Humanities Division
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The Humanities Division is one of four academic divisions in the University of Oxford, bringing together the faculties of Classics; English; History; Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics; Medieval and Modern Languages; Music; Oriental Studies; Philosophy; and Theology, as well as the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
The Division offers world-class teaching and research, backed by the superb resources of the University’s libraries and museums, including the famous Bodleian Library, with its 11 million volumes and priceless early book and manuscript collections, and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Such historic resources are linked to cutting-edge agendas in research and teaching, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary study. Our faculties are among the largest in the world, enabling Oxford to offer an education in Arts and Humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects, from music and fine art to ancient and modern languages.
Series associated with Humanities Division
"British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction
'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference
2013 Carnegie-Uehiro-Oxford Ethics Conference: Happiness and Well-Being
A Writer's War
Accelerating AI Ethics
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
African(a) and South Asian Philosophies
Alan Turing on Computability and Intelligence
Alliance
Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Ancient History HT2015: Digital Classics
Approaching Shakespeare
Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America
Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics
Bio-Ethics Bites
Broadcast Media
Buddhist Studies at Oxford
Cantemir Institute
Censorship in Literature in South Africa
Centre for the Study of the Book
Challenging the Canon
Chaucer for Beginners
Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities
D.H. Lawrence
David Hume (2018)
Death at the Museum
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
Diplomacy and culture at the Ottoman Court
Diseases in Dialogue
Edward Lear's Feelings
Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius: A Story in Five Places
English at Oxford
English Graduate Conference 2012
Ethics in AI
Euthydemus - Platonic Dialogue
Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme
Faculty of Classics
Faculty of English - Introductions
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Fantasy Literature
Folk Tunes and Englishness
From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
Gender and Authority
General Linguistics Seminar
General Philosophy
General Philosophy (2018)
George Eliot
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series, 2016-2017
Great Writers Inspire
Great Writers Inspire at Home
Greece in Crisis: Culture, Identity, Politics
Hensley Henson Lectures 2018 - Thomas Cromwell: Enterprising Reformation
Hensley Henson Lectures 2019 Art, Craft and Theology: Making Good Words
History Faculty
History of Art Radio Hour
History of Art: Careers in Arts and Heritage
History of Art: Slade Lecture Series
History of Art: Special Lectures and Research Seminars
History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art
History of Art: Undergraduate Course Lectures
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
How Epidemics End
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Hume's Central Principles
Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
Ian Ramsey Centre: The Deist Controversy
Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
Indian Traces in Oxford
Institute for Visual Research
Interviews on Great Writers
Interviews with Philosophers
Introducing the Qur'an
Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One
Is the playwright dead?
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
Journal of Practical Ethics
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Kristin Scott Thomas Reads Kafka
La Bella Principessa: A Leonardo Discovered
Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
Les Liaisons dangereuses in 5x5
Literature and Form
Literature, Art and Oxford
Literature, democracy and transitional justice
Medea, a performance history: APGRD eBooks
Medieval English
Medieval German Studies
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues
Modern Fairies
Modern Languages Inaugural lectures
