Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
New challenges of reporting on government |
Christopher Cook, FT education correspondent, gives a talk for the RISJ seminar series. |
Christopher Cook |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
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 |
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Uehiro Oxford Institute |
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 |
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Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge |
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, Andrew Marr |
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Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge |
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 |
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Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge |
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 |
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Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge |
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 |
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Translational Medicine |
Viral vectored vaccine development |
Professor Sarah Gilbert talks about her work on viral vectored vaccines. |
Sarah Gilbert |
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Epidemics and Vaccines |
Viral vectored vaccine development |
Professor Sarah Gilbert talks about her work on viral vectored vaccines. |
Sarah Gilbert |
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Rothermere American Institute |
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 |
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Oxford Physics Public Lectures |
Radiation and Reason |
Professor Wade Allison gives a talk about his book 'Radiation and Reason; The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear'. |
Wade Allison |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Snaps shots from Southwark - What the Research said |
Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou gives a talk for the Same Difference - Nigerian Brits, French Senegalese: Comparing Integration in the UK and France conference. |
Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Welcome Address to the Same Difference? - Nigerian Brits, French Senegalese: Comparing Integration in the UK and France Conference |
Katherine Nwajiaku-Dahou gives an introduction to the Same Difference? - Nigerian Brits, French Senegalese: Comparing Integration in the UK and France conference held on 6th July 2012 at St Anthony's College, Oxford. |
Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Focus on Southwark: Inter group relations at community level (Camberwell and Bermondsey) |
Ole Jensen, (Compas, Oxford University), gives a talk for the Same Difference Conference. |
Ole Jensen |
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Green Templeton College |
McGovern Lecture 2012: Halving Premature Death |
Sir Richard Peto, GTC Fellow, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, gives the annual McGovern Lecture. |
Sir Richard Peto |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
The theatrics of life on the estate: a playwrite's view |
Oladipo Agboluaje, gives a talk for the Same Difference? - Nigerian Brits, French Senegalese: Comparing Integration in the UK and France conference held on 6th July 2012 at St Anthony's College, Oxford. |
Oladipo Agboluaje |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Reporting Results: Same Difference? Nigerian Brits - French Senegalese: What they said? What the research said? |
Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou (Oxford University, lead researcher) and Constance Mbassi Manga (Project researcher, Kings College) give a talk for the Same Difference Conference. |
Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, Mbassi Manga |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Presentation from Ojeaku Nwabuzo (Runnymede Trust) |
Ojeaku Nwabuzo (Runnymede Trust) gives a talk for the Same Difference? - Nigerian Brits, French Senegalese: Comparing Integration in the UK and France conference held on 6th July 2012 at St Anthony's College, Oxford. |
Ojeaku Nwabuzo |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Black Africans - who are they? |
Lavinia Mitton (University of Kent) gives a talk for the Same Difference? - Nigerian Brits, French Senegalese: Comparing Integration in the UK and France conference held on 6th July 2012 at St Anthony's College, Oxford. |
Lavinia Mitton |
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Global Economic Governance Programme |
Civil Conflict in the Current Era: New Patterns or Same Old? |
Global Economic Governance Seminar, 9 November 2012. Has there been, as many have argued, a precipitous decline in civil conflicts during the past decade? |
Anke Hoeffler, Monica Duffy Toft, Richard Caplan |
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Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge |
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 |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Conclusions: What have we learned? What should be done next? |
Stephen Whitefield, head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, draws some conclusions from the Volcano symposium: a series of talks discussing the causes of and possible solutions to the current global crisis. |
Stephen Whitefield |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Elites and Societies: Are our rules capable of solving the crisis? Are our societies finding solutions for themselves? |
Sociologists Donatella Della Porta and Ferenc Miszlivetz both give talks for the Volcano symposium: a series of events discussing the current global crisis. |
Donatella della Porta, Ferenc Miszlivetz |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Crisis in and of Economics |
Economists John Kay and David Ruccio both give talks for the Volcano symposium: a series of events discussing the current global crisis. |
John Kay, David Ruccio |
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Politics and International Relations Podcasts |
Introduction to the Volcano symposium |
Stephen Whitefield, head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, gives an introduction to the Volcano symposium: a series of talks discussing the causes of and possible solutions to the current global crisis. |
Stephen Whitefield |
