| Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014) |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Introduction: refugees and innovation |
Doing innovation well presents challenges for how we can work better together as organisations and with displaced people, and how we can break down traditional barriers between actors – all while upholding ethical principles and protection standards. |
Alexander Betts |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 The inside story: internal displacement in Syria |
With IDPs currently constituting two-thirds of those uprooted by the conflict, the ‘inside story’ of displacement in Syria requires much greater attention. |
Erin Mooney |
2 December, 2014 |
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| Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014) |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - From the editors |
From the editors |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
2 December, 2014 |
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| Innovation and refugees (Forced Migration Review, supplement 2014) |
FMR Innovation and Refugees - Learning curves and collaboration in reconceiving refugee settlements |
A collaboration between UNHCR, Ennead Architects and Stanford University uses settlement design to promote innovation and further development in the refugee protection model but collaborators initially face a steep learning curve. |
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Aparna Surendra |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Mobility as a solution |
Not all those who have gone to Syria's neighbours are registered, nor do all of these people regard themselves as refugees |
Lucas Oesch |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Development and protection challenges of the Syrian refugee crisisf |
The Syria Regional Response Plan 6 (RRP6) 2014 provides an increased focus on early recovery, social cohesion interventions and a transition from assistance to development-led interventions, alongside the continuing large-scale humanitarian assistance. |
Roger Zetter, Heloise Ruaudel |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Refugee by association |
Many Syrians, even when they have not been individually singled out, meet the refugee criteria on the grounds of being at risk of persecution because of a perceived association, in the broadest sense, with one of the parties to the conflict. |
Blanche Tax |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees from Syria |
While Syrian nationals may eventually return to their home country, the future for Palestinians from Syria is increasingly uncertain. Meanwhile they are more vulnerable, and treated worse, than most other refugees from the Syrian conflict. |
Leah Morrison |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 The role of host communities in north Lebanon |
Research conducted in Akkar, north Lebanon, suggests that the role played by the host community demonstrates good local capacity which should be built on to encourage further civic engagement and empowerment. |
Helen Mackreath |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 For beneficiary-led protection programming in Jordan |
Despite the humanitarian community’s clear focus on addressing the protection concerns of displaced Syrians, in Jordan the beneficiaries of many protection programmes have had limited influence on the shape of the protection response to date. |
Sinead McGrath |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Foreword: the inheritance of loss |
As the civil war in Syria drags on, the scale of displacement continues to increase. While the crisis may be prolonged, refugees and IDPs need support now for their protection, their recovery, and both their immediate and their long-term prospects. |
Nigel Fisher |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Limited legal status for refugees from Syria in Lebanon |
Having limited legal status has direct negative consequences for Syrian refugees’ access to protection and assistance during their stay in Lebanon. Limited legal status also increases the risks of abuse and exploitation. |
Dalia Aranki, Olivia Kalis |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 The impact of displacement on disabled, injured and older Syrian refugees |
In contexts of displacement it is critical to recognise that some groups in the population may require specific attention. Awareness of these needs has major consequences for the types of services required, and the way they are delivered. |
Marcus Skinner |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Syrians contributing to Kurdish economic growth |
The circumstances for both successful livelihoods programming for refugees and for contributing to the local economy are present in the Kurdish region of Iraq. |
Anubha Sood, Louisa Seferis |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 A duty and a burden on Jordan |
It is important to Jordan both that it protects its national identity and maintains its cultural obligations, and that it faces up to its humanitarian obligations. |
Saleh Al-Kilani |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 From the Editors |
From the Editors |
Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Coping strategies among self-settled Syrians in Lebanon |
Refugees in Lebanon prefer living outside camps, where they can influence their situation. |
Cathrine Thorleifsson |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Gender, conscription and protection, and the war in Syria |
The struggles endured by men who remain inside Syria and the obstacles faced by others who choose to remove themselves from the fighting by fleeing the country demonstrate a need to redefine classic conceptions of vulnerability. |
Rochelle Davis, Abbie Taylor, Emma Murphy |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 The refugee crisis in Lebanon and Jordan: the need for economic development spending |
The most effective way to tackle the Syrian refugee crisis is for neighbouring states to assume a leading role in development spending, infrastructure upgrading and job creation, particularly in the most underdeveloped regions of those countries. |
