the Premier League? Money? Sure. Good players? Yup. A great manager? It helps. Mathematics? Really? 100%. |
David Sumpter |
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| Cosmic acceleration revealed by Type la supernovae? |
In this talk Subir Sarkar will explain how deflagration supernovae have been used to infer that the Hubble expansion rate is accelerating, and critically assess whether the acceleration is real and due to `dark energy’. |
Subir Sarkar |
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| Supernova Explosions and their Role in the Universe |
In this talk, Philipp Podsiadlowski will explain how this energy (sometimes) creates a visible fireball, before going on to explain the role of supernovae in the production of the heaviest elements in the periodic table. |
Philipp Podsiadlowski |
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| What makes stars go bang? |
In this talk, James Binney will outline the physics that leads to prodigeous release of energy in core-collapse and deflagration supernovae. |
James Binney |
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| Individual Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in a Low-Income Urban Setting in Nigeria |
In this talk, Dr Pedi Obani explores the impact of flooding in Benin City and the different ways in which people combat this hardship. Dr Obani also analyzes how these strategies could be improved for the betterment of the community as a whole. |
Dr Pedi Obani |
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| Everything is a poison |
Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, gives a talk on dose-response curves for the EBHC podcast series. |
Jeffrey Aronson |
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| Poverty Matters: Family income, parenting and child outcomes |
Naomi Eisenstadt presents evidence that low income itself reduces the chances of good outcomes for children and causes stress in families which exacerbates the risk. |
Naomi Eisenstadt |
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| Litigating Rights - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation |
Litigating Rights Series - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation |
Wolfgang Kaleck, Ben Wizner, Annelen Micus |
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| Safe and effective drugs: The need to use all the available evidence to inform the effectiveness of commonly used medicines |
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, employs evidence-based methods to research diagnostic reasoning, test accuracy and communicating diagnostic results to a wider audience. |
Carl Heneghan |
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| Zaharoff Lecture 2018: Je n'ai pas la tentation du silence |
Pierre Michon, writer, gives the 2018 Zaharoff lecture. Introduced by Catriona Seth. |
Pierre Michon |
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| The Many Universes of Quantum Materials |
Professor Stephen Blundell explores the many universes of quantum materials for the 2019 Quantum Materials Public Lecture. |
Stephen Blundell |
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| From Eugenics to Human Gene Editing: Engineering Life in China in a Global Context |
In November 2018, a Chinese scientist announced the birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies and sparked outrage across the world. Professor Nie considers how China's complex socio-ethical approach paved the way for this controversial experiment. |
Jing-Bao Nie |
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| Wrap up and reflection part 2 |
Patricia Clavin (Professor of International History, Oxford) gives a lecture on history and public policy. |
Patricia Clavin |
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| Wrap up reflection part 1 |
Jeremy Adelman (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton) gives a lecture on history and public policy. |
Jeremy Adelman |
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| Strange Legacies of Divergence: The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910 |
Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia) gives a lecture on ‘Strange Legacies of Divergence: The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910’. |
Mae Ngai |
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| Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy |
Peter Hill (Northumbria) gives a lecture on ‘Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy’. |
Peter Hill |
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| Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa |
Andreas Eckert (Professor of African History, Humboldt-University Berlin) gives a lecture on ‘Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa’. |
Andreas Eckert |
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| China and the West: Many Great Divergences |
Joel Mokyr (Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern) gives a lecture on ‘China and the West: Many Great Divergences’. |
Joel Mokyr |
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| Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe |
Dagmar Schafer (Director, Max Planck Institute) and Giorgio Riello (Professor of Early Modern Global History, EUI) give a lecture on ‘Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe’. |
Dagmar Schafer, Giorgio Riello |
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| Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China |
Patrick O’Brien (Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China’. |
Patrick O’Brien |
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| The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality |
Eli Cook (Assistant Professor of American History, Haifa) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality’. |
Eli Cook |
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| Water and the Economic History of India |
Tirthankar Roy (Professor in Economic History, Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Water and the Economic History of India’. |
Tirthankar Roy |
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| Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business |
William Clarence-Smith (Emeritus Professor of History, SOAS) gives a lecture on ‘Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business’. |
William Clarence-Smith |
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| The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America' |
Kaoru Sugihara (Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America'’. |
Kaoru Sugihara |
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| Asia and the Great Divergence |
Bishnu Gupta (Professor of Economics, Warwick) gives a lecture on ‘Asia and the Great Divergence’. |
Bishnu Gupta |
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| Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence? |
Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Professor of Economic History, Carlos III University, Madrid) gives a lecture on ‘Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?’ |
Leandro Prados de la Escosura |
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| The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and Trade Finance in the Early Modern Period |
