| Big Questions For The Future |
Why do we need 'citizen science'? |
Harnessing the general public to help analyse complex data sets is not only helping scientists with galaxy classification. |
Pedro Ferreira |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Big Questions For The Future |
What will buildings of the future look like? |
There's a lot that we can learn from the past, using modern materials and approaches, that will improve the design and functionality of new buildings. |
Steve Rayner |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Big Questions For The Future |
How can nanotechnology address medical problems? |
Microscopes with nanometer resolution can test the mechanical properties of cells. Nanoscale 'scaffolds' that mimic the cellular matrix of cells in the body can help regenerate tissue, improve healing mechanisms, and even train the immune system. |
Sonia Contera |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Big Questions For The Future |
Can we create vaccines fast enough for a future pandemic? |
An exploration of how to get from vaccine development to vaccine delivery in time to deal with a health scare such as a fast-moving global pandemic. By Professor Adrian Hill, Co-Director, Institute for Vaccine Design. |
Adrian Hill |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Big Questions For The Future |
How serious is the threat of a future flu pandemic? |
Professor Angela McLean, Co-Director, Institute for Emerging Infections advises caution, preparation and fast decision-making in anticipation of the threat of a serious pandemic. |
Angela McClean |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Big Questions For The Future |
How can ideas change the world? |
Interview with Professsor Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford Martin School. |
Ian Goldin |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Big Questions For The Future |
How can stem cells help in the treatment of cancer? |
One of the flipsides of ageing is cancer, characterised by cells that do not age. What can stem cell research learn from cancer cells to help prevent the degenerative illnesses associated with ageing? |
Colin Goding |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Big Questions For The Future |
How serious is our exposure to dangerous infections? |
The world has become a safer place because of vaccines but does our increasing connectivity mean the world is getting riskier in terms of our exposure to serious infections? By Professor Adrian Hill, Co-Director, Institute for Vaccine Design. |
Adrian Hill |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Big Questions For The Future |
What are stem cells and why are they important for the future of medicine? |
An explanation of how stem cells could transform medical practice, from treating the diseases of ageing to finding a cure for cancer by Professor Colin Goding, Co-Director, Oxford Stem Cell Institute. |
Colin Goding |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
What is the relationship between new migration and community change? |
Migration is presumed to be a major driver of change at the neighborhood level. What is the evidence? This briefing explores current understanding and evidence about the neighborhood changes associated with new migration. |
David Robinson |
20 August, 2012 |
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| Hume's Central Principles |
7. Scepticism with Regard to Reason, the Soul and the Self |
Seventh lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles. |
Peter Millican |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Hume's Central Principles |
2. Overview, Theory of Ideas, and Faculty Psychology |
Second lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles. |
Peter Millican |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Hume's Central Principles |
6. Hume on the External World |
Sixth lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles. |
Peter Millican |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Hume's Central Principles |
5: Hume on Causal Necessity |
Fifth lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles. |
Peter Millican |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Hume's Central Principles |
1. Historical Background, and His 'Chief Argument' |
First lecture on David Hume's Central Principles; focusing on the historical background and Hume's Chief Argument. |
Peter Millican |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Hume's Central Principles |
4: Hume on Induction |
Fourth lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles. |
Peter Millican |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Hume's Central Principles |
8. Conclusion; Scepticism in the Treatise and the Enquiry |
Eighth and final lecture in Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Central Principles. |
Peter Millican |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Hume's Central Principles |
3: Hume's Logic: Relations, and Forms of Argument |
Third lecture in Peter Millican's series on Hume's Central Principles. |
Peter Millican |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Citizenship, and the Migrant Metropolis: Life Within and Against the Spaces of the Law |
Nicholas de Genoa discusses urbanisation, and how migration is remaking cities, the spatial practice of migrants and their experience and how this can reconceptualise emergent formations of social and political rights. |
Nicholas de Genoa |
14 August, 2012 |
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| Oriel College Chapel Services |
A new heart I will give you |
