This discussion brings together experts who are also members of faith communities to speak from their own traditions and experience about what it means to have a “good death”.

Speakers:
Professor David Katz Professor of Immunopathology, UCL
Professor David Jones Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre
Imam Yunus Dudhwala
Head of Chaplaincy and Bereavement Services at Newham University Hospital NHS Trust
Chaired by Rev’d Patrick Morrow
Programme Manager, Council of Christians and Jews.

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served in Board Room 1 from 6:30.

Ashmolean Exhibition Event

In Conversation
With Richard Calvocoressi, exhibition curator
Dr Francis Warner, Emeritus Professor, St Peter’s College
Mary Moore, daughter of Henry Moore

Saturday 23 November, 11am–12pm, Headley Lecture Theatre

Exhibition curator, Richard Calvocoressi, will discuss the relationship between Bacon and Moore with Mary Moore, Henry Moore’s daughter, and Dr Francis Warner who knew both artists.

Booking essential – £8/£6

Call:
01865 305 305
Or book online:
http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#search=Calvocoressi

Why Art Matters Talk Series
with Richard Deacon, and an introduced by Matthew Moser-Clark

Saturday 23 November, 2–3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre

In this special event, Richard Deacon will be introduced by Matthew Moser-Clark, sculptor and recent graduate from the Royal College of Art, and co-founder of artisjustaword. Deacon has been a leading figure in British sculpture since the 1980s when he attended St Martins School of Art, the Royal College of Art and Chelsea School of Art. He won the Turner Prize in 1987 and represented Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Deacon has consistently described himself as a ‘fabricator’ rather than a sculptor, a maker of things who places emphasis on the construction and manipulation of materials. In 2014 he will have a major retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain.

Booking essential – £4/£3

Call:
01865 305 305
Or book online:
http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#search=deacon

Turner and the Sea
With Christine Riding, Senior Curator of Paintings, National Maritime Museum

Tuesday 26 November, 2–3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre

Christine Riding talks about William Turner’s lifelong fascination with the sea and discusses his work in the context of 19th-century maritime painting.

Tickets £4/£3
Tickets may be available on the door, but can be booked in advance.

Call:
01865 305 305
Or book online:
http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#search=riding

Seeing the Human Heart
A free Public Seminar
Tuesday 26 November 2013, 5–7.45pm
Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre

Full PDF programme:
http://www.ashmolean.org/assets/docs/AshmoleanUEPHeartInArtProgramme.pdf

Organised by Professor Robin Choudhury and Dr Jim Harris

Professor Robin Choudhury is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fellow in Biomedical Sciences at Balliol and Director of the Acute Vascular Imaging Centre. Dr Jim Harris is an Andrew W Mellon Foundation Teaching Curator within the Ashmolean Museum’s University Engagement Programme.

Also speaking at this event are: Jack Hartnell (Visiting Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art); Joshua Horden (Lecturer in Christian Ethics, Oxford University); Paul Riley (Professor of Regenerative Medicine, British Heart Foundation); Jevon Thistlewood (Conservator at the Ashmolean Museum); Heather Webb (Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Cambridge University); Francis C Wells (Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Papworth Hospital)

Open to all and free of charge.
Please register by sending an e-mail to: eunice.berry@cardiov.ox.ac.uk

Ancient Greek Theatre and Modern Reconstruction
With Russell Shone, Chloe Productions

Wednesday 27 November 27 Nov, 2–3.30pm, Headley Lecture Theatre

Examine the elements of ancient Greek theatre – from the plans of the buildings and stage machinery, to the chorus, actors and costumes. Look at how artefacts and iconography have been used to make modern reconstructions and learn about the different genres of Greek drama.

Tickets £4/£3
Tickets may be available on the door, but can be booked in advance.

Call:
01865 305 305
Or book online:
http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#search=shone

As Artist in Residence, choreographer Rosie Kay has been mining the Pitt Rivers for inspiration for several professional works and in April choreographed the first dance work ever performed at the Pitt Rivers Museum as part of the Twilight Takeover. Rosie will discuss her various approaches to working with the museum objects, and how she translates objects or spaces into dance works.

Renowned for her in-depth research processes, including an embedment with the British Military, Kay will discuss the importance of understanding your inspiration, as well allowing the reverse to occur. In not knowing the full history of an object, an intuitive conversation can occur. Focusing on ideas of transformation, Kay asks how the inanimate can be animated, and if performance in unusual spaces transforms the space, the performer, or the audience.

