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For the rest of the year, we will be running a series of online lectures for OEs. You can find out more about each talk below, and use the booking form at the bottom of the page to register for as many of them as you like!
Professor Costa is an evolutionary biologist, entomologist, and Darwin and Wallace scholar. He is Executive Director of the Highlands Biological Station in Highlands, North Carolina, and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. An all-around field naturalist, Jim has studied insect ecology and social behavior from the southern Blue Ridge of North Carolina to Central and South America. Professor Costa will be talking about Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, one of the greatest books ever written.
His research and writing have largely focused on Darwin, Wallace, and the history of evolutionary thinking. In 2009 Harvard published The Annotated Origin, Jim’s annotated edition of On the Origin of Species, designed to guide readers through the historical context, structure, and content of Darwin’s masterwork.
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Date: June 2022
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Robert Emmet and the Liberation of Ireland
Professor Geoghegan is an expert on the British-Irish relationship in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as on the competing themes of constitutional nationalism and republicanism. He presents the award-winning Talking History on Newstalk radio, one of the most downloaded podcasts, and since 2006 has been praised for covering all aspects of history, from ancient times to the present day. In addition, he served as a special adviser to the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, between June 2017 and June 2020.
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Date: March 2022
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Frederick Douglass in His Time and Our Own
Professor Levine is the Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, with wide interests in 19th-century American literature and culture and a particular fascination with the life and work of Frederick Douglass. Impressively prolific, Prof Levine is a highly visible figure in Americanist literary circles and has contributed important work to the burgeoning field of hemispheric and transnational American literary studies. He is the General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and past winner of Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships.
Drawing from his latest book, The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Professor Levine examines the importance and legacy of the great American social reformer, abolitionist and statesman, Frederick Douglass. He focusses on one of Douglass’s most famous speeches, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
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Date: October 2021
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Nanotechnology for Treatment of Cancers and Brain
A Professor of Bio-imaging and Analysis at Imperial College London, Professor Alexandra Porter runs a research group that uses correlative electron microscopy techniques to characterise interfaces between biomaterials and cells. Her great interest is in developing a mechanistic understanding of how the chemistry of these materials controls their degradation behaviour, and ultimate bioactivity, to improve their performance and safety.
Professor Porter holds an MEng from Oxford University, and a PhD from Cambridge University in Biomedical Materials. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MIT and The Nanoscience Centre Cambridge, under the guidance of Sir Mark Welland and Prof. Paul Midgley. She held the Oppenheimer Research fellowship for physical sciences at Cambridge University and a Junior Research Fellowship at Newhall College, Cambridge.
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Date: February 2022
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Limbic Capitalism: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
We live in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and shopping to binge eating and opioid abuse. Sugar can be as habit-forming as cocaine, researchers tell us, and social media apps are hooking our kids. In his latest book, “The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business” (Harvard University Press, 2019), David Courtwright, presidential professor emeritus at the University of North Florida and a leading expert on addiction, chronicles the triumph of what he calls “limbic capitalism,” the growing network of competitive businesses targeting the brain pathways responsible for feeling, motivation and long-term memory.
These businesses capitalize on the ancient quest to discover, cultivate and refine new and habituating pleasures. Courtwright holds out hope that limbic capitalism can be contained by organized opposition from across the political spectrum. Progressives, nationalists and traditionalists have made common cause against the purveyors of addiction before. They could do it again, but it will be necessary to understand the history and character of the global enterprises that create and cater to our bad habits.
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Date: December 2021
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Professor Michael Bentley is Emeritus Professor of Modern History in the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow in Historiography at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, where he is also an Admissions selector for History. He is best known for books relating to modern British history, and the history of historical thought and writing. He is currently writing a comparative study of Western historiography since the Enlightenment for Princeton University Press.
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Date: November 2021
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Professor Adil Najam, is a leading public policy scholar whose teaching, research and public engagement focuses on international environment and development policy, global governance, diplomacy and negotiation, South Asia, and higher education in developing countries. He is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and a Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment at Boston University. An author of over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, Professor Najam shares his expertise with us on the topic of climate and development in the age of adaptation.
