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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with philosopher, professor, and lecturer Dr. Stephen Hicks. They discuss their collaboration through the Peterson Academy, the case for philosophy on the practical level,the evolution of human thought across intellectual movements and waves, the notion that we see reality through a story, and the danger of getting the story wrong. Stephen Hicks' writings have been translated into twenty languages, including Portuguese, Spanish, German, Korean, Persian, Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian, Cantonese, French, Hebrew, Estonian, Urdu, Turkish, and Arabic. He has published in academic journals such as “Business Ethics Quarterly,” “Teaching Philosophy,” and “Review of Metaphysics,” as well as other publications such as “The Wall Street Journal” and “Cato Unbound.” In 2010, he won his university's Excellence in Teaching Award. He was Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois; has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; Visiting Professor at Jagiellonian University, Poland; Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio; Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College at Oxford University in England; Senior Fellow at The Objectivist Center in New York; and Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great, Poland. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. This episode was filmed on November 15th, 2024  | Links | For Stephen Hicks: On Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/ On X https://x.com/SRCHicks?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Website https://www.stephenhicks.org/ 

Watch the Q&A session here: https://youtu.be/IJT3B9WZntcRediscovering remarkable historical figures such as the Birka Warrior Woman, Hildegard of Bingen, and King Jadwiga offers a fresh perspective to understand an era often dismissed as 'nasty, brutish, and short'. Rather than being exceptions, this lecture will reveal the considerable influence and power held by medieval women and shed light on the gradual erosion of female agency over subsequent centuries. Through their rediscovery, it will interrogate traditional historical narratives and construct more nuanced, inclusive accounts that reflect the richness, complexity, and diversity of the past.This lecture was recorded by Janina Ramirez on 5th November 2024 at Barnard's Inn Hall, London.Professor Janina Ramirez is a lecturer, researcher, author and broadcaster. She is Research Fellow in History of Art at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln. Her most recent book, 'Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages Through the Women Written out of it', was an instant Sunday Times number 1 best-seller, Waterstones Book of the Month and Book of the Year. Janina is a patron of many organisations, including NSEAD, the Stained Glass Society and Oxford Festival of the Arts, and an ambassador for the Centre for Peace Keeping and Democracy. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society for the Arts.The transcript of the lecture is available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/women-historyGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport the show

Send us a textThe full text of this podcast, including the links mentioned, can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/11/how-can-fascism-be-opposed-in-any-other.htmlPlease feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there.The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/ Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass) Thanks for listening. Just to note that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find there a brief biography, info about my career as a musician, & some photography. Feel free to drop by & say hello. Email: caute.brown[at]gmail.com

Stephen R. C. Hicks joins me to discuss the Illiberalism on College and University Campuses. We will address the following:1. How the ideological capture at American, Russian and Chinese universities share the same illiberal pattern2. What is the dominant philosophy in the American college/university right now, and why is that a problem?3. What would take to restore academic and intellectual freedom to higher education (is it even possible)?Stephen R.C. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society.* He has six books:* Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholarly Publishing, 2004; Expanded Edition, 2011)* His writings have been translated into seventeen languages: * He has published in academic journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy, and Review of Metaphysics, as well as other publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Cato Unbound.* In 2010, he won his university's Excellence in Teaching Award.* He has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Visiting Professor at Jagiellonian University, Poland, Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio, Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College at Oxford University in England, Senior Fellow at The Objectivist Center in New York, and Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great, Poland.* He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Guelph, Canada, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.Article referenced:https://www.stephenhicks.org/2024/02/...On Education:https://www.stephenhicks.org/education/SUPPORT THIS CHANNELYour support makes my work possible. If you appreciate this content, please consider supporting me in one of the following ways:Join The Reason We Learn Community @WOKESCREEN : https://wokescreen.com/thereasonwelearn/Join The Reason We Parent - Parent Support Group: https://wokescreen.com/the-reason-we-...Hire me for consulting, tutoring and public speaking: https://thereasonwelearn.com Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trwlPayPal: paypal.me/deborahfillmanPurchase TRWL Merch: https://store.wokescreen.com/the-reas...Purchase books from Heroes of Liberty with my referral link and get 10% off!https://heroesofliberty.com/?ref=Zqpq...#college #university #philosophy #stephenhicks #teaching #education --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debf/support Get full access to The Reason We Learn at thereasonwelearn.substack.com/subscribe

Originally recorded in 2013, 50 years after the death of C.S. Lewis, Charles Morris had a conversation with Dr. Alister McGrath to shed new light on the most famous atheist-turned-Christian of the 20th century.  Dr. McGrath has written one of the most comprehensive biographies on the life of C.S. Lewis. After reading every surviving document Lewis had ever written—including recently published correspondence—Dr. McGrath challenges some of the previously held beliefs about the timing of the beloved author's shift from atheism to theism and then to Christianity. But he also paints a definitive portrait of Lewis' life as an eccentric thinker who became an inspiring, though reluctant, prophet for our times. In addition to his work at Oxford, Dr. Alister McGrath is Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and serves as associate priest in a group of Church of England village parishes in the Cotswolds.

