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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[...]
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 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[...]
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[...]
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
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[...]
Speaker: Professor James Sweeney, Professor of International Law, University of Lancaster
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.
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.[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
speaker: Radidja Nemar, PhD Candidate in Law, Université Paul Cézanne / Junior Research Fellow at French Strategic Institute, Military Academy
speaker: Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse, Defence Counsel at the ICTR and Special Tribunal for Lebanon
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
A new report by the Humanitarian Innovation Project, Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions, will be launched to coincide with World Refugee Day, on Friday 20 June 2014. It is one of the very first studies[...]
A recent two-year project, funded by the Clothworkers’ Foundation, allowed Jeremy Uden, Deputy Head of Conservation, to conserve and investigate the Cook voyage collections at the Pitt Rivers. He will talk about his research and[...]
Oxford Transitional Justice Research is pleased to invite you to its 2014 Summer Conference ‘Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice’. This year’s conference, hosted with the support of the Planethood Foundation, Law Faculty, and the[...]
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