Translational Medicine |
Targeting cancer mechanisms |
Professor Robert Gilbert's research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying membrane pore formation and cell adhesion. |
Robert Gilbert |
7 January, 2016 |
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Translational Medicine |
Computation and genetics |
Resistance to drugs in bacteria can be aquired by swapping genes between individual bacteria. Computer programs developed by Dr Iqbal enable doctors to predict which antibiotics will be met with drug resistance, enabling the selection of the right drug. |
Zamin Iqbal |
7 January, 2016 |
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Translational and Clinical |
Inflammation in disease |
The main aim of Dr Xue's research is to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms mediating inflammatory diseases, and to translate their findings into therapeutic concepts to treat these diseases. |
Luzheng Xue |
7 January, 2016 |
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Genetics |
Computation and genetics |
Resistance to drugs in bacteria can be aquired by swapping genes between individual bacteria. Computer programs developed by Dr Iqbal enable doctors to predict which antibiotics will be met with drug resistance, enabling the selection of the right drug. |
Zamin Iqbal |
7 January, 2016 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
The Analytical Engine and the Aeolian Harp |
In this talk Imogen Forbes-Macphail, University of California, Berkeley, contextualises Lovelace's work on the engines against the backdrop of Romantic thought surrounding the power of poetry and the nature of original composition. |
Imogen Forbes-Macphail |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Humans, machines, and the future of work |
Moshe Vardi, Rice University explores the question "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?". |
Moshe Vardi |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Mathematics and culture: geometry and its ‘Figures in the Air’ |
Judith Grabiner, Pitzer College describes how the 19th century saw radical change, producing new ideas of space, destroying the unchallenging authority of mathematics, revolutionising art, making relativity possible and helping create modernism. |
Judith Grabiner |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Imaginary engines |
In this talk graphic artist and animator Sydney Padua talks about her bestselling graphic novel "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage". She will also display her 3D animations of how the Analytical Engine would have looked and operated. |
Sydney Padua |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Enchantress of Abstraction, Bride of Science: must Ada Lovelace be a superheroine? |
Panel discussion to conclude the symposium with Muffy Calder, Valerie Barr, Suw Charman-Anderson, Murray Pittock and Cheryl Praeger. |
Muffy Calder, Valerie Barr, Suw Charman-Anderson, Murray Pittock, Cheryl Praeger |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Ada Lovelace lives forever: Ada’s four questions |
How Ada approached information is the key to understanding her contribution. In this talk Betty Toole, author of "ADA: The Enchantress of Numbers" focuses on Ada's four questions: What is the source? What does it mean? What if? and Why not? |
Betty Toole |
18 December, 2015 |
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The Secrets of Mathematics |
The Travelling Santa Problem and Other Seasonal Challenges - Marcus du Sautoy |
The Oxford Mathematics Christmas Public Lecture 2015 examined an aspect of Christmas not often considered: the mathematics. |
Marcus du Sautoy |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Enchantress of Numbers or a mere debugger?: a brief history of cultural and academic understandings of Ada Lovelace |
To mark the 200th anniversary of Lovelace's birth, Elizabeth Bruton, Museum of the History of Science, reviews and explores academic and popular representations of Ada Lovelace and engage with the controversy of her claim as the first computer programmer. |
Elizabeth Bruton, Sally Shuttleworth |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Pythagoras to pacifism: mathematics and archives |
In this talk June Barrow-Green from the Open University describes some mathematical archives and some of the issues associated with them. Includes an introduction from Vicki Hanson, Vice-President of the ACM. |
June Barrow-Green, Vicki Hanson |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan |
During the years 1840-1, Ada Lovelace corresponded with the mathematician Augustus De Morgan. In this talk Christopher Hollings, University of Oxford reports on recent new studies of the mathematics Ada was learning with De Morgan. |
Christopher Hollings |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Will you concede me Poetical Science? |
Ada Lovelace had a broad interest in the science and technologies of the day and explored post-Romantic ideas which made a significant link between science and poetry. In this talk Richard Holmes looks at some of these surprising connections. |
Richard Holmes |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
The early education of Ada Byron |
In this talk Julia Markus, Hofstra University shall dispel the myth that Lady Byron kept Ada from poetry, she will also show that the mother-daughter relationship was a psychological spur to Ada's early experiments. |
Julia Markus |