Omar Dahi |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Protection challenges of mobility |
It is easy to say that people fleeing Syria should stay in camps or satellite cities but people move on for a variety of reasons, and programmes and services must adapt to assist them. |
Melissa Phillips, Kathrine Starup |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 The mental health of Syrian refugee children and adolescents |
Mental health services can be key to restoring basic psychological functioning and to supporting resilience and positive coping strategies for children, adolescents and adults. |
Leah James, Annie Sovcik, Ferdinand Garoff, Reem Abbasi |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 Refugee activists’ involvement in relief effort in Lebanon |
A cadre of educated middle-class Syrian refugees dedicated to improving conditions for Syrians at home and in Lebanon are building a civil society in exile but face obstacles to consolidating their presence and becoming more effective. |
Frances Topham Smallwood |
2 December, 2014 |
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| The Syria crisis (Forced Migration Review 47) |
FMR 47 If Israel accepted Syrian refugees and IDPs in the Golan Heights |
Could re-opening the Golan Heights to Syrians displaced by the conflict be a beneficial option for those fleeing the Syrian conflict and for Israel’s relations with its north-eastern neighbour? |
Crystal Plotner |
2 December, 2014 |
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| Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
Ice Cores, Climate and Sea Ice |
Physics Colloquium 14th November 2014 delivered by Prof Eric Wolff |
Eric Wolff |
2 December, 2014 |
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| Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
Inside the Centre: The Life and Work of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Physics Colloquium 21st November 2014 delivered by Prof Ray Monk |
Ray Monk |
2 December, 2014 |
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| Merton College |
"Wan, dim, and pale": the OED and Tolkien |
A talk by Edmund Weiner, given at 'Tolkien in Oxford', a day-long symposium that focused on different aspects of JRR Tolkien's academic and literary work, and his life in Oxford. |
Edmund Weiner |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Merton College |
Tolkien in Oxford: Books and Beowulf |
A talk by Professor Andy Orchard, given at 'Tolkien in Oxford', a day-long symposium that focused on different aspects of JRR Tolkien's academic and literary work, and his life in Oxford. |
Andy Orchard |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Can I Know If My Idea Is Good? - Chapter 2 |
Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October explains the preparation process for customer discovery. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014. |
Dave Fletcher |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Can I Know If My Idea Is Good? - Chapter 5 |
Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October explains how to test the solutions in customer discovery. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014. |
Dave Fletcher |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Can I Know If My Idea Is Good? - Chapter 1 |
Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October explains what is customer development. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014. |
Dave Fletcher |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Can I Know If My Idea Is Good? - Chapter 4 |
Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October presents the ideas on how to test the problem in customer discovery. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014. |
Dave Fletcher |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Can I Know If My Idea Is Good? - Chapter 3 |
Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October summarises the main issues regarding the customer development theory. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014. |
David Fletcher |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Can I Know If My Idea Is Good? - Chapter 6 |
Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October summarises the lecture with final remarks on customer discovery. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014. |
Dave Fletcher |
1 December, 2014 |
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| TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities |
Senia Paseta on Irish Nationalist Women |
Dr Paseta explores women's history and the nationalist narrative in Ireland. |
Senia Paseta |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Evidence-Based Health Care |
Systematic Reviews, the need for change |
The need to generate systematic reviews is relatively uncontroversial and until recently so were the methods of production. |
Jon Brassey |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Evidence-Based Health Care |
EBM - What it is, what it isn't, how might you contribute? |
Carl Heneghan is a Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine and a Primary Care Physician and has over 20 years experience of using evidence in practice for changing health care. |
Carl Heneghan |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Evidence-Based Health Care |
Realist Review: Mixing Method |
This talk will introduce the realist review methodology as a strategy for combining qualitative and quantitative data to answer the question “what works, for whom, and in what circumstances” |
Janet Harris |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies |
The Downward Spiral of Japan's Relations with China since 2012 |
Dr Taku Tamaki, Loughborough University, gives a talk for the Nissan Centre for Japanese Studies seminar series. |
Taku Tamaki |
1 December, 2014 |
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| Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks |
"There’s No Place Like Home" Part 1 - Wytham Woods |
Professor Ben Sheldon describes one of the World’s longest-running ecological studies, into birds in their natural environments. |
Ben Sheldon, Chris Lintott |
20 November, 2014 |
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| The Secrets of Mathematics |
