Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
As part of the Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, Professor David Cranston (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences) tells the story of William Osler’s life and career. Sir William Osler was a Canadian physician and one[...]
This conference will bring together established and emerging philosophical researchers from the US and the UK to discuss philosophical problems about psychological self-knowledge and agency. Each talk will be followed by comments from a local[...]
Geoff Emerson explores the issues and describes an initiative at HM Prison Bullingdon which is seeking to use Restorative Justice as part of the adjudication (internal discipline) process. Can Restorative Justice reduce violence and give[...]
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: Andrew Dilnot, David Levy, James Painter Kate O’Regan,[...]
Ben Okri, one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions. Notable works include “Flowers and Shadows” and “The Famished road” which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1991
Earth Trust invites you to a lecture by Robert Swan, OBE. Robert Swan is the first man to have walked unsupported to both poles and is currently attempting to walk with his son to the[...]
Professor Clare Harris shares her latest research focussed on the visual anthropology of Tibet, showing stunning images from her recent book.
While the links between natural resources, conflict and peace are well understood within the academic community, the UN system has been slow to respond to the risks and opportunities in a comprehensive way. A combination[...]
Trials registries are a relatively new phenomenon and are there to ensure that a complete view of research is accessible to all. Yet, half off all trial results go unreported. The talk will discuss the[...]
Jolyon Maugham is the lawyer behind the “Dublin case” which seeks to determine whether Article 50 is unilaterally revocable. While Brexit evidently means Brexit, it may turn out that Article 50 doesn’t necessarily mean Brexit…[...]
Professor Heather Walton and Professor Peter Ackers discuss writing biographies of faith. Walton is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow. She works in one of the most interdisciplinary areas of[...]
This Research Uncovered talk is part of the Centre for Digital Scholarship’s Research Uncovered series. The internet is becoming an increasingly dominant feature of social life in the western world. More and more users rely[...]
The transition to colonialism in South Asian history has been a vibrant and hotly contested part of India’s history. The role of scribes as historical actors of change in India’s history has only recently been[...]
Jonathan Leader Maynard, Departmental Lecturer in International Relations (DPIR) and Lecturer in International Relations, New College Oxford. Free, all welcome. No booking required.
Richard Rolle hoped that his translation of the Psalms and his commentary would, through its vocabulary and layout, help the readers to a knowledge of Latin as well as of the English language. The Lollard[...]
Nikki Tomkins, OCC conservator, will give an illustrated talk in the Unlocking Archives series about her work for Balliol this past year, repairing early printed books as part of the Wellcome Trust – supported Reconstructing[...]
Oxford e-Research Centre May 24, 2017 – 13:00 Conference Room (278) 7 Keble Road, Oxford Seminar No booking required Open to all Many-Core Series Lunch provided The Centre’s Research Associate Karel Adámek will present a[...]
CANCELLED 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 Jim Waterson,[...]
From 2010 to 2016, then President, Benigno Aquino balanced China’s expansive maritime claim in the South China Sea. President Aquino challenged China by shifting the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) focus from domestic security[...]
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar series. All welcome, no booking required. Dr James Emmott, Oxford Brookes University, will be speaking on On The Stratification of Language. ‘There are few sensations more[...]
A book colloquium featuring Stuart H Newberger, an international lawyer who represented victims of the terrorist plot hatched by Colonal Qaddafi that brought down French Airlines Flight 772. His latest book The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism,[...]
Sir Frank Berman is a distinguished diplomat and civil servant. After a Rhodes Scholarship to Wadham College, he joined Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, and from 1965-1971 served as an assistant legal advisor for the Foreign[...]
Competition over resources and territory is not just a feature of modern or historical times, but a recurrent theme in the natural world, and a phenomenon that reaches far back in human evolutionary history. While[...]
Launch and discussion of Mari Mikkola’s new book, ‘The Wrong of Injustice: Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy’
Join the English Faculty Twentieth Century Poetry Reading Group for a special event at the T. S. Eliot Theatre: Kay Redfield Jamison – author of the groundbreaking memoir An Unquiet Mind, and world expert in[...]
Free money for all: a capitalist utopia Talk followed by questions and discussion All welcome
In this opening workshop in the One Belt One Road programme, a multidisplinary group of scholars will reassess the Old Silk Road, the centuries-old, pan-continental trading route that helped to establish China as a world[...]
As part of the Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, Professor Adrian Banning, along with Professor Raj Kharbanda, Dr Kate Grebenik, Mr George Krasopolous, Mr Rana Sayeed, will talk about ‘Key hole implantation of a new[...]
Eleanor Stein (University of Albany), is a former Administrative Judge and recently retire from NY State Public Service Commission as project manager for Reforming the Energy Vision. Cecil Corbin-Mark has represented WE ACT and environmental[...]
The St Hilda’s Feminist Salon is a space to bridge the gap between feminist theory and practice, and to discuss the complexities of feminism today. A speaker from the cutting-edge of feminist theory, art and[...]
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