Judge Lee was born in Cleveland, Ohio but raised in New York City since the age of three.  She attended public schools in New York from kindergarten through college. She graduated from New York's H.S. of Music & Art in 1966, received a B.A. in political science from Brooklyn College in 1971, and obtained a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1974. After graduating law school, Judge Lee worked as an Assistant District Attorney for the Bronx County District Attorney's Office in New York for approximately three years. She then moved to San Francisco to work on an 18-month special project for the National Center for State Courts where she visited various State and Federal courts around the country studying trial delay. Thereafter she became a member of the California bar and joined the United States Attorney's Office in San Francisco as an Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting criminal cases.  Judge Lee left the U.S. Attorney's Office in 1980 to stay at home with her first child for one year.  She re-entered the workplace in 1981 and spent the next 20 years in private practice with various law firms in the Bay Area as a trial lawyer handling civil cases and finally as a Special Master and Discovery Referee in the years immediately preceding her elevation to the bench.In 2002 then Governor Gray Davis appointed Judge Lee to the Alameda County Superior Court where she currently sits.  She was the first Asian-American female judge to be appointed to this court. Judge Lee has worked in both the criminal and civil departments at the court.Judge Lee has been on a judicial sabbatical since the beginning of 2023 during which she spent three months as a Visiting Fellow with the Commercial Law Center, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University.  She is in the process of completing the comparative study of U.K. and U.S. asbestos litigation. That study was triggered, in part, on her experience presiding over the asbestos docket at the Alameda County Superior Court for several years prior to taking her sabbatical.    Louis Goodman www.louisgoodman.comhttps://www.lovethylawyer.com/510.582.9090Music: Joel Katz, Seaside Recording, MauiTech: Bryan Matheson, Skyline Studios, OaklandAudiograms: Paul Roberts louis@lovethylawyer.com

Novelist Jonathan Coe joins book historians Roland Allen, Prof Lesley Smith and Dr Gill Partington and presenter Lisa Mullen. As Radio 3's Late Junction devotes episodes this September to the cassette tape and the particular sound and way of recording and assembling music which that technology provided, we look at writing. At a time when there's a lot of chat about AI and chatbots creating writing, what does it mean to write on a page of paper which is then printed and assembled into a book. The author Jonathan Coe's many books include The Rotter's Club, What a Carve Up! Mr Wilder and Me and his latest Bournville is now out in paperback Roland Allen has worked in publishing and has now written The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper Gill Partington (with Simon Morris and Adam Smyth) is one of the founding editors of Inscription: Journal of Material Text, which brings together artists, book historians, and academic theorists. After editions looking at beginnings, holes and folds, the new issue coming soon looks at touch. Lesley Smith is Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Harris Manchester College, Oxford and has chosen a selection of handwritten documents from the collections of the Bodleian Library published as Handwritten: Remarkable People on the Page. Producer: Ruth Watts

In Episode 5 of the series Professor Lennox sits down with Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director of the Wellbeing Research Centre, Fellow at Harris Manchester College and Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the Saïd Business School. During their conversation they look at recent research findings from the Wellbeing Research Centre that examine the role of the workplace in overall life satisfaction.   Here, they also discuss the surprising findings on how social elements, office architecture and even weather patterns contribute to our wellbeing at work, and the evidence linking happiness and productivity.

In this episode of the ESG Insider podcast, we're exploring the business case for happiness — specifically, how companies can measure and manage employee wellbeing.   We speak to Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Professor of Behavioural Science and Economics at Saïd Business School and a Fellow of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He is also Director of Oxford's Wellbeing Research Centre, and co-editor of the World Happiness Report. And he's a co-founder of the World Wellbeing Movement, a coalition of stakeholders from business, civil society and academia aiming to put wellbeing at the heart of decision-making.    Jan talks to us about his research, including a new study making headlines that explores workplace wellbeing and firm performance. He explains that measuring worker wellbeing can be challenging because it involves the way people feel, and senior leaders are often hesitant to take action on subjective indicators.  "What's so nice about the studies we've done is that we showed these subjective indicators — how people feel at work — that there's real objective consequences or objective correlations to very highly objective data, including the financial performance of companies,” Jan tells us.   DISCLAIMER      By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation as to the accuracy or sufficiency of the information featured in this Podcast. The information, opinions, and recommendations presented in this Podcast are for general information only and any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk. This Podcast should not be considered professional advice. Unless specifically stated otherwise, S&P GLOBAL does not endorse, approve, recommend, or certify any information, product, process, service, or organization presented or mentioned in this Podcast, and information from this Podcast should not be referenced in any way to imply such approval or endorsement. The third party materials or content of any third party site referenced in this Podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of S&P GLOBAL. S&P GLOBAL assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of the content contained in third party materials or on third party sites referenced in this Podcast or the compliance with applicable laws of such materials and/or links referenced herein. Moreover, S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty that this Podcast, or the server that makes it available, is free of viruses, worms, or other elements or codes that manifest contaminating or destructive properties.      S&P GLOBAL EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL'S USE OF, REFERENCE TO, RELIANCE ON, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS PODCAST OR THE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THIS PODCAST.

