Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.

Jun
1
Wed
‘Innovation for Development’ Research Seminar by Oxford TMCD @ Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House
Jun 1 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
'Innovation for Development' Research Seminar by Oxford TMCD @ Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House | Oxford | United Kingdom

The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Department of International Development will be hosting two research seminars in the coming weeks – The afternoons of May 19 and June 1st.

We invite researchers currently researching topics relating to our centre’s work to present and stir discussion. These research seminars are intended to connect active researchers and students on the topics of innovation, technology and management for development. This is a chance to exchange ideas, learn and connect not just with TMCD staff, researchers and fellows but also the innovation research community at large at Oxford. These afternoons are a great opportunity to seek feedback from our peers and gain new perspective on our own work.

Light food and beverages will be provided given the lunch time start.

Presentations for June 1st

Guillermo Casasnovas “How is ambiguity resolved in the early stages of market formation? Insights from the UK social investment market.”
Kaihua Chen “How can we measure innovation systems? From sciento-metrics to inno-metrics.”
Yawen Li “When do firms undertake international open innovation?”
Hao Xu “Social network and knowledge transfer in MNEs.”

St Peter’s College: EU Referendum Forum @ St Peter's College Chapel
Jun 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
St Peter's College: EU Referendum Forum @ St Peter's College Chapel | Oxford | United Kingdom

Three high-profile SPC alumni return to their college to discuss the impending EU Referendum in a forum chaired by the Master, Mark Damazer CBE.

Join the Editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens (BA Modern History – 1977), the Deputy Editor of the New Statesman, Helen Lewis (BA English – 2001), and the BBC’s Political Correspondent Ben Wright (BA Modern History – 1996) for a panel discussion in which they will cut through the rhetoric surrounding this most controversial of issues in contemporary British politics, and who will then face your questions.

Jun
2
Thu
‘Markets and morals’ with Prof Michael J. Sandel @ The Sheldonian
Jun 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Is there anything wrong with putting a price on health, education, citizenship, and the environment? Where do markets serve the public good, and where do they not belong?

Join us for a lively discussion with Professor Michael J. Sandel about money, markets, and the good things in life.

Registration required

Jun
14
Tue
Yin Yin Lu: #Brexit or #StrongerIn? The Rhetoric of EU Referendum Hashtags @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library
Jun 14 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Yin Yin Lu: #Brexit or #StrongerIn? The Rhetoric of EU Referendum Hashtags @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library | Oxford | United Kingdom

Drawing upon sociology of culture and digital rhetoric literature, this talk will illuminate the persuasive function of hashtags in the context of the UK EU membership referendum. What makes a hashtag more influential, or more successful?

The hashtag is not just a category or community marker—it has also become a vehicle through which rhetorical strategies are being used to influence thoughts and feelings. Many scholars have explored hashtag success by examining popularity and longevity. This talk presents an expanded definition of success that takes hashtag hijacking into account. The data that will be presented are being gathered live from the Twitter Streaming API; over two hundred hashtags and usernames relating to the EU referendum are being tracked. The talk will also highlight the challenges and opportunities afforded by big ‘linguistic’ data on social media.

Yin Yin Lu is a DPhil Candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Balliol College, as well as a Clarendon Scholar. She is fascinated by the intersection between language and technology, and her research focuses on the hashtag, one of the most notable sociotechnical phenomena of the 21st century. Prior to joining the OII, Yin obtained a Masters in English Language from the University of Oxford (Lincoln College) and a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University. Between these degrees, she worked at Pearson Education and 10 Speed Labs, a digital media agency in Manhattan. She is the founder and co-convenor of the #SocialHumanities network at TORCH, and her ultimate objective is to reinvent the novel—along with the very acts of reading and writing—through new media technologies.

How a Minimum Carbon Price Commitment Might Help Internalize the Global Warming Externality @ Department of Economics, Manor Road Building, Seminar Room C
Jun 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
How a Minimum Carbon Price Commitment Might Help Internalize the Global Warming Externality @ Department of Economics, Manor Road Building, Seminar Room C | Oxford | United Kingdom

It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating many different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are domestically retained) counters pure self-interest. A uniform price embodies “countervailing force” against free riding by automatically incentivizing parties to internalize the externality via a simple understandable formula that embodies a common climate commitment based on principles of reciprocity, quid-pro-quo and I-will-if-you-will. Professor Martin Weitzman will give a somewhat technical talk centered on a mathematical model. Some implications are discussed.

