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Alumni Weekend

The annual Oxford University Alumni Weekend aims to showcase the Collegiate University as a whole, giving prominence to a range of current research and its application to real world situations, as wel... Read more

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Why is Oxford Determined to Change the Way We Discover New Medicines?

Why is Oxford Determined to Change the Way We Discover New Medicines?

Chas Bountra, a popular speaker at the recent Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Asia, will explain how Oxford is creat... Read more

7 Oct 2014

43mins

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The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks

The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks

Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Ian Gold... Read more

3 Oct 2014

53mins

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An Oxford Education

An Oxford Education

Panel discussion led by Vice Chancellor Andrew Hamilton, with Mike Nicholson, Helen Swift, Priscilla Santos and Jenny Br... Read more

14 Oct 2013

51mins

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Translations as Literature

Translations as Literature

Matthew Reynolds, Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni W... Read more

29 Oct 2013

1hr 4mins

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Medieval Romance and the Gift of Narrative

Medieval Romance and the Gift of Narrative

Dr Perkins gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend. Dr Nicholas Perkins curated the 2012 Bodleian exhibition 'Th... Read more

14 Oct 2013

1hr 4mins

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Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture

Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture

World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily ... Read more

2 Oct 2014

54mins

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The Future of the Past: Dating archaeology using radiocarbon and particle accelerators

The Future of the Past: Dating archaeology using radiocarbon and particle accelerators

Tom Higham examines some of the projects the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit has been involved with over the last few years... Read more

3 Oct 2014

38mins

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Heroes, Villains and Victims: The dangerous politics of international migration

Heroes, Villains and Victims: The dangerous politics of international migration

This panel debate discusses key facts and fiction in international migration, and presents new ideas for a better politi... Read more

2 Oct 2014

53mins

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From the Arab Spring to the Syrian War: Regional, international and humanitarian impact

From the Arab Spring to the Syrian War: Regional, international and humanitarian impact

This session will examine the political and humanitarian dynamics behind the Arab Spring and the Syrian War. Starting wi... Read more

8 Oct 2013

35mins

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The Biogeography of Madagascar: A Gondwanan island

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... Read more

2 Oct 2014

1hr 10mins

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Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas

Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas

Joe Cartwright provides a geological perspective into the exploration of shale gas reserves.

6 Oct 2014

48mins

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Black Land, Red Land: The Nile Valley and Egypt’s Western Desert

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 de... Read more

2 Oct 2014

1hr 5mins

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Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation

Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation

Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian and Fellow of Balliol, and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Chur... Read more

6 Oct 2014

59mins

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The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East

The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East

Drawing on European and Middle Eastern sources, historian Eugene Rogan provides an overview of the Great War in the Midd... Read more

3 Oct 2014

39mins

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Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Environmentalism without nature

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 na... Read more

2 Oct 2014

47mins

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70 Years On: My, how you’ve changed!

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 se... Read more

2 Oct 2014

48mins

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The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford

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... Read more

3 Oct 2014

38mins

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Jenkin Lecture The Oxford RobotCar

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’l... Read more

3 Oct 2014

1hr 6mins

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Living with Flooding: Science, democracy and the complex challenge of managing environmental risk

Living with Flooding: Science, democracy and the complex challenge of managing environmental risk

Professor Whatmore, who focuses on the interface between cultural geography, political theory and science and technology... Read more

3 Oct 2014

43mins

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Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate

Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate

Nigel Bowles explores Nixon’s politics that achieved a synthesis of strategy, imagination, ideologies, and calculation r... Read more

7 Oct 2014

55mins

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