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Updated 20 Dec 2019 | 14 episodes | Faculty of Law
Lectures, seminars and conferences held at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
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Updated 16 Dec 2019 | 22 episodes | Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Presentations from the 2016, 2017, and 2019 Teaching the Codex colloquia at Merton College, Oxford.
Organisers: Mary Boyle and Tristan Franklinos. Committee: Alexander Peplow and Jessica Rahardjo.Sponsors: Merton College History of the Book Group (2016, 2017, 2019); Oxford Medieval Studies, sponsored by the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) (2016, 2017); the...
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Updated 12 Dec 2019 | 5 episodes | The Queen's College
The Harmsworth Professorship was established by the 1st Viscount Rothermere in memory of his son Vyvyan, who died in the First World War.
The Professorship makes Oxford unique among British universities by every year enabling a distinguished American historian to spend a year in Oxford teaching, researching and leading seminars.
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Updated 11 Dec 2019 | 3 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
The one-day workshop Post-Conflict Landscapes was co-convened by Professor Fiona Stafford (Professor of English, Oxford) in collaboration with the National Trust in support of the National Trust’s 2019 ‘People’s Landscapes’ National Public Programme.
The impact of major conflicts on a landscape are immediate and obvious – in the devastation of cities, the sites of pitched battles, the...
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Updated 06 Dec 2019 | 4 episodes | Oxford Martin School
'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 food, how we distribute food, and how we access food can govern many factors of ours and the planet’s life. From the governance and economies of food...
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Updated 02 Dec 2019 | 5 episodes | Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Annual French lecture
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Updated 02 Dec 2019 | 4 episodes | Bodleian Library
In the past year the Sheldon Tapestry Maps of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire dating from the late Tudor period have all been displayed in the Bodleian’s Weston Library; the final member of this set, Warwickshire, is on display just over 40 miles away in Warwick.
The Weston Library is hosting a one-day symposium to celebrate these stunning cartographic masterpieces,...
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Updated 27 Nov 2019 | 2 episodes | Balliol College
Lectures, seminars, and conferences held in the chapel of Balliol College, University of Oxford.
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Updated 26 Nov 2019 | 2 episodes | Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG)
DPAG is a major basic-science department within the Division of Medical Sciences at the University of Oxford, home to a large number of internationally-renowned teams of scientists addressing the most important questions in biomedicine.
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Updated 22 Nov 2019 | 6 episodes | Department of Education
The Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) is an international research centre focused on higher education and its future development, based at Oxford University. This series collects the weekly seminars that CGHE hosts with its researchers and guest speakers.
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Updated 20 Nov 2019 | 3 episodes | The Queen's College
This podcast series is for the curious mind. Take a closer look at the Queen’s College Library's impressive collection through its eclectic exhibitions. Each episode features the recording of a talk associated with the Library's latest exhibition.
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Updated 19 Nov 2019 | 2 episodes | Bodleian Libraries
Literatures of multilingual Europe was a series of lectures given at the Taylor Institution Library in Autumn 2018 and Summer 2019 designed to accompany the Bodleian Exhibition 'Babel: adventures in translation' (15th February - 2nd June 2019). Each lecture was intended to provide an introduction to some of the less well-known European literatures and at the same time to showcase...
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Updated 19 Nov 2019 | 134 episodes | Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Podcasts from the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, an independent institution affiliated with Wolfson College and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.
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Updated 12 Nov 2019 | 6 episodes | Pitt Rivers Museum
Discussing public engagement in research into assistive living technologies. The podcast series comprises conversations between health services researchers, Museum experts and community members on wide-ranging topics relating to assistive living technologies including living with disability, ageing, conservation and ethics.
Studies in Co-Creating Assisted Living Solutions (SCALS) is...
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Updated 12 Nov 2019 | 22 episodes | Faculty of Law
Border Criminologies brings together academics, practitioners and those who have experienced border control from around the world. Showcasing original research from a range of perspectives, we hope to better understand the effect of border control and to explore alternatives. Through an emphasis on visual resources and first hand accounts we hope to flesh out our understanding of the lived...
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Updated 08 Nov 2019 | 10 episodes | Nuffield College
A series of talks from the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which took place in Oxford, 2019. The full programme, downloadable slides & data, and more details about the institute can be found at https://compsocialscience.github.io/summer-institute/2019/oxford/
SICSS-Oxford...
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Updated 25 Oct 2019 | 62 episodes | Refugee Studies Centre
Voluntary return in safety and with dignity as a durable solution to displacement has long been a core tenet of the international refugee regime. In the 23 articles on Return in this issue of FMR, authors explore various obstacles to achieving sustainable return, some of which are common to diverse situations of displacement while others are specific to certain contexts. Many of the authors...
