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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CleanA 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. | 9 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMigration 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. | 3 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRule 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. | 20 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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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CleanWhy 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. | 28 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat is the point of universities? | Lord Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, gives the opening talk at Wolfson College's 50th Anniversary celebration weekend | 15 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe US – Pakistan Relations under Obama: Resilience of Clientelism? | The Annual Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture, Wolfson College, Oxford, 30 Nov 2015 | 2 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Councillor and the Clerk | Ronald Syme Annual Lecture 2015 | 18 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat is e-Research? Introducing the Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster | Introducing a new strategic collaboration between Wolfson College and the Oxford e-Research Centre. | 16 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIs there another economic crash on the way? | Sir Vince talks about some of the issues raised in his latest book 'After the Storm' | 29 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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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CleanThe 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'. | 10 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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. | 14 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | CleanThe 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. | 14 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPakistan 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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CleanThe 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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CleanWho 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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CleanJanus: 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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CleanDNA 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. | 28 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom 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' | 1 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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 | 6 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLiving 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. | 4 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMaking 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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Clean"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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CleanThe 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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CleanMan 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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CleanHidden 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? | 10 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFreud'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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Clean'Containing multitudes': writing about Pevsner | Biographer Susie Harries delivered this Oxford Centre for Life-Writing lecture on her acclaimed biography, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life. | 8 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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. | 8 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanClimate 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. | 24 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanClimate 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. | 11 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy 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. | 4 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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. | 2 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanScholarship 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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Clean"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. | 7 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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. | 24 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrying 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. | 21 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhere 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. | 20 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat 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). | 8 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Work of Music: Music and Mathematics | A talk given at Wolfson College as part of a lecture series entitled "The Work of Music". | 6 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Work of Music: Music and Psychology | A talk given at Wolfson College as part of a lecture series entitled "The Work of Music". | 6 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAll 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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CleanSir 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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CleanThe 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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CleanApplied 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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CleanEmpire, 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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CleanWar 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. | 24 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWar 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. | 24 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWar 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. | 24 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWar 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. | 24 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 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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