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1909: The People's Budget
Academic Blogging: Political Analysis in the Digital Age
Annual Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lectures in International Relations
Centre for International Studies Podcasts
Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
German Politics: An Introduction
Israel Studies Seminar
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin
OxPeace (Oxford Network of Peace Studies) Conference 2021. Peace in the Nuclear Era: threats, treaties and public understanding
OxPeace Conference 2009: The Serious Study of Peace
OxPeace Conference 2022: Who Builds Peace?
OxPeace Conference 2023: Learning from Ukraine
Political Demonology: The Logic of Evil in Contemporary Literature and Theology
Politics and International Relations Podcasts
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Spain: 1959 - 1992
The Egyptian Revolution, One Year On
The Engagement of Theory
The Global Thinkers Series, Oxford
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
The State of the State
US China Relations: An Introduction
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| 670 | What the Communities Say: Ex-Combatant Integration and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone | Breakout session on ‘Post-conflict reconstruction and Peacebuilding’, third talk: Johanna Boersch-Supan, D.Phil. Candidate, Politics and International relations, Oxford University. | Johanna Boersch-Supan | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 669 | Evaluating Stability: An Impossible dream?’ The challenges of evaluation in Afghanistan | Breakout session on ‘Post-conflict reconstruction and Peacebuilding’, second talk: Bjorn Muller-Wille, Royal Military Academy , Sandhurst. | Bjorn Muller-Wille | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 668 | The Stabilisation Discourse and ending War.’ British experience in Helmand, Afghanistan | Breakout session on ‘Post-conflict reconstruction and Peacebuilding’, first talk: Dr Stuart Gordon, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. | Stuart Gordon | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 667 | The Politics and Peace and Justice: the Role of the ICC in Uganda | Breakout session on ‘Peace and Transitional Justice’, third talk: Lydiah Kemunto Bosire, D.Phil. Candidate, Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. | Lydiah Kemunto Bosire | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 666 | Sierra Leone’s transition: A Road to Peace in the Short Term | Breakout session on ‘Peace and Transitional Justice’, second talk: Chris Mahony, D.Phil Candidate, Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. | Chris Mahony | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 665 | Reconciliation’s Citizen: Insights from the Peace Process in Bosnia-Herzegovina | Breakout session on ‘Peace and Transitional Justice’, first talk: Briony Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, Manchester University; Student Chair, Oxford Transitional Justice Research. | Briony Jones | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 664 | To Heal and to Create: Healing Violent Conflict and re-creating Peace with Equity, Inclusion and Art | Breakout session on ‘Grassroots Peacebuilding – and linking it to national and international levels’, second talk: Dr Rama Mani, Centre for International Studies, Oxford University. | Rama Mani | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 663 | NGO Peacebuilding in Complex Emergencies: the case of Eastern Africa | Breakout session on ‘Grassroots Peacebuilding – and linking it to national and international levels’, first talk: Fr Elias Omondi Opongo, Ph.D. candidate, Dept of Peace Studies, Bradford University. | Fr Elias Omondi Opongo | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 662 | Misplaced Analogies: 'Coordination' and 'Learning' in the Building of Peace | Breakout session on 'The Role of International and Regional Organizations in Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping', third talk: Dr Jochen Prantl, Oxford University, reflects on a lack of effective learning from peacebuilding experience. | Jochen Prantl | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 661 | Should platforms have the power to ban leaders like Donald Trump? | Following the suspension or barring of Donald Trump by many of the largest social media and tech platforms, after his supporters stormed the Capitol building in January 2021, we explore the issues surrounding these decisions. | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Nikhil Pahwa | 15 Jan 2021 | |
| 660 | Building Peace in Georgia: International Organizations and Conflict Resolution in South Ossetia and Abkhazi | Breakout session on 'The Role of International and regional Organizations in Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping,' second talk: Professor Neil MacFarlane, Lester Pearson Professor of International Relations, Oxford University. | Neil MacFarlane | 15 Jan 2021 | |