Sermon preached in Oriel College Chapel on Sunday 27th May 2012 for Pentecost by Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP. |
Timothy Radcliffe |
8 August, 2012 |
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| Oriel College Chapel Services |
Riots or Resistance? |
Sermon preached in Oriel College Chapel on Sunday 20th May by The Revd Hayley Matthews. |
Hayley Matthews |
8 August, 2012 |
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| Oriel College Chapel Services |
Whose Crisis? |
Sermon preached in Oriel College Chapel on Sunday 13th May for Christian Aid by The Rt Revd John Pritchard (Bishop of Oxford). |
John Pritchard |
8 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons |
Ash Amin discusses his new book, "Land of Strangers: From a Politics of Social Ties to a Politics of the Commons". |
Ash Amin |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Homophily is not an explanation |
Talja Blokland discusses notions of ethnicity, community, integration and migration, using empirical data to make a theoretical argument. She uses the notion of homophiliy - the idea that people that are similar come together. |
Talja Blokland |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Whiteness, Class and the Legacies of Empire: On Home Ground |
Katharine Tyler speaks about her new book, which explores what it means to be white modern post-colonial societies, drawing on her fieldwork in semi-rural, rural and urban spaces in Leicestershire. |
Katharine Tyler |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
New Geographies of Migration and Multiculture: Degrees of Intimacy between English Villagers and Eastern European Migrants in Rural Worcestershire |
Analysing the relationship between whiteness and Englishness, looking at processes of social inclusion and exclusion in the countryside, the migration of Eastern European workers to the countryside and rural discourses of community and multi-culture. |
Helen Moore |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Nostalgia and everyday multiculturalism: Anglo-Indian and Chinese Calcuttans in London and Toronto |
Jayani Bonnerjee looks at the connections between Anglo-Indian and Chinese communities in Calcutta through the space of neighbourhood and how the memory of neighbourhood carries over into diasporas. |
Jayani Bonnerjee |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Crossing the Threshold: Identity, Integration and Multiculturalism in British and German Muslim Ethnic Minority Neighbourhoods |
Sarah Hackett explores the idea of the neighbourhood as a site where citizenship is practiced and negotiated, with particular focus on historical developments and settlements in Newcastle, UK and Bremen, Germany. |
Sarah Hackett |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London suburbs |
David Gilbert considers the relationship between faith and suburbia with focus on migration. Part of the OMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2012: Everyday multiculturalism. |
David Gilbert |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Between strategic nostalgia and banal nomadism: Arab diaspora watching satellite and digital television across Europe |
Myria Georgiou talks about uses of transnational television among Arab speaking populations in Europe to explore questions around citizenship. |
Myria Georgiou |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Where's your bloody pigtail?: Liberalism, Empire, and the Chinese Labour Question |
Professor Glover outlined the moral panic around aliens and Chinese labour in the 1906 election, relating the debate to the 1905 Aliens Act and to Chinese indentured layout to South Africa. |
David Glover |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
UK Immigration Policy and the Political Functions of Research |
Talk looking at the ways in which public administration and policy makers make use of academic research immigration policy making, looking at the British Home Office, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the European Commission. |
Christina Boswell |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
The politics of migration in the UK: Catering to a public of (at least) two minds |
Scott Blinder discusses the portrayal of the British public's opinion on migration, and the reality behind it. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series. |
Scott Blinder |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Gender and interventions in integration |
Eleonore Kofman discusses gender's role in relation to integration discourses, policies and practices. Part of the Interrogating Integration: Discourses, Policies and Everyday Practices (COMPAS Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010) Series. |
Eleonore Kofman |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Immigration and Political Trust in Europe |
Lauren McLaren looks at immigration and political trust, with focus on recent research data. Part of the Public Opinion, Media and the Politics of Migration(COMPAS Seminar Series Hilary 2011) series. |
Lauren McLaren |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
'Integration' as Illiberal Exceptionalism in Migration Law: The Role of the European Union |
Sergio Carrera examines how the process of Europeanization, the development of the European Union, has played a role in migration law and on the meaning and mechanisms of integration. |
Sergio Carrera |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
The national integration paradigm: where are we now? |
Adrian Favell discusses his book 'Philosophies of Integration', taking a theoretical and philosophical approach to integration. |
