Alumni Weekend Podcast
1) Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably?
This Alumni Weekend panel discusses future energy needs and steps that must be taken to increase the chance that they can be met sustainably. World energy consumption is increasing, driven by economic...Show More
2) Cultural Frontier: Early 20th Century Vienna
Re-visiting the time of Freud, Klimt and Schönberg, the Alumni Weekend panel surveys and analyse this unique period in Vienna’s history and in Western culture. In the opening years of the twentieth ...Show More
3) Quo Vadis Ukraine: The Conflict and Beyond
Panel discussion of the Ukraine reviewing the current situation, exploring the context of the conflict which broke out in 2014, assessing its impact on Europe, and identifying what the international c...Show More
4) Sacred Landscapes, Buddhist Temples: A case study from Central Tibet
This talk illustrates how Tibetan Buddhism relates to the landscapes of the Tibetan plateau, to form a unique, truly Himalayan blend.
5) Choice or Accident? The outbreak of the First World War
The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debat...Show More
6) The Commercial Evolution of Microfinance: From donor dependence to sustainable social investment institutions
Ira Lieberman provides an expert analysis on the evolution of micro-finance institutions. Followed by Juan Guerra, founder of StudentFunder – a case study.
7) Oxford’s Global Leadership in Social Enterprise: A panel discussion
Social finance and social investment is creating a global buzz, with estimates that the sector will grow over the next decade – an emerging trend that may lead to both vibrant social change and financ...Show More
8) Innovation in Financing Human Well-being
Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine and Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford, in conversation.
9) Why is Oxford Determined to Change the Way We Discover New Medicines?
Chas Bountra, a popular speaker at the recent Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Asia, will explain how Oxford is creating a new ecosystem for drug discovery.
10) Richard Nixon’s Reputation: 40 years after Watergate
Nigel Bowles explores Nixon’s politics that achieved a synthesis of strategy, imagination, ideologies, and calculation rare among Presidents.