Wolfson College Podcasts
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Wolfson is the largest graduate college in Oxford. Our diverse student body has a wide spread of disciplines and nationalities. The College is both traditional and unconventional, forward thinking and friendly.
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Looking back; Moving Forwards: The History of Black Lives Matter | Wolfson College marks Black History Month 2020 with an engaging discussion with Britain's foremost experts on the history of black lives and communities in Britain. In this panel discussion we look at the deep and fascinating history of black individual | 5 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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If biodiversity is the medicine, then what are its active ingredients? | In this year's Haldane lecture, Professor Kathy Willis examines the newly emerging 'green health' scientific evidence-base. The lecture is introduced by the College President, Sir Tim Hitchens. It has long been recognized that nature, especially in citi | 18 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Experience of Courts: A Tale of Two Europes | This Wolfson College Lecture Series aims to explore the socio-legal dimensions of our experience in courts, and with other forms of legal proceedings. In this lecture entitled "A Tale of Two Europes", The Rt Hon Lord Reed focuses on Law and Europe. | 25 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pakistan women on the frontlines | Oscar-winning journalist, filmmaker and activist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy delivers the Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture. The lecture is introduced by Sir Tim Hitchens, College President. Pakistan, a deeply patriarchal society is rapidly changing and women are at t | 21 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Spoken memoir of Professor Jon Stallworthy | A speech given by Sir Richard Sorabji at the launch party for the Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Campaign. | 21 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alexandria in the Roman Empire: Politics, Commerce and Culture | The 2019 Ronald Syme lecture was presented by Professor Alan Bowman and introduced by Sir Tim Hitchens. Alexandria was for many centuries, the largest and most important city in the eastern Mediterranean. This lecture explores how Rome tried to ensure i | 13 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Diplomacy for the 21st Century: The Future of the Democratic West | Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former US Political Director and NATO Ambassador, delivered the final lecture in the Wolfson Lecture Series: Diplomacy in the 21st Century. He is introduced by Sir Tim Hitchens, College President. | 13 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Expanding the diplomatic toolkit: the further evolution of science diplomacy | Sir Peter Gluckman, Former New Zealand Chief Scientific Advisor, presented the fourth Wolfson College Lecture in this series on modern diplomacy. The lecture was introduced by Sir Tim Hitchens. Science diplomacy has become much more than international s | 13 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Twenty-first century diplomacy: a new rule book | In the third 'Diplomacy for the 21st Century' Lecture, Sir Tim Hitchens concentrates on 21st-century diplomacy, and how it differs from 20th-century diplomacy Diplomacy for the 21st Century' is a Wolfson College Lecture Series that gives insight into ho | 13 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Diplomacy for the 21st Century: An African Perspective | The second Wolfson College Lecture in Diplomacy for the 21st Century was presented by Yamina Karitanyi, the current High Commissioner for the Republic of Rwanda to the United Kingdom . The lecture was introduced by College President, Sir Tim Hitchens. I | 11 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Quest for the Structure of the Ribosome: A Personal Voyage | The 2019 Haldane Lecture was delivered by Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, on February 7th at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture was introduced by College President Sir Tim Hitchens. The thousands of genes in our DNA are transla | 11 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Diplomacy for the 21st Century: An Asian Perspective | Wolfson College was honoured to have Koji Tsuruoka, Ambassador of Japan, to present this year's Wolfson Lecture Series in Diplomacy for the 21st Century. The lecture was introduced by College President Sir Tim Hitchens. Tectonic plates are shifting in t | 6 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Magic, Healing, and Ethics in Tibetan Buddhism | The 4th Aris Lecture in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies was delivered by Dr Sam van Schaik (British Library) on 15th November 2018 at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture was introduced by Professor Ulrike Roesler. Books of spells are a constant but littl | 6 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Fate of Pakistan - three ways in which things could really go wrong, and reasons for hope they may not | The 2018 Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture was delivered by nuclear physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy on October 18th at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture was introduced by College President Sir Tim Hitchens. Pakistan in 2018 elected as its new leader a crusading | 6 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Spectacular Diplomacy: Nero and the Reception of Tiridates of Armenia on the Bay of Naples | The 2018 Ronald Syme Lecture was delivered by Professor Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, on 