Alejandra Irigoin (Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and The Early Modern Period’. |
Alejandra Irigoin |
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| The World Historical in China’s Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality |
Rebecca Karl (Professor of History, NYU) gives a lecture on ‘The World Historical in China’s Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality’. |
Rebecca Karl |
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| The Spaces In Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism? |
Andrew Edwards (Career Development Fellow for the Global History of Capitalism project, Oxford) gives a lecture on ‘The Spaces in Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism?’ |
Andrew Edwards |
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| Fighting against Poverty in the African Great Lakes Region: a question of Power and Resistance |
AfOx Visiting Fellow, Dr Aymar Bisoka from the Catholic University of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo delivered this seminar co-hosted by AfOx and the African House at Christ Church College. |
Aymar Bisoka |
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| Social ecology of cocoa farming in Ghana |
AfOx Visiting Fellow, Dr Rebecca Asare from the Nature Conservation Research Centre delivered this seminar co-hosted by AfOx and the African House at Christ Church College. |
Rebecca Asare |
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| Gender and water access- leveraging on social capital for inclusive access |
AfOx Visiting Fellow Professor Salome Bukachi, University of Nairobi delivered this seminar co-hosted by AfOx and the African House at Christ Church College. |
Salome Bukachi |
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| Medical advice and negotiations of medical authority in Nigerian HIV consultations |
AfOx Visiting Fellow, Dr Eniola Boluwaduro delivered this talk at All Souls College. Using the methodology of conservation analysis, Eniola examined the way in which doctors negotiate medical authority with patients during HIV consultations in Nigeria. |
Eniola Boluwaduro |
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| Gravitational Waves and Prospects for Multi-messenger Astronomy |
Professor Barry C Barish gives a talk on the quest for the detection of gravitational waves. |
Barry C. Barrish |
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| Finding aliens – An update on the search for life in the Universe |
Bill Diamond, President & CEO The SETI Institute gives an an update on the search for life in the Universe. Hosted by Ian Shipsey, Head of Physics. |
Bill Diamond, Ian Shipsey |
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| Using Formative Assessment to Catalyse Self-Regulated Learning |
This 2019 Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment lecture is delivered by Professor Nancy Perry. |
Nancy Perry |
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| Diabetes, blood sugar, and red wine: a personal study |
This talk was delivered by Martin Bland. |
Martin Bland |
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| (De)constructing the crimmigrant other: migration, citizenship, and penal power |
Annual Roger Hood Lecture: Professor Katja Franko University of Oslo |
Katja Franko |
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| The Shamima Begum case: Citizenship Stripping and Belonging in Britain |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Devyani Prabhat, University of Bristol |
Devyani Prabhat |
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| "Doing Civilization's Heavy Lifting": The State of Injustice in the United States |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Dr Tony Platt, University of California, Berkeley |
Tony Platt |
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| Historicising American Exceptionalism in Crime, Punishment and Inequality |
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Prof. Niki Lacey |
Niki Lacey |
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| The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality and Development in Urban Ethiopia (Book Launch) |
ASC seminar with Marco Di Nunzio |
Marco Di Nunzio |
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| Joao Lourenco's reform agenda in post Dos Santos Angola: Ambiguities and asymmetries |
ASC seminar with Rui Verde |
Rui Verde |
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| Decolonisation Dilemmas: Challenges for University Leadership |
ASC and Oxford Africa Society special lecture with Dr Max Price, former Vice Chancellor of UCT. |
Max Price |
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| Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 3. Applied Mathematics at Oxford |
Our Open Days are intended to give an insight in to Maths at Oxford, whether you are a potential applicant or are just curious. |
Dominic Vella |
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| Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 2. Pure Mathematics at Oxford |
In this talk Vicky Neale gives a glimpse of the undergraduate Pure Maths courses through the lens of elliptic curves. |
Vicky Neale |
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| Oxford Mathematics Open Days Part 1. Introduction to Mathematics |
In this talk, Admissions Guru James Munro explains how we teach, how you can apply and what your Oxford mathematical life might be like. |
James Munro |
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| Cherwell-Simon Memorial Lecture: The XENON Project: at the forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection |
What is the Dark Matter which makes 85% of the matter in the Universe? We have been asking this question for many decades and used a variety of experimental approaches to address it, with detectors on Earth and in space. |
Elena Aprile |
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| The secret diary of a health ethnographer - what's it *really* like doing qualitative observation in operating rooms, ambulances, triage call centres and other health care settings? |
This guest lecture draws on nearly thirty years' experience of doing qualitative research in a variety of health settings that contain people, blood, injury, disease, emotions, and technologies. |
Catherine Pope |
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| Big data in heart failure - opportunities and realities |
The global health burden of heart failure is high, both as the common end-point for many cardiovascular diseases (e.g. hypertension and heart attacks) and a common point on the trajectory of non-cardiovascular diseases (e.g. chronic respiratory disease). |
Amitava Banerjee |
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| Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019) |
Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019) |
Carolyn Hoyle, Respondent Hannah Quirk |
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| Evolving, Maturing, Rejuvenating: 30 Years of University-Industry Engagement |
The interactions between university and industry have firmly been on the agenda of policy making and university administration for more than 30 years now. |
