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• 11:10 - Spaces of Speculation: Domesticating Investment in Nineteenth-century France
  Alexia Yates (Manchester)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 11:15 - The political geography of "central and northern Europe": historical perspectives
  Please note this talk will be on Wednesday at 11:15
  John Watts (Corpus Christi), Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Peter Wilson (All Souls)
  Central and Northern Europe 1780-1870 - Re-imagining Democracy Project
• 11:15 - Rethinking the Renaissance, A Mediterranean Perspective
  Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Athena Akrami (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London)
  WIN Wednesdays Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Self-Employment within the Firm
  Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 12:30 - Harnessing human and machine intelligence for planetary-level climate action
  Dr Ramit Debnath (University of Cambridge)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 12:30 - "Digital Divides? Divergent Effects of Broadband Internet Expansion on Adolescent Educational Outcomes" Prof Pablo Gracia
  Pablo Gracia (Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)
• 12:30 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Godless Crusade
  The event is open to University of Oxford members only. Please use your university email address to register.
  Dr Tobias Cremer (Pembroke College and DPIR, University of Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 13:00 - ‘Tolkien and the Classics’
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Discussion Group: Alan Bush, the Soviet Union and Music in Britain in the 1936
  Readings may be downloaded from the TORCH website, but everyone is welcome to attend whether they have had time to read the materials or not.
  TBA
• 13:00 - Networking Africa's investigative journalists
  Anas Aremeyaw Anas (ZAM Magazine)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 13:00 - The Capacity of Commerce: The Political Participation of Merchant Groups during the Taiping Rebellion
  Heqi Cai (London School of Economics)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 13:30 - Mechanisms for immune decline and strategies for immune enhancement in ageing
  Prof Arne Akbar (University College London)
  MRC TIDU Wednesday Seminar Series
• 14:00 - SeedWISE - Cultivating Women's Excellence in STEM
  This is a six week blended learning course - starting 1st November at 14.00 - 17.00 (in-person), then takes place every Tuesday (online) 16.00 - 17.30 until the final session on 5th December (in-person) 14.00 - 17.00.
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - International Law, Humanitarianism, and Colonial Violence
  Boyd van Dijk (University of Oxford), Ian Caistor-Parker (Warwick University)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 14:00 - Identity Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Defection: The Social Identity Aspect of Pro-Government Militias
  Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent)
  T. E. LAWRENCE PROGRAM ON CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE – Speaker Series
• 14:30 - Beyond S-curves: review of machine learning approaches for technology forecasting
  Angelika Romanou (EPFL)
  INET Complexity Economics Seminars
• 15:00 - Deepfakes and Disinformation II
  Cassidy Bereskin (University of Oxford)
  Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group
• 16:00 - The David Nicholls Memorial Lecture: “Race, Rubber, Revolution: Haiti’s 1940s Revisited”
  Dr. Matthew Smith (Professor of History and Director, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, Department of History, University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme
• 16:00 - Contested waters: negotiating multiple actors on the Rufiji basin – Tanzania, 1960 to the Present
  Hybrid event: to attend via the webinar, please register using the booking link below.
  MJ Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
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