| Science and Religious Conflict Conference |
Religious disagreement and religious accommodation |
Professor Tony Coady (University of Melbourne) gives a talk for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Reverend Dr Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford). |
Tony Coady, Liz Carmichael |
7 June, 2010 |
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| Science and Religious Conflict Conference |
Is Religion Adaptive? Integrating Cognition and Function |
Professor Robin Dunbar (Oxford) gives the first presentation for the Science and Religious Conflict Conference. The commentator is Professor Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford). |
Robin Dunbar, Janet Radcliffe-Richards |
7 June, 2010 |
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| History of Tropical Medicine at Oxford |
Medicine without Frontiers: An Oxford physician-scientist working in Kenya. |
On one of Kevin Marsh's regular visits to Oxford, the historian Conrad Keating caught up with the world-renowned malariologist and asked him what initially drew him to tropical medicine... |
Kevin Marsh, Conrad Keating |
4 June, 2010 |
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| Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network |
Altruism and Reciprocity in the Governance of Human Genetic Databases |
Nadja Kanellopoulou gives a talk as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in research Ethics. |
Nadja Kanellopoulou |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network |
Procardis Study; Genome wide associations with Disease |
Paula Boddington gives a talk on the Procardis study as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics. |
Paula Boddington |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) |
In Defense of Business Ethics - Said Business School Centre for Corporate Reputation |
Roger Crisp gives a talk on business ethics as part of the Said Business School's Seminar - The ethics of reputation and the reputation of ethics: oxymoron or research subject? |
Roger Crisp |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network |
Genomics Research: Individuals and Families |
Paula Boddington gives a talk on the ethics of individuals and families as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics. |
Paula Boddington |
27 May, 2010 |
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| St Anne's College |
In Defense of Business Ethics - Said Business School Centre for Corporate Reputation |
Roger Crisp gives a talk on business ethics as part of the Said Business School's Seminar - The ethics of reputation and the reputation of ethics: oxymoron or research subject? |
Roger Crisp |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network |
The Science of Ethics: What Counts as Good Research? |
Mark Sheehan gives a talk on research ethics and asks what counts as good research. Part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics. |
Mark Sheehan |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network |
Ethics and Genomic Research |
Paula Boddington gives a talk on ethical issues within genomics research as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics. |
Paula Boddington |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network |
Dealing in Pieces of Silver: Financial Inducements in Research |
Mark Sheehan gives a talk on the ethics of offering money or financial incentives to research participants as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics. |
Mark Sheehan |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network |
Research involving adults lacking the capacity to consent: The Mental Capacity Act 2005 |
Michael Dunn gives a talk on the legal and ethical issues surrounding research involving adults who lack the capacity to give consent. Part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics. |
Michael Dunn |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) |
Introduction to Ethics: Judgment, Motivation, Action |
Paula Boddington gives a talk introducing the concept of ethics in business as part of the Said Business School's Seminar - The ethics of reputation and the reputation of ethics: oxymoron or research subject? |
Paula Boddington |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Issues in Bioethics - Oxford Bioethics Network |
Good Practice for Research Collection and Biobanks |
Jane Kaye, Director of the HeLEX centre in Oxford, gives a talk on good practice in collecting research data and biobanks as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics. |
Jane Kaye |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Anthropology |
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 4: Intensification of subsistence (10 Feb 2010) |
Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, delivers his fourth lecture in the Nutritional Anthropology series. This lecture focuses on agriculture and pastoralism. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) |
Who owns your research samples and information? HeLEX |
Jane Kaye gives a talk as part of the HeLEX: Talking Law and Ethics series from the Bioethics network series on Talking Law and Ethics (TLE). |
Jane Kaye |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) |
Translating genomic research into clinical applications HeLEX |
Naomi Hawkins gives a talk as part of the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at Oxford series on Talking Law and Ethics. |
