Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
The Topic of the Debate segment of the afternoon (from c. 630pm) will be
______ … “THE ART of BEING HUMAN” … _________
We’ll explore how art has been/ could be used for social, personal, and also spiritual development. Do you think Modern Art is an Empty SHELL?!
“Art with no Meaning is Pointless; Aesthetics alone don’t make great Art”
Do you agree with the above statement?
With Wu Tang Clan trying to claim there latest album is ART by releasing only one copy (for sale to the highest bidder!) can anything now be art?
How has art affected you? Does it have to be in a gallery or coffee table book to classify as “a work of art”? What about Graffiti? Performance Art?
Come to the ART BAR and take part in our discussion as part of Festival Taster “Jam Sandwich” on Sat 26th April. Workshops start at 5pm including Hoola Hooping, Costume making, interactive theatre, musical improvisation (jamming)
Dahrendorf Leture, Ulrich Beck (University of Munich and LSE)
Discussants: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Lord David Hannay (Former UK Permanent Representative to the EU and UN)
Convenor: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Progress to increase gender diversity in leadership roles across most sectors has been slow. Are quotas the answer to increase the number of women in leadership? What is the role of Business Schools in developing women’s leadership? Does entrepreneurship provide an alternative for women to realise their full-potentials? These questions will be debated by a panel of business leaders and academics:
– Professor Barbara Allan of Westminster Business School;
– Ann P Francke, Chief Executive of the Chartered Management Institute;
– Helen Hammond, Managing Director at Elephant Creative;
– Sally Rowley-Williams of Rowley Williams Limited.
– Simonetta Manfredi, Professor of Equality and Diversity Management and Director of the Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice
Alyse Nelson is President and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, the preeminent non-governmental organization (NGO) that identifies, trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a better world for us all.
Alyse has worked with women leaders to develop training programs and international forums in over 140 countries and has interviewed more than 200 international leaders. Under her leadership, Vital Voices has tripled in size and expanded its global reach to serve a network of over 14,000 women leaders in 144 countries.
Step inside the parlour and drawing room of an eighteenth-century home, and together with Dr Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University) and musicians, enjoy readings, music, and the authentic sewing session of a ‘huswif’!
Part of the Oxford Brookes University OutBurst festival at Pegasus, 6-10 May 2014. #OutBurst2014
In this lecture series, Naomi Richman explores the evolution of the ideas central to major global belief-systems such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Marxism, and their status in the modern world from a social-scientific and secular perspective.
6 Lectures run on Mondays starting the 12th May.
6-7pm, Roy Griffiths Room. ARCO Building, Keble College.
Free, open to all, and followed by discussion.
Weeks 1 and 2: Christianity and Secularisation. Week 3: Buddhism. Week 4: Judaism. Week 5: Islam. Week 6: Marxism, Nationalism and Scientific Humanism
For more information, contact Dr Bea Prentiss,
Solidarity & responsibility-sharing for refugee protection in the EU’s Common European Asylum System
Speaker: Madeline Garlick (Radboud University)
Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Trinity term Public Seminar Series
Paul Krugman, one of the world’s most famous (and most comprehensible) economists, will talk at Exeter College. His subject is “What’s the matter with economists?” No expertise required: come and enjoy it.
Free to attend. Please report at the Porters’ Lodge on arrival and ask for directions to the event.
OULC and LGBTQ Society are delighted to jointly welcome Peter Tatchell for an event at the Corpus Auditorium. A prolific human rights campaigner, Peter is particularly known for his work with LGBTQ movements. Famously, he attempted a citizen’s arrest on Robert Mugabe in 1999 and 2001.
Peter is also a former Labour Party parliamentary candidate, and a more recent supporter of the Green Party. On Monday, he will join us to discuss LGBTQ rights in the context of both domestic politics and international affairs. There will be a Q&A session after his speech, in which the audience can explore his wide-ranging interests and expertise. We hope to see you there.
Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate, University Professor at Columbia University, and Co-Chair of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought gives an Oxford Martin School Distinguished Public lecture on The North Atlantic malaise: failures in economic policy.
The lecture is also being live webcast on you tube – http://bit.ly/1kA6zGy
On Thursday 22nd at 6pm the Simpkins Lee will host a panel discussion exploring the battle for women’s education. Featuring a heavyweight line-up of Jane Robinson (author of the bestselling ‘Bluestockings’), Sarah Pine (OUSU VP for Women), Lyndall Gordon (alumni and Fellow of St. Hilda’s College) and Tim Whitmarsh (Head of ‘Women and the Humanities’ at TORCH), it promises to be a smashing 45 minute insight into the world of women’s colleges, the battle for equality, and why ‘women’s studies’ deserves a place on the curriculum.
