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Emma Smith interviews Shahnaz Ahsan |
Shahnaz Ahsan is Emma's guest to discuss her debut novel, Hashim & Family. They talk about Bangladesh, about the personal and the political, and about the classroom experience that has seared itself into her fiction. |
Emma Smith, Shahnaz Ahsan |
17 Dec 2021 |
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Emma Smith interviews Alex Preston |
Emma Smith chats with Alex Preston about Hertford, his career in finance, bees, and his new historical novel Winchelsea - Emma also teases Alex about the label of Mr Nice Review in Private Eye. |
Emma Smith, Alex Preston |
17 Dec 2021 |
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Emma Smith interviews Louisa Reid |
Louisa Reid's Young Adult novels in verse have been widely praised: join Emma Smith for a discussion of the challenges and responsibilities of writing for teens, as well as Louisa's experience as a teacher. |
Emma Smith, Louisa Reid |
30 Nov 2021 |
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Emma Smith interviews Claire McGowan |
Memories, genre fiction and writing under a different pen name are all on the agenda for this podcast with Northern Irish crime author Claire McGowan (and her alter ego Eva Woods). |
Emma Smith, Claire McGowan |
17 Nov 2021 |
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Lost and found in the map library: changes in early map librarianship |
Georgia Brown, UW-Milwaukee Libraries, WI, USA, gives the third talk in session 3B of the seminar. |
Georgia Brown |
12 May 2021 |
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Beyond “clerical cartography”: gender and the production of Sanborn fire insurance maps in the 1920s |
Jack Swab, University of Kentucky, USA, gives the second talk in session 3B in the seminar. |
Jack Swab |
12 May 2021 |
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Where are all the women? The case of the Halls |
Debbie Hall, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in session 3B in the seminar. |
Debbie Hall |
12 May 2021 |
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The political cartographies of Marthe Rajchman |
Mike Heffernan and Benjamin Thorpe, University of Nottingham, give the first talk of session 3A in the seminar. |
Mike Heffernan, Benjamin Thorpe |
12 May 2021 |
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From body as territory to feminicides mapping: discourses and mapping languages by Latin American feminist cartographies |
Manuela Silveira, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, gives the third talk in the second session of the seminar. |
Manuela Silveira |
12 May 2021 |
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Mapping toward equitable solutions in public transit planning |
Suzie Birdsell, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting, Boston, USA, gives the second presentation, in the second session of the seminar. |
Suzie Birdsell |
12 May 2021 |
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‘Octavia always enjoyed a map’: Octavia Hill, maps, and Victorian social reform |
Elizabeth Baigent, University of Oxford, gives the first talk in the second session of the seminar. |
Elizabeth Baigent |
12 May 2021 |
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Women and children first: gender, flood and victimhood in Dutch eighteenth-century maps of dike-breaks |
Anne-Rieke van Schaik, University of Amsterdam, gives the third in the first session of the seminar. |
Anne-Rieke van Schaik |
12 May 2021 |
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Where are the women on sixteenth-century French World maps? |
Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University, USA, gives the first talk in the first session of the seminar. |
Camille Serchuk |
12 May 2021 |
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Welcome and Introduction |
Catríona Cannon, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, introduces the seminar. |
Catriona Cannon |
12 May 2021 |
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Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries |
Join Rebecca Abrams in conversation with Samuel Fanous to discuss her riveting and beautiful new book, edited with César Merchan-Hamann, Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries. You can purchase the book https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/jewish-treasures |
Rebecca Abrams, Samuel Fanous |
08 Jun 2020 |
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Malone's Chronologizing of Aubrey's Lives (putt in writing... tumultuarily) |
Keynote lecture by Margreta de Grazia, (Emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) for the Marginal Malone conference held in Oxford on June 26th, 2015. |
Margreta de Grazia |
04 Aug 2015 |
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Painted by numbers: decoding Ferdinand Bauer's Flora Graeca colour code |
Lunchtime lecture by Richard Mulholland accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Richard Mullholland |
09 Jul 2015 |
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Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences |
Professor Robin Wilson, author of Alice's Adventures in Numberland, gives a talk on the history of studying Mathematics at Oxford, which is as old as the University itself. |
Robin Wilson |
06 May 2015 |
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Special Lecture: Art, Architects, Books and Buildings: Sir Robert Taylor & his Collection at the Taylor Institution |
A collaborative venture between the University of Oxford's Edgar Wind Society and the Taylor Institution Library, this lecture discusses Sir Robert Taylor and his collection of architectural books & included a display of selected items from the collection |
Matthew Walker, Gervase Rosser |
17 Sep 2014 |
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One Connected Vision of Ancient Egypt: A launch of the digitised Topographical Bibliography |
Richard Parkinson, Professor of Egyptology, gives a talk about the new digital Topographical Bibliography from the Griffith Institute at Oxford. |
Richard Parkinson |
23 Jun 2014 |
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Stoicism and its Legacy |
A lecture given by Dr John Sellars, lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London, about Stoicism to accompany the display at the Bodleian Library. |
John Sellars |
06 Jun 2013 |
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The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support to bring Shakespeare's First Folio back to the Bodleian library over 200 years after it was lost. |
Emma Smith |
19 Oct 2010 |
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Conclusion to Crossing Borders |
The conclusion to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May 2010 |
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Sciences |
Piet looks at how the works of famous ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid or Ptolemy traveled from culture to culture and formed the basis of Muslim, Christian and Jewish science and philosophy alike. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May 2010 |
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User-produced Hebrew Prayer Books and Shared Iconography |
Some Hebrew manuscripts were produced in Christian workshops, others were made by Jewish artists themselves for their own use. Piet looks at examples of these and explores the shared iconography between Christian and Jewish faiths, such as the unicorn. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May 2010 |
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Hebrew Prayer Books for Public Use |
Piet looks at the three great Bodleian mahzorim (large and elaborately decorated prayer books for the festivals), which were illuminated by Christian painters in collaboration with and under the supervision of Jewish scribes. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May 2010 |
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Arabic Art Forms in Spanish Book Production |
Piet explains Arabic design and illustration in Spanish books, looking in particular at the Kennicott Bible, produced in La Coruna, Spain, in 1476. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May 2010 |
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From Roll to Codex |
Piet explains codices, the oldest manuscripts in book form, looking in particular at a fragment of the Hebrew text of the book of Ecclesiasticus (ch. 40) from the Cairo Genizah, and the four Gospels in Syriac. |
Piet van Boxel |
06 May 2010 |
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Introduction to Crossing Borders |
An introduction to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book. |
Piet van Boxel |
06 May 2010 |
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Pre-1500 Printed Books |
The earliest printers spread from Mainz in Germany where Gutenberg first had his printing house to Venice, Rome, Paris, and the Netherlands. Examples from all of these centres of 15th-century printing are found in Bodleian collections. |
Paul Nash |
05 Mar 2010 |
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Gutenberg and the digital revolution |
Bodley's head librarian, Sarah Thomas, talks about the history of the Bodleian Library and the changes that are taking place within it, particularly the digitisation project -creating electronic digital versions of books- currently underway. |
Sarah Thomas |
28 Oct 2009 |
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BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short) |
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy. |
P. D. James, Colin Dexter |
30 Sep 2009 |
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BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short) |
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy. |
P. D. James, Colin Dexter |
30 Sep 2009 |
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BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long) |
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy. |
P. D. James, Colin Dexter |
30 Sep 2009 |
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BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long) |
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy. |
P. D. James, Colin Dexter |
30 Sep 2009 |
