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• 15:30 - Kavli Oxford Lecture Award 2024
  *A drinks reception will follow on from the lecture. *Booking is essential as seating is limited to 190 attendees. *Due to the nature of the lecture, this session will be in person only. *The event will start 15:30 sharp, please note that late arrivals cannot be accommodated. *Open to the University of Oxford staff only.
  Regina E. Dugan (Wellcome Leap Inc)
• 16:00 - New Insights into the Development and Function of Beige Adipocytes
  Associate Professor Paul Cohen (The Rockefeller University)
  Cellular & Molecular Neurobiology Theme Guest Speakers
• 16:30 - From SARS to COVID: What has changed in the Chinese healthcare system?
  Wenmin Li (Hubei University/Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Defining antisemitism: what is the point?
  Please note, this Friday Seminar will be taking place on *THURSDAY* for 8th Week.
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - A.I., Similarity, and Search in Medieval Music: New Methodologies and Source Identifications
  Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
  All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• 17:00 - Writing An Accidental History of Tudor England
  Professor Steven Gunn (Merton College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - What Art Does When It’s Doing Nothing: Stillness, Perdurance, and Agency in Medieval Art
  Ben Tilghman (University of Edinburgh)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - New Culture for the New Man: Quimantú and the educational cartoon in Chile, 1970-1973
  Stefan Rinke (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Medieval and Renaissance Music: A.I., Similarity, and Search in Medieval Music: New Methodologies and Source Identifications
  Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
  All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong Hwa University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Alia Farid Artist Talk
  Alia Fraid
  Contemporary Art Lectures
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
  Please note that this seminar has been postponed
  Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Billy Wilder's The Apartment: Film screening and discussion
  Content warning: Please be aware that this film addresses suicide.
  Various Speakers
  TORCH Rent Cultures Network
• 19:00 - The historical and cultural importance of plants mentioned in the Qur'an
  This talk will be held online using Zoom and is free to attend, but registration is essential. Registration will close at midday on the day of the lecture.
  Shahina Ghazanfar
  Autumn Science Lectures 2024
• 19:30 - Yawanawa Traditions: Researching Amazonian Psychedelics
  Dr Maria Fe Gebara
  Oxford Psychedelic Society Talks

Friday 6 December 2024

• 08:00 - DART - The Highs and Lows of NHS Big data
  Professor Fergus Gleeson
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - Decoding Immune Checkpoint Signalling Pathways Through CRISPR-Based Screening Approaches
  in-person only
  Dr Sumana Sharma (Davis Group, University of Oxford), Dr Joseph Clarke (T-cell Biology Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 10:00 - Criticism and Conclusion
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 10:00 - Taiwan and Indo-Pacific Geopolitics: Implications of 2024 Pivotal Elections Around the World (Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2024)
  Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford), Mr Andy Cheu-an Bi (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Dr Monique Ming-chin Chu (University of Southampton), Professor Yeh-chung Lu (National Chengchi University), Dr Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford), Professor Chris Hughes (University of Warwick), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong Hwa University), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham), Dr Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova (Riga Stradins University), Professor Paul Irwin Crookes (University of Oxford), Representative Vincent Chin-hsiang Yao (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
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