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Alumni Weekend — 149 episodes

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Sacred Landscapes, Buddhist Temples: A case study from Central Tibet

2

Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War

3

The Commercial Evolution of Microfinance: From donor dependence to sustainable social investment institutions

4

Oxford’s Global Leadership in Social Enterprise: A panel discussion

5

Innovation in Financing Human Well-being

6

Why is Oxford Determined to Change the Way We Discover New Medicines?

7

Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate

8

Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation

9

What Maths Really Does: From modelling the brain to modelling the climate

10

Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas

11

What is a Cyber-Attack?

12

The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford

13

Jenkin Lecture The Oxford RobotCar

14

The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks

15

Living with Flooding: Science, democracy and the complex challenge of managing environmental risk

16

The Ottoman Front: The First World War in the Middle East

17

The Future of the Past: Dating archaeology using radiocarbon and particle accelerators

18

Heroes, Villains and Victims: The dangerous politics of international migration

19

Forbidden Crystal Symmetry: Mathematics and architecture

20

70 Years On: My, how you’ve changed!

21

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Environmentalism without nature

22

Black Land, Red Land: The Nile Valley and Egypt’s Western Desert

23

The Biogeography of Madagascar: A Gondwanan island

24

An Oxford Education

25

Medieval Romance and the Gift of Narrative

26

From the Arab Spring to the Syrian War: Regional, international and humanitarian impact

27

Biotechnology: For better or worse?

28

Fireworks Displays: The chemistry of explosive entertainment

29

The Secret Mathematicians

30

Measuring Global Poverty

31

Writing Contemporary Fiction: From Inspiration to Publication

32

Physics in the 21st Century

33

A Successful Strategy for Building Normal Brains - Nature or Nurture?

34

Against All Odds: Recovering the first climate data from the central Sahara

35

Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it

36

Big Data and Drug Discovery (The Osler Discussion)

37

Trust, Free Speech and British Pluralism in the 21st Century

38

Darwin's Fish: Evolutionary controversies in the fossil record

39

Socrates and 'The Hemlock Cup'

40

Exploring the Universe

41

The Arrogance of Power: Senator Fulbright's Concept and Today's World

42

What the World Needs Now from the Environmental Movement

43

Colliding Continents

44

The Oxford English Dictionary: From Victorian venture to the digital age endeavour

45

The Battle for the Black Vote: Findings from the Ethnic Minority Election Survey

46

The Fraud of Forgiveness without Reconciliation in Economic Life.

47

Reporting Education

48

Spain and Europe, Old Myths and New Realities

49

The Spanish Golden Age

50

Shakespeare's Fools

51

Physics in the 21st century - an exciting Time for Physics at oxford

52

Mystical Northern Lights

53

Zooniverse: what to do with half a million scientists?

54

Social Mobility - The Greatest Challenge of our Time?

55

How the West Got it

56

Hard words, best words words in use, writing the inventory of english

57

How to eat an Elephant: Why Climate Change Policy is in a Mess and How to Fix it

58

Going into Politics? Tales from an Academic in Westminster

59

The Constitutional Issues surrounding devolution in the UK

60

Revolutionising 21st Century Healthcare Through Technology

61

End of Life: Should Physician-Assisted Dying be Legalised?

62

American election Prospects and Consequences: 2012 and Beyond

63

Lumley's Children? The Nepali Community in Britain

64

Creating a 'John Lewis' economy? - encouraging Corporate Diversity for Sustainable Growth

65

Party Games: Coalition Government in British Politics

66

How Hollywood Votes and Why it Matters

67

The Thomas Willis Oxford Brain Collection

68

Wobbles, warbles and fish the brain basis of reading difficulties

69

Ebooks, Reading and Scholarship in a Digital Age

70

Has the West Had It?

71

Vaccines for Global Health

72

Napoleon

73

Europe in the World

74

What Europe for our grandchildren?

75

Governing the 21st Century: Oxford's new Blavatnik School of Government

76

Towards a Fairer Society

77

The Ethics of Climate Change

78

Justice Between Generations

79

Earthquake Science in the 21st Century

80

900 years of making a difference: the history of philanthropy at the University of Oxford

81

The Population Paradox

82

New Cells for Old Members: The Science of Stem Cells

83

The Changing Character of War

84

Twirling the Kaleidoscope: The Byzantine Empire

85

Food, Health and the Future

86

Global Humanities Showcase

87

A New era for Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Oxford

88

Why Robots Play Football

89

What is Public in the Digital Age?

90

Energy in the Future: Brenda Boardman

91

Energy in the Future: Nick Eyre

92

Energy in the Future: James Marrow

93

Political Oxford

94

The Gamesmakers: Oxonians Preparing for London 2012

95

Philanthropy: Mega-trend of the 21st Century

96

A Cook's Tour: Oxford and the Modern Olympics

97

The Responsibility to Protect in modern international relations

98

Climate and Weather: The Ends of Acts of God?

99

Nanomedicine: Challenges and opportunities

100

What Next? Surviving the 21st Century

101

The persistence of identity in the digital age: Living in social networks on and offline

102

Emerging infectious diseases

103

Building markets: Where innovation meets strategy

104

William Adams and the Samurai

105

The future of the past; The Bodleian's great acquisitions

106

The infinitely expanding universe of memory; books, manuscript...pixels

107

The Future of Human Rights

108

The Marlborough Gems at Blenheim Palace

109

The Ashmolean Collection and the Formation of Ancient Egyptian Art

110

How to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

111

Therapy for muscular dystrophy in the new genetics era

112

The anatomy of a scientific dispute

113

Early Tudor England: A People's Reformation?

114

Rocking the Cradle...6,000 Years of Geological Impact in Greece

115

The Future of Humanity

116

The Hidden History of the Wellcome Collection

117

Giving What We Can

118

The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained

119

Galaxy Zoo - The Rise and Rise of Citizen Science

120

China, US, global imbalances and the 2008 financial crisis

121

Lewis Carroll in Numberland

122

Beyond the Bottom Billion

123

Havens across the Sea

124

Oxford and the Crime Novel

125

Developing an improved TB vaccine

126

HIV: Will there ever be a vaccine?

127

Russia is Back: Jenifer Hart Memorial Lecture

128

Gutenberg and the digital revolution

129

Understanding human pain, suffering and relief through brain imaging

130

Women composers at Oxford: Cinderella (1858-1944) and other role models

131

A is for Autism

132

A Woman's place: The transformation of female power in first millennial BC Egypt

133

Young Lives Project: Children's experiences of poverty, adversity and inequality

134

Breast Cancer: Causes and Prevention

135

Power Shift in the Global Economy

136

The Tipping Point: Climate Change

137

Sleep in the Global 24/7 Society

138

The International Student Experience at Oxford

139

Inside Innovation: The University–Business Interface

140

Pheromones: what animals (including humans) say with smell

141

The Vindolanda Tablets

142

Cradle of Western Civilization

143

Introduction to Indian Literature in translation

144

Introduction to Studying the History and Politics of China

145

Studying Buddhism

146

Politics and Popular Poetry in the Arab World

147

Howard Carter's excavation records of the tomb of Tutankhamun

148

The Kadoorie Study in China

149

Beyond the Globe: Exploring the Solar System