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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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| 720 | Creative Commons | Performance - interpretation or identification? Symposium | Symposium with Imogen Cooper actor, Simon Callow, musicologist, Professor Eric Clarke and Professor Jason Stanyek. | Imogen Cooper, Simon Callow, Eric Clarke, Jason Stanyek | 28 May 2013 |
| 719 | Creative Commons | The Hidden Power of the Re-Creative Process in Music | Imogen Cooper, 'Recognized worldwide as a pianist of virtuosity and poetic poise', gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Classical Music and Music Education. | Imogen Cooper | 28 May 2013 |
| 718 | Creative Commons | Albert Hourani Revisited: Arabic and Indian thought in the Liberal Age | Professor Sir Christopher Bayly gives a talk for the Humanitas Lecture series on Historigraphy. | Sir Christopher Bayly | 28 May 2013 |
| 717 | Creative Commons | Marshall G S Hodgson, Islam and World History | Professor Sir Christopher Bayly gives a talk for the Humanitias lecture series in Historiography with a response from Dr Faisal Devji. | Sir Christopher Bayly, Faisal Devji | 28 May 2013 |
| 716 | Creative Commons | Pictures and Texts | A symposium with William Kentridge, Ivo Mesquita and Estrella de Diego Otero, chaired by Shearer West on Thursday 9 May 2013 in the Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford. | William Kentridge, Ivo Mesquita, Estrella de Diego Otero, Shearer West | 28 May 2013 |
| 715 | Creative Commons | Thinking on one's feet and Museums: experience versus numbers | Double inaugural lecture with William Kentridge and Ivo Mesquita, chaired by Seamus Perry. | William Kentridge, Ivo Mesquita, Seamus Perry | 28 May 2013 |
| 714 | Creative Commons | In Conversation: Writing the History of Reason | Professor Lorraine Daston in conversation with Professor Sally Shuttleworth. | Lorraine Daston, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie | 28 May 2013 |
| 713 | Creative Commons | Symposium - The New History of Scientific Experience: Observing, Experimenting, Collecting, Representing and Reading in Early Modern Europe | With Professor Lorraine Daston, Dr Simon Werrett (UCL), Dr Rhodri Lewis (Oxford), Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge) and Prof Martin Mulsow (Erfurt), chaired by Prof Laurence Brockliss (Oxford). | Lorraine Daston, Simon Werrett, Rhodri Lewis, Sachiko Kusukawa | 28 May 2013 |
| 712 | Creative Commons | Inaugural Lecture - Nature's Revenge: A History of Risk, Responsibility, and Reasonableness | Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Professor Lorraine Daston gives her inaugural lecture at Merton College. | Lorraine Daston | 28 May 2013 |
| 711 | Creative Commons | Uehiro Seminar: The current laws on drugs and alcohol - ineffective, dishonest and unethical? | Nutt argues that there are serious ethical implications for a simplistic prohibitionist approach to drugs and suggests alternative strategies that might be used. | David Nutt | 27 May 2013 |
| 710 | Creative Commons | Early Modern Catholicism Network | Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen talk about a new hub to encourage, enhance, and promote research touching on all aspects of early modern Catholicism from across the academic disciplines. | Jan Machielsen, Clare Copeland | 24 May 2013 |
| 709 | Creative Commons | HiCor: a Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics | Gabor Mihaly Toth talks about a network of corpus linguists, computational linguists, and historians who are aiming to study how the resources, tools and methods of corpus linguistics can be used to address important historical research questions. | Gabor Mihaly Toth | 24 May 2013 |
| 708 | Creative Commons | Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century | Elleke Boehmer and Imaobong Umoren talk about their research network which is investigating how twentieth-century activists, artists and intellectuals challenged racially oppressive hierarchies and sought to achieve equality. | Elleke Boehmer, Imaobong Umoren | 24 May 2013 |
| 707 | Creative Commons | Ancient Dance in Modern Dancers | Sophie Bocksberger, Berrow Scholar, Classics, talks about collaborative workshops involving classical historians, professionally-trained dancers, and anthropologists to create "reconstructive" performances of the Roman dance form tragoedia saltata. | Sophie Bocksberger | 24 May 2013 |
| 706 | Creative Commons | What Makes a Belief Believable? Graham Ward Inaugural Lecture | Graham Ward is the Regius Professor Divinity, Christ Church, University of Oxford and a Canon of the Cathedral. Here, he gives his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Divinity on What makes a belief believable. | Graham Ward | 22 May 2013 |
