Dr Angie Hobbs Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy
Dr Angie Hobbs discusses her new role as the first ever UK 'Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy', charged with bringing philosophy to as wide an audience as possible in Britain and beyond.
Understanding Shakespeare's sonnets
In the year of the 400th anniversary of their publication Professors Stanley Wells, CBE, and Jonathan Bate talk to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust's Paul Edmondson about the content and context of Shakespeare's collection of sonnets.
LSE Summer School 2010 - Contemporary Developments in International Law and the Role of the Internat
LSE Summer School lecture.
5 The contemporary Arctic climate
What affects the atmospheric and ocean flows? This unit explores the mechanisms that are important; the most rapid carrier is the wind. The basic principle of global atmospheric circulation is simple: warm air rises and cold air sinks. How does this principle affect the atmosphere and flow of water in practical terms?
6A Modelling your shared understanding for a sustainable future In this activity the aim is to integrate the various explorations you have engaged in so far (such as cause-and-effect models of emerging social/economic and environmental crises, your personal ecology, quality of life, ecological footprint index, system dynamics models) and create, using a range of communication and modelling approaches, the beginnings of Episode 66: Understanding Cooperation through Behavioural Economics Behavioural Economist Dr Nikos Nikiforakis explains how Behavioural Economics challenges one of the fundamental premises of traditional Economics - the rational, self-serving Homo Economicus. Through laboratory and field experiments, Nikos also develops a model for understanding social cooperation. With host Jennifer Cook. Symbolising New Zealand: Session 4 - Symbolising the shadow-side of New Zealand experience in contem Climate Change and the Fate of the Amazon 2007 - Contemporary processes in Amazonia and implications Ethical Competence and Understanding War in International Relations Private Diplomacy, Public Peace: Practical Challenges in Contemporary Peace Negotiations Understanding the Mind in Peace Negotiations Great Ormond Street Hospital children and family AUDIO information: Understanding medicines China Lecture Series: "Elections and Chinese Understanding of Democracy" Understanding Loons If I were you, I wouldn't start from here: understanding Oxford through its past If I were you, I wouldn't start from here: understanding Oxford through its past Understanding cancer: News from the frontline Understanding Determinants of Phenotypic Variation: A Gloomy Prospect? 2007 Symposium Presentation of the paper 'Teaching Contemporary Northwest Coast Native American Art Hanging Around: Modern and Contemporary Lighting from the Permanent Collection
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6A Modelling your shared understanding for a sustainable future
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Alistair Fox presents "Symbolising the shadow-side of New Zealand experience in contemporary literature and film".
The Centre for Research on National Identity - Symbolising New Zealand conference.
Held September 10, 2010.
Contemporary processes in Amazonia and implications for the future of Amazonia
Prof. Mervyn Frost (King's College, London) presents a seminar in which he explores the relationship between ethics and international relations within the context of armed conflict. The discussant is Dr. Christopher Bickerton (Oxford).
Seminar given by the Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Martin Griffiths on the role played by private mediators in securing peace between warring factions and states in areas such as Africa and the Middle East
Jeremy Lack (Lawyer and Mediator, Etude Altenburger Switzerland) / Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield (Institute for the Future of the Mind, Oxford) give a seminar for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict with David Rodin
This podcast explains about medicines
Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University, Tianjian Shi specializes in comparative politics with an emphasis on political culture and political participation in Chinese politics. He is the author of Political Participation in Beijing (Harvard University Press, 1997).
Discover the latest research on common loons, those large, fish-eating birds that winter on the ocean but breed on fresh water lakes.
Date: 03/17/2010
Local history lecture, by Chris Day, giving an overview of the history of the University of Oxford. Visit http://media.conted.ox.ac.uk/lh01 to view the full presentation from Chris Day, including his slides.
Local history lecture, by Chris Day, giving an overview of the history of the University of Oxford. Visit http://media.conted.ox.ac.uk/lh01 to view the full presentation from Chris Day, including his slides.
This Oxford at Said seminar was dedicated to cancer research. Three researchers from the University of Oxford give insights into recent advances in the field of cancer cell biology, therapy and epidemiology. One in three people develop cancer, and one in five in Europe and North America die of the disease. Although environmental and lifestyle factors, for example smoking or sun exposure, affect the incidence of some cancer types, all human populations and many types of animal suffer from this di
George Davey Smith gives a talk for the UBVO seminar series in Hilary term, 2008.
Dawn Glinsmann, Ph.D. presents her paper '
July 17, 2010 - October 10, 2010: In the early twentieth century, with the introduction of electric light, designers began to focus on lighting fixtures, hanging lamps among them. Interest in lighting design experienced a particular surge in the decades after World War II, when many young artists, the American George Nelson among them, responded to a demand for fixtures that were both functional and modern in their aesthetic. Drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection of modern and cont
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