MOVING, TEACHING, INSPIRING: The National Trust and University of Oxford in the 21st Century
MSt English Language
Musical Abstracts
Narrative Futures
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
Oriental Institute
Origins of Nature
Oscar Wilde
Oxford German Exchange Series on Brexit
Oxford Humanities - Research Showcase: Global Exploration, Innovation and Influence
Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast
Oxford Writers' House Talks
Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness
Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Special Lectures
Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography
Poetry with A.E. Stallings
Poetry with Simon Armitage
Post-Conflict Landscapes
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Practical Ethics Bites
Practice Makes… the Oxford Reimagining Performance Podcast
Professor of Poetry
Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event
Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today
Reformation 2017
Regional Classics
Reid's Critique of Hume
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment
Renegotiations of History in light of the 'Greek Crisis'
Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction
Rethinking Moral Status
Rothermere American Institute
Ruskin School of Art
Russian Ab Initio Students: Pre-Course Listening Material
Sacrifice and Modern Thought
Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques
Samuel Johnson
Science and Religious Conflict Conference
Shakespeare's First Folio (ePub format)
Sleep and the Rhythms of Life
Social Media and Faith
Spain: 1959 - 1992
Staging Shakespeare
Staying Alive: Poetry and Crisis
Stories, Spaces and Societies - Globalising and Localising the Great War
Talking Sense
Taylor Lecture
Teaching the Codex
Teaching to Transgress
Textual Therapies
The Beazley Archive - Classical Art Research Centre
The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China
The End of Journalism
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Bryan Ward-Perkins)
The Global History of Capitalism
The King James Bible Lecture Series
The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli
The New Madhyamaka
The Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership
The Oxford Sound Album
The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations
The Pandemic Ethics Accelerator Podcasts
The Remedy
The Value of Humanities
The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation
The Zaharoff Lecture
Their Finest Hour
Theology Faculty
Thinking Out Loud: leading philosophers discuss topical global issues
Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar
Tolkien at Oxford
TORCH Post-Show Conversations
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Traces of the White Rose
Transforming Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Practice
Translation and Medical Humanities
Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
Uehiro Oxford Institute
Unconscious Memory
Unlocking Late Schumann
Valentine's Day at Oxford
Voltaire Foundation
War and Representation
Was there a Russian Enlightenment?
What is Tragedy?
What is Translation?
What next after your PhD? Getting published in journals and getting your first academic job
Women in Oxford's History (Series One)
Women's Responses to the Reformation
Writers in Dialogue
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| 1120 | Suffering History: Phenomenology at the Intersection of Disease and Illness | A presentation by Austin Argentieri. | Austin Argentieri | 10 Jun 2015 | |
| 1119 | St Cross Seminar: The 'New' Guestworker? Rethinking the Ethics of Temporary Labour Migration Programme | This talk probes into the ethical landscape of contemporary TLMPs in liberal democratic states, and examines issues such as migrants' rights. | Mimi Zou | 10 Jun 2015 | |
| 1118 | St Cross Seminar: The moral insignificance of self-consciousness | In this talk, Dr Josh Shepherd examines the claim that self-consciousness is highly morally significant. | Joshua Shepherd | 10 Jun 2015 | |
| 1117 | The Gaisford 2015 Lecture: Pearls before Swine? The Past & Future of Greek | The Gaisford 2015 Lecture: Pearls before Swine? The Past & Future of Greek | Edith Hall | 09 Jun 2015 | |
| 1116 | Proustian Memory | Professor Gordon Shepherd (Yale) ‘Reassessing Mechanisms of Autobiographical Memory’ and Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (St Catherine’s, Oxford) ‘Madeleines and Neuromodernism’. Chaired by Dr Sowon Park (Corpus Christi, Oxford) | Gordon Shepherd, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr | 04 Jun 2015 | |
