Ranked #1
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
Ranked #2
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
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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
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53mins
Ranked #4
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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55mins
Ranked #5
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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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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51mins
Ranked #7
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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46mins
Ranked #9
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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58mins
Ranked #10
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
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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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54mins
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How to eat an Elephant: Why Climate Change Policy is in a Mess and How to Fix it
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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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Ranked #14
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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1hr 12mins
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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
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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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1hr 5mins
Ranked #18
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
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48mins
Ranked #19
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
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46mins
Ranked #20
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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42mins