In Conversation: Sir Norman Rosenthal and Dr Georgina Paul
‘Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff’ Exhibition Event

Wednesday 5 November, 11.30am–12.30pm
At the Ashmolean Museum

Join the curator of the exhibition, Sir Norman Rosenthal, as he discusses the social and political context of these two seminal German contemporary artists with Dr Georgina Paul, Associate Professor in German and Fellow at St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.

Entry is free and no booking is required.

Find out more about our ‘Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff: Art Belongs To The People!’ at http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/details/?exh=92

Craig Clunas, Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford and co-curator of the British Museum’s blockbuster exhibition ‘Ming: 50 years that changed China’, will discuss the exhibition with an interdisciplinary panel of academics and curators. They will be focusing particularly on the relationship between the exhibition and its catalogue, exploring how the exhibition is transposed to the page.

Panellists:

Rana Mitter (Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China)
Peter Ditmanson (Oriental Studies Lecturer in Chinese History)
Clare Harris (Professor of Visual Anthropology and Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum)

About the exhibition:

Between AD 1400 and 1450, China was a global superpower run by one family – the Ming dynasty – who established Beijing as the capital and built the Forbidden City. During this period, Ming China was thoroughly connected with the outside world. Chinese artists absorbed many fascinating influences, and created some of the most beautiful objects and paintings ever made. From September 2014 – January 2015 The British Museum stages a major exhibition exploring this golden age in China’s history. This discussion will examine the relationship between the exhibition and its catalogue, and explore the curation principles behind the exhibition.

This is part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series. All welcome, no booking required. Please visit www.torch.ox.ac.uk/book-at-lunchtime for more information.

The Innovation Forum, a student led, UK-wide network, invites all medics, entrepreneurs, scientists and coders to connect at our Oxford Launch event and to find out about “Digital Health: Opportunities and challenges in Oxford”. Our experienced panel of 4 speakers will cover a range of topics but we envisage touching upon core themes such as:

• What is digital healthcare?
• What opportunities exist in Oxford for talented coders/entrepreneurs etc. to connect with the medical community?
• What issues exist with access and use of data? How can students/interested people navigate this

Seminars are free and open to all. Please join us for lunch afterwards to continue the conversation.

Professor Sarah Whatmore, head of School of Geography and the Environment, will speak about ‘Living with flooding: the science and politics of flood risk management’.

Sarah Whatmore is Professor of Environment and Public Policy at the University of Oxford and one of the world’s leading scholars on the relationship between environmental science and the democratic governance of environmental risks and hazards. She has worked extensively on the conditions that give rise to the public contestation of environmental expertise; the dynamics and consequences of environmental knowledge controversies for public policy-making; and the design of methods for conducting environmental research that enable the knowledge of affected communities to inform the ways in which environmental problems are framed and addressed.

Professor Whatmore is currently Head of the School of Geography and the Environment and Associate Head (Research) of the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. She is an elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences (AcSS) and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) (RGS) and has served on its Council. She is also a member of the Social Science Expert Panel advising the UK Government’s Departments of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
A free lunch is provided. To book a place please email ahdg@st-annes-mcr.org.uk

MFO-St Hugh’s Lectures Serie
Chair: Robert Gildea

Paddy Ashdown discusses his new book, The Cruel Victory, which tells the long neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the Vercors massif – the largest action by the French Resistance during the Second World War.

Overlooked by English language histories, Ashdown sets the story in the context of D-Day, the muddle of politics and the many misjudgements of D-Day planners in both London and Algiers. Most importantly it also gives voice to the many fighters who fought to gain a stake in their country’s future.

Lord Paddy Ashdown served as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services before becoming a Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. He was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006 and was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in 2006.

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The Future of the Church of England:
A debate on the future of the Church of England, featuring speakers Sir Tony Baldry MP, Revd Canon Jane Charman, Very Revd Dr Jane Shaw, and John Tuckett. Chaired by Professor Linda Woodhead.

