The third of St Cross College’s 50th Anniversary termly lectures is entitled “Saint Helena Dreams of the Cross: Mapping Stories, Sowing Relics”, and will be given by Honorary Fellow Professor Dame Marina Warner, award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and history. Her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths, symbols and fairytales. Dame Marina recently received the prestigious Holberg Prize for 2015.

Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics. The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students, staff and the general public. The OBU Documentary Club is supported by the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.

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Produced in the UK on a zero-budget, the filmmakers spent two years contacting and interviewing journalists, organisers and critics of the corrupt industrial practices highlighted by, but not limited to, the Leveson Inquiry in 2011. While the phone hacking scandal illuminated the depth and breadth of the cavalier flouting of legality and integrity in British journalism, there are larger implications and connections to ideology, entertainment, and political economy at work in this crisis. The Fourth Estate is the result of an examination of these connections at work.

The Oxford Anagama Project is building an anagama kiln to explore japan’s oldest pottery making technique. Jim Keeling will talk about his visits to Bizen, and report on the willow kilns in Wytham Woods as well as demonstrate some pots from the first firing

A talk by Seán Donlon, the former Irish ambassador to the United States.

Come listen to a curator with the Smithsonian Institute, Dr. Ellen Feingold, talk about the ongoing fascinating ‘Money in Arica’ project at the British Museum, which aims to piece together African monetary history and its cultural and political impact. Dr. Feingold will also speak on her own focus of counterfeit currencies in colonial East and West Africa. The lecture will be held at the Ioannou (Classics) Centre on St. Giles.

This event should interest you if:

• you wish to know more about various numismatics research projects;
• you wish to know more about a unique and rare field of numismatics (African numismatics);
• you wish to know more about using numismatics as a source for research.

Speaker profile: http://americanhistory.si.edu/profile/1159
Abstract:

During the interwar period, international counterfeiting schemes originating in West Africa presented a new threat to British colonial and national currencies. The institutions responsible for the West African monetary system – the Colonial Office and West African Currency Board – believed these plots had the potential to generate high quality forged currency and thus considered them to present a greater risk than local counterfeiting practices. This paper argues that colonial officials were also alert to this illicit activity because the schemes presented a new challenge to British law enforcement in the colonies, set off disputes between national and imperial institutions in London, and required the British to collaborate with other nations to thwart. The emergence of these international counterfeiting schemes demonstrates that while the creation of a colonial monetary system for West Africa facilitated British imperial economic aims, it also created new and unanticipated challenges to British rule.

Please contact qaleeda.talib@some.ox.ac.uk for more information.

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Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics.The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students, staff and the general public. The OBU Documentary Club is supported by the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.

All our events are free and open to all.

The world’s best long-distance runners hail from one small town in Ethiopia. See how they do it!

Long distance running is a way of life in the Arsi region of Ethiopia. In a country long associated with poverty, famine and war, world-record-beating athletes are the source of pride. Many of the world’s greatest runners hail from Bekoji, a remote town in the southern Highlands. In the Beijing Olympics, runners from the Bekoji won all four gold medals in the long distance track events – more medals than most industrial countries.

TOWN OF RUNNERS is a feature documentary by an award-winning director Jerry Rothwell (Donor Unknown, Heavy Load) about the young athletes born and raised in Bekoji, who hope to emulate their local heroes and compete on the world’s stage. Filmed over four years, the film follows their fortunes as they move from school track to national competition and from childhood to adulthood.

For more information on the Outreach Programme associated with Town of Runners, visit www.townofrunners.com/Outreach

Talk, Q&As, and discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion. There’s no need to book: just come along on the day.

This mini-symposium will take place at OVADA, before the Exhibition Preview of ‘Arkitektoniske Kramper’ at 6pm. Guest speakers, Steven Fowler and Tamarin Norwood, will join the exhibiting artists brook&black (UK) and Christina Bredahl Duelund/Natascha Thiara Rydvald (DK) in discussion about creative collaboration.

