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Friday 29 April 2022 , continued from previous page

13:00 - 'Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow Taiwan': History, Geopolitics and Transboundary Civil Society between China’s Two Peripheral Societies
Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
Professor Ming-sho Ho (National Taiwan University)
Mandarin Forum
14:00 - Spreading mechanics and differentiation of astrocytes during retinal development
Prof Tracy Stepien (University of Florida)
Mathematical Biology and Ecology
14:00 - A focus on headache
Various Speakers
14:15 - Optimal Treatment Assignment Rules on Networked Populations.
Abhishek Ananth (University of Geneva)
Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
14:15 - Sequential Sampling Equilibrium
Duarte Gonçalves (UCL)
Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
15:00 - Future of space tech: supply chains, SMEs and SDGs
Professor Anu Ojha OBE (Director of UK's National Space Academy), Sam Adlen (Chief Strategy Officer at Satellite Applications Catapult), Arnab Dutt OBE (SME Panel Member at UK Cabinet Office)
Oxford Smart Space Series
15:30 - Power for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
Prof. Marya Besharov (University of Oxford), Dr Gail Bradbrook (Co-founder of the social movement Extinction Rebellion (XR)), Professor Julie Battilana (Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
16:00 - The cell-adhesion code that underlies the molecular logic of synapse formation
Professor Thomas C. Südhof (HHMI & Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine)
Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series
16:00 - Organization, Literacy, and the Rise of Secular Parties (with Kit Rickard)
Zeynep Bulutgil (UCL)
Politics Research Colloquium
16:15 - Tropical plant diversity, biogeography and conservation: a multi-biome approach
This will be a hybrid event with the option to attend in person or join online. If joining online, click on "View online event" in your booking confirmation email for the Zoom link and passcode.
Prof Toby Pennington (University of Exeter)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
17:00 - BOOK LAUNCH 'Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social history of colonial racism'
Andrea Brazzoduro (MFO/Turin), James McDougall (Trinity)
17:00 - 'Dreams and Reflections: A Chinese Artist's Discovery of Europe', the 13th Annual Dahrendorf Lecture
Xiaolu Guo (Novelist and Filmmaker), Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's, Oxford)
Dahrendorf Programme - events
17:00 - Translating Psychiatry - Translating Illness Podcast
Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford), Alvise Sforza Tarabochia (University of Kent)
Translating Illness
17:30 - Advocacy and Activism – a Black Barrister’s Perspective
Matthew Ryder QC
17:30 - Advocacy and Activism – A Black Barrister’s Perspective
Matthew ryder, QC (Matrix Chamber)
18:30 - Laura Coppinger (soprano) & David Palmer (piano)
Emma Smith (Fellow and Tutor in English, University of Oxford)

Saturday 30 April 2022

09:00 - Conference Day 2: Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
Various Speakers
2-Day Conference: Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
10:30 - St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality - OPEN DAY
Various Speakers

Monday 2 May 2022

12:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 1, "Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate"
Various Speakers
American Literature Research Seminar
12:30 - Literary Imitation (mimesis) in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Case of Theodore Prodromos
Yan Zaripov (Oxford)
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

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