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Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge |
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 |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
What is the latest picture from migration statistics? |
Jon Simmons, Home Office, gives a talk for the COMPAS breakfast briefing series. |
Jon Simmons |
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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) |
What works in integration? |
Vidhya Ramalingam, The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. |
Vidhya Ramalingam |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
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 |
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Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars |
Implications of America's Desegregation Landmark in the World |
Martha Minnow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Dean of the Harvard Law School - 20 June 2012. |
Martha Minnow |
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Wolfson College Podcasts |
'Containing multitudes': writing about Pevsner |
Biographer Susie Harries delivered this Oxford Centre for Life-Writing lecture on her acclaimed biography, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life. |
Susie harries |
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Wolfson College Podcasts |
The Sun King and his Court: from Rome to Versailles and back |
The 2012 Wolfson College Ronald Syme Lecture was given by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Master of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. The speaker is introduced by College President Professor Hermione Lee. |
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
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Alumni Weekend |
Social Mobility - The Greatest Challenge of our Time? |
Sir Peter Lampi, founder and chairman of the Sutton Trust (which aims to improve social mobility through education) and founder of the Education Endowment Foundation. |
Sir Peter Lampi |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
Pandemics - Can we eliminate major worldwide epidemics? |
Larry Brilliant, President of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. |
Larry Brilliant |
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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars |
Doing capitalism in the innovation economy |
William H. Janeway CBE, Senior Advisor and Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. |
William H Janeway |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
Ireland: forced migration history, forced migration empathy? |
Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2012. Seminar by Dr Irial Glynn (University College Dublin) recorded on 31 October 2012 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Irial Glynn |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
Editing the IFRCs World Disasters Report 2012 |
Special seminar by Professor Roger Zetter (Refugee Studies Centre) recorded on 30 October 2012 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Roger Zetter |
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
Ten years that Shook the Media World [2012] |
Launch of a new Reuters Institute report, 'Ten Years that Shook the Media World'. |
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen |
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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars |
Re-imagining Child Soldiers |
Professor Mark Drumbl gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series. |
Mark Drumbl |
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |
Networked journalism and the age of social discovery [2012] |
Nic Newman, former Future Media Controller, BBC and RISJ Visiting Fellow. |
Nic Newman |
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Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies |
Sarin no ato: Tracing the Aftermath of the Tokyo Subway Gassing |
Dr Mark Pendleton, (Lecturer in Japanese Studies, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield) gives a talk for the Nissan Japanese Studies Seminar Series. |
Mark Pendleton |
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Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies |
After Cool Japan: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society |
Professor Adrian Favell, (Professor of Sociology, Centre d'études européennes Sciences Po, France) gives a talk for the Nissan Japan Studies seminar series. |
Adrian Favell |
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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars |
Resilience building in trajectories towards sustainability: an examination of communal growing in the UK |
Rebecca White, Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Rebecca White |
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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars |
Visual political economies and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro |
Udi Butler, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Udi Butler |
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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars |
Eating NatureCulture: material feminism and maternal obesity |
Megan Warin, University of Adelaide, Australia, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Megan Waren |
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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars |
Parents as gatekeepers: introduction to family therapy in obesity treatment |
Paulina Nowicka, Dept of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Paulina Nowicka |
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Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminars |
Childhood obesity: what are its future health and social consequences? |
Jennifer Baker,Imperial College School of Medicine, Imperial College London, gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series. |
Jennifer Baker |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
This lecture on A Midsummer Night's Dream uses modern and early modern understandings of dreams to uncover a play less concerned with marriage and more with sexual desire. |
Emma Smith |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
Much Ado About Nothing |
