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Progress to increase gender diversity in leadership roles across most sectors has been slow. Are quotas the answer to increase the number of women in leadership? What is the role of Business Schools in developing[...]
Alyse Nelson is President and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, the preeminent non-governmental organization (NGO) that identifies, trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a[...]
Step inside the parlour and drawing room of an eighteenth-century home, and together with Dr Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University) and musicians, enjoy readings, music, and the authentic sewing session of a ‘huswif’! Part of[...]
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[...]
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!).
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.
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[...]
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[...]
OULC and LGBTQ Society are delighted to jointly welcome Peter Tatchell for an event at the Corpus Auditorium. A prolific human rights campaigner, Peter is particularly known for his work with LGBTQ movements. Famously, he[...]
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
On Thursday 22nd at 6pm the Simpkins Lee will host a panel discussion exploring the battle for women’s education. Featuring a heavyweight line-up of Jane Robinson (author of the bestselling ‘Bluestockings’), Sarah Pine (OUSU VP[...]
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[...]
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[...]
You are cordially invited to the Magdalen College Trinity Term Libraries & Archives Talk: Liam Dolan, Sherardian Professor of Botany, will speak on early botany. A talk in Magdalen Summer Common Room (Cloisters III) followed[...]
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[...]
Speaker: Tom Price The archipelago of Japan is defined as one of the World’s 34 biodiversity hotspots. Learn how staff from the Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum are conducting expeditions to Japan to collect and[...]
Speaker: Susie Orbach Psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her books include Fat is a Feminist Issue and Bodies. A convenor of Anybody, an organisation that campaigns for body diversity. Co-founder of Antidote which works[...]
Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex autoimmune disease affecting up to 1% of the population, causing a disabling inflammatory arthritis. The disease has two clinical similar subsets: autoantibody positive or seropositive disease, and autoantibody or seronegative[...]
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[...]
Know the value of beetle legs? Aware of the worth of red feathers? Familiar with tea bricks? Join us to explore the world of global currencies and trade and how different cultures have responded to[...]
RANDY RETTBERG, President of iGEM Randy Rettberg is the man behind iGEM, the global competition for undergraduates and high school students in designing brand new biological parts, or “genetically engineered machines”. An engineer by trade[...]
The use of GM technologies is growing beyond agricultural crops. GM vaccines and GM animals are available and their use may need different regulatory considerations. In this talk, Dr Michael Bonsall from the Dept of[...]
Speaker: Guy Horwood In 2013, Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood was awarded a travel bursary
to join the prestigious International Dendrology Society on their study tour of the Czech Republic. The tour of this diverse and[...]
All cancers are caused by somatic mutations. However, the processes underlying the genesis of somatic mutations in human cancer are remarkably poorly understood. Recent large-scale cancer genome sequencing initiatives have provided us with new insights[...]
As part of ‘LoveFriday’, a late night opening at the Ashmolean museum, join us for gallery talks on love, sex, gender, and poetry in the ancient world. Talks will be 15 minutes and given on[...]
The World Humanist Congress is taking place from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August in Oxford. Held every three years in different locations around the world, this years theme of the meeting is ‘Freedom[...]
The World Humanist Congress is taking place from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August in Oxford. Held every three years in different locations around the world, this years theme of the meeting is ‘Freedom[...]
Now that you’re over the age of 10 asking ‘silly’ questions about dinosaurs may feel well… a little silly! So we’re offering you the opportunity to ask anything and everything you ever wanted to know[...]
From the struggle to get up on a Monday morning to coping with jet-lag, the body has to carefully balance our need to be alert or to be at rest. But how does the brain[...]
Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series ‘FERTILITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT’ Thursdays – 12:30 – 14:00 Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, 66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR. Convener: Dr Melanie Frost
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