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Tuesday 30 May 2017 , continued from previous page

17:00 - Panel discussion: State Formation & Decay in the Horn of Africa
Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh), Michael Walls (UCL), Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
17:00 - Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War - Fanon Transformed? The New Writings
Robert J.C. Young (Silver Professor, Dean of Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi; Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University)
17:00 - The Abgar-Story in Greek Inscriptional Traditions
Ida Toth (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Early Text Cultures Seminar: (Re-)Appropriation of Epigraphic Texts Across Cultures
17:00 - The Flower Girl (1972)
TBA
North Korean Film Series
17:30 - Sustainable Diets In The 21st Century
Professor Charles Godfray (University of Oxford), Professor Mike Rayner ( Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford), Helen Browning (Chief Executive of the Soil Association), Sir Peter Kendall (Former NFU President, Chairman of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board)
17:30 - Clio Barnard: The Selfish Giant
Clio Barnard

Wednesday 31 May 2017

09:00 - Language and the First-Person Perspective in Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Advanced Seminar
Places are limited so registration is strictly necessary. Registration includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day, and informal dinner in the evening. Registration at: a.bergqvist@mmu.ac.uk.
Various Speakers
Theory Network, The Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice
10:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
John Southall (University of Oxford)
10:00 - The Idea of Antiquity in Chinese Art
Prof. Craig Clunas
Antiquity After Antiquity: Appropriations of the Classical Tradition in Art and Culture from Byzantium to Modernism
10:30 - “Tailoring” of evidence-based messages: worth the effort?
Dr Ingmarie Skoglund (University of Gothenburg)
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars
11:10 - ‘Army and Revolution in the Age of Liberalism: The Case of the 1820s Revolution in Southern Europe’
Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
12:00 - Academic Consulting in the Medical Sciences
Vincent Coole (Oxford University Innovation)
12:00 - BioEngenuity Keynotes: Fluid Flow and Chemokine Transport in the Lymphatic System
Lunch & Interactive Poster Session Included
Prof James E Moore (Imperial College London)
12:15 - ‘On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World’
Catherine Bates (University of Warwick)
Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar (online)
12:15 - ‘Fake Sites and Fake News’
Edward Lucas (The Economist)
12:30 - Sensitive data: Handling research data
Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford)
13:00 - Emerging topologies of transnational employment: ‘Posting’ Thai workers in Sweden’s wild berry industry beyond regulatory reach
Linn Axelsson (Stockholm University)
International Migration Institute Seminar Series
13:00 - 'The More Things Change: How Whites Maintain the Racial Status Quo in a Louisiana City'
Nina Yancy
13:00 - **POSTPONED** Women in the Civil War
Emma Turnbull (Balliol College)
Reading Images
13:00 - Visualising urban affective atmospheres in Santiago, Chile. A visual methodological proposition for constructing information using people experiences
Luis Iturra

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