| 705 | Creative Commons | Biblical Criticism and the Decline of America's Biblical Civilisation, 1865-1918: 2013 Astor Lecture | The Faculty of Theology and Religion will host Professor Mark Noll (University of Notre Dame) as the Astor Lecturer in Trinity Term 2013. | Mark Noll | 22 May 2013 |
| 704 | Creative Commons | Uehiro Special Double Seminar: Enhancement | Associate Professor Rob Sparrow (Monash) and PhD student Chris Gyngell (ANU) present talks on the topic of human enhancement. | Rob Sparrow, Chris Gyngell | 22 May 2013 |
| 703 | Creative Commons | 1st St Cross Seminar TT13: Precarious (bio)ethics: research on poisoning patients in Sri Lanka | Self-harm using poison is a serious public health problem in Sri Lanka. As part of an effort to tackle the problem, clinical trials are used to identify effective antidotes. This talk describes the conduct of trials in this unusual and difficult context. | Salla Sariola | 15 May 2013 |
| 702 | Creative Commons | Intrinsic Value, or Value for Their Own Sake | Sixth and final lecture First lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the philosophical idea of intrinsic value, or the humanities as valuable for its own sake. | Helen Small | 13 May 2013 |
| 701 | Creative Commons | Democracy Needs Us | Fifth lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the idea that a flourishing democracy needs the Humanities. | Helen Small | 13 May 2013 |
| 700 | Creative Commons | The Humanities' Contribution to Happiness | Fourth lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the Humanities' contribution to happiness. | Helen Small | 13 May 2013 |
| 699 | Creative Commons | How Useful are the Humanities? | First lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the ideas of use and usefulness in the context of the value of the humanities. | Helen Small | 13 May 2013 |
| 698 | Creative Commons | Distinction (the distinctive character and work of the Humanities) | Second lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses how the humanities is distinct from other academic disciplines. | Helen Small | 13 May 2013 |
| 697 | Creative Commons | Introduction | First lecture in the Value of Humanities series in which Professor Helen Small discusses the broad political and social context in which to place these lectures. | Helen Small | 13 May 2013 |
| 696 | Creative Commons | Uehiro Seminar: Rescuing Responsibility from the Retributivists - Neuroscience, Free Will and Criminal Punishment | Legal punishment as the routine infliction of suffering poses a serious challenge of justification. The challenge becomes more urgent as a number of thinkers argue that the dominant, retributivist answer fails in the light of the findings of neuroscience. | Frej Klem Thomsen | 02 May 2013 |
| 695 | Peter D. McDonald in conversation with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra | Peter D. McDonald talks to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra about his work as a poet, critic and translator, focusing on the idea of triangulation and his interest in the intersections between languages and literary traditions. | Peter McDonald, Arvind Mehrotra | 23 Apr 2013 | |
| 694 | Creative Commons | Astor Keynote Lecture: What Rights May be Defended by Means of War? | Many aims that motivate unjust wars could be achieved without violence if not met with military resistance. So is self-defense against aggression always permissible? Are the values of state sovereignty important enough to justify war in their defense? | Jeff McMahan | 11 Apr 2013 |
| 693 | Classics Course II: Of Course It's For You | Tim Whitmarsh gives a talk for the Classics Open Day held on 16th March 2013 about doing a Classics degree at Oxford. | Tim Whitmarsh | 10 Apr 2013 | |
| 692 | Adventures with Hercules | Dr Llewelyn Morgan gives a talk for the Classics Open Day, held on 16th March 2013. | Llewelyn Morgan | 10 Apr 2013 | |
| 691 | How to be Augustus: Escaping one's past | Professor Chris Pelling give s a talk for the Classics Open Day, helpd on 16th March 2013. | Chris Pelling | 10 Apr 2013 | |
| 690 | To boldly go: Greek exploration from wife-eaters to counting cows | Dr Katherine Clarke gives a talk for the Classics Open Day, held on 15th March 2013. | Katherine Clarke | 10 Apr 2013 | |
| 689 | On Two Ultimately Unsuccessful Objections to Pragmatic Encroachment | Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Jane Friedman. | Jeremy Fantl, Matthew McGrath | 09 Apr 2013 | |
| 688 | Wagering on Pragmatic Encroachment | Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Jeffrey Russell. | Tim Pickavance, Daniel Eaton | 09 Apr 2013 | |
