A discussion about the ANC’s policy shifts in the early years of democracy.  On the 28 November 2019, Professor Vishnu Padayachee and Professor Robert van Niekerk of the University of Witwatersrand visited Kellogg College, prior to the launch of their new book ‘’Shadow of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943-1996’’, to discuss their insights into the ANC’s policy shifts in the early years of democracy.

At this seminar on ‘Managing migration: cities, governance, integration’, invited speakers each respond to the question: How can cities engage with managing global migration flows and social integration? After pitching initial thoughts, panel and audience members discuss whether migration should be ‘managed’, and what makes for socially ‘healthy’ cities?

Apocalypse now? Climate violence and sacrifice in and for the Caribbean by Dr Leon-Sealey Huggins (YPCCS and Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick) The lecture will be delivered by Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins who will provide a challenging look at the social and political relations of climate change, with a particular focus on the Caribbean region. Dr Sealey-Huggins is at the forefront of exploring the societal implications of climate change, and his engagement with communities in...

Healthy Cities - Next steps? Mixed use, walkable cities ‘Next steps? Mixed use, walkable cities’ will be a stimulating debate and discussion on how approaches to planning and development can influence health and wellbeing in communities. The panel of speakers will each provide a five-minute provocative pitch to deliver their perspective on the importance (or otherwise) of walkable, mixed-use urban neighbourhoods. This is the first of a series of public seminars on the theme of ‘Healthy...

Convened by: Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange. A multidisciplinary seminar, as part of the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series in association with Maison Française Oxford. What opportunities and challenges lie ahead for migrants, settlers and cities in Europe? Debates, arguments and shifting boundaries have generated a new landscape for migration and mobility, particularly across Europe in recent years. We have asked leading voices from all sides of the current European contexts to share...

Anne McLaren Lecture 2019, “Can reformed communication save patients from harm?" This year’s Anne McLaren Lecture, “Can reformed communication save patients from harm?”, was delivered by Professor Marie Lindquist, Director of the Uppsala Monitoring Centre, an independent, non-profit foundation and centre for international scientific research, based in Sweden. UMC is the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring. The OIBC Anne McLaren Lecture is...

Sir Dermot Turing will talk about the origins of Enigma codebreaking at Bletchley Park, the Bombe machine and how it worked. In 1939, six weeks before the outbreak of World War 2, the British codebreakers knew next to nothing about the German military Enigma machine. How was it that, by mid-autumn, they had already designed the Bombe machine which would win the codebreaking war? Join us in the build up to our Bletchley Park Week series of events (3rd – 7th March 2019), for this fascinating...

On 22nd May 2018 we heard from Kellogg Bynum Tudor Fellow Lord Bilimoria CBE, the Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer and Chancellor of the University of Birmingham who delivered the Bynum Tudor Lecture. Lord Bilimoria CBE DL is the founder of Cobra Beer, Chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited, a Joint Venture with Molson Coors, and Chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India. In the Monde Selection, one of the most prestigious quality awards in the world for beer, the Cobra range have...

Thursday 29th November saw the fifth in our Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series of multidisciplinary seminars, Healthy Cities: 'Is designing healthy communities the right response to an overstretched NHS?' We asked leading voices in the field to share their knowledge, research and pitch their views on the subject. The next seminar “Urban Planning” is on Wednesday 16th January 2019. With Carl Heneghan, Primary Healthcare Danny McDonnell, NHS England, Sian Whyte, Design Council, Chris...

Christopher Day talks about the history of the University of Oxford

Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Kt, FBA, FSA, FRHistS, gives the 2018 David Nicholls Lecture, on the theme: 'The Politics of Sex and Gender in Christian History'. Diarmaid Maculloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, is a distinguished historian, whose many publications include A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (London, 2009), which became an acclaimed TV series, and most recently, a biography of Thomas Cromwell (London, 2018).

