FEM (Fundación por la Educación Multidimensional- Colombia) will describe the process of codesign and building a prototype for post flood communities in Colombia. The project helps to understand housing as an educational tool in itself and as a way to research traditional construction methods and materials. In addition, ASF-UK will present their philosophy and approach, and their two main streams of work, Change by Design and Resilience by Design through a selection of case studies.

Join us at Freud this Wednesday as we consider how the collections, interpretations and rituals of our cultural institutions shape society today. Paul Hobson, director of Modern Art Oxford and Dr Christopher Brown, director of The Ashmolean will present two short talks before a question and answer session, followed by drinks. The Edgar Wind Society hopes that this will be a novel opportunity to exchange ideas and knowledge about art within an informal atmosphere. All are welcome.

On Friday 13th June, the Oxford Left Review will be launching OLR Issue 13. Come along to get your copy and chat with the writers and editors. This issue was partially themed on ‘Science, Technology and the Left’, and contains articles, interviews, reviews and fiction on topics including fracking, devolution, Wikileaks, the pharmaceuticals industry and Pakistan, as well as many more. Drinks will be provided.

Nuffield bike ride, in association with Oxford Bike Week
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 17th June
Location: Tourist Information Centre, 15 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AS
Description:
Join us on a gentle, scenic, two-hour ride to sites around Oxford connected with Lord Nuffield and Morris cars. Regular stops and information included!

Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan will challenge Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Medecins sans Frontieres and former French Foreign Minister, on France’s military interventionism. Are the country’s motives altruistic or do they respond to a neo-colonialist agenda? And is there a tipping point when intervening becomes essential? Syria, Mali, Libya, Kosovo and more.

This debate will be filmed and aired on Al Jazeera English at a later date. Audience members will be invited to participate in a Q&A section during the second half of the conversation.

Order free tickets here: http://bernardkouchner.eventbrite.co.uk

The Jerash and Decapolis Cities
With Linda Farrar, historian and archaeologist

Ashmolean Lecture Theatre

Thurs 16 Oct, 2–4pm (inc. tea & cake),

Today, the ancient Greco-Roman Decapolis region straddles the countries of Jordan, Israel and Syria. This lecture explores the distinct characteristics of the cities of Jerash, Gedara, Pella and Philidelphian (Aman) and tells the stories of each cities unique role in the development of this historic region.

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In 2014, the John Henry Brookes Building was considered by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to be one of the top 15 buildings to make a great contribution to the evolution of architecture over the past year.

As the architects who delivered Brookes’ new, award-winning building, Design Engine Architects made the design journey from concept to realisation. Richard’s lecture, in conjunction with an exhibition in the Glass Tank exhibition space (see page 42), explores the design process involved in delivering major architectural projects.

The John Henry Brookes Building, and Design Engine, also won a RIBA national award as well as three regional awards in the RIBA South section.

Come early and view the exhibition.

About the speaker
RICHARD JOBSON, CO-FOUNDER OF DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS
Richard has a particular interest in the symbiotic relationship between architecture and sculpture. His approach has been used in a series of award-winning buildings, including the new British Embassy in Yemen, the University Centre for the University of Winchester and the John Henry Brookes Building. He recently completed a sculpture commissioned by the University of Winchester.

Sian Williams, BBC Journalist, will discuss the challenges of the job, reflect on her work and also reveal the latest research from her MSc Psychology degree.

Dr David Souden, director of the heritage and impact consultancy, Past Present, and former Head of Access & Learning and Sponsor for Special Projects at Historic Royal Palaces, will give the fifth seminar in Rector’s Seminar series this Michaelmas entitled ‘Changing fashions in presenting the past: looking at Hampton Court Palace’.

There is no charge to attend this event. It is open to current and Old Members of Exeter College and members of the University of Oxford. If you plan to attend please contact Erica Sheppard (erica.sheppard@exeter.ox.ac.uk. Please report to the Porter’s Lodge on arrival.

We are delighted to welcome Michael S. Malone to Saïd Business School on Monday 24th November.

Mike has covered Silicon Valley and high-tech for more than thirty years, and was twice nominated by the San Jose Mercury-News for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen award-winning books, notably the bestselling ‘The Virtual Corporation’, ‘The Future Arrived Yesterday’ and most recently ‘The Intel Corporation’. A regular editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, Mike has hosted three nationally syndicated public television interview series and co-produced the Emmy-nominated primetime PBS miniseries The New Heroes. As an entrepreneur, Mike was a founding shareholder of eBay, Siebel Systems (sold to Oracle) and Qik (sold to Skype), and is currently vice-chairman of a new start-up, PatientKey Inc. Mike holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, where he is currently an adjunct professor. He is also an associate fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University, and is a Distinguished Friend of Oxford.

Mike will also be signing copies of his new book ‘The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company’ during the drinks reception following his talk.

“Few people capture the rhythms and values that fuel Silicon Valley as well as longtime journalist Michael S. Malone. In his latest book, he takes on the history of Intel, a company he started covering when most reporters were still using typewriters. He reveals his deep knowledge on every page.”
—Reid Hoffman, cofounder & chairman of LinkedIn and co-author of The Alliance

Copies of the book will be available to buy for £20 (cash only).

