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Valentine's Day at Oxford

Tales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation

Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Valentine's Day at Oxford

Does love have a scent?

Love is in the air - or is it? Companies are advertising that they can find you love through the power of scent! But are pheromones a chemical way to find your true love? Or is it just a myth?
Anthropology

Obsessed by Love: Erotic Magic, Delirious Love and Female Power in Mozambique

Christian Groes-Green (Roskilde University Copenhagen) discusses the nature of being in love and how this is seen and discussed in Mozambique and written about in other African nations (6 March 2015)
Valentine's Day at Oxford

Love and Math

A public lecture given by Edward Frenkel, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talking around his best-selling book "Love and Math" followed by a conversation with Marcus du Sautoy and Q&A.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

So many ways to love you: Negotiating love in a prison

Rimple Metha (Jadavpur University, India)
Uehiro Oxford Institute

If I could just stop loving you: Anti-love drugs and the ethics of a chemical break-up

Emotional pain and difficulty in relationships is potentially dangerous and destructive. In this talk, I explore some of the potential uses and misuses of anti-love biotechnology from a scientific and ethical perspective.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Who did Plato (not) love?

Platonic love? Plato's main text on love, the Symposium, takes a broad look at what love means, offering a serious yet humorous, poignant and flippant, literary philosophical discussion of the topic, with some famous but also surprising outcomes.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

If marriage is a trade, then what price romance?

Theatre was a forum for early twentieth-century feminists to challenge romantic ideals of marriage, arguing against society blocking women's access to alternative professions. Did one playwright solve the problem of selling seats without selling out?
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Not only the lonely: the social implications of the rise of online dating

Dr Hogan explores values towards online dating, relating them to whether one's friends have dated online and whether social network software or online personals are responsible for the continued rise in popularity of online dating.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters

In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and code to tease his reader but still communicate intimacy. The denial of full disclosure and the refusal to reveal all is part of the game of seduction.
Oxford Abridged Short Talks

An advert for the lecture series "Love and other things"

This advert introduces a series of 4 talks on the subject of love and romance. The 10 minute talks took place at Oxford University on Valentine's day 2011.

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