Sunday 20 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - University Church A Brief History of Death
  Professor Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Eleanor Kerfoot (University of Oxford), Professor Steve Gunn (Merton College), Martin Robert (LSHTM)
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Welcome seminar and discussion of sources and approaches to histories of childhood
  Barnabas Balint (Oxford, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum), Catherine Sloane (Oxford), Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 11:00 - Debates on Jewish eligibility for citizenship: shaping moves towards Reform
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7
• 11:30 - Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act (with G. Facchini, M. Tabellini, and C. Testa)
  Andrea Bernini (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 12:00 - Towards synchrotron functionality in the X-ray lab
  In person
  Dr Martin Peter Pichotka (University Medical Center Freiburg)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:00 - What is the Status Quo in the Taiwan Strait?
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 12:15 - C course: British Literature and Culture at Mid-Century
  Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:30 - 'Getting ready for the Anthropocene: overcoming obstacles on the development path for municipal water and sanitation services' with Prof Dale Whittington
  Dale Whittington (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 12:45 - The Cosmopolitan Queer: Renée Vivien's Translations as De/Construction
  Rebecca Boyd (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  David Kretschmer (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 13:00 - Control of ribosomal RNA transcription in hematopoiesis
  Assistant Professor Vikram Paralkar (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine)
  WIMM Occasional Seminars
• 13:00 - Quant Hub seminar: Rethinking belonging - Measurement challenges across educational and professional contexts
  Dr. Ellen L (Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science)
  Quantitative Methods Hub – Seminar Programme MT 2024
• 13:30 - New Approaches to Financing Loss and Damage
  Prof Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
• 14:15 - Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency?
  Gregor Singer (London School of Economics)
  Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
• 15:00 - Viking Age burials and Medieval Settlement from Fjörður, Iceland / Viking Ships. Gateways to the Past
  Ragnheiður Traustadóttir, Knut Paache
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 16:00 - On Creolized New Music
  Dr Harald Kisiedu (Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences‘ Institute of Music), Dr Harald Kisiedu (Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences‘ Institute of Music)
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• 16:00 - “There is a Fatal Facility in the Use of Technical Terms”: a Media History Perspective on First Aid in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  Dr Sally Frampton (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Rise or Decline? How Measurement Problems in Terrorism Data Lead to Different Conclusions About the Same Phenomenon
  Jacob Ravndal (University of Oslo)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 16:00 - James Bartholomew’s The Welfare State We’re In
  Prof Philip Booth (St Mary's University Twickenham London)
  Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference
• 17:00 - The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)
  Book Talks
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