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Alumni Weekend

Oxford University

132 episodes

8 months ago

This Alumni Weekend panel discusses future energy needs and steps that must be taken to increase the chance that they can be met sustainably. World energy consumption is increasing, driven by economic development in countries where more is needed to lift billions out of poverty. Our energy is mostly provided by burning fossil fuels, which is driving climate change and producing debilitating pollution. The gap between realistic energy projections and low carbon aspirations is widening. 25th April 2015, Orangery, Schoenbrunn, Vienna Chaired by Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (Director of Energy Research, University of Oxford) and featuring Juliet Davenport OBE (CEO of Good Energy Group), Dr Jan Dusik (Director of the Regional Office for Europe of the United Nations Environment Programme) and Graham van't Hoff (Exectuive Vice President, Shell Chemicals)

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This Alumni Weekend panel discusses future energy needs and steps that must be taken to increase the chance that they can be met sustainably. World energy consumption is increasing, driven by economic development in countries where more is needed to lift billions out of poverty. Our energy is mostly provided by burning fossil fuels, which is driving climate change and producing debilitating pollution. The gap between realistic energy projections and low carbon aspirations is widening. 25th April 2015, Orangery, Schoenbrunn, Vienna Chaired by Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (Director of Energy Research, University of Oxford) and featuring Juliet Davenport OBE (CEO of Good Energy Group), Dr Jan Dusik (Director of the Regional Office for Europe of the United Nations Environment Programme) and Graham van't Hoff (Exectuive Vice President, Shell Chemicals)

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Alumni Weekend

Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably?

This Alumni Weekend panel discusses future energy needs and steps that must be taken to increase the chance that they can be met sustainably. World energy consumption is increasing, driven by economic development in countries where more is needed to lift billions out of poverty. Our energy is mostly provided by burning fossil fuels, which is driving climate change and producing debilitating pollution. The gap between realistic energy projections and low carbon aspirations is widening. 25th April 2015, Orangery, Schoenbrunn, Vienna Chaired by Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (Director of Energy Research, University of Oxford) and featuring Juliet Davenport OBE (CEO of Good Energy Group), Dr Jan Dusik (Director of the Regional Office for Europe of the United Nations Environment Programme) and Graham van't Hoff (Exectuive Vice President, Shell Chemicals)

10 years ago

1 hour 11 minutes

Alumni Weekend

Cultural Frontier: Early 20th Century Vienna

Re-visiting the time of Freud, Klimt and Schönberg, the Alumni Weekend panel surveys and analyse this unique period in Vienna’s history and in Western culture. In the opening years of the twentieth century, Vienna – the capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire – provided the grand setting for a proliferation of artists, architects, composers, writers and thinkers whose explorations heralded a number of significant movements in modern culture. 25th April 2015, Orangery, Schoenbrunn, Vienna Chaired by Bethany Bell (BBC Foreign Correspondent) and featuring Professor Shearer West (Head of Humanities, University of Oxford), Professor Ritchie Robertson (Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature, Fellow of the Queen's College) and Professor Jonathan Cross (Professor of Musicology and Student and Tutor in Music at Christ Church)

10 years ago

1 hour 15 minutes

Alumni Weekend

Quo Vadis Ukraine: The Conflict and Beyond

Panel discussion of the Ukraine reviewing the current situation, exploring the context of the conflict which broke out in 2014, assessing its impact on Europe, and identifying what the international community can learn and how it should respond. 25th April 2015, Orangery, Schoenbrunn, Vienna. Chaired by the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten on Barnes CH and featuring Jutta Edthofer (Head of Division Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, Austria) Professor Gwendolyn Sasse (Professor of Comparative Politics and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College) and Michael Bociurkiw (Spokesperson for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine).

10 years ago

1 hour 30 minutes

Alumni Weekend

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

This talk illustrates how Tibetan Buddhism relates to the landscapes of the Tibetan plateau, to form a unique, truly Himalayan blend.

10 years ago

54 minutes

Alumni Weekend

Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War

The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debate.

11 years ago

39 minutes

Alumni Weekend

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

Ira Lieberman provides an expert analysis on the evolution of micro-finance institutions. Followed by Juan Guerra, founder of StudentFunder – a case study.

11 years ago

41 minutes

Alumni Weekend

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

Social finance and social investment is creating a global buzz, with estimates that the sector will grow over the next decade – an emerging trend that may lead to both vibrant social change and financial returns on investment.

11 years ago

38 minutes

Alumni Weekend

Innovation in Financing Human Well-being

Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine and Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford, in conversation.

11 years ago

25 minutes

Alumni Weekend

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

Chas Bountra, a popular speaker at the recent Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Asia, will explain how Oxford is creating a new ecosystem for drug discovery.

11 years ago

43 minutes

Alumni Weekend

Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate

Nigel Bowles explores Nixon’s politics that achieved a synthesis of strategy, imagination, ideologies, and calculation rare among Presidents.

11 years ago

55 minutes

Alumni Weekend

Richard Ovenden and Diarmaid MacCulloch in Conversation

Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian and Fellow of Balliol, and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church and Fellow of St Cross.

11 years ago

59 minutes

Alumni Weekend

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

How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more.

11 years ago

58 minutes

Alumni Weekend

Understanding Fracking for Shale Gas

Joe Cartwright provides a geological perspective into the exploration of shale gas reserves. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

11 years ago

48 minutes

Alumni Weekend

What is a Cyber-Attack?

What constitutes a cyber-attack and who conducts them? What are the risks to society? Sadie Creese will discuss these issues and explain research underway at Oxford to help in the detection and prevention of attacks.

11 years ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Alumni Weekend

The 2020 Vision for Engineering Science in Oxford

Professor Lionel Tarassenko, an alumnus of the Department and its new Head as of September 2014, sets out his vision for the Department for the next five years. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

11 years ago

39 minutes

Alumni Weekend

Jenkin Lecture The Oxford RobotCar

Paul Newman talks about the UK’s first self-driving car – being developed at the Department of Engineering Science. He’ll explain the project’s motivation, its underlying technology, and its impact on the transport sector and beyond. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

11 years ago

1 hour 7 minutes

Alumni Weekend

The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks

Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Ian Goldin argues that it also has the potential to destabilise our societies.

11 years ago

53 minutes

Alumni Weekend

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

Professor Whatmore, who focuses on the interface between cultural geography, political theory and science and technology studies, will draw upon her recent research to propose a new approach to living with flooding.

11 years ago

43 minutes

Alumni Weekend

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

Drawing on European and Middle Eastern sources, historian Eugene Rogan provides an overview of the Great War in the Middle East from both sides of the trenches.

11 years ago

39 minutes

Alumni Weekend

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

Tom Higham examines some of the projects the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit has been involved with over the last few years; from dating the Neanderthal extinction, to identifying the bones of Richard III and Alfred the Great.

11 years ago

38 minutes