| Health Technology Assessment: Global alignment of systems, stakeholders and emerging trends |
This talk will introduce and explore, the global mechanisms and initiatives that align process, strategy and methodology for Health Technology Assessment (HTA). |
Neil Bertelsen |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Emma Smith interviews Shahnaz Ahsan |
Shahnaz Ahsan is Emma's guest to discuss her debut novel, Hashim & Family. They talk about Bangladesh, about the personal and the political, and about the classroom experience that has seared itself into her fiction. |
Emma Smith, Shahnaz Ahsan |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Emma Smith interviews Alex Preston |
Emma Smith chats with Alex Preston about Hertford, his career in finance, bees, and his new historical novel Winchelsea - Emma also teases Alex about the label of Mr Nice Review in Private Eye. |
Emma Smith, Alex Preston |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Graffiti, music, and football ultras: expressing dissent in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) |
Piotr Schulkes, Adam Abdallah, and Kalyani Nedungadi discuss non-official ways in expressing dissent, comparing Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, and Palestine. |
Kalyani Nedungadi, Piotr Schulkes, Adam Abdalla |
17 December, 2021 |
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| 'Poets in Purgatory' Video |
Contemporary poets read from their translations of the Purgatorio and from their poems about Dante. |
Jane Draycott, Steve Ellis, Andrew Fitzsimons, Lorna Goodison, Peter Hainsworth, Nick Havely, Angela Jarman, Jan Kemp, Jamie McKendrick, Bernard O'Donoghue, A.E. Stallings, Patrick Worsnip |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Episode 6: Wales |
This episode features Boudica, a tortoise, Pegasus and Chris Martin, and that’s before we meet our panellists! |
Reem Ahmed, Lewys Griffiths, Ellie Williams, Katrina Kelly |
17 December, 2021 |
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| How 2021 changed journalism |
In this episode of our Future of Journalism podcast we look at how events of 2021 and other trends in society and politics have affected how journalism is practised and consumed and how newsrooms are addressing these challenges. |
Eduardo Suárez, Rasmus Nielsen, Meera Selva, Federica Cherubini, Richard Fletcher |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Culture and conservation with Miriam Supuma |
In this episode, Julia and Sofia talk to conservationist Miriam Supuma about traditional knowledge, birds of paradise and the role of cultural identity in preserving biodiversity. |
Julia Migne, Sofia Castello y Tickell, Miriam Supuma |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism” |
Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 18 October 2021. |
Vikram Visana |
17 December, 2021 |
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| Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense |
Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 25 October 2021. |
Mrinalini Sinha |
16 December, 2021 |
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| How does climate crisis change the curriculum? |
A Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences event. Shifting the question from ‘how should climate change be put into the curriculum?’ to ‘how does it transform the curriculum?’ opens up the subject in new ways across the world. |
Rahul Chopra, Kim Polgreen, Amanda Power, Steve Puttick, James Robson, Arjen Wals, William Finnegan |
15 December, 2021 |
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| Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire |
Naomi Weiss delivers a public lecture on Kamila Shamsie's award-winning novel, Home Fire |
Naomi Weiss |
15 December, 2021 |
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| The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: New Visions of Tragedy in 21st-Century America |
Rosa Andújar delivers a talk on the work of the award-winning playwright Luis Alfaro |
Rosa Andujar |
15 December, 2021 |
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| A People’s History of Classics |
Edith Hall and Henry Stead in conversation about their book, A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 |
Edith Hall, Henry Stead |
15 December, 2021 |
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| Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO |
Hear from Professor Janne Matlary, co-editor of this recent publication, as well as two contributing authors: Steiner Torset and Anders Sookermany |
Janne Haaland Matlary, Rob Johnson |
14 December, 2021 |
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| Meet the Manuscripts: Correcting Christmas Carols |
In the 3rd talk in our Meet the Manuscripts series, you will learn how singers lived with change in their favourite songs, and hear carols of the Middle Ages both familiar and new. |
Micah Mackay, Andrew Dunning |
14 December, 2021 |
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| Panel discussion: 'Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change and how can it be fixed? |
This discussion brings together the editors of a special issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy on Capitalism. |
Martin Wolf, Paul Collier, Colin Mayer, Diane Coyle, Charles Godfray |
9 December, 2021 |
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| Talk 3: Stitches, leaves and smelly old books: in conversation with textile artist Alice Fox |