| 1115 | Zaharoff Lecture 2015: Figures de la disparition dans le roman français contemporain | Figures de la disparition dans le roman français contemporain | Dominique Rabaté, Michael Sheringham | 01 Jun 2015 | |
| 1114 | Leviathan and the Air Pump: Highlights | Historians of Science David Wootton and Michael Hunter review the controversial book 50 years on | Ritchie Robertson, David Wootton, Michael Hunter | 28 May 2015 | |
| 1113 | Anglo-American Relations - The Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture 2015 | The Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, delivers the RAI’s inaugural Ambassador John J. Louis Jr. Lecture in Anglo-American Relations | Chris Patten | 27 May 2015 | |
| 1112 | 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 |
| 1111 | The Sybille Haynes Lecture 2015: Pirates of Populonia? The Myth of Etruscan Piracy in the Mediterranean | The Sybille Haynes Lecture 2015: Pirates of Populonia? The Myth of Etruscan Piracy in the Mediterranean | Jean Turfa | 27 May 2015 | |
| 1110 | Rubble Flora: Volker Braun Poetry Reading | The German poet gives a special reading of old and new work and answers questions with David Constantine and Karen Leeder. | Volker Braun, David Constantine, Karen Leeder | 20 May 2015 | |
| 1109 | Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett | An interdisciplinary discussion of Kirsten Shepherd-Barr's book | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Michael Billington, Morten Kringlebach, Laura Marcus | 20 May 2015 | |
| 1108 | The Don Fowler Lecture 2015: The Philosopher as Epic Hero: Augustan Poetry in Seneca's Letters | The Don Fowler Lecture 2015: The Philosopher as Epic Hero: Augustan Poetry in Seneca's Letters | Catharine Edwards | 19 May 2015 | |
| 1107 | Rationality versus emotionality in the century of extremes | Professor Ute Frevert discusses rationality vs emotionality with a response from Professor Barbara Rosenwein | Ute Frevert, Barbara Rosenwein | 19 May 2015 | |
| 1106 | How can there be a history of emotions? | Professor Barbara Rosenwein explores the history of emotions | Barbara Rosenwein, Ute Frevert | 19 May 2015 | |
| 1105 | Challenges Facing American Intelligence | Professor John McLaughlin discusses Challenges facing American Intelligence | John McLaughlin | 19 May 2015 | |
| 1104 | An Intelligence Officer Looks at Terrorism: Where it's Been, Where it's heading | Professor John McLaughlin looks at Terrorism in the 21st Century | John McLaughlin | 19 May 2015 | |
| 1103 | Creative Commons | Julius Caesar | This lecture on Julius Caesar discusses structure, tone, and politics by focusing on the cameo scene with Cinna the Poet. | Emma Smith | 18 May 2015 |
| 1102 | Generations of Feeling | Barbara Rosenwein discusses the generations of feeling | Barbara Rosenwein | 18 May 2015 | |
| 1101 | Aristotle on Perceiving Objects | A discussion of Anna Marmodoro's book | Anna Marmodoro, Ophelia Deroy, Richard Sorabji, Rowland Stout | 14 May 2015 | |
| 1100 | Graham Greene and Josephine Reid | Adam Smyth talks to Balliol College, Oxford archivist Anna Sander about an exciting new archive of letters relating to Graham Greene and his secretary, Josephine Reid. | Adam Smyth, Anna Sander | 13 May 2015 | |
| 1099 | Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment | A discussion of Jim Reed's book | Jim Reed, Joachim Whaley, Kevin Hilliard, Ritchie Robertson | 12 May 2015 | |
| 1098 | Leviathan and the Air Pump: Thirty Years On | The historian of science David Wootton reviews the controversial dispute between Robert Boyle and Thomas Hobbes, followed by a reply from Boyle's biographer Michael Hunter | Ritchie Robertson, David Wootton, Michael Hunter | 12 May 2015 | |
| 1097 | Creative Commons | Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis | Richard Brown( Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University) and Mark Solms (Chair of Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town) give the fourth talk in the Unconscious Memory series. | Richard Brown, Mark Solms | 07 May 2015 |
| 1096 | Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature | An interdisciplinary discussion of Jamie Lorimer's book | Jamie Lorimer, William Beinart, Daniel Grimley, Nikolaj Lübecker | 06 May 2015 | |
