Keble College
By Oxford University
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Description
One of the largest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford with 410 undergraduate and 235 graduate students. It was the wish of our founders in 1870 to extend access to the University more widely, and the College has a continuing commitment to inclusiveness. The College prides itself on the academic achievements of its students, and aims to offer a supportive environment in which learning can flourish. Keble is a vibrant community whose students excel not only academically, but also in music, drama, and sport.
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The Avian Genome Explosion | The ASC Trinity Term Lecture delivered by Professor Tom Gilbert, exploring the analysis of bird genomes and evolution. | 27 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Audience with Rufus Norris, Artistic Director of the National Theatre | The acclaimed director, Rufus Norris, has just taken over as Artistic Director of the National Theatre – a role that is widely regarded as the biggest job in British theatre. Here he is in discussion with Robin Geffen. | 18 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Party Games: Coalitions in British Politics | Professor Angus Hawkins gives a talk about the history of coalitions in British politics as well as the current Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. | 23 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Oralising Early Modern Italian Literature | How and how far did orality play a part in the circulation of literature in early modern Italy? A lecture by Professor Brian Richardson. | 16 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Under Eastern Eyes: The Raj in Modern Indian Memory | Dr. Misra, Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University and a Fellow of Keble College, gives a talk on The Raj in Modern Indian Memory. | 28 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Boxing Clever, or Just Boxed In?: Developing Metal Complexes for Biological Imaging | Professor Stephen Faulkner, Tutorial Fellow at Keble College, delivers the Richardson Lecture, entitled "Boxing Clever, or Just Boxed In? Developing Metal Complexes for Biological Imaging“. | 28 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mathematics Aspects of the Planet Earth | Professor José Francisco Rodrigues, Lisbon/CMAF, delivers the ASC Complexity Cluster Lecture entitled 'Some Mathematical Aspects of Planet Earth' at Keble College. | 28 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Material Engagements: From Early Prehistory to Contemporary Art | Professor Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge, gives a talk that explores human creativity and the engagement between the individual and the material world. | 28 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ariosto's Chivalric Romance as a Source of Italian Epic Theory | Professor Daniel Javitch (Emeritus Prof. Comparative Literature, New York University) gives a talk for the Keble College ASC Creativity lecture series on 28th May 2013. | 7 6 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Craftsmanship: Connecting the Physical and the Social | Professor Richard Sennett (London School of Economics) gives a talk for the Keble College seminar series. | 7 6 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sisterhood and Female Friendship in a Seventeenth Century Miscellany: Constance Aston Fowler's Manuscript Anthology | Professor Helen Hackett gives a talk for the Keble College Seminar Series on 26th April 2013. | 7 6 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Characterisation of Networks | The ASC Networks cluster visiting researcher Prof. Richard Wilson (Department of Computer Science, University of York) gives a public lecture on his work on networks at Keble College. | 10 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Delete: Forgetting in the Digital Age | Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute Viktor Mayer-Schönberger gives the Keble London lecture 2012. | 11 1 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Flexible City: overcoming Lock-In and Path-Dependency | Cities are epicentres of creativity and innovation but are also easily locked into patterns of infrastructure and behaviour that may not serve them best. | 2 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Will Africa Harness its New Opportunities? | Professor Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford discusses the opportunities and challenges facing Africa. | 28 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creativity Lecture 8: Creativity as a neuroscientific mystery | Prof. Margaret Boden (Philosophy, Sussex) delivers a lecture as part of the Keble College Creativity series. | 28 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Distributed Creativity in Musical Performance | Professor Eric F. Clarke gives a talk for the Keble College Creativity series on creativity in musical performances. | 17 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why the Internet won't get you any more friends | Professor Robin Dunbar, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, Oxford, gives a talk as part of the Keble College Creativity Lecture series. | 28 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Other Within: An Anthropology of Englishness | Professor Chris Gosden talks about what it means to be English with reference to a project at the Pitt Rivers Museum called 'The Other Within'. | 27 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Can the West Live with Islam? | Sir Jonathan Phillips of Keble College, Oxford, chairs a debate between Professor Nigel Biggar, Theology Faculty, University of Oxford, and Islamic Studies lecturer, Tim Winter, University of Cambridge; on the topic : Can the West Live with Islam? | 17 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creating Cyborgs | Professor Kevin Warwick from Reading University talks about his innovative research in the area of robotics and cyborgs. | 8 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creativity Lecture 5: The Neuroscience of Creativity | Professor Susan Greenfield explains how neuroscience can make innovative contributions to creativity by offering a perspective at the level of the physical brain. | 6 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Geoengineering: Fantasy or Feasible Future? | Richard Darton gives a talk for the 2011 Oxford Alumni Weekend on the developments in the science of Geoengineering and looks at how close we are to be able to do it. | 3 10 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creativity Lecture 4: Two Sides of the Creativity Coin - Innovation and Lock-in | Professor Steve Rayner (University of Oxford) presents creative and innovative potential solutions to the energy crisis and problems caused by climate change. | 7 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creativity Lecture 3: Creativity - Abduction or Improvisation? | Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen) discusses his current research, on the comparative anthropology of the line, exploring issues on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. | 20 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creativity Lecture 2: Creative Selves, Creative Expression | Professor Richard Harper (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) presents on how to design for 'being human' in an age when human-as-machine type metaphors, deriving from Turing and others, tend to dominate thinking in the area. | 20 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creativity Lecture 1: Soul Dust - the Science and Art of Consciousness | Nicholas Humphrey, a theoretical psychologist based in Cambridge, presents his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness. Part of the Creativity Lecture Series by the Keble College Advanced Studies Centre. | 23 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Partial Differential Equations: Origins, Developments and Roles in the Changing World | Professor Gui-Qiang G. Chen presents in his inaugural lecture several examples to illustrate the origins, developments, and roles of partial differential equations in our changing world. | 22 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Understanding Creativity | Dr Chris Gosden gives a talk on creativity and artefacts and the development of tools and objects throughout human history. Delivered in Keble College as part of the OXford Alumni Weekend 2010. | 20 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carbon Dating: The Science of When Things Happen | Dr Thomas Higham gives a talk on Carbon Dating; the way in which scientists establish the age of ancient and prehistoric artefacts. This lecture was delivered at Keble College as part of the Oxford Alumni Weekend 2010. | 20 10 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Delete! | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger looks at the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. | 10 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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RoboCup | Dr. Steven Cameron takes us on a trip to RoboCup. Tiny players roll across the pitch, others lumber unsteadily or roll by. The goals keep coming but the players never tire. It's football, but not as we know it. Say hello to the future of sport. | 21 12 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It | What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? This is Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford. | 9 10 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Societies in Transition: Technology and Transition in the 21st Century | Professor Rayner talks about society in the 21st century the impacts of science and technology, particularly cyber-technology and the Internet. He also asks how the new technology will change society and what it means to be a person. | 24 3 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Societies in Transition: Becoming Roman in Britain | Lecture on Britain under Roman rule and the incorporation of Britain into the Roman world. Professor Gosden also talks about the significance of our environment, the outside, material world, and how it influences historical events in ancient history. | 24 3 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Showcase: Institute for Science and Civilization | Showcase: Institute for Science and Civilization. | 15 12 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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