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14:00 - Mechanisms of Innate Immunity and Parkinson’s Disease
Dr Richard Youle (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) National Institutes of Health (NIH))
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
14:00 - How has the perception of public good of HE changed in post-war Japan?
Kiyomi Horiuchi (Hiroshima Cosmopolitan University), Futao Huang (Hiroshima University)
14:00 - Prizes and Incentives in Sequential Exploration
Fikri Pitsuwan
15:00 - Belief-averaged relative utilitarianism
Florian Brandl
16:00 - Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes
Maarten Lindeboom (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Health Economics Seminar
16:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Scholarship
16:30 - The Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting
Various Speakers
17:00 - Prof Yvonne Jones, Prof Phil Biggins & Prof Charles Godfray in conversation: "Protein structure & AI: the excitement about the recent advance made by Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold Programme"
Prof Yvonne Jones (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School), Prof Phil Biggin (University of Oxford)
Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
17:00 - Combinatorial Creatures: Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes
Details on how to join will be distributed the day of the talk on the Cortex Club mailing list. Details on how to subscribe at https://cortexclub.com/join-us/
Prof Leah Krubitzer (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, California, USA)
Cortex Club - Oxford Neuroscience Society
17:30 - What does data really tell us about the generational divide?
Dr Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Data Debates: Talking about my generation
18:00 - The Jewish and Christian Aramaic-speaking communities in Iraq
Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge)
I J S A U T U M N 2 0 2 0 O N L I N E L E C T U R E S E R I E S
18:00 - Board Games and Medieval Medicine
Daniel Burt (The Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
22:00 - The Torture Doctors: Human rights crimes and the road to justice
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST
Steven Miles, MD (Professor of Medicine and Bioethics Emeritus)
Contemporary Authors in Bioethics Series, Centre for Bioethics, Harvard

Friday 11 December 2020

09:00 - CALL FOR PAPERS - EUROPAEUM CLASSICS COLLOQUIUM Slavery: Antiquity and Modernity in Dialogue
Deadline for submission of applications and abstracts: 11 December 2020 Deadline for final papers: 22 January 2021
Professor Nino Luraghi (University of Oxford), Prof Edith Hall (King's College, London), Dr Myles Lavan (University of St Andrews)
Europaeum events
10:30 - Climate Change and the Challenges of Development: Himalayan Forum
Various Speakers
Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
12:00 - IMH Workshop: Medical Humanities in Teaching
IMH Institute for medical humanities, Durham https://www.dur.ac.uk/imh/
Dr Carsten Timmermann (Manchester), Jun Prof Susanne Michl (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Dr Marie Allitt (Oxford), Prof Anita Wohlmann (University of Southern Denmark), Dr M.S. Parry (Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
14:00 - Dietary weight loss for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Elizabeth Morris (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences), Dr. Dimitrios Koutoukidis (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
Sparking Collaboration Across Departments
15:00 - WCCEH Seminar: "Can Research Change Your Life?"
TBA
Wellcome Centre for the Cultures + Environments of Health
16:00 - Megafauna history and biome ecology in South America
To receive joining instructions for this online seminar, please register via the booking url below.
Prof. Dr. Vinícius de Lima Dantas (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
16:00 - Changing the Record: How bioethics ought to address racism and bias in health care and beyond
Forum starts 11 a.m EST
Yolonda Wilson (National Humanities Center, North Carolina)
Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics - Public Bioethics Forums and Special Events

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