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Yan Geling and Lawrence Walker: A Journey Together, in Literature
嚴歌苓和勞倫斯：他們的芳華
This event is in English.
As Yan Geling often says, her literary career can be divided into three stages. Drawing on a range of classical Chinese and Western literatures discovered in her grandfather and father’s collections, she started writing stories while she was still part of the Art Troupe in the Chinese military. As a young teenager, the experiences performing in the Sichuan-Tibet region and reporting during the Vietnam War provided her with rich materials for her creative writing. Already an award-winning writer in her 20s, she took the opportunity to study for an MFA in Chicago in the late 1980s. That was the period when she started exploring the lived experiences of the Chinese diaspora in her fiction, and her dramatic encounters with the FBI as a result of dating Lawrence, then a US diplomat, were later adapted into her novel Café with No Exit 無出路咖啡館 (2001). Geling’s literary career entered another highly productive phase when she moved to Nigeria with Lawrence in the early 2000s, where she completed the highly popular novel The Ninth Widow 第九個寡婦 (2006) and most of the essays published in her collection African Notes 非洲札記 (2013). Now living in Berlin, Geling keeps a comparative view on language and literature, and still works hard to bring out vivid portrayals of Chinese life from her memory and imagination. Throughout her career, she has had close connections with the film and TV industries in China and the wider Sinophone world, and adapted many of her stories into visual forms, never failing to impress audiences at home and abroad.
In this public event, Geling and Lawrence will be in conversation with Flair Donglai SHI (DPhil in English) to talk about their journey in literature. We will not only bring more spotlight on Geling’s less discussed works, but also focus on how the couple’s transnational and bilingual experiences have shaped their views and practices on fiction writing and translation. We will also continue the topic on media adaptations of literature and the concerns over contemporary Chinese literature’s international visibility and influence.
This event will be of interest to those of you who work on contemporary China, Chinese literature, Chinese diaspora, film studies, gender studies, translation studies, and intercultural communication in general. The conversation will be approximately 30 minutes long, and plenty of time will be given to audience Q & A and discussions. After the event, Geling will stay for a while longer to chat with enthusiastic readers and sign book copies (please bring your own).
Speaker biographies:
Yan Geling
Yan Geling is one the most prominent and widely read authors in mainland China and overseas Chinese communities today. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Her short stories and novels, including “Siao Yu 少女小漁”, “Celestial Bath (Xiuxiu the Sent-down Girl) 天浴”, The Flowers of War金陵十三釵, A Woman’s Epic一個女人的史詩, and Criminal Lu Yanshi陸犯焉識, have won numerous awards in mainland China and Taiwan. She also works as a screenplay writer and has collaborated with many prominent Chinese directors such as Ang Lee 李安, Sylvia Chang 張艾嘉, Joan Chen 陳沖Chen Kaige 陳凱歌, Zhang Yimou 張藝謀, and Feng Xiaogang 馮小剛to adapt her writings into films and TV dramas. The 2017 film, Youth 芳華, directed by Feng Xiaogang and based the eponymous novel by Ms. Yan, was one of the highest grossing and most discussed films in China of the year.
Lawrence A. Walker
Lawrence Walker worked as a US diplomat from 1980-1991 and again from 2004-2013, serving in Mexico City, Germany (Bonn and Berlin), Taipei (for Chinese language training), Shenyang, the State Department’s Office of Korean Affairs, on loan to Bank of America in San Francisco, in Nigeria (Abuja), Taipei, Berlin and at the U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart. Between 1991 to 2004 he worked as managing director of the German-American Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco, and in business development for a dot-com and a venture capital company. In 1999, he translated into English and published a collection of Yan Geling’s works entitled White Snake and Other Stories. More recently, he published a translation of her story ‘The Landlady’女房東 in Granta (https://granta.com/the-landlady/). He currently manages his wife Geling’s business affairs and is translating her novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi 陸犯焉識. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University, an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois and a maîtrise en administration et en gestion from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, which he attended as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.
