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  • Updated 16 Feb 2018 | 48 episodes | Faculty of History

    Adam Smyth hosts a series of discussions by Oxford and visiting researchers presenting current research on the material history of the book.

  • Updated 23 Jan 2018 | 44 episodes | Department of Computer Science

    ICFP 2017 is the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming.

    ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. This year, there are keynotes from...

  • Updated 10 Jan 2018 | 9 episodes | The Queen's College

    At a time of great uncertainty on the matter of Brexit, The Queen's College Colloquium brings together leading experts from the UK, Europe and the US to provide an informative synthesis of the future facts on possible outcomes to ongoing negotiations. Speakers will consider what could lie ahead for the UK, what solutions should be sought and actions now taken, with a concluding Round...

  • Updated 09 Jan 2018 | 40 episodes | Humanities Division

    As part of the Curiosity Carnival (Fri 29 Sept 2017) we challenged five researchers to work with songwriter, Jonny Berliner, to create songs about their research and these are the results. Hear research as you've never heard it before as we look at literature from the 18th century to Mars landers. You can listen to the music and explore the topics or listen to 10 minute interviews with...

  • Updated 08 Jan 2018 | 14 episodes | Wolfson College

    A series of talks, workshops and conference highlights hosted by the OCLW based at Wolfson College. Life-writing encompasses everything from the complete life to the day-in-the-life, from the fictional to the factional. It embraces the lives of objects and institutions as well as the lives of individuals, families and groups. Life-writing includes autobiography, memoirs, letters, diaries,...

  • Updated 18 Dec 2017 | 76 episodes | Oxford Department of International Development

    All displaced people need some form of shelter. Whatever the type of shelter which is found, provided or built, it needs to answer multiple needs: protection from the elements, physical security, safety, comfort, emotional security, some mitigation of risk and unease, and even, as time passes, some semblance of home and community. This FMR looks at the complexity of approaches to shelter both...

  • Updated 15 Dec 2017 | 52 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature

    Each lecture in this series focuses on a single play by Shakespeare, and employs a range of different approaches to try to understand a central critical question about it. Rather than providing overarching readings or interpretations, the series aims to show the variety of different ways we might understand Shakespeare, the kinds of evidence that might be used to strengthen our critical...

  • Updated 12 Dec 2017 | 12 episodes | Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)

    A series of talks on robust research practices in psychology and the biomedical sciences, held in Oxford in 2017. Organized by Dorothy Bishop, Ana Todorovic, Caroline Nettekoven and Verena Heise.

  • Updated 12 Dec 2017 | 72 episodes | Refugee Studies Centre

    It is not common practice to include people with disabilities among those who are considered as particularly vulnerable in disasters and displacement and who therefore require targeted response – yet statistics tell us that up to 10% of all displaced people will have a disability.

    The 27 feature theme articles in this issue of FMR show why disabled people who are displaced need...

  • Updated 07 Dec 2017 | 9 episodes | Department of History of Art

    A ‘taster’ selection of lectures delivered to History of Art Undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. Find out more about other History of Art events, lectures and courses on the History of Art Department homepage (https://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/)

  • Updated 04 Dec 2017 | 1 episode | St Edmund Hall

    The Emden Lecture is an annual event at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, given by a guest historian and pitched at a non-specialist audience. It is named in honour of A.B. Emden, a distinguished medievalist and historian of universities who was Principal of St Edmund Hall from 1929 to 1951.

  • Updated 04 Dec 2017 | 6 episodes | Hertford College

    A series of lectures given on each Prime Minister's relationship with Europe since Margaret Thatcher by an individual who worked very closely with that leader. The series of lectures was recorded in Autumn 2017 at the Weston Library hosted by Will Hutton, the Principal of Hertford College, in conjunction with Lord Adonis.

  • Updated 28 Nov 2017 | 13 episodes | Oxford Martin School

    The Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade aims to provide an international hub for interdisciplinary research on the illegal wildlife trade, and foster strong partnerships across sectors, particularly through its Wildlife Trade Symposia. Evolving Perspectives on the Demand for Illegal Wildlife Products is our first symposium to be held in Oxford, on the 25th-27th September 2017...

  • Updated 15 Nov 2017 | 1 episode | The Queen's College

    An interdisciplinary research series hosted by Queen's College that brings together specialists and students working on manuscript and text cultures of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean (Greece and Rome), ancient East and South Asia, and medieval Europe.

  • Updated 14 Nov 2017 | 6 episodes | Merton College

    The Visiting Professorship of Opera is funded by New College, and invites leading figures in the operatic world to Oxford each year to give instruction and practice in their areas of expertise. Professors take up residence for short periods while they are involved in a variety of sessions which will include lectures, symposia, masterclasses and performance. Events are open to student and...

  • Updated 13 Nov 2017 | 31 episodes | Department of Economics

    This series focuses on annual international conference of The Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) - an economic research centre within the Department of Economics at Oxford University. Papers presented at the conference address issues central to African development.

