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The doors will open at 19.15 for this talk in the small Hall. Especially for those with an interest in Family History soem good tips on how to correct fading and other problems with old[...]
Dr Simone Sturniolo will talk about How computational science helps us understand the world and how you can try it too.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS The Oxford e-Research Centre welcomes Dr. Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center Founder. He will present a seminar[...]
Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health econimics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare? Health economics[...]
Award-winning composer Jonathan Dove talks to broadcaster Kate Kennedy about music, war and commemoration. Their discussion will be illustrated with excerpts from his compositions. Dove’s works include In Damascus, To An Unknown Soldier and the[...]
The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50% of Syria’s population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (Hurst Publishers) places the current[...]
Talk followed by questions and discussion
Distinguished modern historian and former Warden of St Antony’s College, Professor MacMillan recently became an Honorary Fellow of LMH. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and will be this summer’s BBC Reith[...]
The Oxford Guild and its Collegium Global Network in association with the Oxford PPE Society is delighted to welcome a very special guest – Tawakkol Karman, one of the most famous and most decorated Nobel[...]
“Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm” with Sophia Hoffmann @ Refugee Studies Centre
Dr Sophia Hoffmann is a political scientist focused on the international relations of the Middle East. Her current research project “Learning Intelligence: the Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between Germany and the Arab Middle East”[...]
True to our name, we bring opera anywhere! Our latest new Puccini production goes into the woods at Wytham! Puccini’s Heroines at Wytham Woods! – 12th May Puccini’s Heroines – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – FREE[...]
Speaker(s): Monika Bickert (Head of Product Policy, Facebook) Yvette Cooper (Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee) Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford) Convenor: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College)
As part of Think Human Festival, this one-off pop-up event is a unique opportunity for visitors of all ages to interact with leading academics from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes[...]
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (2018 / 63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as ‘Fracking’. Undercurrents productions show what happens[...]
Our world is driven by technology and while it offers a variety of benefits to society, it also exposes us to a series of new and complex cybersecurity risks. These can relate to how we[...]
Since 2015 a group of research-active academics from Oxford Brookes School of Law have been investigating how the criminal law can, and should, tackle speech and images on the internet which are dangerous or offensive.[...]
Join us for live music in the John Henry Brookes Building – Forum before the panel discussion at 18:00 in the Lecture Theatre. Most political movements are accompanied by protest songs. This Think Human Festival[...]
Join us for live music in the Forum of the John Henry Brookes Building from 17:00 before the panel discussion in the John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre at 18:00. Most political movements are accompanied by[...]
From palaeolithic shamanism to the politics of classical Rome, interpreting the movements and sounds of birds was highly valued as a way of learning what forces might be influencing the events of our world, whether[...]
Dr Tahir Zaman is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on refugees and forced migration with particular reference to Iraq and Syria, transnationalism, diaspora contributions to conflict transformation[...]
The adoption of big data, machine learning, and simulation software in biology and drug discovery have allowed for rapid progress in these fields. So far these technologies have aided discoveries, but can they eventually replace[...]
Discover how propaganda images and literature during the First World War marked a change in women and their roles in society.
The international Psychiatry film festival, Medfest, is back again for another year. This time, through three bespoke short films, we hope to challenge your ideas and perceptions on the concept of ‘silence’. After each showing,[...]
Join us for our Blackwell’s Open Mic Night, where there will be performances from an array of talented local performers, across a wide mix of creativity. Everyone is welcome to come along and listen, places[...]
All welcome. Registration essential. For further information and to register, please contact global@history.ox.ac.uk Francis Bacon once opined: “Augustus Caesar would say, that he wondered that Alexander feared he should want work, having no more worlds[...]
Her Excellency Minister Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf, Minister of Women and Human Rights Development, Federal Government of Somalia Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in conflict-affected contexts: Current challenges and opportunities in Somalia. In Somalia,[...]
Do you want to learn about artificial intelligence? Have you been put off by technical jargon or fears of terminator robots? Come along to this evening course for beginners run by the AI consultancy Oxford[...]
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) offer the opportunity to control devices directly with the brain. Brain-controlled devices can return communication to those without speech, memory function to those with hippocampus damage, while prosthetic limbs controlled via the[...]
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