Jun
20
Mon
Sketches from the Poem Road exhibition (after Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North) @ Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University
Jun 20 – Jul 15 all-day
Sketches from the Poem Road exhibition (after Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North) @ Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University | Oxford | United Kingdom

A collaboration between Japanese artist Isao Miura and poet Chris Beckett, presented to the Glass Tank by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.

In spring 1689, Matsuo Bashō sold his house in Edo (now Tokyo) and set off with his friend, Sora, on a long risky journey to the north of Japan, mostly on foot. He travelled light, just a paper coat, light cotton gown, his writing brush and ink. His aim was to see the great northern sights like Matsushima and Kisagata Bay which had inspired poets before him, a process the Japanese call ‘uta makura’, literally ‘poem pillow’, but more accurately translated as ‘the poem road’. This exhibition explores the rich legacy of Bashō’s work, both visually and poetically, and it documents some of Isao’s artistic and physical journey from the deep north of Japan where he grew up, ‘translating’ Bashō’s text not only into English words but into sketch, to plaster, and bronze. The exhibition will be accompanied by a discussion event on Bashō and the artistic journey, and a workshop on the haiku style of prose, called haibun, which is rapidly gaining popularity in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Isao and Chris will be available in the Glass Tank every Tuesday from 12noon to 2:00pm to introduce and discuss the exhibition with anyone who is interested.

Jun
22
Wed
Maggi Hambling: In Conversation with Xa Sturgis @ Ultimate Picture Palace
Jun 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Maggi Hambling: In Conversation with Xa Sturgis @ Ultimate Picture Palace | Oxford | United Kingdom

One of Britain’s most significant and controversial artists Maggi Hambling discusses her career and recent work with Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum.

Alastair Sooke: Henri Matisse – A Second Life @ Magdalen College School
Jun 22 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Alastair Sooke: Henri Matisse - A Second Life @ Magdalen College School | Oxford | United Kingdom

Art critic, journalist and broadcaster Alastair Sooke talks about the final decade of one of the most beloved artists of the twentieth century, Henri Matisse.

Jun
23
Thu
May Morris Designer and Embroiderer @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
May Morris Designer and Embroiderer @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom

Discover the life and work of William Morris’ younger duaghter May, who managed the embroidery workshop at Morris & Co 1885-1896. This lecture includes material from her collection of needlework designs and photographs of English medieval emboidery donated to the Ashmolean.

​IN CONVERSATION WITH LEOPOLD EYHARTS, ESA ASTRONAUT @ Museum of Natural History, Oxford
Jun 23 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
​IN CONVERSATION WITH LEOPOLD EYHARTS, ESA ASTRONAUT @ Museum of Natural History, Oxford | Oxford | United Kingdom

Leopold Eyharts flew on the Atlantis Shuttle to the International Space Station in 2008. Part of his mission included the installation of the Colombus Space Laboratory, the main contribution of Europe to the International Space Station. In 1998, Leopold flew
on a Soyouz Space Shuttle to the Russian MIR station. Engage in a conversation about his adventures and the future of manned exploration of space. Chaired by Valerie Jamieson, Editorial Content Director, New Scientist.

Jun
27
Mon
Will Gompertz: Think Like An Artist… and Lead a More Productive Life @ Magdalen College School
Jun 27 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Will Gompertz: Think Like An Artist... and Lead a More Productive Life @ Magdalen College School | Oxford | United Kingdom

BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz returns to the Festival to talk about his latest book ‘Think Like An Artist’. Discover how we can all harness our own creativity and achieve extraordinary things.

Jun
29
Wed
Paul Hobson: Art Today @ Magdalen College School
Jun 29 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Paul Hobson: Art Today @ Magdalen College School | Oxford | United Kingdom

Director of Modern Art Oxford Paul Hobson talks about what art has become today, explains why it’s easy to understand, and demystifies contemporary art.

