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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands	In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands".	David Anderson	12 March, 2021
Among the Supporting Cast	Sir Timothy Sainsbury (1953) on his memoir, Among the Supporting Cast.	Sir Timothy Sainsbury	10 March, 2021
Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs	In this seminar we hosted Professor Francis Nyamnjoh as he presented his lecture titled Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs.	Francis Nyamnjoh	5 March, 2021
'The Lady Collationers': women and the study of medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries	A look at the careers of the Parker sisters known as the Lady Collationers	Hope Williard	2 March, 2021
Learning since our mothers day	Oxford's registrar gives a personal account of her mother's journey through education and early career, and the expectations for women at the time, and how that has shaped her own career.	Gill Aitken	2 March, 2021
The architecture of women’s higher education in England, 1869–1914	How University architecture reflects the presence of women and their perceived needs, and the generosity of female benefactors	Geoffrey Tyack	2 March, 2021
Diversifying portraiture: women’s place in a project to change the representation of Oxford success	Alice Prochaska discusses the Diversifying Portraiture project designed by the Equality and Diversity Unit at Oxford University	Alice Prochaska	2 March, 2021
A subject ‘for Honours men’: women in the early School of Geography	A look at early women geography students at Oxford	Elizabeth Baigent	2 March, 2021
Women of the Bodleian: personal stories behind progressive steps	A look at the early women librarians of the Bodleian Library	Anne Lawrence	2 March, 2021
The domestic work of women at Oxford colleges	A look at the history of the women service sector workers at Oxford Colleges and upon whom the comfortable academic life depended	Kathryne Crossley	2 March, 2021
Women college principals and their views on degrees, 1879–1920	Anne Keene explores the views of the 10 women principals of the 5 women's colleges estabished between 1879-1920	Anne Keen	2 March, 2021
The most woman-studentish? Somerville College and student life	A look at early women students at Somerville College Oxford	Mo Moulton	2 March, 2021
All but absent from history? Women in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography	Womens roles in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography	Jane Garnett	2 March, 2021
‘Must it be a man?’: the women who helped to make the Oxford English Dictionary	Peter Gilliver discusses the contribution women made to the Oxford English Dictionary	Peter Gilliver	2 March, 2021
Women workers at OUP	A look back at women who worked at the Oxford University Press. Delivered by Peter Gilliver on behalf of Martin Maw	Martin Maw, Peter Gilliver	2 March, 2021
Women in the Oxford English Dictionary	A fascinating insight into the role of women in the Oxford English Dictionary	Charlotte Brewer	2 March, 2021
Introduction	Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Library, gives a short introduction to the event	Richard Ovenden	2 March, 2021
Layers of Protection: Everyday Life with Empowered Objects	In her talk, Inger Vasstveit discusses “empowered objects” - small Buddhist objects that people wear on their person - in relation to the broader socio-political and cosmological environment in India	Inger Vasstveit	2 March, 2021
The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution	In this seminar we hosted Jennifer Riggan as she gave a lecture entitled: The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution	Jennifer Riggan	24 February, 2021
Mainstream	Nathan Evans (1993) explores the anthology Mainstream	Nathan Evans	23 February, 2021
How to prevent future pandemics	Katrien Devolder and Jeff Sebo on factory farms as breeding grounds for pandemics	Jeff Sebo, Katrien Devolder	17 February, 2021
An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)	In this podcast we hear from Selina Molteno, Publisher, Oxford & Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, as they discuss their lecture titled An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War.	Selina Molteno, Robin Cohen	11 February, 2021
Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa	In this seminar, Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) jointly provide a lecture titled: Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa.	Rogers Orock and Peter Geschiere	4 February, 2021
Death by Poisoning: Cautionary Narratives and Inter-Ethnic Accusations in Contemporary Sikkim	Kikee Bhutia talks about the contemporary discourses around ‘othering’ in Sikkim and analyse the region’s inter-ethnic challenges	Kikee Bhutia	4 February, 2021
Achillefs Kapanidis on developing a new rapid test for COVID-19	St Cross Fellow Achillefs Kapanidis talks with Stanley Ulijaszek about how his research group developed a new rapid test for SARS CoV2, the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19	Achillefs Kapanidis, Stanley Ulijaszek	4 February, 2021
Fervent admiration and devotion: Exploring devotional literature in the collected works of the 3rd Dodrupchen	Renée Ford's introduction to the devotional literature in the collected works of the 3rd Dodrupchen composed in admiration of his late teacher Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.	Renée Ford	2 February, 2021
