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Wednesday 30 September 2020 , continued from previous page

16:00 - How not to let a global pandemic derail a just, green transition. An online panel discussion among investors, activists, scientists and entrepreneurs
Charmian Love (Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK; Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship), Kaya Axelsson (Net Zero Policy Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford; former Vice-President of the Oxford Student Union), Leandro Baumgarten (Lead Scientist (Brazil), The Nature Conservancy), Catherine Bryan (Trustee and former CEO, Synchronicity Earth), Arunma Oteh (former Treasurer of the World Bank; Executive-in-Residence at Saïd Business School), Cameron Hepburn (Director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment), EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity), Laurence Wainwright (MSc Course Director at the Smith School)
19:00 - Award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize
TBA
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 1 October 2020

12:00 - Mind & Behaviour Research Group, Behavioural Measurements Series: Measurement of Aspirations
Tanguy Bernard (International Food Policy Research Institute)
CSAE Special Seminars
14:00 - Surviving a crisis: Resilience, adaptation, and transformation in higher education after the collapse of the Soviet Union
Emma Sabzalieva (York University, Canada)
15:00 - Can social impact survive the crisis?
Booking not required. Watch live on: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-answers/can-social-impact-survive-crisis
Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Marc Ventresca (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Shivani Garg Patel (Skoll Foundation), Zhao Meng (NTU Singapore), François Bonnici (Schwab Foundation)
Leadership in extraordinary times

Friday 2 October 2020

09:00 - 1st annual Regulatory Science Conference
Various Speakers
09:15 - Understanding the SARS-CoV-2 specific T cell response during COVID-19 convalescence
This seminar will be held as a webinar. Please email hiu.admin@imm.ox.ac.uk for the link to the event.
Dr Yanchun Peng (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
16:00 - Can tropical forests keep up with climate change?
Richard T Corlett (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yunnan, China)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 5 October 2020

12:00 - Using Genetics to Investigate the Adaptive Immune Responses in Health and Immune-mediated diseases
This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocuupqDMrGtOwJIyKcF2nOHuPMm7F_ZzS
Dr Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Kennedy Institute Seminars
17:00 - The centenary of Hans Blumenberg’s (1920-1996) birth provide an occasion to revisit some aspects of his life and thought.
zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89764748793
Various Speakers
HANS BLUMENBERG SEMINAR

Tuesday 6 October 2020

09:30 - Important advances in genomics towards discovery and translation in Psychiatry
Professor Bernhard Baune (University of Munster/University of Melbourne)
Psychiatry Seminars
12:00 - Maintaining human livers outside of the body: from advances in transplant medicine to developing liver NASH therapies - virtual & in person
Nibbles and refreshments will be provided for those who attend in person. However, in-person numbers will be limited and subject to short notice covid changes. In-person attendees will be required to wear a mask when not eating or drinking and to maintain social distancing at all times. Virtual joining details will be sent the evening before the event.
Various Speakers
13:30 - Career Design and Development: A three-part course for Research Staff and DPhils
Dr Rebecca Ehata (Oxford University Careers Service), Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
14:00 - Neoliberalism and For-Profit Universities: The Case of Laureate International
Dr Kiev Ariza (Coventry University)
15:30 - (POSTPONED) Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois
This talk is part of Black History Month and will be hosted on Zoom.
Jason Forrest (McKinsey & Co, New York)
16:00 - Online Public Lecture Series
Joseph Cohen (UCD School of Philosophy)
17:00 - Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Dr Carissa Veliz (University of Oxford), Professor Rasmus Nielsen (Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media)

Wednesday 7 October 2020

10:00 - Quantitative Approaches Towards Understanding Multicellular Organisation and Communication
This seminar will be held using Zoom. Please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc-6hrT8oGNUvBHRYE_dYudaz8bR0Fa7l
Dr Heba Sailem (University of Oxford)
Kennedy Institute Seminars
11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Human challenge studies in endemic settings: ethical issues
Euzebiusz Jamrozik (University of Oxford)
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
12:00 - Virtual Open House: The OxAir Social Research Process
Various Speakers

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