It is striking that no biography has yet been written of one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of the last century – the great Cambridge philosopher, economist, and mathematician, Frank Ramsey. Join us for lunch to hear Cheryl Misak discuss the challenges of writing Ramsey’s biography. Lunch is free, registration essential.
Think Human Festival is proud to host this panel on Writing Working-Class Fiction.
Kerry Hudson, Kit de Waal and Alex Wheatle are celebrated contemporary British novelists who have all written working-class experience into their fiction. At this event, the novelists are hosted by writer and critic Boyd Tonkin.
They will read from their work, and then discuss the problems they have encountered in being working-class writers, the creative responses they have formulated in their writing of working-class experience, and the wider issues of publishing and literary culture in relation to working-class writing and authorship. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes has a rich tradition of research into working-class life and culture, across literature, history and the social sciences.
Dr Simone Sturniolo will talk about How computational science helps us understand the world and how you can try it too.
Can the wisdom of the crowd help us estimate the number of sweets in a jar?
From guessing the weight of a cow or the number of sweets in a jar, there is evidence that the average of a crowd’s guesses can deliver surprisingly accurate results.
Professor du Sautoy will carry out a number of live interactive quizzes and experiments to test these ideas and look at how these principles can be harnessed for citizen science projects.
As part of Think Human Festival, this one-off pop-up event is a unique opportunity for visitors of all ages to interact with leading academics from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. The academics will act as ‘human books’ from a range of perspectives; historic, literary, political, legal and educational for 15 minutes per ‘book loan’ against the back drop of revolution. ‘RESIST! REMAIN!’ will provide the chance to engage with and access humanities and social science disciplines in a fun, original and inspiring way, and aims to create a lasting impression of how these subjects can help to understand what it is to be human.
Please note that this event is free, open to all ages and there is no need to book ahead. Please come to Bonn Square and start a interesting conversation around revolution!
Join us for live music in the Forum of the John Henry Brookes Building from 17:00 before the panel discussion in the John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre at 18:00.
Most political movements are accompanied by protest songs. This Think Human Festival event aims to explore their rich tradition and assess their meaning and impact over time. Peggy Seeger, Andrew Scheps, Dr Angela McShane and Professor John Street will shed light on the historical context of protest songs, their production and sound, their political meaning and power, and their personal performance.
Our panel will examine the historical roots of protest songs, explore their impact on social and political movements, and explain what makes a song effective as protest. They’ll also discuss whether protest music is a dead or thriving art, and ask how far gender plays a role in their creation and performance.
Peggy Seeger is a celebrated singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and activist songmaker whose experience spans 60 years of performing, travel and songwriting. Dr Angela McShane leads the Research Development Team for the Wellcome Collection, an expert on early modern protest songs. Andrew Scheps is a Grammy award winning mix engineer, recording engineer, producer, and record label owner. John Street is Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia and specialises in the politics of popular music.
Join us for live music in the John Henry Brookes Building – Forum before the panel discussion at 18:00 in the Lecture Theatre.
Most political movements are accompanied by protest songs. This Think Human Festival event aims to explore their rich tradition and assess their meaning and impact over time. Peggy Seeger, Andrew Scheps, Dr Angela McShane and Professor John Street will shed light on the historical context of protest songs, their production and sound, their political meaning and power, and their personal performance.
Our panel will examine the historical roots of protest songs, explore their impact on social and political movements, and explain what makes a song effective as protest. They’ll also discuss whether protest music is a dead or thriving art, and ask how far gender plays a role in their creation and performance.
Peggy Seeger is a celebrated singer of traditional Anglo-American songs and activist songmaker whose experience spans 60 years of performing, travel and songwriting. Dr Angela McShane leads the Research Development Team for the Wellcome Collection, an expert on early modern protest songs. Andrew Scheps is a Grammy award winning mix engineer, recording engineer, producer, and record label owner. John Street is Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia and specialises in the politics of popular music.