| 1095 | Creative Commons | Romeo and Juliet | This lecture on Romeo and Juliet tackles the issue of the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too-familiar play. This podcast is suitable for school and college students. | Emma Smith | 05 May 2015 |
| 1094 | Creative Commons | Coriolanus | This lecture takes up a detail from Shakespeare’s late Roman tragedy Coriolanus to ask about the representation of character, the use of sources and the genre of tragedy. | Emma Smith | 05 May 2015 |
| 1093 | Digital Classics: Sharing the Wealth: Numismatics in a World of Linked Open Data | Digital Classics: Sharing the Wealth: Numismatics in a World of Linked Open Data | Andrew Meadows | 30 Apr 2015 | |
| 1092 | That Other Place: Art and Alzheimer's | A short video about a recent exhibition of photography and film | Helen Statham, Victoria McGuinness, Nicola Onions | 28 Apr 2015 | |
| 1091 | Brain Science and the Military | In this talk I explain the nature of national security interest in the burgeoning field of neuroscience and its implications for military and counter-intelligence operations. | Jonathan Moreno | 17 Apr 2015 | |
| 1090 | Creative Commons | Fragmentary Prose Authors in Athenaeus of Naucratis | Fragmentary Prose Authors in Athenaeus of Naucratis | S. Douglas Olson | 01 Apr 2015 |
| 1089 | Humanities and Science: Representing Science | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the many possible approaches to representing science through the arts, as well as potential challenges | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Jason Gaiger, Annie Cattrell | 17 Mar 2015 | |
| 1088 | The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity | A discussion exploring Pedro Ferreira's book | Pedro Ferreira, Harvey Brown, Alex Butterworth, Javier Lezaun | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 1087 | Humanities and Science: Culture and Technology | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring culture’s interaction with technology | Maria Blanco, Fritz Vollrath, Andrew Wilson, Lionel Tarassenko | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 1086 | Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century | A discussion of Omar Nasim's book | Omar Nasim, Stephen Johnston, Martin Kemp, Chris Lintott | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 1085 | Oxford University International Women's Day 2015 | Feminists, acadeamics and journalists reflect on feminism's achievements and future path. | Selina Todd, Senia Paseta, Melissa Benn, Trudy Coe | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 1084 | Wayne McGregor: Neuroscience and Dance | Wayne McGregor (Director, Random Dance) talks about his choreographic practice with Dr Phil Barnard, (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) and Eckhard Thiemann (Arts Producer). | Wayne McGregor, Phil Barnard, Eckhard Thiemann | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 1083 | APGRD Lecture: Gwyneth Lewis on Clytemnestra | Gwyneth Lewis on Clytemnestra | Gwyneth Lewis | 11 Mar 2015 | |
| 1082 | Creative Commons | 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (3): Marshmallows and Moderation | Is self-control a character trait or should we look to external props for self-control? | Neil Levy | 10 Mar 2015 |
| 1081 | Creative Commons | 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (2): The Science of Self-Control | This lecture outlines some of the main perspectives on self-control and its loss stemming from recent work in psychology. | Neil Levy | 09 Mar 2015 |
| 1080 | Digital Classics: Trismegistos: A Tool for the Study of the Ancient World | Trismegistos: A Tool for the Study of the Ancient World | Mark Depauw | 04 Mar 2015 | |
| 1079 | Digital Classics: The Digital Marmor Parium | The Digital Marmor Parium | Monica Berti | 04 Mar 2015 | |
| 1078 | Creative Commons | 2015 Leverhulme Lecture (1): Self-Control: A problem of self-management | Self-control problems typically arise from conflicts between smaller sooner and larger later rewards. | Neil Levy | 04 Mar 2015 |
| 1077 | Digital Classics: Bringing People Together: Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies | Bringing People Together: Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies | Gabriel Bodard | 04 Mar 2015 | |
| 1076 | Creative Commons | St Cross Seminar: On Swearing | What, if anything, is wrong with swearing? And, what exactly are we doing when we try to swear inoffensively? | Rebecca Roache | 23 Feb 2015 |