Jul
9
Sat
Truth Telling & Money: Money speaks – but does it speak truthfully? @ Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Jul 9 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm

The Las Casas Institute presents a day-long conference on money as a prism through which we often view the world and its challenges. Join theologians, economists, and other experts in discussing what money reveals and conceals about our world.

Reception to follow at Blackfriars Hall at 5:00pm. Registration fee includes lunch and reception.

Speakers:
Professor Philip Goodchild
Sr Margaret Atkins OSA
Sr Helen Alford OP

Panelists:
Barbara Ridpath
Charles Wookey
Peter Róna

The Institute is celebrating the Dominicans’ jubilee with a series of events on the challenges of truth telling in contemporary society.

Jul
12
Tue
After Bashō, Sketches from the Poem Road: Bronze and the Art of Translation @ Glass Tank, John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes University
Jul 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
After Bashō, Sketches from the Poem Road: Bronze and the Art of Translation @ Glass Tank, John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes University | Oxford | United Kingdom

To coincide with the current exhibition by Isao Miura and Chris Beckett, ‘Sketches from the Poem Road (after Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North)’, which runs from 20 June to 15 July, the Poetry Centre presents a stimulating evening of talks and discussion on the subject of artistic and literary translation. It will feature John Nicoll (Chelsea Foundry), Nathalie Aubert (Professor of French Literature, Oxford Brookes), David Constantine (poet and translator), Sasha Dugdale (poet and editor of Modern Poetry in Translation) and Thomas McAuley (Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Sheffield and translator of many Japanese poems), chaired by Niall Munro, director of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre.

Jul
26
Tue
The EU Referendum and the Future @ New College (Lecture Theatre room 6)
Jul 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Speakers:
-Jonathan Scheele (Senior Member, St Antony’s College and Head of Representation at the European Commission Representation in the UK, 2010-12)

-Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College and Foundation for European Progressive Studies)

-Lise Butler (Pembroke College and Vice-Chair, Oxford Fabian Society)

Sep
16
Fri
Corruption in Developing Countries @ Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, University of Oxford
Sep 16 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Sep
19
Mon
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival & Capital After the Market Economy @ Sutro Room, Trinity College
Sep 19 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival & Capital After the Market Economy @ Sutro Room, Trinity College | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

Jonathon Porritt and Shaun Chamberlin celebrate the launch of the late Trinity alumnus David Fleming’s extraordinary book, ‘Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy’.

This intimate event will be held in the Sutro Room at Trinity College, Oxford University, and will be recorded for a short film. Various themes in Fleming’s wonderfully diverse work – from carnival to climate change, religion to resilience, manners to markets – may be explored in response to the interests of those present.

Interview with Shaun Chamberlin on David Fleming, Brexit and the book: http://www.darkoptimism.org/2016/08/21/interview-on-david-fleming-music-and-hippos/

More information on David Fleming’s books:
http://www.chelseagreen.com/surviving-the-future
http://www.chelseagreen.com/lean-logic

Copies of both books will be on sale on the day.

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“David Fleming was an elder of the UK green movement and a key figure in the early Green Party. Drawing on the heritage of Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, Fleming’s beautifully written and nourishing vision of a post-growth economics grounded in human-scale culture and community—rather than big finance—is both inspiring and ever more topical.”
~ Caroline Lucas MP, co-leader, Green Party of England and Wales; former Member of the European Parliament

“I would unreservedly go so far as to say that David Fleming was one of the most original, brilliant, urgently-needed, underrated, and ahead-of-his-time thinkers of the last 50 years. History will come to place him alongside Schumacher, Berry, Seymour, Cobbett, and those other brilliant souls who could not just imagine a more resilient world but who could paint a picture of it in such vivid colours. Step into the world of David Fleming; you’ll be so glad you did.”
~ Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the Transition Network

“Why do some of the truly great books only emerge and exact their influence upon us after the death of their authors? Perhaps it takes a lifetime to accrue and refine the necessary wisdom. Or perhaps it simply takes the rest of us too long to catch up. Like Thoreau, Fleming’s masterpiece brims not only with fresh insight into every nook and cranny of our culture and what it means to be human, but with such wit and humour that its challenging ideas and radical perspectives become a refreshing delight. If we’re to have a future worth surviving, this book demands to be read, re-read, and—ultimately—acted upon.”
~ Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Manifesto and Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi

Sep
21
Wed
Oxford SciBar: how death drives religion, culture and everything @ St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room)
Sep 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Oxford SciBar: how death drives religion, culture and everything @ St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room) | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

For many years, psychologists have considered the fear of death as a central motivating factor in the human behaviour and achievement. However, only for the past 30 years have psychologists tested these ideas empirically and experimentally. Dr Jonathan Jong (University of Oxford, Coventry University) will evaluate the claim that death drives human behaviour, focusing in particular on religion. Come along to hear Dr Jong discuss this highly intriguing topic!