18 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Notions and notations: designing computers before computing |
Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, University of London reviews Babbage's remarkable 'Mechanical Notation'. |
Adrian Johnstone |
17 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
From Byron to the Ada Programming Language |
John Barnes, Ada software consultant talks about Byron and his bear and the evolution of the computing language named after Ada Lovelace. |
John Barnes |
17 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Turning numbers into notes |
Composer Emily Howard talks to David De Roure about her musical composition 'Ada sketches'. |
Emily Howard, David De Roure |
17 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Ada Lovelace, a scientist in the archives |
Ursula Martin, University of Oxford and Soren Riis, Queen Mary University of London give new focus to letters within the archive of Ada Lovelace's family documents. Includes an introduction by Nick Woodhouse, President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. |
Soren Riis, Ursula Martin, Nick Woodhouse |
17 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Interpreting dreams of abstract machines |
Bernard Sufrin, University of Oxford establishes a context of Ada's 'Translators Notes' using more recent descriptions of computing machinery and programming methods. |
Bernard Sufrin |
17 December, 2015 |
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Spain: 1959 - 1992 |
Lecture 2: The Spanish Transition (1975-1978) |
Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s. |
Marina Perez de Arcos |
16 December, 2015 |
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Spain: 1959 - 1992 |
Lecture 4: Spain and the World (1976-1992) |
Spain on the international stage. |
Marina Perez de Arcos |
16 December, 2015 |
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Spain: 1959 - 1992 |
Lecture 3: Institutions of Democracy: King, President, Parliament, and Autonomous Communities |
Democratic institution building. |
Marina Perez de Arcos |
16 December, 2015 |
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Spain: 1959 - 1992 |
Lecture 1: Development and Dissent in Franco's Spain (1959-1975) |
Economic development and political dissent in Franco's Spain. |
Marina Perez de Arcos |
16 December, 2015 |
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Death at the Museum |
Death at the Museum |
Highlights of the Ashmolean Museum's Halloween DEADFriday event. |
University of Oxford |
16 December, 2015 |
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Christmas Science Lectures |
Carrots, spiders and red salt – a fascination with light capture in biology |
Using physics, chemistry and biology, the fascination with light capture in nature will be explained in a multi-coloured and animated well – prepare for six-eyed spiders, purple carrots and red salt. |
Anthony Watts |
15 December, 2015 |
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Ada Lovelace Symposium - Celebrating 200 Years of a Computer Visionary |
Introduction to the Ada Lovelace Symposium |
Alexander Wolf, President of the Association for Computing Machinery and Imperial College London, introduces the Ada Lovelace Symposium. |
Alexander Wolf |
14 December, 2015 |
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Christmas Science Lectures |
The Chemistry Show 2015 |
Malcolm Stewart and Dr Fabrice Birembaut are back again with their highly entertaining flash bang lecture! Let Santa and his elf take you on a discovery journey from cold to hot chemistry! |
Malcolm Stewart, Fabrice Birembaut |
14 December, 2015 |
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Christmas Science Lectures |
Social Media: The use of your online information for the Good, the Bad and the Ugly! |
Social media, everyone uses it, whether it is to connect with long lost friends on Facebook, or to share selfies on Instagram or Twitter! In this talk, I consider the positives & negatives, security & privacy and how it can be used supportively. |
Jason Nurse |
14 December, 2015 |
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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society |
The Neoliberal Construction of Modern Slavery: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers |
Judy Fudge, Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent examines Modern Slavery as a causal effect of the emphasis on human trafficking, anti-immigration and criminal law rather than employment law for migrant domestic workers. |
Judy Fudge |
11 December, 2015 |
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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society |
Neoliberalism workshop: Implications for future visions of work and organisation |
Richard White, Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography, Sheffield Hallam University, gives a talk for the Neoliberalism, Employment and the Law workshop at Wolfson College, Oxford, hosted the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in November 2015. |
Ben Jackson |
11 December, 2015 |
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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society |
Neoliberalism, Trade Unions and the Labour Market: An overview of the core ideological claims |
Ben Jackson, Associate Professor & Tutorial Fellow in Modern History, Faculty of History & University College, Oxford University, gives a talk at the Neoliberalism, Employment and the Law workshop at Wolfson College, Oxford. |