Emma Smith asks why the characters are so quick to believe the self-proclaimed villain Don John, drawing on gender and performance criticism to think about male bonding, the genre of comedy, and the impulses of modern performance. |
Emma Smith |
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MSt English Language |
Language and History |
Prof. Simon Horobin examines how the English language has changed over time, addressing such vexed questions as whether Jane Austen could spell, the fate of the apostrophe and whether people who 'literally' explode with anger are corrupting the language. |
Simon Horobin |
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First World War: New Perspectives |
Conflict Culture |
How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier? |
Matthew Leonard |
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First World War: New Perspectives |
Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours? |
The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914. |
Catriona Pennell |
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First World War: New Perspectives |
The Indian Sepoy in the First World War |
The role of India and the Indian Sepoy in the First World War. |
Santanu Das |
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First World War: New Perspectives |
The Better Part of Valour |
Combatant Courage on the Western Front. |
Edward Madigan |
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First World War: New Perspectives |
Surplus Women |
The First World War and its impact on emigration, work and marriage. |
Rosemary Wall |
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First World War: New Perspectives |
The Historian and the Centenary |
Important questions, problems, and challenges pertaining to the role historians and scholars will play in the centenary of the First World War. |
Pierre Purseigle |
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St John's College |
Why are we still trying to understand the outbreak of World War One? |
In this St John's College Research Centre 2012 Annual Lecture, Professor Margaret MacMillan examines the reasons why this question has remained important over the last 100 years and suggests some possible explanations for the outbreak of the war. |
Margaret MacMillan |
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Foundation for Law, Justice and Society |
Are Courts Representative Bodies - a Canadian Perspective |
Robert J. Sharpe gives a talk for the FLJS seminar series. |
Robert J Sharpe |
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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) |
Dickens' Railways |
Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature. |
Stephen Gill |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
The citizenship market: trading identities in East Africa and the Great Lakes |
Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2012. Seminar by Dr Katy Long (London School of Economics and Political Science) recorded on 24 October 2012 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Dr Katy Long |
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Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World |
01. Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century |
Professor David Coleman gives the first lecture in his Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World series. |
David Coleman |
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Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars |
The European Court of Justice's treatment of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights |
Gráinne De Búrca, NYU School of Law - 8 October 2012. |
Gráinne De Búrca |
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Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World |
02. Numbering the people: the Census, Vital Registration and Population Registers |
Professor David Coleman gives the second lecture on Demographics, where he looks at different ways in which governments and demographers have collected population data. |
David Coleman |
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Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars |
Taking Direct Discrimination Cases out of the Straightjacket of Crude Comparator Analysis: A Shift to a Stronger Principle of Equality |
Justice Kevin Bell, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria - 16 October 2012. |
Kevin Bell |
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Environmental Change Institute |
Climate and Land Use Change |
Professor Britaldo Soares-Filho (Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto/UFMG, Brazil) delivers one of the 2012 ECI Climate Lectures. |
Britaldo Soares-Filho |
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Environmental Change Institute |
Water Security in Changing Climates |
Professor David Grey (University of Oxford) delivers one of the 2012 ECI Climate Lectures. |
David Grey |
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Environmental Change Institute |
Climate Change as a Global Shifting Force |
Professor Sir David King (University of Oxford) delivers one of the 2012 ECI Climate Lectures. |
David King |
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Uehiro Oxford Institute |
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 1: Abortion |
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement: Abortion. |
Charles Camosy, Julian Savulescu |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
As You Like It |
Asking 'what happens in As You Like It', this lecture considers the play's dramatic structure and its ambiguous use of pastoral, drawing on performance history, genre theory, and eco-critical approaches. |
Emma Smith |
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Department of Sociology Podcasts |
Negative Intergroup Contact: Causes and Consequences |
Dr. Eva Jaspers (University of Utrecht) on negative intergroup contact and how it can help us understand persistent ethnic bias. |
Eva Jaspers |
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Approaching Shakespeare |
Hamlet |
The fact that father and son share the same name in Hamlet is used to investigate the play's nostalgia, drawing on biographical criticism and the religious and political history of early modern England. |
Emma Smith |
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Uehiro Oxford Institute |
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement Debate 2: Euthanasia |
The Possibility of Religious-Secular Ethical Engagement: Euthanasia. |
