Why have we become obsessed with squeezing the most out of every minute? What’s wrong with wasting time?

Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP, Dominican Friar and international writer and speaker, explores the delights and trials of sitting in silence, waiting for God to speak. Timothy Radcliffe was Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992-2001.

This talk forms part of the University Church’s Trinity term series for students and 20-somethings. Wine, cheese and juice will be in ample supply.

As part of the Oxford University Shakespeare Festival, singers from across the university will present settings of Shakespeare texts for solo voice and choir.

Solo settings by Quilter, Gurney and Finzi will be followed by choral works including Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs – settings from The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream – and his stunning Serenade to Music which sets text from The Merchant of Venice; a piece which has been hailed as one of the most beautiful works ever written!

Tickets: £5 (including refreshments!)

Available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/276207

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The Psalms in England
With Prof M J Toswel, University of Western Ontario

Tuesday 10 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre

This lecture introduces the Anglo-Saxon psalter, and especially the interlinear vernacular versions in Latin psalters which were a unique feature in Europe at the time, and asks whether these provide evidence for greater engagement with the psalms in English than has generally been acknowledged.

Tickets £5/£4
http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132

Speaker: Susie Orbach
Psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her books include Fat is a Feminist Issue and Bodies. A convenor of Anybody, an organisation that campaigns for body diversity. Co-founder of Antidote which works for the emotional literacy and Co-founder of Psychotherapist and Counsellors for Social Responsibility. Part of the Mansfield Lecture Series, convener Baroness Helena Kennedy QC

Dr Jonathan Jong, a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, explores how time is all “in the mind”. Philosophers disagree about the nature of time: does it really flow from the past to the future through the present? There is a good chance that it doesn’t, and that our perception of time is illusory. But why do we experience time as we do?

This talk is part of the University Church’s Trinity term discussion series for students and 20-somethings, ‘A Waste of Time’, critiquing our cultural fetishizing of efficiency. As well as a guest speaker, there will be Q&A and group discussion over wine and cheese.

This event is free and open to all in the students and 20-somethings bracket.

In 2014 Barnett House is celebrating its centenary. The celebrations culminate with the Reunion Weekend on 12-13 July 2014.

This includes:
– Keynote talk from Magdalena Sepulveda, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
– The 100th birthday tea party (the V-C Andrew Hamilton will cut the birthday cake!)
– A talk on the history of Barnett House and the launch of the book on the history.
– Open house at the department with displays of historic material and current research.
– Drinks and dinner with an after dinner talk from Prof Jonathan Bradshaw.
– Showing of the film Rich Man, Poor Man based on research carried out by Robert Walker and Elaine Chase with a discussion with the director of the film.

How do you find your own inner peace whilst living your own busy life?

How do you become the person who you truly are and honour your responsibilities?

How do you integrate and refine your soul’s purpose into your life?

An evening with Leon arts; Modern Day Alchemist, Dad, Visionary, Author, Social Innovator, Top Chef, Philanthopreneur, Traveller and Explorer of Consciousness.

To find the way to your own true self it helps to have a guide, it can be challenging to do it on your own. As the transformation of a cocoon into the butterfly is challenging and can feel like a struggle, it is easier in to do in the presence of another person with experience of the struggle.

When you change your inside world, the outside reality will follow suit: “As Within, So Without”.

Kenan Malik will be discussing ‘What can the history of morality tell us about the nature of morality’.

The World Humanist Congress is taking place from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August in Oxford. Held every three years in different locations around the world, this years theme of the meeting is ‘Freedom of Thought and Expression’. We are pleased to announce during the conference period, 10 world-class speakers will be visiting the bookshop for a series of free 20 minute talks taking place in the Norrington Room. You do not need tickets to attend any of the talks but seating is limited, so please arrive early to get a ensure your place.

Join us for an evening at Corpus Christi College with the composer Robert Saxton, as he discusses his lifetime achievements in music with his fellow composer Thomas Hyde.

Robert Saxton has worked with many experts in the field, composed for the BBC and London Symphony Orchestra, amongst other ventures.

PsyNAppS holds our first meeting with Professor Nancy Puccinelli speaking about her considerable experience in the field of neuromarketing.

Professor Nancy Puccinelli is a leading expert in the role of affect in consumer behaviour. At our inaugural event, she will be discussing the application of Psychology and Neuroscience to marketing and analysis of consumer behaviour. She is currently a Fellow in Consumer Marketing at the Saïd Business School.

PsyNAppS members pay £5 for free entry to ALL talks for the entire academic year! Alternatively, pay £3 for free entry to all talks for one academic term, or £2 for entry to a single meeting.