| 687 | A Contextualist Look at Skeptical Theism | Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Amia Srinivasan. | Stephen Ogden | 09 Apr 2013 | |
| 686 | Knowledge, Practical Adequacy, and Stakes | Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Sandy Goldberg. | Charity Anderson, John Hawthorne | 09 Apr 2013 | |
| 685 | Pragmatic Encroachment and the Nature of Faith | Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held at Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Julien Dutant. | Michael Pace | 09 Apr 2013 | |
| 684 | Pragmatic Encroachment and Religious Knowledge | Part of the Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held at Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The Commentator is Tim Pickavance. | Matthew Benton | 09 Apr 2013 | |
| 683 | Creative Commons | Oriental Tales and Their Influence | Prof. Warner and Prof. Ballaster begin their conversation with Antoine Galland's translation into French from Arabic of the 'Alf Layla wa-Layla' as the first two volumes of 'Les Mille et Une Nuit' in the first decade of eighteenth century. | Ros Ballaster, Marina Warner | 26 Mar 2013 |
| 682 | Creative Commons | Careers Seminar 2013 | A careers event organised by Lucy Hawkins (Careers Service) and Rachel Woodruff, (History of Art Dept) with speakers from the Arts and Heritage sectors, including recent alumni of the Department, providing insights into their careers. | Lucy Hawkins, Ruth Millington, Holly Harris, Katharine Arnold | 14 Mar 2013 |
| 681 | Creative Commons | Two opposed catholic nationalisms: Ukrainian Galicians in the Second Polish Republic (1923-1939) | Dr Alessandro Milani (EHESS, Paris) gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute East and East-Central Europe seminar series. | Alessandro Milani | 13 Mar 2013 |
| 680 | Creative Commons | Family systems in historic Poland-Lithuania: Demographic perspectives on civilisational divide in Eastern Europe | Mikolaj Szoltysek (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock) gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute on 12th February 2013. | Mikolaj Szoltysek | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 679 | Creative Commons | Encountering and Appropriating Cityscapes: Lviv and Wroclaw after 1944/45 | Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History, Lviv) gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute. | Sofia Dyak | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 678 | Creative Commons | Abbasid Culture and the Universal History of Freethinking | Professor Al-Azmeh, Professor in the School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest, gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute. | Aziz Al-Azmeh | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 677 | Creative Commons | Effective Philanthropy: How much good can we achieve? | How do we know when our donations are helping, and how much they are helping? Are charities roughly equally good, or are some much more effective than others? Toby Ord and Harry Shannon discuss effective philanthropy from different angles. | Toby Ord, Harry Shannon | 06 Mar 2013 |
| 676 | Creative Commons | Opening the Black Box: Examining the Deliberation of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the UK and US; Second St Cross Special Ethics Seminar HT13 | How best to govern the field of assisted reproductive technologies? As UK and US authorities utilise different approaches, will the disparate structures and missions of these two bodies result in significantly different answers? | Kyle Edwards | 05 Mar 2013 |
| 675 | Creative Commons | Uehiro Seminar: The Value of Uncertainty | Uncertainty and quality should be integrated into the quantitative sciences of complex systems; this talk offers some practical techniques that illustrate how this could be accomplished. | Peter Taylor, Jerome Ravetz | 05 Mar 2013 |
| 674 | Creative Commons | Uehiro Seminar: Psychopaths and responsibility | Neil Levy explores some of the previous debates about whether psychopaths are fully responsible for their wrongdoing, especially work on the moral/conventional distinction. | Neil Levy | 26 Feb 2013 |
| 673 | Research Seminar: Francis Vernon, the Early Royal Society and the First English Encounter with Greek Architecture | This lecture was delivered at the University Of Oxford History Of Art Department's Research Seminar series by Dr Matthew Walker, History of Art Department, University of Oxford. | Matthew Walker | 20 Feb 2013 | |
| 672 | Slade Lectures 2009: Week 8: Naturalism Strikes Back: Tradition, Consensus, Rupture | Eighth lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Thomson as part of the annual Slade Art Lectures. | Richard Thomson | 18 Feb 2013 | |
