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Anthropology

The Science of Modelling Through

Professor Dan Sarewitz delivered this seminar at the Institute for Science Innovation and Society on 4 March 2019
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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New economic and moral foundations for the Anthropocene

Prof Beinhocker will argue that by changing the ideologies, narratives, and memes that govern our economic system, we can create the political space required to rapidly transform to a sustainable and just economic system.
Anthropology

The concept of culture in cultural evolution

In his keynote speech for the Cultural Evolution Workshop (held in the Pitt Rivers Museum on 28 February 2017), Prof. Tim Lewens of Cambridge examines the concept of culture in cultural evolution.
Changing Character of War
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The Evolution of Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice

Lucas Milevski gives a talk for the Changing Character of War programme seminar series.
The Nature of Causation
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The regularity theory of causation

Hume's famously influential account of causation
The Nature of Causation
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The counterfactual theory of causation

The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Intercultural Literary Practices - Theorising Interculturality

Dr. Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht), Prof. Peter McDonald (English), and Prof. Elleke Boehmer (English)
Reid's Critique of Hume

Reid and Common Sense Realism

Part two of Professor Dan Robinson's examination of Reid's critique of David Hume.
Anthropology

'Native Life', or, Being outside the carbon imagery

Professor Elizabeth Povinelli of Columbia University examines contemporary scientific discussions of the Anthropocene and climate change and theoretical theories of New Vitalism, New Animism and Relational Ontology
Anthropology

Experimenting with field experiments: moving the lab into the field in ethnographic research

In this Anthropology departmental seminar from 8 November 2013, Dimitris Xygalatas (Aarhus and Masaryk Universities) investigates ritual behaviour, bringing it into the lab, to work out why people put themselves through such ordeals
Anthropology

Provocations for digital anthropology (30 May 2013)

David Zeitlyn discusses parallels between visual and digital anthropology and the dangers of historical myopia. It is too easy to disregard earlier parallels because of the mistaken claim that everything is new and different.
Anthropology

Looking forward looking back (18 May 2013)

Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford) argues for a pluralisation of past, present and future. There are many unconnected or only partially connected literatures on time related issues.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Tropes of Comparison

Katrin Kohl on metaphors of comparison, Ami Li on temporality and interpretive contexts, Carole Bourne-Taylor on Michel Deguy.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Shaped by the Classics?

Tania Demetriou on the non-existent classical epyllion; Helen Slaney on dilettante comparatists; Henriette Korthals Altes on dance and text; John McKeane on Sophocles, Holderlin and Lacoue-Labarthe.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Dealing with Frustration - Order in Disorder

Magnetic particles can get frustrated in their interactions with other particles because of lattice geometry. Lots of new and exciting physics is involved in understanding how they deal with their frustration.
Interviews on Great Writers

DH Lawrence: A Postcolonial Writer?

Professor Peter McDonald draws on the work of Indian novelist and literary critic, Amit Chaudhuri, to open up new ways of how we can think about D.H. Lawrence, not only as a Modernist, but also as a Post/Colonial writer.
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.
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.
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.
Bioethics: An Introduction

Reading List for Bioethics: An Introduction

Reading List to accompany the Bioethics: An Introduction podcast series.

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