| 659 | SADC and the Zimbabwe Crisis | Breakout session on 'The Role of International and Regional Organizations in Peacemaking, Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping’, first talk: Miles Tendi, D.Phil. candidate, Dept of Overseas Development, Oxford University. | Miles Tendi | 15 Jan 2021 | |
| 658 | Different Approaches to Institutionalizing the Study of peace | Breakout session on 'The Study of Peace in Schools and Higher Education’, third talk: Professor Mary King, Fellow, Rothermere Institute, Oxford University. | Mary King | 15 Jan 2021 | |
| 657 | Building Peace into the UK HE Curriculum | Breakout session on 'The Study of Peace in Schools and Higher Education’, second talk: Dr Neil Ferguson, Director, Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Associate Professor of Political Psychology, Liverpool Hope University. | Neil Ferguson | 15 Jan 2021 | |
| 656 | Constructing the defences of peace in the 'minds of man' | Professor David Johnson, Dept of Comparative Education, Oxford University, on 'Constructing the defences of peace in the "minds of man."' On improving peace education curricula in schools in conflict-affected countries. | David Johnson | 11 Jan 2021 | |
| 655 | Sources for Peacebuilding in Islam | Breakout session on 'Religion, Peace and Conflict'. Third talk, Imam Monawar Hussein, Eton College and Central Oxford Mosque, on 'Sources for Peacebuilding in Islam.' | Monawar Hussein | 11 Jan 2021 | |
| 654 | Christianity, Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland | Breakout session on 'Religion, Peace and Conflict.' Second talk: Dr David Tombs, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, Dublin. on 'Christianity, Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland'. | David Tombs | 11 Jan 2021 | |
| 653 | Forcing the End Times: US Christian Zionism and Israel | Breakout session on 'Religion, Peace and Conflict.' First talk: Carlo Aldrovandi, Ph.D. candidate, Peace Studies, Univ. of Bradford, on 'Forcing the End Times: US Christian Zionism and Israel'. | Carlo Aldrovandi | 11 Jan 2021 | |
| 652 | Security and Development | Dr Anke Hoeffler, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University, gives the second plenary address. | Anke Hoeffler | 11 Jan 2021 | |
| 651 | Strategic Peacebuilding for the 21st Century | Professor Scott Appleby, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame | Scott Appleby | 08 Jan 2021 | |
| 650 | Oxpeace 2009: The Serious Study of Peace Introduction | At the morning plenary, Saturday 2 May, Revd Dr Liz Carmichael MBE (Oxford University, Theology) introduces the Conference. | Liz Carmichael | 08 Jan 2021 | |
| 649 | Oxpeace 2009: The Serious Study of Peace Keynote | Professor Neil MacFarlane, Lester Pearson Professor of International Relations (Oxford) introduces Jonathan Powell to give the keynote address at the Conference dinner, on his experience of peacemaking and implementing peace in Northern Ireland. | Neil MacFarlane | 08 Jan 2021 | |
| 648 | How 2020 changed journalism | In this final Future of Journalism podcast of the year, members of our senior leadership team reflect on this momentous year for journalism and what we can perhaps look forward to next year | Eduardo Suárez, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Meera Selva, Federica Cherubini | 18 Dec 2020 | |
| 647 | How premium lifestyle journalism sells subscriptions | Journalists from some of Scandinavia's leading news publishers discuss their organisations' premium news strategies, the value of lifestyle news and the false dichotomy of hard/soft news, and the role of gender. | Meera Selva, Jenni Kangasniemi, Evelyn Jones | 10 Dec 2020 | |
| 646 | What drives trust in news and what can be done to rebuild it | Two authors of the first report from our Trust in News Project discuss how partisanship, transparency and other factors may contribute to trust in news, and what outstanding questions need exploring. | Frederica Cherubini, Camila Mont Alverne, Benjamin Toff | 10 Dec 2020 | |
| 645 | Alan Rusbridger discusses his new book and how to rebuild trust in news | In a chat with Rasmus Nielsen, Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian, argues journalists should be more transparent and rethink their relationship with their audience | Alan Rusbridger, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen | 04 Dec 2020 | |