Kerry Hudson, Kit de Waal and Alex Wheatle are celebrated contemporary British novelists who have all written working-class experience into their fiction. At this event, the novelists are hosted by writer and critic Boyd Tonkin.
They will read from their work, and then discuss the problems they have encountered in being working-class writers, the creative responses they have formulated in their writing of working-class experience, and the wider issues of publishing and literary culture in relation to working-class writing and authorship. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes has a rich tradition of research into working-class life and culture, across literature, history and the social sciences.
Our panel of acclaimed writers will explore the power of food literature to enhance our lives. Whether cookery writing that reveals the nature of cultural heritage, works of food history that highlight changing social conditions, or campaigning journalism that tackles corruption in the food industry, different forms of food literature play vital roles.
Claudia Roden is one of the world’s most respected food writers. Her work, known for being meticulously researched, is focused on the historical and cultural dimensions of national and regional cuisines. A Book of Middle Eastern Food, first published in 1968, was followed by around 20 more books including Mediterranean Cookery, The Food of Italy and The Book of Jewish Food. She has won many awards including six Glenfiddich Awards, two Andre Simon Awards and a James Beard Award in the US.
Bee Wilson is a food writer, historian and journalist. She began her professional writing career as food critic for the New Statesman, and went on to write for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New Yorker, amongst other publications. She has written five books and her latest, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, won a special commendation at the 2017 Andre Simon Awards.
Jeremy Lee is Chef Proprietor of Quo Vadis, in London’s Soho. Before taking up his position at this venerable restaurant he spent many years at the Blueprint Café, owned by Sir Terrence Conran. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, most recently The Guardian.
Donald Sloan is the Chair of the Oxford Cultural Collective, an educational and cultural institute that promotes better understanding of food and drink.
Join us for our Blackwell’s Open Mic Night, where there will be performances from an array of talented local performers, across a wide mix of creativity. Everyone is welcome to come along and listen, places for this event are free to register. Information about who will be performing will be updated when the final line-up is confirmed.
If you would like to register to perform, places are still available please email events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk. Each performer will have a 10 minute slot to showcase their work.
To allow opportunity and new talent to join the stage, we are not accepting performers from the last session in March as a main headliner. There will be a slot at the end that is open to drop in on the night for shorter pieces such as a poem or a song, and everyone is welcome to come forward.
For all enquiries please email events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk or call 01865 333623.
Blackwell’s presents an evening with madison moore, who will be exploring his new book ‘Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric’, an exploration of what it means to be fabulous – and why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than ever.
What does it mean to be fabulous? Is fabulous style only about labels, narcissism, and selfies—looking good and feeling gorgeous? Or can acts of fabulousness be political gestures, too? What are the risks of fabulousness? And in what ways is fabulous style a defiant response to the struggles of living while marginalized? madison moore answers these questions in a timely and fascinating book, moving from catwalks and nightclubs to the street, ‘Fabulous’ includes a range of fabulous and creative powerhouses, including DJ Vjuan Allure, voguing superstar Lasseindra Ninja, fashion designer Patricia Field, performance artist Alok Vaid‑ Menon, and a wide range of other aesthetic rebels from the worlds of art, fashion, and nightlife.
madison moore, is a cultural critic, DJ, and creative director whose writing has appeared in Theater, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Aperture, Thought Catalog, Out,Splice Today, and Interview. His work touches pop culture, queer studies, fashion, nightlife, sound, media, visual culture and contemporary art. madison is currently a Research Associate in Modern Moves in the Department of English at King’s College London, where he is also the director of the Queer@King’s Research Centre.
madison moore will be interviewed by Ruth Ramsden-Karelse. Ruth is a co-convener of the Queer Studies Network and a DPhil candidate in the English Faculty, based at Merton College, University of Oxford. Ruth is primarily interested in drag performances as sites at which gender, sexuality, race and class intersect in their full contextual complexity.