Speaker: Dr Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (The Danish Institute for Human Rights)
Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Trinity term Public Seminar Series
In the wake of the financial crisis and global shifts in economic power, the Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Shadow Minister for Universities, Science and Skills, will speak about how best to foster an inclusive economy for Britain which properly and productively shares the benefits and opportunities of growth, whilst also leveraging the vital role played by universities in building a skills-based, innovation-led econom
A short talk followed by questions and discussion. All welcome, whether you want to take part in the discussion or just listen.
Join us at Freud this Wednesday as we consider how the collections, interpretations and rituals of our cultural institutions shape society today. Paul Hobson, director of Modern Art Oxford and Dr Christopher Brown, director of The Ashmolean will present two short talks before a question and answer session, followed by drinks. The Edgar Wind Society hopes that this will be a novel opportunity to exchange ideas and knowledge about art within an informal atmosphere. All are welcome.
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
The circular economy is rapidly gaining the attention of businesses, government and the next generation as a framework for re-thinking and designing the future economy.
Join us on 19 June 2014 to debate this topic and address a number of challenging questions:
Can a circular economy really decouple growth from resource constraints?
Is the so-called resource crunch really happening or in reality do we still have an abundance of materials and energy?
Is achieving a restorative, circular economy even possible within today’s financial operating system?
What strategic options do CEOs need to pursue to prepare for competitive advantage in a circular economy?
How can business leaders engage consumers and encourage a ‘demand-led’ transformation?
Speakers: Mr. Jamie Butterworth, CEO, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and SSEE Business Fellows – and – Mr. Peter Lacy, Managing Director, Strategy and Sustainability APAC at Accenture, and SSEE’s Business Fellow.
A new report by the Humanitarian Innovation Project, Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions, will be launched to coincide with World Refugee Day, on Friday 20 June 2014. It is one of the very first studies on the economic life of refugees and fundamentally challenges existing models of refugee assistance.
The report is based on participatory, mixed methods research including about 1,600 surveys in Uganda, one of the few refugee-hosting countries in Africa that allows refugees the right to work and freedom of movement. However, it has wider implications for the emerging refugee crises around the world.
Far from being uniformly dependent, refugees are part of complex and vibrant economic systems. They are often entrepreneurial and, if given the opportunity, can help themselves and their communities, as well as contributing to the host economy. The data in the new report challenges five popular myths about refugees’ economic lives:
that refugees are economically isolated;
that they are a burden on host states;
that they are economically homogenous;
that they are technologically illiterate;
that they are dependent on humanitarian assistance.
Read more about the report: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/refugeeeconomies
Early cyberspace theorists predicted that the digital world would be a world of plenty. But today’s Internet users are faced with many kinds of artificially scarce virtual markers, from online game items and digital currencies to likes and followers on social media and reward points in question and answer sites. Many such markers are traded online for significant sums of money and have spawned entire cottage industries for their production. Vili Lehdonvirta, author of Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis (MIT Press 2014, with Edward Castronova), argues that these “virtual economies” shape digital media in important ways, and that understanding them is vital for both practitioners and scholars of digital media and entertainment.
In this session, Lehdonvirta will also discuss and debate with economist Greg Taylor about what virtual economies could teach traditional national economies and the economists who run them.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase. The discussion will be followed by book signing and a drinks reception.
A TORCH day conference including keynotes from Terry Eagleton and George Pattison and parallel session papers on theodicy, evil in literature, film and TV, German philosophy (Hegel and Fichte), death and technology, Aristotle, the Akedah, and more.
As part of ‘LoveFriday’, a late night opening at the Ashmolean museum, join us for gallery talks on love, sex, gender, and poetry in the ancient world. Talks will be 15 minutes and given on a rolling basis
‘Love, sex and gender in ancient Egypt’ with Ed Scrivens
‘Latin Love Poetry’ with Sharon van Dijk
‘Love in the Ramayana, Krishna, and the Gopis’ with Nayan Bedia
‘Love, Sex and Tragedy in Japanese Literature and History’ with Lyman Gamberton
‘Sex, gender and power in Imperial China’ with Alex Nachescu
LoveFriday welcome the summer LiveFriday to the Ashmolean for an evening dedicated to Love. Visitors will be invited to seek out love in the museum’s collection; through musical and theatrical performances and interactive workshops. Offering a shared journey, whether as a pre-existing couple or about to be acquainted, you can look forward to exploring the Museum and meeting like-minded people.
There are currently more than 2.8 million registered refugees from Syria. Ninety-six percent of these refugees are hosted by neighbouring countries – Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. With the exception of Germany and a few other limited initiatives, the primary aim of the European response has been to contain the crisis in the Syrian region and to reinforce Europe’s borders.
