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  • Updated 24 Feb 2017 | 21 open episodes

    The discipline of Comparative Literature is changing. Its Eurocentric heritage has been challenged by various formulations of ‘world literature’, while new media and new forms of artistic production are bringing urgency to comparative thinking...

  • Updated 13 Feb 2013 | 5 open episodes

    The Oxford Food Governance Group is an interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), Said Business School, and the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) at the University of...

  • Updated 22 Feb 2019 | 1 open episode

    Exchange on Brexit between scholars from the United Kingdom and Germany.

  • Updated 25 Feb 2016 | 13 open episodes

    The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) aims to bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers in different parts of the world to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality. Through vigorous exchange of ideas and...

  • Updated 24 Aug 2011 | 5 open episodes

    A one day conference showcasing the wide variety of research and projects being undertaken by Academics under the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. From Philosophy and Neuroscience to Politics and International Relations to...

  • Updated 26 Mar 2015 | 32 open episodes

    Lectures and seminars from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. The OII is a leading world centre for multidisciplinary research and teaching on the social factors that are shaping the Internet, and their implications for...

  • Updated 15 Mar 2022 | 3 open episodes

    The University's Equality Policy provides for an inclusive environment which 'promotes equality, values diversity and maintains a working, learning and social environment in which the rights and dignity of all its staff and students are...

  • Updated 06 Dec 2019 | 3 open episodes

    'Food futures: how can we safeguard the planet’s health, and our own?' is the Michaelmas Term 2019 Lecture Series from the Oxford Martin School.

    Food is an essential part of life, but what we eat, how we grow, manufacture our...

  • Updated 18 Jun 2013 | 1 open episode

    Interviews and Commentaries from the Oxford Martin School, including Institute overviews and director interviews.

  • Updated 24 Nov 2023 | 67 open episodes

    Public Lectures and Seminars from the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. The Oxford Martin School brings together the best minds from different fields to tackle the most pressing issues of the 21st century.

  • Updated 12 Apr 2024 | 6 open episodes

    In this series we seek to rediscover film footage of Oxford’s past and make it available for public viewing. How has Oxford changed? How has it remained the same? What important events have happened at Oxford University? Each episode in the...

  • Updated 11 Oct 2016 | 1 open episode

    Academic Lectures from University of Oxford's Department of Physics.

    The video series for this podcast includes content previously published in 2016 as 'Reduced Density Matrices in Quantum Physics and Role of Fermionic Exchange...

  • Updated 21 Dec 2023 | 37 open episodes

    The Department of Physics public lecture series. An exciting series of lectures about the research at Oxford Physics take place throughout the academic year. Looking at topics diverse as the creation of the universe to the science of climate...

  • Updated 07 Jul 2014 | 17 open episodes

    Short talks from University of Oxford Physics Department.

    Contains episodes previously published as:
    (1) 'Astrophysics: An Introduction'
    (2) 'Lab, Camera, Action!': "Lab, Camera, Action! is a series of...

  • Updated 20 Jan 2023 | 5 open episodes

    Welcome to Oxford Political Thought - the Oxford podcast where each week guest speakers working on Islam, politics, and history to discuss their cutting-edge research on political thought. Our guests will each speak for 20mins, one after the...

  • Updated 05 Dec 2014 | 26 open episodes

    Podcasts of lectures and seminars held at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), a research centre within the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development. OPHI aims to build and advance a more systematic...

  • Updated 15 Dec 2010 | 2 open episodes

    The Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities seeks to understand how cities can be made more flexible to face the challenges of the next fifty years. This seminar series brings together researchers from across the University of Oxford to discuss...

  • Updated 27 Jan 2012 | 9 open episodes

    Academics, community workers and researchers come together to discuss the social and political implications of the August 2011 Riots. Looking at the causes for the riots and discrimination and prejudice within the Afro-Caribbean communities from...

  • Updated 08 Jul 2016 | 20 open episodes

    Podcasts from the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) conferences on 26-28 June 2009 and 22-23 October 2010

  • Updated 18 Mar 2021 | 58 open episodes

    Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) is an inter-disciplinary network of more than 100 Oxford staff and students working broadly on issues of transition in societies recovering from mass conflict and/or repressive rule. OTJR is dedicated...

  • Updated 09 Nov 2011 | 4 open episodes

    The inaugural Oxford-India Day took place on 17 June 2011. The event aimed to celebrate the longstanding and varied links between the University and India, and to reinvigorate and strengthen those links.

    Over 80 external guests,...

  • Updated 10 Jun 2022 | 10 open episodes

    OxPeace Conference 2022: Who Builds Peace? The Relationships between International, National, Regional, and Local Levels in Peacebuilding. The fourteenth annual OxPeace day conference.

  • Updated 12 May 2023 | 10 open episodes

    How can the war in Ukraine inform our understanding of peace? Experts from the Oxford Network of Peace Studies -- from University of Oxford, United Nations, World Economic Forum and more -- explore the origins, impacts and lessons of the conflict...

  • Updated 23 Aug 2017 | 6 open episodes

    The Oxford Loebel Lectures and Research Programme (OLLRP) were established in 2013 with the generous support of J. Pierre Loebel, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, and Felice Loebel...

