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Does love have a scent? Is there maths behind falling in love? What does romance in the middle ages tell us about love? Find out the answers to these fascinating questions and more with this special collection of podcasts from Oxford curated for Valentine's Day!
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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 7 | Does love have a scent? | Love is in the air - or is it? Companies are advertising that they can find you love through the power of scent! But are pheromones a chemical way to find your true love? Or is it just a myth? | Tristram Wyatt | 06 Feb 2018 | |
| 6 | A Great Unrecorded History. LGBT Heritage and World Cultures | Professor Parkinson discusses how to mobilise historical research into sexuality for maximum impact and the institutional, cultural and political issues that can be at stake, and suggests some of the possible uses of LGBTQ history. | Richard Parkinson | 25 Feb 2016 | |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Love's Labour's Lost | Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost. | Emma Smith | 27 May 2015 |
| 4 | Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction | Victorian fiction is commonly thought of as treating love sentimentally and lacking all reference to sex. In this talk drawing on material from a book he is writing, Dr David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, will contest such a view. | David Grylls | 04 Oct 2013 | |
| 3 | Creative Commons | The Romance of the Middle Ages | Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially about how gifts and tokens were exchanged as signs of fidelity, specifically in Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain, and King Horn. | Nicholas Perkins | 21 Jun 2012 |
| 2 | Tales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation | Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | James Ivory, Richard Parkinson, Katherine Harloe, Jennifer Ingleheart | 18 Dec 2018 | |
| 1 | Love and Math | A public lecture given by Edward Frenkel, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talking around his best-selling book "Love and Math" followed by a conversation with Marcus du Sautoy and Q&A. | Edward Frenkel, Marcus du Sautoy | 12 Jul 2014 |