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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
Topology in Biology - Prof Julia Yeomans FRS	Active systems, from cells and bacteria to flocks of birds, harvest chemical energy which they use to move and to control the complex processes needed for life.	Julia Yeomans	15 February, 2019
Welcome from the Head of the Physics Department	Ian Shipsey delivers the welcome speech for the Saturday Mornings of Theoretical Physics.	Ian Shipsey	15 February, 2019
Oxford Mathematics 1st Year Undergraduate Lecture James Sparks - Dynamics	For the first time ever, Oxford Mathematics has live streamed a student lecture. It took 800 years but now you can see what it is really like. We hope you find it familiar and intriguing and challenging.	James Sparks	15 February, 2019
James Maynard - Prime Time: How simple questions about prime numbers affect us all	Prime Numbers are fascinating, crucial and ubiquitous. The trouble is, we don't know that much about them. James Maynard, one of the leading researchers in the field explains all (at least as far as he can).	James Maynard	15 February, 2019
Access and Participation at Postgraduate level: research findings and their implications for policy and practice	This seminar will review the evidence on access to postgraduate study, identify what this might mean for funders, universities and their communities, and outline outstanding gaps in our knowledge.	Paul Wakeling, Mike Bonsall, Nick Brown, Paul Martin	13 February, 2019
Helpful Fairies	Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss how fairies and humans can co-operate and assist each other.	Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon, Lucy Farrell, Ewan McPherson	12 February, 2019
Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books	A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin.	Emily Martin	12 February, 2019
The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09	In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history.	Simukai Chigudu	12 February, 2019
Access and Participation in English HE: A Fair and Equal Opportunity for All?	The seminar will identify how universities and government have sought to make progress in this area during the last two decades and the patterns of participation arising from this.	Simon Marginson, Chris Millward, Martin Williams	11 February, 2019
Fairy Wives and Fairy Lovers	Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about love and marriage between humans and fairies.	Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon	8 February, 2019
Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed	Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority.	Menachem Klein	6 February, 2019
Neo banks vs traditional banks - Are we witnessing disruption in the banking industry?	Can banks survive without caring about customers?	Tom Blomfield, Alice Truswell	6 February, 2019
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the digital era is transforming Kenya	Writer and political activist Nanjala Nyabola delivers our first insaka of 2019. In this podcast, Nanjala explores shifts in power, popular action and social capacity in the digital age.	Nanjala Nyabola	6 February, 2019
Why poor diagnostic reasoning is failing patients, the public and health systems	Carl Heneghan asks the question, "What is driving the increase in diagnostic testing in healthcare?" and discusses why expectations, technology and the media are contributing to the problems of too much medicine and overdiagnosis.	Carl Heneghan	6 February, 2019
A Rational Approach to Evidence-Based Decision Making in Education Policy	If education policy-making is based strictly on rigorous evidence there is a risk of bias towards simple, discrete, measurable interventions. We present a framework for considering inconclusive evidence.	Matthew Jukes	1 February, 2019
Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries	An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.	Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron	29 January, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Hooke Lecture - Michael Berry - Chasing the dragon: tidal bores in the UK and elsewhere	In some of the world’s rivers, an incoming high tide can arrive as a smooth jump decorated by undulations, or as a breaking wave. The river reverses direction and flows upstream.	Michael Berry	28 January, 2019
Introducing Fairies and Fairyland	Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the Modern Fairies project and talk about traditional imaginings of fairyland.	Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Brian McMahon	28 January, 2019
Machine perfusion – a new dawn or optimistic hyperbole?	Professor Peter Friend, Dr David Nasralla and Dr Carlo Ceresa discuss liver transplantation and why they are replacing conventional cold storage in an ice box with normothermic automated, transportable liver preservation.	Peter Friend, David Nasralla, Carlo Ceresa	28 January, 2019
Systematic reviews: the past the present and the future	Making decisions and choices about health and social care need access to high-quality evidence from research. Systematic reviews provide this by both highlighting the quality of existing studies and by themselves providing a high-quality summary.	Iain Chalmers, Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani	28 January, 2019
Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth	A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi.	Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi	25 January, 2019
What's in a Label? Western Donors' Construction of Success and Failure in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau	ASC seminar by Teresa Almeida Cravo	Teresa Almeida Cravo	25 January, 2019
Student activism in an era of decolonization	ASC seminar by Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre and Marcia Schenck.	Dan Hodgkinson, Luke Melchiorre, Marcia Schenck	24 January, 2019
Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan	Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives.	Khaled Furani	23 January, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Student Lectures: An Introduction to Complex Numbers - Vicky Neale	Much is written about life as an undergraduate at Oxford but what is it really like?	Vicky Neale	22 January, 2019
Genes, Hands, Nerves, and Brains	Professor Dominic Furniss and Dr Akira Wiberg discuss the tremendous connection we have between the hand and the brain, focusing their talk on Dupuytren's Disease and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.	Dominic Furniss, Akira Wiberg	21 January, 2019
Achieving the Holy-Grail: The Humanising Healthcare Methodology	Mr Hamish Dibley, a senior management consultant, explores a new and refreshing approach to how we understand and improve healthcare systems.	Hamish Dibley	16 January, 2019
Effect of metformin on breast cancer metabolism	Dr Simon Lord presents a clinical study to understand the effect of metformin - one of the most commonly prescribed treatments worldwide for diabetes - on breast cancer metabolism.	Simon Lord	16 January, 2019
Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948	How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine?	Netta Cohen	16 January, 2019
Admissions Testing Preparation Effects	This seminar is the first of a five-part seminar series on 'Student Access to University'. This seminar discusses the relationships between student characteristics and test performances with Oxford University admissions tests data.	Jo-Anne Baird, Karen O'Brien, Samina Khan, Rebecca Surender	15 January, 2019
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: Marcus du Sautoy - The Num8er My5teries	With topics ranging from prime numbers to the lottery, from lemmings to bending balls like Beckham, Professor Marcus du Sautoy provides an entertaining and, perhaps, unexpected approach to explain how mathematics can be used to predict the future.	Marcus du Sautoy	14 January, 2019
Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice	The peacebuilding literature has long emphasised that youth involvement is key to ensuring long-term peace. In the aftermath of the 'no' victory in the Colombian peace plebiscite, great emphasis has been placed on youth movements' push for peace.	Elena Butti	14 January, 2019
Selection bias in cluster randomised controlled trials	Professor David Torgerson, Director of the York Trials Unit, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare podcast series.	David Torgerson	7 January, 2019
Strachey Lecture: Steps Towards Super Intelligence	Why has AI been so hard and what are the problems that we might work on in order to make real progress to human level intelligence, or even the super intelligence that many pundits believe is just around the corner?	Rodney Brooks	20 December, 2018
All Souls Blog: The Politics of Global Policing	Professor Ben Bowling	Ben Bowling	19 December, 2018
Process thinking in four modes	Professor Ann Langley, Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings, HEC Montréal discusses her research work.	Ann Langley	17 December, 2018
Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC	Focusing on the 'male perpetrator,' this paper first examines how, why, and with what effect gendered and raced imaginaries became encoded in international peace and security policy.	Chloe Lewis	17 December, 2018
Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts	Dr Katerina Tkacova, member of CCW, introduces the seminar series based on the CCW research project - Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts.	Katerina Tkacova	17 December, 2018
The application of realist approaches at the research/policy/practice interface: NICE work if you can do it	Professor Mike Kelly, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Cambridge Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series.	Mike Kelly	12 December, 2018
How imperfect can a study be?	Professor Alan Silman is an epidemiologist and a rheumatologist and is the co-author of 'Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide', which is the recommended textbook for the module 'Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods'.	Alan Silman	5 December, 2018
Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England	Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english.	Julia Mattison	3 December, 2018
Marconi lecture 2018: Imperial Wave: how empire shaped the network of wireless in South Asia at the turn of the twentieth century	Dr Medha Saxena (Delhi, and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow), gives the 2018 annual Marconi lecture.	Medha Saxena	3 December, 2018
Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and the Jews	Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the criticism of Zionism.	Brian Klug	28 November, 2018
Writing Rights in 1789	Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the constituent articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.	Keith M Baker	23 November, 2018
Orna Sasson-Levy - Gendered citizenship: The case of Women Breaking the Silence	Orna Sasson-Levy discusses the cast of women soldiers who decide to speak	Orna Sasson-Levy	21 November, 2018
Creating More Peaceful Societies - Global Strategies to Reduce Interpersonal Violence by 50 Percent in 2040	Manuel Eisner, University of Cambridge	Manuel Eisner	20 November, 2018
Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building	Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern Hebrew literature.	Adriana X Jacobs	16 November, 2018
Live panel on digital engagement	In this live panel, we sit down with Resident Advisor founder Nick Sabine and fellow MBA slash film producer Yetunde Dada to discuss community engagement through digital media.	Nick Sabine, Yetu Dada	16 November, 2018