For all enquiries please email events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk. The doors for this event will open at 6:45pm, with seats allocated on a first come, first seated basis. There will be a bar serving an array of drinks available to purchase from 6:45pm-7pm.
First World War stories rarely appeared in British war comics published after the Second World War. This was not the case during the war and interwar period, though: story papers, precursors to comics, engaged with the war in detail. Dr. David Budgen (University of Kent) tracks comic book engagement with the conflict from these first ventures through to recent centenary commemorations.
Join us for the launch event of the Future of Blockchain 3 Month Competition.
We will be joined by 8 of the leading projects in the blockchain space. Teams include:
Gnosis
Kyber
Iconomi
Liquidity Network
Thunder
Zilliqa
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The Future of Blockchain is a 3 month idea competition hosted at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, LSE, UCL and KCL.
Challenge = Build something involving blockchain in 3 months
Over £80k cash in prize, Top Prize = £20,000 cash, 24 Bounties of £2,000 cash prizes from our supporters
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Winter Cohort:
Launch Events = 21st (Cambridge), 22nd (Oxford), 23rd (London) November 2018
Starts = Monday 3rd December 2018
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More info at www.futureofblockchain.co.uk
Talk followed by questions and discussion. This is part of a series of eight meetings on Thursday evenings, each one beginning at 7:30 and ending at 9pm.
11 October
The right to say untrue and damaging things
Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St
18 October
Flat earth: a Marxist critique
Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St
25 October
Tithe, timber, and the persistence of the ancien régime
Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St
1 November
The dream of human life: art in the Italian Renaissance
Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates
8 November
Antisemitism: more geese than swans
Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St
15 November
Marcus Aurelius and the self-help movement
Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St
22 November
Hegelian contradiction and prime numbers
Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St
29 November
Aleksandr Bogdanov (1873–1928) and the general science of organization
Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall St
Prime numbers have intrigued, inspired and infuriated mathematicians for millennia. Dr Vicky Neale (University of Oxford) explores the very different ways in which prime number breakthroughs are made.
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting one of Britain’s most influential literary critics, Terry Eagleton, to talk about his latest book, Humour.
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents
Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit?
Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
On Wednesday 22 May, ScreenTalk Oxfordshire proudly presents Harnessing the Power of Video in Business Communications.
An evening with Tim May, MD of Strange Films and Music, talking with Toby Low – MD of MerchantCantos an international agency specialising in bringing creativity to critical business communications; Scott Shillum – CEO of Vismedia, Winner of the 2018 Digital Impact Awards and a pioneer in creating interactive, immersive content fused with cutting edge technology; Clare Holt – Founder of Nice Tree Films in Oxford and a member of ScreenTalk provides videos for businesses, public sector organisations, charities and education; Nicky Woodhouse – Founder of Woodhouse Video Production, award-winning female director of branded content and TVCs for online and broadcast.
Join us on Wednesday 22 May from 18:15 for a drink in the downstairs Lounge Bar, Curzon, Westgate Centre in Oxford, and why not try the Curzon’s excellent Pizza – great quality! At 19:00 Tim May will be talking to Toby Low, Scott Shillum, Clare Holt and Nicky Woodhouse. Afterwards there will be Shout Outs from ScreenTalk members and facilitated networking. At ScreenTalk events we run a Card/Cash Bar so please join us and take advantage of the opportunity to catch up and network.
We expect this event to be popular and can only take pre-booked (free) tickets for entry.
Join the conversation! ScreenTalk events are an opportunity to forge and strengthen contacts in Film, TV and Associated Media.
For further information and to sign up to our mailing list please email screentalkoxfordshire@gmail.com
Will a computer ever compose a symphony, write a prize-winning novel, or paint a masterpiece? And if so, would we be able to tell the difference? Marcus du Sautoy examines the nature of creativity, as well as providing an essential guide into how algorithms work, and the mathematical rules underpinning them. He asks how much of our emotional response to art is a product of our brains reacting to pattern and structure, and exactly what it is to be creative in mathematics, art, language and music.