1st November. The lecture was introduced by Wolfson College President Sir Tim Hitchens. After much jockeying between | 6 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Stroke of Bad Luck - Understanding Brain Disease | The 2018 Wolfson Haldane Lecture was delivered by Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell and introduced by Professor Philomen Probert. Stroke is the third greatest killer and causes massive disability, yet there are few effective treatments. It is caused by a di | 9 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Migration and the Metropolis: How ancient Rome stayed great | Professor Greg Woolf, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London, gave this year's Ronald Syme Lecture at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture was introduced by Professor Philomen Probert. Romans told many myths of their | 3 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rule of Law and Democratic Development in Pakistan | Human rights lawyer and social activist Asma Jahangir gives the fourth annual Sarfraz Pakistan lecture. The lecture is introduced by Matthew McCartney. Pakistan has yet to fully comprehend that democracy cannot survive unless there are strong judicial | 20 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Koh-i-Noor: the Real Jewel in the Crown | Writer and historian William Dalrymple gives the third annual Sarfraz Pakistan lecture. The lecture is introduced by Matthew McCartney. | 28 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why the 'Boring Billion' is the most interesting billion years in Earth History | Raymond Pierrehumbert, holder of the Halley Professorship of Physics at Oxford, gives the 2017 annual Wolfson Haldane Lecture. The lecture is introduced by Hermione Lee, College President. The Proterozoic is the period of Earth history extending from ap | 28 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What is the point of universities? | Lord Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, gives the opening talk at Wolfson College's 50th Anniversary celebration weekend The presentation was introduced by the College President, Dame Hermione Lee. | 15 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The US – Pakistan Relations under Obama: Resilience of Clientelism? | The Annual Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture, Wolfson College, Oxford, 30 Nov 2015 Christophe Jaffrelot is Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King's India Institute, and Research Director at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). | 2 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Councillor and the Clerk | Ronald Syme Annual Lecture 2015 The Syme lecture is held every year in Michaelmas term, it was established in memory of the Roman Historian Sir Ronald Syme. Sir Ronald Syme was a Fellow of the College from 1970 until 1989. He is regarded as the twentiet | 18 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What is e-Research? Introducing the Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster | Introducing a new strategic collaboration between Wolfson College and the Oxford e-Research Centre. A series of short informal talks to introduce members of the College to the range of work across the disciplines at the OeRC, with Acting President of Wo | 16 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Is there another economic crash on the way? | Sir Vince talks about some of the issues raised in his latest book 'After the Storm' Sir Vince Cable was Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition government, from 2010 to 2015. He is releasing | 29 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The nature of the beast: Genetic evidence for Yeti, Bigfoot and other mystery creatures | Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics, describes how he located and analysed as many DNA samples as possible with links to the Yeti. In doing so, he found himself entering a strange world of mystery and sensationalism, fraud and obsession. | 10 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Origin of Our Species | Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, London, gave the 2015 Haldane Lecture at Wolfson College, Oxford. He discusses how we are mostly, but not entirely, 'Out of Africa'. Human Evolution can be divided | 10 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Rhetoric of 'The Roman Revolution' | A lecture given by Professor Christopher Pelling, Oxford Regius Professor of Greek, is the first annual Syme Lecture to address the work of the great historian of Ancient Rome himself. Professor Pelling took a literary historiographical approach to Syme | 14 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Rhetoric of 'The Roman Revolution' (Slides) | A lecture given by Professor Christopher Pelling, Oxford Regius Professor of Greek, is the first annual Syme Lecture to address the work of the great historian of Ancient Rome himself. Professor Pelling took a literary historiographical approach to Syme | 14 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pakistan is a viable and not a failed state if...? | Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Leader and the Chairman of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, delivered the inaugural Sarfraz lecture on October 30th 2014, at Wolfson College, Oxford. | 14 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The First Fall of the Roman Empire | Walter Scheidel, Professor of Classics & History at Stanford University, gave the 2013 annual lecture held in memory of eminent Roman historian Sir Ronald Syme Lecture. The lecture was introduced by College President, Hermione Lee. | 28 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Who buried the bodies? | Kamila Shamsie, the Pakistani-born author of books