Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 09:30 - Project management: the essentials (in-person)
  The focus of this course is to provide a practical ‘project management toolbox’ that you can use in your daily work.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 11:00 - Responsive dormancy in the Parabolic Anderson Model (PAM)
  Leo Tyrpak (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 11:10 - Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
  Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 12:00 - The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
  Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University)
  China Centre talks
• 12:00 - Tobacco deaths; the past 75 years and the next 75 - Professor Sir Richard Peto
  Professor Sir Richard Peto (Oxford Population Health)
• 12:15 - Lived Spaces: The Natural Environment in the Syriac Tradition (ca. 4th-13th c. CE)
  Nidanu O'Shea
  Syriac Lunch Seminar
• 12:30 - The Power of Persuasion: Causal Effects of Household Communication on Women’s Employment
  Madeline McKelway (Dartmouth College)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 12:45 - Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging - A Novel Technique to Assess Cardiac Metabolism
  In person
  Professor Damian Tyler (University of Oxford)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Understanding Palestinian University Students’ Attitudes Toward Cycling - a Machine Learning Approach
  Professor Khaled Al-Sahili (An Najah National University)
  TSU Seminar Series 2025 "Mobility and urbanisation in Palestine"
• 14:30 - Cities for everyone
  This event will be live-streamed but not recorded
  Rafael Prieto-Curiel (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna)
  INET Complexity Economics Seminars
• 15:00 - Oxford Global Health Summit. "Collaboration across Boundaries"
  Various Speakers
• 16:30 - The Adam Phillips seminar on The Poet’s Essay: ‘On Kenneth Koch’
  Adam Phillips
  Poetry at Keble
• 17:00 - Matthew Noe: An Introduction to Graphic Medicine
  Matthew Noe (Harvard)
  Oxford Comics Network
• 17:00 - Revolts as rituals of political communication in ‘Abbāsid Baghdad (908-991)
  Fanny Bessard (Trinity)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Art History and Projective Tests (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
  Whitney Davis
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Leverhulme Early Career Researcher roundtable discussion
  Dr Mae Losasso (University of Warwick), Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Phillips (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Composing a Defence Review on Tech by Richard Barrons
  General Sir Richard Barrons
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 17:30 - Lester B. Pearson Inaugural Lecture: Passions, Preferences, and the Politics of Self-Binding
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 10:00 - Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division: Stakeholder Mapping for Academic-Policy Engagement
  Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 11:00 - Dr Claire Shannon-Lowe - title TBA
  Dr Claire Shannon-Lowe (University of Birmingham)
  Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
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