| 644 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Rose Stair (Oxford): Age and gender in German-language cultural Zionism | The fourth lecture in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies seminar series. Rose Stair discusses cultural Zionism through a focus on age and gender. | Rost Stair | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 643 | The impact of COVID-19 on daily news podcasts | Author of a new report into the trends around news podcasts during the COVID-19 pandemic Nic Newman discusses his findings. How successful are these podcasts? What different formats exist? What do news outlets need to consider? | Frederica Cherubini, Nic Newman | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 642 | Peter Bergamin (Oxford): Guns and Moses: Jewish anti-British Resistance during the Mandate for Palestine | Peter Bergamin presents some findings and conclusions from his recent research on the British Mandate for Palestine, focusin on the phenomena of Jewish illegal immigration and anti-British terrorism, and their role in Britain’s eventual abandonment of the | Peter Bergamin | 24 Nov 2020 | |
| 641 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yuval Evri (KCL) - The Return to Al-Andalus: Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew | Yuval Evri discusses his new book, The Return to Al-Andalus, Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew | Yuval Evri | 17 Nov 2020 | |
| 640 | Nahshon Perez (Bar-Ilan) and Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv): Governing the Sacred: Political Toleration in Five Contested Sacred Sites | Nachshon Perez discusses Perez and Jobani's co-authored book on the politics of contested sacred sites | Nachshon Perez | 10 Nov 2020 | |
| 639 | How 2020 is changing newsrooms around the world | Rasmus Nielsen speaks to Federica Cherubini about her report looking at the central challenges facing news organisations in 2020 according to a survey of 136 newsroom leaders from around the world | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Frederica Cherubini | 09 Nov 2020 | |
| 638 | How to engage with your audience: why public editors still matter | Kathy English, former public editor of the Toronto Star, discusses what public editors do, their role in ensuring accountability to readers, and how reader engagement via public editors has changed over the years. | Meera Selva, Kathy English | 09 Nov 2020 | |
| 637 | How the BBC addresses the challenge of disinformation worldwide | Rebecca Skippage, leader of the BBC’s Disinformation Team, discusses it's efforts to address mis/disinformation, its decisions about weighing in on misleading or false information and the disinformation unit’s relations with the rest of the BBC | Meera Selva, Rebecca Skippage | 09 Nov 2020 | |
| 636 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Semina: Danielle Drori (Oxford): Yosef Klausner in Translation: Zionism and Christianity | The second seminar in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalism Sereis. Danielle Drori discusses Zionism and translation, with a focus on Klausner's Life of Jesus | Danielle Drori | 03 Nov 2020 | |
| 635 | Who are most vulnerable to misinformation about the pandemic | Federica Cherubini speaks with Rasmus Nielsen and Richard Fletcher, two of the authors of a recent report about the coronavirus communication crisis in the UK. | Frederica Cherubini, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Richard Fletcher | 27 Oct 2020 | |
| 634 | Hadeel Abu Hussein (Oxford): Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel, Equality Struggle | Hadeel Abu Hussein discusses the historical stages of the Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel with respect to their political formation and social experience as individuals and a collective starting from 1948, until nowadays. | Hadeel Abu Hussein | 27 Oct 2020 | |
| 633 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yair Wallach, (SOAS): Language of Revival or Conquest? Hebrew in the Streets of early 20th century Jerusalem | Yair Wallach discusses his book A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem (Stanford University Press, 2020). | Yair Wallach | 22 Oct 2020 | |
| 632 | Sandy Kedar: Emptied Lands - A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev. | Prof. Sandy Kedar (Haifa) discusses his co-authored book on the legal rights of the Bedouin in the Negev. | Sandy Kedar | 14 Oct 2020 | |
| 631 | Holding power to account | Matthew Caruana Galizia shares an incredibly moving account of his family's campaign to investigate his mother's murder | Matthew Caruana Galizia | 03 Aug 2020 | |
| 630 | Digital News Report 2020. Episode 5: How People Access News about Climate Change | This episode focuses on the how people get news about climate change and how this differs across different countries, age brackets and attitudes towards the issue. | Frederica Cherubini, Simge Andi | 10 Jul 2020 | |
| 629 | Digital News Report 2020. Episode 6. How should journalists cover politics? | In this episode we look at what people think when it comes to the news media covering politics. | Frederica Cherubini, Richard Fletcher | 25 Jun 2020 | |
| 628 | Digital News Report 2020. Episode 4. Newsletters and podcasts: how to create news habits in your audience | In this episode we look at ongoing changes to news habits and how outlets can reach and engage audiences to develop sustainable news habits. | Frederica Cherubini, Nic Newman | 25 Jun 2020 | |