FREE, no pre-booking required. All welcome

Francis Bacon / Henry Moore
With Colin Harrison, Senior Curator of European Art, Ashmolean Museum
An Exhibition Talk

Thursday 5 December, 2–3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre

Booking essential – £4/£3

Call:
01865 305 305
Or book online:
http://bit.ly/19tzVhX

Medieval Christmas Happenings
With lecturer Tim Porter

Tuesday 17 December, 2–4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre

Afternoon Tea Lecture

This seasonal lecture will give you an insight into the events of medieval Christmasses – from murders to coronations, and the ultimate festive celebrations.

Tickets £8/£7 (includes tea & cake)
Tickets may be available on the door, but can be booked in advance.

Call:
01865 305 305
Or book online:
http://bit.ly/GAP7zK

The Gardens of Mary
With Anna Steven, gallery lecturer

Wednesday 18 December, 2–4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre

Afternoon Tea Lecture

Anna Steven talks about representations of the Virgin Mary and the symbolism of the gardens and flowers associated with her.

Tickets £8/£7 (includes tea & cake)
Tickets may be available on the door, but can be booked in advance.

Call:
01865 305 305
Or book online:
http://bit.ly/1aO8xKB

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Sir David Piper Lecture 2014:
Lawrence of Arabia at the Ashmolean
Presented by Jon Whiteley, Ashmolean Museum
Saturday 11 January 2014, 11am – 12pm

Free, no need to book, but numbers are limited. Please arrive early to secure a seat.

This lecture will set out T. E. Lawrence’s contribution to the Ashmolean which began when he was a schoolboy and continued through his student days. He was at first interested in medieval pots from local sites but was encouraged by his Oxford colleagues to turn his attention to Near-Eastern archaeology and then, on account of his knowledge of the Near East, to become involved in the Arab Revolt. In many ways, it was the Ashmolean that transformed this promising academic into the glamorous figure universally known as Lawrence of Arabia.

This lecture will be given in the main hall of the Taylorian Institution, next door to the Ashmolean and accessible from the Museum’s forecourt.

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Tools from the past

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

For January we are back to our usual third Thursday date and we are inviting you to bring along your portfolio or a piece of recent work that you are proud of and would like to show the group. This can be a website you have built or been a part of building, a video you have made or contributed to. Print designers bring along your latest document or other product. Photographers bring a set of prints or show us your website. We are happy if you want to show any commercial work like corporate videos or some work that is artistic and non-commercial. We are looking to give 5-10 minute slots for creatives to show their portfolios. This is not a night of critique it is a night to celebrate your creativity and start the new year on a high! If youy’d like to show some work please email Richard at office@filmoxford.org – 7.30pm – FREE

Details www.filmoxford.org/adobeusergroups/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/premiereandpostoxford/ and Twitter @FILMOXFORD

Film Oxford, 54 Catherine Street, Oxford, OX4 3A

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

Ashmolean Director’s Guest Lecture Series

Late Raphael
With Professor Paul Joannides

Saturday 18 January 2014
11am–12pm
Headley Lecture Theatre

Emeritus Professor of Art History at Cambridge University, Professor Paul Joannides speaks on the crucial but hitherto neglected part of Raphael’s oeuvre: the work he and his pupils executed in Rome during the seven years from 1513 to the artist’s death in 1520. Works such as Saint Cecile and Portrait of Baldassere Castiglione, as well as many significant drawings illustrate the ways in which Raphael employed an astonishing range of technical devices, many of which were highly novel and enjoyed considerable subsequent influence: Raphael’s workshop methods eventually became a model for the great artistic enterprises of the seventeenth century.

The Ashmolean Director’s Lectures brings you a line-up of speakers who are leading experts in art, history and cultural studies.

Booking essential – £8/£7 – Click here to book online now

Dr Clare Harris, Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum and an internationally recognised expert on art and material culture from Tibet and the Himalayas, will speak about her new book ‘The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet’ (University of Chicago Press). This will be an illustrated talk and Clare will link her discussion with objects currently on display in the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Ashmolean Exhibition Event:

Bacon and Moore: Themes and Trajectories
With Rina Arya, Reader at University of Wolverhampton

Sunday 19 January
2-3pm
Headley Lecture Theatre

An examination of the historical and thematic parallels between Bacon and Moore, including their shared influences, themes, approaches toward figuration and sculptural forms. In spite of being contemporaries relatively little has been written about their shared concerns.