BCorps: the future firm What is a bcorp? How do people know what this is	Can businesses lead the charge for social good? That is the idea behind B Corps, a movement of 2,500 businesses in 50 countries committed to having a positive impact in the world.	Michaelanne Butler, Charmain Love	16 November, 2018
David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships	David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships.	David Tal	16 November, 2018
The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum	Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences.	Richard Ovenden, Julia Smith, Helen Snaith, David Clark	16 November, 2018
The Quantum and the Cosmos	The 17th Hintze Lecture, given by Professor Rocky Kolb, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago.	Rocky Kolb	14 November, 2018
Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence? The 2018 Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture	Marcus du Sautoy and Professor Rosalind Picard for 2018's annual Simonyi Lecture: Can we build AI with Emotional Intelligence?	Marcus du Sautoy, Rosalind Picard	9 November, 2018
How 'gangsters' become jihadists (and why most don't): Bourdieu, criminology and the crime-terrorism nexus	Professor Sveinung Sandberg	Sveinung Sandberg	6 November, 2018
Adults' experiences of trying to lose weight on their own: findings from three qualitative syntheses	Jamie Hartmann-Boyce is a Senior Researcher in Health Behaviours, based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Her work focusses on obesity and tobacco control and her particular interests lie in evidence synthes	Jamie Hartmann-Boyce	6 November, 2018
More than meet the eye: Hyperspectral imaging	How many colours we see is limited by our eye, which contains only three types of colour sensors. Using advanced techniques, vision scientists can take images of this “invisible” information and make it visible.	Sérgio Nascimento	6 November, 2018
Neurons code the colour we see	All activity in your brain – including those which mediates your perception of colour – is based on electrical messages between neurons. Vision scientists can measure these signals at the eye, and at the back of the brain.	Neil Parry	6 November, 2018
Seeing neurons inside the living eye	Using techniques borrowed from astronomy, vision scientists can take high-resolution images of the retina, the fine layer of cells in the back of your eye.	Hannah Smithson, Laura Young	6 November, 2018
Panel discussion: #TheDress – What do we know?	In early 2015, an image of a dress polarised the internet: Some people saw it as black-blue, and some as white-gold. Three years on, we revisit the dress and discuss how vision science can explain this phenomenon.	Manuel Spitschan, Anya Hurlbert, Karl Gegenfurtner, David Brainard	6 November, 2018
Roger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry - Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures	In our Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture Roger Penrose in conversation with Hannah Fry reveals his latest research, a veritable chain reaction of universes, which he says has been backed by evidence of events that took place before the Big Bang.	Roger Penrose, Hannah Fry	6 November, 2018
Political Bioethics	How should members of a liberal democratic political community, open to value pluralism, decide bioethical issues that generate deep disagreement?	Benjamin Gregg	6 November, 2018
Old Norse	Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse.	Eleanor Parker	31 October, 2018
Old English	Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english.	Mark Atherton	31 October, 2018
Gothic	Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest.	Elizabeth Solopova	31 October, 2018
Research Seminar: Aesop, Velazquez and War	This lecture was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department’s Research Seminar series by T.J Clark Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley.	T.J Clark	30 October, 2018
Can antibiotics make you pregnant?	Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Jeffrey Aronson	29 October, 2018
The Search for Life on Earth, In Space and Time	Dr James Green, current Chief Scientist of NASA gives a talk on the how life may be distributed on Earth and in the Solar System with consideration of the age of our sun.	James Green	29 October, 2018
History of evidence synthesis	Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Mike Clarke	29 October, 2018
Yakov Rabkin - Israel: The Russian Connection	Yakov Rabkin (University of Montreal) discusses the roots of Israeli political culture in the Zionist beginnings in the Yiddish speaking regions of the Russian Empire.	Yakov Rabkin	26 October, 2018
Criminology at the periphery: understanding police work in the remote Northern islands of Scotland	Dr Anna Souhami, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, gives a talk for the Criminology seminar series on 11th October 2018.	Anna Souhami	24 October, 2018
Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges	Professor Steven Hoffman discusses legal mechanisms available for coordinating international responses to transnational problems, their prospects, and their challenges.	Steven J Hoffman	23 October, 2018
Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Carl Heneghan	10 October, 2018
Yaacov Yadgar - The Nation-State bill and the meaning of Israel’s Jewish identity	Yaacov Yadgar discusses the recently passed Basic-Law: Israel the Nation State of the Jewish People, and discusses how it plays into Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis	Yaacov Yadgar	10 October, 2018
Fake News and the Politics of Truth	Fake news spread online is a clear danger to democratic politics. One aspect of that danger is obvious: it spreads misinformation. But other aspects, less often discussed, is that it also spreads confusion and undermines trust.	Michael Lynch	8 October, 2018
