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Updated 22 Apr 2016 | 29 episodes | Trinity College
Cosmopolitanism, derived from the ancient Greek for ‘world citizenship’, offers a radical alternative to nationalism, asking individuals to imagine themselves as part of a community that goes beyond national and linguistic boundaries. Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in cosmopolitanism in the humanities and social sciences, especially within philosophy, sociology and politics....
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Updated 07 Apr 2016 | 74 episodes | Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Japan. The Nissan Institute, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal point for graduate level work and faculty research on Japan in the social sciences. Alongside vibrant doctoral programmes, the MSc and MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies, inaugurated in 2008, are recognized as among...
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Updated 03 Apr 2016 | 6 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
In line with a long literary tradition of the artist as propagandist, who strives to appeal to the political, moral, and social conscience of his/her readership, writers have persistently crossed the divide between art and politics both in their works and in their roles as public intellectuals, cultural critics, and political activists. Moreover, established authors have, with striking...
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Updated 01 Apr 2016 | 41 episodes | Oxford University Centre for the Environment
These online audio resources consist of lectures, seminars and interviews from the Transport Studies Unit at the University of Oxford.
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Updated 31 Mar 2016 | 28 episodes | School of Archaeology
The purpose of this colloquium (28-30 September 2015) was to discuss how recent advances in the archaeological investigation of northern Jordan (Amman) can influence a wider approach to understanding Jordan’s cultural heritage through discovery, re-interpretation and better presentation. The conference gathered international and national specialists from a range of disciplines. These include...
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Updated 25 Feb 2016 | 25 episodes | Faculty of Law
The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) aims to bring together academics, practitioners and policy-makers in different parts of the world to advance the understanding and protection of human rights and equality. Through vigorous exchange of ideas and resources, we strive to facilitate a better understanding of human rights principles, to develop new approaches to policy, and to influence the...
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Updated 22 Feb 2016 | 14 episodes | Social Sciences Division
A series of podcasts related to the MSc in Migration Studies. This interdisciplinary, 9-month Masters degree at Oxford University is jointly offered by the School of Anthropology and the Oxford Department of International Development. The course draws on the intellectual resources of its two parent departments and the three world-leading migration research centres at Oxford (COMPAS, IMI and...
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Updated 11 Feb 2016 | 4 episodes | Department for Continuing Education
Presented by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department for Continuing Education, this event will explore the areas in which the philosophy of mind and ethics or the philosophy of value come into contact with issues about mental health.
Philosophy of psychiatry includes within its ambit questions about the nature of mental disorder as distinct from purely neurological disorder,...
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Updated 10 Feb 2016 | 3 episodes | Brasenose College
Podcasts from Brasenose College.
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Updated 04 Feb 2016 | 7 episodes | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
HIV is one of the worst epidemics in human history, and has had a devastating impact on populations worldwide. Our HIV podcasts describe the leading efforts by NDM researchers to develop new treatments and possible vaccines for HIV, as well as to understand and prevent its transmission, to help reduce the global HIV disease burden and improve outcomes for patients worldwide.
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Updated 19 Dec 2015 | 100 episodes | Oxford Department of International Development
Europe is experiencing the mass movements of displaced people in a way that it has largely been immune from for decades. The manifestations of the 'migration crisis' are as disparate as the building of fences to stop people crossing normally peaceful borders, the deaths of people transported by smugglers in unseaworthy boats, EU political leaders bickering over a Common European...
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Updated 18 Dec 2015 | 18 episodes | Department of Computer Science
10 December 2015 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ada Lovelace, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s unbuilt mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. The Symposium is aimed at a broad audience of those interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting new discoveries for the Oxford archives, and other current...
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Updated 16 Dec 2015 | 8 episodes | Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
In the 20th century, Spain went through civil war, four decades of Francoism, transition to democracy, and re-emergence onto the international stage. Each lecture in this series focuses on one question, one primary source, and one novel, and is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students of History, Politics, and Spanish at the University of Oxford.
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Updated 16 Dec 2015 | 20 episodes | Ashmolean Museum
A series of bite-size talks by Oxford academics exploring the theme of death at the Ashmolean Museum's Halloween DEADFriday event, in collaboration with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).
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Updated 16 Dec 2015 | 8 episodes | School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS)
An increasing number of presidents around the world lack a majority in the legislature. This has encouraged leaders to form cross-party alliances in order to secure the success of their policy agendas, a form of politics known as "coalitional presidentialism". The Coalitional Presidentialism Project, an ESRC funded research programme (REF: RES-062-23-2892) of Oxford University,...
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Updated 15 Dec 2015 | 13 episodes | Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Join the hundreds of school children from around the country taking part in the annual Oxford University Christmas Science Lectures, where world renowned scientists aim to entertain and inspire the next generation with their (often explosive) insights into science.
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Updated 08 Dec 2015 | 6 episodes | Green Templeton College
The Oxford Centre for the Study of Philanthropy is the focal point for research, engagement and thinking about philanthropy at Oxford University.
