The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life - Media
Date & Time
Thu, 29 Jan 2026
17:00
Venue
South School, Examination Schools
Examination Schools, Oxford OX1 4AL
Tickets
Get ticketsWhy you should come
AI-powered• See Peter Mandler use digital humanities tools to track the spread of social science concepts
• Understand how 20th-century mass media replaced religious language with sociological frameworks
• Learn how Psychology and Economics became the primary tools for navigating modern British life
About this event
This lecture, titled 'Media,' is the second installment of the James Ford Lectures 2026. It surveys the key entry points through which the public learns the language of social science, specifically focusing on mass print, mass broadcast media, and mass education. The session illustrates how simple digital humanities tools can be utilized to analyze vast volumes of material to assess the propagation and practical uses of these concepts. More broadly, the lecture series charts the spread and use ...
Event Highlights
- •Part of the prestigious James Ford Lectures 2026 series at Oxford
- •Analysis of how mass media propagated social science concepts in 20th-century Britain
- •Demonstration of digital humanities tools for large-scale media analysis
- •Exploration of the shift from religious to secular social science language
Speaker
Peter Mandler
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Programme
Lecture Two: Media
A survey of mass print and broadcast media as entry points for social science language.
Organized by: All Souls College
Contact: +44 (0)1865 279 379