James Miles is the Chairman, Managing Director, and Co-founder of Liv-ex, the leading marketplace and data source for secondary sales of fine wine. Liv-ex has a membership that spans across 560 wine companies from 43 countries. Members can trade confidently and anonymously with other wine businesses worldwide. James attended Harris Manchester College in the UK, and in 1991 he started his career with Jardine Fleming Investment Management in Hong Kong (which later became Banque Paribas and then BNP Paribas). He is also the Director of the Wine and Spirit Trade Association. In this episode… Do you struggle with juggling logistics, buying, and selling in the wine industry? Are you a wine brand looking for a worldwide marketplace to connect with consumers? Engaging with consumers through the three-tier system can be complicated. It can be difficult for many brands and individuals to analyze, visualize, and trust that you're working with tried and trusted merchants. That's why James Miles curated the Liv-ex platform that created a comprehensive database of brands and their products to reach and engage consumers through wine. In fact, they are the world's largest open-sourced database of wine information. Want to learn more? Listen to this episode of The Alexi Cashen Podcast as Alexi sits down with James Miles, Chairman, Managing Director, and Co-founder of Liv-ex. Hear his narration of launching an online stock exchange for wine. James talks about solving consumer problems in real-time, how to unclog the supply chain issues of shipping overseas, and how a platform can connect and educate consumers on brand behavior.

Meet Nautical Author and Historian Eric Wiberg.Born in New York in 1970, Eric Wiberg is a citizen of Sweden and the US. He is the author of over 20 books on maritime history - particularly in the Bahamas where he grew up. He left the Bahamas at 13 for boarding schools in New England and enrolled at Boston College in 1989. He was hired to race to Bermuda in 1989, and in 1991 sailed as mate from Antigua to Belgium to attend Harris Manchester College, Oxford. In 1993 he self-published five collections of writings and set out on a voyage from Panama to New Zealand on a 68' wooden boat, becoming captain in Galapagos. A year of travel was the basis for a coming-of-age memoir.Eric earned his US Coast Guard 100-ton captain's license in 1995. He moved to Singapore to operate a commercial fleet of tanker ships. After three years he returned to Newport where he would write off-season and deliver yachts to and from the Caribbean from spring to fall. After his fourth round-world trip, he enrolled at Roger Williams School of Law on half-scholarship and passed the bar in 2005. Eric also earned a master's degree in Marine affairs from University of Rhode Island. He has operated 120 vessels over 75,000 miles. He's sailed to or from Bermuda over 30 times and sailed across two oceans.Eric has had stints with Titan Salvage and Overseas Salvage in Freeport, Bahamas. And in 2010 he joined Tradewinds, the Norwegian shipping publication. From 2013 to 2019 Eric was in marketing for McAllister Towing in Manhattan, where he lived until 2019. He is on the New York Yacht Club Library Committee and the Steamship Historical Society board.Eric has published over 100 articles, addressed 50 international audiences, and appeared on TV or film 7 times for audiences in Spain, France, Norway, and for the BBC. He has also been featured in Vanity Fair. US Congress leveraged his research in November 2019 to issue medals to 10 US Navy aviators for the sinking of U-84. …Eric is active on Instagram where you can find him @ericwibergAnd be sure to check out his web site at ericwiberg.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"I decided I would try to understand things psychologically because it seemed to me that the current wisdom that people were acting as rational actors operating in their own best interests didn't actually fit the facts. Many people and communities were doing things that were harmful to themselves.  I thought, ‘Well, one profession that spends a lot of its time exploring why individuals and indeed communities do things that harm themselves rather than operating in their best interest is psychiatry and indeed psychoanalysis'. So I went into medicine and qualified in medicine and then in psychiatry and later I went into analysis and tried to explore individual psychoanalytic work, but also group analysis, family therapy - any of the approaches that seemed to me would deepen our understanding."     Episode Description: John begins by describing the early family influences on his interest in hearing others' points of view. He developed this orientation and eventually trained as a psychiatrist and then received training in psychoanalysis which he has brought to the many negotiations in which he has participated. He learned to appreciate the centrality of relationship building in his political work. We discuss the fundamentals of analytic listening as it applies in the political arena which includes the expectation that disruptions inevitably characterize the back and forth of these tense collaborations. He describes his ongoing work in monthly IPA-affiliated meetings that are devoted to considering how a psychoanalytic perspective may ease struggles in the international arena. We close with his explaining the meaning of his title of Lord.    Our Guest: John, Lord Alderdice FRCPsych is a psychiatrist who served as leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland for eleven years. Dr. Alderdice played a significant role in negotiating the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. He then stood down as Party Leader and became the first Speaker of the new Northern Ireland Assembly. As the first Assembly mandate was ending, he was appointed by the British and Irish Governments to be one of four international commissioners appointed to monitor security normalization and close down the illegal paramilitary activities in Ireland. He had been appointed in 1996 to the House of Lords where he chaired the Liberal Democrat caucus during the Liberal/Conservative Coalition Government in the United Kingdom. He was also for many years a psychoanalytical psychiatrist in Belfast where he established the Centre for Psychotherapy and a range of analytically informed trainings. Now retired from clinical work he is a Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, at the University of Oxford, and is the Director of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict.    Recommended Readings:  Alderdice, John, Lord (2010) Off the couch and round the conference table, Chap 1, 15 – 32, in Off the Couch – Contemporary Psychoanalytic Applications, ed Alessandra Lemma and Matthew Patrick, Routledge, London, and New York ISBN: 978-0-415-47615-7    Alderdice, John, Lord, (2017) Fundamentalism, Radicalization and Terrorism Part I: Terrorism as Dissolution in a Complex System, Psychoanal. Psychotherapy     Alderdice, John, Lord, (2017) Fundamentalism, Radicalization and Terrorism Part II: Fundamentalism, Regression and Repair, Psychoanal. Psychotherapy,    Alderdice, John, Lord (2021) On the Psychology of Religious Fundamentalism, Chap 11, 193 - 212, in A Deeper Cut – Further Explorations of the Unconscious in Social and Political Life, ed. David Morgan, Phoenix Publishing House, Bicester, UK ISBN-13: 978-1-912691-19-7    Alderdice, John, Lord (2021) Conflict, Complexity, and Cooperation, New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 33: Iss. 1, Article 9. 