Textile based artwork is well aligned with stitched or folded book structures. Giving book-related examples from her practice, artist Alice Fox describes how an experimental approach to materials can lead to a variety of creative outcomes. |
Alice Fox, Alice Evans, Andrew Honey |
9 December, 2021 |
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| Atrocity Nation / State Amnesia : The Photographic Debris of the Sri Lankan Civil War |
The final years of the Sri Lankan civil war were transformed by a significant development in the technics of photography |
Vindhya Buthpitiya |
9 December, 2021 |
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| What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East? |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 3rd December 2021 for the Middle East Centre |
Christian Henderson, Walter Armbrust |
8 December, 2021 |
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| Episode 8: Liberatory orientations in African(a) and South Asian philosophies |
In this episode, Aamir Kaderbhai (Mst Study of Religions), Heeyoung Tae (BA Philosophy, Politics, & Economics), and alicehank winham (MPhil Buddhist Studies) converse with Dr. Anatanand Rambachan (Professor of Religion at St. Olaf College), |
Aamir Kaderbhai, Heeyoung Tae, alicehank winham, Anatanand Rambachan, Brett Parris, Lee McBride |
8 December, 2021 |
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| CCW 2021 Annual Lecture: British Defence Policy: Reviews and Redirections |
In light of the Integrated Review this year, what other military reviews have there been and what was their impact? Peter Watkins (former Director General in the UK MoD) looks back at previous military reviews and discusses continuing themes. |
Peter Watkins |
7 December, 2021 |
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| Emerging Military Technologies: A New Military Revolution? |
How are new technologies impacting the conduct of war? And what will be the impact more broadly on our societies and, in particular, our understandings of time, space, and self. |
Olivier Schmitt |
7 December, 2021 |
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| The Central Role of Space Domain Awareness in Future Military Conflicts |
As space becomes increasingly central in military planning and strategy development, what is the current situation and what capabilities (and weaknesses) currently exist? |
Stuart Eves |
7 December, 2021 |
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| Integration – The Goldilocks Factor |
What is better integration? More integration may not be the simple answer for militaries like the US and UK. |
Alan Brown |
7 December, 2021 |
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| The political economy of Nigeria: challenges and opportunities for reform |
Join Professor Kingsley Moghalu, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow on the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance and former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as he discusses the challenges and opportunities of Nigeria's political economy |
Kingsley Moghalu, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
7 December, 2021 |
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| Private financing levelling-up: an idea of its time |
Join Ron Emerson, Chairman of Bank North, & Professor Colin Mayer, Lead Researcher on the Oxford Martin Initiative on Regional Levelling-up, as they discuss the above and in what ways does Bank North’s business model address these needs? |
Ron Emerson, Colin Mayer |
7 December, 2021 |
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| Renewing South Yorkshire: seizing new opportunities, overcoming old constraints |
Dave Smith, Chief Executive of South Yorkshire City-Region Authority and Colin Mayer, Professor of Finance, discuss how South Yorkshire can forge a strategy for change. |
Dave Smith, Colin Mayer |
7 December, 2021 |
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| Talk 2: Beyond the velvet cover: textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding |
Georgios Boudalis explores the subject of textiles and craft in Byzantine bookbinding, sharing techniques little known not only in the context of Byzantine bookbinding but also more generally in the context of Byzantine material culture. |
Georgios Boudalis, Alice Evans |
6 December, 2021 |
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| Afghanistan and the Middle East |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Thursday 25th November 2021 for the Middle East centre. |
Ibrahim al-Marashi, Michael Willis, Kate Clark |
6 December, 2021 |
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| Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 19th November 2021 for the MEC. |
Michael Willis, Michael Mason |
1 December, 2021 |
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| Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on Friday 12th November 2021 for the MEC. Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS, University of London) presents “Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation”. |
Stephanie Cronin, Mattin Biglari |
1 December, 2021 |
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| Haggai Ram - The Social Life of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel: A Global History |
Haggai Ram charts the (modern) history of Hashish in the Holy Land |
Haggai Ram |
1 December, 2021 |
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| Citizenship, Publicness and the Politics of Inclusive Democracy in India |
Suryakant Waghmore and Hugo Gorringe will discuss their recent edited volume on civility in India |
Suryakant Waghmore, Hugo Gorringe |
29 November, 2021 |
