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Wednesday 15 November 2017 , continued from previous page

17:00 - "War crimes, crimes against humanity and territorial fragmentation: are peace and reconstruction possible in Syria?"
Ziad Majed (AUP)
17:00 - The Fourth Gilbert Murray Lecture in Classics and Internationalism: Greece’s relations with Turkey: New Challenges in an Old Rivalry
Followed by a drinks reception.
John Kittmer (H.M. Ambassador to Greece 2013 – 2016)
17:00 - Singing the Struggle: The Rwandan Patriotic Front’s ideology through its songs of liberation
Dr Benjamin Chemouni (LSE)
Oxford Central Africa Forum (OCAF)
17:00 - CIS-Sponsored Talk: 'Historical Institutionalism Meets Practice Theory: Renewing the Selection Process of the United Nations Secretary-General'
Professor Vincent Pouliot (McGill University)
17:00 - Panel discussion: Informal Transportation Systems in Rapidly Growing Cities
Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford), Dr Clemence Cavoli (University College London)
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
17:00 - Seeking sustainable growth: Short-term optimism, medium-term challenges
Oya Celasun (IMF)
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
17:00 - Seeking sustainable growth: Short-term optimism, medium-term challenges
Oya Celasun (IMF)
17:15 - Medievalism
Helen Leith Spencer, Carolyne Larrington
Medieval English Research Seminar
17:15 - Occupation and Empire: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State during the First World War
John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
History of War Seminar Series
17:15 - Empires and Occupations: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State during the First World War
Professor John Horne (Trinity College Dublin & University of Oxford)
Globalising and Localising the Great War
17:15 - Oliver Smithies Lecture: 'Edith's Two Bodies'
Professor Claire Jarvis (Oliver Smithies Fellow, Balliol College, University of Oxford and Assistant Professor in the English Department at Stanford University)
Oliver Smithies Lectures
17:30 - Sustainable Drainage Systems: urban and rural applications
Chris Uttley ( Stroud District Council), Joshua Arnott (Atkins), Dr Helen Gavin (University of Oxford)
17:30 - Eclipse – Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon
Please report to the Porters' Lodge on Turl Street for directions to the Saskatchewan Room
Professor Frank Close (Exeter College)
Exeter College Rector's Seminar Series
17:45 - The Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Jeptha Duncan and Narciso Garay
Rolando de la Guardia (The Latin American Centre)
The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations
18:00 - #StartedinOxford Demo Night Nov 2017
Various Speakers
#StartedinOxford Festival
19:00 - Talking Climate in Texas - And Living to Tell the Tale
Katherine Hayhoe
19:00 - How to build a Star Nuclear Fusion on Earth
TBA
19:30 - Owen Rees, Walter’s Geystliches gesangk Buchleyn, 1517 Talks Series
Owen Rees
1517 Talks Series, University Church
20:00 - Edward Hadas, A new financial order (II): Profit maximisation, pensions, debt vs. equity, Finance, Reality and Morality: Rethinking a broken system
Edward Hadas
Finance, Reality and Morality: Rethinking a Broken System

Thursday 16 November 2017

10:00 - Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division: Introduction to literature searching for DPhils
Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences

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