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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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38mins
Ranked #18
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
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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
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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
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55mins