Sep
28
Wed
Public Statues Across Time and Cultures @ Lincoln College, Oxford
Sep 28 – Sep 29 all-day
Public Statues Across Time and Cultures @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

A two-day international conference in which leading scholars from the UK, Europe and the United States will discuss the meaning of public statues in cultures throughout history ranging from Roman Palmyra to Georgian England, from the Renaissance to modern day Turkey.

Oct
12
Wed
Professor David Doyle: The Political Economy of Remittances and Migration in Latin America since 1946 @ Mordan Hall, St Hugh's College
Oct 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Professor David Doyle: The Political Economy of Remittances and Migration in Latin America since 1946 @ Mordan Hall, St Hugh's College | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

Between 1995 and 2011, remittances to developing world economies, that is, money sent by emigrants to family and friends in their country of origin, grew from US$55 billion to over US$372 billion, to exceed all overseas development assistance to the developing world, and all private debt and portfolio equity flows.
Latin America is a major recipient of remittances. Over 5.2 per cent of the region’s population are migrants and in 2011 alone, US$62 billion was remitted to Latin American households. Despite the scale of these transfers however, we still do not know how remittances might affect political preferences and political behaviour among recipients, what this might mean for policy outcomes, and how these dynamics might shape the political system in countries heavily dependent on this capital.
In this talk, Professor Doyle will outline how the regular receipt of remittances is changing the political preferences of recipients, which will have long-lasting effects on politics and policy in Latin American countries dependent upon remittances, relative to countries that are not.

Professor Doyle is the Tutorial Fellow in the Politics of Latin America and Associate Professor of Comparative Politics Department of Politics and International Relations. He is a member of the Latin American Centre.

Oct
13
Thu
“Inequality and its discontents” with Professor Brian Nolan @ Oxford Martin School
Oct 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
"Inequality and its discontents" with Professor Brian Nolan @ Oxford Martin School | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

Inequality is centre-stage in political debate both globally and in individual countries, being blamed for everything from Brexit to stagnating wages and growth. Professor Brian Nolan, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Inequality and Prosperity, will seek to tease out why this is so and identify central unanswered questions about the drivers of inequality, and what policy responses to it should be.

Oct
14
Fri
Professor June Boyce-Tillman: Hildegard @ Mordan Hall, St Hugh's College
Oct 14 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Professor June Boyce-Tillman: Hildegard @ Mordan Hall, St Hugh's College | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

This presentation will examine the upsurge in the popularity of Hildegard of Bingen. The presentation will use of methodology of crystallisation (Richardson 2000) to examine the subject from a variety of dimensions including the performative in the form of story-telling, the lecture including images of her visions and the meditation using words and music (some from Hildegard and some from the author).

Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE, FRSA,FHEA is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester. She read music at St Hugh’s College, Oxford in 1962 and has published widely in the area of education, most recently on spirituality/ liminality.

This event is part of the series A Festival of Anniversaries.

Oct
17
Mon
“European Migration Crisis? Spaces of Transit, Migration Management and Migrant Agency” by Dr Leonie Ansems de Vries (King’s College London) @ Oxford Brookes University, John Henry Brookes Building, Room 401
Oct 17 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series

Why is there a handpump in the carpark? @ Herbertson Room, School of Geography and the Environment
Oct 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Why is there a handpump in the carpark? @ Herbertson Room, School of Geography and the Environment | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

Delivering reliable drinking water to millions of rural people in Africa and Asia is an elusive and enduring global goal. A systematic information deficit on the performance of and demand for infrastructure investments limits policy design and development outcomes.