This event marks the launch of a new RSC Policy Briefing, ‘Protection in Europe for refugees from Syria’. Report authors, Cynthia Orchard and Andrew Miller, will provide an overview of the European reaction generally, as well as brief summaries of selected countries’ responses. They argue that containment of the refugee crisis to the Syrian region is unsustainable and advocate for European countries to open their doors to refugees from the region and to expand safe and legal routes of entry.
Also being launched at this event is issue 47 of Forced Migration Review on ‘The Syria crisis, displacement and protection’. Professor Roger Zetter, co-author (with Héloïse Ruaudel) of a major article in the issue entitled ‘Development and protection challenges of the Syrian refugee crisis’, will look at early recovery and social cohesion interventions and the transition from assistance to development-led interventions in Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan. FMR47 is funded by the Regional Development and Protection Programme, a Denmark-led initiative with contributions from the EU, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, UK and Czech Republic, for whose inception report Professor Zetter was the lead author.
The event will be followed by a reception at 4pm. If you are unable to attend in person, you can watch live via a video link. For more information, please visit: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/syrialaunch
Egyptomania: The Allure of Ancient Egypt
With Henrietta McCall, Department of the Middle East, British Museum
2pm Saturday, 11 October 2014 at Ashmolean Museum | Venue Information
Henrietta McCall talks about the enduring appeal of ancient Egypt in western culture. She assesses how it began with Napoleon in the early 19th century; how symbols and imagery from antiquity inspired architecture, gardens, furniture and fashion; and how in the 1920s that appeal reached its climax with the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
We invite you to join us at 3pm each day from Monday 13th October to Friday 17th October when five leading academics will be lighting up Blackwell’s Bookshop and talking about their passion for their subject.
Will Hutton Political Economist and Principal of Hertford College, Oxford “What Does Studying Economics Teach Us?”
These talks are free to attend, places are limited so please arrive early to ensure a seat. For more information please visit our Customer Service Department at Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, Oxford.
Weekly seminars on the ubiquitous but underexplored phenomenon of procrastination, the ‘thief of time’. Today’s seminar sees Professor Vince Crawford (Economics) on ‘Now or Later?’
Michaelmas Term 2014 Seminar Series
‘FERTILITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT’
Thursdays – 12:30 – 14:00
Seminar Room, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing,
66 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6PR.
Convener: Dr Melanie Frost
A public meeting with a short introductory talk followed by questions and discussion.
The difficulty of imagining a free society
Thursday 16 October, 7:30pm to 9:00pm
The Mitre, corner of High St and Turl St (upstairs function room)
All welcome
Organised by Oxford Communist Corresponding Society.
Overture to the Oxford Ceramics Fair
With Janice Tchalenko, potter
Ashmolean Lecture Theatre
Fri 17 Oct, 2–3.30pm
Janice Tchalenko is an award-winning potter whose work has been exhibited internationally and commissioned for retail outlets such as John Lewis. In this lecture Janice talks about her work and inspiration.
The first speaker in Oxford Females in Engineering, Science and Technology brand new speaker series ‘Inspiring STEM’ promises a fascinating talk on her research and personal experiences in combining professional career and personal life, do not miss out:
Professor Helen McShane is a Professor of Vaccinology and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Oxford University, where she leads a programme of research to develop a new vaccine for Tuberculosis (TB). The BCG vaccine currently administered to children has been around for 90 years and shows only a limited and short-lived effect. Crucially, it does not offer protection against pulmonary TB, which is the most common form of the disease. TB remains a major killer worldwide with 1.4 million victims a year, and resistance has evolved to many drugs used to treat it, so new ways of preventing the disease are badly needed.
Helen originally planned to become a GP, but after 6 months in practice decided to embark on clinical medicine and PhD research into infectious diseases. By the time she arrived at the defense of her thesis, she had been pregnant with her second child and she has successfully juggled home and work life ever since (now, a mum to 3 children).
‘Inspiring STEM’ series of talks aims to bring together Oxford’s Women in STEM, showcase the research performed by the very best scientists and engineers, and inspire the audience to realize their potential. It reflects the academic aspect of OxFEST while providing a glimpse into possible career paths that we can take.
Part of the St John’s Gender Equality Festival, Oxford University LGBTQ Society Trans Reps – Alyson Cruise and Rowan Davies – will be presenting an interactive Trans 101 session where we will talk about the basics of trans issues, what some important words mean and how to be respectful to trans people. They hope people can ask them questions without feeling awkward. They’ll explain the
relationship between trans issues and feminism, and how cis feminists can be more inclusive for trans people in general.