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Tuesday 5 June 2018 , continued from previous page

17:00 - How to be a Successful Abbot: peacemaking as a virtue of monastic leadership
Claire Macht (Kellogg)
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar
17:00 - ‘Genghis Khan at Bukhara: the Mongols and cultural transformations in Islamic Central Asia’
Professor Florian Schwarz (Vienna)
Central Asia, Islam, and the Silk Road
17:00 - 'Talmudic scholarship in the late ancient Palestine: ideology and practice'
Professor Moulie Vidas (Princeton )
17:00 - Genghis Khan at Bukhara: The Mongols and Cultural Transformations in Islamic Central Asia
Professor Florian Schwarz (Vienna)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
17:00 - Quantifying the unquantifiable? Informal charity in southern Europe, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Julie Marfany (Durham)
17:00 - A THEORY OF ISIS – Political Violence and the Transformation of the Global Order *
Professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
17:15 - How to be a Sucessful Abbot: peacemaking as a virtue of monastic leadership
Claire Macht (Kellogg)
Medieval Church and Culture
17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2018: ‘What is health? It is chocolate!’: Chocolate, medicine, and writing in nineteenth-century France
Drinks will be served after each seminar. All welcome, no booking required.
Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow)
17:30 - ‘What is health? It is chocolate!’: Chocolate, medicine, and writing in nineteenth-century France
Dr Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow )
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
17:30 - IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT HEALTH SYSTEM: Emerging Issues in Global Health
Mark Britnell (Chairman and Partner, Global Health Practice at KPMG), Sir David Nicholson (Chief Executive of the NHS 2006-2014)
17:30 - ‘The birth of cultural diplomacy in the eighteenth century: The case of Bernis, French ambassador in Rome’
Professor Gilles Montègre (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
18:00 - Art, Illusions and the Visual Brain
Professor Christopher Kennard (University of Oxford)
19:30 - Suffering and Flourishing
Professor Eleonore Stump
19:45 - The legacy and impact of the life of William "Strata" Smith
Owen Green (Oxfordshire Geology Trust)
Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire - Indoor Meetings

Wednesday 6 June 2018

10:30 - The historical context of LXX vocabulary: reflections from a Septuagint project
James Aitken (University of Cambridge), Sarah Pearce (Southampton), Tessa Rajak (Reading)
Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies
11:00 - Residual Cognitive Capacities and the Capacity for Suffering in Patients with Cognitive Motor Dissociation
Dr Mackenzie Graham (University of Oxford)
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
11:15 - “The Humiliation of John Falcon: Franco-British Competitive Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean"
Julie Kalman (Monash University)
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
11:15 - ‘Lepanto in the Americas: Global dimensions of Mediterranean history’
Dr Stefan Hanss (Cambridge)
New Perspectives in Mediterranean History
12:00 - SCG IV.47--49
Various Speakers
Summa Contra Gentiles Reading, Commentary, and Translation Group
12:00 - Adapting protein quality control for intervention in neurodegenerative diseases (CANCELLED)
Unfortunately due to unforseen circumstances, this seminar has had to be cancelled
Heidi Olzscha (University of Oxford)
Peter Medawar Building Seminars

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