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| Hidden histories of science; Ammal, Darlington, Haldane, and India, 1930-1960 |
The twentieth century was a period which saw debates on ecology, cytology, genetics and eugenics in the West develop in new and interesting ways both positive and negative to understand the position of humans within the natural world. |
Vinita Damodaran |
29 November, 2021 |
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| The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy? |
On 25 July 2021 Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the government and suspended parliament, subsequently employing the army and security forces around government buildings to thwart any opposition to his power grab. |
Youssef Cherif, Anne Wolf, Michael Willis |
25 November, 2021 |
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| History of Art Radio Hour with Dipti Khera |
Dipti Khera is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. |
Dipti Khera, Geoff Batchen |
25 November, 2021 |
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| Book talk: 'Cogs and Monsters: what economics is and what it should be' with Prof Diane Coyle |
Diane Coyle and Ian Goldin discuss Diane's new book 'Cogs and Monsters' and how economics can face the challenges of technological change. |
Diane Coyle, Ian Goldin |
25 November, 2021 |
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| Episode 7: The Limits of Academia with Professor Joy James |
Professor Joy James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. In this episode, Carlotta Hartmann speaks to her about coming to philosophy and the limits of academia. |
Joy James, Carlotta Hartmann |
23 November, 2021 |
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| Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf |
Oil price volatility and accelerated energy transitions away from hydrocarbons to meet climate change mitigation measures have presented existential threats to the economies of hydrocarbon-dependent welfare states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). |
Manal Shehabi, Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis |
22 November, 2021 |
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| The Lessons of 1950: Partition, and the making of the India- Pakistan Dynamic |
The years that immediately followed their partition offer many interesting insights into the shaping of the India- Pakistan dynamic |
Pallavi Raghavan (Ashoka University, Delhi) |
19 November, 2021 |
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| Episode 6: Tradition and modernity in African cultural philosophy |
Scarlett Whelan and Kei Patrick interview Prof Ochieng’-Odhiambo and Zeyad el Nabolsy about attitudes to tradition, modernity and modernisation in the work of two African philosophers: Amilcar Cabral and Henry Odera Oruka. |
Scarlett Whelan, Kei Patrick, Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo, Zeyad el Nabolsy |
19 November, 2021 |
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| Amnon Aran - Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War |
Amnon Aran maps the development of Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War |
Amnon Aran |
18 November, 2021 |
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| Michael Karayanni - Religion and State among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel: A Multicultural Entrapment |
Michael Karayanni considers how the Israeli construction of religion and politics shapes the live Palestinian-Arabs in the state. |
Michael Karayanni |
18 November, 2021 |
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| Emma Smith interviews Claire McGowan |
Memories, genre fiction and writing under a different pen name are all on the agenda for this podcast with Northern Irish crime author Claire McGowan (and her alter ego Eva Woods). |
Emma Smith, Claire McGowan |
17 November, 2021 |
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| The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on 29th October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. |
jamie furniss, Walter Armbrust |
17 November, 2021 |
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| History of Art Radio Hour with Lena Fritsch |
Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum, where she works on exhibitions, displays and acquisitions of international art. |
Lena Fritsch, Geoff Batchen |
16 November, 2021 |
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| Transitioning to a Sustainable Future Q&A |
Q&A session with the keynote speakers of the transitioning to a sustainable future theme |
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, Rob Miller, Tomas Coates Ulrichsen |
16 November, 2021 |
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| Why are women experts missing from the news media in Ghana? |
In this episode of our podcast, we explore how well women's voices are represented in the Ghanaian news media compared to those of men, based on a research project led by a prominent broadcaster and former Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute. |
Nana Ama Agyemang Asante, Eduardo Suárez |
15 November, 2021 |
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| History of Art Radio Hour with Anthony Gardner |
Anthony Gardner is Professor of Contemporary Art History at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. |
Anthony Gardner, Geoff Batchen |
12 November, 2021 |
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| Talk 1: Textiles in Libraries: glimpses from the Bodleian |
