problems with the web cam but we had pretty much everything thanks for joining us there from oxford university thank you. iran's nuclear ambitions and the euro zone's debt struggles top the german chancellor's agenda on her trip to china angela merkel is calling on beijing the biggest part of iranian oil not to buy more after bargain to use its influence to persuade to run to abandon any possible atomic weapons ambitions. short of investing in the eurozone is still a safe bet and is going on in this crystal for still believes getting support for germany's economy is the main reason for the trip. our chancellor is on a triple begging ters she wants money for europe she wants you know a support from beijing for the new un resolution which beijing is not going to give and she also wants beijing to cut off its own oil supply which beijing is widely not going to do and of course beijing has also to take into consideration that india its competition in the region is standing straight with iran and buying ever more rain in oil so i don't think she has any chance of you know talking china out after bu

researchers at oxford university in britain saying it has to do with the size of a particular part of your brain. joining me from oxford is professor robin zumbar -- rabin dunbar. at the school of anthropology. a gross simplification. give us an layman's terms of what this research tells us. >> very simple terms, the size of this particular part of the brain just above the eyes, as it were, correlates with your social skills or ability to understand other people. and in turn, with the number of friends you have, or at least the number of close friends you have. that is in turn correlated with your total social networks so they all kind of hang together tightly. >> you come up with this word, a rather difficult one, mineralizing, which is what this part of the brain is supposed to do -- mentalizing. it is a term that has been used -- >> it is a term used widely. also called mind reading, the ability to understand what a person is thinking about at the time. it is like a juggler -- if you are very good at these kinds of skills you can keep lots of friends in the air at the same time the

and frank received his doctor of philosophy from oxford university. he won a white house fellowship and served in the nixon white house from 1971 through 1974. he accompanied president nixon to san clemente aboard air force one on august 9th and he organized the researching and writing of the president's memoirs. so, i'll turn it over first to joe. >> all right. good morning, everybody. first of all, i'd like to thank the nixon library and the staff for all their hospitality in welcoming the group today. also i want to acknowledge mel small, the editor the "companion to richard nixon project" which i think was a work that turned out very nicely. i was to assess the biographical coverage of richard nixon's pre-political years from 1913 to 1935. i focused on the accuracy and the reliability of the work and looked to see if bias was apparent in the author. in the early works statements or direct quotes were with publication dates spanning from 1952 to 2009 for the "companion." i'm looking at trends in biographical coverage of richard nixon. the first ful

jean chu, holds a doctorate in philosophy, as i understand it, in physics from oxford university. and above and beyond that, she served as chief of staff in two stanford terms of president. my god, it would be interesting to hear what you guys talk about at night. >> all i know for sure is she would not have admitted me. >> i must say your service is very much appreciated. but beyond that, the panel probably doesn't realize this, but yucca mountain has, for all these decades, essentially been in my district. and in the early day, it strikes me that unless we learn from this most recent history, we're bound to repeat the disaster that is yucca mountain. i was fooling around with a figure earlier thinking we had spent something in the neighborhood of $9 billion on the yucca mountain catastrophe. it's closer to $14 billion, as staff tells me. in connection with that, in the early days of yucca, all the politicians who want to solve this problem reportedly were supportive of yucca mountain as the location. especially when it was producing jobs in the local economic community. then you

i have one at oxford university press where he introduced me to my editor there. certainly the american negro history and literature, multi-volume reissue of lost classic is something that jim really pioneered in his day and really encouraged his students and fellow scholars to follow, so they could be surrounded by titles. as he was with the sesquicentennial firing of fort sumter surrounded this year with another wonderful hit. as a reviewer and author of more than 125 reviews and these kinds of professional journals, he still takes time to meet with national history day winners, to meet with politicians. hmm, the civil war wasn't about slavery. where have i heard that before, governor? the mcphersons at cornell. you can find him on the website. if you google, an interesting way to find mcpherson piercing all kinds of pioneers. princeton, this is jim getting his earliest graduate students in shape the early years. this is the p-rade, the year he came to princeton. here he is protecting a statue. he was there with princeton in transition. a picture of one of his s

jeanne chu holds a doctorate in philosophy as i understand it in physics from oxford university. above and beyond that she served as chief of staff for two stanford university presidents as well as dean of admissions. interesting to hear what you talk about at night. >> all i know for sure is she would not have admitted me. >> i must say your service is very much appreciated but beyond that, the panel probably doesn't realize that yucca mountain has for all these decades essentially been in my district and in the early days, it strikes me that unless we learn from this most recent history we are bound to repeat the disaster at yucca mountain. i was fooling around with a figure earlier thinking we spent $9 billion at yucca mountain. the catastrophe is closer to $14 billion staff tells me. in connection with that in the early days, all the politicians who want to solve this problem reportedly were supportive of yucca mountain as the location. especially when it was producing jobs in the local economic community and then you move forward and there is some controversy around this subj

