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Monday 5 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - Using Genetics to Investigate the Adaptive Immune Responses in Health and Immune-mediated diseases
This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocuupqDMrGtOwJIyKcF2nOHuPMm7F_ZzS
Dr Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Kennedy Institute Seminars
17:00 - The centenary of Hans Blumenberg’s (1920-1996) birth provide an occasion to revisit some aspects of his life and thought.
zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
Various Speakers
HANS BLUMENBERG SEMINAR

Tuesday 6 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

09:30 - Important advances in genomics towards discovery and translation in Psychiatry
Professor Bernhard Baune (University of Munster/University of Melbourne)
Psychiatry Seminars
12:00 - Maintaining human livers outside of the body: from advances in transplant medicine to developing liver NASH therapies - virtual & in person
Nibbles and refreshments will be provided for those who attend in person. However, in-person numbers will be limited and subject to short notice covid changes. In-person attendees will be required to wear a mask when not eating or drinking and to maintain social distancing at all times. Virtual joining details will be sent the evening before the event.
Various Speakers
13:30 - Career Design and Development: A three-part course for Research Staff and DPhils
Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service), Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
14:00 - Neoliberalism and For-Profit Universities: The Case of Laureate International
Dr Kiev Ariza (Coventry University)
15:30 - (POSTPONED) Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
This talk is part of Black History Month and will be hosted on Zoom.
Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)
16:00 - Online Public Lecture Series
Joseph Cohen (UCD School of Philosophy)
17:00 - Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Dr Carissa Veliz (University of Oxford), Professor Rasmus Nielsen (Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media)

Wednesday 7 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:00 - Quantitative Approaches Towards Understanding Multicellular Organisation and Communication
This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc-6hrT8oGNUvBHRYE_dYudaz8bR0Fa7l
Dr Heba Sailem (University of Oxford)
Kennedy Institute Seminars
11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Human challenge studies in endemic settings: ethical issues
Euzebiusz Jamrozik (University of Oxford)
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
12:00 - Virtual Open House: The OxAir Social Research Process
Various Speakers
12:30 - 'Virtual Open House' on the OxAir project
Various Speakers
13:00 - Panel Discussion: How do universities deliver economic value?
Professor Chas Bountra (Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Innovation, University of Oxford), Wendy Becker (Chairperson, Logitech International S.A.), Sam Gyimah (Board Director, Oxford University Innovation and former Minister for Universities, Science, Sustainability and Innovation), Professor Trevor McMillan (Vice-Chancellor, Keele University and KE Champion, Research England)
Innovation Conversations: Celebrating the Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards 2020
13:00 - Researchers @ Virtual Careers Fairs
Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service), Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
13:00 - The missing perspectives of women in COVID-19 news
Luba Kassova (AKAS audience strategy consultancy)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
14:00 - Parkinson's UK Lunchtime Online Seminar Series
Manuela Tan (UCL), Violoa Volpato (Cardiff DRI)
Parkinson's UK lunchtime online Seminar
15:00 - Professionalisation Session for students who will be applying for JRFs in the coming year
Hindy Najman, Alison Salvesen
15:00 - Cognitive flexibility: Neural mechanisms and clinical considerations
Zoom - access via WIN Intranet https://sharepoint.nexus.ox.ac.uk/sites/NDCN/FMRIB/SitePages/WIN%20Wednesday%20Meeting%20Details.aspx
Prof Lucina Uddin (University of Miami)
WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series
16:00 - Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic
Professor Sarah Smith (University of Bristol), Professor Cameron Hepburn
Oxford Martin School, Smith School & OxREP Virtual Series: The economics of the COVID-19 pandemic

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