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Updated 19 Nov 2015 | 10 episodes | St John's College
The Conflict and Cultural Heritage Conference aims to raise public awareness and develop understanding of the issues surrounding the protecting of cultural heritage at risk from armed conflict. Focussing on the Middle East, the area currently undergoing the greatest destruction and where the heritage is most at risk, we aim to demonstrate the importance of the heritage, why its destruction...
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Updated 16 Nov 2015 | 18 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature
This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about - from immigrants in early modern London to the role of women in the household, from what religious changes might mean for attitudes to the dead to fantasies of easy money and...
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Updated 16 Nov 2015 | 9 episodes | Faculty of English Language and Literature
Podcasts that explore the relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien and Oxford University, where he both studied and worked.
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Updated 12 Nov 2015 | 2 episodes | St Hugh's College
Podcasts from St Hugh's College at Oxford.
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Updated 05 Nov 2015 | 5 episodes | Bodleian Libraries
The UN and Humanitarian Action: Learning Lessons from Past Experience for Future Policy. This event took place at the Weston Library on 16th October 2015.
In keeping with the idea of 'Witness', each of the sessions will be introduced by panellists invited to address the session topic from their direct personal experience. In the discussion, participants will be invited to...
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Updated 20 Oct 2015 | 2 episodes | Estates Services
Podcasts relating to sustainable travel presented by guest speakers and lecturers at the University of Oxford.
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Updated 19 Oct 2015 | 4 episodes | Medical Sciences Division
In this four-part podcast series Dr Sean Elias and colleagues introduce and explore the work of the University of Oxford Jenner Institute in the development of new, innovative vaccines.
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Updated 13 Oct 2015 | 11 episodes | Ashmolean Museum
In this series of 11 short films Experimental Archaeologists, Oxford University Lecturers and Bushcraft specialists demonstrate a range of Stone Age crafts, skills and technologies as well as art and music. Each 5 minute film can be used in the classroom to focus on a particular technology. For further information and more Prehistory resources for teachers visit:...
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Updated 09 Oct 2015 | 2 episodes | University Administration and Services (UAS)
In this series of lectures from the League of European Universities Doctoral Summer School 2015, experts from academia and the public and private sectors discuss the benefits and challenges of knowledge exchange in a European context.
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Updated 09 Oct 2015 | 6 episodes | Christ Church
A half-day symposium to mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, thought to be the first handbook of microscopy, and also to applaud recent new developments in molecular-scale microscopy as recognised by the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the 2014 Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Updated 21 Sep 2015 | 6 episodes | Department of Education
The six seminars in the series 'Impact and Knowledge Exchange in an Evolving Research Environment' provided an opportunity for dialogue around new directions in Knowledge Exchange and impact policy, governance, and practice, involving key stakeholder groups. The series is an output of a seminar series held at the University of Oxford in the summer term 2015, convened by Prof Roger...
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Updated 01 Sep 2015 | 52 episodes | Refugee Studies Centre
Twenty years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the consequences of conflict - including the long-term effects of displacement - are still being felt in the Western Balkans. FMR 50 examines the case of people who were displaced from and within Bosnia and Herzegovina as a result of the 1992-95 war, and reflects on the lessons that may be drawn from the successes...
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Updated 13 Aug 2015 | 9 episodes | Faculty of Theology and Religion
This series, hosted by the faculty of Theology at Oxford University, looks at the Indian Buddhist philosophy.
In the past the study of Asian philosophical traditions has often been approached by asking how the theories developed within these non-Western cultures would help us to solve problems in contemporary Western thought. While this approach has its merits, and has produced various... -
Updated 12 Aug 2015 | 12 episodes | Department of Social Policy and Intervention
In the academic year 2013-14, the department celebrated the centenary of its establishment as Barnett House in 1914. Initially independent from the University, Barnett House moved into a closer relationship with the University and eventually became a department.
We celebrated – and continue to celebrate - 100 years of rich history: Barnett House has played a significant part in many of... -
Updated 24 Jul 2015 | 42 episodes | Faculty of Philosophy
New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology, a series of workshops held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March and 12th-13th June 2013.
The aim of this project is to make a bold and lasting impact on religious epistemology.
This project aims to bring recent developments in epistemology to bear on topics in the philosophy of religion in a way that will open up new... -
Updated 15 Jul 2015 | 17 episodes | IT Services
This podcast series explores the movement towards ‘Openness’ at the University of Oxford and beyond. Informational videos address topics ranging from ‘What is Openness?’, to ‘Open Educational Resources’, to ‘Podcasting’, while individual interviews with researchers and academics at the University offer fascinating insights into projects and initiatives conducted in the spirit of ‘openness’....
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Updated 14 Jul 2015 | 18 episodes | Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Practical Ethics Bites is a series of audio podcasts on practical ethics targeted specifically at pupils studying philosophy in UK schools. It is produced by the team behind the popular podcast Philosophy Bites, David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. Philosophy Bites has had over 21 million downloads. David Edmonds is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and...