In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview Prof. Kate McLoughlin. A Professor of English at Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Kate works on the representation of war in literature in many different genres, from the ancient world to the present day. Among other books, she is the author of Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text, which explores Gellhorn's fictional writing alongside her journalism. She also wrote Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq; and, most recently, Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015. She is currently working on a literary history of silence, partly inspired by her research into veteran experiences and their representation. In Authoring War, Kate argues that ‘war, as a subject, is the greatest test of a writer's skills of evocation' - so in the podcast we talk about some of the challenges involved in representing war in writing: for example, how authors convey a structured sense of time as events unfold, how they conjure the physical dimensions of a war zone and spatial awareness, and how they describe the indescribable. Kate explains the term 'combat gnosticism' - the idea that authors must know what they are talking about, either through going to war themselves or seeing it close up - and how that has traditionally marginalised women writers on war. She also talks about the expectations which readers have of war stories (that they will be vivid, full of action and emotion, etc) and what happens when authors or narrators do not meet those expectations - for example, the veteran who prefers not to speak of his/her experiences. As the conversation goes on, we discuss the ways in which war stories from the past not only influence later representations of war but also how people actually experience conflict in real time - which then feeds back into a network of established war stories, making it difficult to distinguish representation from reality. Among other questions, we asked Kate: What does the study of war writing bring to wider studies of war and conflict? How do age-old war stories continue to influence war writing and the experience of war today? What challenges do war writers face when trying to convey the complexities of war?  What do readers/audiences tend to expect of war writing, and why? Have some genres of war writing been more dominated by male or female voices, and has that changed over time? What groups of people or conflict experiences have often been marginalised by traditions of war writing? How has the literary representation of veterans changed over time? What can the study of silence bring to our understanding and appreciation of war stories?  We hope you enjoy the episode! For a version of our podcast with close captions, please use this link. You can find out more about Kate's research here. For more information about individuals and their projects, access to resources and more, please have a look on the University of St Andrews Visualising War website.  Music composed by Jonathan Young Sound mixing by Zofia Guertin 

AJ Langley speaks to Jane Shaw about the mystic, writer, and spiritual advisor, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941). We talk about her quest for authentic spirituality, her letters of spiritual advise (which are very funny and worth a read), her work as a retreat leader, and her ability to find a balance between spiritual and domestic life. Jane Shaw is Professor of the History of Religion and Principal of Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford (@HMCOxford). For more from Jane on Evelyn Underhill, you can read her book, Pioneers of Modern Spirituality: The neglected Anglican innovators of a 'spiritual but not religious' age (2017). Follow us on Twitter: My Favourite Mystic: @myfavmystic AJ Langley: @medievalmystics

Today we're talking about stories with noted apologist Alister McGrath. What stories are shaping (and misshaping) our church and our culture? What happens to the gospel when we focus on theological propositions? What can we learn from the ways our brothers and sisters throughout history have approached apologetics? And how can we fully live into God's story, not only speaking but acting in ways that show the goodness of the gospel? Join us for this compelling and practical conversation.Alister E. McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. In addition to his work at Oxford, McGrath is Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and serves as associate priest in a group of Church of England village parishes in the Cotswolds. To learn more about Regent College and its upcoming courses visit:www.regent-college.edu/

Dr. Alister E. McGrath discusses why he decided to write a biography on Packer's life and faith. He discusses Packer's thoughtful decision to teach at Regent College, why his book "Knowing God" became a bestseller, why Packer loved reading the Puritan writers, his thoughts on theistic evolution, why he didn't like the term "inerrancy" to describe the trustworthiness of the Bible, why he signed the evangelical and catholics together document, his views on aging, going blind and finding hope in God. Alister McGrath (DPhil, DD, Oxford University) is the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University and fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford. After initial academic work in the natural sciences, Alister turned to the study of theology and intellectual history, while occasionally becoming engaged in broader cultural debates about the rationality and relevance of the Christian faith. He is the author of many academic and theological works, as well as the international bestseller The Dawkins Delusion, the acclaimed C. S. Lewis—A Life and A Theory of Everything (That Matters).

Originally recorded in 2013, 50 years after the death of C.S. Lewis, Charles Morris had a conversation with Dr. Alister McGrath to shed new light on the most famous atheist-turned-Christian of the 20th century.  Dr. McGrath has written one of the most comprehensive biographies on the life of C.S. Lewis. After reading everything Lewis had ever written—including recently published correspondence—Dr. McGrath challenges some of the previously held beliefs about the timing of the beloved author's shift from atheism to theism and then to Christianity. But he also paints a definitive portrait of Lewis' life as an eccentric thinker who became an inspiring, though reluctant, prophet for our times. In addition to his work at Oxford, Dr. Alister McGrath is Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and serves as associate priest in a group of Church of England village parishes in the Cotswolds.