| 627 | Digital News Report 2020. Episode 3: Who will pay for the news? | This episode focuses on the public's willingness to pay for news, what motivates them and what could persuade them. | Frederica Cherubini, Richard Fletcher | 25 Jun 2020 | |
| 626 | Digital News Report 2020. Episode 2: The future of local news | Authors of the Digital News Report, the most comprehensive study of news consumption trends worldwide, discuss the key findings from this year's report. This episode focuses on our findings on the state and future of local news. | Federica Cherubini, Anne Schulz | 15 Jun 2020 | |
| 625 | Digital News Report 2020. Episode 1: What you need to know | Authors of the Digital News Report, the most comprehensive study of news consumption trends worldwide, discuss the key findings from this year's report | Federica Cherubini, Nic Newman, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen | 15 Jun 2020 | |
| 624 | The role of the Today programme in a national crisis | Sarah Sands, editor of the Today programme, on the role of the BBC flagship radio news show | Sarah Sands | 09 Jun 2020 | |
| 623 | Fact checking a global story | Clara Jiménez Cruz is co-founder and head of Maldita.es, a Spanish non-profit news organisation focused on stopping disinformation through fact-checking and data journalism | Clara Jiménez Cruz | 09 Jun 2020 | |
| 622 | What I learned by watching the American press try to cover Donald Trump | Journalism lecturer and prominent media critic Jay Rosen outlines his thoughts on the US press's coverage of President Trump | Jay Rosen | 09 Jun 2020 | |
| 621 | Reporting pandemics: Measles and Coronavirus in the Pacific Islands | Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, investigative reporter from Samoa speaks about reporting on the twin pandemics in the Pacific Islands | Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson | 09 Jun 2020 | |
| 620 | Buliding a global media brand | Senior Editor at the Atlantic Prashant Rao discusses broadening the reach of the publication beyond the US | Prashant Rao | 09 Jun 2020 | |
| 619 | Brexit in a time of crisis | Anand Menon discusses whether the coronavirus pandemic has distracted attention from the Brexit negotiations | Anand Menon | 09 Jun 2020 | |
| 618 | Creative Commons | Tagore: The Distinctiveness of the Global - Prof PK Datta | Prof PK Datta from Jawaharlal Nehru University speaks on Rabindranath Tagore. | PK Datta | 21 May 2020 |
| 617 | Amílcar Cabral and the International - Race, Colonialism, Liberation: Prof Branwen Guffydd Jones | Professor Branwen Guffydd Jones, expert on African anticolonialism in International Relations from Cardiff University, discusses the life and internationalist thought of one of Africa’s foremost anti-colonial activists, Amílcar Cabral (1924-1973). | Branwen Guffydd Jones | 25 Apr 2020 | |
| 616 | The IR thought of Susan Strange: Prof Cornelia Navari | Cornelia Navari, of the University of Buckingham, gives an expert talk on Prof Susan Strange. | Cornelia Navari | 21 Apr 2020 | |
| 615 | Dr Merze Tate on International Relations: Prof Cecelia Lynch | Prof Cecelia Lynch, of the University of California, Irvine, discusses the academic career of US foreign policy and disarmament expert Dr Merze Tate. | Cecelia Lynch, Louise Richardson | 21 Apr 2020 | |
| 614 | Life and thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Prof Manu Bhagavan | Professor Manu Bhagavan, of Hunter College and CUNY, speaks on the life and work of Indian diplomat and politician Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. | Manu Bhagavan | 21 Apr 2020 | |
| 613 | Gilberto Freyre - International Intellectual, Ancestor of Southern Theory: Professor Peter Burke and Dr Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke | Prof Peter Burke and Dr Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke of the University of Cambridge speak on Gilberto Freyre. | Peter Burke, Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke | 21 Apr 2020 | |
| 612 | International Thought of Joaquim Nabuco: Prof Leslie Bethell | Professor Leslie Bethell of the University of Oxford traces the life and internationalist thought of Joaquim Nabuco. | Leslie Bethell | 21 Apr 2020 | |
| 611 | Jawaharlal Nehru on International Relations: Prof Judith Brown | Professor Judith Brown discusses the international thought of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. | Judith Brown | 21 Apr 2020 | |
| 610 | The International Thought of Muhammad Ali Jinnah: Dr Faisal Devji | Dr Faisal Devji from the University of Oxford speaks on the international thought of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. | Faisal Devji | 21 Apr 2020 | |
| 609 | A new wave: female editors and new audiences | Meera Selva and Simge Andi of the Reuters Institute discuss the implications of their research on the numbers of women leading newsrooms around the world | Meera Selva, Simge Andi | 16 Mar 2020 | |