The first talk in the Textiles in Libraries: Context and Conservation series brings together three colleagues from across the Bodleian Library to explore the wide variety and sometimes surprising uses of textiles found in our collections. |
Jo Maddocks, Andrew Honey, Martin Kauffmann, Alice Evans |
11 November, 2021 |
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| The Politics of Water Scarcity in the Case of Jordan |
Dr Hussam Hussein investigates the construction of the discourse of water scarcity in Jordan, and the political economy of the water sector. |
Hussam Hussein, Neil Ketchley, Michael Willis |
11 November, 2021 |
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| BHM Lecture 2021: COVID and disproportionality and what does it mean for health disparities moving forward? |
The 2021 Black History Month Lecture delivered by Professor Kevin Fenton, Public Health England's Regional Director of Public Health for London and statutory advisor to the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. |
Kevin Fenton, Gill Aitken, Alexander Gordon, Machilu Zimba |
9 November, 2021 |
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| History of Art Radio Hour with Mette Sandbye |
Mette Sandbye is a Professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. |
Mette Sandbye, Geoff Batchen |
9 November, 2021 |
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| Factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics |
Katrien Devolder and Aaron Gross discuss the link between factory farm and zoonotic diseases. |
Aaron Gross |
9 November, 2021 |
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| Episode 5: A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor and cross-cultural philosophy with Dr. Roy Tzohar |
In this episode, MPhil Buddhist Studies students Cody Fuller and alicehankwinham interview Professor Tzohar (associate professor in the East and South Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University). |
Cody Fuller, alicehankwinham, Roy Tzohar |
4 November, 2021 |
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| Episode 4: Academic, Moral, and Spiritual Philosophy from the Ramakrishna Order |
Dylan Watts (UG physics and philosophy) and Aamir Kaderbhai (MSt study of religion) interview Swami Medhananda, ordained monk of the Ramakrishna Order and Senior Research Fellow at the Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education, Mysore, India |
Dylan Watts, Aamir Kaderbha, Swami Medhananda |
4 November, 2021 |
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| Emma Smith interviews Anya Glazer |
This week’s guest is children’s picture book author and illustrator Anya Glazer. We talk dinosaurs, sisters, merchandizing and how she riffed on her Modern Languages degree for her first book, Thesaurus has a Secret. |
Emma Smith, Anya Glazer |
4 November, 2021 |
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| Eldad Ben Aharon - Supporting Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide |
Eldad Ben-Aharon charts the history of Israel's refusal to recognise the Armenian Genocide. |
Eldad Ben-Aharon |
3 November, 2021 |
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| It's True, It's True, It's True: Verbatim Theatre, Staging Sexual Assault, and Female Representation in the Arts |
Breach Theatre's Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens in conversation with Dr Hannah Simpson and Dr Sos Eltis |
Hannah Simpson, Sos Eltis, Billy Barrett, Ellice Stevens |
3 November, 2021 |
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| Episode 5: The North of England |
In this episode, we discuss Classics and employability, the tremendous breadth of the discipline, the thrill of philosophy, and how you can discover what fascinates you. |
Cristina Chui, Llewelyn Morgan, Amy Thompson, Katrina Kelly |
1 November, 2021 |
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| History of Art Radio Hour with Craig Clunas |
Craig Clunas (Oxford History of Art), gives a talk 13th October 2021. |
Craig Clunas, Geoff Batchen |
1 November, 2021 |
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| Reconstructing Reconstruction: Constitutionalism and the End of Slavery with Kiana McAllister and Erica Croft |
Grace Mallon talks to Kiana McAllister and Erica Croft about the work they're doing on the Reconstruction Amendments with Quill, and what this original research can tell us about these brief, but transformative items of American Constitutional law. |
Grace Mallon, Kiana McAllister, Erica Croft |
1 November, 2021 |
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| Conservatism |
In this episode, Jan-Willem Prügel discusses the historical origins and philosophical characteristics of Conservatism with two brilliant Oxford students of the humanities. |
Jan-Willem Prügel, Edward McLaren, Raphael Heim |
1 November, 2021 |
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| Number Systems |
Jan-Willem Prügel questions three Oxford mathematicians about the mythical entities known as numbers. What are they? And perhaps even more importantly, why are they? |
Jan-Willem Prügel, Aled Walker, Ella Boot, Álvaro González Hernández |
28 October, 2021 |
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| Kathrin Bachleitner - A road towards atonement? Why only West Germany came to “atone” for the Nazi crimes. |
Kathrin Bachleitner remaps the road that led to Germany's "atonement" for the Holocaust |
Kathrin Bachleitner |
27 October, 2021 |
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| Affect as a Technology of Rule: Militarism in Pakistan |