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Date: September 2021
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Live from across the pond, Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-founder of the online Marginal Revolution University, shared a detailed insight into his role in developing the US Covid-19 response strategy.
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Date: May 2021
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Professor Michel Paradis, Senior Attorney for the US Department of Defense and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, provided a thought-provoking virtual talk on 'Justice Toward Enemies: Practice and Historical Precedents'.
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Date: May 2021
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Professor Jonathan Hopkin, Professor at the London School of Economics, provides an online talk on ‘Anti-System Politics: The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich’.
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Date: May 2021
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Musician and entrepreneur Levi Roots provides an engaging and entertaining virtual talk on his childhood in Jamaica, career as a musician and appearance on BBC’s Dragons’ Den when two dragons invested in his Reggae Reggae Sauce.
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Date: May 2021
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Professor Goldstein is an expert on international relations and the history of diplomacy. He is ideally situated to provide incisive analysis on the aftermath of the U.S. Presidential Elections.
Following the live event for pupils, we will be able to share a recording of Professor Goldstein's lecture with alumnae. You can register below to access the recording in due course.
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Date: November 2020
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Professor Jacob Howland is the McFarlin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Tulsa. He is a distinguished classical scholar and political philosopher, and has published books and essays on the thought of Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Kierkegaard, the Talmud, the Holocaust, ideological tyranny, and other subjects. His most recent book is Glaucon's Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato's Republic.
Following the live event for pupils, we will be able to share a recording of Professor Jacob Howland's lecture with alumnae. You can register below to access the recording in due course.
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Date: November 2020
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Journalist and broadcaster John Kampfner talks about his recently published bestseller ‘Why The Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country.’ In the book, he charts the journey which Germany has taken since 1945, focusing on political institutions, the economy, culture, society and identity.
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Date: November 2020
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Prof. Brenner Fissell is an expert on the fields of criminal law and military law, Professor Fissell applies insights from political theory to specific issues in criminal law. His scholarship has appeared in numerous law reviews, his work on Guantanamo Detainees Rights has been cited in the New York Times, and his work on military law has been cited by The Washington Post.
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Date: November 2020
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The Miss Margaret Davis Memorial Recital is one of the most treasured events in our musical year. The recital celebrates both the legacy of Miss Davis to music in these schools, and the generosity of all who have helped in so many ways to build and support the playing you will hear.
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Date: November 2020
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Professor Chris Ogden (OE), a leading scholar and expert specialising in China, India and Asia's rise to worldwide importance, and the study of great power politics, gives a talk on the Dawning of the Asian Century.
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Date: January 2021
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Professor Scott Lucas, a leading scholar and expert in the fields of American Studies, Politician Science and the New Media talks about Fake News and US Politics.
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Date: January 2021
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Professor H. Kent Baker is a leading scholar and expert in the fields of behavioural finance and risk management. Professor Baker is the author/editor of 38 books, including several textbooks. He received the 2015 USA Best Book Award in the personal finance/investments category for The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing. The Journal of Finance Literature recognized him as among the top 1% of the most prolific authors in finance during the past 50 years! He holds the position of University Professor in the Kogod School of Business at the American University.
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Date: January 2021
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Dr Martin, author of the definitive authorised biography of Lee Child, read Languages at Cambridge, where she also did a PhD in comparative literature, and has held teaching and research positions at Cambridge, Hull, King's College London, and most recently, the graduate Center, City University New York. A long time Reacher fan, Dr Martin discusses her latest book, The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child.
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Date: February 2021
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An opportunity to hear the testimony of Joanna Millan, a Holocaust survivor.
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Date: February 2021
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Welcome to our Spring Concert. A lot of the pieces were recorded at home, and compiled by staff and students in our Music Departments. Please enjoy the hard work and commitment that has gone into this concert, even during Lockdown!
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Date: April 2021
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Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics, with a background in philosophy. He works mostly in practical ethics, and is best known for Animal Liberation and for his writings about global poverty.
Professor Singer talks about applied ethics, animal rights, global poverty, the ethics of giving and effective altruism.
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Date: October 2020
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