| 608 | Political gossip and how it drives everything | Political writer Marie Le Conte on how Westminster gossip is intrinsic to politics reporting | Marie Le Conte | 11 Mar 2020 | |
| 607 | Hizky Shoham - The Emotional Scripting of Boycotts: The Nazi-Zionist Agreement in Jewish Public Culture During the 1930s | Hizky Shoham discusses the 'emotionologies' surrounding the Nazi-Zionist 'Transfer agreement.' | Hizky Shoham | 26 Feb 2020 | |
| 606 | A dangerous moment: reporting Hong Kong's protests | Emily Tsang, reporter at South China Morning Post and Wei Du, international correspondent at Channel News Asia, describe the difficulties of covering the protests against the controversial extradition law | Emily Tsang, Wei Du | 24 Feb 2020 | |
| 605 | Larissa Remennick - The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin: Back to Being Jewish? | Larissa Remeniick discuss the origins and present condition of the new (post-2010) Israeli diaspora in Berlin | Larissa Remennick | 19 Feb 2020 | |
| 604 | Misinformation and propaganda wars in Ukraine and Russia | Maryana Drach, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service director, and Gulmira Amangalieva, reporter at Freenews-Volga, Russia outine the threats to journalism in their countries. | Maryana Drach, Gulmira Amangalieva | 14 Feb 2020 | |
| 603 | Lotem Perry-Hazan: Ethnic segregation in the Haredi education in Israel: Policies and practices | Lotem Perry-Hazzan discusses ethnic discrimination in admissions to Haredi schools in Israel | Lotem Perry-Hazzan | 05 Feb 2020 | |
| 602 | Leading Digital Transformation | Inga Thordar, Execuive Editor of CNN Digital International, talks about her career and her championing of digital news output at one of the world's leading news outlets. | Inga Thordar | 31 Jan 2020 | |
| 601 | Heather Munro: Ashkenazi Hegemony in Haredi Israeli Society and Implications for the Future | Heather Monro discusses the implications of Ashkenazi Hegemony in the Israeli Haredi society. | Heather Munro | 28 Jan 2020 | |
| 600 | The truth behind filter bubbles | Is the concern around filter bubbles in news use warranted? Richard Fletcher outlines the evidence. | Richard Fletcher | 24 Jan 2020 | |
| 599 | The Making of the Israeli Far Right Book Talk by Peter Bergamin | Peter Bergamin discusses his new book: The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology | Peter Bergamin | 22 Jan 2020 | |
| 598 | Creative Commons | Seyed Ali Alavi - Iran and Palestine: Past, Present and Future | Ali Alavi discusses the history of Iran's relations with Palestinian organisation and the Palestinian cause, and their implication to Iranian-Israeli relations. | Ali Alavi | 22 Jan 2020 |
| 597 | Press freedom and media censorship | Rasmus Nielsen discusses what he believes the European Commission and EU member states can do to protect press freedom. | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 596 | Putting the audience at the heart of journalism | Federica Cherubini, Engagement Manager at Hearken, on tried and tested methods of audience engagement in journalism | Federica Cherubini | 04 Dec 2019 | |
| 595 | Creative Commons | Tamar Calahorra, Competition between Members of Parliament and Governmental ministries on Policy Outcomes through Legislation – Israel as a Test case | Dr. Calahorra studies some dramatic changes in the ways legislation is conducted in Israel | Tamar Calahorra | 03 Dec 2019 |
| 594 | Creative Commons | Nancy Hawker - Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism | Nancy Hawker (The Aga Khan University) considers the developing place of Arabic in official nation-statist platforms in Israel | Nancy Hawker | 27 Nov 2019 |
| 593 | Virtual Reality News: the post-hype reality in 2019 | Zillah Watson, Commissioning Editor of the BBC's VR Hub discusses the potential for engaging news audiences through virtual reality | Zillah Watson | 22 Nov 2019 | |
| 592 | Creative Commons | Yoav Ronel - 'Love, Zionism and Melancholy in the Prose of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky' | Yoav Ronel (Bezalel and BGU) considers representations of a melancholic national and subjective desire in the prose of Micha Yosef Berdichevsky (1865-1921) | Yoav Ronnel | 20 Nov 2019 |
| 591 | Creative Commons | Avihu Shoshana - 'Nocturnal Inequality: Ethnographies of Social Selection and Waiting in Line for Night Clubs in Tel-Aviv' | Avihu Shoshana (Haifa University) discusses findings from his ethnography of social selection in Israeli night-clubs. | Avihu Shoshana | 13 Nov 2019 |
| 590 | The 50:50 Project: increasing women's representation in the BBC's journalism | Ros Atkins of BBC News talks about how the 50:50 project led to a significant increase in the number of women appearing across the BBC's journalism. | Ros Atkins | 11 Nov 2019 | |
| 589 | Creative Commons | Jonathan Leslie - Fear and Insecurity: Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship | Jonathan Leslie considers the history of Iran's "becoming" and existential threat in Israel | Jonathan Leslie | 06 Nov 2019 |