David Gann |
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| Keynote Panel - Investing for the Future, Research, and Industrial Competitiveness |
With changing international landscapes, now, more than ever, the interplay between government-funded research and industrial strategies is in sharp focus. |
Alison Campbell, Sir Mark Walport, Walt Copan |
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| Welcome |
Opening remarks from the Oxford UIDP Summit. With Phil Clare, University of Oxford, Jay Walsh, Northwestern University and Patrick Grant, University of Oxford. |
Patrick Grant, Jay Walsh, Phil Clare |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: John Bush - Walking on water: from biolocomotion to quantum foundations |
In this Public Lecture, which contains more technical content than our norm, John Bush presents seemingly disparate topics which are in fact united by a common theme and underlaid by a common mathematical framework. |
John Bush |
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| The Space Episode! |
Venture with us to the ‘final frontier’ for a very special episode on the future of space. |
Chad Anderson |
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| Defying Hitler: The White Rose Resistance Group |
Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Lecturer in German, Magdalen College and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, gives a talk on the White Rose Resistance Group. |
Alexandra Lloyd |
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| New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene |
Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system. |
Eric Beinhocker |
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| From pollution to solution: will China save the planet? |
Barbara Finamore discusses whether China will take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe. |
Barbara Finamore, Radhika Khosla |
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| Freedom of Political Communication, Propaganda and the Role of Epistemic Institutions in Cyberspace |
Professor Seumas Miller defines fake news, hate speech and propaganda, discusses the relationship between social media and political propaganda. |
Seumas Miller |
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| The future of the corporation, economy and society |
Professor Sir Paul Collier and Professor Colin Mayer CBE will share the latest thinking and research into the future of capitalism and the corporation to understand how business might be changed to make it work better for society. |
Colin Mayer, Paul Collier |
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| Protecting the high seas (Oxford Green Week talk) |
As part of Oxford Green Week, Prof Alex Rogers and Dr Gwilym Rowlands discuss the importance of protecting the high seas, and how marine protection areas can be enforced. |
Alex Rogers, Gwilym Rowlands |
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| What are Teachers' Professional Competencies? |
This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice. |
Auli Toom |
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| Building Research Capacity in Teacher Education |
Seminar 8 of 8 on teacher education reforms. Alis unpacks the notion of 'capacity' through a historiography of initiatives and a review of attempts at conceptual development. |
Alis Oancea |
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| One Minute in Haditha: Neuroscience, Emotion and Military Ethics |
In this special lecture, Professor Mitt Regan discusses the latest research in moral perception and judgment, and the potential implications of this research for ethics education in general and military ethics training in particular. |
Mitt Regan |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 6: The Way Forward |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Thandabantu Nhlapo, Geoff Budlender, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 5: The Scope of Chiefly Power |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Jason Brickhill, Janine Ubink, Michael Mbikiwa, Monica De Souza Louw, Maame Mensa Bonsu |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 4: Traditional Leaders and Communities, Money and Accountability |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Jonny Steinberg, Sonwabile Mnwana, Wilmien Wicomb; |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 3: Mining and Resources: issues arising from recent litigation |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Nolundi Luwaya, Johan Lorenzen, Michael Bishop, William Beinart |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 2: What is Living Customary Law? And how should the courts identify it and apply it? |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Nick Barber, Thandabantu Nhlapo, Nolundi Luwaya, Kate O'Regan |
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| Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 1: Where are we now? The Constitution, Traditional Leaders and Customary Law |
It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. |
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, Peter Delius, Aninka Claassens |
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| Changing technology, changing economics |
Prof Diane Coyle discusses how digital technologies are changing economics. |
Diane Coyle |
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| Is the human species slowing down? |
Prof Danny Dorling discusses the idea that that humanity is slowing down in almost everything that we do, and what this means for our future. |
Danny Dorling |
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| 2019 Disability Lecture: The Triple Cripples... creators, educators, rule breakers, and the personification of empowerment |
Jay Abdullahi and Kym Oliver, a team of two black disabled women, reclaim the word ‘cripple’ in their fight against three layers of discrimination. |
Jay Abdullahi, Kym Oliver |
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| Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions |
6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'. |
Matthew Landrus |
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| Particles in space |
Join Dr Donal Hill for a tour of the invisible, as he describes how particle detectors measure 3D information to help uncover the secrets of tiny fundamental particles. |
Donal Hill |
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| Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D |
Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau. |
Kerstin Timm, Justin Lau |
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| Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings |
Dr Karl Kinsella introduces a 12th-century manuscript which explores the mystical visions of the prophet Ezekiel and contains some of the earliest architectural drawings in existence. |
Karl Kinsella |
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| Parallel lines down the centuries |
For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. |
Christopher Hollings |
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