  • Updated 24 May 2011 | 1 open episode

    Audio podcasts from the program on Ethics of the New Biosciences, part of the James Martin 21st Century School. Looking at the ethical issues surrounding genetic testing and other new areas of biomedical sciences

  • Updated 16 Apr 2012 | 7 open episodes

    Philosophy has been studied for thousands of years. It involves the use of reason and argument to search for the truth about reality - about the nature of things, ethics, aesthetics, language, the mind, God and everything else. This series of...

  • Updated 02 May 2012 | 8 open episodes

    This series of eight lectures delivered by Dr T. J. Mawson at the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 2011, introduces the main philosophical arguments pertaining to the Western monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each...

  • Updated 14 May 2010 | 2 open episodes

    Special Philosophy lectures and seminars from the University of Oxford.

  • Updated 25 Aug 2023 | 3 open episodes

    A podcast series that dives into the personal moments that shape our academic and professional lives.

    Host: Femke Gow, Head of Communications at Wolfson College

    Intro/Outro credit: Alessandro Zammataro, DPhil Medieval and Modern...

  • Updated 13 Sep 2016 | 8 open episodes

    This conference brings philosophers of religion, political theorists and literary scholars together to frame approaches to the problem of political evil–a project one might call ‘political demonology’–for our contemporary political and cultural...

  • Updated 16 Mar 2017 | 81 open episodes

    Podcasts from the Department of Politics and International relations and its centres.

  • Updated 14 Dec 2018 | 12 open episodes

    Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation is a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series running in 2017-18 at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University. It brings together academics from many different fields, politicians and...

  • Updated 07 May 2014 | 49 open episodes

    Exploring various aspects of modern and ancient metaphysics as they relate to the hypothesis that powers (or dispositions) are the sole elementary building block in ontology.

  • Updated 14 Jul 2015 | 5 open episodes

    Practical Ethics Bites is a series of audio podcasts on practical ethics targeted specifically at pupils studying philosophy in UK schools. It is produced by the team behind the popular podcast Philosophy Bites, David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton...

  • Updated 09 Feb 2023 | 4 open episodes

    Practice Makes is the podcast for the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Reimagining Performance Network (https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/reimagining-performance-network)....

  • Updated 08 May 2013 | 35 open episodes

    Preventing displacement is obviously a worthwhile objective. Being displaced puts people at a higher risk of being both impoverished and unable to enjoy their human rights. Such a situation is worth preventing - but not at any cost. FMR 41...

  • Updated 01 Apr 2014 | 7 open episodes

    These podcasts offer an introduction into a variety of Digital Humanities projects across the University of Oxford. They form part of the project launch for ‘Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities', and '...

  • Updated 11 Jul 2022 | 8 open episodes

    If you are looking for new and interesting ways to think about security, this is the podcast for you.
    Co-hosts Arianna and Claudine talk to cyber security researchers about the difficult (and very real) problems they are trying to solve....

  • Updated 21 Mar 2017 | 32 open episodes

    Psychiatry is a medical discipline seeking to understand and treat mental illness. These podcasts provide an introduction to core topics in psychiatry, and to research undertaken in the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry. This series is...

  • Updated 05 May 2015 | 11 open episodes

    Lectures on international law issues by eminent scholars, practitioners and judges of national and international courts. The lecture series is brought to you by the Public International Law Discussion Group, part of the Law Faculty of the...

  • Updated 31 May 2019 | 15 open episodes

    Lectures on international law issues by eminent scholars, practitioners and judges of national and international courts. The lecture series is brought to you by the Public International Law Discussion Group, part of the Law Faculty of the...

  • Updated 24 Feb 2023 | 11 open episodes

    Lectures on international law issues by eminent scholars, practitioners and judges of national and international courts. The lecture series is brought to you by the Public International Law Discussion Group, part of the Law Faculty of the...

  • Updated 05 Mar 2010 | 27 open episodes

    In this series of physics lectures, Professor J.J. Binney explains how probabilities are obtained from quantum amplitudes, why they give rise to quantum interference, the concept of a complete set of amplitudes and how this defines a "...

  • Updated 11 Apr 2017 | 4 open episodes

    This series explores the lives of Romans through the Latin inscriptions collection at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, as part of an AHRC funded project between the University of Oxford and the University of Warwick.

  • Updated 02 May 2018 | 15 open episodes

    The 'Reformation 2017‘ series highlights some of the events connected with the activities around the 500th anniversary of the publication of Martin Luther’s 95 theses in 1517. A full documentation of ongoing projects can be found at...

  • Updated 12 Jul 2016 | 98 open episodes

    Public lectures and seminars from the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development.

    The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) aims to build knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of forced migration in order...

  • Updated 14 May 2014 | 8 open episodes

    Under “David Hume”, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins with, “The most important philosopher ever to write in English”. His most formidable contemporary critic was the fellow Scot, Thomas Reid, the major architect of so-called...

  • Updated 23 Apr 2024 | 1 open episode

    A podcast by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. In each episode, the APGRD invites academics and/or creative practitioners (directors, playwrights, actors, choreographers etc.) to talk to us about their research, archival...

  • Updated 15 Dec 2021 | 11 open episodes

    Recordings of the lectures and in-conversation events with acclaimed actors, directors, playwrights, and academics, on modern and historic performances inspired by ancient Greek and Roman texts - hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and...

  • Updated 24 Jul 2015 | 14 open episodes

    New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology, a series of workshops held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March and 12th-13th June 2013.
    The aim of this project is to make a bold and lasting impact on religious epistemology....

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