Ben Jackson |
11 December, 2015 |
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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society |
Neoliberalism as Analytical Starting Point: Possibilities and Problems |
Introduced by Dr Amir Paz-Fuchs, Dr Eagleton-Pierce examines neoliberalism from an international political economy perspective. |
Matthew Eagleton-Price |
11 December, 2015 |
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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society |
Neoliberalism Workshop: Contradictions in liberal reforms: The regulation of labour subcontracting |
Guy Mundlak, Professor at The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, gives a talk for the Neoliberalism workshop. |
Guy Mundlak |
11 December, 2015 |
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Christmas Science Lectures |
Radiotherapy: What is it? How does it work? And how will it change? |
Radiotherapy has been going on since 1896, only months after the discovery of X-rays. We will explore what it is, how it works, and examine the change from X-ray beams to particle guns. |
Martin Christlieb |
11 December, 2015 |
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Middle East Centre |
The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region, and the Future of Iraq |
Professor Gareth Stansfield (University of Exeter) gives a talk on Iraq, ISIS, and the Kurdish region as part ofte Middle East Centre Seminar series. |
Gareth Stansfield |
11 December, 2015 |
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The Secrets of Mathematics |
Symmetry, Spaces and Undecidability - Martin Bridson |
The understanding of the possible geometries in dimension 3 is one of the triumphs of 20th century mathematics. In this talk Martin Bridson explains why such an understanding is impossible in higher dimensions. |
Martin Bridson |
7 December, 2015 |
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Alumni Voices |
Director and CEO of the Oxford Playhouse, Louise Chantal (Lincoln, 1987) |
Louise Chantal shares her love of the theatre and describes her involvement in Oxford’s cultural scene during her student days and running Oxford's famous Playhouse today. |
Louise Chantal |
4 December, 2015 |
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International Migration Institute |
Transnational health insurances and the involvement of Congolese immigrants in their relatives' health from abroad |
Looking at the impact of financial remittances on immigrant relatives’ access to healthcare via community-based health insurances |
Jean-Michel Lafleur |
3 December, 2015 |
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Translational Medicine |
The Evolution of the Genome |
Computational and stastistical methods help us understand evolution as well as genetic disease. |
Gerton Lunter |
2 December, 2015 |
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Genetics |
The Evolution of the Genome |
Computational and stastistical methods help us understand evolution as well as genetic disease. |
Gerton Lunter |
2 December, 2015 |
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Epidemics and Vaccines |
Tropical Immunology |
Melioidosis is a neglected tropical disease, and a major infectious killer in South East Asia. Melioidosis particularly affects people with diabetes. |
Susanna Dunachie |
2 December, 2015 |
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Malaria |
Sharing data to fight malaria |
Over 250 Institutions participate in the effort of sharing data on the efficacy of antimalarial drugs, which involves standardising and re-analysing data. |
Philippe Guérin |
2 December, 2015 |
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
The Challenges of Reporting Europe |
Bill Emmott, ex-editor of the Economist and international newspaper columnist delivers a Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar. |
Bill Emmott |
30 November, 2015 |
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International Migration Institute |
Hyper-mobile migrant workers and the lack of social protection within the European Union: a case study from the Netherlands |
Case study of hyper-mobile migrants employed on large-scale construction sites in the Netherlands, highlighting the ways these workers express their agency in dealing with a cross-border employment context in which social protection is difficult to access |
Lisa Berntsen |
26 November, 2015 |
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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars |
Avoiding Its Own Identity Crisis: the International Criminal Court and Human Rights Considerations |
Dr Brianne McGonigle Leyh gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series on the International Criminal Courts and Human Rights on 4th November 2015. |
Brianne McGonigle Leyh |
25 November, 2015 |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
War and Ecology in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River and beyond |
Dr Micah Muscolino discusses his new book entitled "The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1950." |
Micah Muscolino, Erica Charters |
25 November, 2015 |
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International Migration Institute |
Access to social protection for internal migrants and the obstacles to adequate coverage |
