By Neil Levy, Rob Ross and Ryan McKa. Cross-posted from Human Behaviour and Society. Anthropology must steer a narrow course between twin dangers. On the one hand, there is the perennial risk of exoticizing other peoples. On the other hand, there is a danger of a failure to recognize genuine difference, rendering somewhat alien worldviews mere… Read More »Who really believes in magic?
This post provides a summary of the workshop. You can read a full version of the blog post in the Project Lazy website. By Katrien Devolder and Shristi Shakya Writer Nicola Sayers leading the workshop. What does it mean to be ‘lazy’ or ‘productive’? Who defines these concepts? And how do expectations about productivity shape the… Read More »‘Hear My Story: On Laziness and Productivity’- A Creative Writing Workshop
Project Lazy | Community Voices By Katrien Devolder and Shristi Shakya This post provides a summary of the workshop. You can read a full version of the blog post in the Project Lazy website. Project Lazy is an open and evolving research initiative exploring what we mean by ‘lazy’ and the social and ethical norms that shape our thinking about laziness. We organised Project Lazy’s first community engagement… Read More »Being Judged as Lazy: What Participants Shared in Our First Community Workshop
by Jonathan Pugh Cross-posted with the Uncomfortable Oxford blog. Medicine is often associated with questions that have scientific answers. How does the body work? How do we become unwell? Which treatments can help with the symptoms of a medical condition? What are the risks of a surgical operation? How might a new technology improve a… Read More »Where Medicine Meets Ethics
By Kartik Upadhyaya (Research Fellow, the Oxford Uehiro Institute) From the 1st to 8th of this June , Miranda Fricker, Silver Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Co-Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy, joined a glittering list of moral thinkers by delivering Uehiro’s Annual Lecture Series at Keble College’s H B Allen Centre. Description… Read More »2026 Uehiro Lectures: Miranda Fricker on Moral Pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Wills
Written by Madeline G. Reinecke, David Lyreskog, Kathryn B. Francis, & Ilina Singh On June 15, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer revealed the government’s intentions to ban under-16s from accessing social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. As part of this policy, “so-called AI ‘romantic companion’ chatbots – designed to simulate sexual relationships or… Read More »The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s. Young people have bigger worries about AI.
Part of the Network: Medical Humanities-Oxford Global Health: A Glossary for Global Health Written by Androulla Kyrillou (Oxford Global Health) The first Medical Humanities-Global Health Glossary Workshop brought together researchers from across disciplines to explore one of global health’s most frequently used – and contested – concepts: equity. This question was at the heart of… Read More »What do we mean by equity in global health?
by Professor Neil Levy; Cross-posted from Blog of the APA Don’t feed the trolls arguments. When someone is wrong—on the Internet or in the coffee shop—the temptation to engage can be strong, even though it often seems futile. While it can be satisfying and illuminating to argue with friends and some other people with whom… Read More »When Should we Argue?
Blog post by professor Roger Crisp On 12th March, I was delighted to be invited to attend the 4th Ramadan Community Iftar organized by the Dialogue Society in partnership with The Oxford Academy. The event involved a wonderfully diverse group of participants, including civic leaders, community and faith representatives, charity members, students, academics, parents, and… Read More »Community Iftar
By Alberto Giubilini (Cross-posted from the TORCH Medical Humanities blogpost) It was a pleasure to host Professor Elena Conis (UC Berkeley) to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Medical Humanities program “Immunity and the Humanities”, supported by the Uehiro Oxford Institute. Elena Conis is one of the most prominent historians of medicine and the author, among other things, of Vaccine Nation.… Read More »Some reflections on Elena Conis’ lecture “Contextualising the Modern Era of Vaccination”