The 35th Annual Barlow Lecture
Yongle to Zhengtong: Fifty Years that Changed Chinese Art?
With Professor Craig Clunas, University of Oxford

Friday 7 November , 5-6 pm, Ashmolean Lecture Theatre

Sir Alan Barlow (1881-1968) was a leading 20th-century collector of Chinese and other eastern ceramics. Deeply committed to public education, he left the collection as a trust to be used in universities and museums by the widest possible audience and it is now on loan in the Ashmolean museum, where pieces can be seen throughout the Chinese displays and in the Islamic gallery. This year’s lecture focuses on the British Museum’s autumn blockbuster show Ming: 50 Years that changed China and is delivered by the exhibition’s co- curator Craig Clunas.

Free, booking required. Contact:

T 01865 288001
E eastern.art@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

Department of Eastern Art,
Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford OX1 2PH

Childhood in a New Age:
Adults Look at Children, Children Look at Themselves in Russia, 1890‒1920

With Professor Catriona Kelly, University of Oxford

Saturday 8 November, 11am–12pm
At the Ashmolean Museum – Lecture Theatre

During the late 19th and 20th centuries, the Russian Empire underwent a period of hectic change at every level. This talk, based on the literature and visual arts of the period, as well as journalism, family history and the writings of children, explores how the massive changes of the era affected the Empire’s youngest citizens.

Tickets are £5/£4 concessions and booking is recommended as places are limited.
Visit http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132

Seminars are free and open to all. Please join us for lunch afterwards to continue the conversation.

Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, argues that it also has the potential to destabilise our societies. In The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks, and what to do about it, he and co-author Mike Mariathasan, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Vienna, argue that the recent financial crisis is an example of the risks that the world will face in the coming decades.

The risks spread across supply chains, pandemics, infrastructure, ecology, climate change, economics and politics. Unless these risks are addressed, says Goldin, they could lead to greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism and to deglobalisation, rising conflict and slower growth.

The book talk will be followed by a book signing and drinks reception

This book talk will be live webcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuW2rgtZuIM

About the Book
Global hyperconnectivity and increased system integration have led to vast benefits, including worldwide growth in incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of local events now cascade over national borders and the fallout of financial meltdowns and environmental disasters affects everyone. The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between systemic risks and their effective management. It shows how the new dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the latest insights from a wide variety of disciplines, Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan provide practical guidance for how governments, businesses, and individuals can better manage risk in our contemporary world.

Goldin and Mariathasan assert that the current complexities of globalization will not be sustainable as surprises become more frequent and have widespread impacts. The recent financial crisis exemplifies the new form of systemic risk that will characterize the coming decades, and the authors provide the first framework for understanding how such risk will function in the twenty-first century. Goldin and Mariathasan demonstrate that systemic risk issues are now endemic everywhere in supply chains, pandemics, infrastructure, ecology and climate change, economics, and politics. Unless we are better able to address these concerns, they will lead to greater protectionism, xenophobia, nationalism, and, inevitably, deglobalization, rising conflict, and slower growth.

The Butterfly Defect shows that mitigating uncertainty and systemic risk in an interconnected world is an essential task for our future.

The Pembroke Film Masterclass Series kicks off with a session on documentary filmmaking, with guest speaker Marc Isaacs.

Since 2001 Marc has made more than ten creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, and his films have won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards, as well as numerous international Film Festival prizes, including the Krakow Film Festival.

This masterclass looks at why the idea of transience is so crucial to Marc’s working practice, and will include clips from his films as well as a chance to ask questions.

Find out more and register for this event by visiting http://www.pembrokefilmmasterclass.com/coming-up.html or contact the organiser, Valentina Ippolito, directly on valentina.ippolito@pmb.ox.ac.uk

http://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/content/character-and-place-films-marc-isaacs

A free talk with Dr Adrian Gregory to coincide with our First World War Centenary Exhibition: For Liberty Against Tyranny.
Book essential, please check our website for further details.

A free talk with Professor Keith Robbins to coincide with our First World War centenary exhibition titled ‘For Liberty Against Tyranny’.
Booking essential, please check our website for further details.

Prison Phoenix Trust Annual Lecture:
Have you ever considered how someone convicted of murder perceives himself? What sense of identity the robber and the drink-driver convicted of manslaughter have as they serve their sentences? And how prison might influence their sense of self?
This lecture explores how spiritual practice can enable a person to frame a new sense of themselves and their potential. With a new perspective on their thoughts, there is the possibility of making clear choices. In a prison setting, the capacity to freely choose is a vital part of the journey away from crime. Sustaining this change is helped enormously by like minded people who offer support in prison. Such a community can help a person deal with setbacks, thereby helping to build personal resilience.
The talk will be given by The Reverend Canon Mike Kavanagh, Head of Chaplaincy and Faith Services for the National Offender Management Service, and will be followed by refreshments.

