Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Sir Clive Gillinson CBE

Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Sir Clive Gillinson CBE
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Thursday 13 October 2016, 5.45 – 6.45pm

Oxford Saïd is excited to announce Sir Clive Gillinson CBE, Managing Director of the London Symphony Orchestra and Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall, will be speaking at the School on Monday 28 November as part of our Distinguished Speaker Seminar series.
The talk will be followed by a drinks reception. Registration is essential so please click ‘Register’ above to confirm your attendance.

Registration
Please remember that registration is required to attend this event. The seminar is open for anyone to attend and will take place at Saïd Business School on Monday 28 November 2016.

Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Michael R. Bloomberg

Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg in conversation with Peter Tufano
Thursday 17 November 2016, 5.45 – 6.45pm

Oxford Saïd is excited to announce that Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg LP and former Mayor of New York City, will be speaking at the School, on Thursday 17 November.
We are extremely fortunate that Mr Bloomberg will be visiting Oxford and anticipate this event will sell out very quickly. Registration is essential so please use the ‘Book now’ link above to confirm your attendance at your earliest convenience.

About the speaker
Michael R. Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg LP, philanthropist, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, World Health Organization Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases, and three-term mayor of New York City.
He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as mayor of New York City from 2002-2013 after leading the company he started in 1981 for 20 years. Since leaving City Hall, he has resumed leadership of Bloomberg LP.
A lifelong philanthropist, Bloomberg founded Bloomberg Philanthropies, which focuses on five main areas: public health, education, the environment, the arts, and government innovation. He also leads a number of bi-partisan coalitions on urgent issues, including climate change, illegal guns, immigration reform, and infrastructure investment.

Registration
Please remember that registration is required to attend this event. The seminar is open for anyone to attend and will take place at Saïd Business School followed by a short networking drinks reception until around 7.30pm.

Please note that filming, live streaming and photography will be taking place during this event. By entering and participating you are giving your permission to be recorded and for the School to us the media in future.

Engaging with the Humanities: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology 2016

Engaging with the Humanities: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus and Dr Giovanna Vitelli
Wednesday 9 November 2016, 12.15 – 1.15pm

Oxford Saïd is pleased to welcome the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology back to the School on Wednesday 9 November as part of our Engaging with the Humanities series.

Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus
Textiles, a motif and fashionistas
This talk explores the history of a decorative motif, the trade of a particular commodity from the east to the west, and the role of strong women leaders in the story.
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus examines intersections of religion, politics and social life in the history of art and architecture in India. At Oxford her work involves working within and around the accepted pedagogical modes and the application to them of a rigorous and imaginative cross-disciplinary instruction grounded in her specialist knowledge and teaching experience. Mallica contributes lectures towards various core and option courses at Oxford in various departments, including History of Art, Archaeology, History, International Development, Geography and Oriental Studies. She also contributes towards courses in the MBA, EMBA and DipSi at the Said Business School, where she is an Associate Fellow.

Dr Giovanna Vitelli
Old Objects, New Subjects: Museum artefacts and their place in contemporary debates
We swim in a sea of material things; we discriminate countless times a day between different “things”, and make choices about which objects we interact with, from smart phones to coffee mugs. Our behaviour is not new: for centuries, we have communicated through objects, creating things to exchange, to create wealth, to build trust, to foster identity and community, to judge and exclude. Using these objects to think with can transform them into powerful analytical tools, and can enrich our understanding of how the world works. Through examples from the Ashmolean Museum’s collections from the Pacific Islands, 17th and 18th century Europe, and the Americas, today’s session highlights the value-added of bringing in material resources to address such contemporary issues as transparency in financial networks, information flows, and consumerism and identity.
Dr Giovanna Vitelli is the Director of the University Engagement Programme, an Ashmolean Museum initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Registration
Please remember that registration is required to attend this event. The seminar is open for anyone to attend and will take place at Saïd Business School.
Registration will open at 11.45am with lunch served from 11.45-12.15pm; the talk will begin promptly at 12.15pm and conclude by 1.15pm.

