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17:00 - Original sin? Institutional Quality and the Early Modern Little Divergence
Nuno Palma (University of Manchester)
Oxford Centre for Economic and Social History Research Seminar
17:00 - Great Achievements, Big Failures: How to Evaluate the Social Changes of the Mao Era
Felix Wemheuer (University of Cologne)
17:00 - Has China’s Counter-Terrorism Policy in Xinjiang Evolved into State Terror?
Jo Smith Finley (Newcastle University)
17:30 - Nervous mimicry: performing paralysis in nineteenth-century culture
Dr Heather Tilley (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
17:30 - Connected cots, talking teddies and the rise of the algorithmic child: Protecting children in the era of smart homes
Drinks reception will follow lecture
Dr Victoria Nash (The Oxford Internet Institute,University of Oxford)
17:45 - Content Wars: The Societal Roles and Responsibilities of Media Organisations Today
Free to attend - registration required
Biz Stone (Twitter, Jelly), Dame Carolyn McCall (ITV Chief Executive )
Distinguished Speaker Seminar at Oxford Saïd
18:00 - Can we ever be 100% renewable? So near, yet so-lar…
Various Speakers
2019- Grand Challenges in Science
19:30 - Reading, singing, and discussion of the Aeneid (advanced)
TBA
Scholae Vergiliana: The Oxford Latinitas Society

Wednesday 29 May 2019

10:00 - ‘Classicism in French Modernism’
Professor Alastair Wright
Antiquity After Antiquity: Appropriations of the Classical Tradition in Art and Culture from Byzantium to Modernism
11:00 - DPhil Talk
Natalie Barber (Univeristy of Oxford)
Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
11:00 - Ethox and WEH Seminar - Beyond Hype: Opportunities and Challenges in mHealth
Dr Tereza Hendl (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
Ethox Centre Seminars
11:10 - ‘The Singing Province: Rural Choirs in Early Twentieth-Century Russia’
Julia Mannherz (Oxford)
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
12:00 - UCB Seminar: Antibody-enabled small molecule drug discovery
A networking lunch will be provided after the seminar - please join us! Please register for the seminar - only 40 places available.
Dr Alastair Lawson (Senior Fellow, UCB)
12:00 - Lumen Litterarum I
TBA
Lumen Litterarum I & II: the Oxford Latinitas Society
12:00 - Genomic Insights into Herpesviral evolution and pathogenesis
Please arrive 5 minutes before the talk is due to start to gain access to the building
Professor Judith Breuer (University College London)
Peter Medawar Building Seminars
12:30 - Priors Rule: When do Malfeasance Revelations Help or Hurt Incumbent Parties?
Pablo Querubín (New York University)
CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
12:30 - Molecular targeting enables effective theranostic approaches in thrombotic and inflammatory diseases, including unstable atherosclerotic plaques, cardiac ischemia/reperfusion and cancer
Professor Karlheinz Peter (Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
12:30 - Turkey’s authoritarianism: From Atatürk to Erdogan
Light lunch provided
Halil M. Karaveli (Turkey Center, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute)
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
12:30 - Chapman & Dendrou Lunchtime Lab Talks
Various Speakers
CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
12:30 - Being a Part of the Problem: Innovation Within Government
Alison Hawks (H4D UK)
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

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