This event will take the form of a panel discussion with each speaker giving a short talk, followed by a Q&A session with the audience, all on the topic of UK policy towards Gypsy and Traveler communities; an event not to be missed for those interested in policy in this field. Expert speakers to include Dr Margaret Greenfields (Professor of Social Policy), Jim Davies (Chair of the Gypsy Roma Traveller Police association), Matthew Brindley and James Rattigan (Gypsy Policy Researchers).

In the past 5 years there has been an explosion of interest in a new way to raise capital for projects for entrepreneurs and start-ups: Crowdfunding. It has seen projects as diverse as video games consoles, television series and even breweries opening around the world, and allows the general public the chance to become intimately involved with the projects that they back.

‘Cosy’ is a home environment-control product developed by Green Energy Options (GEO) that was successfully launched on Kickstarter in 2013, raising over £20,000. Since then Cosy has been going from strength to strength, even with tough competition from the likes of Nest and Tado.

Simon Anderson, the Chief Strategy Officer of GEO, will coming to discuss how Crowdfunding is allowing for a fundamental shift in how small companies and start-ups can launch their products. He will discuss the unique challenges that Crowdfunding creates, the many advantages, and ultimately how it is allowing rapid technological change across a range of industries.

What impact are government anti-terrorism actions having on our society? Our Panel Debate on the impact of anti-terrorism legislation in the UK is an event not to be missed for anyone interested in in this area of policy. With speakers including David Anderson QC, and Jonathan Russell (Political Liaison Officer at the Quilliam Foundation), this is should be an exciting and enlightening discussion on an incredibly divisive topic.

From Quaker conscientious objectors and the actions of Mahatma Gandhi to present day activism, nonviolent protest has been a powerful means for people of faith to challenge authority.

In 2014, a group of activists – many of whom have a Christian faith – were arrested for aggravated trespass after a peaceful protest at an arms fair in London.

As one of the activists found not guilty, Symon Hill will be talking about how his faith informs his sense of justice, and how some Christians are taking their faith to the picket lines.

Symon Hill is a left-wing Christian writer whose work includes The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion and Digital Revolutions: activism in the internet age.

Symon has written for – amongst others – The Guardian, the New Internationalist and the New Statesman.

Why Film Matters
Part of the Why Philosophy Matters Series

With Professor Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford University

Wednesday 12 November, 6‒7.30pm, Ashmolean Education Centre

Join esteemed scholars to talk about the hot topics in contemporary culture and philosophical thought. In partnership with Oxford Brookes University and sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

Free, no booking required, seats allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Entry via St Giles’ Street, drinks from 5.45pm.

The more that infants are studied – by psychoanalytical or anthropological observation or in laboratory conditions – the more sophisticated their social and psychological capacities appear. I want to use some of this knowledge to make a stronger case for national policy investment in the early years: to support the development of small children, alongside the skills of all who look after them in the context of a “neighbourhood around the child”.

Dr Sebastian Kraemer FRCP, FRCPsych, FRCPCH is a consultant emergency and liaison child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Whittington Hospital, London and an honorary consultant at the Tavistock Clinic, London where he worked as a clinician and trainer for 25 years. He writes and lectures on paediatric mental health liaison; the role of fathers from anthropological and modern social perspectives; family therapy, psychoanalysis and therapeutic change; the fragility of the developing male; dynamics of professional groups; attachment and inequality in social policy.

£20 including a glass of wine. Doors open 18.00
For tickets visit: www.oxboffice.com or phone the Oxboffice Hotline 0845 680 1926

Seminars are free and open to all. Please join us for lunch afterwards to continue the conversation.

There remain many unanswered questions in medical research about both the prevention and treatment of disease, but new technologies are opening up new opportunities to provide insights. One approach, in particular, the capacity to assemble and analyse very large health datasets, is underpinning the work of both speakers addressing problems at both ends of life.

