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Mansfield College

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Mansfield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Our membership comprises approximately 50 academic staff, 220 undergraduates, 50 graduates and 35 visiting students. This small size engenders friendly and close relationships not only amongst undergraduates, but also between Junior (undergraduate), Middle (graduate) and Senior (tutors) Common Rooms.
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Episodes

Donna Brazile: The fierce urgency of now: The 2018 US mid term elections

Donna Brazile: The fierce urgency of now: The 2018 US mid term elections. Veteran political strategist and former Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and whose books include "Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the Whitehouse", "Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics" (2004) and co-author of the forthcoming book "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics". In 2013 Ms Brazile was appointed by President Obama to se...

Jun 01, 201846 min

The Big Challenges in Politics - The State of the Nation

Wes Streeting, MP for Ilford North gives a talk for the Mansfield college seminar series. Labour Member of Parliament for Ilford North and member of the Treasury Select Committee. Wes has previously been Head of Education at Stonewall, Chief Executive of the Helena Kennedy Foundation, Deputy Leader of the London Borough of Redbridge and President of the National Union of Students.

Mar 28, 201740 min

Freedom of Religion and Belief: John Milton Lecture

Professor Lord (David) Alton of Liverpool gives the 2017 John Milton Lecture. Member of the House of Commons from 1979-97 and Independent Crossbench Peer since 1997; Chair and a founder of the All Party Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief who has authored reports on North Korea, Sudan, Tibet and Pakistan; a founder of the Jubilee Campaign; author of twelve books including Building Bridges: Is there Hope for North Korea? with Rob Chidley (2013).

Mar 28, 201741 min

Russia - A New Cold War?

Author and expert on Russia; producer several of feature films and books including the prize-winning Epics of Everyday Life (1990) and Lost and Found in Russia (2009); nonexecutive director and founder of openDemocracy and editor of openDemocracy Russia.

Mar 28, 201721 min

A Changing World: The Future of the Energy Industry

The Annual Hands Lecture is a very important moment in Mansfield's calendar, held to honour Guy and Julia Hands and their generous and continued support of Mansfield College. Year after year, it has attracted distinguished speakers, including Sir Bob Geldof, The Rt Hon. the Lord Blunkett and President Jimmy Carter. Lord Browne is presently Chairman of L1 Energy, the Chairman of Trustees of both the Tate and the QEII Prize for Engineering, and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the B...

Mar 22, 201723 min

Free Will, Free Markets and the Future of Freedom

Raoul Martinez gives a talk for Mansfield College. Writer, artist and award-winning documentarian whose paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery; author of Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight For Our Future (2016), which explores freedom through the lens of economics, philosophy, political theory and neuroscience and is a call for a better politics. Bruce Waller, a leading voice in the area of freedom and responsibility described Martinez' book, Creating Freedom ...

Mar 22, 201738 min

Equality v Liberation - Why Equal Rights Are Not Enough

LGBT rights campaigner Peter Tatchell gives a lecture for Mansfield College. Leading campaigner for human rights and LGBT freedom since 1967; member of OutRage! Through the Peter Tatchell Foundation he campaigns for human rights in Britain and internationally; author of six books, including The Battle for Bermondsey (1983) and We Don't Want to March Straight - Masculinity, Queers and The Military (1995).

Mar 22, 201734 min

Varieties of Resistance, Professor Margaret MacMillan: Adam von Trott Memorial Lecture 2015

Professor Margaret MacMillan's Lecture, Varieties of Resistance was held at Mansfield College, Oxford on the 19th of November 2015 and was introduced by the Principal of Mansfield College, Baroness Helena Kennedy. Professor MacMillan is a distinguished Historian having published works such as Women of the Raj and Peacemakers: the Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to Make Peace. She is the Warden of St Anthony's College, taking on the post in 2007. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of L...

Nov 25, 201650 min

Social Capital and the Connected Age

The seventh in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Julia Hobsbawm -- Entrepreneur, lecturer, writer and broadcaster. Founder of the 'knowledge networking' business Editorial Intelligence.

Aug 07, 201552 min

Eleanor Marx: A Life

The fifth in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Rachel Holmes - Writer and historian.

Aug 07, 201547 min

Being a Composer

The second in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Errollyn Wallen, MBE -- Singer, composer, and musician.

Aug 07, 20151 hr 1 min

A Conversation with Lisa Appignanesi OBE

The fourth in our lecture series for Michaelmas Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Lisa Appignanesi OBE-- Prize-winning writer, novelist, cultural commentator; co-editor of Fifty Shades of Feminism. Lisa Appignanesi OBE is also Visiting Professor, King's College London.

Feb 03, 20151 hr 24 min

Food: Our Greatest Market Failure

The third in our lecture series for Michaelmas Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Rosie Boycott - The Mayor of London's Food Advisor; former editor of The Independent on Sunday, The Independent, and the Daily Express.

Feb 03, 201537 min

Mammon's Kingdom. An Essay on Britain, Now

The second in our lecture series for Michaelmas Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Professor David Marquand FBA - former Labour MP and Chief Advisor in the Secretariat General, European Commission; Principal, Mansfield College 1996-2002.

Feb 03, 201549 min

Nature, Nurture or Neither: The View from the Genes

The first in our lecture series for Michaelmas Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Professor Stephen Jones -- Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University College London; author of various books on genetics and evolution.

Feb 03, 201552 min

Thinking with Stories: Listening in to Women’s Voices

The fourth in our lecture series for Trinity Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Professor Marina Warner, CBE -- Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and writer of fiction, criticism and cultural history.

Sep 03, 20141 hr 5 min

The History of Parliament

The second in our lecture series for Trinity Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Chris Bryant, MP -- Labour MP for Rhondda since 2001, Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform since October 2013.

Sep 03, 201442 min

The Peace that Ended the War

The first in our lecture series for Trinity Term 2014, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Professor Margaret MacMillan -- Warden of St Antony's College and a Professor of International History at the University of Oxford.

Sep 03, 201446 min

Human Rights and the Rule of Law: Eight Centuries after Runnymede

David Boies, Chairman of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP gives a talk on human rights for the Hands Lecture 2014, Mansfield College. The lecture is in its 12th year and is recognition for the generosity of Guy and Julia Hands to the College. David Boies has conducted many of the leading commercial, constitutional and civil liberties cases in the US. He represented Vice President Al Gore in "Bush v Gore" and the Justice Department in "United States v Microsoft", and has led the battle for civil r...

May 12, 20141 hr 7 min
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