Positioning dead body politics and ritualistic mourning as technologies of rule, through a focus on subjectivity, intimacy and affect, the talk will explicate the persuasive powers through which they seek to produce consensus and ideological conformity. |
Maria Rashid |
26 October, 2021 |
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| The serpentine text of the Gutenberg Bible |
The fifth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton |
Paul Needham |
25 October, 2021 |
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| Borders and Identities: Who is a “Bangladeshi” in Assam? |
This talk explores the ambiguities surrounding Indian citizenship in Assam, Northeast India. With Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney) |
Malini Sur |
22 October, 2021 |
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| Emma Smith interviews James Hawes |
James Hawes, novelist and micro-historian of The Shortest History of England and The Shortest History of Germany, talks about agents and editors, his role in the worst film ever made, and playing the French horn on the roof of Hertford’s library. |
Emma Smith, James Hawes |
21 October, 2021 |
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| Meet the Manuscripts: Meet the Fragments |
Exploring their physical function in manuscripts – and the bad things that can happen when they are removed for study – as well as showing what they can contribute to book history. |
Andrew Honey, Matthew Holford |
20 October, 2021 |
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| A Shared Vision? Reflections on the creation of unity in opposition in Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement since February 2021 - Part 2 |
Since the Myanmar army overturned the November 2020 election and asserted itself violently against the will of its own people in February 2021. |
Khin Ohmar, Martin Smith |
19 October, 2021 |
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| A Shared Vision? Reflections on the creation of unity in opposition in Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement since February 2021 - Part 1 |
Since the Myanmar army overturned the November 2020 election and asserted itself violently against the will of its own people in February 2021. |
Tom Sheahan, David Moe |
19 October, 2021 |
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| Fifteenth-century Latin Bible printing and distribution |
The fourth lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton |
Paul Needham |
19 October, 2021 |
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| The Texts of the Gutenberg Bible; the case of 4 Ezra |
The third lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton |
Paul Needham |
19 October, 2021 |
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| Hidden Laws: State Constitutions and National Change with Robinson Woodward-Burns |
Grace Mallon and Nicholas Cole talk to Robinson Woodward-Burns about his new book 'Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilise American Politics.' |
Grace Mallon, Robinson Woodward-Burns, Nicholas Cole |
19 October, 2021 |
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| Equal to Everything |
Baroness Hale, former President of the Supreme Court and Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford discusses her life and legal career with Helen Mountfield QC, Principal of Mansfield. |
Baroness Hale, Helen Mountfield |
18 October, 2021 |
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| Latin Bible-writing in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; the Gutenberg Bible workshop |
The second lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton |
Paul Needham |
18 October, 2021 |
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| The Christian Latin Bible from its origins to the 13th-century Paris Bible |
The first lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2021 series delivered by Paul Needham, Princeton |
Paul Needham |
18 October, 2021 |
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| The 2021 Milton Lecture: Museums as “the true teachers of a free people” |
In this lecture, Dr Tristram Hunt (Director of the V and A Museum), discussed the role of public museums in creating our culture and described how, despite its origins rooted in Empire, monarchy, and high Victorian capitalism. |
Tristram Hunt |
18 October, 2021 |
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| The Hands Lecture 2020 – Western Democracy: the next 20 years |
Lord (William) Hague of Richmond in conversation with Mansfield Principal, Helen Mountfield QC, on the state of Western democracies. |
William Hague, Helen Mountfield |
18 October, 2021 |
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| 6. Europe in the World | The Europe’s Stories Podcast |
Ana and Lucas speak with Marianna Lovato and Olivier de France, the team’s experts on foreign policy and international politics. |
Marianna Lovato, Olivier de France, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse |
12 October, 2021 |
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| What's the point of opinion journalism in the digital age? |
What's the role of opinion writing within journalism, including the place of opinion journalism, specifically in the news media, in a world where many of us have many ways of expressing our opinions and reading other’s opinions, including on social media? |
Rasmus Nielsen, Karen Attiah |
11 October, 2021 |
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| Virginia Berridge and the Political End of Epidemics |
Professor Virginia Berridge (LSHTM) and Dr Erica Charters discuss swine flu, HIV/AIDS, and the history of health policy as ways to define the political end of an epidemic. |