| 1075 | Combatting Fraud in the US Capital Markets | Christopher P. ‘Kip’ Hall (DLA Piper and University of Connecticut) gives a talk on Fraud in American Capital markets. Part of the American Business: Past, Present and Future series. | Christopher P Kip Hall | 23 Feb 2015 | |
| 1074 | Faith and Wisdom in Science | A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Tom McLeish, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie and Ard A. Louis | Tom McLeish, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie, Ard Louis | 19 Feb 2015 | |
| 1073 | Priming | Professor Masud Husain and Dr Ben Morgan give the third Unconscious Memory talk. | Masud Husain, Ben Morgan | 18 Feb 2015 | |
| 1072 | Unconscious Memory and Mental Space | Professor Michael Burke and Dr Sebastian Groes give the second Unconscious Memory talk. | Michael Burke, Sebastian Groes | 18 Feb 2015 | |
| 1071 | Exploring the Two Cultures | Professor Larry Squire and Dr Simon Kemp give the first Unconscious Memory Seminar. | Larry Squire, Simon Kemp | 18 Feb 2015 | |
| 1070 | Humanities and Science: Randomness and Order | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of randomness and order in physics, probability, history and music. | Ian Walmsley, Jonathan Cross, Alison Etheridge, Chris Wickham | 18 Feb 2015 | |
| 1069 | Creative Commons | Digital Classics: The Europeana Best Practice Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy | The Europeana Best Practice Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy | Pietro Liuzzo | 10 Feb 2015 |
| 1068 | The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth About Men, Women, and Mental Health | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Daniel Freeman's book | Daniel Freeman, Elaine Fox, Avner Offer, Janet Radcliffe Richards | 09 Feb 2015 | |
| 1067 | Humanities and Science: Mental Health | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of the humanities in mental health. | Edward Harcourt, John Geddes, Matthew Broome, Emily Troscianko | 09 Feb 2015 | |
| 1066 | Skeptical Theism and the Future | First talk given by Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014. | Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini | 09 Feb 2015 | |
| 1065 | Foundations for an Accuracy-based Approach to Imprecise Credence | Second talk given by Jason Konek (Bristol) and Billy Dunaway (Oxford) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014. | Jason Konek, Billy Dunaway | 09 Feb 2015 | |
| 1064 | Divine Indifference, or Whatever | Third talk given by Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 8 December 2014. | Jonathan Weisberg | 09 Feb 2015 | |
| 1063 | Against the Orthodoxy: Rethinking Epistemic Reasons and Pascal's Wager | Fourth talk given by Rima Basu (USC) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014. | Rima Basu | 09 Feb 2015 | |
| 1062 | Salvaging Pascal's Wager | Fifth talk given by Liz Jackson (Nortre Dame) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop on Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014. | Liz Jackson | 09 Feb 2015 | |
| 1061 | Updating on Evil | Sixth and final talk given by Professor Roger White (MIT) at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop Formal Epistemology and Religious Epistemology, Oxford University, 9 December 2014. | Roger White | 06 Feb 2015 | |
| 1060 | Plays for Today? | Closing symposium in which critic Michael Billington, playwright Rachel De-lahay, theatremaker Chris Goode academic and Dr Liz Tomlin discuss with David Edgar the place of the playwright in contemporary theatre. This event was filmed on 7th February 2015. | David Edgar, Michael Billington, Rachel De-lahay, Liz Tomlin | 05 Feb 2015 | |
| 1059 | How Playwrights Collaborate | A conversation with playwrights David Edgar, Howard Brenton and Bryony Lavery about how playwrights collaborate with directors, performers and each other. This conversation was filmed on 6th February 2015. | David Edgar, Howard Brenton, Bryony Lavery | 05 Feb 2015 | |
| 1058 | How Playwrights Work | A conversation with playwrights David Edgar, April de Angelis and David Greig discussing their working methods and what is (or isn’t) unique about their work. This conversation was filmed on 4th February 2015. | April de Angelis, David Edgar, David Greig | 05 Feb 2015 | |