Kazem Rahimi is utilising innovative digital technologies and large healthcare datasets to find better approaches to managing established cardiovascular disease including heart failure. Terry Dwyer, on the other hand, is pooling data on one million mothers and babies to help uncover causes of childhood cancer – an area where, despite considerable effort, little progress has been made over recent decades.

Join in on twitter with #c21health

This seminar will be live webcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURabFdYHJY

About the speakers:
Professor Terry Dwyer is the Executive Director of the George Institute for Global Health at the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Epidemiology, University of Oxford.

Terry is a non-communicable disease epidemiologist with extensive experience in the conduct of cohort and case control studies. He was previously Director of the Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, coordinating research projects including those on cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, childhood asthma, and diabetes.

His work has focussed on infant and child health. His team’s research on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and sleeping position was recognised by the NHMRC, Australia, as one of the most important contributions to medical research by Australia in the 20th Century. Much of this work was conducted on the 11,000 infants enrolled in the Tasmanian Infant Health Survey (TIHS) between 1988 and 1995 and was supported by funds from both NH&MRC and NIH.

He is currently playing a leading role in two large global cohort collaborations. The first involves a collaboration of birth cohorts in more than ten countries to obtain prospective evidence on the causes of childhood cancer. Little prospective data on this association has previously been available. This consortium, the International Childhood Cancer Cohort Consortium (14C), seeks to assemble data on approximately 1 million mothers and babies who will be followed through childhood. It has been supported financially by NCI, and currently Terry is working on this from IARC.

The second study is focused on following around 40,000 subjects who were first measured at school age and are now moving into their fourth and fifth decades. The CDAH study is one of six coborts in three countries contributing data to this consortium. This study seeks to estimate the separate effect of childhood physical and lifestyle characteristics on risk of major adult diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. There have been many publications on this including one in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2011.

Dr Kazem Rahimi, Associate Professor, is the Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health at the Oxford Martin School; James Martin Senior Fellow in Essential Healthcare at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

As the Deputy Director he leads the Essential Healthcare Programme, which aims to find practical and affordable solutions for the global health priorities of the world’s largest emerging economies, as well as the priorities of vulnerable or disadvantaged populations in established economies.

He graduated in medicine from the University of Leipzig in Germany with postgraduate training in cardiology and health services research in Leipzig, London and Oxford. Prior to joining the George Institute, in 2010, he was a Research Fellow at Oxford’s Clinical Trial Service and Epidemiological Studies Unit. His research interests include service delivery innovation in chronic disease prevention and management, large-scale complex intervention studies, and data-driven electronic decision support systems.

Speaker: The Revd Canon Michael Bourdeaux (Keston Institute, Oxford)

The seminar will focus on religious persecution in the Soviet Union over the last 50 years of the 20th century. The speaker is the founder of Keston Institute for the Study of Religion and Communism in Oxford, the Templeton Prize winner (1984) and the author of “The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia” and “Patriarch and Prophets: Persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church Today”.

A public meeting with a short introductory talk followed by questions and discussion.

The political economy of the Gulf states
Thursday 13 November, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
The Mitre, corner of High St and Turl St (upstairs function room)
All welcome

Organised by Oxford Communist Corresponding Society.

Oxford University Archaeological Society invites you to our annual undergraduate conference, the theme of which is:

CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Papers will be presented by undergraduate students from across the country on the following topics:
– Zooarchaeology
– Greek Sculpture
– Pella’s Hellenistic Agora
– Experimental Archaeology
– Pottery Conservation

The cost of the full day is £8 including a buffet lunch and morning refreshments. Excluding lunch, the full day costs £3.50, refreshments included. Individual talks cost 50p each to attend. For a full event program, search for “Oxford University Archaeological Society” on Google and you will be taken to our website.

(Please bring your Student ID with you to the Forum if you purchased our discounted tickets!)

Is China worth investing in? Which direction is China’s foreign policy heading? And is China experiencing a “cultural revolution”? On Saturday, 15 November, 2014 at the Saïd Business School from 12:30 to 18:30, the Oxford China Forum at the University of Oxford will examine these important questions with leading China watchers in business, politics and culture.

The Forum will feature an impressive line-up of speakers, and participants will have an opportunity to take advantage of several networking sessions available throughout the Forum programme.