The main destinations of migrants are the mega cities and other urban areas, yet governments are ill-prepared to receive this large influx of people and internal migrants are exposed to a new set of risks and vulnerabilities. |
Jessica Hagen-Zanker |
19 November, 2015 |
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International Migration Institute |
Hope and uncertainty in African migration: Life after deportation to Ghana |
IMI Visiting Fellow Nauja Kleist presents her research on return migration in the context of restrictive mobility regimes in Europe and Africa, within theories on hope, (im)mobility, social fields, gender, and belonging. |
Nauja Kleist |
19 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
The Sites and Monuments Record for Syria, and the Shirin Project |
Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 3: What is being done or should be done? Exploring archaeological and military heritage protection initiatives. With Professor Graham Philip. |
Graham Phillip |
19 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
Politics with a focus on Yemen |
Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 2: Why is this happening? Understanding ISIL and other Islamist extremism. With Dr Noel Brehony (Chair of CBRL). |
Noel Brehony |
19 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
Cultural Heritage in the Islamic State’s Worldview |
Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 2: Why is this happening? Understanding ISIL and other Islamist extremism. With Dr Alia Brahimi (CCW; Contest Global). |
Alia Brahimi |
19 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
Heritage for Peace: an NGO protecting Syrian Cultural Heritage during the Conflict |
Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 3: What is being done or should be done? Exploring archaeological and military heritage protection initiatives. With Dr Emma Cunliffe (Heritage for Peace). |
Emma Cunliffe |
19 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
When words fail. Iraq's lost heritage, and efforts to save it |
Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 1: What is happening? The significance of sites at risk, and the current situation. Dr Lamia al-Gailani ( UCL/SOAS). |
Lamia al-Gailani |
18 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
Monuments at War—the Syrian Conflict and the Changing Pattern of Destruction as Reflected in Aleppo and Palmyra |
Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 1: What is happening? The significance of sites at risk, and the current situation. With Dr Ross Burns. |
Ross Burns |
18 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
Overview of Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa |
Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 1: What is happening? The significance of sites at risk, and the current situation. |
Robert Bewley |
18 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
Syriac Christian communities: people, monuments and manuscripts in Syria, Turkey, and Iraq |
Part of the Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference. Theme 1: What is happening? The significance of sites at risk, and the current situation. with Dr Sebastian Brock and Sebastien de Courtois. |
Sebastian Brock, Sebastien de Courtois |
18 November, 2015 |
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Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference |
Welcome and introduction |
Dr. Liz Carmichael (OxPeace) introduces the "Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference", held in St John's College on Saturday 31 October 2015. |
Liz Carmichael |
18 November, 2015 |
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Wolfson College Podcasts |
The Councillor and the Clerk |
Ronald Syme Annual Lecture 2015 |
Roger Bagnall |
18 November, 2015 |
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Strachey Lectures |
Strachey Lecture: Bidirectional Computation is Effectful |
A reconstruction (slides and voiceover) of a talk given at the Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (snapl.org/2015) in May 2015. |
Jeremy Gibbons |
17 November, 2015 |
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Alumni Voices |
Writer, doctor and champion of evidence-based medicine, Dr Ben Goldacre (Magdalen, 1992) |
Dr Ben Goldacre – author of the bestsellers Bad Science and Bad Pharma – dissects what is wrong with modern medicine and argues for better evidence-based medicine in this podcast. |
Ben Goldacre |
17 November, 2015 |
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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre |
The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher |
A riposte to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew |
Emma Smith |
16 November, 2015 |
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics |
The Heart and the Head, Part 5 |
Daniel Bulte, from the Department of Oncology, speaks about what happens when they discover an ‘incidental finding’. |
Daniel Bulte |
16 November, 2015 |
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics |
The Heart and the Head, Part 4 |
Portia Westall, from the Donnelly group at the WTCHG, speaks about how she thinks about music when working on DNA sequences. |
Portia Westall |
16 November, 2015 |
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics |
The Heart and the Head, Part 3 |
Erwan Atcheson, from the Jenner Institute, speaks about his time studying parasitic worms, and the worries that come with it. |
Erwan Atcheson |
16 November, 2015 |