| 671 | Slade Lectures 2009: Week 7: Repudiating Naturalism: the Avant-garde Seeking Style | Seventh lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Thomson as part of the annual Slade Art Lectures. | Richard Thomson | 18 Feb 2013 | |
| 670 | Slade Lectures 2009: Week 6: Organicism: National Energy and Natural Flux | Sixth lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Thomson as part of the annual Slade Art Lectures. | Richard Thomson | 18 Feb 2013 | |
| 669 | Slade Lectures 2009: Week 5: The 'Populaire': Identifying or Imagining Art from Below | Fifth lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Thomson as part of the annual Slade Art Lectures. | Richard Thomson | 18 Feb 2013 | |
| 668 | Slade Lectures 2009: Week 4: The Caricatural: Visual Humour and Subversive Style | Fourth lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Thomson as part of the annual Slade Art Lectures. | Richard Thomson | 18 Feb 2013 | |
| 667 | Slade Lectures 2009: Week 3: Naturalism: Flexibility or Failure of Style? | Third lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Thomson as part of the annual Slade Art Lectures. | Richard Thomson | 18 Feb 2013 | |
| 666 | Slade Lectures 2009: Week 2: Naturalism at the Service of the Republic | Second lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Thomson as part of the annual Slade Art Lectures. | Richard Thomson | 18 Feb 2013 | |
| 665 | Slade Lectures 2009: Week 1: Defining the Dominant Naturalism | First lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Thomson as part of the annual Slade Art Lectures. | Richard Thomson | 18 Feb 2013 | |
| 664 | Creative Commons | Debate: The Value of Life | John Broome, the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, debates the value of life with Jeff McMahan, focussing on McMahan's time-relative account of the value of life, which Broome has criticised. | John Broome, Jeff McMahan | 15 Feb 2013 |
| 663 | Creative Commons | Utopia and Terror: How interdisciplinary methodologies can help us understand violent societies. The example of Croatian Ustasha regime | Part of the Cantemir Institute seminar series. Rory Yeomans, senior research analyst at the Ministry of Justice, gives a talk on how interdisciplinary methodologies help us understand violent societies. | Rory Yeomans | 12 Feb 2013 |
| 662 | Creative Commons | 1st St Cross Seminar HT13: Two Conceptions of Children's Welfare | Anthony Skelton examines possible reasons why philosophers have neglected to discuss children's welfare. After outlining and evaluating differing views, a rival account is presented. | Anthony Skelton | 05 Feb 2013 |
| 661 | Creative Commons | Uehiro Seminar: Sleep and Opportunity for Well-being | Discussing a paper co-authored with David Birks, Alexandre Erler suggests sleeping less can provide a greater opportunity for well-being. | Alexandre Erler | 05 Feb 2013 |
| 660 | Creative Commons | Bygone Glories and Frivolous Pleasures: The Rococo Revival and National Identity in Austrian and Hungarian Art, 1840-1860 | Part of the East and Est-Central Europe Seminar series. Dr Nóra Veszprémi (Cantemir Fellow, Budapest) gives a talk on art and identity in Austria and Hungary in the mid 19th Century. | Nóra Veszprémi | 24 Jan 2013 |
| 659 | Creative Commons | The Metaphysics of Rovelli's Relational Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | Mauro Dorato (University of Rome) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. | Mauro Dorato | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 658 | Creative Commons | Causal Relations | John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. | John Heil | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 657 | Creative Commons | External Relations, Causal Coincidence and Contingency | Peter Simons (Trinity College Dublin) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. | Peter Simons | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 656 | Relations All The Way Down? | Stephen Mumford (Nottingham University) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. Co-written by Sebastian Briceno. | Stephen Mumford | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 655 | Positionalism Revisited | Maureen Donnelly (SUNY at Buffalo) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. | Maureen Donnelly | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 654 | There Are (Probably) No Relations | Jonathan Lowe (University of Durham) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held on 3rd-5th October 2012 in University of London. | Jonathan Lowe | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 653 | Creative Commons | Galen and the Ontology of Powers | Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. | Jim Hankinson | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 652 | Creative Commons | Immanent Intelligence and the Natural Faculties in Galen | Brooke Holmes (Princeton University) gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. | Brooke Holmes | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 651 | Creative Commons | On Weakness/Strength and Sickness/Health in Ancient Daoist Philosophy | Hans-Georg Moeller (University College Cork), gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. | Hans-Georg Moeller | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 650 | Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity | Philip van der Ejik gives a talk for the Causing Health and Disease: Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquit conference, held at Corpus Christi College on 21st-22 September 2012. | Philip van der Ejik | 12 Dec 2012 | |
| 649 | Creative Commons | A Determinable-based Account of Metaphysical Indeterminacy | Jessica Wilson (University of Toronto) gives a talk for the Metaphysics of Relations Conference, held at Senate House, University of London on 3rd-5th October 2012. | Jessica Wilson | 12 Dec 2012 |
| 648 | Creative Commons | If I could just stop loving you: Anti-love drugs and the ethics of a chemical break-up | Emotional pain and difficulty in relationships is potentially dangerous and destructive. In this talk, I explore some of the potential uses and misuses of anti-love biotechnology from a scientific and ethical perspective. | Brian Earp | 04 Dec 2012 |
| 647 | Creative Commons | European authors and Russian nuns. An Enlightened girl takes a monastic oath | 8/8. Andrei Zorin (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. | Andrei Zorin | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 646 | Creative Commons | Intervention in space and affirmation of self: the ethics of improvement | 7/8. Andreas Schönle (Queen Mary, University of London) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. | Andreas Schönle | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 645 | Creative Commons | How Should Theatre Work? The Question of Audience | 6/8. Alexei Evstratov (Université Paris-Sorbonne) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. | Alexei Evstratov | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 644 | Creative Commons | The Enlightenment in the Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Friedrich Melchior Grimm | 5/8. Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Ertegun House, Oxford) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. | Kelsey Rubin-Detlev | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 643 | Creative Commons | Voltaire in St Petersburg: The Voltaire Library and the Marginalia Project | 4/8. Gillian Pink (Voltaire Foundation, Oxford) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. | Gillian Pink | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 642 | Creative Commons | Picking over the pieces, or Diderot in St. Petersburg: Zeitgeist? accident? or one more bit in a puzzle? | 3/8. Marian Hobson (Queen Mary, University of London) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. | Marian Hobson | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 641 | Creative Commons | Religious dogma versus scientific progress: Enlightenment issues in 18th c. Russia | 2/8. Alexander Iosad (Cantemir Institute, Oxford) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. | Alexander Iosad | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 640 | Creative Commons | Was there a Russian Enlightenment? What's the problem and why does it matter? | 1/8. Andrew Kahn (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford) delivers a talk for "Was there a Russian Enlightenment?", a one-day seminar held at Ertegun House, Oxford in November 2012. | Andrew Kahn | 03 Dec 2012 |
| 639 | Creative Commons | Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert | Short podcast looking at Enlightenment philosopher Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert, housed in the Bodleian Library. | Nathalie Ferrand | 23 Nov 2012 |
| 638 | Creative Commons | Rousseau: Archive et Invention. | Professor Nathalie Ferrand (École Normale Supérieure Paris) gives the 2012 Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation. This lecture is in French. | Nathalie Ferrand | 23 Nov 2012 |
| 637 | Creative Commons | 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 1: Some Problems about Religion in the Political Sphere: the dangers of instability and violence | This series of lectures attempts to explore whether possible relations between some typical religious virtues, attitudes and practices and typical democratic virtues, attitudes and practices must be a source of conflict or can be mutually supportive. | Tony Coady | 22 Nov 2012 |