Since 2010, the ‘Smart Handpump’ project has been exploring new technologies, methods and models to understand and respond to this challenge. A mobile-enabled data transmitter provides foundational data on hourly water usage and failure events which has enabled the establishment of performance-based maintenance companies in Kenya that are improving handpump reliability by an order of magnitude.

The research is a collaboration between the School of Geography and the Environment and the Department of Engineering Science with a range of partners including government, international bodies such as UNICEF and the private sector. New research involves modelling the accelerometry data from the handpumps to predict aquifer depth. We invite you to test the Smart Handpump in the car park and debate how the ‘accidental infrastructure’ of rural handpumps can spark bolder initiatives to deliver water security for millions of poor people in Africa and Asia.

Oct
19
Wed
St Augustine: The Concept of Delight and the Contemporary Challenge of Consumerism @ Pusey House
Oct 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Recollection Lecture: The Rev’d Dr Mark Clavier (St Stephen’s House, Oxford)
To churches struggling to challenge both the excesses and the underlying potency of consumerism, Augustine offers a God whose Eloquent Wisdom can supersede all worldly rhetoric. By reading consumer culture through the lens of his rhetorical theology, Christians can be awakened to the true destiny of their restless hearts.

Event starts with tea and coffee at 3.30

Oct
20
Thu
The Confession + Q&A @ The Ultimate Picture Palace
Oct 20 @ 6:15 pm – 8:30 pm
The Confession + Q&A @ The Ultimate Picture Palace | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

The Confession details the first-hand experiences of Moazzam Begg, British Muslim and former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, as he chronicles the rise of modern jihad, its descent into terror and the reaction of the West.

This one off screening will be followed by a Q&A with Moazzam himself, director Ashish Ghadiali and chaired by Dr Tina Managhan, Senior Lecturer of International Relations, Oxford Brookes.

Oct
25
Tue
The woman who exploded a shed: Cornelia Parker in conversation with Alan Rusbridger @ Lady Margaret Hall
Oct 25 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm
The woman who exploded a shed: Cornelia Parker in conversation with Alan Rusbridger @ Lady Margaret Hall | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

Cornelia Parker OBE, RA is one of the UK’s most original artists and is currently a visiting fellow at LMH. Places are free of charge.

Oct
29
Sat
Artist Talks at OVADA @ OVADA Gallery
Oct 29 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Artist Talks at OVADA @ OVADA Gallery | Oxford | England | United Kingdom

A free afternoon of artist talks.

3-5pm at OVADA Warehouse, Osney Lane.

Our guest speakers will be independent publishing house Hurst Street Press and fine artist Tommy Watkins.

This event is part of the exhibition ‘Blue Fades into the Invisible’ by Klick Oxford-Leiden.

Oct
31
Mon
“Neoliberalism and authoritarianism: always intertwined, contemporary manifestations”, with Dr Ian Bruff (University of Manchester) @ Oxford Brookes University, John Henry Brookes Building room 401
Oct 31 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series

Nov
1
Tue
A Traumatised and Traumatising Institution: Reflections on the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church by Fr Klaus Mertes, SJ @ Lecture Theatre 2, The Mathematical Institute, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter,
Nov 1 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
A Traumatised and Traumatising Institution: Reflections on the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church by Fr Klaus Mertes, SJ @ Lecture Theatre 2, The Mathematical Institute, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, | England | United Kingdom

St Benet’s Hall are delighted to present the William E Simon Foundation Lecture that will be given by Fr Klaus Mertes, SJ, a Jesuit Headmaster & Whistleblower. The talk will be chaired by The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

The Lecture will be followed by a Q&A Session and a free drinks reception.

Klaus Mertes is a German Jesuit, high school teacher, author, and editor. He came to prominence as the whistle blower who, as headmaster of the Jesuit school, Canisius-Kolleg Berlin, first unveiled and addressed the historic sexual and physical abuse in the School. Through his actions, other victims from schools across Germany came forward.
Since 2011 he has been Headmaster of the Jesuit school, Kolleg St Blasien, and continues to be outspoken on the wider Church’s initially slow response to the problem.

All welcome. Places should be booked in advance, either through Eventbrite or by emailing events@stb.ox.ac.uk