OxHums Talk – Graham Pierce on Scientology
Members and students free, non-members £3 donation please.
OxHums talk – ‘Olive planting in occupied Palestine’ by Corinne Grimley Evans
OxHums member, Corinne Grimley Evans, presents a personal view from her own extensive experience of what it’s like for ordinary Palestinians in the West Bank under occupation. Members and students free, non-members £3 donation please. B
Cafe Scientifique – Professor Laurence Harwood – Turning nuclear power green
The Cafe Scientifique is a successful UK community ,originally imported from France, to provide a public forum in which scientific ideas can be discussed informally involving scientists and non-scientists alike, aiming to inform, to entertain, and to provoke debate. The Oxford Cafe Sci meets on the second Tuesday of each month except August, all are […]
OxHums Talk – Your Humanism is a Thought crime by Bob Churchill of IHEU
The non-religious are discriminated against in almost every country, and in some places they face outright persecution. This may take the form of government-backed religious privilege, laws prohibiting advocacy of human rights or criticism of religion, even direct hate speech, threats or violence on grounds of atheism, humanism or secularism. In 13 countries you can be put […]
Oxf SitP – From butcher’s block to biology lab: using offal to build an ethical model of chronic lung infection by Dr Freya Harrison
People with the genetic condition cystic fibrosis contract chronic lung infections, which are highly resistant to antibiotics. Different species of bacteria come together to form slime-encased multicellular “biofilms” that clog the airways and protect the microbes within from attack by antibiotics, or by the host’s immune system. It can be very hard to predict, from […]
OxHums talk – Oxford 2050: homelessness, traffic and schools by Professor Danny Dorling
Professor Danny Dorling of Department of Geography University of Oxford will talk about what Oxford 2050 could be if we tried hard enough. Professor Dorling’s fields of professional interest include Geography, Statistics, Demography, Epidemiology and Sociology. His work in human geography was once described as ‘rummaging around’ in numbers, crunching his way through reams of […]
Cafe Scientifique – Professor Marcus Munafo – Free to choose? How companies shape our behaviour
The Cafe Scientifique is a successful UK community the idea for which was originally imported from France. The point of the Cafe is to provide a public forum in which scientific ideas can be discussed informally involving scientists and non-scientists alike, aiming to inform, to entertain, and to provoke debate. The Oxford Cafe Sci meets […]
Oxf SitP – Witchcraft and the Law by Deborah Hyde
Witchcraft became big news in the 16th and 17th centuries. Torrents of learned discussion turned to action, and the corpses piled high. But where did the legal infrastructure for such a mass persecution arise? Had this power already been tested and used? Deborah will discuss totalitarianism, paranoia and yearnings for empire in the making of […]