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Title	Description	People	Date
Leading Digital Transformation	Inga Thordar, Execuive Editor of CNN Digital International, talks about her career and her championing of digital news output at one of the world's leading news outlets.	Inga Thordar	31 January, 2020
Heather Munro: Ashkenazi Hegemony in Haredi Israeli Society and Implications for the Future	Heather Monro discusses the implications of Ashkenazi Hegemony in the Israeli Haredi society.	Heather Munro	28 January, 2020
The truth behind filter bubbles	Is the concern around filter bubbles in news use warranted? Richard Fletcher outlines the evidence.	Richard Fletcher	24 January, 2020
The Making of the Israeli Far Right Book Talk by Peter Bergamin	Peter Bergamin discusses his new book: The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology	Peter Bergamin	22 January, 2020
Seyed Ali Alavi - Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future	Ali Alavi discusses the history of Iran's relations with Palestinian organisation and the Palestinian cause, and their implication to Iranian-Israeli relations.	Ali Alavi	22 January, 2020
Press freedom and media censorship	Rasmus Nielsen discusses what he believes the European Commission and EU member states can do to protect press freedom.	Rasmus Kleis Nielsen	13 January, 2020
Putting the audience at the heart of journalism	Federica Cherubini, Engagement Manager at Hearken, on tried and tested methods of audience engagement in journalism	Federica Cherubini	4 December, 2019
Tamar Calahorra, Competition between Members of Parliament and Governmental ministries on Policy Outcomes through Legislation – Israel as a Test case	Dr. Calahorra studies some dramatic changes in the ways legislation is conducted in Israel	Tamar Calahorra	3 December, 2019
Nancy Hawker - Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism	Nancy Hawker (The Aga Khan University) considers the developing place of Arabic in official nation-statist platforms in Israel	Nancy Hawker	27 November, 2019
Virtual Reality News: the post-hype reality in 2019	Zillah Watson, Commissioning Editor of the BBC's VR Hub discusses the potential for engaging news audiences through virtual reality	Zillah Watson	22 November, 2019
Yoav Ronel - 'Love, Zionism and Melancholy in the Prose of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky'	Yoav Ronel (Bezalel and BGU) considers representations of a melancholic national and subjective desire in the prose of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky (1865-1921)	Yoav Ronnel	20 November, 2019
Avihu Shoshana - 'Nocturnal Inequality: Ethnographies of Social Selection and Waiting in Line for Night Clubs in Tel-Aviv'	Avihu Shoshana (Haifa University) discusses findings from his ethnography of social selection in Israeli night-clubs.	Avihu Shoshana	13 November, 2019
The 50:50 Project: increasing women's representation in the BBC's journalism	Ros Atkins of BBC News talks about how the 50:50 project led to a significant increase in the number of women appearing across the BBC's journalism.	Ros Atkins	11 November, 2019
Jonathan Leslie - Fear and Insecurity: Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship	Jonathan Leslie considers the history of Iran's "becoming" and existential threat in Israel	Jonathan Leslie	6 November, 2019
Journalism under assault	Meera Selva, Director of the RISJ Journalist Fellowship Programme, discusses attacks on journalists and the media in central and eastern Europe.	Meera Selva	5 November, 2019
Moriel Ram, 'A tale of sand and snow: Bar-Lev line and the Hermon ski site as material fantasies'	Moriel Ram (SOAS) discusses how sand and snow produce potent imageries and physical realities in Israeli political culture.	Moriel Ram	5 November, 2019
The State of Journalism	Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4	Dorothy Byrne	5 November, 2019
Surviving the cash crunch: Bhekisisa's road to non-profit health and social justice journalism	Mia Malan, journalist, gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series.	Mia Malan	18 October, 2019
Social media, democracy and dissent in Sri Lanka	Meera Selva, Director of the Reuters Institute Journalism Fellowship Programme, addresses our closing seminar of the term with a presentation on the media situation in Sri Lanka.	Meera Selva	24 June, 2019
Protecting newsrooms from political pressures	Bobby Ghosh, editorial board member at Bloomberg Opinion, explains how traditional revenue models in India make it challenging to resist external pressures on reporting – but there is a still way through it.	Bobby Ghosh	17 June, 2019