Naomi Hawkins |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) |
What researchers should know about confidentiality and privacy HeLEX |
Liam Curren gives a talk on the legal issues surrounding privacy in medical research as part of the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at Oxford series. |
Liam Curren |
27 May, 2010 |
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| Wolfson College Podcasts |
War and Civilization Series Lecture 4: War and Liberation |
Ian Buruma is a writer and lecturer focussing on Asian (esp. Japanese) culture. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York. |
Ian Buruma |
24 May, 2010 |
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| Wolfson College Podcasts |
War and Civilization Series Lecture 3: War and Pity |
Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of myths, symbols, and fairytales. She is currently Professor at Essex University. |
Marina Warner |
24 May, 2010 |
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| Wolfson College Podcasts |
War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry |
Geoffrey Hill is currently Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University and in 2009 his Collected Critical Writings won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. |
Geoffrey Hill |
24 May, 2010 |
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| The God Delusion Weekend |
Attacking the God hypothesis in other ways |
Stephen Law gives the fourth talk on Richard Dawkins' The God Delsuon as part of The God Delusion Weekend. |
Stephen Law |
20 May, 2010 |
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| The God Delusion Weekend |
The God Delusion: Questions and Answers |
Stephen Law and Marianne Talbot take part in a panel discussion with Tom Fisher, chairman of the Oxford Philosophical Society, chairing. They answer questions form the audience about The God Delusion and discuss the philosophical issues surrounding it. |
Marianne Talbot, Stephen Law, Tom Fisher |
20 May, 2010 |
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| The God Delusion Weekend |
Has Dawkins shown that God is Redundant? |
Marianne Talbot presents the third talk on Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion as part of The God Delusion Weekend. |
Marianne Talbot |
20 May, 2010 |
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| The God Delusion Weekend |
A Scientific Hypothesis? |
Marianne Talbot gives the first talk on Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion as part of The God Delusion Weekend. |
Marianne Talbot |
20 May, 2010 |
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| The God Delusion Weekend |
The Strengths and Weaknesses of The God Delusion |
Stephen Law givs the second talk on Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion as part of The God Delusion Weekend. |
Stephen Law |
20 May, 2010 |
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| Philosophy Special Lectures |
Some Fundamental Facts about the Infinite |
Professor Adrian Moore delivers a lecture on the concept of the infinite, a concept with deep philosophical implications. This lecture was given in St Hugh's College as part of the St Hugh's Special Lecture Series. |
Adrian Moore |
14 May, 2010 |
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| History of Tropical Medicine at Oxford |
Forging a New Frontier in Oxford Medicine |
The historian Conrad Keating continues his history of Oxford's groundbreaking contribution to health in the tropics by asking David Warrell what motivated him to work in Africa... |
David Warrell, Conrad Keating |
12 May, 2010 |
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| The State of the State |
The Idea of the State: a Genealogy |
Quentin Skinner gives a genealogy of the modern state, arguing that we should not understand the state simply as the government, but rather as a fictional person, enabling us to explain such things as shared responsibility for debt over generations. |
Quentin Skinner |
11 May, 2010 |
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| Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures |
User-produced Hebrew Prayer Books and Shared Iconography |
Some Hebrew manuscripts were produced in Christian workshops, others were made by Jewish artists themselves for their own use. Piet looks at examples of these and explores the shared iconography between Christian and Jewish faiths, such as the unicorn. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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| Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures |
Hebrew Prayer Books for Public Use |
Piet looks at the three great Bodleian mahzorim (large and elaborately decorated prayer books for the festivals), which were illuminated by Christian painters in collaboration with and under the supervision of Jewish scribes. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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| Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures |
Conclusion to Crossing Borders |
The conclusion to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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| Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures |
Arabic Art Forms in Spanish Book Production |
