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Tuesday 4 February 2020 , continued from previous page

17:00 - ‘To G or not to G: J H Poynting and the gravitational constant in the nineteenth century’
Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews)
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
17:00 - Taqlīd: Authority and the Intellectual Elite in the Islamic World
Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
17:00 - Personalised Healthcare: From Bench to Bedside
Professor Joanne Hackett (Genomics England), Professor Simon Leedham (University of Oxford), Doctor Lauren Harper (Roche Diagnostics UK and Ireland)
17:00 - Sasanians in Southern Turkmenistan: The Archaeological Evidence
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Aydogdy Kurbanov (University of Lyon)
The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
17:00 - Two comics adaptations of Zazie dans le métro: from figuration to tradaptation.
Ann Miller (Leicester/Joint editor of European Comic Art)
17:00 - In Discussion with Danny Dorling - On Kindness in British Geography
Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford)
17:00 - Value of species and the evolution of conservation ethics - Darragh Hare
Darragh Hare (Cornell University)
17:00 - Our Disunited Kingdom
Lord John Alderdice (Liberal Democrat Peer), Adam Tomkins (Conservative MSP), Lord Dafydd Wigley (Former leader of Plaid Cymru)
Beyond Brexit
17:15 - The English Universal History's Treatment of the Arab World
Professor Ann Thomson (European University Institute)
Universal Histories Research Seminar
17:15 - How to chastize a Comes Africae: Augustine and Boniface
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr)
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar
17:15 - ‘The English Universal History’s Treatment of the Arab World’
Prof Ann Thompson (European University Institute)
17:15 - George Chapman, Edward Coke and 'mitior sensus'
Professor Jessica Wolfe (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Early Modern English Literature Seminar
17:30 - A Fearful Journey: Lions and Tygers
Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)
17:30 - Crohn's and Colitis Open Evening
You must register for this event
Various Speakers
17:30 - "How the devil made Lord Byron"
Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson (University of Oxford)
Romantic Research Seminar
17:30 - George Eliot Where She Lived: Illustrated Lives and Works
Alison Booth (Professor of English, University of Virginia)
19:30 - Protecting Mali’s 'Desert Elephants' in Times of War and Peace
Talks are free to members and £3 to anyone else.
Dr Susan Canney (University of Oxford, Mali Elephant Project)
Oxford University Exploration Club HT 2019
20:00 - Flexibility and rigour in the "unconscious tradition of compromise" - the first five years of the National Plant (and habitat) Monitoring Scheme
Warburg Memorial Lecture – Joint with BBOWT
Dr Oli Pescott (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire - Indoor Meetings
20:30 - Special screening of the 1958 classic film ‘The Fly’
Roderick Bailey (Oxford)
Oxford Ethics and Humanities Events

Wednesday 5 February 2020

09:30 - Measure For Measure by Shakespeare
Not The Way Forward Productions

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