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Updated 17 Oct 2019 | 5 episodes | St Catherine's College
The Chair of Contemporary Theatre, founded through a grant from the Mackintosh Foundation at St Catherine's College, aims to promote interest in, and the study and practice of, contemporary theatre. The Visiting Professorship has previously been held by actors, writers, directors, and producers including Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Miller, Alan Ayckbourn, Richard Eyre, Phyllida Lloyd and...
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Updated 13 Oct 2019 | 31 episodes | Department of Computer Science
The scientific study of consciousness is a young and thriving field, encompassing empirical and theoretical research of multiple disciplines. This conference aims to bring together researchers whose scientific activity relates to the theoretical and mathematical foundations of this field and to thereby promote the study and creation of models of consciousness and formal approaches to the mind-...
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Updated 04 Oct 2019 | 28 episodes | St Anne's College
St Anne's stands out in Oxford as a college that is down to earth, modern, informal and open to the world. It also has a determined sense of its academic purpose.
It began in 1879 offering a university education to women who otherwise would have found it unaffordable. It became a full College of the University in 1952. It has taken both men and women since 1979, and is now one of... -
Updated 29 Sep 2019 | 18 episodes | Faculty of History
Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism Conference
The Global History of Capitalism project, housed within the Oxford Centre for Global History, is a focal point for ongoing scholarship on the history of capitalism. The project promotes an explicitly global perspective that contextualises the history of capitalism beyond the West and investigates the...
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Updated 02 Sep 2019 | 4 episodes | Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Science is discovering things that have never been discovered before. It is one of the most exciting fields. There is so much science research going on out there, it is hard to keep track!
Claire Hill, a PhD student at Oxford University, takes a new topic each month - summarises the science, outlines the debates and excites us about the future.
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Updated 14 Aug 2019 | 3 episodes | Student Administration and Services
In this series aimed at new students at Oxford we offer some insights and advice from current students reflecting on their own experiences at the University. The material will be relevant to all new starters but of particular value to new students from outside the UK.
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Updated 05 Aug 2019 | 3 episodes | Faculty of Music
In this series, members of the Transforming Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Practice research team (TCHIP) discuss aspects of their ongoing research on the project. Each episode will focus on a different aspect of the project, from new historical research into under-examined musicians and practices, empirical approaches using new technologies into the current practices of musicians,...
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Updated 16 Jul 2019 | 57 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Translational research in NDM has a truly worldwide impact, with scientists and clinicians investigating epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of disease on a global scale. Our podcasts on Global Health illuminate this work, and discuss research conducted in Oxford and around the world to better understand and manage emerging and endemic diseases.
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Updated 16 Jul 2019 | 29 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Malaria is an endemic disease in much of the world, and is a major contributor to child and infant mortality in many countries. Our malaria podcasts describe efforts by NDM clinicians and scientists, in Oxford and around the world, to treat and prevent malaria, including vaccine development, parasitology, and improved treatment for severe malaria, with the aim to lessen the disease burden on...
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Updated 12 Jul 2019 | 16 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Follow the development of the TORCH-Ashmolean research project Talking Sense in these podcasts, hosted and produced by two participants of the project: Jonathan Lawrence and Christy Callaway-Gale
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Updated 09 Jul 2019 | 21 episodes | Department of Engineering Science
A range of lectures and talks from the Department of Engineering at the University of Oxford, the only unified department in the UK which offers accredited courses in all the major branches of engineering.
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Updated 08 Jul 2019 | 5 episodes | Oxford Martin School
This was a workshop held on 31 May, 2019 at the Oxford Martin School, as a celebration of Jerry Ravetz’s career and work. It was sponsored by the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at Oxford University. Information about the event is available at https://www.insis.ox.ac.uk/event/science-post-normal-...
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Updated 08 Jul 2019 | 122 episodes | St John's College
An annual conference to explore 'Building Peace' from multidisciplinary perspectives held in Oxford. The 2012 conference was entitled, ‘Disciplines of Peace’. The 2012 conference themes included exploring different aspects of the field of peace studies: the relationship between academic research and the practice of peacemaking, peacebuilding and peacekeeping; the skills needed for...
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Updated 24 Jun 2019 | 3 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
In this podcast series, researchers from the ERC-funded "Diseases of Modern Life" project at the University of Oxford join experts from a range of fields to discuss some of the major questions surrounding the scientific, technological and medical developments that have defined the modern era, from the nineteenth century to the present day.
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Updated 20 Jun 2019 | 58 episodes | Refugee Studies Centre
We each live according to our own personal code of ethics but what moral principles guide our work? The 19 feature theme articles in this issue debate many of the ethical questions that confront us in programming, research, safeguarding and volunteering, and in our use of data, new technologies, messaging and images. Prepare to be enlightened, unsettled and challenged. This issue is being...