Anne McLaren Lecture 2018: Gene Editing in Human Embryos In 2017 Kathy Niakan and her team revealed the role of a fertility “master gene” in one of the world’s first demonstrations of DNA editing in human embryos. The study could help uncover the cause of recurrent miscarriages and lead to more effective fertility treatments. It also raises ethical questions about the prospect of controversial gene editing techniques being used clinically to correct defects in, or even enhance, human embryos...

A multidisciplinary seminar, as part of the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series Around 1.5 million people are moving into the world’s cities every week. By 2050 there will be an additional 2 billion urban citizens mostly concentrated in developing countries. It places huge demands on infrastructure, housing, services, job creation, climate and environment. At the same time it presents opportunities for business, society and sustainable growth. This seminar sets out to explore the impact...

A multidisciplinary seminar, as part of the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series. Five leading voices in the fields of architectural history, architecture, heritage research and urban conservation will pitch their views on how the urban landscape might be managed to celebrate and invigorate the built environment of the past in today’s era of smart cities, reconfigured time scales and new, emerging urban technologies. They will answer the question: Cities change. How should urban heritage...

The first multidisciplinary seminar in the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series. Why would anyone want a fifty-metre horse in the middle of a shopping centre? Is visibility over-rated? Is it more pleasurable to accidentally turn a corner and discover an artwork? Is it more productive to understand the city itself as a work of art? This seminar sets out to help define where and why Public Art works - working closely with its building and environmental context – and where it does not....

Baroness Hayto and Betty Webb talk about gender parity in the workplace, sharing their own experiences and exploring what needs to be done to achieve equality across all industries, at all levels, and in all professions. With the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report findings telling us that gender parity is over 200 years away – and with global activism for women’s equality fuelled by movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp – there is a strong global momentum striving for gender...

An evening with special guest speakers on the subject of Brexit. Professor Andrew Oswald Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at Warwick University and Professor Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford University discuss the impact of Brexit and the implications it will have on the UK. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Professor Andrew Leak, University College London, delivered the 18th David Nicholls Memorial Annual Lecture on 'New' Governors of the Dew at Regent's Park College, Oxford on Monday, 16th October 2017. Professor Andrew Leak, University College London, delivered the 18th David Nicholls Memorial Annual Lecture on 'New' Governors of the Dew at Regent's Park College, Oxford. His presentation addressed literary and political narratives of rural development, poverty and peasant society in Haiti....

The David Nicholls Memorial Lecture - Deity and Domination: Winstanley, Blake, and David Nicholls - a contribution to the understanding of theology and secularity. The David Nicholls Memorial Trust www.dnmt.org.uk was founded in 1997 to commemorate the life and work of Rev Dr David Nicholls, following his death in 1996. David was one of the most distinguished priest-scholars in the Church of England's recent history. He was a leading expert on Haiti and an outstanding political scientist,...

2014 David Nicholls Memorial Lecture, given by Professor John Milbank, University of Nottingham

A talk hosted by Kellogg College and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University Museum of Natural History, as part of the University's Alumni Weekend. Presented by Carl Heneghan, Jeff Aronson, Deb Cohen, Ben Goldacre, chaired by Sharon Mickan. Is it surprising that individual and institutional self-interests in research, combined with increased global competition, undermine scientific integrity? Regulatory systems that aim to underpin health research are under considerable...

A panel discussion hosted by Kellogg College on Friday 29th November 2013. The panellists discuss the global governance of migration, migrant rights and development. The regulation of international migration and migrant rights are among the most contested public policy issues around the world. In 2013-14 a series of high-level policy meetings (including the High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development in New York, and the Global Forum on Migration and Development in Stockholm) will debate...

Professor Gad Heuman, University of Warwick delivers the 2013 David Nicholls Memorial Trust Lecture. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

This lecture by Dr Karen Lucas conceptualises the social dimensions of the sustainability paradigm and offers a discussion of why it is so important to achieve socially sustainable mobility in our towns and cities. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/