OxFEST Workshop Series: Body Language and Communication Styles workshop with Shell
When: Tuesday 28th October 4.15pm | Week 3
Where: Centenary Room at Careers Service (Banbury Road)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/375364692627152/

Sign up only: email your CV to OxFEST President on anna.muszkiewicz@sjc.ox.ac.uk

Come to our workshop on body language and communication styles! Co-organised with Shell, it will provide you with key skills for interviews, meetings, negotiation and everyday life. This is a FREE event. Email your CV to OxFEST President on anna.muszkiewicz@sjc.ox.ac.uk by 17 October 5pm to sign up as spaces are limited. Priority will be given to OxFEST members.
This workshop has proven very popular in the past so the spaces will fill up quickly! Sign up by 5pm on 17th October 2014!

This free event will see Andrew Kotting, Iain Sinclair and others present the first showing of their work-in-progress film project about the poet John Clare (1793-1864), By Ourselves. Talks and performances will accompany the showing, responding to the poet’s 80-mile walk, reimagined by the film, from an Essex asylum, back to his home village of Helpston, Cambridgeshire.

About the speakers
FILM MAKER, ANDREW KÖTTING; WRITER, IAIN SINCLAIR AND ARTISTS, JEM FINER AND KIRSTEN NORRIE PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

Andrew Kötting’s films include ‘Gallivant’, ‘This Filthy Earth’ and ‘This Our Still Life’. He is Professor of Time Based Media for the University of Creative Arts.

Iain Sinclair’s 2005 memoir Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare’s ‘Journey Out of Essex’, is the inspiration for ‘By Our Selves’. Other works include Ghost Milk and American Smoke.

Jem Finer was one of the founding members of The Pogues, cowriting many of their songs. He has been artist in residence at the Universities of Oxford and Bath.

Kirsten Norrie is a musician performance artist who makes video and objects, and who publishes poetry under the name MacGillivray.

Hosted by Professor Simon Kövesi of the Department of English and Modern Languages, Oxford Brookes University.

Dress up to party like it’s 1922 and discover the decade’s fascination with Ancient Egypt at an evening of Jazz Age performances, workshops and talks.

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FREE ENTRY
7 – 10.30pm
Halloween night: Friday 31 October 2014

The Rooftop Bar and Vaulted Café will be serving drinks until 10.30pm.

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For programme news see:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1445682889032169/
or
http://www.ashmolean.org/livefriday

The more that infants are studied – by psychoanalytical or anthropological observation or in laboratory conditions – the more sophisticated their social and psychological capacities appear. I want to use some of this knowledge to make a stronger case for national policy investment in the early years: to support the development of small children, alongside the skills of all who look after them in the context of a “neighbourhood around the child”.

Dr Sebastian Kraemer FRCP, FRCPsych, FRCPCH is a consultant emergency and liaison child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Whittington Hospital, London and an honorary consultant at the Tavistock Clinic, London where he worked as a clinician and trainer for 25 years. He writes and lectures on paediatric mental health liaison; the role of fathers from anthropological and modern social perspectives; family therapy, psychoanalysis and therapeutic change; the fragility of the developing male; dynamics of professional groups; attachment and inequality in social policy.

£20 including a glass of wine. Doors open 18.00
For tickets visit: www.oxboffice.com or phone the Oxboffice Hotline 0845 680 1926

Psychology is the study of the mind. In this intensive Sunday course you will explore what makes humans human and what makes you an individual. You will develop an understanding of key topics in contemporary psychology including: personality, mood and emotion, attraction and love, childhood and intelligence. This course is for anyone who has a general interest in psychology and wants to pursue this further, either personally or academically. You will leave the course with a strong grounding in the basic concepts and theories of psychology.

This course runs from 10am – 5pm on Sunday 16th November.

For more details, and to sign up go to knowledgeproject.co.uk, or email alison@knowledgeproject.co.uk

About us:

The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening classes in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups (no more than ten) and are centred on lively discussion. We are a social enterprise and all our proceeds go to local children’s charity Jacari.

In the coming term we also have spaces available on:

– Shakespeare
– Environmental Science
– Novel Writing
– Anthropology
– Contemporary Art
– Moral Philosophy

Courses are held over 8 evening sessions (£80) or in a single intensive Sunday (£50).

This conference aims not only to explore C.P.E. Bach’s music in relation to Affekt and feeling, character and expression, but also to examine the composer’s role in the development of what might be termed an eighteenth-century Austro-German culture of keyboard music.