Charles Camosy, Julian Savulescu |
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Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures |
Decidability: The Entscheidungs problem |
Robin Whitty, London South Bank University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. |
Robin Whitty |
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Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures |
Turing in the age of the Internet and the quantum computer |
Samson Abramsky, Oxford University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary weekend. |
Samson Abramsky |
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Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures |
Welcome Address |
Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University. |
Jonathan Bowen |
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Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures |
Turing and the Public Consciousness: Turing 2.0(12) |
Sue Black, University College London, Turing and the Public Consciousness: Turing 2.0(12). |
Sue Black |
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Alan Turing: Centenary Lectures |
Turing in the History of Software |
Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, gives a talk for the Alan Turing Centenary Weekend. |
Cliff jones |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
What is wrong with permanent alienage? |
Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term 2012. Seminar by Dr Kieran Oberman (University College Dublin) recorded on 10 October 2012 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. |
Dr Kieran Oberman |
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Refugee Studies Centre |
Migration consequences of complex crises |
Special lecture by Ambassador William Lacy Swing (Director General, International Organization for Migration) recorded on 15 October 2012 at the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College. |
Ambassador William Lacy Swing |
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Department of Sociology Podcasts |
The Combat Soldier: Infantry Tactics and Cohesion in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries |
Professor Anthony King (University of Exeter) looks at the modern infantry tactics and cohesion, with a perspective on conscripted vs. professional armies. |
Anthony King |
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St Peter's College |
Roger Wright: Controller of the Proms and Radio 3 |
Roger Wright - Controller of the Proms and Radio 3 and the most powerful broadcaster of Classical Music in Europe - Roger will talk about his career and the challenges of his professional life. |
Roger Wright |
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Cantemir Institute |
Majorities and Minorities in Interwar Timişoara: Between Fictive and Ethnicity and Ideal Nation |
Professor Victor Neumann (West University of Timisoara) delivers a lecture as part of the East and East-Central Europe Seminar Series at the Cantemir Institute. |
Victor Neumann |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
16. Nitrogen fixation |
Hear about natures natural nitrogen fixers. |
Kylie Vincent |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
19. Plants in extreme environments |
How plants manage to photosynthesise in extreme environments. |
Alison Parkin |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
18. Why are plants green? |
Why chlorophyll and hence plants, looks green. |
Alison Parkin |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
21. Thank you and goodbye |
Thank you for exploring the Botanic Garden with our group of plant loving chemists. |
Alison Foster |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
17. Ancient pigments |
How chemistry can change the colour of dye molecules from plants. |
James McCullagh |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
20. Pigments from plants |
One small part of the plant kingdom makes a different type of pigment to all the rest. |
Alison Foster |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
02. A few words about chemicals |
Everything is made of chemicals - whether they are from a natural source or not. |
Alison Foster |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
09. The hottest plant in the world |
How chillis and a euphorbia are helping to produce new painkillers. |
Ed Anderson |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
05. Energy from the sun |
How plants use energy from the sun to make food from carbon dioxide and water. |
Alison Parkin |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
13. New medicines from plants |
Many modern medicines are derived from plants. |
Alison Foster |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
01. Welcome and Introduction |
A welcome to the Botanic Garden and the Chemistry at the Garden audio trail from the Senior Curator, Dr Alison Foster. |
Alison Foster |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
08. The chemistry of decaffeination |
How chemistry impacts on decaffeination of the world's second most popular drink. |
Gem Toes |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
15. Nitrogen uptake by plants |
Why nitrogen is important to plants and the communities of microorganisms living in the soil. |
Kylie Vincent |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
04. Robert Robinson, a revolutionary chemist |
Sir Robert Robinson used the Botanic Garden in his research investigating the structures of alkaloids derived from plants. |
Ed Anderson |
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11. The machine inside plants |
The photosynthetic machinery inside plants is explained. |
Alison Parkin |
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07. The many tastes of ginger |
Ginger contains a cocktail of different molecules. The different molecules in dried, cooked and fresh ginger lead to different flavours. |
Ed Anderson |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
14. The caramel tree |
Why the Katsura tree smells of caramel and how analytical techniques have solved the problem of what is responsible for the smell. |
James McCullagh |
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Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour |
03. Take care with the word organic |
Hear what the word organic means to a chemist. |
Alison Foster |
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