Sharks, Death, Surfers	Melissa McCarthy (1994) on her book, Sharks, Death, Surfers	Melissa McCarthy	2 February, 2021
Etiquette	Isabel Parkinson (2015) on her debut novel, Etiquette	Isabel Parkinson	27 January, 2021
Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’	Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X	Peter Millican, Sarah Gilbert, Peter Horby, Jimmy Whitworth, John Bell, Erica Charters	14 January, 2021
Ebola	Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.	Peter Millican, Kevin Decock, Katie Ewer, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti	14 January, 2021
HIV/AIDS	In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV.	Peter Millican, Harold Jaffe, John Frater, Kevin Decock, Jimmy Whitworth	14 January, 2021
The 'Spanish' Flu	Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak.	Peter Millican, John Oxford, Brian Angus, Claas Kirchhelle	14 January, 2021
'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't?	In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak...	Peter Millican, Julia Mannherz, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti	14 January, 2021
Cholera	Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow	Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti	14 January, 2021
Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop – Song of Simeon	In this online choir workshop you will learn to sing along with a simple voice part from the Candlemas Nunc Dimittis and see the 15th-century manuscript from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen where the music is preserved in the Bodleian Libraries	Henrike Lähnemann, Nick Swarbrick, Andrew Dunning, Alexandra Burgar, Jasmine Lowe, Timothy Powell	15 December, 2020
The Role of Prophecies in the Construction of the Geluk Tradition	In this talk, Michael Ium explores the role of prophecies in the legitimation and construction of the Geluk tradition.	Michael Ium	3 December, 2020
Smallpox, and Jenner	Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries.	Peter Millican, Claas Kirchhelle, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Erica Charters	1 December, 2020
The Great Plague	in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England.	Peter Millican, Paul Slack, Emma Smith, Kees Windland	1 December, 2020
The Black Death	Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak.	Peter Millican, Samuel Cohn, Blanche Oguti	1 December, 2020
The Plague of Justinian	Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced.	Peter Millican, Michael McCormick, Abigail Buglass	1 December, 2020
Athens: the first plague?	Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted.	Peter Millican, Tim Rood, Brian Angus, Blanche Oguti, Nicolette D'Angelo	1 December, 2020
Liu pin fo lou (Building of Six Classes of Sutra and Tantra), the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon in the Forbidden City	Ziyi Shao takes us to the reign of the Qianlong Emperor and will show us around the Fan hua lou (Hall of Buddhist Efflorescence), one of the most complex and prominent Buddhist monuments in the Forbidden city	Ziyi Shao	26 November, 2020
Verse and Prose in Fantasy Literature	An analysis of two forms that dominate fantasy literature.	Katherine Olley	24 November, 2020
Guy Gavriel Kay	A short introduction to the writer Guy Gavriel Kay.	Katherine Olley	24 November, 2020
Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana	For this seminar we hosted George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology). Professor Bob-Milliar's lecture is titled Presidential Campaigns stops in Ghana.	George Bob-Milliar	19 November, 2020
2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (3/3): The case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAYG) pension	Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the final of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions'	Michael Otsuka	17 November, 2020
2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (2/3): The case for collective defined contribution (CDC)	Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the second of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions'	Michael Otsuka	17 November, 2020
2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (1/3): The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB)	Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the first of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions'	Michael Otsuka	17 November, 2020
Panel Discussion 4: Working to Establish Tomorrow's Names	Taous Dahmani chairs a discussion with Fiona Rogers, Max Houghton and Anna Fox	Taous Dahmani, Fiona Rogers, Max Houghton, Anna Fox	17 November, 2020
Panel Discussion 3: Feminist Multi-taskers: Being a Photographer, a Writer and a Curator	Taous Dahmini chairs a discussion with Patrizia Di Bello and Deborah Cherry	Taous Dahmani, Patrizia Di Bello, Deborah Cherry	17 November, 2020
Panel Discussion 2: Unveiling the Archive, Revealing Photographers	Taous Dahmini chairs a discussion with Erika Lederman and Jessica Sutcliffe	Taous Dahmani, Jessica Sutcliffe, Erika Lederman	17 November, 2020
