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David Scourfield (Maynooth) delivers the second annual joint Classics and English Lecture. Free public lecture, all welcome, no booking required. Lecture followed by Q&A and refreshments.
Is international governance facing a pivotal moment? Seventy years on from the creation of the UN, the list of issues requiring international co-operation is lengthy and complex, ranging from the conflict in Syria to infectious[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Speaker: Dr Kirsten McConnachie ( Assistant Professor, School of Law, Warwick University)
Humanitas Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature Lecture Marina Warner is an award winning novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer, who works across genres and cultures exploring myths and stories. Recent work has[...]
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[...]
Professor Neal Maskrey, Honorary Professor of Evidence Informed Decision Making, Keele University Evidence informed decision making? (Know your cognitive biases) It comes as a great surprise to many, but perhaps not those studying Knowledge into[...]
Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include the relation between literature and intellectual history from the early 20th century to the present.
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Is crowdsourcing a viable tool for literary historians and critics to use in their research? How might the fruits of crowdsourced projects be used for both close and ‘distant’ reading in the humanities? This talk[...]
Join the Oxford Children’s Rights Network for an afternoon seminar with Virginia Morrow (Senior Research Officer, Young Lives, and Associate Professor, University of Oxford) for a talk entitled “Practical research ethics in a long-term study[...]
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[...]
PsyNAppS members: FREE entry Non-PsyNAppS members: only £3! We are bringing together speakers from Oxford to talk about the cognitive and social aspects of human advancement in the 21st century. PANEL 1: FRENZIED FRACTIONS? THE[...]
Reflection on one’s own attributes is an important mental process that is encouraged by both Western and East Asian cultures. However, how the human brain conducts self-reflection is strongly influenced by an individual’s cultural experiences[...]
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[...]
Contemporary cultures do not allow people to explicitly report racial in-group favoritism in empathy for pain. However, recent functional brain imaging research has shown robust evidence for racial in-group bias in empathic responses in the[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter are hugely popular in modern life and bring many benefits. However they also risk ‘digital wildfires’ in which provocative content in the form of hate[...]
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,[...]
Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, and fellow author Chris Kutarna preview their forthcoming book about the risks and rewards of a new Renaissance taking place in our modern world. They will[...]
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[...]
Speaker: Tania Kaiser (Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration Studies, Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
There’s a whole world of wonderful literature out there to enjoy. From Scandi success stories Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø, and Jonas Jonasson to the Japanese bestselling author Haruki Murakami, readers are devouring translated fiction from[...]
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