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The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) are pleased to announce a public lecture by world renowned art historian Simon Schama as part of his Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Historiography[...]
The Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Lecture with Dr Neil MacGregor, Former Director of the British Museum and currently Chair of the Steering Committee for Humboldt Forum, Berlin. Neil MacGregor explores the stories and representations of[...]
How can global history can be applied instead of advocated? The new volume The Prospect of Global History examines this question and explores the fast growing field of global history across a wide geographical and[...]
Famed for its hauntingly beautiful architectural remains, the ancient city of Palmyra was an oasis and important stop on the caravan route across the Syrian desert. Linda Farrar talks about Palmyra’s tombs and archaeological remains[...]
The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) are pleased to announce a roundtable conversation with world renowned art historian Simon Schama as part of his Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Historiography[...]
An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As and an hour or so’s discussion among the audience. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the[...]
After being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Ted goes on the trip of a lifetime…and so does his pet fish. As the disease starts to cause his mobility to degenerate, Ted rushes to experience[...]
Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, looks at what we mean by development and what citizens, governments and the international community can do to encourage it. Goldin explains how the notion of[...]
In this talk Professor Daniel Kammen, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow at INET Oxford, will discuss the strategies emerging to cost-effectively decarbonise energy systems worldwide. This work integrates elements of the science and engineering of energy[...]
As part of National Dementia Week and in partnership with the Ultimate Picture Palace, Science Oxford hosts a showing of Iris. She wrote about the power of the unconscious – but it was memory that[...]
Tea/coffee at 18.00 Lecture from 18.30 German archaeologists excavated extensively at Babylon, but were unable to find credible remains of the fabled Hanging Garden. Recent research has shown that the much later Greek texts describing[...]
The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Oxford Department of International Development invites you to our upcoming research seminars. These research seminars are intended to connect active researchers and students on the topics[...]
Prevention and management of infectious diseases remains one of this century’s biggest challenges. As drugs and vaccinations have proliferated, protection from disease has increasingly been seen as an individual problem, requiring individual action. But due[...]
An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As and an hour or so’s discussion among the audience. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the[...]
As we can’t help but be aware, Shakespeare died 400 years ago. But does the Bard haunt Balliol? A behind-the-scenes talking tour of Balliol’s spring exhibition will elucidate. The talk will last about 30 minutes[...]
British proposals to reform the EU aim to reduce European integration. One may agree or disagree, but these proposals should not be ignored because they put forward dilemmas about the nature of the EU, a[...]
Speaker: Dr Rita Giacaman, Founding Director, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine Rita Giacaman will present research findings on the impact of the 2009 and 2014 assaults on the health of the[...]
Join Mats Fridlund (Aalto University, Finland) at the Museum as he examines the power of terrorizing things and the containment of British emotions from the 19th century to the present day. Doors open at 18:30.
Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are characterised by an acute shortage of trained doctors and nurses, and a strong reliance on community health workers. In this talk, drawing on recent research in urban and[...]
For most of the world’s toughest challenges, there exists a tension between the needs of an individual and what is best for the common good. Income derived from fishing may be vital to one country’s[...]
Research into the brain basis of neuropsychiatric conditions can use clues to identify which brain regions are implicated, based on the known relationships between brain structure and function. Using human brain tissue donations as well[...]
The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Department of International Development will be hosting two research seminars in the coming weeks – The afternoons of May 19 and June 1st. We invite researchers[...]
Three high-profile SPC alumni return to their college to discuss the impending EU Referendum in a forum chaired by the Master, Mark Damazer CBE. Join the Editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens (BA Modern[...]
Is there anything wrong with putting a price on health, education, citizenship, and the environment? Where do markets serve the public good, and where do they not belong? Join us for a lively discussion with[...]
The decade following the turn of the millennium may have seen an epochal shift in the nature of the discussion of religion in public life in the UK. The 9/11 attacks in the USA, and[...]
When the Elizabethan gentleman John Sadler sat down to copy his music partbooks little did he know that he had chosen an overly acidic ink. He filled his manuscripts with Latin sacred music from throughout[...]
It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating many different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are domestically retained) counters pure[...]
While qualitative research has received greater acceptance in a great variety of disciplines, including health and medicine, the true potential of qualitative analysis seems not to have been realised in such areas. Hence, the critique[...]
Welcome to Future Debates, a series of public events supported by the British Science Association. A genome is an entire set of DNA; all the instructions for making every part of a living thing. Research[...]
Professor of History at Oxford University, Laurence Brockliss, discusses the ups and downs of Magdalen College School’s fortunes since its foundation in 1480.
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