Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
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‘How BuzzFeed covers news’ – Jim Waterson, deputy editor, BuzzFeed UK
2:00 pm
‘How BuzzFeed covers news’ – Jim Waterson, deputy editor, BuzzFeed UK
@ Barclay Room, Green Templeton College
Mar 2 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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, Richard Sambrook, David Levy Jim[...]
Automation, robotics and the promise of an easier life
5:00 pm
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Monitoring Children’s Rights: Challenges and Dilemmas for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
12:30 pm
Monitoring Children’s Rights: Challenges and Dilemmas for the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
@ Manor Road Building, Seminar Room B
Mar 3 @ 12:30 pm – 12:30 pm
![]() Drawing on her experience, first as the Committee’s Chairperson and now as Rapporteur, Dr. Sandberg will speak to developments in some areas of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, focusing on challenges but[...]
Discovering Cultural Trails in Social Media and Biases of Online Attention in Wikipedia
4:30 pm
Discovering Cultural Trails in Social Media and Biases of Online Attention in Wikipedia
@ JHB.302, John Henry Brookes building
Mar 3 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
![]() As a computational social science researcher, Ruth García-Gavilanes interested in understanding online footprints, utilizing/developing computational human behaviour from methods and leveraging big data. In this seminar she will present two case studies in this field:[...]
‘Driverless vehicles: navigating an autonomous future’ with Dr Ingmar Posner
5:00 pm
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Secular Space: Diverse or Intolerant?
6:30 pm
Secular Space: Diverse or Intolerant?
@ Fuller Lecture Theatre
Mar 7 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Gita Sahgal is the executive director of the Centre for Secular Space. She is also a writer and documentary film maker, and the co-editor of Refusing Holy Orders: Women and Fundamentalism in Britain. She has[...]
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‘Legal equality is important – but not enough’ – The Merton Equality Conversation 2016
5:00 pm
‘Legal equality is important – but not enough’ – The Merton Equality Conversation 2016
@ TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College
Mar 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
![]() The introductory talk at the third annual Merton Equality Conversation will be given by Peter Tatchell. This will be followed by a discussion and Q&A, with a panel including: Helen Charlesworth, Vice-Chair of the University’s[...]
LMH Conversations: Writing about science, health and climate
5:45 pm
LMH Conversations: Writing about science, health and climate
@ Simpkins Lee Theatre, Pipe Partridge Building, Lady Margaret Hall (LMH)
Mar 8 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm
Sarah Boseley, James Randerson and Dr Hannah Devlin write about health, the environment and science for the Guardian. How do you write for the general public without dumbing down? Sarah Boseley is the health editor[...]
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‘Spies and journalists: the impossible relationship’ – John Lloyd, senior research fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
2:00 pm
‘Spies and journalists: the impossible relationship’ – John Lloyd, senior research fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
@ Barclay Room, Green Templeton College
Mar 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
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, Richard Sambrook, David Levy John[...]
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From Seabed to Showcase
2:00 pm
From Seabed to Showcase
@ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 16 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
![]() Find out about the challenges of conserving waterlogged wood with examples from the Gela shipwreck and Mary Rose
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Making Objets Speak: The Technology of Ancient Inscriptions
11:00 am
Making Objets Speak: The Technology of Ancient Inscriptions
@ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 17 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
![]() Find out how modern technologies – notably Reflectance Transformation Imaging – have aided modern scholars to decipher Latin inscriptions whose texts have long been thought lost.
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Bigger on the inside: Doctor Who and the export of British illusion
7:30 pm
Bigger on the inside: Doctor Who and the export of British illusion
@ Town Hall (Plowman Room)
Mar 31 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
![]() An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As, and an hour or so’s discussion. All welcome. No need to book.
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