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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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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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What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate

What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate

How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this q... Read more

6 Oct 2014

58mins

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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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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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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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The Secret Mathematicians

The Secret Mathematicians

Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broad... Read more

8 Oct 2013

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Darwin's Fish: Evolutionary controversies in the fossil record

Darwin's Fish: Evolutionary controversies in the fossil record

See how modern analyses of the fossil record, genetics and development provide a new understanding of flatfish evolution... Read more

4 Oct 2013

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What the World Needs Now from the Environmental Movement

What the World Needs Now from the Environmental Movement

Dr Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend 2013. Some ha... Read more

3 Oct 2013

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The Oxford English Dictionary: From Victorian venture to the digital age endeavour

The Oxford English Dictionary: From Victorian venture to the digital age endeavour

Fiona McPherson, Senior Editor, Oxford English Dictionary, explores the OED's journey through the last century, from pap... Read more

30 Sep 2013

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The Fraud of Forgiveness without Reconciliation in Economic Life.

The Fraud of Forgiveness without Reconciliation in Economic Life.

Dr Michael Black (Blackfriers Hall) speaking at the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend.

30 Sep 2013

56mins

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The Spanish Golden Age

The Spanish Golden Age

A session chaired by Dr Frances Lannon that examines this period of flourishing arts and literature in Spain, which coin... Read more

22 May 2013

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How to eat an Elephant: Why Climate Change Policy is in a Mess and How to Fix it

How to eat an Elephant: Why Climate Change Policy is in a Mess and How to Fix it

For more than two decades, Professor Steve Rayner has led interdisciplinary research programmes on science technology an... Read more

9 Oct 2012

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The Constitutional Issues surrounding devolution in the UK

The Constitutional Issues surrounding devolution in the UK

Iain MacLean, Professor of Politics and fellow of Nuffield College, the British Academy and the Royal Society Edinburgh,... Read more

9 Oct 2012

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End of Life: Should Physician-Assisted Dying be Legalised?

End of Life: Should Physician-Assisted Dying be Legalised?

A debate on the whether the choice to end their own lives could be safely offered to some people with terminal illnesses... Read more

3 Oct 2012

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Governing the 21st Century: Oxford's new Blavatnik School of Government

Governing the 21st Century: Oxford's new Blavatnik School of Government

With a generous donation from Len Blavatnik, the new Blavatnik School of Government has been set up. Professor Ngaire Wo... Read more

21 Oct 2011

22mins

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Twirling the Kaleidoscope: The Byzantine Empire

Twirling the Kaleidoscope: The Byzantine Empire

Peter Frankopan, Director of the Centre for Byzantine Reseach, gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend.

10 Oct 2011

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How to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

How to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

Part of the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Dr David Smith gives a talk on how to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

2 Nov 2010

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Early Tudor England: A People's Reformation?

Early Tudor England: A People's Reformation?

From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. The english Reformation has often been seen as am 'act of state', imposed on the people. H... Read more

25 Oct 2010

48mins

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The Future of Humanity

The Future of Humanity

From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute gives a talk on ideas surroundi... Read more

25 Oct 2010

46mins

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The Hidden History of the Wellcome Collection

The Hidden History of the Wellcome Collection

From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Frances Larson gives a talk entitled 'Shared Treasures or Just Bits and Pieces? The Hidden... Read more

25 Oct 2010

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