the 1730s and 40s, missionaries came from england, anglicans from the holy cloud originally of oxford university, george whitfield and the wesley brothers. and every year they preached on the link of the british colonies from newport, rhode island to savanna. and the crowds were enormous. benjamin franklin was the first to verify how a large crowd was when wasilla came through philadelphia. franklin invented a way. he walked around the edges and then he figured out -- he calculated how many square feet the average person took out and came to the conclusion there at 25,000 people in the audience. without a microphone, george puts it cookery shawl. he travels along with two horses, one for himself and one for his portable from town to town. wherever he went, young people who have never felt at home in the houses turned out. the great awake again produce schism in new england separate churches, which was too much for ethan allen's father. he was born it. 10. much as evangelicals he was due today. rather than stay and featured be part of the great awakening, he led 19 families into the wilderness of

university. the second time we went down was two or three days later. we got about halfway from memphis to oxford -- or to the university, and we were told to go back because it wasn't safe enough for him to enter. and finally we went back on a sunday afternoon and came in on a quiet sunday afternoon, and we went to a dormitory there about 100 or 200 behind the main office building called the liceum building and got james meredith settled in his room, an inside room. it really would have been impossible for anybody to harm him there. and then from that time on, i moved from his quarters to the liceum building through the evening. >> another still photo from your past. >> well, that's -- that's me. that's the situation that occurred at jackson, mississippi, after medgar evers funeral. the black friends of medgar evers wanted to have a march down through the city of jackson, peaceful, quiet, dignified, and the police chief it was all right for them to march from the church to downtown, but they couldn't go on the main street in jackson. so, they crossed the main street and went into the black areas

is a departmental lecturer in politics and international ations of the middle east at the university of oxford in washington we have david pollock he is a senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy and in montreal we cross the maximillian forte he's a professor of anthropology at concordia university in montreal all right folks this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but ok first i'm going to go to david david the the white house says that it is inevitable that assad will fall so by saying it does not make it inevitable. now i don't think saying it makes it inevitable i think what makes it inevitable is the situation in syria where the syrian people most of them are rising up against the regime and i think we've seen in other countries in the region and elsewhere in the world that when almost the entire population of a country rises up against its own government sooner or later that government gave a do we know that the the majority of the people are rising up in syria and we know that. yes we do yes we know that we know th

spent part of her for some and lost go backpacking through europe with friends, and studying at oxford university she learned much more from the troubles and the coursework. for travel this summer showed her that she was more than just a girl from washington, d.c. she truly began to see herself as a citizen of the world. in her last year of college to participate in an independent study and prepare to thesis on misogyny and sexism in rap music at as a child of rap music era, she loved the music, but as times with us or by some the messages that objectified when. jamila's lesson from this is very little is 100% good, or 100% bad. this view has shaped her approach is as she handles her cases. locum, panelists. [applause] >> it is with good reason that we reflect on history and organize a special programs. history serves as a compass or map for us personally, culturally and socially. in the words of dr. john clark, history is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. it is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. history tells a

senior research fellow at oxford and stanford university, neal ferguson.that will we go through them? >> double negatives. neal, a lot of policy makers concerned about a possible attack after a decade of war. what are they missing that you think makes it important for us to consider attacking iran. >> you hear why this shouldn't happen. there will be a huge backlash. the arab will turn into a winter and the price of oil will go through the roof. the regime will be strengthen and what does it matter if iran gets a weapon? it will be a more stable and responsible player with nuclear weapons. i heart that argument. when you look closely at the arguments, they fall apart. >> what about the threat of iranian retaliation? that's number one. if we attack iran, they will attack back. >> the thing to remember is assuming the united states does not leave israel in the lurch, there was a huge amount of naval power converging. with american support, even if it's only naval support, there is not a lot iran can do. the thought of iran lashing out through the satellites

professor sassoon is an adjunct professor at georgetown university, he is also a senior associate member at st. anthony's college in oxford. during the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a public policy scholar at the woodrow wilson center for international scholars here in washington d.c. during the spring term, he is a visiting fellow at all souls college in oxford. professor sassoon was born in baghdad and completed his ph.d. at st. anthony's college, oxford. he has published extensively on iraq and its economy and on the middle east including two previous books, "economic policy in iraq: 1932-1950," published in 1987, and "the iraqi refugees: the new crisis in the middle east," published in 2009 in addition to numerous book chapters and other publications. his new book based on baath documents was published by cambridge university press in mid december 2011. professor sassoon will speak for 25, 30 minutes, as long as he'd like, and then that will be followed by a few brief remarks on my part as a discuss santa, and then we will open up the session to questions and this kind introduction and thank you for the center for a

as most senators probably know, eli is a graduate of the university of mississippi and he lives in oxfordsippi, during the off-season. the giants 21-17 victory was the second nfl championship for this team in the last four years. eli manning began the game by completing his first nine passes, which was a new super bowl record, and he was named the most valuable player of the game. he became the fifth player in nfl history to win multiple super bowl most valuable player awards. during the reg season, manning threw for 4,493 yards and 29 touchdown passes, including nfl record of 15 touchdown passes in fourth quarters. he also led six game-winning drives that allowed the giants to overcome deficits in the final stage of their games. manning and his wife abbey have supported many worthy causes and have made a strong commitment to the health and education of young people in mississippi. they've made a pledge to raise $2.5 million for the eli manning children's clinics at the hospital for children in jackson, mississippi. and they've also donated $1 million to start the ole miss opportunity sch