Piet explains Arabic design and illustration in Spanish books, looking in particular at the Kennicott Bible, produced in La Coruna, Spain, in 1476. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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| Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures |
Sciences |
Piet looks at how the works of famous ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid or Ptolemy traveled from culture to culture and formed the basis of Muslim, Christian and Jewish science and philosophy alike. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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| Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures |
From Roll to Codex |
Piet explains codices, the oldest manuscripts in book form, looking in particular at a fragment of the Hebrew text of the book of Ecclesiasticus (ch. 40) from the Cairo Genizah, and the four Gospels in Syriac. |
Piet van Boxel |
6 May, 2010 |
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| Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures |
Introduction to Crossing Borders |
An introduction to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book. |
Piet van Boxel |
6 May, 2010 |
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| History of Tropical Medicine at Oxford |
Sir David Weatherall on Malaria |
Conrad Keating, the medical historian, opens his series with an interview with Sir David Weatherall to mark World Malaria Day on April 25th 2010. |
Sir David Weatherall, Conrad Keating |
23 April, 2010 |
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| Philosophy Special Lectures |
Ethics, Hospitality and Radical Atheism: A Dialogue |
Dialogue between Martin Hägglund and Derek Attridge in Wadham College discussing Philosopher Jacques Derrida's ideas on hospitality and the challenge of Radical Atheism. |
Martin Hägglund, Derek Attridge |
16 April, 2010 |
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| The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China |
Connecting the dots: Chinese scholars on Christianity in China today |
Final lecture of the Martin D'Arcy Memorial lecture series on Christianity in China, in this lecture, Dr Wu looks at the various perspectives on how Chinese and western scholars understand christianity in china and also cross-cultural studies. |
Xiaoxin Wu |
16 April, 2010 |
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| The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China |
Economic growth and spiritual nourishment: Shenzhen and its entrepreneur citizens |
Third lecture in the Martin D'Arcy lecture series on Christianity in China, in this lecture, Dr Wu looks at the rapid economic growth in the city of Shenzhen and also the spiritual growth within the city. |
Xiaoxin Wu |
16 April, 2010 |
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| The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China |
The Hall of Four: politics, faith and daily life in a northern Chinese village |
Second lecture in the Martin D'Arcy Memorial lecture series on contemporary Chinese perspectives on Christianity in China. In this lecture, Dr Wu looks at the spread of christianity in china despite persecutions in the 18th and 19th century. |
Xiaoxin Wu |
16 April, 2010 |
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| The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China |
Pyramid or triangle? Church, government and local Catholic communities in Fujian in the Qing Dynasty |
Dr Xiaoxin Wu delivers the first Martin D'Arcy Memorial Lecture on the history of Christianity in China with a look at the early Christian communities in China during the Qing Dynasty. |
Xiaoxin Wu |
16 April, 2010 |
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| The Oxford Climate Forum |
The Politics of Climate Change: Problems and Solutions |
Lord Anthony Giddens gives the opening keynote address to the Oxford Climate Forum, talking about the politics of climate change. |
Anthony Giddens |
14 April, 2010 |
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| 4 Degrees and Beyond International Climate Conference |
Introduction to the 4 Degrees and Beyond Conference |
Mark New, Reader in Climate Science at the School of Geography and the Environment, introduces the 4 Degrees and Beyond conference, its main themes and why it was important. |
Mark New |
14 April, 2010 |
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| Tolkien at Oxford |
The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day |
Judith Priestman, curator of the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 exhibition, where a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork which was used to illustrate The Hobbit, was on display to the public. |
Judith Priestman |
13 April, 2010 |
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| Literature, Art and Oxford |
The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day |
Judith Priestman, curator of the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 exhibition, where a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork which was used to illustrate The Hobbit, was on display to the public. |
Judith Priestman |
13 April, 2010 |
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| Literature, Art and Oxford |
Philip Pullman: Lyra's Oxford, Bodleian Library Masterclass |
Acclaimed author of His Dark Materials Philip Pullman is interviewed by Margaret Kean on his new book, his influences and his method for writing stories. |
Phillp Pullman, Margaret Kean |
13 April, 2010 |