  • Updated 31 Oct 2017 | 74 episodes | Refugee Studies Centre

    The region of Latin America and the Caribbean has long demonstrated hospitality towards those fleeing conflict and persecution within the region and from further afield. Faced with newer causes of displacement, such as the violence of organised criminal gangs and the adverse effects of climate change, Latin American and Caribbean countries are continuing to expand and adapt their protection...

  • Updated 20 Oct 2017 | 1 episode | Department of Pharmacology

    The Department of Pharmacology is one of the pre-clinical science departments that form part of the University’s Medical Sciences Division and is focused on basic life sciences research, undergraduate teaching for medicine and biomedical sciences students and the training and development of graduate students.

    The Department of Pharmacology is at the forefront of research into the...

  • Updated 20 Oct 2017 | 9 episodes | Sir William Dunn School of Pathology

    The Future of Science Symposium, hosted by the Dunn School Graduate Student Association, invites you to explore how the scientific world will change over the next ten years. The symposium coincides with the 90th anniversary of the opening of the Sir William Dunn School and will spotlight some of the most interesting ideas about the future of research, publishing, science communication, funding...

  • Updated 03 Oct 2017 | 4 episodes | University Administration and Services (UAS)

    This series is unique in being wholly dedicated to female speakers. It is intended to showcase the enormous range of women's careers and raise the profile of women of high achievement in order to increase the range of role models accessible to challenge and inspire women both at Oxford and outside. The lecture series is funded by the Vice Chancellor's Diversity Fund.

  • Updated 19 Sep 2017 | 3 episodes | Department of Chemistry

    Full length features recorded from live lectures that delve deeply into the research happening in the Department of Chemistry. From the sequence of our genomes to the heat in our food, the research featured here is already impacting our daily lives.

  • Updated 12 Sep 2017 | 10 episodes | Faculty of History

    A series of seminars exploring the global and local dimensions of the First World War. History Faculty, University of Oxford. Convened by Dr Jonathan Krause and Mr Jack Doyle.

  • Updated 23 Aug 2017 | 30 episodes | Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

    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. The purpose of OLLRP is to address the shortcomings of a unilinear approach to mental illness that arise from focusing uniquely on biological,...

  • Updated 14 Aug 2017 | 29 episodes | Alumni Office

    Every month a former Oxford student shares career highlights, insights, and memories of student days in this 15-minute podcast. The interviews are brought to you by the Alumni Office at the University of Oxford.
    Music by Setuniman http://www.freesound.org/people/Setuniman/sounds/241138 from...

  • Updated 27 Jul 2017 | 6 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

    The Humanities Division at Oxford has developed an exciting relationship with the National Trust, culminating in the Trusted Source Knowledge Transfer Partnership.

    http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ktp

    Celebrating our collaboration, this interdisciplinary lecture series explores and interrogates the many challenges and opportunities...

  • Updated 25 Jul 2017 | 17 episodes | Department of Psychiatry

    Presentations from the Ethics and Early Intervention in Mental Health: Promoting Change through Research conference, held in Oxford on 23rd June 2017. This conference was organised by the Neurosec, Neuroscience, Ethics and Society network, part of the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry alongside the BeGOOD: Early Intervention Ethics, and The Wellcome Trust.

  • Updated 25 Jul 2017 | 7 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

    The Gender and Authority project, jointly supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute, aims to explore and question received notions of social and cultural authority, specifically as they intersect with issues of gender. Provoked initially by the idea of the canon, ‘the list of works considered to be permanently established as being of...

  • Updated 25 Jul 2017 | 22 episodes | Faculty of Classics

    The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and its collection and reception since antiquity, the Beazley archive (established in 1956 by Sir John Beazley) studies the antiquities of ancient Greece and Rome, within the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. The archive has a collection of over a quarter of a million photographs, prints, books, catalogues and gem impressions.

  • Updated 13 Jul 2017 | 1 episode | IT Services

    A wide range of innovative technologies for teaching, learning and assessment is exciting the curiosity of tutors and lecturers in Oxford today. We can help you harness your curiosity! With your teaching objectives as the starting-point, we can help you to identify the optimal technique and tool to meet your needs and provide your students with a stimulating and productive learning experience...

  • Updated 07 Jul 2017 | 42 episodes | Humanities Division

    The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School is the University of Oxford's annual training event for the Digital Humanities. Each delegate follows a week-long workshop and supplements this with additional parallel lectures, which have been filmed as part of this series.

  • Updated 29 Jun 2017 | 10 episodes | Faculty of Theology and Religion

    The Great Debated is a series of fifteen lectures by Timothy McGrew, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University. The 'Great Debate' is a convenient umbrella term for a set of theological and philosophocal disputes about miracles, prophecy, and theism itself in the wake of the Deist Controversy. These disputes spanned roughly the years 1760...

  • Updated 27 Jun 2017 | 4 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences

    Families for the Treatment of Hereditary MND (FATHoM) is an initiative to bring together the community of families affected by inherited (genetic) forms of MND. This first event is a meeting led by Professor Martin Turner and Professor Kevin Talbot consisting of expert talks on key issues affecting such families.

