IPL: The Worlds of World Religions: Manichaeism in Roman Egypt and Medieval China
Professor Majella Franzmann, Pro Vice Chancellor for Humanities, Inaugural Professorial Lecture, given on October 8, 2008.
IPL: The Worlds of World Religions: Manichaeism in Roman Egypt and Medieval China
Professor Majella Franzmann, Pro Vice Chancellor for Humanities, Inaugural Professorial Lecture, given on October 8, 2008.
IPL: Musical Democracy: World Music Encounters
Professor Henry Johnson, Professor of Music, Department of Music.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture, given August 6, 2009
Russia & The First World War IPL: Talking with Barmaids - the importance of science communication in today's changing world IPL: Talking with Barmaids - the importance of science communication in today's changing world Writing the Future: How Digital Books Will Change the World Harlem, the black capital of the world Agriculture can feed the world in the 21st Century The World Wide Web: Looking Back, looking forward World Challenges: Making Our Way to Sustainable Solutions Introduction to Art of the Ancient World Childhood Cancer in the Developing World Muhammad Yunus: A Poverty-free World? Tracing Indian students at Oxford before the Second World War The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day Giving in the Digital World Giving in the Digital World BEYOND KYOTO: Green Innovation and Enterprise for the 21st Century - Business Opportunities in a Low New approaches in the Arab world
Russia & The First World War: Dr. Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham.
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
Professor Jean Fleming, Centre for Science Communication, Division of Science. Inaugural Professorial Lecture, given on October 22, 2008.
Professor Jean Fleming, Centre for Science Communication, Division of Science. Inaugural Professorial Lecture, given on October 22, 2008.
Bill Rankin will explore the ways that books are metamorphosing and consider the rich creative possibilities the new digital Gutenberg will bring in the coming information age. (Running Time 69:53)
University of Sydney history academics Shane White, Stephen Robertson and Stephen Garton are part of a collaborative team working on everyday life in Harlem in he 1920s, when the neighbourhood became the black capital of the world.
June 10, 2010 (Running Time 63:13)
Chaired by Ticky Fullerton
Panel for the Affirmative: John Crawford, Ian Verrender, Chris Russell
Panel for the Negative: Paulo Santos, David Anthony, Adrienne Ryan
June 4, 2010 (Running Time 72:03)
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Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Energy, the environment, and economic development pose problems that require integrated solutions, says Cornell's Frank DiSalvo.
Date: 06/16/2010
Donna Kurtz and Sir John Boardman talk about Sir John's life, his career and experiences as a classical scholar and also the relationship works of art from different cultures around the ancient world have with one another
Professor Tim Eden talks about the challenges faced in curing childhood cancer in the developing world.
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate and pioneer of microcredit, gave this year’s Romanes lecture on ‘A poverty-free world: When? How?’
Dr Sumita Mukherjee (Oxford) - 'Tracing Indian Students at Oxford before the Second World War'
Judith Priestman, curator of the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 exhibition, where a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork which was used to illustrate The Hobbit, was on display to the public.
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? Following on the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, generous individuals around the world used their mobile phones to make more than $40 million in gifts to aid organisations. More than $1 billion in gifts came in the next four weeks, a large percentage of which was donated online. But the real stories of how digital tec
For charitable organizations and initiatives, the Internet provides the opportunity to reach more people in more direct and personal ways. Are they grasping this opportunity? Following on the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010, generous individuals around the world used their mobile phones to make more than $40 million in gifts to aid organisations. More than $1 billion in gifts came in the next four weeks, a large percentage of which was donated online. But the real stories of how digital tec
There is a great deal of innovation in the areas of green enterprise and clean technology in Oxford and the greater Oxford-London-Cambridge region, presenting an infrastructural advantage supported by world-class universities and businesses. The Oxford Business and Environment Network, with the support of Saïd Business School, the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, is organising t
Meet three inspirational social entrepreneurs from Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine who are leading innovative projects to confront poverty and inequality in a new way. This session will provide an insider’s perspective on what it means to be a social entrepreneur, exploring their work and the unique challenges and opportunities in scaling up their social ventures.
