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China’s Water Future 4:00 pm
China’s Water Future @ Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church
May 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
China is facing severe water challenges. Many parts of the country suffer from chronic water scarcity. Pollution is affecting the health of hundreds of waterways and public concern is increasing. Floods and droughts are a[...]
Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation 4:15 pm
Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation @ Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre, Said Business School
May 6 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Join us in the Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre, Saïd Business School, for a talk by Dr Gavin Yamey MD MPH, a physician and medical journal editor with training in public health who leads the Evidence[...]
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Migration, Faith, and Action
Migration, Faith, and Action @ Mathematical Institute (Room L3)
May 7 – May 9 all-day
Migration, Faith, and Action @ Mathematical Institute (Room L3) | Oxford | United Kingdom
An Interdisciplinary Conference sponsored by Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). The conference. In a time when globalization emphasizes the free flow of ideas, goods, and[...]
Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media 4:30 pm
Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media @ Haldane Room, Wolfson College
May 7 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media @ Haldane Room, Wolfson College | Oxford | United Kingdom
Popular Representations of Development takes a novel approach to the broad discipline of development studies that goes beyond narrow policy or social science frameworks. Instead, the authors reassess the breadth and popularity of development studies[...]
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Divided Brain and Spiritual Sense of Scripture 7:15 pm
Divided Brain and Spiritual Sense of Scripture @ The Sutro Room, Trinity College
May 8 @ 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm
Divided Brain and Spiritual Sense of Scripture @ The Sutro Room, Trinity College | Oxford | United Kingdom
The spiritual and second-order sense of scripture, according to which, for example, the crossing of the Red Sea denotes Baptism, and Jacob’s ladder denotes the cross, presents at least two epistemological challenges. First, the history[...]
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Art as a Vehicle for Transformative Justice 11:00 am
Art as a Vehicle for Transformative Justice @ Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building
May 9 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
speakers: William Kelly, Artist and Humanist Dr. Rama Mani, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford and Councillor of the World Future Council
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Places of Religion in Contemporary Society 5:00 pm
Places of Religion in Contemporary Society @ Roy Griffiths Room, ARCO Building
May 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Places of Religion in Contemporary Society @ Roy Griffiths Room, ARCO Building | Oxford | United Kingdom
In this lecture series, Naomi Richman explores the evolution of the ideas central to major global belief-systems such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Marxism, and their status in the modern world from a social-scientific[...]
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Transitional Justice and Transitional Relativism 4:00 pm
Transitional Justice and Transitional Relativism @ Seminar Room B, Manor Road Building
May 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Speaker: Professor James Sweeney, Professor of International Law, University of Lancaster
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Oxford Scibar: The neuroscience of laughter 5:30 pm
Oxford Scibar: The neuroscience of laughter @ The Port Mahon
May 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Oxford Scibar: The neuroscience of laughter @ The Port Mahon | Oxford | United Kingdom
Why is laughter such an important human social tool? Neuroscientist and stand-up comedian Prof Sophie Scott will discuss her research on laughter (and apparently rats laugh too!).
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How does the brain work? 6:00 pm
How does the brain work? @ Oxford Retreat
May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
How does the brain work? @ Oxford Retreat  | Oxford | United Kingdom
How does the brain work? And how can we switch on and off specific neurons? Join us for a Pint of Science with top academics from Oxford University.
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Barbara Taylor In Conversation 12:00 pm
Barbara Taylor In Conversation @ Radcliffe Humanities
May 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Barbara Taylor In Conversation @ Radcliffe Humanities | United Kingdom
Internationally renowned historian Barbara Taylor will speak about her new book “The Last Asylum” with Ruth Harris (New College, Oxford) and Daniel Pick (Birkbeck College). The book charts her years of psychoanalysis and her experiences[...]
A lost generation? Education opportunities for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon 4:00 pm
A lost generation? Education opportunities for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon @ Department of International Development
May 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Speaker: Dr Maha Shuayb (Centre for Lebanese Studies) Description: Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, more than 3 million refugees have fled to the neighboring countries Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.[...]
Climate Change – Is it real? What are the consequences? 6:00 pm
Climate Change – Is it real? What are the consequences? @ Wig and Pen
May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Climate Change - Is it real? What are the consequences? @ Wig and Pen | Oxford | United Kingdom
You ever wanted to understand more about climate change? Is it real? what are the consequences? Come join us for an expert panel from Oxford University who will shed some light on this highly debated[...]