| 588 | Journalism under assault | Meera Selva, Director of the RISJ Journalist Fellowship Programme, discusses attacks on journalists and the media in central and eastern Europe. | Meera Selva | 05 Nov 2019 | |
| 587 | Moriel Ram, 'A tale of sand and snow: Bar-Lev line and the Hermon ski site as material fantasies' | Moriel Ram (SOAS) discusses how sand and snow produce potent imageries and physical realities in Israeli political culture. | Moriel Ram | 05 Nov 2019 | |
| 586 | The State of Journalism | Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 | Dorothy Byrne | 05 Nov 2019 | |
| 585 | Surviving the cash crunch: Bhekisisa's road to non-profit health and social justice journalism | Mia Malan, journalist, gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series. | Mia Malan | 18 Oct 2019 | |
| 584 | Social media, democracy and dissent in Sri Lanka | Meera Selva, Director of the Reuters Institute Journalism Fellowship Programme, addresses our closing seminar of the term with a presentation on the media situation in Sri Lanka. | Meera Selva | 24 Jun 2019 | |
| 583 | Protecting newsrooms from political pressures | Bobby Ghosh, editorial board member at Bloomberg Opinion, explains how traditional revenue models in India make it challenging to resist external pressures on reporting – but there is a still way through it. | Bobby Ghosh | 17 Jun 2019 | |
| 582 | The failure of political journalism | In this seminar, Helen describes the seductive power of the collective narrative as being one of the most distorting forces in modern political journalism. | Helen Lewis | 31 May 2019 | |
| 581 | Reputation, trust and keeping watch | Inga Thordar, executive editor of CNN Digital International, talks about industry best practice in fact-checking standards, and the idea of telling the truth now constituting activism. | Inga Thordar | 24 May 2019 | |
| 580 | Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse | Sue Robinson, Professor of Journalism in UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, explores the relationship between race, power and privilege in American journalism, in this seminar. | Sue Robinson | 17 May 2019 | |
| 579 | British media and populism, and Brexit | Trevor Kavanagh, political columnist at The Sun, talks us through the evolution of his newspaper’s editorial stance on Brexit over the decades, from the early Common Market to the ERM, ECU and EU referendum. | Trevor Kavanagh | 10 May 2019 | |
| 578 | Why don’t we take women as seriously as men? | Mary Ann Sieghart, Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, shares with us anecdotal and statistical evidence in this talk highlighting gender-respect inequality in the newsroom and other settings. | Mary Ann Sieghart | 07 May 2019 | |
| 577 | From victims to suspects - representations of Muslim women | Dr Shakira Hussein is a writer and researcher at the University of Melbourne's National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies. In this talk she looks at how Muslim women are represented in the media from Australia to the UK. | Shakira Hussein | 29 Apr 2019 | |
| 576 | Creative Commons | The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Israel: a dialogue between Yehouda Shenhav (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Yadgar (Oxford) | Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in Israel. Session 3 in a series of three. | Yehouda Shenhav, Yuval Evri, Yaacov Yadgar | 03 Apr 2019 |
| 575 | Creative Commons | The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 2: Liberalism and Secularism: a dialogue between Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern) and Yolanda Jansen (Amsterdam) | Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Yolande Jansen discuss the notion of the “secular,” liberal politics of the nation-state. Session 2 in a series of three | Elisabeth Shakman Hurd, Yolande Jansen | 03 Apr 2019 |
| 574 | Creative Commons | The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 1 Religion and Politics: a dialogue between William Cavanaugh (DePaul) and Timothy Fitzgerald (Centre for Critical Research on Religion) | Timothy Fitzgerald and William Cavanaugh discuss the politics and history of the conceptual duality and its current usages. First session in a series of three | Timothy Fitzgerald, William Cavanaugh | 03 Apr 2019 |
| 573 | Creative Commons | Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today | Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel. | Avner Offer | 06 Mar 2019 |
| 572 | Creative Commons | Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel | Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state | Eyal Chowers | 06 Mar 2019 |
| 571 | Should the state pay for journalism? | Polly Curtis considers how journalism has become unsustainable and what role the state should play in making it widely available | Polly Curtis | 05 Mar 2019 |
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