including In the City by the Sea and Burnt Shadows, gives a talk as part of the 2014 Wolfson Lecture series on 'New Challenges for South Asian Writing in the 21st Century'. | 28 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Janus: At the mirror wall | Romesh Gunesekera, the celebrated British/Sri Lankan author of the Booker-prize nominated 'Reef', presents the first of the 2014 Wolfson Lecture series on 'New Challenges for South Asian Writing in the 21st century'. | 28 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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DNA USA: a genetic portrait of America | Based on his latest book, Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University, gave a public lecture at Wolfson College exploring the rich ancestral tapestry of the American nation. From the moment that our DNA fingerprints could be profiled, | 28 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories | Wolfson's President, Professor Hermione Lee, gave an evocative lecture at Lincoln's Inn, London, entitled 'From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories' Professor Lee presented a lecture in the Old Hall concerning encounters between | 1 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The better angels of our nature: A history of violence and humanity | Steven Pinker gives a compelling account of the unacknowledged worldwide decline of violence in the 2014 Haldane Lecture Professor Pinker details how humanity has gone through a series of stages over the past 6,000 years through which rates of violence | 6 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Living in a Quantum World | Wolfson Fellow Professor Vlatko Vedral delivered a lecture on March 12th 2013 at the Royal Society in London. His presentation includes discussion of the applications of quantum physics in other areas of science and technology. Vlatko Vedral made his na | 4 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Making Science Work | Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, presents the 2013 Wolfson Haldane Lecture. The speaker is introduced by College President, Hermione Lee. | 18 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture | Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture. The talk is introduced by College President Hermione Lee. | 18 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The real Jane Austen: A life in small things | Biographer Paula Byrne (Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead) delivers the second Weinrebe lecture on Life-Writing and Portraiture. | 1 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Man with a blue scarf: On sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud | Art critic Martin Gayford (A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney and Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud) delivers the first annual Weinrebe lecture on Life-Writing and Portraiture. | 1 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hidden Worlds: Art within Science | Do science and art have anything in common? Do artists and scientists share practices - from practicalities to ways of looking at the world? A cross-disciplinary discussion with a panel of artists and scientists, held at Wolfson College on 18th October | 10 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Freud's Impossible Life | Renowned psychologist, literary critic and essayist Adam Phillips delivers a public lecture at Wolfson College on his work on 'Freud's Impossible Life'. The lecture is introduced by the College President, Hermione Lee. | 22 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Containing multitudes': writing about Pevsner | Biographer Susie Harries delivered this Oxford Centre for Life-Writing lecture on her acclaimed biography, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life. Biographer Susie Harries speaks on her acclaimed biography of Nikolaus Pevsner, the German-born British scholar of his | 8 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Sun King and his Court: from Rome to Versailles and back | The 2012 Wolfson College Ronald Syme Lecture was given by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Master of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. The speaker is introduced by College President Professor Hermione Lee. A Roman social and cultural hist | 8 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Climate change and two concepts of liberty | The final lecture in the series entitled Climate Connections was presented by Dr Myles Allen who currently heads the Climate Dynamics Group in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Dr. Allen's latest research addresses the question of how sci | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Climate change: making the best use of scientific information | Thomas Stocker discusses the challenges that are posed to climate scientists when communicating with the public. Professor Stocker is at the laboratory for Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Berne, Switzerland. Climate science regularly ma | 11 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why is climate change so difficult to understand? | The second lecture of a series entitled 'Climate Connections' was presented by Carl Wunsch, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In this talk, Prof Wunsch considers the perhaps unique probl | 4 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The public and private ethics of climate change | This first lecture of a series entitled 'Climate Connections' is presented by John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The progress of climate change places moral demands on all of us to do somethi | 2 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Scholarship Opportunities at Wolfson | Professor Andrew Neil, Nicholas