Unlocking Volcanic Eruptions 6:00 pm
Unlocking Volcanic Eruptions @ Wig and Pen
May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
When is a volcano going to erupt and how do you measure that? What is Magma and how can we start studying it? These questions and more will be explained by top academics from Oxford[...]
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Legal, Narrative and Artistic Approaches to Transitional Justice 4:00 pm
Legal, Narrative and Artistic Approaches to Transitional Justice @ Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building
May 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
ESRC Transitional Justice Research Manual Re-Launch Speakers: Dr Nicola Palmer, Lecturer in Criminal Law, King’s College London Dr Briony Jones, Senior Researcher, Dealing with the Past, swisspeace Dr Zoe Norridge, Lecturer in English and Comparative[...]
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Challenged by Writing: Stumbling over words 5:00 pm
Challenged by Writing: Stumbling over words @ Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University
May 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Challenged by Writing: Stumbling over words @ Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University | Oxford | United Kingdom
Efficiently composing a piece of writing is an important marker of success in our education system. However, many individuals struggle to write well, particularly if they have any specific learning difficulties. In this lecture Professor[...]
Rewilding and Lethal Bugs 6:00 pm
Rewilding and Lethal Bugs @ Wig and Pen
May 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Rewilding and Lethal Bugs @ Wig and Pen | Oxford | United Kingdom
How can we rewild animals to today’s environment? How does the future of lethal viruses is going to be? Are they going to stick around with us as long as humanity exists
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‘A Waste of Time: Against Productivity’ 6:30 pm
‘A Waste of Time: Against Productivity’ @ The Old Library, University Church (entry via Radcliffe Square)
May 22 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Steven Poole, author, journalist, cultural critic and broadcaster, explains why the cult of “productivity” is not just inhumane but self-defeating. Followed by Q&A and discussion. 7:30-9pm in the Old Library (the oldest purpose-built university library[...]
The Lye Valley and the “twinkling stars in the shadowy grass…” – Judy Webb 6:30 pm
The Lye Valley and the “twinkling stars in the shadowy grass…” – Judy Webb @ Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden
May 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The Lye Valley and the “twinkling stars in the shadowy grass...” - Judy Webb @ Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden | Oxford | United Kingdom
Speaker: Judy Webb The Lye Valley, formally known as Hogley Bog, is a surprising and little known hot spot of wildlife biodiversity, a habitat for stunning wildflowers and spectacular insects in the centre of the[...]
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Start-Up Chile 11:30 am
Start-Up Chile @ Oxford Launchpad at Said Business School
May 23 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
The Start-Up Chile programme is now ready to select, fund and host a new round of start-ups so they develop their global business ideas in Chile, the growing start-up ecosystem that has everyone talking. **NO[...]
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Wine and Blind Tasting with Neel Burton 6:00 pm
Wine and Blind Tasting with Neel Burton @ Blackwell's Bookshop
May 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Wine and Blind Tasting with Neel Burton @ Blackwell's Bookshop | Oxford | United Kingdom
Join us for an evening with philosopher and wine-lover Neel Burton. He will be introducing us to the exciting new pleasures of blind tasting, using our sense of taste alone to distinguish which type of[...]
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Challenges of Stability and Reconstruction Military Operations 4:00 pm
Challenges of Stability and Reconstruction Military Operations @ Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building
May 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
speaker: Radidja Nemar, PhD Candidate in Law, Université Paul Cézanne / Junior Research Fellow at French Strategic Institute, Military Academy
The World We Made – Sir Jonathon Porritt @ Cerberus 6:00 pm
The World We Made – Sir Jonathon Porritt @ Cerberus @ Lecture Room 23, Balliol College
May 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The World We Made - Sir Jonathon Porritt @ Cerberus @ Lecture Room 23, Balliol College | Oxford | United Kingdom
onathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is an eminent writer, broadcaster, environmentalist and commentator on sustainable development. He will be talking at Cerberus about his new book, ‘The World We Made’, in which[...]
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Nature versus Nurture 11:00 am
Nature versus Nurture @ Henry Wellcome Building for Human Genetics - Seminar Room A
May 30 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
 
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