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Gary Lineker In Conversation with Alan Rusbridger 5:45 pm
Gary Lineker In Conversation with Alan Rusbridger @ Simpkins Lee Theater, LMH
Nov 2 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm
Gary Lineker In Conversation with Alan Rusbridger @ Simpkins Lee Theater, LMH | England | United Kingdom
Join us at LMH for an In Conversation with Gary Lineker and Alan Rusbridger Gary Lineker OBE was one of England’s top football strikers in the 1980s and early 1990s, and holds England’s record for[...]
Valtteri Bottas Mercedes Fomula 1 Grand Prix Winning Driver and Lewis Hamilton teammate speaks to Oxford Guild – Thurs 2 Nov 7.30pm Town Hall 7:30 pm
Valtteri Bottas Mercedes Fomula 1 Grand Prix Winning Driver and Lewis Hamilton teammate speaks to Oxford Guild – Thurs 2 Nov 7.30pm Town Hall @ Oxford Town Hall
Nov 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Valtteri Bottas Mercedes Fomula 1 Grand Prix Winning Driver and Lewis Hamilton teammate speaks to Oxford Guild - Thurs 2 Nov 7.30pm Town Hall @ Oxford Town Hall | England | United Kingdom
The Oxford Guild is delighted to welcome a very special, high profile and unique guest for what will be one of the biggest and most exciting events of the year – Valtteri Bottas, the Formula[...]
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Careering Through Astronomy. Speaker Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell 5:00 pm
Careering Through Astronomy. Speaker Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell @ The Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, Hands Building, Mansfield College
Nov 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College who discovered pulsars as a radio astronomy PhD student 50 years ago this autumn. She is currently the (first female) President of the[...]
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Obligations to the Needy: Effective Altruism, Pluralism, and Singer’s Pond Example 4:30 pm
Obligations to the Needy: Effective Altruism, Pluralism, and Singer’s Pond Example @ Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
Nov 6 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
The first of three lectures by Professor Larry S. Temkin. The world is filled with people who are badly off. Each day, many die from hunger or disease, much of which seems easily preventable. Yet[...]
Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño 5:30 pm
Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño @ Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College
Nov 6 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño @ Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College | England | United Kingdom
How a Bolivian became a Feminist: A Personal History Sonia Montaño is a Bolivian sociologist. She is currently active in Bolivia as a feminist researcher and activist and member of PIEB (Programa de Investigation Estrategica[...]
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Obligations to the Needy: Singer’s Pond Example versus Supporting International Aid Organizations—Some Disanalogies and Their Normative Significance 5:00 pm
Obligations to the Needy: Singer’s Pond Example versus Supporting International Aid Organizations—Some Disanalogies and Their Normative Significance @ Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
Nov 8 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The second of three public lectures by Professor Larry S. Temkin. Peter Singer famously argued that just as we have compelling moral reason to save a drowning child, so we have compelling moral reason to[...]
Decolonise the Curriculum: A panel discussion 7:30 pm
Decolonise the Curriculum: A panel discussion @ Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall
Nov 8 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Decolonise the Curriculum: A panel discussion @ Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall | England | United Kingdom
How does the curriculum shape our society? Who decides what is important? How can it be improved? Our diverse panel of academics, activists and educators will dive into these and other questions related to the[...]
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Obligations to the Needy: Some Empirical Worries and Uncomfortable Philosophical Possibilities 5:00 pm
Obligations to the Needy: Some Empirical Worries and Uncomfortable Philosophical Possibilities @ Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
Nov 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
In this third Uehiro Lecture, I consider a number of worries about the possible impact of global efforts to aid the needy. Among the worries I address are possible unintended negative consequences that may occur[...]
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‘The ethics of Brexit’, by Prof Mervyn Frost (King’s College London) 4:15 pm
‘The ethics of Brexit’, by Prof Mervyn Frost (King’s College London) @ Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus, Gibbs Building, Room G217
Nov 13 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Abstract: This presentation will consider the ethical dimensions of Brexit. Specifically the case will be made that there are profound ethical questions posed by Brexit that have not properly been considered. The focus of the[...]
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Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s 2:00 pm
Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Nov 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum | England | United Kingdom
Jonathan Spencer is Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh. He has carried out research in Sri Lanka since the early 1980s. His most recent book, Checkpoint, Temple,[...]
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Discrimination and the Sciences @ Wadham College 6:00 pm
Discrimination and the Sciences @ Wadham College @ Wadham College, LSK B Seminar room
Nov 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Discrimination and the Sciences @ Wadham College @ Wadham College, LSK B Seminar room | England | United Kingdom
What is the social responsibility of the sciences? In recent times, ethical conflicts surrounding race, gender, and the natural sciences have surfaced again. A recent editorial in Nature defending memorials to J. Marion Sims, who[...]
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Disability and Education – Meet the challenge of disability in schools and universities 5:00 pm
Disability and Education – Meet the challenge of disability in schools and universities @ St Anne's College
Nov 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Disability and Education - Meet the challenge of disability in schools and universities @ St Anne's College | England | United Kingdom
This seminar aims to address the difficulties met by disabled students and teachers in school and university and to hear more about what we can all do to ensure that those meeting such challenges enjoy[...]
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING 10:30 am
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING @ The Jam Factory
Nov 25 @ 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING @ The Jam Factory | England | United Kingdom
The Oxford constituency of the Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK) is holding a discussion panel entitled “Women in science and the glass ceiling” where three invited speakers will give a short talk about[...]
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THE INTRIGUING WORLD OF BUTTERFLY BIOLOGY: novel approaches and many surprises 6:00 pm
THE INTRIGUING WORLD OF BUTTERFLY BIOLOGY: novel approaches and many surprises @ Oxford Brookes University (John Henry Brookes Lecture Theater)
Nov 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Professor Tim Shreeve will explore why different species of butterflies have alternative responses to environmental change. Butterflies are important indicators of environmental change and their status in the UK and Europe is changing rapidly. Tim’s[...]
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Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa 5:00 pm
Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa @ Oxford Martin School
Nov 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Women in Africa are congregated in poorly paid and precarious work (ILO, 2016) and have very high rates of school dropout, mortality and childhood morbidity. This is crucially linked to their role in childbirth and[...]