The failure of political journalism	In this seminar, Helen describes the seductive power of the collective narrative as being one of the most distorting forces in modern political journalism.	Helen Lewis	31 May, 2019
Reputation, trust and keeping watch	Inga Thordar, executive editor of CNN Digital International, talks about industry best practice in fact-checking standards, and the idea of telling the truth now constituting activism.	Inga Thordar	24 May, 2019
Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse	Sue Robinson, Professor of Journalism in UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, explores the relationship between race, power and privilege in American journalism, in this seminar.	Sue Robinson	17 May, 2019
British media and populism, and Brexit	Trevor Kavanagh, political columnist at The Sun, talks us through the evolution of his newspaper’s editorial stance on Brexit over the decades, from the early Common Market to the ERM, ECU and EU referendum.	Trevor Kavanagh	10 May, 2019
Why don’t we take women as seriously as men?	Mary Ann Sieghart, Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, shares with us anecdotal and statistical evidence in this talk highlighting gender-respect inequality in the newsroom and other settings.	Mary Ann Sieghart	7 May, 2019
From victims to suspects - representations of Muslim women	Dr Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher at the University of Melbourne's National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies. In this talk she looks at how Muslim women are represented in the media from Australia to the UK.	Shakira Hussein	29 April, 2019
The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Israel: a dialogue between Yehouda Shenhav (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Yadgar (Oxford)	Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in Israel. Session 3 in a series of three.	Yehouda Shenhav, Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar	3 April, 2019
The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 2: Liberalism and Secularism: a dialogue between Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern) and Yolanda Jansen (Amsterdam)	Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Yolande Jansen discuss the notion of the “secular,” liberal politics of the nation-state. Session 2 in a series of three	Elisabeth Shakman Hurd, Yolande Jansen	3 April, 2019
The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 1 Religion and Politics: a dialogue between William Cavanaugh (DePaul) and Timothy Fitzgerald (Centre for Critical Research on Religion)	Timothy Fitzgerald and William Cavanaugh discuss the politics and history of the conceptual duality and its current usages. First session in a series of three	Timothy Fitzgerald, William Cavanaugh	3 April, 2019
Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today	Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel.	Avner Offer	6 March, 2019
Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel	Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state	Eyal Chowers	6 March, 2019
Should the state pay for journalism?	Polly Curtis considers how journalism has become unsustainable and what role the state should play in making it widely available	Polly Curtis	5 March, 2019
Guy Burton - Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947'	How have rising power engaged with the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising powers and conflict management as well as their behaviour in international politics more generally?	Guy Burton	27 February, 2019
Ibrahim Khatib - Identity, Conflict perception and Reconciliation in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict	Ibrahim Khatib discusses the correlations between identity, conflict perception, and willingness to reconcile.	Ibrahim Khatib	27 February, 2019
Diving Deep. Slow News and Reader Engagement	Chris Cook of 'slow news' start-up Tortoise on providing an alternative to the 24/7 news cycle	Chris Cook	18 February, 2019
India's Social Media Elections	Dr Vidya Narayanan of the Oxford Internet Institute on how India's 2019 general elections will be affected by the influence of social media	Vidya Narayanan	18 February, 2019
Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed	Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority.	Menachem Klein	6 February, 2019
Short and strong: Making the Economist Espresso	Lane Greene, language columnist and editor of the Economist's daily briefing, Espresso, on creating the ultra-concise news app and email	Lane Greene	5 February, 2019
The Coldest Story Ever Told: Kanye and the Up Next Algorithm	Caithlin Mercer, Managing Editor, Yahoo!, uses the hip-hop star as an example of how social media's algorithms can enforce biased perspectives	Caithlin Mercer	1 February, 2019
Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan	Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives.	Khaled Furani	23 January, 2019
Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948	How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine?	Netta Cohen	16 January, 2019
Voice, podcasts and the future of audio	How are news organisations embracing voice-activated technology as smart speakers and other devices become more commonplace? Nic Newman, lead author of the groundbreaking study, the Future of Voice, discusses his research.	Nic Newman	13 December, 2018
Behind the lens: The impact and implications of visual storytelling	Award-winning photojournalist and documentary maker Hazel Thompson talks about shedding light on marginalised communities around the world.	Hazel Thompson	10 December, 2018
Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and the Jews	Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the criticism of Zionism.	Brian Klug	28 November, 2018
Orna Sasson-Levy - Gendered citizenship: The case of Women Breaking the Silence	Orna Sasson-Levy discusses the cast of women soldiers who decide to speak	Orna Sasson-Levy	21 November, 2018
Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny	Is popular feminism adequate for tackling partriarchy and misogyny in society? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Head of the Department of Media and Communication, LSE, discusses this in light of the Weinstein allegations, the MeToo movement, 'incel' attacks and more.	Sarah Banet-Weiser	20 November, 2018
Networked solidarity in the age of Trump	Gina Neff of the Oxford Internet Institute, and author of book 'Trump and the Media', discusses the fracturing of society's bonds and the media's role in creating networks of solidarity.	Gina Neff	20 November, 2018
Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building	Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern Hebrew literature.	Adriana X Jacobs	16 November, 2018
David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships	David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships.	David Tal	16 November, 2018
Transformations in news organisations	Anita Zielina, former Chief Product Officer of the Austrian Neue Zürcher Zeitung Media Group, and Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute, talks about how to implement change in news organisations.	Anita Zielina	8 November, 2018
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism	Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the Guardian, talks about the newspaper industry, what makes good journalism, the role of social media and tech giants and the future of journalism.	Alan Rusbridger	2 November, 2018
Yakov Rabkin - Israel: The Russian Connection	Yakov Rabkin (University of Montreal) discusses the roots of Israeli political culture in the Zionist beginnings in the Yiddish speaking regions of the Russian Empire.	Yakov Rabkin	26 October, 2018
Protecting whistleblowers and sources in the digital age	Julie Posetti, Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute, talks about the threats to journalists using confidential sources, and practical steps and evolving frameworks to protect journalists and whistleblowers.	Julie Posetti	18 October, 2018
How The Economist uses newsletters to drive engagement and subscription	Sunnie Huang, Newsletters Editor of the Economist talks about the strategy behind the publication's newsletters	Sunnie Huang	12 October, 2018
Yaacov Yadgar - The Nation-State bill and the meaning of Israel’s Jewish identity	Yaacov Yadgar discusses the recently passed Basic-Law: Israel the Nation State of the Jewish People, and discusses how it plays into Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis	Yaacov Yadgar	10 October, 2018
Kfir Cohen - Israeli Literature as Global Literature	Kfir Cohen discusses Israeli literature as global literature (broadly defined)	Kfir Cohen	25 June, 2018
Innovation and the conversation on the rise of China	Gary Liu, CEO, South China Morning Post, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Gary Liu	15 June, 2018
Statistics and the battle against misinformation	Denise Lievesley gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Denise Lievesley	8 June, 2018
In pursuit of repertoires of news consumption. Analysing how people use news media in everyday life	Kim Schroder gives the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Kim Schroder	1 June, 2018
Bashir Abu-Manneh - Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948	Bashir Abu-Manneh discusses Emile Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948.	Bashir Abu-Manneh	31 May, 2018
