Meeting Minds 2024 recordings

Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions

Ridhi Kashyap, Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science

Séverine Toussaert, Associate Professor of Economics 

Katerina Tertytchnaya, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics

This panel discussion, featuring experts from across the University, will focus on the impact of work that uses advanced Social Science research methods and why advanced methods are so important in the age of big data and advanced computation.

Jean-Paul Carvalho, Associate Professor of Economics

Banu Demir Pakel, Associate Professor of Economics

Robin Nuttall, Partner, McKinsey & Company

Andrea Chiavari, Associate Professor of Economics

Professor Carvalho and a panel of senior business advisors and researchers in the field of environmental economics discuss how business leaders and governments should think about climate change, how to build in resilience in our global economies and the economic principles raised by one of the defining global issues of our time.

Professor Marion Turner, J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language 

Marion Turner talks about her recent Bodleian exhibition and book, Chaucer Here and Now, and her other books, including The Wife of Bath: A Biography. She discusses the different ways that Chaucer has been interpreted and reinvented across time and around the world, from folios to films, Caxton to cartoons, anonymous to Zadie Smith.

Manolis Chatzis, Associate Professor of Engineering Science

Konstantina Vogiatzaki, Associate Professor of Engineering Science 

Our research showcase looked at how unseen damage to key structures (bridges/wind turbines) has advanced with the use of data and AI leading to a new phase in health monitoring & the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the design and optimisation of energy and transportation systems to counter the impacts of climate change and increasing demand for energy.

Professor Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor

Alexia Loizou, Recent graduate

Mary Ann Sieghart, Journalist and author 

Lisa Roberts KC, Barrister, Lincoln House Chambers Manchester and 6 Pump Court London

Francine Stock, Honorary Fellow, Jesus College

Jen Cownie, Author 

In 1974, Brasenose, Hertford, Jesus, St Catherine’s, and Wadham became the first five traditionally male colleges to admit female students. In this panel discussion, alumni from the colleges, along with Vice-Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey, come together to celebrate what has been achieved over the last 50 years, and consider the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Fiona Sampson, Professor Emerita of Poetry at the University of Roehampton

Nigel Crook, Associate Dean: Research and Knowledge Exchange (ADRKE)

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein offers a series of enduring metaphors which explore such contemporary issues as the ethics of ‘blue sky’ research, the boundaries of the human, the social consequences of personal hubris. This session examines the uses of her immensely influential novel, first published in 1818, in considering the far reaching and transformative nature of AI.

Ingmar Posner, Professor of Engineering Science (Applied Artificial Intelligence) 

Hear from Professor Ingmar Posner on recent advances in the use of applied AI, and what the future might hold.

David Clifton, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Clinical Machine Learning

James Dancer, Chair of the University of Oxford Alumni Board 

Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes, Oxford Science Enterprises

Nick Hawes, Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute  

Oxford is a leading global centre for AI research, from computational sciences to robotics. Hear from leading Oxford professors at the cutting edge of applied AI on the impact they’re having, from drug discovery to health and new materials. This event was kindly supported and sponsored by AWS.

Henry Oliver, Writer

Richard Lofthouse, Journalist, University of Oxford

An interview with Henry Oliver about his new book on late-blooming talent, Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life. Led by Richard Lofthouse.

J.C. Séamus Davis, Professor of Physics

Everything each of us has ever experienced and virtually everything underpinning our technological society and economy is governed by quantum mechanics. Yet this most fundamental physical theory of nature often feels as if it is a set of counterintuitive ideas of no direct relevance to our lives. Professor Davis describes the development of techniques that allow us to visualize electronic quantum phenomena and new states of quantum matter directly at the atomic scale.