KEYNOTE LECTURES

Matthew Head (King’s College London): Fantasia ‘in tormentis’ (H. 278): gout, sensation and musical meaning

Annette Richards (Cornell University): Sensibility Triumphant: C.P.E. Bach and the Art of Feeling

PAPERS

SESSION 1: C.P.E. Bach as Theorist and Practitioner

John McKean (University of Cambridge): Towards a ‘Wahre Art’: C.P.E. Bach’s Versuch and the German contribution to the Keyboard Treatise Genre

Sheila Guymer (University of Cambridge):
The legacy of C.P.E. Bach’s Versuch in interpretations of the first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 109

Joshua Walden (John Hopkins Peabody Institute): C.P.E. Bach and the Cadenza as Interpretation

SESSION 2: Character and Expression

Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton): The Chinese Taste and Emanuel Bach

Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat (Cornell University): The Limits of Subjectivity? Self-Reflexive Manifestations in C. P. E. Bach’s E minor Keyboard Concerto, H. 418

Keith Chapin (Cardiff University): C.P.E. Bach and the Neo-Classical Sublime: Revisions of a Concept

SESSION 3: Crosscurrents in C.P.E. Bach’s Oeuvre

Susan Wollenberg (University of Oxford): In what way a set? C.P.E. Bach’s ‘Kenner und Liebhaber’ volumes

Hans-Günter Ottenberg (Technische Universität Dresden): C.P. E. Bach in the area of tension between North/Central German and South German-Austrian formal concepts, creative strategies, and compositional models of keyboard music

Estelle Joubert (Dalhousie University): ‘Ut luna inter stellas minores’: Locating C.P.E. Bach in eighteenth-century Austro- German keyboard culture

RECITALS

The conference will also feature a clavichord recital by David Gerrard and a fortepiano recital by John Irving.

John will be discussing his autobiography, ‘Anger is an Energy’ with David Freeman. This will be the very last time that John appears in public to discuss his book before rejoining PiL for an upcoming tour. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols – the world’s most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970s with singles such as ‘Anarchy in the UK’ and ‘God Save the Queen’. So revolutionary was his influence, he was even discussed in the Houses of Parliament, under the Traitors and Treasons Act, which still carries the death penalty. Via his music and invective he spearheaded a generation of young people across the world who were clamouring for change – and found it in the style and attitude of this most unlikely figurehead. With his next band, Public Image Ltd (PiL) Lydon expressed an equally urgent impulse in his make-up – the constant need to reinvent himself, to keep moving. From their beginnings in 1978 he set the groundbreaking template for a band that continues to challenge and thrive in the 2010s.

There are two ticket buying options for this event. Option 1 costs £20 and gets you entry to the event and a pre-signed copy of ‘Anger is an Energy’. Option 2 costs just £5 and is a general, unallocated seating ticket for the event. This event will NOT be followed by a public signing, pre-signed copies of John’s book will be available ONLY at the event on the evening for £20. Tickets can be purchased by either visiting the customer service desk in the Norrington Room of Blackwell’s, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford. Alternatively, We can take payment for tickets over the phone by calling 01865 333623.

Blackwell’s presents a musically accompanied reading of ‘War Horse’ at the prestigious Sheldonian Theatre by award winning children’s author Michael Morpurgo. Michael Morpurgo tells the powerful and deeply moving story of young Albert and his beloved horse Joey during the First World War. Michael is joined by acclaimed musicians John Tams and Barry Coope, who accompany his reading with the rousing yet haunting songs specially composed by John Tams for the National Theatre’s award-winning production of ‘War Horse’.

Three academics, at different stages of research will be speaking on the subject on ‘Shocks’, from the perspective of seismology, neuroscience and anthropology. The President’s Seminars provide an opportunity to network with members of Wolfson College, and to hear how other researchers plan, conduct and complete their research projects. We meet each term on Mondays of 3rd Week at 5.30pm to hear very brief presentations by a graduate student, a research fellow and a senior fellow at Wolfson, and continue with lively discussion over wine, followed by dinner in hall.

Mansfield lecture series (Convener Baroness Helena Kennedy QC). “Errollyn Wallen, singer, composer, musician, renaissance woman of contemporary British music” The Observer.

Science Oxford and the Manchester Science Festival team would like you to join us in unlocking the secret science of songs, an evening of science and music featuring a discussion with the experts on why we find certain songs catchier than others, including the #HookedonMusic Quiz and a silent disco.

Since developing the online game #HookedonMusic, leading cognition scientist from the University of Amsterdam, Dr Ashley Burgoyne has been analysing the data retrieved from people playing the game to unlock the secret of hooks. Why do we have to live with the fact that Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ is voted the catchiest song of all time? Play the game and then join Science Oxford, Dr Ashley Burgoyne and Wellcome Trust Fellow Dr Erinma Ochu from the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester for an evening of scientific sing-alongs.

The bar will be open all evening.

7pm: Doors

8 – 8.45pm: Discussion about the #HookedonMusic citizen science project with Dr Ashley Burgoyne and Dr Erinma Ochu

8.45 – 9.15pm: #HookedonMusic Quiz

9.15 – 10pm: Silent Disco with #HookedonMusic’s catchiest tracks

10 – 11pm: Silent Disco D.J set

Movement skills are a fundamental aspect of human behaviour, enabling us to perform everyday tasks, to express ourselves and to maintain our health and well-being. However, some children lack the movement skills they need to cope with the everyday demands of home and school, despite normal intellectual, sensory and neurological development.

