Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably?
This Alumni Weekend panel discusses future energy needs and steps that must be taken to increase the chance that they can be met sustainably...
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20 of 132 episodesCultural Frontier: Early 20th Century Vienna
Re-visiting the time of Freud, Klimt and Schönberg, the Alumni Weekend panel surveys and analyse this unique period in Vienna’s history and...
Quo Vadis Ukraine: The Conflict and Beyond
Panel discussion of the Ukraine reviewing the current situation, exploring the context of the conflict which broke out in 2014, assessing it...
Sacred Landscapes, Buddhist Temples: A case study from Central Tibet
This talk illustrates how Tibetan Buddhism relates to the landscapes of the Tibetan plateau, to form a unique, truly Himalayan blend.
Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War
The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The W...
The Commercial Evolution of Microfinance: From donor dependence to sustainable social investment institutions
Ira Lieberman provides an expert analysis on the evolution of micro-finance institutions. Followed by Juan Guerra, founder of StudentFunder...
Oxford’s Global Leadership in Social Enterprise: A panel discussion
Social finance and social investment is creating a global buzz, with estimates that the sector will grow over the next decade – an emerging...
Innovation in Financing Human Well-being
Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine and Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford, in conversation.
Why is Oxford Determined to Change the Way We Discover New Medicines?
Chas Bountra, a popular speaker at the recent Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Asia, will explain how Oxford is creating a new ecosystem for...
Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate
Nigel Bowles explores Nixon’s politics that achieved a synthesis of strategy, imagination, ideologies, and calculation rare among Presidents...
Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation
Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian and Fellow of Balliol, and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church and Fellow of St...
What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate
How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more.
Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas
Joe Cartwright provides a geological perspective into the exploration of shale gas reserves.
What is a Cyber-Attack?
What constitutes a cyber-attack and who conducts them? What are the risks to society? Sadie Creese will discuss these issues and explain res...
The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford
Professor Lionel Tarassenko, an alumnus of the Department and its new Head as of September 2014, sets out his vision for the Department for...
Jenkin Lecture The Oxford RobotCar
Paul Newman talks about the UK’s first self-driving car – being developed at the Department of Engineering Science. He’ll explain the projec...
The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks
Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Ian Goldin argues that it al...
Living with Flooding: Science, democracy and the complex challenge of managing environmental risk
Professor Whatmore, who focuses on the interface between cultural geography, political theory and science and technology studies, will draw...
The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East
Drawing on European and Middle Eastern sources, historian Eugene Rogan provides an overview of the Great War in the Middle East from both si...
The Future of the Past: Dating archaeology using radiocarbon and particle accelerators
Tom Higham examines some of the projects the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit has been involved with over the last few years; from dating the Ne...