This year’s featured speakers include:
Gordon Orr, Chairman, McKinsey Asia
Dr Catherine Raines, Minister & Director-General, UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), China
Prof. Rana Mitter, Director, University of Oxford China Centre
Sir Christopher Hum, Former British Ambassador to China
Susan Osman, Former BBC News Presenter
Tao Ji, Editor & Director, China Daily Europe

For a full list of speakers and programme agenda, please visit our website.

As seating is limited, we advise early booking of tickets to avoid disappointment as this forum has proven to be a very popular event at the University of Oxford.

Panel:

Professor Charles Godfray, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and author of the chapter How can 9-10 Billion People be Fed Sustainably and Equitably by 2050?
Professor Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford Martin School, Editor of Is the Planet Full? and author of the chapter Governance Matters Most
Professor Sarah Harper, Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford Martin School and author of the chapter Demographic and Environmental Transitions
Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Director, Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, Oxford Martin School and author of the chapter The Metabolism of a Human-Dominated Planet
Dr Toby Ord, James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology and author of the chapter Overpopulation or Underpopulation?
The panel will discuss whether our planet can continue to support a growing population estimated to reach 10 billion people by the middle of the century.

The panel discussion will be followed by a book signing and drinks reception.

This panel discussion will be live webcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFIqDQP1Vjc

About the Book:
What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world’s population by the middle of this century?

While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a healthier, wealthier and larger population? May more people mean more scientists to discover how our world works, more inventors and thinkers to help solve the world’s problems, more skilled people to put these ideas into practice?

In this book, leading academics with a wide range of expertise in demography, philosophy, biology, climate science, economics and environmental sustainability explore the contexts, costs and benefits of a burgeoning population on our economic, social and environmental systems.

The Colloquium is a seminar series at Kellogg College, Oxford.

Poppy is a 2nd year DPhil student at the department of Oncology. She completed her BSc Biochemistry at the University of Southampton and did a ‘sandwich’ year at AstraZeneca working on pre-clinical cancer drugs which is where she became fascinated by cancer biology. Poppy is also Secretary of OxFEST which supports women in STEM.

Professor David Vines, Director, Ethics & Economics, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, will talk about his new book Capital Failure: Rebuilding Trust in Financial Services.

The book talk will be followed by a book signing

About the Speaker
David Vines is Director, Ethics & Economics, The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School; Professor of Economics, and a Fellow of Balliol College, at the University of Oxford. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

From 2008 to 2012 he was the Research Director of the European Union’s Framework Seven PEGGED Research Program, which analysed Global Economic Governance within Europe. Professor Vines received a BA from Melbourne University in 1971, and subsequently an MA and PhD from Cambridge University. From 1985 to 1992 he was Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at the University of Glasgow.

His research interests are in macroeconomics, including financial frictions, fiscal and monetary interactions, and financial crisis. His recent books include: The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It (Princeton University Press, 2013, with Peter Temin); The IMF and its Critics: Reform of Global Financial Architecture (Cambridge University Press, 2004, with Christopher Gilbert); The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Contagion and Consequences (Cambridge University Press, 1999, with Pierre-Richard Agénor, Marcus Miller, and Axel Weber) and his latest book Capital Failure: Rebuilding Trust in Financial Services (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Nicholas Morris).

About the Book
Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ relied on the self-interest of individuals to produce good outcomes. Economists’ belief in efficient markets took this idea further by assuming that all individuals are selfish. This belief underpinned financial deregulation, and the theories on incentives and performance which supported it. However, although Adam Smith argued that although individuals may be self-interested, he argued that they also have other-regarding motivations, including a desire for the approbation of others. This book argues that the trust-intensive nature of financial services makes it essential to cultivate such other-regarding motivations, and it provides proposals on how this might be done.

Trustworthiness in the financial services industry was eroded by deregulation and by the changes to industry structure which followed. Incentive structures encouraged managers to disguise risky products as yielding high returns, and regulation failed to curb this risk-taking, rent-seeking behaviour. The book makes a number of proposals for reforms of governance, and of legal and regulatory arrangements, to address these issues. The proposals seek to harness values and norms that would reinforce ‘other-regarding’ behaviour, so that the firms and individuals in the financial services act in a more trustworthy manner.