At St Mary's today we mark the First Sunday after Trinity with a University Sermon. The podcast is introduced by the Revd Canon Dr Judith Maltby and the gospel reading is read by Professor Jane Shaw, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Harris Manchester College. We welcome as our preacher Professor Helen King, Professor Emerita, The Open University. Welcome and Opening Prayer The Revd Canon Dr Judith Maltby Hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling Reading Matthew 7.21-29 (Professor Jane Shaw) Organ Interlude Sermon Professor Helen King Anthem Harris, Faire is the Heaven Prayers Laura Roberts and Anna Dill Blessing The Vicar Organ Voluntary Rheinberger, Monologue no. 2 (Opus 162)

With 20 years of experience as a professional coach and OD/HR/Leadership consultant, Jonathan is transforming organizations across the globe.Dr. Westover is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and department chair in the Woodbury School of Business (UVU), Academic Director of the UVU Center for Social Impact and the UVU SIMLab, and Faculty Fellow for Ethics in Public Life (previously the Associate Director) in the Center for the Study of Ethics.Dr. Westover is also a CIPD Academic Fellow, a HEA Senior Fellow, and a Visiting Academic at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow in Social and Development Policy with the Nkafu Policy Institute (part of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation) and was recently a Fulbright Scholar (Minsk, Belarus; Jakarta, Indonesia), a POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii; Washington D.C.), a Learning Innovation Research Fellow at the Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), an Educational Development Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada), a Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.), and he is a regular visiting faculty member in other international graduate business programs (U.S., U.K., France, Switzerland, Belarus, Poland, and China).Dr. Westover has been published widely in academic journals, books, magazines, and in popular and professional media locally, nationally, and abroad (such as Forbes, The Economist, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today). He has also been extensively quoted and cited as a management expert in popular press nationally and abroad.Jonathan received his bachelors and masters degrees from Brigham Young University and doctorate from the University of Utah. He serves on a host of nonprofit, community, and association boards and committees. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, research, and service.Learn More https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/“Shifting Trajectories in Globalization, Labor, and the Transformation of Work” https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-shopThe HCI Podcast: https://anchor.fm/hcipodcastHCI Research: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-researchInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/jonathan-westover-ph-d-managing-partner-and-principal-at-human-capital-innovations-llc

With 20 years of experience as a professional coach and OD/HR/Leadership consultant, Jonathan is transforming organizations across the globe.Dr. Westover is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and department chair in the Woodbury School of Business (UVU), Academic Director of the UVU Center for Social Impact and the UVU SIMLab, and Faculty Fellow for Ethics in Public Life (previously the Associate Director) in the Center for the Study of Ethics.Dr. Westover is also a CIPD Academic Fellow, a HEA Senior Fellow, and a Visiting Academic at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow in Social and Development Policy with the Nkafu Policy Institute (part of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation) and was recently a Fulbright Scholar (Minsk, Belarus; Jakarta, Indonesia), a POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii; Washington D.C.), a Learning Innovation Research Fellow at the Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), an Educational Development Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada), a Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.), and he is a regular visiting faculty member in other international graduate business programs (U.S., U.K., France, Switzerland, Belarus, Poland, and China).Dr. Westover has been published widely in academic journals, books, magazines, and in popular and professional media locally, nationally, and abroad (such as Forbes, The Economist, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today). He has also been extensively quoted and cited as a management expert in popular press nationally and abroad.Jonathan received his bachelors and masters degrees from Brigham Young University and doctorate from the University of Utah. He serves on a host of nonprofit, community, and association boards and committees. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, research, and service.Learn More https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/“Shifting Trajectories in Globalization, Labor, and the Transformation of Work” https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-shopThe HCI Podcast: https://anchor.fm/hcipodcastHCI Research: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-researchInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/jonathan-westover-ph-d-managing-partner-and-principal-at-human-capital-innovations-llc

With 20 years of experience as a professional coach and OD/HR/Leadership consultant, Jonathan is transforming organizations across the globe.Dr. Westover is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and department chair in the Woodbury School of Business (UVU), Academic Director of the UVU Center for Social Impact and the UVU SIMLab, and Faculty Fellow for Ethics in Public Life (previously the Associate Director) in the Center for the Study of Ethics.Dr. Westover is also a CIPD Academic Fellow, a HEA Senior Fellow, and a Visiting Academic at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow in Social and Development Policy with the Nkafu Policy Institute (part of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation) and was recently a Fulbright Scholar (Minsk, Belarus; Jakarta, Indonesia), a POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii; Washington D.C.), a Learning Innovation Research Fellow at the Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), an Educational Development Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada), a Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.), and he is a regular visiting faculty member in other international graduate business programs (U.S., U.K., France, Switzerland, Belarus, Poland, and China).Dr. Westover has been published widely in academic journals, books, magazines, and in popular and professional media locally, nationally, and abroad (such as Forbes, The Economist, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today). He has also been extensively quoted and cited as a management expert in popular press nationally and abroad.Jonathan received his bachelors and masters degrees from Brigham Young University and doctorate from the University of Utah. He serves on a host of nonprofit, community, and association boards and committees. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, research, and service.Learn More https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/“Shifting Trajectories in Globalization, Labor, and the Transformation of Work” https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-shopThe HCI Podcast: https://anchor.fm/hcipodcastHCI Research: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-researchInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/jonathan-westover-ph-d-managing-partner-and-principal-at-human-capital-innovations-llc