Translators of the Penguin ‘Ramayana’ edition, Prof. John and Mary Brockington will be giving an informative introduction to the Indian Epic; Ramayana.

A storytelling performance of the story will then follow.
The RAMAYANA is an adventure story of battles and escapades, palaces and forests, of kings and princes, of silent and absent women! Storyteller Seema Anand unveils the faces of the heroines and unsilences their long forgotten voices.

The evening will finish with an open discussion of the epic with the audience. A selection of tasty Indian refreshments will be available at the interval.

Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event!

Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology

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How do individuals and groups react to different environmental situations (home, office, hospital, street, shop, and so on)? What psychological processes are triggered by our environment, and how do they affect our perception, attitude and actions? How can individuals and groups change their environment so that it provides a more stimulating, less stressful and more enabling setting in which to live? How are our identities tied up with place? How might sustainability in environmental policy be better informed by current research?

Byron Mikellides is currently Emeritus Professor at the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University, where he has been teaching since 1968. He has published several influential books including Colour for Architecture (1976),with Tom Porter, Architecture for People (1980) and Colour for Architecture Today (2009),with Tom Porter. He has also contributed to several books, scientific journals and papers over the years, and lectured extensively in various countries particularly in USA and Scandinavia. He is also a former member of Directors of IAPS (International Association of People Environment Studies), a committee member of the Colour Group of Great Britain and an Honorary member of the Portugal Colour Group. He organised the Exhibition of Antonio Gaudi, in Oxford in 1983 and the ‘Colours of Savannah’ in Georgia, USA in 1996 for the Olympic Games.

His latest works include chapters in books such as Building Happiness (2010) on architectural psychology and Colour Design – Theory and Applications (2012).

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Psychology and Neuroscience Applications Society

The junction where psychology and neuroscience research meets action and innovation.

PsyNAppS aims to disseminate information about what you can do with your psychology or neuroscience degree and research. We are here to tell you everything Freud hasn’t. We want to show you how psychology and neuroscience can be applied practically to a variety of industries.

This autumn Christ Church Picture Gallery will welcome Prof Dr Arnold Nesselrath, from the Vatican Museums to give the Picture Gallery’s 250th anniversary talk.
When General John Guise (1682-1765) left his collection to Christ Church, the artist whose fame and reputation had not only endured, but had steadily increased was the Renaissance master Raphael. While Guise’s collection shows many idiosyncrasies, he undeniably shared with his contemporaries a deep admiration for Raphael.
Prof Nesselrath is in charge of the best known works of art in the world –Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Stanze. He is intimately familiar with Raphael’s oeuvre and one of the leading scholars on the artist. His talk at Christ Church will present new research and discoveries made during the current conservation of Raphael’s frescos.

The talk is free, but places are limited and we therefore ask people to book in advance. Either by emailing: picturegallery@chch.ox.ac.uk or by calling 01865 276 172

Oxford Fashion Society is delighted to bring you our first speaker of the year, FELICITY HAYWARD! Join us on the 12th November for a very special event with the international model, ASOS stylist and artist. There will be top style tips, insights into her amazing world of fashion, and a chance for any questions, as well as a (FREE!) drinks reception following the event!

Felicity has had an amazing and varied career, from being ASOS’s go-to gal for all things CURVE, to gracing the cover of I-D and Noctis magazines (and countless others), to her nearly 40k followers on Instagram, and she’ll be joining us to tell us all about it! For anyone interested in modelling, styling, fashion, or just a great evening out, this event is an absoloute must!

Tickets are £3 on the door and include FREE DRINKS afterwards!
Join the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/990444424351368/

See you all there!

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The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics.The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students, staff and the general public. The OBU Documentary Club is supported by the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.

All our events are free and open to all.

CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).

CITIZENFOUR not only shows you the dangers of governmental surveillance—it makes you feel them. After seeing the film, you will never think the same way about your phone, email, credit card, web browser, or profile, ever again.