Rami Ginat - Egyptian Communist Voices of Peace (1947-1958)	Rami Ginat discusses the Egyptian Communist Party's stance on Israel in its formative first decade of statehood.	Rami Ginat, Yaacov Yadgar	30 May, 2018
Political actors and the manipulation of social media audience groups through the use of junk news and other forms of automation	Vidya Narayanan (Director of Research, Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford Internet Institute) delivers a lecture for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Vidya Narayanan	8 May, 2018
Faisal Devji: Jewish Pecedents and Muslim Nationalism	Faisal Devji discusses the surprising relations between Pakistani nationalism and Zionism.	Faisal Devji, Yaacov Yadgar	2 May, 2018
Reporting The World	Roula Khalaf, deputy editor, The Financial Times, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Roula Khalaf	27 April, 2018
The King of Whoppers and political factchecking in the 2016 US presidential race	The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Lucas Graves (Senior Research Fellow, Reuters Institute, Oxford University) delivers a lecture for the Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series.	Lucas Graves	21 March, 2018
Yuval Evri: Andalusian Legacies: the role of al-Andalus/Sepharad in the political and cultural history of Israel/Palestine	Yuval Evri discusses the uses of the the image of Al-Andalus in political and cultural discourses in the turn of the 20th Century.	Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar	7 March, 2018
There are many roads to power – How to build a career in journalism	Alexandra Borchardt, Director of strategic development, RISJ, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Alexandra Borchardt	27 February, 2018
Galia Sabar: African Migration to Israel - Chronicle of a Failure Foretold	The history and politics of African migration to Israel	Galia Sabar, Yaacov Yadgar	21 February, 2018
Journalism and the Underworld	Antonio Sampaio, research associate for security and development, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Antonio Sampaio	16 February, 2018
Almog Behar - Between Hebrew and Arabic	The politics, culture, and reality of Hebrew and Arabic in Israel and beyond.	Almog Behar, Yaacov Yadgar	14 February, 2018
Eugene Rogan - The Myth of the Campbell-Bannerman Report: Arab views on Israel after the Suez Crisis	On the origins and context of a little know (for some obvious reasons) chapter in the history of the Zionism.	Eugene Rogan	8 February, 2018
Restoring trust in news	Alessandra Galloni, global news editor, Reuters, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Alessandra Galloni	7 February, 2018
Is there a future for photojournalists in the digital age?	Adrian Hadland, senior lecturer, University of Stirling, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Some videos have been edited out of the recording due to Copyright and/or distorted sound.	Adrian Hadland	5 February, 2018
Haim Yacobi - Israel, Africa: Identity, Culture and Politics	Haim Yacobi (UCL) gives a talk on Israel in Africa, Africa (and Africans) in Israel.	Haim Yacobi, Yaacov Yadgar	30 January, 2018
Not-for-Profit Journalism: A New Model	Rachel Oldroyd (Managing Editor, Bureau of Investigative Journalism), gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Rachel Oldroyd	29 January, 2018
Is it true? Why questions about the news are changing	Liz Corbin, editor, BBC Reality Check, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Liz Corbin	19 January, 2018
What’s happening to our news?	Nic Newman, research associate and lead author of Digital News Report at RISJ, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Nic Newman	4 December, 2017
The evolution of digital journalism and tapping into tech for story-telling	Lianna Brinded, Europe editor at Quartz, gives a talk as part of the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Lianna Brinded	4 December, 2017
Under pressure: the global decline in media freedom	Jodie Ginsberg, chief executive, Index on Censorship gives a talk for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Jodie Ginsberg	1 December, 2017
Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation - Panel discussion	Panel discussion looking at Lucy Kueng's report 'Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation'.	Renee Kaplan, David Levy, Lucy Keung, Madhav Chinnappa, Tom Standage, Chris Moran	1 December, 2017
Going Digital - A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation	Lucy Kueng, Google Digital News Senior Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute gives a talk about a new research report 'Going Digital. A Roadmap for Organisational Transformation'.	Lucy Kueng	1 December, 2017
