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				1	2	3 Kendal Mountain Film Festival 6:00 pm Kendal Mountain Film Festival @ Blue boar lecture theatre, Christ Church College May 3 @ 6:00 pm Tickets An event showcasing an unmissable two and a half hours of the best action and adventure films from around the world. Excess proceeds generated by ticket sales will be donated to the England and Wales[...]
4	5	6 The History of Champagne in the UK: 1860 – 1914 11:30 am The History of Champagne in the UK: 1860 – 1914 @ Senior Common Room, Faculty of Law May 6 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation 4:15 pm Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation @ Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre, Said Business School May 6 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Join us in the Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre, Saïd Business School, for a talk by Dr Gavin Yamey MD MPH, a physician and medical journal editor with training in public health who leads the Evidence[...] ANUSHKA ASTHANA -POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT 7:00 pm ANUSHKA ASTHANA -POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT @ Lecture Room B, Queens College May 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets We are delighted to welcome Anushka Asthana to Oxford on the 6th of May! She is the Political Correspondent for Sky News, the Policy Editor at The Observer and was formerly the Chief Political Correspondent[...]	7 Migration, Faith, and Action Migration, Faith, and Action @ Mathematical Institute (Room L3) May 7 – May 9 all-day Tickets An Interdisciplinary Conference sponsored by Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). The conference. In a time when globalization emphasizes the free flow of ideas, goods, and[...] Human rights and the rule of law: Eight centuries after Runnymede 4:00 pm Human rights and the rule of law: Eight centuries after Runnymede @ Examination Schools, May 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Chairman of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP. David Boies has conducted many of the leading commercial, constitutional and civil liberties cases in the US. He represented Vice President Al Gore in “Bush v Gore” and[...] Weapons of mass migration 4:00 pm Weapons of mass migration @ SR 1, Department of International Development May 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Subtitle: Forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy Seminar by Professor Kelly M. Greenhill (Tufts University) Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Trinity term Public Seminar Series Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media 4:30 pm Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media @ Haldane Room, Wolfson College May 7 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Popular Representations of Development takes a novel approach to the broad discipline of development studies that goes beyond narrow policy or social science frameworks. Instead, the authors reassess the breadth and popularity of development studies[...]	8 Radical Publishing with PEN 4:00 pm Radical Publishing with PEN @ Pegasus May 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Join English PEN (the literary network which works to defend and promote free expression) for an evening of poetry and debate, with discussion about how publishing and human rights campaigns can join forces to help[...]	9 Art as a Vehicle for Transformative Justice 11:00 am Art as a Vehicle for Transformative Justice @ Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building May 9 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Tickets speakers: William Kelly, Artist and Humanist Dr. Rama Mani, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford and Councillor of the World Future Council Between the artist and the museum 3:45 pm Between the artist and the museum @ Ashmolean Museum May 9 @ 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Between the artist and the museum Friday 9 May 2014, 5-6.30pm (doors will open at 4.45pm) Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre A symposium with Michael Govan (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries & Libraries at[...]	10
11	12	13 A view from the Pacific:re-envisioning the art museum 3:45 pm A view from the Pacific:re-envisioning the art museum @ Ashmolean Museum May 13 @ 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets A view from the Pacific: re-envisioning the art museum Tuesday 13 May 2014, 5-6.30pm (doors will open at 4.45pm) Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre A lecture by Michael Govan (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries[...] Transitional Justice and Transitional Relativism 4:00 pm Transitional Justice and Transitional Relativism @ Seminar Room B, Manor Road Building May 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Professor James Sweeney, Professor of International Law, University of Lancaster Fiona Millar on “Education and the Law” 6:00 pm Fiona Millar on “Education and the Law” @ Ruskin College, Ruskin Hall, Headington May 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Talk on the impact of Law on our Education and the consequences for schools, children and the system.	14 Solidarity & responsibility-sharing for refugee protection 4:00 pm Solidarity & responsibility-sharing for refugee protection @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development May 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets 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	15 Open journalism: bringing people together to tell richer stories 2:30 pm Open journalism: bringing people together to tell richer stories @ Oxford Martin School May 15 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Dr Philippa Law, Community Coordinator at GuardianWitness, will demonstrate how harnessing the wisdom and, more importantly, the personal experiences of the crowd can improve journalism and create a richer picture of the world. The Guardian[...]	16 Constitutional and Appellate Challenges to the Death Penalty in the Commonwealth and Worldwide 4:00 pm Constitutional and Appellate Challenges to the Death Penalty in the Commonwealth and Worldwide @ Mansfield College May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Edward Fitzgerald, QC Renowned human rights lawyer and leading advocate in death row cases worldwide. Part of the Mansfield Lecture Series, convener Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.	17