Mr Richard Guy, Mr Roel Hompes and Mr Bobby Bloemendaal from the Colorectal Department at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be presenting: “Surgery for advanced rectal cancer – crossing the boundaries”.

Many questions arise when an artist considers their work in terms of criticality. This 5 days programme aims to provide reflection on art that is both spoken and written with the aim of deepening the level of interpretation. The benefit of combining artists and writers on the same course builds upon the relationship between art, literature and criticism evident in most modern art movements.

Taught by Peter Suchin, Rachel Withers and Stephen Lee, through morning group discussion/workshops and afternoon individual studio visits/tutorials. The course is geared to graduates, emerging or established artists and writers who are thinking about how their practice interacts with the public domain.

Peter Suchin is a freelance art critic and artist. Rachel Withers is a regular writer for Art Forum and the Guardian among many other publications. She is presently Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art and Design at Bath School of Art and Design. Stephen Lee is an artist and contributor to Art Monthly and several other magazines.

Artists-in-residence Muneaki Shimode and Takahiko Sato from Kyoto, along with Tim Toomey from the UK Kintsugi Project, will talk about the ethos behind Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with urushi (Japanese lacquer) and powdered gold. The talk will also include a demonstration of the process. This Spotlight marks the culmination of a 10-day Kintsugi project at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Exhibition opens at 3pm – Talks 5pm – Drinks 6.45pm

The first English full-stage, masked production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex caused a sensation when it opened at Sadler’s Wells in January 1960. Directed by Michel Saint-Denis and conducted by Colin Davis, the designs by the Algerian theatre designer, Abd’Elkader Farrah captured the high modernist, ritualised aesthetic of Stravinsky’s oratorio.

Join us for an Exhibition and Study Afternoon devoted to this ground breaking production. Speakers: Jonathan Cross (Oxford) on Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex; Stephen Harrison (Oxford) on Jean Daniélou’s Latin version of Cocteau’s Libretto; and,
Jane Pritchard (Curator of Dance, Theatre and Performance Collections, V&A) on Farrah’s designs.

Bernard Leach established the Leach Pottery in 1920 and went on to be regarded as one of the founding fathers of Studio Pottery. Matthew Tyas of the Leach pottery explores his work and legacy.

In this Inaugural Gaza Lecture, Professor Karma Nabulsi, Assiociate Professor in Politics and International Relations from University of Oxford, will explore the politics, history and current predicaments faced by Palestinians in Gaza – particularly in the field of education.

In doing so, the lecture will illustrate the many extraordinary capacities and qualities of the Palestinian people that have come to the fore despite the extreme situation they are living in and how they have become an exemplar of democratic and universal values.

Gaza is commonly seen as a place of humanitarian catastrophe requiring emergency assistance, but Karma will instead show what the Palestinians of Gaza give to us.

Mass Circulation: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper

With Richard Dorment, art critic, and Dr Alexander Sturgis, Director, Ashmolean Museum

A special Ashmolean evening In Conversation event

Wednesday 18 November
6‒7pm
Lecture Theatre

As The Daily Telegraph’s chief art critic from 1986‒2015, Richard Dorment CBE covered exhibition subjects ranging from the Ice Age to the Turner Prize. He talks to Ashmolean Director, Dr Alexander Sturgis, about art history, art criticism, and the popular press.

Tickets £12/£10 concessions. Booking is essential.
https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/#event=20239

For our final speaker event of the term, the Oxford University Numismatic Society will be hosting Peter Preston-Morley, coin specialist with Dix Noonan Webb. Peter will be gracing us with his presence in Sixth Week to talk about the life and times of a prolific numismatist — and perhaps one of Britain’s greatest — Sir Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson.