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics |
The Heart and the Head, the full evening of science, storytelling, and music |
An evening of storytelling and music where researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Jenner Institute, and Cancer Research UK came together to tell stories about their lives as scientists, with live musical accompaniment. |
Erwan Atcheson, Daniel Bulte, Anna Fowler, Brian Mackenwells, Irina Pulyakhina, Portia Westall, James Bell and the Half Moon All Stars |
16 November, 2015 |
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
The Soul of the Machine: The multi-layered structure of a synthetic self |
Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies |
Paul Verschure |
16 November, 2015 |
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics |
The Heart and the Head, Part 2 |
Anna Fowler, from the Lunter group at the WTCHG, speaks about how the patterns around a close-call in the desert makes her think about her work. |
Anna Fowler |
16 November, 2015 |
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
The Smart Mandate: A Brief History of Ubiquitous Computing and Responsive Environments |
Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies. |
Orit Halpern |
16 November, 2015 |
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Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics |
The Heart and the Head, Part 1 |
Irina Pulyakhina, from the Julian Knight group at the WTCHG, speaks about her time helping a Masters student through an important presentation. |
Irina Pulyakhina |
16 November, 2015 |
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Virtually anything goes: what, if any, are the ethical limits on behaviour in virtual worlds? |
Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies. |
Blay Whitby |
16 November, 2015 |
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From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Ethical and Social Issues in Shared Virtual Environments Revisited |
Talk delivered at 2015 Cyberselves Symposium, with contributions from technologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and cultural theorists looking at the future societal and ethical impacts of virtual reality and immersive technologies. |
Ralph Schroeder |
16 November, 2015 |
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St Hugh's College |
A Fascination with Vision: What nature can teach us |
Professor Anthony Watts, C W Maplethorpe Fellow in Biological Sciences delivers a very interesting lecture entitled 'A Fascination with Vision: What nature can teach us'. |
Anthony Watts |
12 November, 2015 |
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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre |
Tis Pity She's a Whore: John Ford |
Reboot of Romeo and Juliet and other Elizabethan plays |
Emma Smith |
11 November, 2015 |
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
Are the BRICS building a New World Media Order |
Daya Thussu, professor of internal communication, and co-editor of 'Mapping BRICS Media' University of Westminster, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar series. |
Daya Thusso |
9 November, 2015 |
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International Migration Institute |
The changing face of social protection in Africa's cities |
Examining how social protection is conceptualised in research in African contexts and reviewing the extent to which these different approaches can take into account the changing populations of urban spaces, especially those experiencing high migration |
Oliver Bakewell |
3 November, 2015 |
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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre |
The Witch Of Edmonton |
Witchcraft and bigamy. |
Emma Smith |
3 November, 2015 |
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
Can data save journalism? How analytics change the newsroom and beyond |
Klaus Miller, junior professor of quantitative marketing, Goethe University, Frankfurt gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series. |
Klaus Miller |
29 October, 2015 |
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Wolfson College Podcasts |
Is there another economic crash on the way? |
Sir Vince talks about some of the issues raised in his latest book 'After the Storm' |
Vince Cable |
29 October, 2015 |
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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre |
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: Thomas Middleton |
This lecture discusses comedy, fertility, and all those illegitimate children in this play about sex, economics and meat. |
Emma Smith |
27 October, 2015 |
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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre |
The Alchemist: Ben Jonson |
Written in the context of plague in London, The Alchemist’s plot and language are deeply concerned with speed and speculation. |
Emma Smith |
27 October, 2015 |
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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences |
Modelling Down’s syndrome in mice to learn about Alzheimer’s disease |
NDCN departmental seminar |
Elizabeth Fisher |
27 October, 2015 |
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Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences |
History of Neuroscience at Oxford: Four Centuries of Discovery |
The second annual lecture for the Clinical Neurosciences Society, NDCN |