18	19 A lost generation? Education opportunities for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon 4:00 pm A lost generation? Education opportunities for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon @ Department of International Development May 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Dr Maha Shuayb (Centre for Lebanese Studies) Description: Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, more than 3 million refugees have fled to the neighboring countries Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.[...]	20 Attack on the Academic Boycott of Israel Attack on the Academic Boycott of Israel @ Saskatchewan Room, Exeter College May 20 – May 21 all-day Tickets https://www.facebook.com/events/575525219212880/ Associate Professor Jake Lynch is fighting a case in Australia’s Federal Court to uphold his right not to take part in institutional collaborations between the University of Sydney, where he directs the Centre for[...] The Intersection of Antitrust (Competition Law) and Trade Marks 11:30 am The Intersection of Antitrust (Competition Law) and Trade Marks @ Senior Common Room, Faculty of Law May 20 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Tickets Intellectual Property Discussion Group (IPDG) Legal, Narrative and Artistic Approaches to Transitional Justice 4:00 pm Legal, Narrative and Artistic Approaches to Transitional Justice @ Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building May 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets ESRC Transitional Justice Research Manual Re-Launch Speakers: Dr Nicola Palmer, Lecturer in Criminal Law, King’s College London Dr Briony Jones, Senior Researcher, Dealing with the Past, swisspeace Dr Zoe Norridge, Lecturer in English and Comparative[...]	21 Refuge from deprivation 4:00 pm Refuge from deprivation @ SR 1, Department of International Development May 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Socio-economic harm and non-refoulement in international law Speaker: Dr Michelle Foster (Melbourne Law School) Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Trinity term Public Seminar Series	22	23 Start-Up Chile 11:30 am Start-Up Chile @ Oxford Launchpad at Said Business School May 23 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Tickets The Start-Up Chile programme is now ready to select, fund and host a new round of start-ups so they develop their global business ideas in Chile, the growing start-up ecosystem that has everyone talking. **NO[...]	24
25	26	27	28 Arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers 4:00 pm Arbitrary detention of asylum-seekers @ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development May 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets A comparison of some recent practice from Italy and the UK Speakers: Dr Daniel Wilsher (City University London) and Francesca Cancellaro (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna) The detention of asylum seekers is always particularly[...] Challenges of Stability and Reconstruction Military Operations 4:00 pm Challenges of Stability and Reconstruction Military Operations @ Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building May 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets speaker: Radidja Nemar, PhD Candidate in Law, Université Paul Cézanne / Junior Research Fellow at French Strategic Institute, Military Academy The Changing Role of the Judge 4:30 pm The Changing Role of the Judge @ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium May 28 @ 4:30 pm Tickets In the 2014 Annual Lecture in Law and Society, Professor Carlo Guarnieri from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna will outline the changing nature of the civil law judge,[...] Why Oxford is a complacent establishment 4:45 pm Why Oxford is a complacent establishment @ Exeter College May 28 @ 4:45 pm – 5:45 pm Tickets Luke Johnson, entrepreneur and Financial Times columnist, on why Oxford is “a complacent establishment that is refusing to re-invent itself”. All welcome. Please report to the Porters’ Lodge on arrival.	29	30 Workshop: As You Like It / Othello 12:45 pm Workshop: As You Like It / Othello @ T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College May 30 @ 12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Tickets It is an honour for us to welcome the man who must surely have the most extensive knowledge of modern British theatre: Michael Billington, The Guardian’s lead theatre critic, will be attending the Oxford University[...]	31 Jeremy Paxman in conversation with The Rev’d Mpho Tutu 5:00 pm Jeremy Paxman in conversation with The Rev’d Mpho Tutu @ Harris Manchester College May 31 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets Join Revd Mpho Tutu, daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as she discusses The Book of Forgiving, written jointly with her father. In the book, Desmond and Mpho Tutu offer guidance from their own lives and[...]

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