“The political economy of “excess mortality” in contemporary Glasgow and Scotland

Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series

St Thomas More Lecture-Leaving Home: Europe and Utopia

6pm Mass of St Thomas More

7pm St Thomas More Lecture:

Leaving Home: Europe and Utopia
Prof Susan Bruce (Keele University)
Chaired: James Sinclair

8pm Free Meal and Refreshments (donations welcome)

In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, politicians and pundits invoked the concept of utopia to disparage positions diametrically opposed. This talk will take seriously the notion that Europe is Utopian, and will examine Utopia to illustrate the ways in which it may anticipate a Europe not (yet) achieved, whose most ambitious objectives – peace, collaboration, commitment to human rights – found one of its first articulations much earlier than one might think, in a text first published in 1516.

To attend the meal, please RSVP to [email protected] by Friday 4 November (Fourth Week) as space is limited. Please include any dietary requirements.

There is no requirement to come to each stage of the event, please do join us at any point in the evening!

Spitsbergen Retraced: A Journey into the High Arctic

This July, a team of four from Oxford travelled high into the Arctic Circle to ski from East to West across the island of Spitsbergen.

For the first time in ninety-three years they retraced the route of a groundbreaking 1923 expedition that pioneered the exploration of this remote polar land.

Over the course of thirty-two entirely unsupported days they tracked down and repeated the photos from 1923, conducted scientific surveys and pursued mountaineering objectives old and new whilst capturing it all in film for an upcoming feature documentary.

Hosted by the Oxford University Exploration Club, join the Spitsbergen Retraced team to learn more about a journey into one of the last truly wild corners of our increasingly crowded planet.

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Free entry to members of the OUEC and, for this week only, OUMC members too. OUEC membership can be bought on the night.

Dengue and Zika: Unravelling Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

Professor Eva Harris is presenting the annual most distinguished Eleventh Baruch Blumberg Virology Lecture. The lecture hosted by the Oxford University Natural History Museum is open to the public and tickets will be available on the door.

The Art of Seeing—Chrystalina Antoniades

We might think that we can see everything that is happening around us, and it is often said that ‘seeing is believing’, indicating that visual perception is considered one of the most trustworthy means of obtaining information. However, research has revealed that perception does not capture as much information about the world as we would think. Even if viewing conditions were excellent, we could still miss important events around us.

In this talk, I will focus on the neuroscientific relationship between visual perception and art, and talk about some of the work we have being carrying out in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum.

Professor Chrystalina Antoniades is an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford and a lecturer in medicine at Brasenose College. After finishing her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Professor Antoniades moved to Oxford to take up a position with Professor Christopher Kennard. She has recently set up her own research group, the NeuroMetrology Lab. She researches Parkinson’s disease and in research clinics, uses a variety of quantitative experimental methods, based on precise measurement of subtle abnormalities of the speed and coordinate of various movements such as saccades (fast eye movements), motor control (such as finger movements) along with various aspects of gait control. She is the co-chair of the Clinical Neurosciences Society for the department and has developed the Art and Neuroscience theme with Dr Jim Harris at the Ashmolean Museum. Her interests lie in examining the neurobiological relationship between visual perception and art and is the organiser of the Brain Awareness week for the Clinical Neurosciences in Oxford. Recently, Professor Antoniades has been awarded the Vice Chancellors Award for public engagement and is passionate about engaging her research with the public.

Accelerating the Diagnosis of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: using a Combined Genetic and Computational Approach—Philip Fowler

The discovery of antibiotics in the middle of the 20th century helped reduce the number of deaths from infectious diseases globally. Unfortunately, the use of antibiotics has inevitably led to bacteria developing resistance. It is vital, therefore, that doctors know which antibiotics can (and which cannot) be used to treat a patient with a bacterial infection, such as Tuberculosis (TB).

At present, a sample taken from the patient is sent to a laboratory, usually in a hospital, where the bacteria are grown and then different antibiotics administered to see which ones are effective. For a slow-growing bacterium like TB this process can take around a month. The incredible rate at which gene sequencing has got faster and cheaper now means that researchers, including the world-leading Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) group here at the University of Oxford, are beginning to replace the lab-based method with a genetics-based method.

This talk will describe this shift from lab-based to genetics-based microbiology that is happening in our hospitals and look at new methods that aim to predict the effect of individual mutations in TB genes.

Philip Fowler is a Senior Researcher working in the Modernising Medical Microbiology group at the John Radcliffe Hospital which is part of the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is a computational biophysicist and his research focusses on using computer simulation to understand and predict how proteins and small molecules, like antibiotics, move and interact with one another. Philip blogs and is active on Twitter, @philipwfowler.