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Produced by New College, Oxford, 72 Weeks details how life can change, and indeed has changed, for people over the course of an Oxford University degree. Each episode focuses on a different theme, with guests having some form of commonality.

Talking Appalachian is a podcast about the Appalachian Mountain region's voiceplace (its words and accents) and other aspects of its culture, such as literature, lore, and locale. Hosted by Dr. Amy Clark, an applied linguist and co-founding Director of the Center for Appalachian Studies at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. The podcast is based on her 2013 co-edited book Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community. Her writing on Appalachia has appeared in the New York Tim ...

The Global Economic Governance Programme was established at University College in 2003 to foster research and debate into how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of people in developing countries. The Programme is directly linked to Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations and Centre for International Studies. It serves as an interdisciplinary umbrella within Oxford drawing together members of the Departments of Economics, Law and Developm ...

A half-day symposium to mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, thought to be the first handbook of microscopy, and also to applaud recent new developments in molecular-scale microscopy as recognised by the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the 2014 Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Podcasts from members of St Antony's College, listen as they talk about their research on from such varied and significsant subjects such as the challenge of COVID-19, the end of the cold war, the importance of digital new and fake news.

Professor of Economic Policy, University of Oxford Fellow in Economics, New College, Oxford Interests include Utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment. Concentrating on the energy, water, communications and transport sectors primarily in Britain and Europe

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At a time of great uncertainty on the matter of Brexit, The Queen's College Colloquium brings together leading experts from the UK, Europe and the US to provide an informative synthesis of the future facts on possible outcomes to ongoing negotiations. Speakers will consider what could lie ahead for the UK, what solutions should be sought and actions now taken, with a concluding Round Table Discussion and Questions chaired by Ngaire Woods CBE, founding dean of the Blavatnik School of Governme ...

Where college basketball matters. The Field of 68 Media Network presents our flagship show, After Dark. Join a variety of basketball commentators and analysts, from Rob Dauster, Jeff Goodman, and John Fanta, to Terrence Oglesby, Randolph Childress, Tyler Hansbrough, and many more, as they break down the college basketball season every. single. night.

Free Speech Debate (http://freespeechdebate.com/) is a global, multilingual website for the discussion of free speech in the age of mass migration and the internet. Ten draft principles for global free speech are laid out, together with explanations and case studies - all for debate. Prominent figures from diverse cultures, faiths and political tendencies are interviewed and asked to comment through video, audio and text. Individual users from across the world are strongly encouraged to take ...

In this Oxford World’s Classics audio guide, listen to Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford University – who edited and selected this new edition – introduce Henry Mayhew’s ‘London Labour and the London Poor’. ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ originated in a series of articles for a London newspaper and grew into a massive record of the daily life of Victorian London’s underclass. Mayhew conducted hundreds of interviews with the city’s street traders, entertainers, thieves ...

The Body and Being Network is a new interdisciplinary initiative that brings together scholars and artists for innovative dialogues about the body. The Body and Being Network events have been supported by the Research Task Group at St Hilda's College. The main themes discussed in the series are concepts of the body and of embodied being. Past events have explored what it means to be present and (un)comfortable in our own bodies, how embodied being and academic being conflict - and what this ...

Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism Conference The Global History of Capitalism project, housed within the Oxford Centre for Global History, is a focal point for ongoing scholarship on the history of capitalism. The project promotes an explicitly global perspective that contextualises the history of capitalism beyond the West and investigates the deep institutional roots of capitalist systems. The Global History of Capitalism project hosted the conferen ...

The Constructing Scientific Communities Project explores citizen science in the 19th and 21st centuries. It brings together historical and literary research in the nineteenth century with contemporary scientific practice, looking at the ways in which patterns of popular communication and engagement in nineteenth-century science can offer models for current practice. The project is based at the Universities of Oxford and Leicester, in partnership with three significant scientific institutions ...

Weekly Twitter SPACES chats with original thinkers and bowling heros. Starting with the Beatles GET BACK movie, Riley explores the connections between rock history and today's scene. Also, check out his Rock Critic's Guide to Classical episodes... @timrileyauthor NPR CRITIC, EMERSON COLLEGE PROFESSOR and AUTHOR TIM RILEY reviews pop and classical music for NPR’s ON POINT and HERE AND NOW and COPPER magazine from http://PSAUDIO.com. His reviews appear widely in the NEW YORK TIMES, http://trut ...

WDAV's Biscuits and Bach host, Rachel Stewart, talks with musicians, artists, chefs, foodies and others about everybody's favorite topic - food.Subscribe to a podcast of this series via iTunes using the button below or visit our subscribe page for other options.Subscribe