This lecture is open to all, and is designed for researchers from all disciplines and members of the public. The lecture will take place in the Lecture Theatre at Rewley House, Oxford. Tea and coffee will be served in the Common Room from 4pm. The lecture will be followed by Q&As.
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is author of six books including his most recent books The Creativity Code (Fourth Estate 2019). He has presented numerous radio and TV series including a four part landmark TV series for the BBC called The Story of Maths. He works extensively with a range of arts organisations bringing science alive for the public from The Royal Opera House to the Glastonbury Festival. His play I is a Strange Loop (in which he is both actor and author) is part of the Barbican’s Life Rewired season. He received an OBE for services to science in the 2010 New Year’s Honours List and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016.
The 5th Annual Oxford Business and Poverty Conference will feature a diverse range of speakers addressing the Paradoxes of Prosperity. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual-oxford-business-poverty-conference-tickets-57733957822
Hosted at the Sheldonian Theatre, the conference will feature keynotes by:
Lant Pritchett: RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, former Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development
Efosa Ojomo: Global Prosperity Lead and Senior Researcher at the Clayton Christensen Institute
John Hoffmire: Director of Center on Business and Poverty and Research Associate at Kellogg Colleges at Center For Mutual and Employee-owned Business at Oxford University
Ananth Pai: Executive Director, Bharath Beedi Works Pvt. Ltd. and Director, Bharath Auto Cars Pvt
Laurel Stanfield: Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bentley College in Massachusetts
Grace Cheng: Greater China’s Country Manager for Russell Reynolds Associates
Madhusudan Jagadish: 2016 Graduate MBA, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Tentative Schedule:
2:15-2:20 Welcome
2:20-2:50 Efosa Ojomo, co-author of The Prosperity Paradox, sets the stage for the need for innovation in development
2:50-3:20 John Hoffmire, Ananth Pai and Mudhusudan Jagadish explain how the Prosperity Paradox can be used in India as a model to create good jobs for poor women
3:20-3:40 Break
3:40-4:10 Laurel Steinfeld speaks to issues of gender, development and business – addressing paradoxes related to prosperity
4:10-4:40 Grace Cheng, speaks about the history of China’s use of disruptive innovations to develop its economy
4:40-5:15 Break
5:15-6 Lant Pritchett talks on Pushing Past Poverty: Paths to Prosperity
6:30-8 Dinner at the Rhodes House – Purchase tickets after signing up for the conference
Sponsors include: Russell Reynolds, Employee Ownership Foundation, Ananth Pai Foundation and others
Coriander Theatre presents a new play ‘My Mother Runs in Zig-Zags’ at the North Wall Arts Centre, 30th May – 1st June 2019, 7:30pm, Saturday Matinee 2:30pm.
Sometimes, race and trauma are like leaky old pipes: you can’t even have a friend over for dinner without something spilling out everywhere and flooding your life in the most unexpected way.
A conversation between friends becomes a journey to the Lebanese and Nigerian civil wars. Half-remembered worlds of violent oral history invade the kitchen and layer themselves over everyday life, shining light on the laughter that heals intergenerational traumas, and celebrating the overflowings and excesses of a life shaped by migration.
With an original musical score, a chorus of performance poets and contemporary dancers, and stories passed on from a generation of migrants, My mother runs in zig-zags is a bold new tragicomedy, devised by the best of Oxford University’s BAME actors and performers.
Age Guidance: 12+
Travis Jay presents his brand new, emotional roller-coaster of a show. It recounts Travis’s hilarious journey from childhood to fatherhood, and the many hiccups in-between.
Nominated for The Leicester Mercury Comedian of the year in 2016, Travis Jay is a stand-up, actor and radio presenter who has been performing on the comedy circuit since 2009.
