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A Good Science Read

A Good Science Read

Professor Frances Ashcroft gives a short introduction to this exciting new series
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Dr. Gregory Adam Scott, ‘Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures in Modern China: The Role of Scriptural Presses, Distributors, and Buddhist Bookstores’

Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Prof. Paul Harrison, Keynote: ‘Mahāyāna Sūtras: Reading As, Reading For, Reading Into’

Reading Mahāyāna Scriptures Conference, Sept 25-26, 2021
The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations

Cre-AI-tivity: Blood in a Whatsapp message?

This last in our trilogy explores data as the foundation of AI systems. We learn how this enables mapping individual learners' progress and benchmarking in a teaching context, but also how that data exchange raises ethical issues.
The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations

Cre-AI-tivity: Hogwarts 4ever?

The second in our trilogy of podcasts explores the role AI can play in story creation and development. We learn how machines can extend a fictional story world, as well as our interaction with it.
The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations

Cre-AI-tivity: Make the machine work 4u

First in a trilogy explores the impact of AI on story creation and reception. We learn how machines enable audiences to experience the humanity of fictional characters. Yet a ‘rhetoric of innovation’ gets in the way of understanding what is happening.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: The Social Life of Books: A History of Reading Together at Home

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
Talking Sense

Episode 10: 'Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage' – PART 2

Jasmine Proteau (DPhil Student, History) uses an eighteenth-century carriage clock to explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling to centres of culture and spiritual salvati. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast
Talking Sense

Episode 9: Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage' – PART 1

Raphaela Rohrhofer (DPhil Student, English) uses the Alfred Jewel and the reliquary casket of St Thomas Becket to explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Emily Wilson: A Reading

A public reading at the APGRD from November 2017: Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania), discusses and reads from her new translation of Homer's Odyssey.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Josephine Balmer: A Reading

Poet, classical translator, research scholar and literary critic, Josephine Balmer reads from her latest collection, The Paths of Survival - inspired by the surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England

Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english.
Department of Education Public Seminars

Causal models of developmental disorders

In studies in psychology and education it is essential to think clearly about causal mechanisms. In this seminar Professor Hulme will outline the use of path diagrams as tools for representing, reasoning about, and testing causal models.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community

Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing

Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love

Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Nadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba Boy

Nadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Daljit Nagra on voice and identity in Look We Have Coming to Dover!

Daljit Nagra reads from and discusses his celebrated debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007). In conversation with Dr Rachael Gilmour and the audience, he speaks about how and why he writes his poetry, and the readers for whom he writes.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Bernardine Evaristo on writing Britain’s Black histories

In conversation with Dr Zoe Norridge and Marsha Hutchinson, Bernardine Evaristo reads from and discusses her remarkable verse novel, The Emperor’s Babe (2001), which tells the story of a African girl growing up in Roman London in 211 AD.
Great Writers Inspire at Home

Kamila Shamsie on writing history in A God in Every Stone

Author Kamila Shamsie reads from her 2014 novel A God in Every Stone, and discusses it with Prof. Elleke Boehmer and the audience.

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