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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or “drones”) have been in consumer hands and newspaper headlines for several years now. While their much-touted potential to dramatically change modern existence is slowly beginning to emerge, it sometimes seems[...]
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 Lucy[...]
Mitigating climate requires a transition to low carbon energy systems and renewable energy looks increasingly likely to play a key role, but the most important resources are intermittent. This lecture will describe the research of[...]
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[...]
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College. Convenors: Neil Fowler, David Levy, James Painter Luke Harding,[...]
The Biological Society are very pleased to announce that Sir Paul Nurse will be giving a talk on Friday 13th May. Sir Paul Nurse won the Nobel Prize in 2001 alongside Sir Tim Hunt and[...]
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[...]
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 Lindsey[...]
Vector-borne diseases are transmitted to humans through another living organism, such as malaria via the mosquito. This type of disease accounts for roughly 17% of all disease and causes nearly a million deaths annually. In[...]
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[...]
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College. Convenors: Neil Fowler, David Levy, James Painter Helen Lewis,[...]
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[...]
Dr Barghouti will talk about the situation in Palestine, concentrating on the Palestinian strategy of non-violent resistance, and the exposure of the grave violations of human rights in occupied Palestine. Speaker: Dr Mustafa Barghouti, General[...]
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[...]
Introductory Speaker and Chair: ▪Karl Sabbagh, British-Palestinian writer, documentary maker, and publisher Panel members: ▪ Mustafa Barghouti, Palestine National Initiative (Mubadara), Ramallah, Palestine ▪ Rita Giacaman, Birzeit University, Palestine ▪ Jeremy Moodey, Embrace the Middle[...]
Kamal Mahtani, NHS GP, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine. Kamal Mahtani will be giving a free talk as part of the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care Programme.[...]
Short film and panel discussion with: ▪ Sir Stephen Sedley – one of the authors of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office report ‘Children in Military Custody’ (2012) which was discussed this January in Parliament ▪[...]
TUE, 24 MAY AT 14:00, OXFORD Strachey Lecture – Quantum Supremacy – Dr Scott Aaronson (MIT, UT Austin) Quantum Supremacy In the near future, it will likely become possible to perform special-purpose quantum computations that,[...]
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 Julia[...]
Is newsprint dying? If so, can it be replaced? Do some institutions (and their owners) have an undue influence in our politics? What changes do we want to see, and how can we bring them[...]
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[...]
Learn about new digital tools for humanities research and build your own virtual workspace for viewing books and manuscripts from libraries around the world in this short talk and workshop presented by Bodleian Library Systems[...]
Data, long understood as essential evidence for scholarship, are now viewed as products to be shared, reused, and curated. Libraries, long understood to be responsible for curating the products of scholarship, are now assessing their[...]
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[...]
Moisés Hernández-Fernandez from the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, UK will present a seminar on the 1st of June 2016, (at 1pm) entitled “White Matter Tractography and Human Brain[...]
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 Tom[...]
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[...]
Meeting on the politics of LGBT liberation with Noel Halifax author of “Out, Proud and Fighting: Gay Liberation and the Struggle for Socialism”.
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