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Updated 08 Jul 2015 | 6 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
The extraordinary career of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) forged intersections between political action, visionary leadership, creative achievement, and romantic self-invention. As a best-selling novelist, flamboyant dandy, notable wit, ethnic outsider, and icon of Conservative politics giving rise to a powerful political myth, his multifaceted public persona has become emblematically...
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Updated 30 Jun 2015 | 4 episodes | Oxford Department of International Development
This University of Oxford inter-departmental seminar series is a collaboration between researchers from the Department of Education, the School of Geography and the Environment, the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Oxford Department of International Development. It takes place on most Tuesday evenings in two terms.
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Updated 26 Jun 2015 | 21 episodes | Faculty of Law
Podcasts of Law lectures, and other videos not relating to specific courses, presented by the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
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Updated 22 Jun 2015 | 11 episodes | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Celebrating 20 years of Women's Studies at Oxford, this conference discussed the history of the course at the University as well as showcasing current student's work. We also heard from experts in the field on topics that are pertinent to the future of Women's Studies.
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Updated 18 Jun 2015 | 98 episodes | Refugee Studies Centre
In light of the projected increase in the frequency and intensity of disasters associated with climate change, the number of people displaced in the context of disasters will inevitably rise. Existing national, regional and international legal regimes, however, currently respond to only some of the protection concerns arising from such displacement. Crafting an appropriate response will demand...
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Updated 12 Jun 2015 | 24 episodes | St Edmund Hall
St Edmund Hall’s inaugural Research Expo took place on 28 February 2015. It was a celebration of the great diversity of research currently being undertaken at the College, and was an opportunity for students and academics to interact, learn and engage with colleagues across all disciplines. The ‘Teddy Talks’, given by St Edmund Hall academics and postgraduate students, were a key part of the...
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Updated 10 Jun 2015 | 5 episodes | Department of Chemistry
Chemistry has a central, irreplaceable role to play in solving global energy challenges. From turning carbon dioxide into fuel, to producing new materials for the storage of hydrogen, research at Oxford Chemistry is securing our future. To find out more about our research, please visit: http://energy.chem.ox.ac.uk/
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Updated 06 Jun 2015 | 3 episodes | Oxford University Centre for the Environment
The Transformations research cluster is one of the core research clusters in the School for Geography and the Environment. Building upon our strengths in the geography of finance, work and employment, gender, class and ethnicity, governance, social justice and social change in both the developed and developing worlds, the Transformations research cluster seeks to better understand both...
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Updated 04 Jun 2015 | 54 episodes | Department of Sociology
Podcasts from The Department of Sociology. Sociology in Oxford is concerned with real-world issues with policy relevance, such as social inequality, organised crime, the social basis of political conflict and mobilization, and changes in family relationships and gender roles. Our research is empirical, analytical, and comparative in nature, reaching far beyond British society, to encompass...
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Updated 04 Jun 2015 | 88 episodes | Refugee Studies Centre
The role of faith in the humanitarian sector is not easy to measure. Faiths generally advocate welcoming the stranger and there are many organisations and individuals inspired by their faith or religion to provide protection and assistance. Yet it is easier to measure the activities inspired by faith than to measure the difference that having that faith makes, and secularly inspired standards...
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Updated 29 May 2015 | 6 episodes | All Souls College
The Library of Arabic Literature is a remarkable undertaking. It is publishing, in Arabic and English dual-language volumes, key works of classical and pre-modern Arabic literature from the pre-Islamic era to the cusp of the modern period. Several of these works have not been translated before, while others have not received such careful editing and translation until now, when the editors and...
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Updated 21 May 2015 | 7 episodes | Medical Sciences Division
Short talks on Alzheimer's, Dementia, current treatments and latest research, recorded at the Academic Centre, JR Hospital, Oxford
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Updated 20 May 2015 | 43 episodes | Oxford University Centre for the Environment
These online audio resources consist of lectures, seminars and interviews from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.
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Updated 14 May 2015 | 6 episodes | Saïd Business School
The Dean's Seminar Series presents the latest business research from professors and researchers at Oxford Saïd. Hosted by Peter Moores Dean Professor Peter Tufano, and Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas, Associate Dean for Research, each seminar explores key aspects of specific research fields, such as consumer behaviour in marketing, entrepreneurial finance, or technology and operations management....
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Updated 11 May 2015 | 22 episodes | Kellogg College
The Oxford Centre for the Study of Corruption and Transparency provides a forum for dialogue among academics, anti-corruption practitioners, business people, legal experts, and government officials. The Centre's research programme examines the interface between government and business and evaluates the effectiveness of accountability tools, with a view to informing public and private...
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Updated 06 May 2015 | 3 episodes | Medical Sciences Division
Annual Weatherall lecture series, named in honour of Sir David Weatherall, Physician and Medical researcher focussing on molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine.