Big Data's Big Deal - Viktor Mayer-Schonberger |
Big Data promises to change all sectors of our economy, and deeply affect our society. |
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger |
20 November, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Do I Market My Business And Sell Products? - Chapter 4 |
AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift explains why the community is more powerful than a customer base. |
AJ Leon |
18 November, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Do I Market My Business And Sell Products? - Chapter 3 |
AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift presents the basics of content marketing. |
AJ Leon |
18 November, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Do I Market My Business And Sell Products? - Chapter 6 |
AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift summarises the lecture with some final remarks. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 4th, 2014. |
AJ Leon |
18 November, 2014 |
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| Building a Business |
How Do I Market My Business And Sell Products? - Chapter 5 |
AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift presents the effective pitching an sales techniques. |
AJ Leon |
18 November, 2014 |
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| Running a Community Collection Online |
What is a Roadshow? |
Find out about roadshows - face-to-face engagement – part of “the Oxford Community Collection Model” used for successful crowdsourcing, e.g. Europeana 1914-1918. RunCoCo shows how you can run a community collection online and engage with your community. |
Patrick Penzo, Alun Edwards, Ylva Bergland Prytz |
13 October, 2014 |
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| Running a Community Collection Online |
RunCoCo: how to run a community collection online |
Find out about “the Oxford Community Collection Model” used for successful crowdsourcing since 2007. The RunCoCo service at the University of Oxford University shows how you can run a community collection online and engage with your community. |
Patrick Penzo, Alun Edwards, Ylva Berglund Prytz, Stuart Lee, Stephen Bull |
13 October, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Arthur Wragg: Pacifist Polemics in Black and White |
Arthur Wragg |
Damon Taylor |
9 October, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
“Not for Glory, not for Gain!” The Czech Glass Spartakiad Figurine, 1955 |
This paper looks at the glass figurines of Czech artist Miloslav Klinger, made to commemorate the 1955 Prague Spartakiad, as complex sites of memory, craft and political propaganda. |
Rebecca Bell |
7 October, 2014 |
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| Translational Medicine |
Pneumococcal diseases |
Genetics and genomics of Streptococcus pneumoniae |
Angela Brueggemann |
7 October, 2014 |
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| Translational Medicine |
Crohn's disease |
Innate immune system |
Alison Simmons |
7 October, 2014 |
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| Crossing Boundaries |
Health systems research |
Governance in practice |
Sassy Molyneux |
7 October, 2014 |
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| Translational Medicine |
Stem cells and cancer |
Adult gastrointestinal stem cells |
Simon Leedham |
7 October, 2014 |
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| Crossing Boundaries |
Better hospitals for children |
Oxford Health Systems Research Collaboration (OHSCAR) |
Mike English |
7 October, 2014 |
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| Translational Medicine |
Cancer and innate immunity |
Inflammatory signalling |
Mads Gryd-Hansen |
7 October, 2014 |
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| Translational Medicine |
Tuberculous Meningitis |
Tuberculous Meningitis |
Guy Thwaites |
7 October, 2014 |
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| Practical Ethics Bites |
Choosing the sex of your child |
Is sex-selection harmful or injust? Julian Savulescu outlines four methods used in sex-selection and explores the ethical issues surrounding each. |
Julian Savulescu, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds |
6 October, 2014 |
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| Alumni Weekend |
Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas |
Joe Cartwright provides a geological perspective into the exploration of shale gas reserves. |
Joe Cartwright |
6 October, 2014 |
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| Alumni Weekend |
The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford |
Professor Lionel Tarassenko, an alumnus of the Department and its new Head as of September 2014, sets out his vision for the Department for the next five years. |
Lionel Tarassenko |
3 October, 2014 |
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| Alumni Weekend |
Jenkin Lecture The Oxford RobotCar |
Paul Newman talks about the UK’s first self-driving car – being developed at the Department of Engineering Science. He’ll explain the project’s motivation, its underlying technology, and its impact on the transport sector and beyond. |
Paul Newman |
3 October, 2014 |
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| Anthropology |
Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell |
This Anthropology seminar looks at the role of dance and movement of the body as a theme in itself; using dance to understand embodied experience. 21 February 2014 |
Rosie Kay, Karin Eli |
2 October, 2014 |
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| Anthropology |
Models, muddles and metaphors |
This seminar, on the theme of Models in Anthropology, draws on examples from the fields of Amazonian and obesity studies. 9 May 2014 |
Elizabeth Ewart, Stanley Ulijaszek |
2 October, 2014 |
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| Anthropology |
Social anthropology of the arts: expression, genre and agency |
This seminar, on the theme of Art and Creativity, explores the anthropology of artistic and imaginative processes, a field that is interdisciplinary by nature. 23 May 2014. |
Caroline Potter, Ramon Sarró, Zuzanna Olszewska, Clare Harris |
2 October, 2014 |