Talk: 6pm – 7pm
Drinks reception and book signing: 7pm

Urban Governance and its Discontents Seminar:
There is a crisis, it is often said, in the decline in public space. Delgado (2014) speaks for many when he writes: “The idea of public space as guarantee of democracy and space of liberty for citizens is now undergoing a profound crisis.” This is a growing, rather than a new, concern. Much of this has been tied to arguments about democracy and the city. This paper suggests that understandings of public space have perhaps inadvertently overemphasised one particular imaginary of public space: an urban, political and heroic space. It does not suggest that this understanding of public space does not matter. The paper supports arguments made by Mitchell (2014), for example, who has consistently argued that repressive practices lead to a reining in of imagination of what and who public spaces are for: “an orderly, controlled vision of public space is squeezing out other ways of imagining public spaces”.

However, this paper suggests that we need a more plural understanding of public spaces, which legal analysis can provide. From an English legal perspective, it considers six understandings of public space: public (state) property; privately owned (apparently) public spaces; highways; commons; rural “access land” (subject to the right to roam) and social spaces (particularly pubs and cafés). It does not suggest that such a typology is conclusive or final. Instead, the paper argues that such differentiation can begin to challenge the central role that property rights play in the agenda-setting of individual sites. To do this, however, the paper suggests that we would need to consider what kind of public spaces we would be suggesting (legislative) change for. And to do this, we need to understand the extent to which each different type of public space, is itself heavily dependent on its own imaginary. It concludes by calling for a clearer imaginary of social spaces with thought being given to how these types of associational places can be better legally protected and promoted.

This seminar is part of The Business and Practice of Journalism Series.

Reporting the unreported
Belinda Goldsmith, editor in chief, and Timothy Large, director of journalism and media training, Thomson Reuters Foundation

This is part of The Media and Politics Seminar Series.
The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.

The General Election – how is voting going to change?
Professor Jane Green, British Election Survey and University of Manchester

The seminar is part of The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series.

The seventh medium – how mobile has forever changed journalism
Juan Señor, partner at Innovations Media

This is part of The Media and Politics Seminar Series.
The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.

The challenges of reporting the Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Bridget Kendall, BBC diplomatic editor

This seminar is part of The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series.

The following seminars will be given at 2.00 pm on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.

The top five dilemmas of news aggregation
Andrew Jack, Editor at FirstFT, head of aggregation/chief curator

This is part of The Media and Politics Seminar Series.
The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Time present and time past: how everyone wants journalists to see history their way
Lindsey Hilsum, international editor, Channel 4 News

This seminar is part of The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series.

The following seminars will be given at 2.00 pm on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.

A little piracy can be a good thing: what the press can learn from Hollywood
Tom Thomson, Managing Editor, Grant Gibson, Digital Innovation Manager, Herald and Times Group, Glasgow

This is part of The Media and Politics Seminar Series.
The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Media freedom in 2015 – the aftermath of Leveson and beyond
Lord Guy Black, Telegraph director and board member of Ipso, the new press standards body

This seminar is part of The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series.

The following seminars will be given at 2.00 pm on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.

The future of television news
Richard Sambrook, Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for Journalism at Cardiff School of Journalism

This is part of The Media and Politics Seminar Series.
The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.

Nothing is true: the Kremlin’s global information war and the Russian media
Luke Harding, foreign correspondent, the Guardian

This seminar is part of The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series.

The following seminars will be given at 2.00 pm on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.

Environmental journalism and sustainable development in China
Dr Sam Geall, University of Sussex and author of China and the Environment: The Green Revolution

This seminar is part of The Business and Practice of Journalism seminar series.

The following seminars will be given at 2.00 pm on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.

Beyond Borders: which news stories resonate for an international audience?
Gill Penlington, Director of Programming, London and Europe, Middle East and Africa, CNN

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders and the ensuing debate on freedom of religion vs freedom of expression, Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College Professor Sir Richard Sorabji CBE will deliver this timely lecture on the history and philosophical principles underlying the concept of free speech.

This is part of The Media and Politics Seminar Series.
The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.

What impact will UKIP have at the 2015 general election?
Dr Matthew Goodwin, Nottingham University, co-author of ‘Revolt on the Right: Explaining Public Support for the Radical Right in Britain’

In response to the Ashmolean Museum’s Love Bites exhibition, Dr Naomi Wolf, author of among other books The Beauty Myth and Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, and a graduate of Yale University and New College, Oxford, will be discussing how censorship and homophobia in early Victorian society had a tremendous impact on literature and art, including the development of subversive cartoonists such as James Gillray.

Ten years ago, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman shone a light on how the world was ‘flattening’; how the convergence of world events and new technologies had opened up the global supply chain to previously excluded economies. His book The World is Flat captured a pivotal moment in the 21st Century, examining the trends, opportunities and challenges this ‘next new world’ presented to countries, companies and individuals.

Ten years on, the writer will offer new insights into the effects of technological change, globalisation, economic crisis and political turmoil, in a lecture that promises to be thought-provoking and challenging.

Registration required – http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/2122

This talk explores the representation of the suffrage movement in letters to the editor of The Times in the years leading up to World War I.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, David Levy

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, David Levy
Speaker: Laurie Benson, chief executive of Upnexxt