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Episode Title	Description	People	Date
Panel discussion: #TheDress – What do we know?	In early 2015, an image of a dress polarised the internet: Some people saw it as black-blue, and some as white-gold. Three years on, we revisit the dress and discuss how vision science can explain this phenomenon.	Manuel Spitschan, Anya Hurlbert, Karl Gegenfurtner, David Brainard	6 November, 2018
Old Norse	Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse.	Eleanor Parker	31 October, 2018
Old English	Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english.	Mark Atherton	31 October, 2018
Gothic	Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest.	Elizabeth Solopova	31 October, 2018
Can antibiotics make you pregnant?	Dr Jeffrey Aronson gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Jeffrey Aronson	29 October, 2018
History of evidence synthesis	Professor Mike Clarke gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Mike Clarke	29 October, 2018
Criminology at the periphery: understanding police work in the remote Northern islands of Scotland	Dr Anna Souhami, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, gives a talk for the Criminology seminar series on 11th October 2018.	Anna Souhami	24 October, 2018
Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges	Professor Steven Hoffman discusses legal mechanisms available for coordinating international responses to transnational problems, their prospects, and their challenges.	Steven J Hoffman	23 October, 2018
Evidence-Based Manifesto for better healthcare	Professor Carl Heneghan gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare series.	Carl Heneghan	10 October, 2018
Fake News and the Politics of Truth	Fake news spread online is a clear danger to democratic politics. One aspect of that danger is obvious: it spreads misinformation. But other aspects, less often discussed, is that it also spreads confusion and undermines trust.	Michael Lynch	8 October, 2018
Oxford Mathematics and the Clay Mathematics Institute Public Lectures: Roger Penrose - Eschermatics	In this lecture Roger Penrose uses M.C Escher's work to illustrate and explain important mathematical ideas and their connections to the visual arts.	Roger Penrose	1 October, 2018
All Souls Seminar: 'Shared Beginnings? The Role of Race'	Dr. Coretta Philips and Dr. Alpa Parmar London School of Economics and University of Oxford	Alpa Parmar, Coretta Philips	2 August, 2018
The jugglers and the black cat	There has never been such a high demand for our personal data, such that it is often said that individuals are the product, not just the client.	Kerina Jones	31 July, 2018
Zaharoff Lecture 2017: Penser dans les mots	Penser dans les mots. (This lecture is in French.)	Tiphaine Samoyault, Catriona Seth	20 July, 2018
The 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Poland between Europeanism and Nationalism: National Exception or Regional Norm?	Jacques Rupnik gives the 2018 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture	Jacques Rupnik	3 July, 2018
Fake surgeries and dummy pills – control for bias and study design in trials on treatment efficacy in chronic pain	In this talk Karolina presented various types of study design she has used in trials of treatments for chronic pain. Karolina also discussed why blinding is important and why a placebo control may be necessary, even in surgical trials.	Karolina Wartolowska	2 July, 2018
How do we find planets around other stars?	The 3rd Wetton lecture, 19th June 2018 delivered by Professor David W. Hogg, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University	David W Hogg	2 July, 2018
The shifting evidence paradigm – from literature to data	Carol Lefebvre gives a talk for the Evidence based healthcare seminar series.	Carol Lefebvre	26 June, 2018
The Enemy In-Between: Ambivalence, Hostility, and Joint Enterprise	Dr Henrique Carvalho, University of Warwick	Henrique Carvalho	25 June, 2018
Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work?	Squaring the Circle on Brexit - Could the Norway Model work? - at the European Studies Centre on June 1, 2018	John Erik Fossum, Matthew Broad, Hans Petter, Kalypso Nicolaidis	25 June, 2018
Kfir Cohen - Israeli Literature as Global Literature	Kfir Cohen discusses Israeli literature as global literature (broadly defined)	Kfir Cohen	25 June, 2018
Vagina Dialogues: Challenging Stigmas around Menstruation, Menopause and Female Sexuality	Communication taboos surround many aspects of women’s health and wellbeing, from menstruation to menopause to sexual pleasure.	Annalise Weckesser	22 June, 2018
Public trust and police legitimacy: Diversity and complexity in the 'global city'	Prof. Ben Bradford, University College London	Ben Bradford	15 June, 2018
Roger Hood Lecture: Portals to Politics: Grassroots Narratives of Policing in the 'Low End', Downtown Baltimore, South L.A., and the 53206	Vesla M. Weaver: Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology.	Vesla Weaver	12 June, 2018
2018 Disability Lecture: That Way Lies Madness - Poets, Power, Health	The Equality and Diversity Unit and TORCH are delighted to announce that Gwyneth Lewis will give the 2018 Disability Lecture.	Gwyneth Lewis, Dan Holloway	4 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