| 636 | Creative Commons | 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 2: Reason, Religion and Public Discourse in a Liberal Democracy | This series of lectures attempts to explore whether possible relations between some typical religious virtues, attitudes and practices and typical democratic virtues, attitudes and practices must be a source of conflict or can be mutually supportive. | Tony Coady | 22 Nov 2012 |
| 635 | Creative Commons | 2012 Leverhulme Lecture 3: Religious Virtues, Democratic Virtues and their interaction in Practice | This series of lectures attempts to explore whether possible relations between some typical religious virtues, attitudes and practices and typical democratic virtues, attitudes and practices must be a source of conflict or can be mutually supportive. | Tony Coady | 22 Nov 2012 |
| 634 | Creative Commons | The Merchant of Venice. | ePub version of text The Merchant of Venice. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 20 Nov 2012 |
| 633 | Creative Commons | The Merchant of Venice | This lecture on The Merchant of Venice discusses the ways the play's personal relationships are shaped by models of financial transaction, using the casket scenes as a central example. | Emma Smith | 20 Nov 2012 |
| 632 | Creative Commons | The bad seed: facts and values in the study of childhood antisocial behaviour | The speaker presents some recent work that has been done on children who are seen to be at risk of violence; and raises questions about the social and ethical significance of studying children in this way and for this purpose. | Gwen Adshead | 19 Nov 2012 |
| 631 | Creative Commons | Mark Thompson (Symposium): Politics and Language - Friends or Enemies? | Symposium following Mark Thompson's series of talks for the Humanitas Programme. With Polly Toynbee, Gus O'Donnell, David Willetts MP and chaired by Andrew Marr. | Mark Thompson, Polly Toynbee, Gus O'Donnell, David Willetts | 15 Nov 2012 |
| 630 | Creative Commons | Mark Thompson: Not in my name | In his third lecture, Mark Thompson looks at what happens when modern rhetoric and morality collide, taking the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as his principal examples. | Mark Thompson | 15 Nov 2012 |
| 629 | Creative Commons | Mark Thompson: Consign it to the flames | Almost everyone accepts that science is our most authoritative guide to understanding the world so why is it so disputed when it comes to public policy? Mark Thompson examines what's happened to the 'argument from authority' in modern rhetoric. | Mark Thompson | 15 Nov 2012 |
| 628 | Creative Commons | Mark Thompson: Inaugural Lecture - Is Plato winning the argument? | Drawing in particular on recent examples from American and British healthcare reform, Mark Thompson asks whether the language of politics is changing in ways which threaten public understanding of and engagement with the most important issues of the day. | Mark Thompson | 15 Nov 2012 |
| 627 | Creative Commons | A Great Deal of Ruin in a Nation | In this lecture, Professor Barry Supple (FBA) and Professor Avner Offer (FBA) will analyse the post-war economic development of the United States. | Barry Supple, Avner Offer | 14 Nov 2012 |
| 626 | Creative Commons | Lessons on Capital Flows and Financial Stability | Professor Hyun Song Shin, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University, gives a talk for the Humanitas Professorship on Economic Thought. | Hyun Song Shin | 12 Nov 2012 |
| 625 | Lessons for banking reform | Professor Sir John Vickers, Warden All Souls College, gives a workshop on Economic thought looking at banking reform. | Sir John Vickers | 10 Nov 2012 | |
| 624 | Creative Commons | Lessons of The Crisis 2007-2012 | Stanley Fischer, Govenor of the Bank of Israel and Humanitas Visiting Professor of Economic Thought, gives a talk for the Humanitas program. | Stanley Fischer | 10 Nov 2012 |
| 623 | Creative Commons | The Taming of the Shrew. | ePub version of text THE Taming of the Shrew. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 622 | Creative Commons | Taming of the Shrew | Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the question of whether Katherine is tamed at the end of the play. | Emma Smith | 09 Nov 2012 |
| 621 | Creative Commons | A Midsommer Nights Dreame. | ePub version of text A MIDSOMMER Nights Dreame. / Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | William Shakespeare | 05 Nov 2012 |
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