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12:30 - Languages of Return: Aimé Césaire and Dany Laferriere
Jane Hiddleston (University of Oxford)
New Directions in Caribbean History
12:30 - Social constraints and the decision to leave: Emigration from Greece at times of crisis
Light lunch provided
Manolis Pratsinakis (University of Macedonia)
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
13:00 - ICU / Renal Unit
Audience: Members of the University and NHS clinical staff.
Dr Adrian Wong, Prof Dominic Wilkinson, Dr Jane Walker, Dr Matt Bottomley, Dr Matt Brook, Dr Paul Harden
Medical Grand Rounds
13:00 - Learning from amnesia: the clinical neuroscience of memory impairment
Dr Chris Butler
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences
14:00 - Musicology, Adult Education, and Post-War Intellectual Culture: Wilfrid Mellers at the University of Birmingham’s Extramural Department, 1948-64
Beau Woodbury (Wolfson Collge)
Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
14:00 - Major longevity drivers in the next 10 years: antibiotic resistance, metabolic syndrome and national health expenditure
Mr Matthew Edwards (Willis Towers Watson)
Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing
14:00 - Partes Imperii: East and West in the Fall of the Roman Empire
Mark Humphries (University of Swansea)
Late Roman Seminar
14:00 - Conferencing the International: Making India in London during the Round Table Conferences, 1930-32
Dr Stephen Legg (University of Nottingham)
Contemporary South Asia Seminars
14:00 - Iraq Women's Fiction of War: A Story of Survival
All Welcome!
Dr Angham Abdulrazaq (Independent Scholar)
International Gender Studies: Feminist mapping in a volatile world; spaces of creativity and survival
15:00 - 'Global Informality' - Prof. Alena Ledeneva, UCL
Prof. Alena Ledeneva (University College London)
Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
15:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Discovering and depositing Social Science research data
John Southall (University of Oxford), Cathy Scutt (University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
15:30 - “Pre-Romanticism”
Edward Nye (Lincoln College)
Key Words in Early Modern French Culture Seminar
16:30 - Christian Virtues as Animal Virtues?
Rev. Prof. Michael Sherwin OP (Faculty of Theology, University of Fribourg)
The Aquinas Seminar: 'Agency in Human Beings & Other Animals
16:30 - An anthropic explanation for the nearly equal angular diameters of the Sun and Moon.
Steven Balbus (University of Oxford)
Philosophy of Physics Seminar
17:00 - Loyalist Catholicism Reconsidered: Sir Thomas Tresham and the Elizabethan regime in the 1580s
Preparatory reading:S. Kaushik, 'Resistance, loyalty and recusant politics: Sir Thomas Tresham and the Elizabethan state’ , Midland History 21 (1996), 37-72; E. Rose, Cases of Conscience: alternatives open to recusants and Puritans under Elizabeth I and James I (1975) esp. ch. 4; G. Kilroy, Edmund Campion: a scholarly Life (2015), esp. chs. 6, 9, & 11.
Katie McKeogh (University of Oxford)
Early Modern Britain Seminar
17:00 - Same Love: A Kenyan Gay Music Video as an African Queer Imaginary
Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds)
African Studies Seminar Series
17:00 - The Chilean Business Network since 1873: Finance, Industry and Politics
Matías Braun (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile, and the Latin American Centre)
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: Profitable Instruction for Noblemen: Thucydides Reborn
Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
17:00 - "Can future energy needs be met sustainably?" with Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith
Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (University of Oxford)
New frontiers: pushing the boundaries of science and technology
17:00 - “Irish and Latin Terms for Shape-Shifting”
Kristýna Zoé Syrová (St John’s College)
The Oxford Celtic Seminar

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