Adrian Favell |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Numbers and Needs - the urban and the rural: Immigrant settlement in Shropshire and Tower Hamlets |
Anne Kershen discusses the comparisons between immigrant settlements in Shropshire and London's Tower Hamlets, exploring different issues of the migrant experience arising in the two areas. |
Anne Kershen |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
Immigrant Integration and Human Rights: Lessons from the US-Mexico Border |
Discussion on the problematic of discussing integration in a context of security enforcement policies in the US and neoliberal policies, with a focus on immigrants in the US/Mexico border region and in the US as a whole. |
Neil Harvey |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
When is an asylum seeker not an asylum seeker? The representation of immigration in the UK press 1996-2005 |
Paul Baker talks about how asylums seekers and refugees were presented in the national press and the variations in discourses over time and across types of press. |
Paul Baker |
6 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
2. Hume's Theory of Relations |
Lecture 2 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
4a. Relations, and a Detour to the Causal Maxim |
First part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
5b. Of Skepticism with Regard to the Senses |
Second part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
4d. Of the Necessary Connection |
Fourth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
3. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time |
Accompanying slides for Lectures 3a to 3c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
1c. Hume's Faculty Psychology |
Third part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
4b. The Argument Concerning Induction |
Second part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
5a. Of Skepticism with Regard to Reason |
First part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
3b. Space and Time |
Second part of Lecture 3 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
5. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy |
Accompanying slides for Lectures 5a to 5c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
4c. Belief and Probability |
Third part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
1. Introduction, Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties |
Accompanying Slides for Lectures 1a to 1c of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
1b. The Theory of Ideas |
Second part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
4f. The Point of Hume's Analysis of Causation |
Sixth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
3a. Hume's Theory of General (or Abstract) Ideas |
First part of Lecture 3 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Abstract Ideas, Space and Time. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
5c. Of the Ancient and Modern Philosophies |
Third and Final part of Lecture 5 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of the Skeptical and Other Systems of Philosophy. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
1a. Hume's Theory of Ideas and the Faculties |
First part of lecture one of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
4e. Understanding Hume on Causation |
Fifth part of Lecture 4 of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise on Human Nature Book One. Of Knowledge and Probability. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One |
4. Of Knowledge and Probability |
Accompanying slides for Lectures 4a to 4f of Peter Millican's series on David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One. |
Peter Millican |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Great Writers Inspire |
Julian Thompson on Sir Walter Scott |
Dr Julian Thompson introduces 'the least read great writer in our literature'. He describes the popularly of Walter Scott in his own time and suggests some highlights of the 'living Scots' of his fiction. |
Julian Thompson |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Great Writers Inspire |
Shakespeare and Voice |
Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. |
Linda Gates |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Interviews on Great Writers |
Shakespeare and Voice |
Linda Gates, Professor of Voice at Northwestern University (USA) discusses how Shakespeare's poetry and plays lend themselves to vocal performance by discussing how breath can be used to 'punctuate the thought'. |
Linda Gates |
1 August, 2012 |
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| Translational Medicine |
Rift Valley Fever |
Dr George Warimwe talks about his research on Rift Valley Fever. |
George Warimwe |
31 July, 2012 |
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| Global Health |
Rift Valley Fever |
Dr George Warimwe talks about his research on Rift Valley Fever. |
George Warimwe |
31 July, 2012 |
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| St Anne's College |
St Anne's and the Imagination |
A discussion with Dame Penelope Lively and Professor Patrick McGuinness which took place on Saturday 19th May as part of St Anne's 60th anniversary celebrations. |
Penelope Lively, Patrick McGuinness, David Smith |
30 July, 2012 |
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| Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
Parallel Worlds |
Dr. David Wallace on the many-worlds theory, an explanation of the baffling results that quantum mechanics provides us with - and that there may be more worlds than just our own. |
David Wallace, Ankita Anirban |
30 July, 2012 |
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| Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