With 20 years of experience as a professional coach and OD/HR/Leadership consultant, Jonathan is transforming organizations across the globe.Dr. Westover is an Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and department chair in the Woodbury School of Business (UVU), Academic Director of the UVU Center for Social Impact and the UVU SIMLab, and Faculty Fellow for Ethics in Public Life (previously the Associate Director) in the Center for the Study of Ethics.Dr. Westover is also a CIPD Academic Fellow, a HEA Senior Fellow, and a Visiting Academic at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow in Social and Development Policy with the Nkafu Policy Institute (part of the Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation) and was recently a Fulbright Scholar (Minsk, Belarus; Jakarta, Indonesia), a POSCO Fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, Hawaii; Washington D.C.), a Learning Innovation Research Fellow at the Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), an Educational Development Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Teaching and Learning (University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada), a Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.), and he is a regular visiting faculty member in other international graduate business programs (U.S., U.K., France, Switzerland, Belarus, Poland, and China).Dr. Westover has been published widely in academic journals, books, magazines, and in popular and professional media locally, nationally, and abroad (such as Forbes, The Economist, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today). He has also been extensively quoted and cited as a management expert in popular press nationally and abroad.Jonathan received his bachelors and masters degrees from Brigham Young University and doctorate from the University of Utah. He serves on a host of nonprofit, community, and association boards and committees. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, research, and service.Learn More https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/“Shifting Trajectories in Globalization, Labor, and the Transformation of Work” https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-shopThe HCI Podcast: https://anchor.fm/hcipodcastHCI Research: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-researchInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/jonathan-westover-ph-d-managing-partner-and-principal-at-human-capital-innovations-llc

On the Third Sunday of Easter, we continue to engage through the gospels with accounts of the Risen Christ. This Sunday is Luke's long and carefully crafted story of Jesus encounter with two disciples on the road to Emmaus. The podcast is introduced by the Revd Canon Dr Judith Maltby, Chaplain of Corpus Christi College, and the reflection is offered by the Revd Susannah Reide, Chaplain of Harris Manchester College. Welcome The Revd Dr Judith Maltby Prayer The Collect for the Third Sunday of Easter Hymn Now the green blade riseth Reading Luke 24.13-35 (Anna Dill) Organ Interlude Sermon The Revd Susannah Reide Anthem Byrd, O sacrum convivium Prayers Hugh Conway-Morris Blessing The Revd Dr William Lamb Organ Voluntary Mendelssohn, Prelude no.2 in G major (Opus 37)

Alister McGrath joins me to talk about Albert Einstein, C.S. Lewis, and about his own faith journey. Dr. McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is also Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and serves as associate priest…

Alister McGrath joins me to talk about Albert Einstein, C.S. Lewis, and about his own faith journey. Dr. McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is also Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, President of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and serves as associate priest…

One of the most salient aspects of what generally makes a ritual a ritual is that you can’t tell from the actions themselves why they have to be done that way – and that fascinates anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse. By his own admission, what intrigues the statutory chair in social anthropology and professorial fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford is that ritual is “behavior that is ‘causally opaque’ – by which I mean it has no transparent rational causal structure.  “[Rituals] are that way,” he tells interviewer David Edmonds in this Social Science Space podcast, “simply because by cultural convention and general stipulation that is the done and proper way to carry out the behavior.” Rituals can range from collective events like funerals, initiations, political installations and liturgies to private acts like bedtime prayers or self-crossing before a crucial meeting. One thing that unites all of these is that they are faithfully copied and passed down through the generations. While the psychological causes of the ritual impulse are inherently interesting, Whitehouse’s work also examines the consequences of ritual, and how rites can produce different intensities of social glue depending on their frequency and emotionality. For example, painful or frightening initiations tend to produce very strong  “social glue,” “fusing” individuals into a larger whole. This insight, partially derived from a visit to Libya in 2011 to study the groups engaged in the effort to overthrow Moammar Ghadafi, has implications, for example, in addressing extremism. By contrast some groups use “high frequency but relatively dull and boring rituals in order to establish a set of identity markers that can be maintained without radical mutation”. Here the focus is more on ensuring conformity across a large population. Whitehouse’s own journey into studying religiosity (“I’m not religious myself but deeply fascinated by what makes people religious”) and ritual also are covered in the podcast. As a young academic, Whitehouse started by doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea focused on economic anthropology. “The people I ended up living with for two years, deep in the rain forest, were very interested in telling me about their religious ideas and ritual practices. They were the ones who got me into the topic.” It was less, he added, that they wanted to proselytize and more that “they got bored with my questions about production and consumption and exchange and all these boring economic things. I think people were starting to want to avoid me when they saw me coming with my notebooks.”  Whitehouse has created a number of academic research groups and is co-founder of the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflicts at Harris Manchester College in 2014 and is the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion established last year.