| 1057 | State of Play | First lecture in which Playwright David Edgar outlines the story of new writing in postwar British theatre and the growth of the anti-writer trend since the 1990s. This lecture was filmed in Oxford on 2nd February 2015. | David Edgar | 05 Feb 2015 | |
| 1056 | Creative Commons | St Cross Seminar: Mere Practicality? Infants, interests and the value of life | Dr Richard Hain, Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, explores the difficulties in rationally explaining the value of an infant’s life. | Richard Hain | 04 Feb 2015 |
| 1055 | Digital Classics: What is the TEI? And Why Should I Care? | What is the TEI? And Why Should I Care? | James Cummings | 02 Feb 2015 | |
| 1054 | Digital Classics: Mapping the Ancient World: Countercartography, Networks and Bottomless Maps | Mapping the Ancient World: Countercartography, Networks and Bottomless Maps | Elton Barker | 02 Feb 2015 | |
| 1053 | Unconscious Memory and Mental Space | Professor Michael Burke and Dr Sebastian Groes | Michael Burke, Sebastian Groes, Ben Morgan | 26 Jan 2015 | |
| 1052 | Exploring the Two Cultures | Professor Larry Squire and Dr Simon Kemp | Larry Squire, Simon Kemp | 26 Jan 2015 | |
| 1051 | Narrative and Proof: Two Sides of the Same Equation | One of the UK's leading scientists, Marcus du Sautoy, argues that mathematical proofs are not just number-based, but also a form of narrative. | Marcus du Sautoy, Roger Penrose, Laura Marcus, Ben Okri | 22 Jan 2015 | |
| 1050 | Common People: The History of an English Family | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Alison Light's book | Alison Light, Lyndal Roper, Laura Marcus, Selina Todd | 11 Dec 2014 | |
| 1049 | Alison Light on 'Common People' | The author discusses her new book, exploring the interplay between fiction and history, the redefinition of the common, and family history | Alison Light | 08 Dec 2014 | |
| 1048 | Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918 | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Dr Senia Paseta's book | Senia Paseta, Tara Stubbs, Desmond King, Roy Foster | 03 Dec 2014 | |
| 1047 | St Cross Seminar: Natural Human Rights: A Theory | This talk explores the central argument in Boylan's recent book, 'Natural Human Rights: A Theory' | Michael Boylan | 03 Dec 2014 | |
| 1046 | Creative Commons | Senia Paseta on Irish Nationalist Women | Dr Paseta explores women's history and the nationalist narrative in Ireland. | Senia Paseta | 01 Dec 2014 |
| 1045 | ‘True Enlightenment can be both achieved and beneficial.’ The German Enlightenment and its Interpretation | Professor Joachim Whaley, Professor of German History and Thought, Cambridge, gives the 2014 Besterman Lecture, hosted by The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment and the TORCH Enlightenment Programme. | Joachim Whaley, Richie Robertson | 20 Nov 2014 | |
| 1044 | Bioethics and the Burden of Proof | In this paper we critique a kind of argument very common in bioethical debates, in which a proponent provides a prima facie case for a particular conclusion, then claims that the burden of proof is on those that object to that conclusion. | Michael Selgelid | 14 Nov 2014 | |
| 1043 | Implicit Moral Attitudes | Research shows that implicit moral attitudes affect our thinking and behavior. This talk reports new psychological and neuroscientific research and explores potential implications for scientific moral psychology as well as for some philosophical theories. | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong | 14 Nov 2014 | |
| 1042 | The ethics of sexuality | Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad. | Janet Radcliffe Richards, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 04 Nov 2014 | |
| 1041 | American Foreign Policy in the 21st Century | The Hon. Christopher Bancroft Burnham, Former US Under Secretary of State and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute seminar series | Christopher Bancroft Burnham | 03 Nov 2014 | |
| 1040 | Historical Time in Contemporary Art: Longue Durée Revisited | Session 4 paper for the Art out of Time: Challenging Periodization Symposium with Christine Ross (McGill) and Respondent Amelia Barikin (University of Queensland). | Christine Ross, Amelia Barikin, Anthony Gardner | 30 Oct 2014 | |
| 1039 | The First 'Date Painting': On Kawara at Altamira | Session 1 paper for the Art out of Time: Challenging Periodization Symposium with Whitney Davis, (UC Berkeley and University of York) | Whitney Davis, Hanneke Grootenboer | 30 Oct 2014 | |