  • Updated 26 Jun 2017 | 12 episodes | Department of Computer Science

    Christopher Strachey (1916–1975) was a pioneering computer scientist and the founder of the Programming Research Group, now part of the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University. Although Strachey was keenly interested in the practical aspects of computing, it is in the theoretical side that he most indelibly left his mark, notably by creating with Dana Scott the denotational (or as...

  • Updated 22 Jun 2017 | 36 episodes | Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion

    The Deist Controversy was an extended debate that took place first in England and then Continental Europe roughly from the late 1600s through the mid 1700s. The deists, most of whom believed that there was a god worthy of worship who had created the world, denied special divine action beyond creation. Hence they claimed that Christianity as a revealed religion was false or even contemptible. A...

  • Updated 21 Jun 2017 | 114 episodes | Oxford Department of International Development

    Podcasts recorded by the International Migration Institute

  • Updated 13 Jun 2017 | 16 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

    Every year, about 65 DPhil students start a life changing experience in the Nuffield Department of Medicine in Oxford. The Department offers highly competitive NDM Doctoral Prize Studentship to outstanding candidates of any nationality.

  • Updated 24 May 2017 | 5 episodes | Ertegun Graduate Scholarships Programme

    Podcasts from the Ertegun House which provides the Ertegun Scholarship Programme with a high-profile presence at Oxford, serving as a resource for Ertegun Scholars and for visitors from around the world who will come to Oxford to participate in a programme of events arranged by the Scholar in Residence.

  • Updated 18 May 2017 | 6 episodes | Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory

    When chemistry meets biology, optics and surface science. A 6 part lecture series presented by Professor Joanna Aizenberg.

  • Updated 18 May 2017 | 7 episodes | Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

    A new podcast series from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford, presenting conversations with individuals interested in improving healthcare through the use of better evidence.

  • Updated 17 May 2017 | 61 episodes | Christ Church

    Tower Poetry is an organization based at Christ Church, University of Oxford, which offers opportunities and resources for young British poets.

    Tower Poetry exists to encourage and challenge everyone who reads or writes poetry. Established following a bequest to Christ Church, Oxford, by the late Christopher Tower, the aims of Tower Poetry are clear: to stimulate an enjoyment and...

  • Updated 11 May 2017 | 15 episodes | Merton College

    A series of podcasts from Merton College, a vibrant and diverse intellectual community that has been at the forefront of education and research at Oxford University since 1264. Nobel Prize winners and other cultural and scientific leaders, such as TS Eliot, JRR Tolkien, and Andrew Wiles, adorn the list of Eminent Mertonians. Merton’s tradition of excellence lives on, thanks to the talent and...

  • Updated 09 May 2017 | 14 episodes | Department of History of Art

    This major international conference was convened by Geraldine Johnson (University of Oxford), Deborah Schultz (Regent's University London), and Costanza Caraffa (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut). It is the sixth in the Photo Archives conference series.

    This conference took place on April 20–21, 2017.

    The conference investigated photographs and...

  • Updated 08 May 2017 | 4 episodes | Faculty of Theology and Religion

    This series explores different religious and secular approaches to healing. In each episode, DPhil candidate Naomi Richman interviews a representative from a religious or secular movement to find out how their perspectives on spirituality influence their attitudes to health and modern medicine. Through these conversations, Naomi discovers ancient truths that can assist us in our contemporary...

  • Updated 28 Apr 2017 | 1 episode | Medical Sciences Division

    Featuring researchers from the Malaria Atlas Project at the University of Oxford, this series of podcasts looks at some of the statistical methods that can be used to model malaria and other infectious diseases globally, as well as statistical modelling more generally.

    The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) brings together researchers based around the world with expertise in a wide range of...

  • Updated 27 Apr 2017 | 11 episodes | Department of Earth Sciences

    Podcasts from the department of Earth Sciences.

  • Updated 26 Apr 2017 | 3 episodes | St Antony's College

    Seminars on topics raising issues of political and legal importance

  • Updated 25 Apr 2017 | 6 episodes | Social Sciences Division

    This year marks the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council (ERC), set up by the European Commission in 2007. The ERC funds exceptional individual scientists to carry out high-risk, high-gain research at the frontiers of knowledge. Over the last decade, Oxford Social Sciences have shown an outstanding track record of attracting significant ERC funding. This event celebrated the world...

  • Updated 12 Apr 2017 | 154 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

    Research in Medicine needs to ultimately translate into better treatment of patients. Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, collaborate to develop better care and improved preventive measures. Findings in the laboratory are translated into changes in clinical practice, from Bench to Bedside.

  • Updated 11 Apr 2017 | 10 episodes | Ashmolean Museum

    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 07 Apr 2017 | 6 episodes | Faculty of History

    Looking at the history and politics of diplomacy at the Ottoman Court in Istanbul (Constantinople) during the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries.

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