Keble College, Oxford

The emerging issues in Risk Management are varied, but the ever-increasing burden of regulation is certainly one of the most important. Along with this, the increasing capital requirements imposed by the Basel Committee and by central banks around the world will have an impact that will be just as troublesome, but for a different reason. However, against a backdrop of falling oil prices and increased nervousness in the markets and with the spectre of increasing interest rates in the major currency areas, the issues of the financial firms may well extend beyond regulation and cost of capital to the very existence of some of them. In this presentation, Ian Halliday will look at the issues that are on the horizon for the next twelve months, and explore whether or not the future for financial services is truly as bleak as has been painted in recent days, keeping a close eye on not just the largest countries but also the smaller economies which together represent the majority of the global population.

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The emerging issues in Risk Management are varied, but the ever-increasing burden of regulation is certainly one of the most important. Along with this, the increasing capital requirements imposed by the Basel Committee and by central banks around the world will have an impact that will be just as troublesome, but for a different reason.
However, against a backdrop of falling oil prices and increased nervousness in the markets and with the spectre of increasing interest rates in the major currency areas, the issues of the financial firms may well extend beyond regulation and cost of capital to the very existence of some of them.
In this presentation, Ian Halliday will look at the issues that are on the horizon for the next twelve months, and explore whether or not the future for financial services is truly as bleak as has been painted in recent days, keeping a close eye on not just the largest countries but also the smaller economies which together represent the majority of the global population.

The Second World War lent impetus to the creation of new models and explanatory frameworks of risk, encouraging a closer reading of the relationship between individual psychiatric disorder and social disarray. This article interrogates how conceptions of psychiatric risk were animated in debates around abortion reform to forge new connections between social conditions and psychiatric vulnerability in post-war Britain. Drawing upon the arguments that played out between medical practitioners, I suggest that abortion reform, culminating in the 1967 Abortion Act, was both a response to and a stimulus for new ideas about the interaction between social aetiologies and medical pathologies; indeed, it became a site in which the medical and social domains were recognised as mutually constitutive. Positioned in a landscape in which medical professionals were seeking to assert their authority and to defend their areas of practice, abortion reform offered new opportunities for medical professio...

The women's liberation movement was the impetus for the founding of new institutions of psychological and mental health care for women in the late 1970s and 1980s. This article draws upon the archive of one such site, based in Islington, North London, to explore the ways that members of the movement interacted with local politics and were attentive to racial and economic oppression. It demonstrates that consciousness-raising groups and feminist magazines made women's distress visible and that this visibility led to the development of feminist critiques of mainstream psychiatric care. The critiques of mainstream provision laid the ground for grassroots interventions into women's mental healthcare in the community.

In c.270 BC Ptolemy II established the cult of the Theoi Adelphoi in the temples of Egypt. In doing so he began a trend, with each successive ruling couple adding their own cults, developing a Dynastic cult with the Ptolemaic kings and queens placed as temple-sharing gods (synnaoi theoi) in the Egyptisn temples. This was a new type of cult, one that honoured living foreign rulers and yet was placed firmly within the ancient traditions and institutions of Egypt. This cult has always been an area of debate, with a focus on how the new Greek kings fitted into Egyptian traditions, and what it meant to them.

The existence of a cult implies the existence of cult statues. The are no physical remains of such images, but texts and other images provide a variety of evidence concerning the style, function, and place of these statues. The aim of this paper is to use these sources to consider the context and location of these statues. In doing so I will show how the Ptolemaic cult statues enjoyed the same physical and ideological context as the traditional Egyptaian cult statues, and that, in many ways, it was the contexts themselves that provided this association. More than this, in analysing the statues' location it will be possible to see that through their creation and placement, the Ptolemies were able to represent themselves as having a divine and legitimate mandate, and to create a link between themselves and the people and traditions of Egypt.

In the study of Ancient Egypt, the Egyptian temples hold a prominent position; they are not only some of the best preserved monuments, but are physically dominating structures, commanding the landscape. These temples played an important role throughout the history of Egypt, functioning through to the end of the Roman period, by which point the landscape also played host to structures dedicated to the Greek and Roman pantheons. Investment in the native religious structures also continued, with reliefs pointing to ongoing decoration under the Roman Emperors. Investment though, was not limited to the Egyptian temples, and during the Roman period there is clear evidence for the construction and continued use of classical structures, including shrines, adjacent to the Egyptian temples, as part of the wider religious complex.

Religious buildings such as the shrine to Imperial cult at Karnak and the temple of Augustus at Philae stand in sharp contrast to their surroundings, reflecting the developments in authority and culture brought to Egypt by the Romans, and yet also dwarfed in size and history by the physically different Egyptian temple complexes. My aim in this paper is to take a closer look at these two specific structures at Karnak and Philae, and to consider why they were constructed, who was responsible, and how they were used. The shrines themselves provide a range of information including inscriptions and surviving statue bases, allowing for a discussion as to what these structures tell us concerning the developing relationship between the Roman rulers and Egyptian population, the exertion of authority by the government, and the concept of local identity in Roman Egypt.

One of Robert Grosseteste's earliest treatises was his foundational one on the Liberal Arts, in which he laid out what he saw as the purpose of what we would call Further and Higher Education-the arts and sciences alike. He went on to become one of Oxford's most famous lecturers and also a bishop with an energetic programme of lay education in Lincoln Diocese-and his treatise went on to have an interesting afterlife inspiring interest in lay education in the times of Wycliffe and then Chaucer. This year's lecture will take us on that journey and then wonder with us at whether it has something to say to us too in an age when the purpose of education seems to be being hollowed out and the bigger picture is in peril.

Since theRoev.WadeSupreme Court ruling in 1973 made abortion legal in the United States, it has consistently been subject to attempts to limit its reach, to make abortions harder to access, and thus to restrict their availability or frequency. In recent years, both pro-life and pro-choice groups have been reenergized, through calls to defund Planned Parenthood in Congress in 2015, and the 2016 Supreme Court ruling which prohibited a Texas “clinic-shutdown” law, for obstructing women's legal access to abortion underRoe. An era where this law was particularly contested, however, was the 1980s, which saw the Christian right crystallize and rally together to support the election of Ronald Reagan as President, in the hopes that he would promote their goals. Though extra-governmental pro-life groups and antiabortion individuals within the federal government were not ultimately able to do away withRoe, and would eventually become disappointed with Reagan's efforts in securing this,...