Mansfield College

Mansfield College

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.

Episodes

Dame Maggie Smith in Conversation

October 27, 2017 • 45 mins
Dame Maggie Smith and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC in conversation
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Representing the Muslim in America

July 14, 2017 • 39 mins
Linda Moreno gives a talk for the Mansfield College seminar series.
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Trump's America: a Political and an Economics Journalist Take Stock

July 14, 2017 • 61 mins
Joe Klein and Paul Solman give a talk for the Mansfield College seminar series.
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Images and Influence: The Fetus in Art

July 14, 2017 • 58 mins
Professor Carol Sanger, Hon. Fellow, Mansfield College, gives a talk for the Mansfield college lecture series.
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The Big Challenges in Politics - The State of the Nation

March 28, 2017 • 40 mins
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.
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Freedom of Religion and Belief: John Milton Lecture

March 28, 2017 • 41 mins
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...
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Russia - A New Cold War?

March 28, 2017 • 20 mins
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.
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Turner and Catastrophe

March 22, 2017 • 56 mins
Franny Moyle gives a talk for Mansfield College. Freelance executive producer and writer; former BBC Commissioner for Arts and Culture; author of Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde (2011), Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites (2009) and The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner (2016).
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Free Will, Free Markets and the Future of Freedom

March 22, 2017 • 38 mins
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 freed...
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Equality v Liberation - Why Equal Rights Are Not Enough

March 22, 2017 • 34 mins
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).
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Varieties of Resistance, Professor Margaret MacMillan: Adam von Trott Memorial Lecture 2015

November 25, 2016 • 49 mins
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, tak...
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Social Capital and the Connected Age

August 7, 2015 • 52 mins
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.
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Say Yes to Living! Exploration in Extreme Cold and Heat

August 7, 2015 • 33 mins
The sixth in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Mikael Strandberg -- Explorer, lecturer, writer and filmmaker.
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Eleanor Marx: A Life

August 7, 2015 • 46 mins
The fifth in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Rachel Holmes - Writer and historian.
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John Milton Fellowship Annual Lecture - Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence

August 7, 2015 • 52 mins
The fourth in our lecture series for Hilary Term 2015, given in the JCR at Mansfield College by Karen Armstrong -- Author and commentator.
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Being a Composer

August 7, 2015 • 61 mins
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.
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A Conversation with Lisa Appignanesi OBE

February 3, 2015 • 83 mins
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.
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Food: Our Greatest Market Failure

February 3, 2015 • 36 mins
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.
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Mammon's Kingdom. An Essay on Britain, Now

February 3, 2015 • 48 mins
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.
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Nature, Nurture or Neither: The View from the Genes

February 3, 2015 • 53 mins
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.
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