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Wednesday 8 November 2017 , continued from previous page

16:15 - Culture's role in hazard and climate change risk: worldviews, belief systems and 'alternative facts'
Dr Lisa Schipper (Overseas Development Institute)
ECI Big Ideas Seminar
16:30 - “The Philosophical Virus: What Viruses Tell Us About What It Means To Be Alive And What It Means To Be Human”
Carl Zimmer (New York Times Columnist )
Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
17:00 - Obligations to the Needy: Singer’s Pond Example versus Supporting International Aid Organizations—Some Disanalogies and Their Normative Significance
Booking required.
Professor Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers University)
Annual Uehiro Lectures
17:00 - Oxford University Biotech Society Seminar
Mina Bekheet (Cofounder and President, Panacea Innovation)
Seminar
17:00 - The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishments
Deb Oxley (All Souls)
Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
17:00 - “‘…the story of our time that everyone knows’?: women's suffrage and twentieth-century Irish political and social history”
Caitríona Clear (NUI, Galway)
Oxford Irish History Seminar
17:00 - Asylum and Nehru’s changing non-alignment: Tibetan refugees in India
Ria Kapoor
Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
17:00 - Artemisia annua tea, the regulation of Artemisinin, and the fight against malaria in Senegal
Please note the corrected time of 5pm
Dr Marlee Tichenor (Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh)
17:00 - Hoping for a State: Secessionist Hopes and Consequences in the Uganda-Congo Borderlands
Eleanor Beevor (University of Oxford)
Oxford Central Africa Forum (OCAF)
17:00 - Fertility Responses to Reductions in Mortality: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from 20th Century America
Selma Walther (University of Warwick)
Postdoctoral Fellows Seminar
17:00 - BOOK LAUNCH: Theolgies of Retrieval ed. by Darren Sarisky (T. & T. Clark, 2017)
Various Speakers
17:00 - Katie Tucker (University of Winchester), 'The Search for Alfred the Great', Relics Cluster Talk
Katie Tucker
Keble Relics Cluster Talks
17:15 - Knowledge
Mishtooni Bose, Kantik Ghosh
Medieval English Research Seminar
17:30 - Book Event: Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary), Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
17:30 - The Glorious Dead - reflections on 1st World War portrayals of glory in Worcester and Magdeburg Cathedrals
Reverend Canon Dr Alvyn Pettersen (Exeter College Visiting Fellow, Canon Theologian of Worcester Cathedral and former Exeter Chaplain)
Exeter College Rector's Seminar Series
18:30 - After the 19th Party Congress: Xi Jinping Thought and the Future for Chinese Politics
The Hon. Kevin Rudd (former Prime Minister of Australia), Patricia Thornton (Associate Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Oxford), Todd Hall (Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford)
19:30 - Gervase Rosser, The Stones of St Mary’s, 1517 Talks Series
Gervase Rosser
1517 Talks Series, University Church
20:00 - Edward Hadas, A new financial order (I): Education, very narrow money, reality-closeness, Finance, Reality and Morality: Rethinking a broken system
Edward Hadas
Finance, Reality and Morality: Rethinking a Broken System

Thursday 9 November 2017

09:00 - Visit to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, Early Biblical Interpretations Seminar
Various Speakers
Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar
10:00 - Bodleian iSkills for the Medical Sciences Division: Introduction to Endnote
Eli Harriss (ORC Library Service)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences

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