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| Anthropology |
Intersections: an ethnography of everyday togetherness and intensified diversity in Elephant and Castle |
This Anthropology seminar, on the theme of Diasporas and Migration, presents emerging findings from a collaborative ethnography in a 'super-diverse' South London area. 30 May 2014 |
Mette Berg, Ben Gidley, Hiranthi Jayaweera, Ramon Sarró |
2 October, 2014 |
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| Alumni Weekend |
70 Years On: My, how you’ve changed! |
Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of Oxford University draws upon his experience at the highest levels in the public sector to share his unique perspective on Britain over the last seven decades. |
Chris Patten |
2 October, 2014 |
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| Alumni Weekend |
Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Environmentalism without nature |
This lecture by Jamie Lorimer explores new ways of thinking and doing environmentalism that need not make recourse to nature. |
Jamie Lorimer |
2 October, 2014 |
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| Alumni Weekend |
The Biogeography of Madagascar: A Gondwanan island |
This lecture given by Dr Matt Friedman will look at the evolution of the unique flora and fauna of Madagascar and how it is intertwined with the geological history of the island. |
Matt Friedman |
2 October, 2014 |
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| Alumni Weekend |
Black Land, Red Land: The Nile Valley and Egypt’s Western Desert |
Illustrated with photographs from previous trips, this talk by Professor Mark Smith contrasts the Nile Valley and the desert and explore how the relationship between them developed over the course of Egyptian history. |
Mark Smith |
2 October, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
“Design, Domesticity and Revolution: Transitioning the Cuban Ideal Home” |
Through an examination of domestic advice and advertisements found in Cuban popular magazines, this paper explores the relationship between politics and popular media during the period 1950 to 1970. |
Sara Desvernine-Reed |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
‘Help to win the war’: an analysis of the typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government 1914-1918 |
This paper analyses typographic posters produced by the New Zealand Government in WWI to recruit men and money to the war effort. They chart the progress of recruitment strategies from voluntarism through to the contested years leading to conscription. |
Patricia Thomas |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
‘Public memory and everyday memorials: work of the Imperial War Graves Commission’ |
The paper highlights tensions that appeared in the near routine collection of trophies for memorials and the design of war cemeteries between British imperial offices and those of former colonies, particularly Australia’s War Records Section. |
William Taylor |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
The Politics of Memory: Designing the Ganatantra Smarak (Republic Memorial), Kathmandu, Nepal |
Examination of the design competition of Nepal's republic memorial. |
Bryony Whitmarsh |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Images of Women in a Changing Colonial Taiwanese Society during the Period of World War I |
Propaganda: graphic design and print culture |
Chu-Yu Sun |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
War on Wheels |
First World War vehicles as instruments of order and chaos. |
Gregory Votolato |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Funky Bunkers: The Post-Military Landscape as a Readymade Space and a Cultural Playgound |
On adapted reuse of military establishments. |
Per Strömberg |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Authenticity and commemoration: an analysis of Otto Weidt Worshop for the Blind and the Jewish Museum in Berlin |
This paper will analyse both spaces according to their scale, location in the city, authenticity, phenomenology and prosthetic memory, in order to determine whether design can enhance and protect our collective memory. |
Ana Souto |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Collective Memory and Conflict Representation: War and Peace in Colombian Museums |
This paper studies some Colombian museums that are reflecting upon war. |
Andrés Pardo Rodriguez |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
'Ambassador of Good Will': Three Centuries of American Art in 1930s Europe |
The 1938 exhibition, Three Centuries of American Art, on display in Europe and the United States. |
Caroline Riley |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
South African poster propaganda during the Second World War |
The paper examines poster propaganda produced in South Africa during the Second World War. |
Deirdre Pretorius |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Draw me an AK-47: Transnational imaginaries in the trenches of the cold war |
This paper examines the image of the Kalashnikov in the cold war period through two intersecting lenses that cut across disciplines of design –– the object in its public mediation and the image in its transnational circulation through print culture. |
Zeina Maasri |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Syonan Shimbun: Singapore's Wartime Newspaper |
The presentation looks at the design and production of this propaganda paper as part of the wider history of the Singaporean Straits Times, the newspaper it briefly replaced. |
Jessie O'Neill |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Designed to Kill : The Difficult Study of Military Design |
Design is perceived by most as a positive concept meant to improve people lives. But it is first a means to answer efficiently a specific purpose. How can we morally accept that the act of killing led to the development of an important design industry? |
Marie-Anne Michaux |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Camouflage for peace: disruptive pattern material and dazzle painting in contemporary design and art |