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| Global Economic Governance Programme |
Governing Climate Change After Copenhagen |
Ngaire Woods chairs a panel discussion looking into the political, economic and environmental consequences of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference last year. |
Ngaire Woods, Sir David King, Cameron Hepburn |
12 April, 2010 |
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| Global Economic Governance Programme |
John Mitchell; NGO's and humanitarian aid |
John Mitchell talks about the NGOs and humanitarian organisations work and how they have been working to help Haiti after the earthquake disaster. |
John Mitchell |
9 April, 2010 |
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| Global Economic Governance Programme |
Laurence Whitehead; Haiti after the Earthquake |
Laurence Whitehead talks about the extent of the damage done in Haiti by the earthquake of last year and how the people of Haiti are coping with living after the disaster. |
Laurence Whitehead |
9 April, 2010 |
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| Global Economic Governance Programme |
The International Community's Response to Haiti |
Series of presentations looking at the international community's humanitarian response to the Haitian earthquake. |
Ngaire Woods, John Mitchell, Paul Sherlock, Laurence Whitehead |
9 April, 2010 |
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| Global Economic Governance Programme |
Paul Sherlock; Oxfam's response to the Haitian Earthquake |
Paul Sherlock gives his presentation for the event; 'The International Community's Response to Haiti'. |
Paul Sherlock |
9 April, 2010 |
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| Global Economic Governance Programme |
Ngaire Woods, introduction to the International Community's Response to Haiti |
Ngaire Woods talks about the international community's humanitarian response to the Haitian Earthquake. Part of a series of presentations entitled 'The International Community's Response to Haiti'. |
Ngaire Woods |
9 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
4.3 Cartesian Dualism |
Part 4.3. Introduces Descartes' idea of dualism, that there is a separation between the mind and the body, as well as some of the philosophical issues surrounding this idea. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
General Philosophy Lecture 4 |
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 4. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
4.2 Possible Answers to External World Scepticism |
Part 4.2. Investigates some of the possible solutions to Descartes' sceptical problem of the external world, looking at G.E Moore's response, among others, to the problem. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
4.4 The Mind-Body Problem |
Part 4.4. Looks at some of the modern responses to Cartesian Dualism including Gilbert Ryle's and G. Strawson's responses to the idea. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
General Philosophy Lecture 2 |
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 2. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
3.1 Hume's Argument Concerning Induction |
Part 3.1. Briefly introduces the problem of induction: that is, the problem that it is difficult to justify claims to knowledge of the world through pure reason, i.e. without experience. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
2.7 Overview: Kant and Modern Science |
Part 2.7. Concludes a historical survey of philosophy with Immanuel Kant, who thought Hume was wrong in his idea of human nature and how we gain knowledge of the world. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
3.2 Responses to Hume's Famous Argument |
Part 3.2. Responses to and justifications of Hume's argument concerning the problem of induction. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
General Philosophy Lecture 3 |
PDF slides from Peter Millican's General Philosophy lecture 3. |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
4.1 Scepticism about the External World |
Part 4.1. Introduces the problem of how do we have knowledge of the world, how do we know what we perceive is in fact what is there? |
Peter Millican |
8 April, 2010 |
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| Environmental Change Institute |
Panel discussion: What next for climate change reporting? |
Several of the UK's most influential environment correspondents from the BBC, the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Sun and The Science Media Centre to discuss the challenges of climate change reporting in the coming months. |
Fiona Fox, Richard Black, David Adam, Fiona Harvey, Ben Jackson |
8 April, 2010 |
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| UK Climate Impacts Programme Training |
Business |
Kay Johnstone talks about why climate change is an issue as much for businesses as it is for governments and also some of the ways in which businesses can adapt to climate change. |
Kay Johnstone |
8 April, 2010 |
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| UK Climate Impacts Programme Training |
The UKCIP user interface |
Tom Wilson gives an introduction to the UK Climate Impacts Program user interface, where individuals are able to create climate future projections for different areas of the UK. He also demonstrates how the user interface works. |
Tom Wilson |
8 April, 2010 |
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| UK Climate Impacts Programme Training |