Oxford Mathematics and the Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Roger Penrose - Eschermatics	In this lecture Roger Penrose uses M.C Escher's work to illustrate and explain important mathematical ideas and their connections to the visual arts.	Roger Penrose	1 October, 2018
How to make a trillion dollars	Can cryptocurrencies make the first trillionaire? Between September 2017 and January 2018 the price of bitcoin rocketed to around $13,000. One MBA student, Mike Wigrizer, was not only betting on bitcoin but also created his own cryptocurrency.	Michael Wigrizer	21 August, 2018
Future proofing banks	How would you like to have your own personal banker? The traditional model of banks as a store of value and source of liquidity, and of bankers as trusted personal financial advisors, is under threat like never before.	Steve Gotz, Alec Mclauren	21 August, 2018
The Carbon Bubble part 2	How do you account for carbon?	Richard Barker	3 August, 2018
All Souls Seminar: 'Shared Beginnings? The Role of Race'	Dr. Coretta Philips and Dr. Alpa Parmar London School of Economics and University of Oxford	Alpa Parmar, Coretta Philips	2 August, 2018
The jugglers and the black cat	There has never been such a high demand for our personal data, such that it is often said that individuals are the product, not just the client.	Kerina Jones	31 July, 2018
John Ball in conversation with Alain Goriely	John Ball is retiring as Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Oxford oldest Scientific Chair. In this interview he charts the journey of the Applied Mathematician.as the subject has developed over the last 50 years.	John Ball, Alain Goriely	27 July, 2018
Methusela and the unity of mankind: late Renaissance and early Enlightenment conceptions of time	Martin van Gelderen delivers a talk for the Besterman Lecture 2018	Martin van Gelderen	25 July, 2018
Zaharoff Lecture 2017: Penser dans les mots	Penser dans les mots. (This lecture is in French.)	Tiphaine Samoyault, Catriona Seth	20 July, 2018
Surviving in an AI world	How do you future proof yourself from AI?	Vivienne Ming	16 July, 2018
Hyperloop and the future of transport	LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes? We dive into the high-tech future of transport with Nick Earle, VP at Virgin Hyperloop One.	Nick Earle	16 July, 2018
Future of work with Google Chief Economist Hal Varian and Professor Jonathan Trevor	AI’s effect on the labour force, who wins man or machine?	Jonathan Trevor, Hal Varian	16 July, 2018
Introduction with Dean Peter Tufano	How can an institution that is over 900 years old teach its students about the future? We speak to Peter Tufano, Dean of Oxford's Saïd Business School.	Peter Tufano	9 July, 2018
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures - Richard James - Atomistically inspired origami	The World population is growing at about 80 million per year. As time goes by, there is necessarily less space per person. Perhaps this is why the scientific community seems to be obsessed with folding things.	Richard James	6 July, 2018
The 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Poland between Europeanism and Nationalism: National Exception or Regional Norm?	Jacques Rupnik gives the 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture	Jacques Rupnik	3 July, 2018
Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain	In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blinding is important and why a placebo control may be necessary, even in surgical trials.	Karolina Wartolowska	2 July, 2018
How do we find planets around other stars?	The 3rd Wetton lecture, 19th June 2018 delivered by Professor David W. Hogg, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University	David W Hogg	2 July, 2018
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (4) The great disappearing George Washington: history and the head of state in contemporary American art	Professor Miguel de Baca gives his final Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on Gilbert Stuart’s unfinished painting of George Washington.	Miguel De Baca	28 June, 2018
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (3) Modernism disfigured: cult and illicit ritual in New Mexico in the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and Martha Graham	Professor Miguel de Baca gives his third Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe and Martha Graham.	Miguel De Baca	28 June, 2018
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (2) Skin and absence: the radical ceramics and poetry of the enslaved Dave the Potter	Professor Miguel de Baca gives his second Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on the work of Dave the Potter.	Miguel De Baca	28 June, 2018
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art 2018: The Body of a Nation: (1) Suicide in white and black: Thomas Cole’s Destruction and the American empire	Professor Miguel de Baca gives his first Terra Foundation Lecture in American Art on two depictions of suicide.	Miguel De Baca	28 June, 2018
The shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data	Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series.	Carol Lefebvre	26 June, 2018
The Enemy In-Between: Ambivalence, Hostility, and Joint Enterprise	Dr Henrique Carvalho, University of Warwick	Henrique Carvalho	25 June, 2018
Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work?	Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work? - at the European Studies Centre on June 1, 2018	John Erik Fossum, Matthew Broad, Hans Petter, Kalypso Nicolaidis	25 June, 2018
Kfir Cohen - Israeli Literature as Global Literature	Kfir Cohen discusses Israeli literature as global literature (broadly defined)	Kfir Cohen	25 June, 2018
Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality	Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure.	Annalise Weckesser	22 June, 2018