This talk should interest you if:

– you wish to know more about the career paths of numismatists and the work that they do;
– you are interested in Greek coinage: Sir Robinson was an enthusiast of Greek numismatics and made contributions which redefined the field;
– you are interested in auctions and the art and collections market: the company that Peter works with, Dix Noonan Webb Ltd, is “the UK’s leading specialist auctioneers and valuers of coins, tokens, medals, militaria and paper money of all types”. Meeting Peter could thus be an opportunity for you to find out what goes on behind the doors of auctions and auctioneers, and more about serious coin-collecting!

o mark Inter Faith Week 2015 (15 – 21 November) and the 150th anniversary of Oxford Brookes University, the University Chaplaincy will host a panel discussion on the role of faith, belief, and non-belief in 21st century higher education.
This discussion between some of the university Chaplains will explore the importance of building good relationships and working partnerships between people of different faiths and beliefs and the cultural, social and educational implications.

Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics. The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students, staff and the general public. The OBU Documentary Club is supported by the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.

All our events are free and open to all.

This powerful new film highlights the Church’s origins, from its roots in the mind of founder L. Ron Hubbard to its rise in popularity in Hollywood and beyond. The heart of the film is a series of shocking revelations by former insiders, including high-ranking and recognizable members such as acclaimed screenwriter Paul Haggis (“Crash”), as they describe the systematic history of abuse and betrayal by Church officials, including the current leadership of the Church.

Mansfield Lecture Series, Convener Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.Laurie Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of York and
Visiting Professor in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck. He is the author of 14
books on crime, deviance, personal identity and the nature of contemporary
celebrity. He presents the weekly social science programme Thinking Allowed
on BBC Radio Four.

Sir David Tang will reflect on recent developments in Chinese society and on the UK’s changing relationship with the Asian super-power. As a pre-eminent figure in fashion, hospitality, media and the arts, in both the UK and across Asia, Sir David will share his unique insights on this complex and fascinating topic.
The evening will be hosted by Ken Hom OBE, chef, author and broadcaster and honorary graduate of Oxford Brookes University.

The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics.The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students, staff and the general public. The OBU Documentary Club is supported by the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.

All our events are free and open to all.

**OxPolicy and #periodpositive are ready to launch their report on the state of menstruation education in the United Kingdom!**

Join us on the evening of November 30th for a bloody good time (haw haw). We’ll be discussing our findings and making suggestions on how to improve the provision of menstruation education in UK schools, ways of teaching period positivity, and how to lessen menstrual stigma both for young people and generally. Featuring the wonderful Chella Quint – comedian and founder of #periodpositive!

Drinks to follow at the Lamb and Flag (St Giles) after the event.

For much of the last nearly 200 years, a huge amount of work has been undertaken to record, analyse and characterise gait – the patterns of movement when we walk. The common objectives were to enlighten clinical understanding and to improve the quality of life of many thousands of children, veterans and people challenged by disability.

An unintended consequence of this work has been its us in the entertainment sectors. Tom will take you on a visual journey into the world of blockbuster movies, music videos and advertisements populated by amazing creatures animated characters and imaginary environments.
He will describe the techniques used to capture human motion and how to place animated characters and objects into real backgrounds.

Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics.The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students, staff and the general public. The OBU Documentary Club is supported by the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment.

All our events are free and open to all.

A young blind woman Carly living in Witney and her Persian cat Tango travel together all over the UK, Ireland and Europe to competitive cat shows. A unique road trip adventure with a blind girl and her cat. On the surface a quirky look into the cat show world in Europe, but also the story of an ambitious young woman looking for love.

WINNER Best International Feature Documentary American Documentary Film Festival Palm Springs USA March 2015, Official Selection Doc Feed film Festival Eindhoven, The Netherlands Feb 2015.

Open Screen is a friendly networking group that meets on the first Thursday of the month, to watch and discuss short films. We welcome filmmakers of any level from novice to professional wanting to watch or show and discuss your work. It can be drama, documentary, finished or unfinished.

For our Modern Art Oxford event we will be selecting a programme of films that reflect the talent and diversity of the local filmmaking community.