How can you adapt? |
Some climate change is inevitable, Megan Gawith talks about the need for organisations and individuals to adapt to climate change. |
Megan Gawith |
8 April, 2010 |
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| UK Climate Impacts Programme Training |
UKCP 09 - UK Climate Projections 2009 |
Richard Lamb gives an introduction to the history of climate projections in the UK, he also describes the different levels of information available to organisations and individuals through UKCP 09. |
Richard Lamb |
8 April, 2010 |
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| UK Climate Impacts Programme Training |
Climate Science |
Alastair Brown explains what climate science is, what the difference between weather and climate, how the scientists model the climate and what range of factors are considered in modelling climate. |
Alastair Brown |
8 April, 2010 |
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| UK Climate Impacts Programme Training |
Local Authorities |
Laurie Newton talks about the need for local authorities to adapt to climate change and some of the resources which are available to help Local Authorities understand adaptation. |
Laurie Newton |
8 April, 2010 |
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| UK Climate Impacts Programme Training |
Introduction to the UK Climate Impacts Program |
Chris West, Director of the UK Climate Impacts Program, gives an introduction to UKCIP, its history and the reason why it stresses the importance of climate change adaptation, rather than climate change mitigation. |
Chris West |
8 April, 2010 |
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| Anthropology |
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 3: Hunter-gatherer diet (5 Feb 2010) |
In this third Nutritional Anthropology lecture, Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (ISCA, Oxford) discusses hunter-gatherer subsistence ecology and its relevance to the modern world. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
7 April, 2010 |
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| Critical Reasoning for Beginners |
Evaluating Arguments Part Two |
Part six of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this final lecture we will look at fallacies. These are bad arguments that can easily be mistaken for good arguments. |
Marianne Talbot |
18 March, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
2.4 John Locke |
Part 2.4. Introduction to the philosophy of John Locke, 'England's first Empiricist', he also gives a very simplistic definition of Empiricism; we obtain knowledge through experience of the world, through sensory data (what we see, hear, etc). |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
2.3 Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton |
Part 2.3. An introduction to Robert Boyle's theory of corpuscularianism and Isaac Newton's ideas on mathematics and the universe. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
2.6 David Hume |
Part 2.6. Introduces 18th Century Scottish philosopher David Hume, 'The Great Infidel', including his life, works and a brief look at his philosophical thoughts. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
2.2 Thomas Hobbes: The Monster of Malmesbury |
Part 2.2. A brief introduction to Thomas Hobbes, 'The Monster of Malmsbury', his views on a mechanistic universe, his strong ideas on determinism and his pessimistic view of human nature: 'The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
2.5 Nicolas Malebranche and George Berkeley |
Part 2.5. Focuses on Malebranche, a lesser-known French Philosopher, and his ideas on idealism and the influence they had on English philosopher George Berkeley. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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| General Philosophy |
2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture 1 |
Part 2.1. A brief recap on the first lecture describing how Aristotle's view of the universe, dominant throughout the middle ages in Europe, came to be gradually phased out by a modern, mechanistic view of the universe. |
Peter Millican |
16 March, 2010 |
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| Critical Reasoning for Beginners |
Evaluating Arguments Part One |
Part five of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will continue with the evaluation of arguments - this time deductive arguments - focusing in particular on the notion of validity. |
Marianne Talbot |
15 March, 2010 |
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| Kellogg College |
Taming the Casino Banks |
In this podcast the experts discuss whether the 'casino' banks that are considered too big to fail are simply too big, and explain the arguments for and against splitting them up. |
Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater, Linda Yueh |
15 March, 2010 |
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| St Edmund Hall |
Taming the Casino Banks |
In this podcast the experts discuss whether the 'casino' banks that are considered too big to fail are simply too big, and explain the arguments for and against splitting them up. |
Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater, Linda Yueh |
15 March, 2010 |
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| The Credit Crunch and Global Recession |
Taming the Casino Banks |