Booking essential – £4/£3
http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#search=Trajectories

This presentation will selectively chronicle the entry and rise of Sabbath, as practice and as a theological concept, in the church. After offering a survey of Sabbath thought both in the early church and in the Reformed vein of Protestantism, a brief index of biblical perspectives on Sabbath
will be undertaken. In light of this index, the nature and extent of the church’s “Sabbath crisis” is better exhibited.

In critique of Christian tradition, Sabbath is about so much more than taking a day off each week. It is a clue, image, and map for God’s redemptive purposes in creation.

Roger Revell is a minister at St Peter’s Fireside (Anglican), a church-plant in city-centre Vancouver, BC.

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Japanese arts and crafts

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Landscape paintings

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: The Textile Gallery

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

Ashmolean Tea-Time Tours
3.45-4.30pm every other Thursday, Gallery 21

Free, places (maximum 15) allocated on a first-come/first-served basis.

23 Jan Caskets and coffers
13 Feb The China Gallery
27 Feb Exploring the ancient world
13 Mar Introduction to the ancient Near East
27 Mar The Egypt Galleries

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

Kitsugi: From Gold to New
With Japanese Lacquer Craftsmen

Special Study Day at the Ashmolean Museum

Friday 24 January, 10.30am–4pm

Kitsugi is the repair of cracked or chipped ceramics and glassware using Japanese lacquer and powdered gold. Such is the skill of Kitsugi, that it is said that a repaired item can have a greater value than it had before it was broken. Learn about this intricate craft in two sessions:
Morning lecture and demonstration: 10.30am–12pm
Booking essential, £4 full price/£3 concessions.

Afternoon demonstration & practical workshop: 1–4pm
You are invited to bring a broken ceramic to repair.
Booking essential, £30 full price/£25 concessions.

http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#search=kitsugi

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Venetian paintings

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

Princely Treasures: the Renaissance & Baroque Kunstkammer
With Professor Timothy Wilson

In this lecture Tim Wilson discusses princely Kunstkammers – ‘Chambers of Art and Wonder’ – from the historic Green Vault in Dresden, to the modern equivalent created by artists such as Kevin Coates.

Booking essential – £4/£3 – Click here to book online now
http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#search=Princely

Ashmolean – New Poetry in the Galleries

12.30-1.30pm and 2.30-3.30pm, Gallery 21
Saturdays 25 January, 22 February, and 29 March

Oxfordshire poets share new work written in response the Ashmolean’s collections.

Free, no booking required!

More events at:
http://www.ashmolean.org/events/

The Logos functions as the backbone and framework of Tolkien’s creative mythos, being rooted in his religion, understood by his profession, and expressed through his mythology. This talk explores the role of Logos in Middle-earth, and how it manifests in the Song of Luthien.

Lisa Coutras received her Master of Applied Theology from the University of Oxford, and is currently a PhD candidate at King’s College London, researching the narrative theology of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Upstairs, in the function room, at the Mitre. 7:30pm with drinks and nibbles served from 7pm.

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Turner and Leighton

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105

Why do so many charity photos look identical? What do Apple’s design principles, World War II propaganda, the infamous MySpace mirror portrait and mobile phone video scandals all have in common? At their root is the power that has created much of our Western visual understanding of poverty – as well as the power that will allow us to change it for the better. As major international organizations struggle with the question of how to keep poverty photography relevant – and keep the money rolling in – we can look at how the era of social networks and mobile technology will allow us to personally have a hand in crafting a new, subtle and infinitely ‘smarter’ series of visuals around poverty – a critical tool in helping to spread the idea of effective charitable giving based on a more informed understanding of poverty.

Michael T. Middleton has done photography on six continents and been published internationally in print and online. His work has appeared in gallery shows in the US and France, and photos from his Absent Friends portrait series were an Official Selection in the 2011 Prix de la Photographie in Paris.

The talk is as ever FREE OF CHARGE, and there will be wine and chat afterwards.

Ashmolean Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Early Italian art

1.15–2pm every open weekday, Tuesday – Friday, Gallery 21
Places (maximum 15) allocated by tokens from the Information Desk 15 mins before the talk

January
Thu 16 Tools from the past
Fri 17 Mesopotamia: the cradle of civilisation
Tue 21 Japanese arts and crafts
Wed 22 Landscape paintings
Thu 23 The Textile Gallery
Fri 24 Venetian paintings
Tue 28 Turner and Leighton
Wed 29 Early Italian art
Thu 30 The Acanthus – a floral delight
Fri 31 Victorian painting and sculpture

http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Talks/?id=105