Sometimes referred to as ‘dyspraxia’ or ‘clumsiness’, this condition is more properly called Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD).

Anna will draw on her own research to illustrate how psychologists have contributed to understanding this condition.

About the speaker
PROFESSOR ANNA BARNETT
Anna Barnett is a Professor in Psychology at Oxford Brookes researching perceptualmotor development, with a special interest in both DCD and handwriting.

Her work focuses on the diagnosis and description of DCD, its impact on health and well-being and the development of tools to assist health and education professionals to identify and help children with movement and handwriting difficulties.

She has published widely on the diagnosis, assessment, description, and developmental course of DCD.

Twenty minute introductory talk, one hour discussion. All welcome.

We are pleased to announce that Oxford will be hosting MedFest – the international medical film festival. Now in its fifth year, the theme of MedFest 2015 is ‘Global Medicine & Civilisations’, and will be focusing on issues around global mental health.

Place: Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church, Oxford
Date: Wednesday 25th February (Week 6)
Time: 5pm-7:30pm (TBC)

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: oxfordmedfest2015.eventbrite.co.uk

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FAQs:

Q: What is MedFest?

A: Medfest is a medically themed film festival run by UK psychiatry trainees. Every February, medical schools around the UK and Ireland hold evening events. A selection of short films, clips and animations are shown and discussed by a panel of distinguished or famous faces before the floor is opened for audience comments. The dual aims of Medfest are to increase interest in psychiatry and to inspire people through film. Medfest 2014 saw exciting firsts including an art exhibition and International events in Australia and Riga.

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Q: Who can come?

A: Anyone – the majority of our audiences tend to be medical students, though our events are relevant to all health professionals and film fans. Members of the public are most welcome.

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Q: How much does it cost to attend?

A: Absolutely nothing – Medfest is largely funded by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, with additional funding being accrued from both national and local sources. So there is no entry fee. Most events also carry free refreshments. Medfest does not receive funding from pharmaceutical companies.

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Q: Are there any trigger warnings for this event?

A: All the films will contain adult themes of mental illness and suffering, with discussions of self-harm and suicide.

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Q: Will there be any refreshments available?

A: Of course!

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Q: Hashtag for tweeting?

A: Please tweet away #MedFest2015

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Q: What are the accessibility features of the venue?

A: The venue is wheelchair accessible and the lecture theatre has a hearing loop installed.

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Q: Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?

A: The local lead for Oxford is Marco Narajos. Please email marco.narajos@chch.ox.ac.uk for any questions.

Dr. Gavin B. Sullivan is a Reader in Social
Psychology at Coventry University. His research
focuses on group-based and collective emotions
which include negative emotions such as group
shame, positive emotions like collective pride,
dynamic relations between group-based and
collective emotions and broader connections with
collective action and memory. Gavin’s talk is based
on a forthcoming article for Social and Personality
Compass and includes discussion of research in
settings such as Germany, South Africa and Brazil as
well as contexts of celebration, competition and
conflict.

Alpár, a research associate at the University of Cambridge, guides us through some of the mysteries of sleep and circadian rhythms. He will present ground-breaking new research into the effects on our everyday lives of the interaction between our sleep patterns and the light and dark of the classical mechanism of time.

The event is organised by the Oxford Hungarian Society (www.hungsoc.com)

Psychology professor Christopher French explains why some people think they have been abducted by aliens or that they have seen a ghost. He looks at the reasons why belief in the paranormal has been reported in every known society since the dawn of time, and wonders whether there is any room for superstition in modern science. Reports of ghosts and alien encounters grab the headlines, but French says the science behind those claims can be even more fascinating.

French is professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-author of Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience with Anna Stone, a senior psychology lecturer at the University of East London.

2pm / Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre / Tickets £12

Richard Layard and David Clark

Two leading experts on mental health Professors Richard Layard and David Clark argue that doing much more to help people recover from mental ill-health and to stay well would not only increase wellbeing but would also create massive savings for the economy. Layard and Clark have been major contributors to Britain becoming a world leader in psychological therapies, but they say that mental ill-health still causes more suffering in our society than physical illness, poverty or unemployment. They explore new effective therapies to mental illness and argue that, while the costs of mental illness are high, the cost of effective treatment is relatively low.

Layard is one of the world’s leading labour economists. As a member of the House of Lords, he was worked hard to raise the profile of mental illness. His book, Happiness, has been translated into 20 languages. Clark is professor of psychology at the University of Oxford and one of the world’s leading experts on cognitive behavioural therapy. Together, Layard and Clark were the main drivers behind the UK Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.

2pm / / £12