From Argument to Experiment |
Dr Christopher Palmer on the historical ties between physics and philosophy - from ancient philosophical thought through to the scientific revolution and the pioneers of modern physics. |
Christopher Palmer, Ankita Anirban |
30 July, 2012 |
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| Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
Consciousness and Computability |
Prof. Sir Roger Penrose on the idea of artificial intelligence and whether consciousness can be replicated by a computer - a discussion of new physics which may take us closer to explaining the mind. |
Roger Penrose, Ankita Anirban |
30 July, 2012 |
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| Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
Space and Time |
Prof. Frank Arntzenius on whether space and time are absolute entities or simply relational properties derived from the idea of motion - an old debate between Newton and Leibniz, carried on today. |
Frank Arntzenius, Ankita Anirban |
30 July, 2012 |
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| Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
Quantum Paradoxes |
Prof. Vlatko Vedral on the mind-boggling and paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics and its consequences on modern technology - the possibilities of superfast computing and teleportation. |
Vlatko Vedral, Ankita Anirban |
30 July, 2012 |
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| Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
Physics and Philosophy: An Introduction |
On the inextricable links between physics and philosophy and the ways in which one can lead to the other - how they complement each other in answering the big questions. |
Ankita Anirban |
30 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
When Can('t) We Trust Our Moral Intuitions in Distributive Cases? |
Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). |
Alex Voorhoeve |
25 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Experimental Evidence for Morality As Accountability |
Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). |
Stephen Darwall |
25 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Science, Responsibility and The Traffic Participation View on Human Agency |
Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). |
Maureen Sie |
25 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
When the mind matters for morality |
Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). |
Liane Young |
25 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Accepting our natures. When should we accept the ways people tend to behave; when should we aim to change them? |
Presentations from an international conference on the normative significance of cognitive science. Hosted by Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford July 2012). |
Kwame Anthony Appiah |
25 July, 2012 |
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| European Studies Centre |
The Impact of European Court of Human Rights' Decisions and Turkish Code Reforms Pertaining to the Headscarf on Islamist Women in Turkey: Enabling Emancipation or Legitimizing Discrimination? |
Sarah Ficher, (American University), gives a talk for the Legal Reform and Political Change Affecting Women in the MENA Region held on Tuesday 12 June, 2012 in St Antony's College. |
Sarah Ficher |
20 July, 2012 |
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| English Graduate Conference 2012 |
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 |
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a judge for many other literary prizes to offer a response to the question, 'What is a Classic?'. |
Helena Kennedy |
19 July, 2012 |
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| Great Writers Inspire |
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 |
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, draws on her experience as a trustee of the Booker Prize and as a judge for many other literary prizes to offer a response to the question, 'What is a Classic?'. |
Helena Kennedy |
19 July, 2012 |
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| Great Writers Inspire |
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 |
Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her practical involvement in re-launching the Oxford World's Classics series in 2008 to give a publisher's take on the question, 'What is a Classic?'. |
Judith Luna |
19 July, 2012 |
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| English Graduate Conference 2012 |
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 |
Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics. |
Ankhi Mukherjee |
19 July, 2012 |
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| English Graduate Conference 2012 |
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 |
Judith Luna, the Senior Commissioning Editor at Oxford World's Classics, draws on her practical involvement in re-launching the Oxford World's Classics series in 2008 to give a publisher's take on the question, 'What is a Classic?'. |
Judith Luna |
19 July, 2012 |
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| Great Writers Inspire |
What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 |
Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics. |
Ankhi Mukherjee |
19 July, 2012 |
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| English Graduate Conference 2012 |
Shackled by Language: The Representation and Self-Representation of English-Speaking Black Voices in Black Atlantic Writing |
Cecilia Bennett considers the use of the English language in black Atlantic narratives. |