In this podcast the experts discuss whether the 'casino' banks that are considered too big to fail are simply too big, and explain the arguments for and against splitting them up. |
Jonathan Michie, Martin Slater, Linda Yueh |
15 March, 2010 |
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| The Beazley Archive - Classical Art Research Centre |
Treasures of Oxford - Athenian Wine Drinking Cup |
Sir John Boardman talks about a wine drinking cup made in Ancient Athens; he also talks about what we can learn from it about Ancient Greek culture and the kind of lifestyle the Greeks had. |
John Boardman |
11 March, 2010 |
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| Global Economic Governance Programme |
The UN's role in Overcoming Development Challenges |
Special Lecture given by former Prime Minister of New Zealand and now Administrator of the United Nations Development Program the Rt Hon. Helen Clark. She is introduced by Director of the Global Economic Governance Program, Professor Ngaire Woods. |
Helen Clark, Ngaire Woods |
11 March, 2010 |
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| The Beazley Archive - Classical Art Research Centre |
Research in Classical Archaeology |
Discussion between Sir John Boardman and Donna Kurtz on the subject of being classical archaeology researchers and academics and some of the challenges and opportunities they face. |
John Boardman, Donna Kurtz |
11 March, 2010 |
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| The Beazley Archive - Classical Art Research Centre |
Introduction to Art of the Ancient World |
Donna Kurtz and Sir John Boardman talk about Sir John's life, his career and experiences as a classical scholar and also the relationship works of art from different cultures around the ancient world have with one another. |
John Boardman, Donna Kurtz |
11 March, 2010 |
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| Critical Reasoning for Beginners |
What is a Good Argument? Validity and Truth |
Part four of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will learn how to evaluate arguments and how to tell whether an argument is good or bad, focusing specifically on inductive arguments. |
Marianne Talbot |
11 March, 2010 |
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| Anthropology |
Nutritional Anthropology Lecture 2: Nutritional Quality and Child Growth |
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford) discusses nutritional factors that impact on the growth of children across the globe. |
Stanley Ulijaszek |
10 March, 2010 |
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| Critical Reasoning for Beginners |
Setting out Arguments Logic Book Style |
Part three of a six-part series on critical reasoning. In this lecture we will focus on how to identify and analyse arguments, and how to set arguments out logic book-style to make them easier to evaluate. |
Marianne Talbot |
10 March, 2010 |
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| Quantum Mechanics |
027 Hydrogen part 3 Eigenfunctions |
Twenty seventh lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010. |
James Binney |
5 March, 2010 |
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| Quantum Mechanics |
023 Spin 1/2 , Stern - Gerlach Experiment and Spin 1 |
Twenty third lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010. |
James Binney |
5 March, 2010 |
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| Quantum Mechanics |
026 Hydrogen part 2 Emission Spectra |
Twenty sixth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010. |
James Binney |
5 March, 2010 |
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| Quantum Mechanics |
022 Spin Angular Momentum |
Twenty second lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010. |
James Binney |
5 March, 2010 |
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| Quantum Mechanics |
025 Hydrogen part 1 |
Twenty fifth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010. |
James Binney |
5 March, 2010 |
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| Quantum Mechanics |
024 Classical Spin and Addition of Angular Momenta |
Twenty fourth lecture in Professor James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lecture series given in Hilary Term 2010. |
James Binney |
5 March, 2010 |
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| Research Integrity |
An international perspective on promoting the responsible conduct of research |
Paul Taylor gives a talk as part of the Research Integrity Seminar Series held at the John Radcliffe hospital. |
Paul Taylor |
4 March, 2010 |
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| Indian Traces in Oxford |
Repainting Ajanta: the global impact of the Frescoes and their copies |
Dr Rupert Arrowsmith (UCL) - 'Repainting Ajanta: the global impact of the Frescoes and their copies.'. |
Rupert Arrowsmith |
3 March, 2010 |
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| Indian Traces in Oxford |
Cornelia Sorabji: Jowett's protégée in Oxford 1889-1893 |
Professor Richard Sorabji (Wolfson College, Oxford) - Cornelia Sorabji: Jowett's protígíe in Oxford 1889-1893. |
Richard Sorabji |
3 March, 2010 |
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| Indian Traces in Oxford |
Tracing Indian students at Oxford before the Second World War |
Dr Sumita Mukherjee (Oxford) - 'Tracing Indian Students at Oxford before the Second World War'. |
Sumita Mukherjee |
2 March, 2010 |
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