Avi Shlaim - A Jordanian Perspective on Israel	Prof. Avi Shlaim reviews the history of the Jordanian-Israeli relations, and considers how Israel is viewed and understood from the Jordanian side	Avi Shlaim, Yaacov Yadgar	29 November, 2017
Reporting from Yemen and other inaccessible war zones: risk and how to find out if you're in trouble	Laura Silvia Battaglia, foreign correspondent and documentary maker, gives a talk for the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Please note that there are videos in the seminar, so sound may be slightly distorted.	Laura Silvia Battaglia	28 November, 2017
Britain, Brexit and the new political chaos	Jack Blanchard, editor, London playbook at Politico, gives a talk as part of the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series.	Jack Blanchard	8 November, 2017
Birth of the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi Controversy on the ‘Arab Question’ (1910-12)	On 'the mother' of all ensuing Mizrahi–Ashkenazi ethnic controversies.	Moshe Behar, Yaacov Yadgar	1 November, 2017
Jews, Israel and Debate: Understanding Israel in the Diaspora	Why and how should we study Diaspora Jews' relation to Israel?	Ilan z Baron, Yaacov Yadgar	31 October, 2017
What's happening to our media	The Reuters Institute's Director of Research, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, gives the first seminar of our 'The Business and Practice of Journalism' series for Michaelmas Term, 2017.	Rasmus Kleis Nielsen	13 October, 2017
Broadcasting in the age of Brexit and Trump	Justin Webb, BBC Today presenter, Radio 4 gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by David Levy.	Justin Webb	16 June, 2017
Producing news videos that young people care about	Sakhr Al-Makhadhi, Acting Executive Producer, AJ+, gives a talk for the Reuters Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook	Sakhr Al-Makhadhi	13 June, 2017
The Optician of Lampedusa – opening the world’s eyes to the human story behind mass migration	Emma Jane Kirby, BBC correspondent and author of the ‘Optician of Lampedusa’ gives a talk for the Reuters Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by James Painter.	Emma Jane Kirby	5 June, 2017
News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in	Tom Standage, deputy editor, the Economist gives a talk as part of the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series, with an introduction by Richard Sambrook.	Tom Standage	19 May, 2017
Women on Air – where are the experts?	Suzanne Franks, professor of journalism, City University, London, gives a talk for The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook.	Suzanne Franks	11 May, 2017
Why Facebook matters and what you need to know about digital	Esra Dogramaci, Senior Digital Editor, Deutsche Welle, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook.	Esra Dogramaci	8 May, 2017
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy: the polarized media landscape in Syria	Rima Marrouch, freelance journalist for Reuters, BBC, CBS, and Al Jazeera, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar Series, Introduction by Richard Sambrook. Please note, that there are videos within this presentation which may sound distorted.	Rima Marrouch	28 April, 2017
Fear and Loathing International Relations - Cyril Foster Lecture 2017	Although the 2003 Iraq War was linked to the "War on Terror" the case for the war was presented, at least in the UK, within the terms of the established framework of international relations, with the UN at the centre.	Lawrence Freedman	16 March, 2017
Investigative journalism in the age of social news	Tom Warren, investigations correspondent, BuzzFeed UK gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series. Introduction by Richard Sambrook.	Tom Warren	10 March, 2017
Newsweek: Legacy title as startup	Part of The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series, with Owen Matthews, Contributing editor and former Moscow and Istabul Bureau, Chief, Newsweek. Introduction by Richard Sambrook.	Owen Matthews	1 March, 2017
Freedom of information and the informed citizen	Part of the The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series, with Heather Brooke, investigative journalist, author and Professor of journalism at City University, introduction by Richard Sambrook.	Heather Brooke	24 February, 2017
The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series - ‘Reporting Africa: New storytellers, new stories?’	Melanie Bunce, senior lecturer in Journalism, City University, co-editor of Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century gives a talk for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.	Melanie Bunce	15 February, 2017
Digital transformation - the organisation challenges	Introduction by Richard Sambrook	Lucy Küng	9 February, 2017

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