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Tuesday 7 November 2017 , continued from previous page

17:00 - Comrades and Casspirs: Township Violence on the Rand, 1990-94
Gary Kynoch (Dalhousie University)
South Africa Discussion Group
17:00 - Things Come Together: Science and the American West
Elliott West (University of Arkansas, and The Queen’s College)
American History Research Seminar
17:00 - Deserts, Development and Colonial Control in the Middle East
Dr Robert Fletcher (University of Warwick)
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
17:00 - Ginny Ross & Jan McLeod, Christian Meditation The Society of St. Francis, Oxford Meditative Groups
Ginny Ross, Jan McLeod
Oxford Meditative Groups
17:00 - Prof. Brian Nolan, Children of austerity: impact of the great recession on child poverty in rich countries
Professor Brian Nolan (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)
17:00 - The Causal Effect of University Education on Political Attitudes and Behavior
Professor Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich and London School of Economics and Political Science)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
17:00 - Solar cells made of crystalline silicon: successful mainstream thanks to intense research and development
Pietro Altermatt (Principal Scientist, Trina Solar, China)
Energy Colloquia Series
17:15 - Title TBC
Marie Thompson (University of Lincoln)
17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: The Good Places of Sleep: Nineteenth-Century Utopian Fictions and Sleep Research
TBA
17:30 - The Good Places of Sleep: Nineteenth-Century Utopian Fictions and Sleep Research
Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff University)
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
17:30 - The digital video revolution: Its human and social impact
Linden Vongsathorn (Amazon)
St Cross Talks
17:30 - Book Launch: Student Revolt - Voices of the Austerity Generation (Pluto Press)
Matt Myers (History DPhil, Wadham)
17:30 - The Bingham Lecture in Constitutional Studies: Brexit, British Politics and Our Fragile Constitution
Professor Anand Menon (King’s College London)
18:30 - Democracy and Human Dignity - Fit for Purpose?
Tom Tugendhat

Wednesday 8 November 2017

09:30 - Podcast Your Science
There will be a refundable deposit of £25 that will be refunded upon attendance or cancelling in good time.
Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
10:00 - Core MSt Class I: Theory and Method in the Study of Religions
Prof. Hausner
Core MSt Class I: Theory and Method in the Study of Religions
10:30 - Engagement between the NHS and industry on digital health
Tony Bowden (CEO, Helicon Health), Sara Shaw (NDPCHS University of Oxford)
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Seminars
11:10 - 1. Domestic Service and Mass Leisure in France and Britain, 1890-1930/ 2. While Seeking a Situation’: Cross-cultural Experiences of Out-of-work Foreign Domestics in London, c.1880–1930
Fanny Louvier (Balliol College, Oxford), Olivia Robinson (Kellogg College, Oxford)
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
11:15 - Mary Boyle on Medievalism in ‘Henry the Leper’ et al.
TBA
Medieval German Seminar
11:15 - 1. Religion in the Armies of the Thirty Years War/ 2. Early Modern Amsterdam: The European Market for War-Making
Ryan Crimmins, Marianne Klerk
Early Modern World Seminar

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