The Quest for Nearby Habitable Worlds	The 16th Hintze lecture, 25th April 2018 delivered by Professor René Doyon, Director, Mont-Mégantic Observatory & Institute for Research on Exoplanets, University of Montreal, Canada	Rene Doyon	22 May, 2018
Value-based healthcare: Health economics re-packaged or re-packaging health economics?	Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health economics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare?	Muir Gray, Lucy Abel	16 May, 2018
Offensive Cyber, Ecology and the Competition for Security in Cyberspace: The UK’s Approach	The Strategic Cyber Security model illustrates how offensive cyber capability has been operationalised as a critical component in the delivery of the UK's cyber security strategy	Graham Fairclough	14 May, 2018
Cyber Strategy: The Evolution of Cyber Power and Coercion	Brandon Valeriano examines cyber strategies in their varying forms through quantitative analysis and questions their level of impact	Brandon Valeriano	14 May, 2018
Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Conflict	Al Brown discusses new technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence entering armed conflict	Al Brown	30 April, 2018
The Replication Crisis in Biomedicine. What (kind of) crisis?	Professor Alexander Bird, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, King's College London, gives a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine.	Alexander Bird	11 April, 2018
ALMA and the Birth of Stars Across Galaxies	The 2018 Astor Visiting Lecture 14th March 2018 delivered by Professor Adam Leroy, Ohio State University.	Adam Leroy	28 March, 2018
Defence Cooperation in Europe: Driving Forces and New Formats	Dr Matlary discusses the driving forces behind defence cooperation, the key players and cooperatives within Europe, as well as Russia’s effect on defence policy.	Janne Haaland Matlary	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
Real versus rubbish EBM: do you know the difference?	A light hearted account of being treated by the 'wrong' guideline - with a serious conclusion about making sure this doesn’t happen.	Trish Greenhalgh	2 March, 2018
The Decision Point: Military Command in the 21st Century	Professor Anthony King gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	Anthony King	23 February, 2018
Adapting to Sanctions: How Russia Responded to Western Economic Statecraft	Dr Richard Connolly gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	Richard Connolly	23 February, 2018
Seeing and Seeing-as: Building a politics of visibility in criminology	All Souls Seminar: 1st February 2018.	Sarah Armstrong	6 February, 2018
Launch of new website to catalogue biases affecting health and medical research	Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr David Nunan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine presented the launch of a new website that catalogues the important biases affecting health and medical research.	Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Sir Iain Chalmers	5 February, 2018
Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State	All Souls Seminar, Centre for Criminology, Univeristy of Oxford, 18th January 2018.	Vanessa Barker	31 January, 2018
Beyond accuracy: Evidence gaps and unintended consequences. Factors influencing utility of point-of-care diagnostic tests	Point-of-care or near-patient-tests, are as these descriptors suggest, medical diagnostic tests which can be performed by a clinician, patient, or carer of a patient, without the need for samples to be transported to laboratories.	Phil Turner	30 January, 2018
Mixed methods in the real world: a messy business?	Dr Katherine Pollard gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series.	Katherine Pollard	24 January, 2018
How To Think About Limited War (Without Limiting Your Thinking)	'Limited War' is one of the terms making a frequent appearance in the strategic studies, international relations, and military history realms over the last 70 years.	Donald Stoker	24 January, 2018
The Role of Deterrence in Managing Great Power Competition	This seminar will not only offer a core foundation in the concept of deterrence, from a practitioner's perspective, but explore its utility and application to present day conflict scenarios in Europe, in particular the case of Russia and NATO.	Michael Kofman	22 January, 2018
The Future of Healthcare - Evidencer and Value Based	Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals. Here he gives a talk on improving healthcare systems.	Muir Gray	19 January, 2018
The Culture of New Wars	Mary Kaldor discussing her pioneering work on the concept of new wars and global civil society. Her work on the practical implementation of human security has directly influenced European and national politics.	Mary kaldor	20 December, 2017
Regional Opportunities and Challenges Facing the West in the Middle East	The focus of this presentation is on post-ISIS Syria and Iraq, Iranian ascendancy in the region, and the reaction of the US, UK and their allies in the region. It also considers prospects for Saudi Arabian reform and leadership of the Arab world.	Jonathan Paris	20 December, 2017
'Art and Attunement', by Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia and Southern Denmark	In this talk Rita Felski reported at new research on how we engage with works of art across a broad range (including cat videos) and considered the puzzling question of why we are drawn by some pieces of music, art and literature, and not by others.	Rita Felski	19 December, 2017