Eva Grosman gives a talk on ‘Strategy, Innovation and Peacebuilding: lessons from Northern Ireland’ at the 2018 Oxpeace Conference. Eva Grosman is the Chief Executive of the Belfast based Centre for Democracy and Peace Building and Director for Public Affairs at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at Harris Manchester College. The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement is an excellent example of social innovation, which radically changed the architecture of the whole eco-system and focused on rebuilding three sets of disturbed historic relationships – between Protestant Unionists and Catholic Nationalists in Northern Ireland; between the people of Ireland, North and South; and between Britain and Ireland. However, while the 1998 Agreement created an environment for consensus and stopped the large scale political violence, the sectarian division continues to paralyse Northern Ireland. Segregation in social housing and education is still a major issue. Public services incur an additional annual cost of up to £833 million in which division may be a factor. Northern Ireland economic performance is consistently below the UK average, with long-standing issues in the labour market including low productivity and high rate of economic inactivity. So, how do you innovate in the political environment where systems, people, organisation and culture are fragmented, and general public not quite ready for the open system of innovation?

John McCarthy was held hostage for five years in Lebanon; it would test not only of his mental resolve but also his faith. In this three-part season for Heart and Soul John meets three people of three different religions held against their will. John talks to them about how their faith sustained them in their darkest hours of captivity, including physical and psychological torture. John shares his own experiences of being held in Beirut and how for him, the Bible was a crucial source of information, entertainment and comfort. In the first programme John meets the French-Colombian former politician Ingrid Betancourt who was held hostage in the jungle by the FARC (The Revolutionary Armed Forced of Colombia) for six and a half years. Captured in 2002, she was rescued by the army in 2008. Ten years later, she meets John at Harris Manchester College in Oxford where she is studying for a PhD in Theology. Catholic by family background rather than conviction she tells John about her incredible journey from despair, believing God had forsaken her, to coming to see Jesus and Mary as her spiritual guides in captivity. Ingrid Betancourt is also a speaker for HeadTalks, a non-profit organisation that holds events on mental health. http://www.headtalks.com/

This is the inaugural talk of the Cambridge Society for Law and Governance in the New Economy. Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell presents her paper 'A Comparative Analysis of Crowdfunding Rules in the EU and U.S.' Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell is Associate Professor of Commercial Law at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. She is a Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University and has been a Transatlantic Technology Law Fellow at Stanford Law School since 2015. She has also held visiting teaching and research positions at Columbia Law School, the University of Washington, and the University of Tokyo. Her main research interests are digital law (crowdfunding, shared economy, electronic platforms, digital intermediaries), international business transactions and secured transactions and corporate finance. Jenifer Varzaly and Pablo M. Baquero are Co-convenors of Law and Governance in the New Economy.

This is the inaugural talk of the Cambridge Society for Law and Governance in the New Economy. Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell presents her paper 'A Comparative Analysis of Crowdfunding Rules in the EU and U.S.' Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell is Associate Professor of Commercial Law at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. She is a Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University and has been a Transatlantic Technology Law Fellow at Stanford Law School since 2015. She has also held visiting teaching and research positions at Columbia Law School, the University of Washington, and the University of Tokyo. Her main research interests are digital law (crowdfunding, shared economy, electronic platforms, digital intermediaries), international business transactions and secured transactions and corporate finance. Jenifer Varzaly and Pablo M. Baquero are Co-convenors of Law and Governance in the New Economy.

This is the inaugural talk of the Cambridge Society for Law and Governance in the New Economy. Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell presents her paper 'A Comparative Analysis of Crowdfunding Rules in the EU and U.S.' Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell is Associate Professor of Commercial Law at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. She is a Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University and has been a Transatlantic Technology Law Fellow at Stanford Law School since 2015. She has also held visiting teaching and research positions at Columbia Law School, the University of Washington, and the University of Tokyo. Her main research interests are digital law (crowdfunding, shared economy, electronic platforms, digital intermediaries), international business transactions and secured transactions and corporate finance. Jenifer Varzaly and Pablo M. Baquero are Co-convenors of Law and Governance in the New Economy.

This is the inaugural talk of the Cambridge Society for Law and Governance in the New Economy. Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell presents her paper 'A Comparative Analysis of Crowdfunding Rules in the EU and U.S.' Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell is Associate Professor of Commercial Law at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. She is a Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University and has been a Transatlantic Technology Law Fellow at Stanford Law School since 2015. She has also held visiting teaching and research positions at Columbia Law School, the University of Washington, and the University of Tokyo. Her main research interests are digital law (crowdfunding, shared economy, electronic platforms, digital intermediaries), international business transactions and secured transactions and corporate finance. Jenifer Varzaly and Pablo M. Baquero are Co-convenors of Law and Governance in the New Economy.

Jonathan Edelmann is an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Florida and an Affiliated Faculty member at the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California – Santa Barbara, an M.A. in Science and Religion from Oxford University, and Ph.D. (D.Phil.) from Oxford University in Religious Studies and Theology. While at Oxford he was affiliated with Harris Manchester College and the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.  