The aim of this paper is to analyse the consequences of this change, in other words, the examination of the ways, the strategies, the semiotics and the social uses of the objects which conform the so-called camouflage for peace. |
Maite Méndez-Baiges |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
The secret dollhouse: craft and resistance in Stalinist Estonia |
My presentation will focus on the subject of nonprofessional craft as a tool of resistance against the official power. I will be concentrating on one particular case study from Soviet Estonia, dating from the 1940s. |
Triin Jerlei |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Book and musket | graphic design of Italian school reports and diplomas during the Fascism |
In the interwar period, the Italian school reports and diplomas turned into a direct expression of the most advanced artistic research. Fascism revolutionized institutional graphic design to achieve a modern effective communication. |
Caterina Franchini |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum |
Material objects and visual web presentation: the Virtual Peace Palace Museum. |
Marjan Groot |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Modernising the V&A: From War to Reconstruction 1918-51 |
In the aftermath of two world wars, the V&A struggled to reconstruct a national view of contemporary art and design in which Britain’s industrial past and contemporary developments could be reconciled. |
Laura Elliot |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
"Good Housing depends on You”: Wartime Housing, 1942 |
MoMA’s 1942 Wartime Housing exhibition demonstrated that housing contributed to the war effort. Through innovative display, the museum proposed that new materials, modern techniques, and community planning would create lively permanent communities. |
Erin McKellar |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Conflicting Views: Print Propaganda Depicting Tourism in a Landscape of War |
An analysis of Ruth Taylor White’s “cartograph” for the 1945 guidebook A G.I. View of American Red Cross China, India and Burma, published by the American Red Cross. |
Dori Griffin |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Quiet, Humane and ‘Anonymous’: Pevsner’s art-historical response to wartime |
This paper focuses on Pevsner’s wartime writings. |
Ariyuki Kondo |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Prints of Peace: Elihu Burritt and the graphics of reform |
This talk examines the propaganda campaign conducted by mid-nineteenth century American reformer Elihu Burritt and a group of engravers and artists who used the graphic potential of postal items, such as envelopes, to pressure politicians for peace. |
Peter Gilderdale |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Dressed to Dissent: 'Catch-22' Clothing |
This paper examines dress as a form of anti-war Vietnam protest using the cross dressing character of Corporal Maxwell Klinger on the long-running American sitcom MASH as its focus. |
Marilyn Cohen |
30 September, 2014 |
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| Practical Ethics Bites |
Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility |
Professor Neil Levy explores the link between free will and responsibility. What makes us blameworthy for our actions? |
Neil Levy, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds |
29 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
Design during the War: the seventh Triennale in Milan and the Mostra della produzione in serie (Serial production exhibition, 1940) |
The Serial production exhibition, by Giuseppe Pagano, opens a new attitude in Italian design. The most advanced industrial products are shown to the public: typewriters, calculators, metal furnitures, microscopes, optical instruments, raincoats and so on. |
Alberto Bassi |
28 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
ENIAC versus Colossus and the early presentation of electronic computers |
A description of the concurrent yet different development of electronic computers during WWII in the UK and US– most notably the secrecy of the UK development compared to the widely known work in the US and the consequent effects on the computing industry |
Paul Atkinson |
28 September, 2014 |
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| Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference |
‘Propaganda in Three Dimensions’: British Ministry of Information Exhibitions During World War Two |
Exhibitions designed by the British Ministry of Information exhibitions branch during World War Two as official propaganda: their methods and impact. |
Harriet Atkinson |
28 September, 2014 |
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| Centre for the Study of the Book |
Hand-press printing |
A demonstration of and discussion about hand-press printing with the Bodleian's Dr Paul Nash. |
Paul Nash, Adam Smyth |
25 September, 2014 |
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| "British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction |
Impact of the 1914 – 1918 Poets |
Adrian Barlow looks at the impact of World War One poets in the years immediately following the War, in late 20s and early 30s, and as we embark on the 100 year anniversary of the conflict. |
Adrian Barlow |
23 September, 2014 |
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| "British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction |
Edmund Blunden |
Margi Blunden, daughter of Edmund Blunden, talks about her father and his work. |
Margi Blunden |
23 September, 2014 |
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| "British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction |
Poetry of the Empire |
World War One was a conflict of empire, not of nation. In this lecture Dr Simon Featherstone looks at four distinctive poets who provide a version of empire that is much more nuanced than the imperial rhetoric of the established canon. |
Simon Featherstone |
22 September, 2014 |
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| "British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction |
Siegfried Sassoon |
Meg Crane looks at the war poems of Siegfried Sassoon, framed by the first and last (non-war) poems of his literary career. |
Meg Crane |
22 September, 2014 |
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