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The Oxford Seminars in Cartography: Women and Maps

Women and children first: gender, flood and victimhood in Dutch eighteenth-century maps of dike-breaks

Anne-Rieke van Schaik, University of Amsterdam, gives the third in the first session of the seminar.
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography: Women and Maps

The rise, persistence and surprising end of female personifications of the continents on maps

Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester, NY, USA, gives the second presentation in the first session of the seminar.
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography: Women and Maps

Where are the women on sixteenth-century French World maps?

Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University, USA, gives the first talk in the first session of the seminar.
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography: Women and Maps

Welcome and Introduction

Catríona Cannon, Deputy Librarian, Bodleian Libraries, introduces the seminar.
'Must it be a Man?' Women's contribution to the University of Oxford
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'The Lady Collationers': women and the study of medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Libraries

A look at the careers of the Parker sisters known as the Lady Collationers
'Must it be a Man?' Women's contribution to the University of Oxford
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Introduction

Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Library, gives a short introduction to the event
Digging for Meaning: Research from the Oxford School of Archaeology

The History of Magic

What is magic, when did it begin, and does it still have a place in the modern world? Professor Chris Gosden discusses the long history of magic from the Ice Age, through antiquity, to the present.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

What’s beneath the words: a paper journey

Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries

Join Rebecca Abrams in conversation with Samuel Fanous to discuss her riveting and beautiful new book, edited with César Merchan-Hamann, Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries. You can purchase the book https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/jewish-treasures
Sheldon Tapestry Maps

One stitch at the time: Returning the Sheldon Tapestry Maps to life

This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions

6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Particles in space

Join Dr Donal Hill for a tour of the invisible, as he describes how particle detectors measure 3D information to help uncover the secrets of tiny fundamental particles.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D

Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau.
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Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings

Dr Karl Kinsella introduces a 12th-century manuscript which explores the mystical visions of the prophet Ezekiel and contains some of the earliest architectural drawings in existence.
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Parallel lines down the centuries

For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Thinking 3D: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture

Thinking 3D is an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of three-dimensionality and its impact on the arts and sciences, co-investigated by Dr Laura Moretti and Daryl Green.
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page

A Tiny Book of Hours

MPhil Student, Kierri Price, introduces a tiny book of hours - a collection of prayers and devotional material from the late 1300s that would have been read at set intervals during the day.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

What happened to wireless?

Jacob Ward, Bodleian Libraries Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL, gives the 2018 Marconi lecture.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Volcanoes: Natural Disaster Narratives and the Environment in Caribbean Literature

A panel discussion
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Modelos cursivos y aprendizaje de la escritura en la Corona de Castilla en el siglo XV (in Spanish)

Carmen del Camino (Seville), gives a talk The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016.

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