Cecilia Bennett |
18 July, 2012 |
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| English Graduate Conference 2012 |
Rewriting Jane Eyre: The Avenging 'Angel in the House' in Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White |
Erin Nyborg draws parallels between Michael Faber's 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. |
Erin Nyborg |
18 July, 2012 |
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| Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World |
11. Does Government belong in the bedroom? |
There are many examples, from the ancient world to Nazi Germany, of attempts to protect or to increase the birth rate and hence population size. Slides to accompany Prof David Coleman's talk on birth control from governments. |
David Coleman |
18 July, 2012 |
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| English Graduate Conference 2012 |
Olive Schreiner |
Dominic Davies talks about Olive Schreiner, the postcolonial South African author, and how her work, The Story of the African Farm, engages with the critical question of European hegemony in literary understanding and expectations of literary works. |
Dominic Davies |
17 July, 2012 |
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| English Graduate Conference 2012 |
'Some exquisitely-dressed stage favourite': Shakespeare and the suffragettes |
In this talk, Sophie Duncan examines suffragists' interactions with Shakespeare and his works, as performers, directors, consumers and critics. |
Sophie Duncan |
17 July, 2012 |
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| Translational Medicine |
Diabetes in Young Adults |
Dr Katharine Owen talks about the different types of Diabetes in young adults. |
Katherine Owen |
17 July, 2012 |
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| Diabetes and Obesity |
Diabetes in Young Adults |
Dr Katharine Owen talks about the different types of diabetes in young adults. |
Katherine Owen |
17 July, 2012 |
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| Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
What is the role of schooling in the integration and settlement process of new Polish migrants to the UK? |
The EU Enlargement of 2004 entailed an intensive large-scale migration wave from Eastern European countries to the UK, in particular from Poland. |
Pauline Trevena |
16 July, 2012 |
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| Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
The racial crisis of America's civil rights state: Transformation of the State, American Style |
Keynote Speech by Professor Desmond King FBA (University of Oxford) for the Third Conference of 'Transformations of the State' (11 May), which forms part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme, with an introduction by Heike Klüver. |
Desmond King, Heike Klüver |
16 July, 2012 |
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| Interviews on Great Writers |
A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. |
Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. In her reading, she seeks out allusions to Shakespearean plays including Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. She then answers questions about the poem. |
Sally Bayley |
16 July, 2012 |
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| Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World |
10. Who's afraid of population decline? |
Fear of population decline has haunted states ever since states existed. Population size was the basis of the power, security and prosperity of any political entity. Slides to accompany Professor David Coleman's on the fear of population decline. |
David Coleman |
16 July, 2012 |
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| Green Templeton College |
The Leaders We Need for Healthcare |
Podcast from Green Templeton College recorded on Thursday 13th July 2012. With Dr Michael Maccoby, Associate Fellow of the Said Business School President of the Maccoby Group in Washington. |
Michael Maccoby |
15 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
SRC Conference 'Reducing Religious Conflict': Round Table Discussion |
Discussion of key themes emerging from a two-day interdisciplinary conference on reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). |
Roger Trigg, Scott Atran, Julian Savulescu |
12 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Religion and Religious Conflict: A Secular View |
Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). |
Julian Savuelscu |
12 July, 2012 |
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| Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World |
09. Bringing down the birth rate - family planning in the developing world |
Traditionally, high birth rates were high. But as they were balanced by high death rates, population growth rates were usually very low. Prof David Coleman looks at family planning in the developing world. |
David Coleman |
12 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
How Might Understanding Human Groups Help Address Religious Conflict? |
Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). |
Paul Troop |
12 July, 2012 |
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| From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops |
Local versus Global Dimensions of Religious Violence: The Case of the Caucasus |
Presentations from a two-day international and interdisciplinary conference on the theme of reducing religious conflict. Organised by the SRC Project, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford (June 2012). |
Monica Toft |
12 July, 2012 |
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