How lightly, or how tightly, do you hold your values? Are there things you hold dear, which almost automatically excite your emotions, for which you would make the costliest of sacrifices? These are the sorts of questions Scott Atran discusses in this Social Science Bites podcast. Atran is a “classically trained” anthropologist (he was once an assistant to Margaret Mead) and is the research director in anthropology at France’s National Center for Scientific Research, a research professor of public policy and psychology at the University of Michigan, and a founding fellow of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflict at the University of Oxford’s Harris Manchester College. He is also director of research and co-founder of Artis Research & Risk Modeling, Artis International, and Artis LookingGlass. As those associations suggests, much of his research sits at the intersection of violent acts and cognitive science, and much of his fieldwork takes place on the front lines of conflict. His findings are often acknowledged as true by policymakers – even as he ruefully tells interviewer David Edmonds, they generally then refuse to recognize the sincerity with which the other side holds its values. And yet these spiritual values often trump physical ones. And from a policy perspective, say the attempting defeat ISIS in the Middle East, it helps to understand that a devoted actor will often outperform a rational actor when the going gets tough. This helps explain the initial successes of ISIS, and the ability of Kurdish forces to battle back against ISIS. Or even of the American colonies to defeat the British empire. Atran explains that while there are no theories, at present, about sacred values, but there are features that he has been able to test for reliability. For example, Atran suggests that something so valued is immune to trading, discounting or negotiating, and that offering to buy your way around someone’s sacred values can result in anger or violence. He asked refugees in Lebanon and Jordan what was the chance they would go back to Israel if they had the right of return. Six percent – one out of 16 – said they would ‘consider it.’ But then they were asked if they would give up this sacred value, the implication being that if they weren’t going to exercise it why bother keeping it. Yet 80 percent answered no. Then the researchers asked if the respondents would support the 1967 boundaries of Israel, and accept a cash payment, in exchange for permanently ceding their right of return. “Not only did they refuse,” Atran notes, “but it went to ceiling. We tested for support of suicide bombing, skin responses for emotion and moral outrage, it went through the roof.” But this allegiance to the intangible works two ways – Atran found that when a questioner acknowledged a refugee’s right of return, support for the peace process – even without any other sweetener – increased.

Zoe de Toledo shares her extraordinary experiences of coxing at the highest levels, and her love of studying at Oxford in this podcast. She describes her part in the thrilling race that led to the GB women’s eight coming second in last year’s Olympics in Rio. The Olympian was also the cox during the dramatic Boat Race of 2012, when a swimmer disrupted the contest between Oxford and Cambridge on the Tideway. De Toledo continues by talking about Oxford’s academic strengths and why she continues to study here. She is now reading Medicine at Harris Manchester College – her third degree at Oxford. She previously completed Master’s degrees in Psychological Research, and Criminology and Criminal Justice when she studied at St Catherine’s College.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Bronze Age Collapse, the name given by many historians to what appears to have been a sudden, uncontrolled destruction of dominant civilizations around 1200 BC in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia. Among other areas, there were great changes in Minoan Crete, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Mycenaean Greece and Syria. The reasons for the changes, and the extent of those changes, are open to debate and include droughts, rebellions, the breakdown of trade as copper became less desirable, earthquakes, invasions, volcanoes and the mysterious Sea Peoples. With John Bennet Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield Linda Hulin Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Research Officer at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford And Simon Stoddart Fellow of Magdalene College and Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge Producer: Simon Tillotson.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Bronze Age Collapse, the name given by many historians to what appears to have been a sudden, uncontrolled destruction of dominant civilizations around 1200 BC in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and Anatolia. Among other areas, there were great changes in Minoan Crete, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Mycenaean Greece and Syria. The reasons for the changes, and the extent of those changes, are open to debate and include droughts, rebellions, the breakdown of trade as copper became less desirable, earthquakes, invasions, volcanoes and the mysterious Sea Peoples. With John Bennet Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield Linda Hulin Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Research Officer at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford And Simon Stoddart Fellow of Magdalene College and Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge Producer: Simon Tillotson.

Scott Atran is director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, visiting professor at the University of Michigan, senior fellow at Harris Manchester College of Oxford University and research professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. He’s the author of “Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood and the (Un)Making of Terrorists.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Scott Atran — Hopes and Dreams in a World of Fear.” Find more at onbeing.org.

Robert Thoma, Jeffery Lewine, Elizabeth Stanley, Jason Spilaletta and James Giordano hold a panel discussion on acute stress/trauma. Thoma, licensed clinical psychologist and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UNM, manages a growing functional brain imaging research group and participates in all phases of mental illness neuroimaging research. Lewine was a director’s fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he worked on the development of magnetoencephalography (MEG), a new method for studying brain function. He recently joined MRN and is interested in diagnosing the “invisible” wounds of war and in evaluating and treating developmental disorders. Stanley, assistant professor of security studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government, created mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training to build warrior resilience and optimize individual and team performance. Spitaletta, U.S. Marine Corps major, U.S. Joint Forces Command and Joint Reserve Directorate, also holds a civilian position with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His academic research focuses on the effect of intolerance for uncertainty on working memory capacity and executive brain function. Giordano is director, Center for Neurotechnology Studies at the Potomac Institute, senior research associate, Wellcome Centre for Neuroethics, fellow, Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford, and affiliate professor of molecular neuroscience, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies, George Mason University.

This podcast was recorded at the third plenary session of the Protecting People in Conflict and Crisis conference. This podcast was recorded at the third plenary session of the Protecting People in Conflict and Crisis: Responding to the Challenges of a Changing World conference, which was held by the Refugee Studies Centre (in collaboration with the Humanitarian Policy Group) on Thursday 24th September 2009 at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. Presented by Professor David Keen, Professor of Complex Emergencies, London School of Economics and Marc DuBois, Medecins Sans Frontieres - UK.

Louise is a tutor of Law at Harris Manchester College, in this interview she talks about the application process and her experiences at the college.

Joshua is a student at Harris Manchester College, in this interview he talks about his application process and his experiences at the college.

Ewan is a student at Harris Manchester College, in this interview he talks about his application process and his experiences at the college.