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Hunger Artistry: Kafka and the Art of Starvation |
Kafka’s provocative story “The Hunger Artist” explores starvation, art, and the nature of human existence. Experts discuss the story and its reception. |
Peter Boxall, Ankhi Mukherjee, Meindert Peters, Karen Leeder |
10 Jul 2024 |
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Tuberculosis: vaccines, diagnostics and experience |
Kafka died in 1924 of tuberculosis, which remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. This talk looks at the various aspects of tuberculosis from candidate vaccines, the role of genetics in TB treatments and the perspective of a patient. |
Helen McShane, Philip Fowler |
12 Jun 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Halving premature death - Professor Sir Richard Peto |
Professor Sir Richard Peto describes half a century of research seeking moderate reductions in big causes of death. |
Sanjula Singh, Richard Peto |
01 Feb 2023 |
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The Life and Death of Poetry |
A distracted walkabout with T.S Eliot and others. |
Alice Oswald |
23 Jun 2022 |
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Episode 14: 'Making Sense of Death' – PART 2 |
In this episode, Alexis Gorby (DPhil Student, Archaeology) looks at glass from the Roman catacombs to explore how ancient and contemporary cultures use the senses to make sense of death. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. |
Alexis Gorby, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence |
12 Jul 2019 |
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Episode 13: 'Making Sense of Death' – PART 1 |
Dr Carrie Ryan (Postdoctoral Researcher, Anthropology) uses Angela Palmer’s Ashmolean Mummy Boy 3 to explore how ancient and contemporary cultures use the senses to make sense of death. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. |
Carrie Ryan, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence |
12 Jul 2019 |
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Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well |
An inter-disciplinary collaboration on music, mortality and ethics. |
Dominic Wilkinson |
08 Jun 2018 |
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2015 Welcome & Loebel Lecture in Neuroethics: Death and the self |
This lecture investigates changing attitudes and beliefs about the persistence of the self. |
Shaun Nichols |
23 Aug 2017 |
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Creative Commons |
Whither Death? |
Helen Swift and Jessica Goodman discuss the one day conference 'Whither Death?' |
Helen Swift, jessica Goodman |
28 Mar 2017 |
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Mummified Child |
On growing up and dying in ancient and modern populations. |
Sarah Harper |
23 Jan 2017 |
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FRIGHT Friday - Stretched to Breaking Point |
Dan Holloway gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. |
Dan Holloway |
12 Dec 2016 |
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FRIGHT Friday - Fear and Flesh: Gothic Medicine |
Dr Barry Murname gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. |
Barry Murname |
12 Dec 2016 |
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FRIGHT Friday - Parenting, Fear, Hope and Salvation |
Dr Joshua Hordern gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. |
Joshua Hordern |
12 Dec 2016 |
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FRIGHT Friday - Embodying Life and Death |
Professor Cathy Morgan gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. |
Cathy Morgan |
12 Dec 2016 |
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Governing migration through death in Europe and the US: Identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanism |
Vicki Squire examines similarities and differences in practices of ‘governing migration through death’ across the US–Mexico (Sonoran) and in the EU–North African (Mediterranean) contexts |
Vicki Squire |
24 Nov 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
The Death Masks of Macbeth |
Professor Simon Palfrey discusses the deaths and afterlives of Oliver Cromwell and Macbeth |
Simon Palfrey |
07 Jun 2016 |
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Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies |
Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. |
Emma Smith |
02 Jun 2016 |
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Donne to Death |
Peter McCullough, Professor of English, University of Oxford, gives a talk on John Donne. |
Peter McCullough |
13 May 2016 |
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Everyday death in Shakespeare's England |
This podcast talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare's day |
Steven Gunn |
05 May 2016 |
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Creative Commons |
Death at the Museum |
Highlights of the Ashmolean Museum's Halloween DEADFriday event. |
University of Oxford |
16 Dec 2015 |
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Lost objects, imaginary assemblages and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War |
Layla Renshaw (Kingston University London) discusses objects recovered during the exhumation of Civil War victims and considers their imaginative power and life cycle (6 February 2015) |
Layla Renshaw |
07 May 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
Death and Other Dire Outcomes of Delinquent Youth: New Findings from the Northwestern Juvenile Project |
Professor Linda Teplin, Dept. Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University - 15 May 2014. |
Linda Teplin |
30 Jun 2014 |
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Future |
The presentations focus on the impact of the concept of future in changing debate, and how, in specific instances, concerns about the future affect behaviours in the present. |
David Howard, Jill Hind |
07 Apr 2014 |
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Gift, sacrifice, and deadly rumours (3 May 2013) |
In this seminar, Dr Julien Bonhomme (École normale supérieure, Paris) discusses the cultural significance of rumours of deadly alms and gift giving that first appeared in Senegal in 2010. |
Julien Bonhomme |
13 Nov 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Science and the future: Death - nothing more certain? - Oxford Literary Festival |
From Neolithic burials to Mozart's Requiem and the novels of Martin Amis, humans have fashioned cultural responses to the inevitability of each individual's demise. |
Donna Dickenson, Adam Rutherford, Anders Sandberg, Georgina Ferry |
18 Jun 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Science and the future: Death - nothing more certain? - Oxford Literary Festival |
From Neolithic burials to Mozart's Requiem and the novels of Martin Amis, humans have fashioned cultural responses to the inevitability of each individual's demise. |
Donna Dickenson, Adam Rutherford, Anders Sandberg, Georgina Ferry |
18 Jun 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 2: Euthanasia |
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement: Euthanasia. |
Charles Camosy, Julian Savulescu |
23 Oct 2012 |
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Creative Commons |
Life and Death |
If a patient decides she doesn't want to live any longer, should she be allowed to die? Should she be allowed to kill herself? |
Peter Singer |
04 Jul 2011 |
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Money, Bodies, Materialism and Virtuality |
In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Dr David Graeber of Goldsmiths, London, examines the history of death and money and how the two can combine. |
David Graeber |
23 Nov 2010 |
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How Much Does Family Matter? A Cross-Cultural Study of the Impact of Kin on Birth and Death Rates |
Lecture delivered by Dr Rebecca Sear, Lecturer in Population Studies, London School of Economics. |
Rebecca Sear |
20 Aug 2010 |
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The ageing society and its implications |
This Oxford at Said seminar was dedicated to the topic of Ageing. Three distinguished academics from Oxford University discuss the social, biological and ethical implications for an ageing society. |
Sarah Harper, Lynne Cox, Julian Savulescu |
10 Feb 2010 |
