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Thursday 23 February 2017 , continued from previous page

16:30 - Quantum monads
Simon Saunders (University of Oxford)
Philosophy of Physics Seminar
16:30 - The Protagoras on the Nature of Akratic Error
Naly Thaler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Ancient Philosophy Workshop
17:00 - Sir John Holt: Courts, Corporations and the Crafting of the Constitutional Landscape after 1688
Preparatory reading: P. Halliday, Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns 1650-1730 (1998), esp. ch. 8; H. Nenner, By Colour of Law, Legal Culture and Constitutional Politics in England, 1660-1689 (1977); P. Hamburger, ‘Revolution and Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion in City of London v. Wood’, Columbia Law Review, 94 (1994), 2091-2153.
George Artley (University of Oxford)
Early Modern Britain Seminar
17:00 - Lagos Girl Power: Performing Postfeminism in Nigeria
Dr Simidele Dosekun (University of Sussex)
African Studies Seminar Series
17:00 - Joint Seminar with the Global History Centre: Liberals, Peasants and Jacobins: The Mexican Revolution (1910-40) in Global Perspective
Alan Knight (St Antony's College)
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
17:00 - Drugs, Sex, Medieval Cultural Politics and the Learned Musicians of 18th Century Paris: Surviving the Centuries as a Machaut Manuscript
Uri Smilansky (King's College London)
Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music
17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: The Ruine of Wicked Men: Thucydides Reformed
Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
17:00 - ‘Emergency, Imagination and Management’
Professor Steven Connor (Cambridge)
Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
17:00 - "Knowing what not to know: sharing and hiding information in digital societies" with Dr Joss Wright
Dr Joss Wright (Oxford Martin School)
New frontiers: pushing the boundaries of science and technology
17:00 - “Wilderness People: Learned Families of the Gaelic Court c.1200-1600 AD”
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (Institute of Archaeology, NUI Galway)
The Oxford Celtic Seminar
17:00 - The D.F. McKenzie Lecture 2017 - ‘Publish and perish in Japan: why manuscripts continued to circulate in the age of print’
Professor Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge)
17:15 - “A Forgotten Novel and a Forgotten War: Zola and the Birth of the Third Republic”
Nick White (Cambridge)
Modern French Research Seminar
17:15 - Shaping change and developing solutions in the food system
TBA
IFSTAL
17:30 - DANSOX lecture on John Cranko, twentieth-century choreographer
Dr Julia Bürhle (University of Oxford)
17:30 - Land, Outdoors & Nature
Open to Oxford University and National Trust Staff only
Peter Nixon (National Trust’s Director of Land, Landscape and Nature ), Prof Heather Viles (Head of The School of Geography & the Environment )
Moving, Teaching, Inspiring: The National Trust & University of Oxford in the 21st Century
17:30 - Land, Outdoors & Nature
Prof Heather Viles (Head of The School of Geography & the Environment ), Peter Nixon (National Trust’s Director of Land, Landscape and Nature)
18:00 - Frege’s puzzle - Andrew BaconThe Logic of Opacity (manuscript)
Dr Andrew Bacon (University of Oxford)
The MLE Seminar
20:00 - London: An Unexpected Paradise
Victoria Summerley
Botanic Garden Winter Lecture Series 2017

Friday 24 February 2017

09:00 - Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds
Various Speakers
The Oxford University Byzantine Society's 19th International Graduate Conference
09:00 - The World as Will and Representation (v.I/II)
Laurenz Casser (University of Oxford)
Schopenhauer Reading Group

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