Panel Discussion 1: Historiography's Origin Stories	Taous Dahmani chairs a discussion with Val Williams	Taous Dahmani, Val Willams	17 November, 2020
Fast Forward: Women in Photography	Anna Fox gives an overview of Fast Forward - a research project designed to promote and engage with women in photography across the globe.	Anna Fox	13 November, 2020
David Beeson	David Beeson, Professor in Molecular Neurosciences, talks with Stanley Ulijaszek	David Beeson, Stanley Ulijaszek	13 November, 2020
Adriana X Jacobs	Adriana X Jacobs, Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek	Adriana X Jacobs, Stanley Ulijaszek	13 November, 2020
Write or be Written Off: the work of Jo Spence (1934-1992) as photography 'theory'	Patrizia Di Bello discusses the work of Jo Spence as a writer, organiser and photographer	Patrizia Di Bello	13 November, 2020
The Isabel Project: Uncomvering 19th Century Institutional Photographers, One Woman at a Time	Erika Lederman talks about her practice and the work of the V & A museum's first in house photographer, Isabel Cowper.	Erika Lederman	13 November, 2020
Of parasites, dinosaurs, and other model animals	Elaine Charwat has been on a journey into the attic storerooms behind the scenes of the Museum to discover 19th-century wax models of parasites.	Elaine Charwat, Mark Carnall, Péter Molnár	11 November, 2020
Humanity, Inclusive Positivism and the Law of Armed Conflict	Humanitarian personnel from time to time find themselves transporting desperate civilian residents forced out of besieged areas into long-term or even permanent displacement	Nobuo Hayashi	6 November, 2020
Looking back; Moving Forwards: The History of Black Lives Matter	Wolfson College marks Black History Month 2020 with an engaging discussion with Britain's foremost experts on the history of black lives and communities in Britain.	Olivette Otele, Hakim Adi	5 November, 2020
Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya	For this seminar we hosted Fred Ikanda from Maseno University. Professor Ikanda's spoke about his research and fieldwork experiences with the Dagahaley Refugee Camp.	Fred Ikanda	5 November, 2020
Buddhism and the Rise of ‘the Tibetans’ (bod pa): Religion, Myth and the Promotion of Ethnicity in the Pre-modern Period	Apropos 'the Tibetans': Reinier Langelaar's talk focuses on the mythical origins and the promotion of ethnicity in historical Tibet	Reinier Langelaar	5 November, 2020
Human Remains in Tibetan Material Religion: An object centered approach	Ayesha Fuentes shares a unique and interdisciplinary insight into art conservation of human remains in Tibetan material religion	Ayesha Fuentes	29 October, 2020
Sacred Trash, Trash Talks, And Personhood	Bo Wang discussing the practice of depositing garments as offerings to sacred mountains in Eastern Tibet	Bo Wang	29 October, 2020
The Helen Muspratt Archive	Jessica Sutcliffe, the daughter of photographer, Helen Muspratt, give a short talk on her mother's life and career.	Jessica Sutcliffe	26 October, 2020
Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation	For this seminar today we hosted Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University). Professor Konadu, Colgate University, spoke about his book, Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation.	Kwasi Konadu	23 October, 2020
To the Volcano and Other Stories	Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)	Wale Adebanwi, Elleke Boehmer	16 October, 2020
The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 1: Regarding the Portrait: The Primers	Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH. Moderator; Alastair Wright: Alastair Wright is Head of the History of Art Department and Tutorial Fellow in Art History at St John’s College, Oxford.	Amy M. Mooney	16 October, 2020
The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 3: Regarding the Portrait: The Progressives	Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH. Moderator: Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Department at Columbia College Chicago.	Amy M. Mooney	16 October, 2020
The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 2: Regarding the Portrait: The Photographers	Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art. Hosted by TORCH. Moderator: Professor Deborah Willis, Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.	Amy M. Mooney	16 October, 2020
The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 4: Regarding the Portrait: The Pragmatists	Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH.	Amy M. Mooney	16 October, 2020
The First Tibetan Block Print: The Khara-Khoto Collection of Precious Dhāraṇīs with the Emperor's Postscript	Alla Sizova discusses the role of translation activities in the spread of Buddhism in the 12th century and outlines the extent of Tibetan influence on the Tangut culture.	Alla A. Sizova	15 October, 2020
The Golden Age of French Writing Masters?	Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 4th lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series	Marc Smith	9 October, 2020
Renaissance Calligraphy from Pen to Press and Back	Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 3rd lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series	Marc Smith	6 October, 2020
In At The Deep End	Alex Gunz (1994, PPE) on his novel, In At The Deep End	Alex Gunz	2 October, 2020