Erica Charters, Virginia Berridge |
8 October, 2021 |
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| Dora Vargha and Arthur Rose on Epidemics, Expectations, and Ends |
Kristin Heitman talks with Dora Vargha (Exeter) and Arthur Rose (Exeter) about the nature and power of narrative in forming both our expectations about epidemics and the ways that we decide when and how they have ended. |
Kristin Heitman, Dora Vargha, Arthur Rose |
8 October, 2021 |
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| Paul Kelton and Smallpox among American Indigenous Populations |
Professor Paul Kelton (Stony Brook) and Dr Erica Charters discuss the role of smallpox in American indigenous history and culture and how smallpox finally ended. |
Erica Charters, Paul Kelton |
8 October, 2021 |
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| Monica H. Green and Nükhet Varlık on Plague Pandemics |
Dr Monica H. Green (Independent Historian), Dr Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers), and Dr Erica Charters discuss how global history and the historicist sciences have shaped our understanding of plague pandemics. |
Erica Charters, Monica H Green, Nükhet Varlık |
8 October, 2021 |
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| Alberto Giubilini and Pandemic Ethics |
Dr. Alberto Giubilini (Oxford) and Dr. Kristin Heitman discuss ethical issues raised in efforts to balance individual freedoms and social measures to control the spread of disease. |
Kristin Heitman, Alberto Giubilini |
8 October, 2021 |
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| Margaret Pelling and the History of Cholera in England |
Dr Margaret Pelling (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how historians understand disease and the myths about the end of cholera in nineteenth-century England. |
Erica Charters, Margaret Pelling |
8 October, 2021 |
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| Simukai Chigudu and the Political Life of Epidemics |
Dr Simukai Chigudu (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss the Zimbabwe cholera epidemic and the politics of epidemics. |
Erica Charters, Simukai Chigudu |
8 October, 2021 |
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| Lorenz Von Seidlein and Epidemiology |
Dr Lorenz Von Seidlen (Oxford) and Dr Erica Charters discuss epidemiological research into cholera and global programmes for cholera elimination. |
Erica Charters, Lorenz von Seidlein |
8 October, 2021 |
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| How Epidemics End: Introduction |
Dr Erica Charters (Oxford) and Dr Kristin Heitman (Independent Historian) discuss their research into the conclusion of epidemics. |
Erica Charters, Kristin Heitman |
8 October, 2021 |
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| Poor Lord Wensleydale: A Beginner's Guide to the British Constitution with Robert Saunders |
Grace Mallon and Nicholas Cole talk to Robert Saunders about what makes Britain's constitution unique and what challenges it faces in a turbulent period for UK politics and government. |
Grace Mallon, Nicholas Cole, Robert Saunders |
7 October, 2021 |
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| Episode 4: Midlands |
In this episode, we talk about coming to Classics without any ancient languages; Bertie’s first love and how Classics took her into the world of Facebook… |
Alexander Moore, Eleanor Newman, Roberta Thomson, Katrina Kelly |
6 October, 2021 |
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| "Emptiness: Ways of Seeing" Conference 2021 - Roundtable 1: Emptiness, Space, Capital and the State |
Considering the contours of emptiness by examining the shifting relationships between people, place, capital and the state. |
Volodymyr Artiukh, Dace Dzenovska, Saskia Sassen, Johanna Bockman, Don Kalb, Martin Demant Frederiksen |
5 October, 2021 |
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| "Emptiness: Ways of Seeing" Conference 2021. Roundtable 2: On the Edge: Life along the Russia-China border |
A book discussion with Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey |
Dominic Martin, Caroline Humphrey, Franck Billé, Madeleine Reeves, Allessandro Rippa, Natalia Ryzhova |
5 October, 2021 |
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| 5. Democracy | The Europe’s Stories Podcast |
Today, we talk with Sophie Vériter and Josef Lolacher about the core of the European project - democracy. |
Sophie Vériter, Josef Lolacher, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse |
5 October, 2021 |
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| Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin |
Howard Burton talks to Henry Hardy, Fellow of Wolfson and author of ‘In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure’, about being the principal editor of one of the twentieth century’s most captivating public intellectuals |
Henry Hardy, Howard Burton |
30 September, 2021 |
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| Fantasy Creatures |
Dr Caroline Batten and Dr Megan Cavell discuss fantastic animals in fantasy text |
Caroline Batten, Megan Cavell |
29 September, 2021 |
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| Roots to Seeds: the evolution of plant science |
Join Professor Stephen Harris (Curator of Roots to Seeds at the Bodleian Library) and Dr Chris Thorogood, (Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum) as they discuss the past, present and future of botanical research and teaching. |
Stephen Harris, Chris Thorogood, Helen Cook |
17 September, 2021 |
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