| 1038 | Should we allow genetic engineering on embryos? | Does a human embryo have moral status? Tom Douglas explores the ethical issues surrounding genetic research on developing embryos. | Tom Douglas, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 28 Oct 2014 | |
| 1037 | America’s Healthcare Crisis: Lessons for Policymakers | Gary Lauer (eHealth Inc.) gives a talk on the American Healthcare system | Gary Lauer | 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 1036 | A Progressive Disease: Is Micro-Regulation Killing America’s ‘Can Do’ Culture? | Philip K. Howard (Common Good legal reform coalition) gives a talk for the Rothermere American Institute | Phillip K Howard | 22 Oct 2014 | |
| 1035 | Is there such a thing as a just war? | Is an ethical war a paradoxical notion? If violence is almost always unacceptable, how can we justify acts of war? | Jeff McMahan, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 21 Oct 2014 | |
| 1034 | The Dappled Causal World of Psychiatric Disorders: The Link Between the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders and Their Causal Complexity | The second of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler | Kenneth S Kendler | 21 Oct 2014 | |
| 1033 | The Genetic Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Disorders: Multiple Levels, Interactions and Causal Loops | The first of the 2014 Loebel Lectures in Philosophy and Psychiatry, by Professor Kenneth S Kendler | Kenneth S Kendler | 16 Oct 2014 | |
| 1032 | The rights and wrongs of abortion | Rebecca Roache discusses the conflicting rights and interests of both foetus and mother. | Rebecca Roache, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 14 Oct 2014 | |
| 1031 | Creative Commons | Choosing the sex of your child | Is sex-selection harmful or injust? Julian Savulescu outlines four methods used in sex-selection and explores the ethical issues surrounding each. | Julian Savulescu, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 06 Oct 2014 |
| 1030 | Creative Commons | Free will, and its connection to moral responsibility | Professor Neil Levy explores the link between free will and responsibility. What makes us blameworthy for our actions? | Neil Levy, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 29 Sep 2014 |
| 1029 | Creative Commons | Hand-press printing | A demonstration of and discussion about hand-press printing with the Bodleian's Dr Paul Nash. | Paul Nash, Adam Smyth | 25 Sep 2014 |
| 1028 | Creative Commons | Edmund Blunden | Margi Blunden, daughter of Edmund Blunden, talks about her father and his work. | Margi Blunden | 23 Sep 2014 |
| 1027 | Creative Commons | Impact of the 1914 – 1918 Poets | Adrian Barlow looks at the impact of World War One poets in the years immediately following the War, in late 20s and early 30s, and as we embark on the 100 year anniversary of the conflict. | Adrian Barlow | 23 Sep 2014 |
| 1026 | Creative Commons | Poetry of the Empire | World War One was a conflict of empire, not of nation. In this lecture Dr Simon Featherstone looks at four distinctive poets who provide a version of empire that is much more nuanced than the imperial rhetoric of the established canon. | Simon Featherstone | 23 Sep 2014 |
| 1025 | Creative Commons | Siegfried Sassoon | Meg Crane looks at the war poems of Siegfried Sassoon, framed by the first and last (non-war) poems of his literary career. | Meg Crane | 23 Sep 2014 |
| 1024 | Creative Commons | 'Earth Voices Whispering’: Reading Ireland’s Poetry of WWI: An Introduction | Professor Gerald Dawe relates the Irish poetry of World War One to the history of Ireland itself and explores why the first anthology of Irish WW1 Poetry was only published in 2008. | Gerald Dawe | 22 Sep 2014 |
| 1023 | Creative Commons | David Jones | Often overlooked, Dr Stuart Lee introduces David Jones and his seminal work 'In Parenthesis'. | Stuart Lee | 22 Sep 2014 |
| 1022 | Creative Commons | Wilfred Owen | Professor Jon Stallworthy, editor and biographer of Wilfred Owen, introduces one of the most notable poets of World War One. | Jon Stallworthy | 22 Sep 2014 |
| 1021 | Creative Commons | What is virtue ethics? | In this episode, Professor Roger Crisp introduces the strand of ethical theory known as 'virtue ethics'. | Roger Crisp, Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds | 22 Sep 2014 |
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