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona.	Emma Smith	15 December, 2017
Can Yule Solve My Problems? - Alex Bellos	In our Oxford Mathematics Christmas Lecture Alex Bellos challenges you with some festive brainteasers as he tells the story of mathematical puzzles from the middle ages to modern day.	Alex Bellos	13 December, 2017
Core Course: Architects or Artisans? The Builders of the Medieval Cathedrals	This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students.	Gervase Rosser	7 December, 2017
Life as a trial statistician – the good, the bad and the ugly	Professor Jonathan Cook is a Senior Medical Statistician at the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit.	Jonathan Cook	6 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
How we change behaviour and what to do to support it: lessons from randomised controlled trials and other research	Professor Paul Aveyard, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences gives a talk on behavioural change in evidence based medicine.	Paul Aveyard	28 November, 2017
And then the magic happens! Can realist synthesis really be systematic?	Dr Andrew Booth gives a talk for the Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluations short course.	Andrew Booth	24 November, 2017
The State of the Universe	Our Universe was created in 'The Big Bang' and has been expanding ever since. Professor Schmidt describes the vital statistics of the Universe, and tries to make sense of the Universe's past, present, and future.	Brian Schmidt	20 November, 2017
Lessons From a Study in Failure - The Force Intervention Brigade and the United Nations Mission in Congo, 2012-2017	This seminar is concerned with the broad issues raised by the UN’s long-running mission in the DRC and what it tells us about the deeper challenges facing the UN as it continues to grapple with civil war and protection crises in different parts of Africa.	Mats Berdal	16 November, 2017
Wall Street Goes to War	In this provocative seminar, Dr Sean McFate, author, novelist and expert in foreign policy and national security strategy, looks at the neglected area of the economics of war.	Sean McFate	16 November, 2017
Working 'up' and 'out': how qualitative researchers approach analysis	Dr John MacArtney gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare seminar series.	John MacArtney	15 November, 2017
Henry VI, Part 2	Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2.	Emma Smith	9 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
Soft War: The Ethics on Unarmed Conflict	Soft war tactics, including cyber-warfare and economic sanctions, propaganda and non-violent resistance are of increasing importance but largely unexplored in just war theory. This talk illuminates this neglected aspect of international conflict.	Michael L. Gross	26 October, 2017
The Merry Wives of Windsor	Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.	Emma Smith	25 October, 2017
All's Well That Ends Well	Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well.	Emma Smith	25 October, 2017
Superconductors: why it’s cool to be repulsive	A family-friendly demonstration of superconductors in action. Fran explores the low temperatures we need to make them work, and how we can use superconductors for levitating trains.	Fran Kirschner	25 October, 2017
Cymbeline	Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline.	Emma Smith	25 October, 2017
Giving Up The Gun: Disengaging from Politically Motivated Violence in Northern Ireland	Is de-radicalisation of former terrorists helpful or even possible? This presentation explores the processes involved in leaving social movements or disengaging from terrorist activities.	Neil Ferguson	23 October, 2017
A little known law of numbers	Professor Jeffrey Aronson, Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist, gives a talk for the Evidence Based Healthcare lecture series,	Jeffrey Aronson	20 October, 2017
Cassini-Huygens: Space Odyssey to Saturn and Titan	Public Lecture organised by the Aeronautical Society of Oxford in conjunction with the Department of Physics.	David Southwood	18 October, 2017
The End of Peace and Optimism: Assessing the Changing Character of War	A 'deliberately provocative' assessment of contemporary conflict.	Rob Johnson	16 October, 2017
Critical Appraisal and EBM in the Real World	The overwhelming volume of evidence and its lack of relevance to patient care and decisions means health professionals require skills to sift evidence more efficiently: discarding what doesn't make a difference to focus on evidence that matters for health	Carl Heneghan	13 October, 2017
The Problem of Evil	Oxford students discuss the problem posed by the existence of evil in the world to the Christian and Hindu gods.	Alice Harberd, Frazer MacDiarmid, Luke Martin, Tilak Parekh	26 July, 2017
Making trials more efficient: Trial Forge and how you can help	Trials are important; very often they are also inefficient. Trial Forge aims to improve trial efficacy by identifying and then filling gaps in trial methods research.	Shaun Treweek	10 July, 2017
Using mixed methods in health psychology: Reflections on research design, epistemology, and practicalities	In this talk, Dr Felicity Bishop will critically reflect on mixed methods research that she has conducted and discuss the philosophical and technical challenges of mixed methods.	Felicity Bishop	10 July, 2017
