Diary

Estimating a Simpsonian adaptive landscape using empirical fossil data to link micro- and macroevolution

Speaker: Lee Hsiang Liow, University of Oslo

Location: All Souls College, Old Library

Colonial Algiers: Architecture and Segregation

Esther da Costa Meyer

5pm Wednesday 4 February

Auditorium, St John's College, University of Oxford

(Free Admission)

A look at the architecture of Algiers in the 1950s when the French tried to counter the calls for independence by erecting housing projects, often by excellent architects. The Algerians reacted to these top-down initiatives, often using buildings against the grain.

Speaker: Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Location: South School, Examination Schools

Lecture Three: Self

In the first half of the 20th century, the ‘New Psychology’ – in which Freudian psychoanalysis played only a minor role – offered people a new vocabulary for understanding the self in modern conditions, in what has been called a transition ‘from character to personality’.  Ideas about the unconscious, personality types, the developmental self, sex and intelligence reached unprecedentedly large…

Integrating genomic, fossil, and computational approaches to understand early animal evolution

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Location: All Souls College, Old Library

Accra and Kumasi: Architecture and Decolonization

Esther da Costa Meyer

5pm Wednesday 11 February

Auditorium, St John's College, University of Oxford

(Free Admission)

After the election of Kwame Nkrumah as president of the Republic of Ghana in 1960, Ghanaian architects explored new building models that were both modern and culturally sensitive, alongside foreign architects attracted to the vibrant cosmopolitan environment.

Speaker: Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Location: South School, Examination Schools

Lecture Four: State and Economy

Historians are familiar with the idea of the nation as an ‘imagined community’ that bound people across time and space from the late 18th century, predicated on modern communications.  This lecture extends this idea into the 20th century and to a wider range of ‘invisible structures’ that were made more palpable via languages of social science, political and especially economic…

Authors: Dr Rebecca Buxton, University of Bristol, and Dr Samuel Ritholtz, University of Oxford

Location: The Old Library, All Souls College

Followed by a reception with discounted books for purchase

Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series convened by Dr Catherine Briddick and Dr Uttara Shahani 

Disentangling the interplay between life and environment across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition

Speaker: Alex Liu, University of Cambridge

Location: All Souls College, Old Library

Brasilia: Planned Exclusion

Esther da Costa Meyer

5pm Wednesday 18 February

Auditorium, St John's College, University of Oxford

(Free Admission)

Inaugurated in 1960, the new capital of Brazil was designed by architects Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa. While the elegance of Niemeyer’s concrete shells elicited admiration, the workers who built Brasília were exiled in shantytowns far from the city.