Education

Oxford Abridged Short Talks

Oxford University

Short interesting lectures from top Oxford academics. Includes a series of short lectures about love, held on Valentines Day 2011.

Episodes

11 episodes

Joseph Walther describes the hyperpersonal model and its relevance to the study of online dating. 'Idealisation' of perception and presentat...

4:11Feb 28, 2012

Erina Lee discusses the importance of similarity between partners in terms of long-term relationship satisfaction. She discusses some compat...

4:37Feb 28, 2012

Platonic love? Plato's main text on love, the Symposium, takes a broad look at what love means, offering a serious yet humorous, poignant an...

12:19Feb 15, 2011

Theatre was a forum for early twentieth-century feminists to challenge romantic ideals of marriage, arguing against society blocking women's...

12:22Feb 15, 2011

Dr Hogan explores values towards online dating, relating them to whether one's friends have dated online and whether social network software...

10:27Feb 14, 2011

In Swift's letters to his adored Stella, we see an elaborate combination of language and code to tease his reader but still communicate inti...

9:48Feb 14, 2011

This advert introduces a series of 4 talks on the subject of love and romance. The 10 minute talks took place at Oxford University on Valent...

0:45Feb 14, 2011

Professor Robin Dunbar explores if there is a limit to the number of friends we can keep track of and explains the origin of "Dunbar's Numbe...

16:36Feb 10, 2011

Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the surprising relationship between blood disorders and malaria in humans. Could two blood disorders ever b...

16:13Feb 10, 2011

Should we let slime moulds run our railways? Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway network...

12:55Feb 10, 2011

Sexual attraction and pheromones? Dr. Tristram Wyatt talks about pheromones and evolution in a short talk about the "Success of the smellies...

12:35Feb 10, 2011