Zoltan Molnar |
27 October, 2015 |
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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre |
Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe |
My lecture on this infernal play discusses Elizabethan religion, the revisions to the play, and whether we should think about James Bond in its final minutes. |
Emma Smith |
26 October, 2015 |
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Alumni Voices |
Historian and trip scholar for Spectacular Ceylon, Dr Maria Misra (Christ Church, 1982) |
Dr Maria Misra shares her experiences as both a student and academic at Oxford University, as well as her love of South Asia, in this podcast. |
Maria Misra |
26 October, 2015 |
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International Migration Institute |
Immigrant integration and social capital formation: evidence from New Zealand |
Comparing immigrant and native-born social capital formation via New Zealand data which permits a distinction between indicators of stocks of social capital and indicators of investment in the form of participation in community and voluntary activities |
Jacques Poot |
26 October, 2015 |
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International Migration Institute |
Legislating for transnational ageing: a challenge for the Dutch and French welfare states |
What motivates policymakers to initially develop these very specifically-targeted policy proposals which contradict the territorial logic of the welfare state? |
Alistair Hunter |
26 October, 2015 |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
The Aftermath of World War II and the New Political Geography of Europe |
Modern European History Professor Paul Betts reflects on the legacy of World War II and its relevance to conflicts and crises today. |
Paul Betts, Félix Krawatzek |
25 October, 2015 |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Migration, Protection and Reception: The 'crisis' in the Mediterranean |
How Europe's external border controls that limit and monitor the entry of non-Europeans relates to the reception of migrants in the European Union |
Brad Blitz, Othon Anastasakis |
25 October, 2015 |
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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks |
'Clues' part 1 - Predicting volcanic eruptions |
From people on the the ground to satellites in the air - how do we monitor and understand volcanos in an attempt to understand when they might erupt? |
David Pyle |
22 October, 2015 |
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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars |
Lawyers, Causes and Political Violence: Re-examining Legal Professionalism in Conflicted and Transitional Societies |
Professor Kieran McEvoy gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series on 21st October 2015. |
Kieran McEvoy |
22 October, 2015 |
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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars |
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: Fighting Terrorism through the Rule of Law |
Guido Acquaviva, Senior Legal Officer (Chambers), gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series on 14th October 2015. |
Guido Acqauviva |
22 October, 2015 |
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Sustainable Travel |
Near Miss |
The Near Miss Project |
Rachel Aldred |
20 October, 2015 |
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Vaccines - From Concept to Clinic with Oxford Sparks |
Why vaccinate? The history and science of vaccination |
Vaccine origins, science behind how vaccines work and how outbreaks of diseases can occur if vaccination levels drop too low. |
Sean Elias |
19 October, 2015 |
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Vaccines - From Concept to Clinic with Oxford Sparks |
Medical science needs you! Human clinical trials |
Clinical trials for vaccines: how they work and what's involved for volunteers. |
Sean Elias, Natalie Lella |
19 October, 2015 |
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Vaccines - From Concept to Clinic with Oxford Sparks |
How clean is a clean room? Human vaccine manufacture |
The stringent processes that ensure new vaccines are clinic-ready |
Sean Elias, Emma Bolan |
19 October, 2015 |
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Vaccines - From Concept to Clinic with Oxford Sparks |
Maladies and mice. Pre-clinical vaccine development |
Approaches used to target particularly tricky diseases to treat, such as malaria, HIV, Flu and TB. |
Sean Elias, Lynda Coughlan, Rachel Tanner |
19 October, 2015 |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Making Sovereign Finance and Human Rights Work |
Discussion of 'Making Sovereign Finance and Human Rights Work,' a recently-published collection that introduces novel legal theories and analyses the links between sovereign debt and human rights from a variety of perspectives. |
Andreas Føllesdal, Sheldon Leader, Rosa Maria Lastra, Jernej Letnar Cernic, Jesse Tomalty, Jaakko Kuosmanen, Angela Cummine, Stuart White |
14 October, 2015 |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
ISIS in the Eyes of the World-Wide Arab Community on Social Media: Between Sentiment and Foreign Fighters |
Using social media to analyse public opinion toward ISIS in the Arab community |
Luigi Curini, Stefano Iacus, Max Smeets |
14 October, 2015 |
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