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13:00 - CV and Cover Letter Skills for Research Staff and DPhil Students
Pre-booking is essential for this event, as numbers are limited. To register, please login to CareerConnect and search for the event, then click on 'Book Now' by noon on Wednesday 8th February. If you book and later find you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking to enable someone else to take your place. If you have any particular requirements, that may help you to access this event, then please do share them with us prior to attending by contacting reception@careers.ox.ac.uk or telephone 01865 274646.
Dr Rachel Bray (Oxford University Careers Service)
Careers Workshops for Early Career Research Staff and DPhil Students Trinity Term 2017
14:00 - Conservative and Labour Research Departments and the EEC Debate, 1970-75
Mikko Lievonen (St Edmund Hall)
Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
14:00 - Matthew Paris (c.1200-1259): scribal identification and profile digitisation
Manuel Munoz Garcia (King's College London)
Research Materials: a Work-in-Progress Group on Manuscripts and Textual Transmission in the Middle Ages
14:00 - Effecting behaviour change in older adults through smartphone technology
Dr Alessandro Guazzi (Sentimoto)
Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing
14:00 - Blood, Sweat and Tears: the Transformation of the Roman Emperor's Image in the Early Seventh Century
Nadine Viermann (University of Konstanz)
Late Roman Seminar
14:00 - Oliver Smithies Lecture: 'Termes d’adresse et débats politiques télévisés de l’entre-deux-tours des élections présidentielles françaises (1974-2012) '
Professor Françoise Sullet-Nylander (University of Stockholm)
14:00 - Aspiration, Desire and the Joint Family in Pakistan
Ammara Maqsood (University of Oxford)
Contemporary South Asia Seminars
14:00 - Contained: exploring out-of-the box tools to build resilience in refugee-receiving communities
Marieke van Houte (University of Oxford)
14:00 - Music for the Amay Gyan Nat (Spirit): Song, Dance and Gender in Burmese Nat Pwe Ceremonies
Lorenzo Chiarofonte (PhD student, SOAS)
International Gender Studies: Feminist mapping in a volatile world; spaces of creativity and survival
14:15 - The First Arabic Translations of Enlightenment Literature: Syrians, Greeks and Franks in Damietta, 1808-1818
Peter Hill (Christ Church College, Oxford)
Traditions in Motion: The Circulation of Texts, 1100-1900
15:00 - 'The Power to Protect: Bargaining Power and Female Condom Use in Mozambique' - Dr Karlijn Morsink
Karlijn Morsink (Blavatnik School of Government/Economics)
Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
16:30 - Acting Willingly and Acting Freely
Rev. Dr. Peter Hunter OP (Blackfriars, Oxford)
The Aquinas Seminar: 'Agency in Human Beings & Other Animals
16:30 - Title TBC
Terence Irwin (University of Oxford)
Ancient Philosophy Workshop
16:30 - How multiverses might undercut the fine-tuning argument
Alastair Wilson (University of Birmingham)
Philosophy of Physics Seminar
17:00 - Charles I's most loyal subject: Thomas Harrison and the Sin of Uzzah
Preparatory reading: ‘The trial of Thomas Harrison,’ in Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials, vol. 3 (1809), 1369-82; Noel Malcolm, ‘Thomas Harrison and his “Ark of Studies”: An Episode in the History of the Organization of Knowledge’, Seventeenth Century, 19 (2004), 196-232; .David Cressy, Charles I and the People of England (Oxford, 2015), pp. 177-209 (‘Importunate Petitioners’); 2 Samuel 6: 1-7 or 1 Chronicles 13: 7-11.
Prof David Cressy (Claremont Graduate University and Christ Church)
Early Modern Britain Seminar
17:00 - Cities as First Responders of Climate Change
Cynthia Rosenzweig (NASA)
17:00 - Youth Waithood, Forced Migration, and the Transnational Negotiation of “Fortress” Europe: Case Studies of Congolese Migrants
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Peter Kankonde Bukasa (University of the Witwatersrand and University of Notre Dame)
African Studies Seminar Series
17:00 - Joint Seminar with the Oxford Maison Française: The Making of Latin-American "Neo-metalista" Monetary Policy in the 1920s: E. W. Kemmerer in the Andes
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (University of Lyon 2-Triangle Research Center)
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
17:00 - The Mendicants and the Motet
Christian Thomas Leitmeir (Magdalen College)
Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music
17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: Obscure on Purpose: Thucydides as Ancient Authority
Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

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