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Wednesday 17 July 2024

12:00 - Cancer-causing infections in rural Africa – missed opportunities for prevention
Seminar postponed due to speaker being unwell.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prof Robert Newton (University of York / MRC-Uganda Virus Research Institute)
Jenner Seminars
12:00 - Social (in)justice within the energy transition planning: the case study of Vilnius City Municipality
Gustė Gurčinaitė (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford)
ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series
12:30 - Visiting Fellows lunchtime workshop
Paul Pickering (Australian National University), Chou Wu (Beijing Normal University)
13:00 - The Politics of Conflict Resolution: Evaluating the establishment of the Loss and Damage Fund from COP26 to COP28
Zihan Xuan (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford)
ECM Brown Bag Seminar Series
15:00 - Closed-loop modulation of neural activity at different timescales
Prof. Dimitri Kullman (University College London)
Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 18 July 2024

09:00 - Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School 2024: Mind, Value and Mental Health (2 Day event)
This interactive two-day programme will focus on the following themes: Delusion (keynote topic), Philosophical Perspectives on Depression, Mental Disorder and Creativity, Neurodiversity and the Political Economy of Normal Functioning, The 'Insanity Defence' and the Criminal Law, What is Expertise by Experience? and Precision Psychiatry Throughout the event, participants will engage in an intellectually stimulating environment featuring guest lectures and seminars. Presentations – each of which pairs a philosopher with an expert from outside philosophy including clinicians, scientists and people with lived experience – are informal and designed to encourage substantial dialogue with and among the audience. To be held in the state-of-the-art new Anniversary Building situated alongside the river at St Hilda’s College.
Lucy O'Brien (Richard Wollheim Professor of Philosophy, UCL), Philip McGuire (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Academic Director, SPRINT. Principal Investigator, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging), Alexander Bird (Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge), Robert Chapman (Assistant Professor, Critical Neurodiversity Studies, Durham University), Claire Hogg (Lecturer in Law, University of Surrey), Dr Edward Harcourt (Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Radcliffe Humanities, University of Oxford), Cecily Whiteley (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews)
11:00 - 'Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation'
Professor Tatiana Kutateladze (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine)
Seminar
12:00 - Imaging Oligomers of Alpha-Synuclein in Parkinson’s Disease
Professor Steven. F. Lee (University of Cambridge)
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Week 15: Respiratory Medicine - 'New approaches to the asthma and COPD attack'
Dr Nayia Petousi, Prof Tim Hinks, Prof Ian Pavord
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
14:00 - Policy engagement workshop on Sonic Storytelling and Storylistening
If you wish to attend, please email naomi.waltham-smith@music.ox.ac.uk no later than noon on Monday 15 July. Spaces are limited due to the interactive nature of the sessions.
Dr Claire Craig CBE (University of Oxford), Professor Thomas Gernon (University of Southampton), Miriam Quick (Loud Numbers), Professor Gascia Ouzounian (University of Oxford), Professor Samantha Dieckmann (University of Oxford), Prof Noel Lobley (University of Virginia), Professor Laudan Nooshin (City, University of London)
15:00 - Policy engagement for linguists: webinar 2
Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (University of Cambridge)
20:00 - Living in Biblical Times
Emeritus Professor Meir Bar-Ilan (Bar Ilan University)
Oxford Chabad Society

Friday 19 July 2024

13:00 - DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
Various Speakers
DPAG Researcher Society Seminar Series
16:00 - An Extraordinary Journey: The First Chinese Art Student to Visit Twentieth-Century India
Dr YAN Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Sunday 21 July 2024

10:00 - Day 1: 21 July - Opening the Ancient World: Representations of the Past in Ancient and Modern Times
Various Speakers
SASA 2024 Annual Virtual Conference - Opening the Ancient World: Representations of the Past in Ancient and Modern Times

Monday 22 July 2024