The Law of the Few - Sanjeev Goyal	The study of networks offers a fruitful approach to understanding human behaviour. Sanjeev Goyal is one of its pioneers. In this lecture Sanjeev presents a puzzle:	Sanjeev Goyal	4 July, 2017
Observation of the mergers of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy	The 2017 Halley Lecture 7th June 2017 delivered by Professor Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration	Rainer Weiss	27 June, 2017
Ghost Imaging with Quantum Light	Physics Colloquium 26th May 2017 delivered by Professor Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow	Miles Padgett	27 June, 2017
Pulsars and Extreme Physics - A 50th Anniversary	Physics Colloquium 5th May 2017 delivered by Dame Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	27 June, 2017
Starquakes Expose Stellar Heartbeats	The 14th Hintze Biannual Lecture 4th May 2017 delivered by Professor Conny Aerts - Director, Institute of Astronomy KU Leuven	Connie Aerts	27 June, 2017
Curiosity’s Search for Ancient Habitable Environments at Gale Crater, Mars	4th Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology delivered by Professor John Grotzinger, Caltech, USA	John Grotzinger	27 April, 2017
Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices	Physics Colloquium 10th March 2017 delivered by Professor Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland, USA	Howard Milchberg	27 April, 2017
Learning new physics from a medieval thinker: Big Bangs and Rainbows	Physics Colloquium 24 February 2017 delivered by Professor Tom McLeish FRS, Department of Physics and Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University, UK	Tom McLeish	27 April, 2017
The applied side of Bell nonlocality	Physics Colloquium 17 February 2016 delivered by Professor Valerio Scarani	Valerio Scarani	27 April, 2017
Better evidence for better healthcare manifesto	The integration of evidence with clinical expertise and patient values which underpins the delivery of high quality evidence-based medicine.	Carl Heneghan	12 April, 2017
Moving Beyond Punitivism: Anthropological Engagements with Punishment and State Failure	Insa Koch, LSE - 19 Jan 2017	Insa Koch	12 April, 2017
Exploring the Long Term Effects of 'Thatcherite' Social and Economic Policies for Crime	Stephen Farrall, University of Sheffield - 02 Feb 2017	Stephen Farrall	12 April, 2017
Crime, Order and the Two Faces of Conservatism	Ian Loader, University of Oxford - 10 Nov 2016	Ian Loader	12 April, 2017
The Problems of Long-term Imprisonment	Ben Crewe, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge - 6 October 2016	Ben Crewe	12 April, 2017
The Beauty of Flavour - Latest results from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider	Physics Colloquium 3 February 2017 delivered by Professor Val Gibson, Cambridge	Val Gibson	5 April, 2017
From Materials to Cosmology: Studying the early universe under the microscope	Physics Colloquium 27 January 2017 delivered by Professor Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zurich	Nicola Spaldin	5 April, 2017
The Ontology of Autonomy for Autonomous Weapons Systems	Dr Heather Roff discusses the role of autonomous weapons systems within the international community. She provides a theoretical framework for defining and classifying these systems, examining the diplomatic and moral concerns that they pose.	Heather Roff	5 April, 2017
Technology and the Rise of Boundless Warfare	Professor David Galbreath gives a talk for the Changing Character of War seminar series.	David Galbreath	5 April, 2017
Social Pluralism Religious Cleansing and Hybrid Warfare in Syria	Since the ‘Arab Spring’ uprising of 2011, the United States and a network of European and regional Sunni allies have applied instruments of coercion against Syria that collectively take on the character of ‘hybrid warfare’.	John Eibner	5 April, 2017
The Future of Particle Physics Panel Discussion	Panel discussion with Prof John Womersley (STFC), Prof John Wheater (Department of Physics), Prof Ian Shipsey (Particle Physics), Prof Dave Wark (Particle Physics), Prof Daniella Bortoletto (Physics) and Prof Subir Sarkar (Particle Theory Group)	John Womersley, John Wheater, Ian Shipsey, Dave Wark, Daniella Bortoletto, Subir Sarkar	7 March, 2017
The Future of Particle Physics: The Particle Physics Christmas Lecture	Professor John Womersley (STFC) gives the Particle Physics Christmas Lecture.	John Womersley	7 March, 2017
Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit	Lecture with Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). Respondent: Anand Menon (King’s College London) Convenors: Timothy Garton Ash and Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College).	Kalypso Nicolaidis, Anand Menon, Timothy Garton Ash	20 February, 2017
Imaginary Invalids? Euro-Atlantic Populisms and the Crisis of Democracy	Richard von Weizsåcker Lecture with Paul Nolte (Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow St Antony’s College), the chair is Paul Betts (St Antony's College).	Paul Nolte	20 February, 2017
A new politics of globalization? Taking stock of what 2016 brought Europe and America	ESC Lunchtime Seminar. A talk given by Robert Howse (NYU Law School), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College)on 13th January 2017.	Robert Howse	14 February, 2017