Travis also writes and performs spoken word, and has featured on BBC Radio 1’s ‘First words’ poetry series alongside George The Poet. A creative, animated, and intelligent performer, Travis has built a reputation as being an entertaining and sometimes controversial story teller.
Doors at 5.30pm/Show at 6pm
In modern high-tech health care, patients appear to be the stumbling block.
Uninformed, anxious, noncompliant individuals with unhealthy lifestyles who demand treatments advertised by celebrities and insist on unnecessary but expensive diagnostics may eventually turn into plaintiffs. But what about their physicians? About ten years ago, Muir Gray and Gerd Gigerenzer published a book with the subtitle “Envisioning health care 2020”. They listed “seven sins” of health care systems then, one of which was health professionals’ stunning lack of risk literacy. Many were not exactly sure what a false-positive rate was, or what overdiagnosis and survival rates mean, and they were unable to evaluate articles in their own field. As a consequence, the ideals of informed consent and shared decision-making remain a pipedream – both doctors and patients are habitually misled by biased information in health brochures and advertisements. At the same time, the risk literacy problem is one of the few in health care that actually have a known solution. A quick cure is to teach efficient risk communication that fosters transparency as opposed to confusion, both in medical school and in CME. It can be done with 4th graders, so it should work with doctors, too.
Now, in 2020, can every doctor understand health statistics? In this talk, Gerd Gigerenzer will describe the efforts towards this goal, a few successes, but also the steadfast forces that undermine doctors’ ability to understand and act on evidence. Moreover, the last decade has seen two new forces that distract from solving the problem. The first is the promise of digital technology, from diagnostic AI systems to big data analytics, which consumes much of the attention. Digital technology is of little help if doctors do not understand it. Second, our efforts to make patients competent and to encourage them to articulate their values are now in conflict with the new paternalistic view that patients just need to be nudged into better behaviour.
This talk will be followed by a drinks reception, all welcome
Joint event with: The Oxford–Berlin Research Partnership
Lecture by Jinny Blom who has created over 250 gardens and landscapes, Laurent-Perrier garden which gained a Gold at Chelsea. Artist in Residence for Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, she is author of The Thoughtful Gardener: An intelligent approach to garden design (2017). Pay at the door; registration not required.
Talk, followed by walking tour of the park. Jane Kilsby, local historian shares her
recent research into this well-loved 19th century public park. Maximum 20
Lecture by Linda Farrar, a freelance researcher, lecturer and author of Ancient Roman Gardens. The art of gardening has a long history, with gardens being used in most ancient cultures to enhance living areas, and even public spaces. We will look at examples from a range of ancient societies. Pay at the door or book online
Tea/coffee, biscuits on arrival in the Committee Room. Introductory talk from Sophie Huxley, Gardener, LMH, followed by tour of the garden. Parking for 5 cars only (priority to Blue Card holders). Maximum 20 persons
Friday 23 October
Lecture by Advolly Richmond. Thomas Birch was a trained botanist, and
head gardener at Orwell Park, Ipswich, before travelling to the Gold Coast.
He became part of the international network of correspondents and plant
collectors relied upon by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. This talk aims to
reveal the true extent of Birch Freeman’s horticultural and botanical legacy.
Pay at the
door: £5 (members) £8 (guests
Lecture by Hanna Zembrzycka-Kisiel, Principal Major Applications Officer at
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse Councils. Hanna uses the research
insights of her recent MA Thesis to explore the reality of poor urban design
and the benefits of green spaces in our living environments, drawing on local
and international urban design projects for inspiration. Book online or pay at the door.
Lecture by Jane Owen, preceded by OGT’s Christmas drinks party.
Jane Owen, Founder Member of OGT, avid gardener, garden historian and
previously Deputy Editor of the Financial Times, gives us her personal take on
garden history – not to be missed! Doors open 6.30pm for wine or juice (inc), for lecture at 7pm. Book online or pay at the door.
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