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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[...]
Lt Col Ross Moy will give a talk on ‘Pre-hospital emergency medicine – recent developments and top tips for the first on scene’ Lt Col Moy is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in the British[...]
Professor Trevor Young, Dean of the University of Toronto and world expert on bipolar disorder, is coming to Oxford to give a talk on “Your Brain Needs YOU: Why Psychiatry Is the Best Specialty for[...]
Professor George Youngson is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Aberdeen. He will be talking about ‘Non-technical skills for surgeons: a hard time for soft skills’.
Drawing upon sociology of culture and digital rhetoric literature, this talk will illuminate the persuasive function of hashtags in the context of the UK EU membership referendum. What makes a hashtag more influential, or more[...]
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 Gerhard Schroth is Emeritus Professor of Radiology/Neuroradiology at the University of Berne in Switzerland. The title of his talk is: ‘The development and effects of thrombectomy in the treatment of actute stroke.’
A collaboration between Japanese artist Isao Miura and poet Chris Beckett, presented to the Glass Tank by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre. In spring 1689, Matsuo Bashō sold his house in Edo (now Tokyo) and[...]
One of Britain’s most significant and controversial artists Maggi Hambling discusses her career and recent work with Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum.
Art critic, journalist and broadcaster Alastair Sooke talks about the final decade of one of the most beloved artists of the twentieth century, Henri Matisse.
Professor Bill Fulford is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick Medical School; and Director of the[...]
Discover the life and work of William Morris’ younger duaghter May, who managed the embroidery workshop at Morris & Co 1885-1896. This lecture includes material from her collection of needlework designs and photographs of English[...]
Kay Davies has dedicated her life to the cure of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which is one of the most common, fatal genetic disorders diagnosed in children. She contributed to the design of the pre-natal tests[...]
Leopold Eyharts flew on the Atlantis Shuttle to the International Space Station in 2008. Part of his mission included the installation of the Colombus Space Laboratory, the main contribution of Europe to the International Space[...]
Check out http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/oxford-science-fair.html for a full list of stalls. This is a FREE, drop in event with something for the whole family. Saturday 25 June 12-5pm, Sunday 26 June 1-5pm.
What would it have been like to visit your physician in the 19th century? Researcher Melissa Dickinson takes you on a time travel to discover how the sounds of the body helped determine medical diagnoses[...]
Date/Time: Sunday 26 June, 14:30 Venue: Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford Admissions: £5/£4(conc.)/£16(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sun-opening-weekend.html How to assess potential treatments for a disease such as Ebola, during the largest outbreak in history?[...]
Date/Time: Monday 27 June 12:30-13:15 Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford Admissions: Free, Drop-In Suitability: 14+ Find out more: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short introduction’ series, and researchers and health[...]
BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz returns to the Festival to talk about his latest book ‘Think Like An Artist’. Discover how we can all harness our own creativity and achieve extraordinary things.
Date/Time: Tuesday 28 June 12:30-13:15 Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford Admissions: Free, Drop-In Suitability: 14+ Find out more: www.oxscifest.org Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short introduction’ series, and researchers and health[...]
Date/Time: Wednesday 29 June 12:30-13:15 Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford Admissions: Free, Drop-In Suitability: 14+ Find out more: www.oxscifest.org Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short introduction’ series, and researchers and health[...]
Barry Murnane reveals the latest discoveries from his TORCH partnership with the Science Museum London, using unusual objects from its collections to tell the history of lung disease in the 19th century.
A talk as part of the Oxfordshire Science Festival 2016. Barry Murnane reveals the latest discoveries from his TORCH partnership with the Science Museum London, using unusual objects from its collections to tell the history[...]
Director of Modern Art Oxford Paul Hobson talks about what art has become today, explains why it’s easy to understand, and demystifies contemporary art.
Date/Time: Thursday 30 June 12:30-13:15 Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford Admissions: Free, Drop-In Suitability: 14+ Find out more: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com Explore mental health questions with authors of the ‘A very short introduction’ series, and researchers and health[...]
Date/Time: Thursday 30 June 19:00 Venue: Larkmead School, Abingdon Admissions: £6/£4(conc.)/£19(fam.) Suitability: 14+ BOOK NOW: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/thursday.html Although the dramatic increase in life expectancy we have witnessed over the past century is arguably one of medicine’s[...]
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