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Updated 14 Jun 2019 | 8 episodes | Faculty of Oriental Studies
Welcome to Staying Alive, a podcast series on contemporary poetry and crisis, hosted by Adriana Jacobs. Each episode of Staying Alive will feature a conversation with a contemporary poet with whom I will discuss the relation between poetry and crisis. From Denver, Colorado to Tel Aviv, Israel, our conversations address modern crises - from the political to the environmental - as well as...
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Updated 31 May 2019 | 55 episodes | Faculty of Law
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 University of Oxford, and is supported by the British Branch of the International Law Association and Oxford University Press. Further details of this series...
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Updated 29 May 2019 | 3 episodes | Somerville College
Somerville was founded in 1879 to give women, at that time excluded from membership of the University, the chance to benefit from an Oxford education. The College, which has admitted men since 1994, enjoys a wealth of different social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds from around the world, making it an exciting, inspiring and welcoming home for undergraduates and graduates alike. The unifying...
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Updated 29 May 2019 | 5 episodes | School of Geography and the Environment
This podcast is designed to give you an insight into the University of Oxford's digital - visual - cultural series of events. The series is interested in exploring the impact of digital visualising technologies on contemporary life and hope to give you a taste of why you should be too! Bite-sized episodes will introduce you to a range of themes and discussions, as well as multiple voices...
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Updated 17 May 2019 | 12 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature
Poet, playwright and novelist, Simon Armitage was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 2015. This series features his public engagements.
Series image credit Paul Wolfgang Webster.
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Updated 17 May 2019 | 20 episodes | University College
Podcasts from University College
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Updated 16 May 2019 | 6 episodes | The Queen's College
A series based on the study and research of Ancient Egyptian poetry by Oxford's Professor of Egyptology, Richard Bruce Parkinson
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Updated 07 May 2019 | 3 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Welcome to Alliance: a podcast about the humanities and existential risk. Existential risks are risks that threaten to wipe out humanity or destroy human civilisation, like nuclear warfare, climate change and artificial intelligence. Join us as we discover what the humanities - history, philosophy, literature and the arts - have to say about them.
This series is run by Alice Evatt (...
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Updated 30 Apr 2019 | 4 episodes | Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory
A series of 4 lectures delivered by Professor Jun Ye (JILA / NIST & University of Colorado) in the annual Hinshelwood lecture series
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Updated 30 Apr 2019 | 51 episodes | St Antony's College
The European Studies Centre at St Antony's College is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of Europe. It has particular strengths in politics, history and international relations, but also brings together economists, sociologists, social anthropologists and students of culture. We see ourselves as a meeting place and intellectual laboratory for the whole community of those interested...
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Updated 17 Apr 2019 | 5 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Talks from a dedicated day for those affected by hereditary forms of motor neuron disease
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Updated 12 Apr 2019 | 18 episodes | Saïd Business School
OSEF is Said Business School's flagship entrepreneurial event - it's an intensive and immersive experience for anyone interested in all things entrepreneurial, from pursuing startup ideas to taking a transformational approach to business and career paths.
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Updated 09 Apr 2019 | 12 episodes | Lincoln College
Podcasts from Lincoln College, Oxford
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Updated 05 Apr 2019 | 57 episodes | Department of Physics
Find out more about our night sky, from new planets to far-off galaxies and the vastness of the Universe. A series of short talks and presentations for the general public from leading astronomy researchers at the Oxford University Physics department - http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/
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Updated 27 Mar 2019 | 36 episodes | Taylor Institution Library
Medieval German Studies in Oxford cover the full range of the literary, cultural and linguistic heritage of the German speaking lands from 800 to 1600. Special areas of interests are the transmission of text in manuscript and early print, mysticism and devotional writing and courtly literature. We work in close collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Medieval Studies and the wider...
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Updated 14 Mar 2019 | 12 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature
This series brings together lectures given by members of Oxford’s Faculty of English as Open Day taster lectures or as introductory lectures for undergraduates. The series covers a diverse range of topics, drawing on the Faculty’s wide-ranging research into English Language and Literature.
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Updated 08 Mar 2019 | 15 episodes | Bodleian Libraries
An international and interdisciplinary series which explores the interaction between the history of the book and other areas of research. Oxford, Weston Library, Visiting Scholars' Centre (VSC) - Hilary Term, Fridays 2.15. Convenor: Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College and 15cBOOKTRADE)
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Updated 08 Mar 2019 | 54 episodes | Mansfield College
Mansfield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Our membership comprises approximately 50 academic staff, 220 undergraduates, 50 graduates and 35 visiting students. This small size engenders friendly and close relationships not only amongst undergraduates, but also between Junior (undergraduate), Middle (graduate) and Senior (tutors) Common Rooms.