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

Nov
19
Thu
Intersectionality and Inclusion Series: Pathways to visibility @ Saïd Business School - Online
Nov 19 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Intersectionality and Inclusion Series: Pathways to visibility @ Saïd Business School - Online

How do you build inclusion from the ground up?

People with albinism face discrimination across the globe but are often left out of activist efforts around diversity and inclusion.

In this episode, we speak to representatives of Sesame Street Workshop, who have been championing diversity for years. With a breadth of expertise in the art of embracing diversity, this insightful look into the world of Sesame Street gives us new ways of approaching our goals. Supermodel and activist Diandra Forrest also joins the conversation. Fellow guest speaker Stephan Bognar, Executive Director of New York Dermatology Group Foundation, completes the line-up. They worked together previously on the Colorfull campaign, which was conceived by NYDG to highlight the prejudice that albinism attracts.

Jan
30
Sat
Christianity and the Life of the Mind: An Introduction @ Online/Oxford
Jan 30 @ 10:00 am
Christianity and the Life of the Mind: An Introduction @ Online/Oxford

What does our calling to be disciples of Christ mean for our life as students, academics, and thoughtful professionals? What are some of the promises and pitfalls of the academic life? How can postgraduate students and academics serve and relate to the wider body of Christ, the Church? Explore these questions and more at the first of two DCM conferences here in Oxford.

Who? Postgraduates, postdocs and academic staff at Oxford and Oxford Brookes University are welcome to attend this virtual conference.

Where/When? Subject to Covid-restrictions we hope to run this as a one day conference on Saturday 30th January focused on discussion groups (in-person or on Zoom) and live Q&A sessions with speakers Three talks will be pre-recorded to watch prior to the conference either on your own or by joining an optional ‘viewing party’ on Friday 29th January.
Alumni will all be assigned to virtual discussion groups.

Speakers include: N.T. Wright (Theology), Stephen Tuck (History) and Katherine Blundell (Astrophysics).

Early bird standard registration is £10 and includes lunch.
*Alumni registrants are encouraged to offer a donation towards their conference fee.

Note: If we cannot meet in-person in groups of 6 and the entire conference has to take place via Zoom then we will give participants the option of a refund for the price of their ticket and we will adjust the format of the conference accordingly.

Jun
9
Wed
Restorative Just Culture: the story of Mersey Care NHS Trust @ Online
Jun 9 @ 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Restorative Just Culture: the story of Mersey Care NHS Trust @ Online

Amanda Oates (Executive Director of Workforce, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust) and Dr Kristina Brown (Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University) will be speaking on the story of the Just and Learning Culture at Mersey Care NHS Trust.

In recent years, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has undergone a radical shift in workplace culture and organisational procedures. They have gone from a blame culture to a culture where staff feel empowered and supported to learn from incidents. Numbers of disciplinary and suspension cases went down, staff reporting of adverse incidents went up, and there were positive effects on staff retention and levels of sickness absence.

Restorative justice was integral to these changes, termed the ‘Just and Learning Culture’. Amanda Oates and Kristina Brown will reflect on the impact of the restorative just culture at Mersey Care and help us to understand how other organisations can adopt a similar approach.

This event will be held online via Zoom (link TBA). Please contact joy@minthouseoxford.co.uk for more information.

You can register for this this event on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restorative-just-culture-the-story-of-mersey-care-nhs-trust-tickets-146564629753

Sep
14
Tue
Interfaith Discussions @ Online
Sep 14 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Interfaith Discussions @ Online

Oxford Interfaith Discussion on the topic of The Creation Story.

The contributors of the discussion include:

Lord Alderdice, Patron of Oxford Interfaith Forum and Chair of Advisory Board, Freedom of Religion or Belief Leadership Network.

Revd Nevsky Everett, Chaplain of Keble College, the University of Oxford.

Revd Dr John Goldingay (DD, Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth), the David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament in the School of Theology of Fuller Theological Seminary in California, but lives in Oxford, England. He was previously principal and professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at St. John’s Theological College in Nottingham, England. His books include An Introduction to the Old Testament, A Reader’s Guide to the Bible, Reading Jesus’s Bible, and commentaries on Psalms, Isaiah, and Daniel. He has also authored a Biblical Theology, the three-volume Old Testament Theology and the seventeen-volume Old Testament for Everyone series, and has published a translation of the entire Old Testament called The First Testament: A New Translation.

Ustadah Yomna Helmy, Teaching Associate at The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She taught and developed a range of courses including, Tafseer, Hadith, Islamic law, Salafism, Arabic Syntax, Morphology, Quranic Arabic, and Spoken Arabic. Yomna is interested in Social Islamic thoughts and ethics within the fields of Hadith and Quranic Studies.

Rabbi David Wolpe, the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, California. He was named the most influential rabbi in America by Newsweek Magazine and one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world by the Jerusalem Post. He previously taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College, and UCLA.