Oxford Talks
- Conference: Re-assembling Manchukuo from below: Invisible Minorities, Politics, and ImaginationOrganized by Prof. Olga Khomenko and Prof. Sho Konishi, this interdisciplinary conference explores Manchukuo—the so-called “puppet state” created by Japan in occupied Manchuria—not from the perspective of the empire, but from the ground up. Moving beyond dominant narratives of imperial control, the event centers on the lives, political visions, and cultural productions of often-overlooked minority […]
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- 5 years after COVID: what did modellers get right and wrong?The COVID-19 pandemic represented a major challenge to many sectors of society. It also provided the opportunity for epidemiological modellers to prove their worth. Much of the modelling was performed to extremely tight deadlines and was underpinned by noisy and often biased data. 5 years on, and with the benefit of hindsight, I’ll present a […]
- Convection in Europa's ocean subject to tidal heating from the mantleSeveral icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, including Europa and Enceladus, host liquid oceans buried beneath their icy crusts. Geological features of the ice crusts as well as large-scale variations of the ice thickness are often attributed to endogenic processes within the ice. However, the ice crust is also coupled to the rocky interior via […]
- Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'Over the past 50 years, the Cyril Foster Lecture series has delivered engaging lectures from some of the world's most influential policymakers and academics. This year's lecture will be given by Christine Ahn and Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf, US Air Force, bringing together two leading, internationally renowned speakers on peace activism and peacekeeping. The […]
- Low-rank methods for discovering structure in data tensors in neuroscienceA fundamental question in neuroscience is to understand how information is represented in the activity of tens of thousands of neurons in the brain. Towards this end, low-rank matrix and tensor decompositions are commonly used to identify correlates of behavior in high-dimensional neural data. In this talk I will first present a novel tensor decomposition […]
- The mutational landscape of human tissues and the exceptional evolution of the male germlineThe human body accumulates somatic mutations throughout life, shaped by diverse mutational processes, environmental exposures, and tissue-specific dynamics. Using highly accurate single-molecule sequencing (NanoSeq), we have mapped the mutational landscape across over 50 human tissue types, revealing striking variability in mutation burden, mutational signatures, and clonal structure. While most somatic tissues accumulate mutations through both […]
- Where Are We At? - PGR and ECR SymposiumThis special symposium for Oxford Postgraduate and Early Career researchers is an opportunity to share "where you are at" in your research with our vibrant community of women’s, gender and queer historians. It is, more broadly, a day to think about the state of play in these sub-disciplines and their relationship with each other. The […]
- A Panel Discussion: Museum Careers for HistoriansMany historians have learned to pay attention to material and visual sources. This shift in practice has brought historians into closer contact with museum collections and the professionals who manage, preserve, collect, and display them. These interactions can be enriching and productive—as the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme (https://tinyurl.com/ywymkw6d) shows. But they can also obscure […]
- Cartomancy (card-reading) Day*Cartomancy Day Schedule:* 10:00-11:00 Helen Farley (Teams from NZ) 11:00-12:00 Jeff Ravel 12:00-13:00 David Zeitlyn 13:00-14:15 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Katie Swancutt 15:00-16:00 Will Pooley 16:00-17:00 Discussion For more information please visit the website: https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/cartomancy-day
