| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| "Conflict resolution for the future of biodiversity conservation" with Dr Alexandra Zimmermann |
Dr Alexandra Zimmermann, WildCRU, discusses the challenges of managing conflict between different groups in order to protect wildlife and natural resources |
Alexandra Zimmermann |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Vaccine policies and challenge trials: the ethics of relative risk in public health |
In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Sarah Chan outlines some risks arising from the deliberate infection of human participants to infectious agents for research purposes |
Sarah Chan |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Do We Need Mental Privacy? The Ethics of Mind Reading Reloaded |
Marcello Ienca discusses moral and legal issues surrounding the decoding – ‘mind reading’ - of brain activity |
Marcello Ienca |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East |
MEC Friday Webinar. This is a recording of a live webinar held on 15th October 2021 for the first episode of the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. |
Michael J. Willis, Walter Armbrust, Laurent Mignon, Usaama al-Azami |
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| 'Why would anyone hesitate to help kids with cancer?' or: understanding competing perspectives on innovations |
'Homebound' students are unable to attend school for health-related reasons. To lessen their predicament, schools have begun experimenting with 'telepresence robots' for remote participation. |
Lars Johannessen |
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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 |
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| Strachey Lecture: The Quest for Truth in the Information Age |
The advantages of computing for society are tremendous. But while new technological developments emerge, we also witness a number disadvantages and unwanted side-effects. |
Sonja Smets |
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| Episode 3: Approaches to South Asian philosophies |
Aamir Kaderbhai and Heeyoung Tae interview Mini Chandran, Professor in the department of humanities and social sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy at Harvard University. |
Aamir Kaderbhai, Heeyoung Tae, Mini Chandran, Parimal Patil |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Closing Remarks of the Oxford Summit 2021 |
Closing remarks from the Oxford Summit 2021 online event. With Prof Chas Bountra CBE, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford and Dr Phil Clare, Deputy Director, Research Services, University of Oxford. |
Chas Bountra CBE, Phil Clare |
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| Transitioning to a Sustainable Future research focus group feedback |
Feedback from the research focus groups which explored specific topics identified in the keynotes in more detail. |
Simon Andrews, Manar Alsaif, Marina Bulova, Simon Hepworth, Tomas Coates Ulrichsen |
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| Transitioning to a Sustainable Future talk 2 |
Transitioning to a Sustainable Future: Mobilising the University-Industry-Government Partnership to drive innovative solutions at pace and scale |
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska, Tomas Coates Ulrichsen |
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| Transitioning to a Sustainable Future talk 1 |
Transitioning to a Sustainable Future: Mobilising the University-Industry-Government Partnership to drive innovative solutions at pace and scale. |
Rob Miller, Tomas Coates Ulrichsen |
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| Introduction to the Transitioning to a Sustainable Future theme |
Welcome and introduction to the Transitioning to a Sustainable Future theme. With Tomas Coates Ulrichsen, Director of the University Commercialisation and Innovation (UCI) Policy Evidence Unit, University of Cambridge. |
Tomas Coates Ulrichsen |
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| A return to multilateralism research focus group feedback |
With delegates from the UK, US and Europe in attendance the research focus groups reflected on and discussed the practicalities of international partnerships in this new era of Post-Trump and Post-Brexit. |
Joe Marshall, Alison Campbell OBE, Alice Frost, Fariba Soetan, Mark Schmidt |
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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 |
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| A return to multilateralism Q and A |
Q and A session with the keynote speakers of the a return to multilateralism theme |
Dame Ottoline Leyser, Mojdeh Bahar, Joe Marshall |
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| A return to multilateralism talk 2 |
A return to multilateralism: How are the UK and US Governments grappling with grand challenges in a multilateral way using international partnerships? |
Mojdeh Bahar, Joe Marshall |
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| A return to multilateralism talk 1 |
A return to multilateralism: How are the UK and US Governments grappling with grand challenges in a multilateral way using international partnerships? |
Dame Ottoline Leyser, Joe Marshall |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Catalysts for innovation at pace research focus group feedback |
Taking the provocations from the keynote talks the research focus groups feedback on which catalysts and new approaches they want and plan to continue in university-industry-government collaborations. |
Amanda Savaratnam, Carla Leigh, Christian Holtze, Rebecca Wilson, Jeremy Long |
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| Catalysts for innovation at pace Q and A |
Q and A session with the keynote speakers of the Catalysts for innovation at pace theme. |
Nick Scott-Ram, Bryan Haynes, Phil Clare |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Catalysts for innovation at pace talk 2 |
Bryan Haynes shares examples of how Kimberly-Clark Corporation has responded to COVID-19, what drove the changes, what difficult choices had to be made, and what was possible in a crisis that would have been more difficult before. |
Bryan Haynes |
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| Catalysts for innovation at pace talk 1 |
Dr Nick Scott-Ram MBE, Managing Director - Life Sciences, Sensyne Health, Chaired by Dr Phil Clare, Deputy Director, Research Services, University of Oxford. |
Nick Scott-Ram |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Welcome to the Oxford Summit 2021 |
Opening remarks from the Oxford Summit 2021 online event, by Prof Chas Bountra CBE, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford |
Chas Bountra |
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| Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema |
Join us for Booktalk Episode 9, Professor Deborah Starr (Cornell University) in conversation about her new book, Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, published by California Press. |
Deborah Starr, Walter Armbrust |
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| 7. Timothy Garton Ash: Finale Interview | The Europe’s Stories Podcast |
For something different in this series finale, we speak with Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Politics at Oxford and Director the Europe’s Stories Project. |
Timothy Garton Ash, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse; |
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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 |
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| Atalia Omer - Pathways toward a Jewish Israeli Restorative Ethics |
Atalia Omer discusses restorative justice practices and the possibilities (and limits) of Jewish critiques of Zionism. |
Atalia Omer, Yaacov Yadgar |
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| Episode 2: How students grapple with specialising in marginalised philosophies |
How do you make marginalised philosophies accessible? What are the challenges to South Asian and African(a) philosophy specialists within Anglo-European universities? Find out more in this episode. |
Srutokirti Basak, Aamir Kaderbhai, Jonathan Egid |
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| Episode 1: How should we talk about South Asian and African(a) philosophies? inspiration with Dr. Adamson and Dr. Jeffers |
Join Mansfield College History student Srutokirti Basak in a discussion with podcast hosts and writers of the comprehensive and trailblazing History of Indian and African(a) Philosophy podcast series Dr Peter Adamson and Dr Chike Jeffers. |
Srutokirti Basak, Peter Adamson, Chike Jeffers |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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