West and Bonnie Lander talk about the different scholarship opportunities offered at Wolfson College. | 7 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation | The first Weinrebe lecture in life-writing was given by Michèle Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. The lecture is introduced by Professor Hermione Lee. In this lecture, Michèle Roberts offers a stimulatin | 7 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The closest exit may be behind you | The British-Libyan author Hisham Matar describes to a packed audience at Wolfson College the 'existential crisis' at the heart of contemporary Libyan national identity. The talk is introduced by Hermione Lee. The British-Libyan author Hisham Matar marke | 24 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Trying to do more good than harm in health care | The 2012 Wolfson College Haldane Lecture was given by leading health services researcher Sir Iain Chalmers, currently Coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, Oxford, UK. Sir Iain Chalmers is a leading health services researcher who has spent the past | 21 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction | The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam attests to the edifying power of fiction and biography in the third lecture in the Weinrebe series from the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam a | 20 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography | Booker Prize winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst discusses fiction and biography in conversation with Hermione Lee at Wolfson College's Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW). Alan Hollinghurst gives an insight into the secrets of his fiction at Wolfson C | 8 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Work of Music: Music and Mathematics | A talk given at Wolfson College as part of a lecture series entitled "The Work of Music". Timothy Gowers is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Centre For Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK. | 6 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Work of Music: Music and Psychology | A talk given at Wolfson College as part of a lecture series entitled "The Work of Music". Eric Clarke is Professor of Music at the Music Faculty, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. | 6 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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All About His Mother: Reading Proust's Letters | The inaugural lecture of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing was delivered by Micahel Wood, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He was introduced by Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson College and Director of the Centr | 16 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sir Anthony Caro in conversation with Tim Marlow | Wolfson College was privileged to welcome back esteemed honorary fellow Sir Anthony Caro on 2nd November, who, 'in conversation' with art historian Tim Marlow, recounted his fifty-year career as one of the key figures in contemporary sculpture. | 8 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The contact zone: the creation of a Roman literature | The 2011 Wolfson College Syme Lecture was given by Denis Feeney, Giger Professor of Latin and Professor of Classics, Princeton University. The speaker is introduced by College President Prof. Hermione Lee. | 8 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Applied Logic | The 2011 Wolfson College Haldane Lecture was given by Sir Tony Hoare, Emeritus Professor at Oxford University Computing Laboratory and a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. | 14 3 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Empire, Empires, and the End of Antiquity | The 2010 Wolfson College Syme Lecture was given by Oxford Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, Dame Averil Cameron. The speaker is introduced by College President Prof. Hermione Lee. | 14 3 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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War and Civilization Series Lecture 4: War and Liberation | Ian Buruma is a writer and lecturer focussing on Asian (esp. Japanese) culture. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York. The proposition underlying this year's Wolfson Lectures on 'War | 24 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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War and Civilization Series Lecture 3: War and Pity | Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of myths, symbols, and fairytales. She is currently Professor at Essex University. The proposition underlying this year's Wolfson | 24 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry | Geoffrey Hill is currently Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University and in 2009 his Collected Critical Writings won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. The proposition underlying this year's Wolfson Lectures on 'War and Civi | 24 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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War and Civilization Series Lecture 1: War and Finance | Niall Ferguson is currently Professor of History at Harvard University and Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics. The proposition underlying this year's Wolfson Lectures on 'War and Civilization' is that, as on | 24 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The long hard road to democracy and social justice | A lecture given by retired Labour MP Tony Benn at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture is introduced by Prof Richard Sorabji. | 11 12 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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