Bibliography and the Life Cycles of Writing Books	The 2nd lecture in the 2020 series delivered by Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris	Marc Smith	1 October, 2020
Episode 5 – Babylon: Natural Theology versus Scientific Naturalism	When Museum opened in 1860, a new secular approach to science was on the rise. In the final episode of Temple of Science we see how ‘natural theology’ responded to the challenges of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection.	John Holmes	1 October, 2020
Episode 4 – Chambers of the Ministering Priests: Building Scientific Disciplines	The Museum was founded on the principle that art should be used to teach science and to inspire generations of scientists. In episode 4 of Temple of Science we see how this was put into practice in some of the building’s less familiar spaces.	John Holmes	1 October, 2020
Episode 3 – The Sanctuary of the Temple of Science: The Central Court	The central court of the Museum was described by one founder as ‘the sanctuary of the Temple of Science’. In this episode we see how every detail of this unique space was carefully planned and crafted to form a comprehensive model of natural science.	John Holmes	1 October, 2020
Episode 2 – 'God’s Own Museum': The Façade	In episode 2 of Temple of Science, we take a closer look at the decoration on the outside of the Museum building, which captures the vitality of nature, presented in Victorian Oxford as the study of God’s creation.	John Holmes	1 October, 2020
Exiles From Paris	Brigitte Adès (1982) on her novel, Exiles From Paris	Brigitte Ades	1 October, 2020
The Cry of the Lake	Charlie Tyler (1993) on her debut novel, The Cry of the Lake	Charlie Tyler	30 September, 2020
Writing Models and the Formation of National Scripts	The first lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2020 series delivered by Professor Marc Smith - Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2020	Marc Smith, Richard Ovenden	29 September, 2020
Covid-19: who should be vaccinated first?	Katrien Devolder interviews Alberto Giubilini.	Alberto Giubilini, Katrien Devolder	24 September, 2020
The Risks of Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps	Katrien Devolder interviews Associate Professor Carissa Véliz.	Carissa Véliz, Katrien Devolder	24 September, 2020
Why Parental Status Matters When Allocating Scarce Medical Resources	Katrien Devolder interviews Moti Gorin.	Moti Gorin, Katrien Devolder	24 September, 2020
Live Event: This is Shakespeare - Prof Emma Smith in conversation with Erica Whyman OBE	Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Emma Smith, Erica Whyman	15 September, 2020
OxPeace 2020: Opening and keynote address on 'Feminine Peace, Human Security'	Dr Liz Carmichael MBE opens the OxPeace 2020 Conference; Teohna Williams gives keynote on “Feminine Peace, Human Security”	Liz Carmichael, Teohna Williams	6 September, 2020
OxPeace 2020: Twenty Years of UNSCR 1325	Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini MBE gives the keynote address on 'Twenty Years of UNSCR 1325' at the OxPeace 2020 conference.	Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini	6 September, 2020
OxPeace 2020: Using the PA-X Database to Understand Gender Perspectives in Peace Agreements	Dr Kevin McNicholl presents 'Using the PA-X Database to Understand Gender Perspectives in Peace Agreements' at the OxPeace 2020 conference.	Kevin McNicholl	6 September, 2020
OxPeace 2020: Women's participation in peacebuilding and mediation	Quhramaana Kakar presents 'Women's participation in peacebuilding and mediation' at the OxPeace 2020 conference.	Quhramaana Kakar	6 September, 2020
OxPeace 2020: UNSCR 1325 and the Experience of Women in Sudan	Dr Suad Musa presents 'UNSCR 1325 and the Experience of Women in Sudan' at the OxPeace 2020 conference.	suad musa	6 September, 2020
OxPeace 2020: Uniformed Women in South Sudan	Captain Sophie Piper presents 'Uniformed Women in South Sudan' at the 2020 OxPeace conference.	Sophie Piper	6 September, 2020
OxPeace 2020: Seeking Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict	Baroness Helić presents 'Seeking Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict' at the 2020 OxPeace conference.	Arminka Helic	6 September, 2020
Feed the birds?	What do birds like eating and what decisions do they have to make when visiting a bird feeder?	Lindsay Turnbull, Friederike Hillemann, Annette Fayet	28 July, 2020
What Tolkien learnt from 'Beowulf': Representations of Evil	Monsters and evil in Tolkien	Rafael J. Pascual	16 July, 2020
Interview with a Vampire	Find out how plants like mistletoe and hayrattle extract resources from their hosts and how hayrattle engages in a game of rock, paper, scissors, that makes managing meadows a whole lot easier.	Lindsay Turnbull	10 July, 2020
Interview with Water	This is the first ever online lecture by a Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In the lecture, Alice Oswald explores the strange connection between water and grief.	Alice Oswald	8 July, 2020
Much ado about mothing	Dedicated to moths, this episode explores how and why these unsung heroes deserve more attention.	Lindsay Turnbull, Doug Boyes, Ben Sheldon	30 June, 2020
'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50	This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment.	Mitch Robertson, Alan Curtis, Gary Younge	30 June, 2020