Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
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What I wish I’d known when I left university
3:30 pm
What I wish I’d known when I left university
@ Exeter College
Jun 1 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Diana Noble, Chief Executive Officer of CDC, on “What I wish I’d known when I left university”. All welcome. Please report to the Porters’ Lodge on arrival.
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After Snowden
4:30 pm
Finding (and Exhibiting) the Spiritual in Early Ming Art
4:30 pm
Finding (and Exhibiting) the Spiritual in Early Ming Art
@ Lecture Room 1, Tom 8
Jun 2 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
![]() Professor Craig Clunas, lecturer in the History of Art, Fellow at Trinity College and Curator at the British Museum speaks to The Edgar Wind Society. Clunas’ discussion, ‘Finding (and Exhibiting) the Spiritual in Early Ming[...]
Sustainable Architecture and Cultural Heritage in South America
4:30 pm
Sustainable Architecture and Cultural Heritage in South America
@ School of Geography and the Environment
Jun 2 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
![]() FEM (Fundación por la Educación Multidimensional- Colombia) will describe the process of codesign and building a prototype for post flood communities in Colombia. The project helps to understand housing as an educational tool in itself[...]
‘Innovating for an Ageing Society: Collective Solutions to Care’
5:00 pm
‘Innovating for an Ageing Society: Collective Solutions to Care’
@ E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College
Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm
GTC Care Initiative and GTC Future Ageing Initiative event: ‘Innovating for an Ageing Society: Collective Solutions to Care’ The speaker is Dr Clare McNeil, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).[...]
Innovating for an Ageing Society: Collective Solutions to Care
5:00 pm
Innovating for an Ageing Society: Collective Solutions to Care
@ E P Abraham Lecture Theatre
Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
The GTC Care Initiative, in collaboration with the GTC Future Ageing Initiative, are holding a lecture/discussion session on the topic of: ‘Innovating for an Ageing Society: Collective Solutions to Care’ The speaker is Dr Clare[...]
Straight talking: Language, Gender and Heterosexuality
5:30 pm
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Self-publishing in 18th century Paris/London
12:00 pm
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
4:30 pm
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
@ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Jun 3 @ 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm
OCLW’s director, Hermione Lee, will be discussing and reading from her recent acclaimed biography of the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald. This special event will be followed by a celebratory drinks reception in the Haldane Room, Wolfson[...]
Smashing Physics: News from the energy frontier
6:30 pm
Smashing Physics: News from the energy frontier
@ St. Aldates Tavern
Jun 3 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
![]() The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest[...]
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High Hopes, Low Standards: Some Reflections on International Justice
4:00 pm
High Hopes, Low Standards: Some Reflections on International Justice
@ Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building
Jun 4 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
speaker: Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse, Defence Counsel at the ICTR and Special Tribunal for Lebanon
The law and politics of non-entrée
4:00 pm
The law and politics of non-entrée
@ Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development
Jun 4 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Speaker: Dr Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (The Danish Institute for Human Rights) Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Trinity term Public Seminar Series
The Reformation and the University Church
5:00 pm
The Reformation and the University Church
@ Old Library, University Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Jun 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sarah Mortimer from Christchurch College explains how the Reformation changed the society and puts the trials of the Oxford Martyrs into context. Free, booking required at smv.heritage@gmail.com http://www.smvheritage.co.uk/heritage/events-lectures/
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The Art of Witnessing War
1:00 pm
A new agenda for inclusive growth
4:00 pm
10:10 Filmmakers Networking Night
6:30 pm
10:10 Filmmakers Networking Night
@ Film Oxford
Jun 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Filmmakers networking night – 5th June 2014 10:10 filmmakers networking night Next meeting Thursday 5th June 2014, Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start to 9.30pm Bring along films to screen, equipment for us to swoon[...]
A Waste of Time: Why wait?
6:30 pm
A Waste of Time: Why wait?
@ Vaults & Garden Cafe
Jun 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Why have we become obsessed with squeezing the most out of every minute? What’s wrong with wasting time? Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP, Dominican Friar and international writer and speaker, explores the delights and trials of[...]
Philanthropy: a study in bourgeois power
6:30 pm
Philanthropy: a study in bourgeois power
@ The Mitre
Jun 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
A short talk followed by questions and discussion. All welcome, whether you want to take part in the discussion or just listen.
Nature of Religious and Scientific Belief
7:15 pm
Mark the Music-Shakespeare Festival Concert
7:30 pm
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Decolonization and welfare (1945 – 1975)
11:30 am
Decolonization and welfare (1945 – 1975)
@ European Studies Centre on Friday and Maison Française d'Oxford on Saturday
Jun 6 @ 11:30 am – Jun 7 @ 1:00 pm
Friday 6th June from 12.30pm – 5.30pm in the ESC Seminar Room and Saturday 7th June from 9am – 2pm at Maison Française d’Oxford Deakin Fellowship Workshop Decolonization and welfare during ‘les Trente glorieuses’ (1945[...]
Cézanne and the Modern
1:00 pm
The open city
4:00 pm
The open city
@ Mansfield College
Jun 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett Professor of Sociology at the LSE & Professor of the Humanities at NYU. His work studies the social ties in cities and the effects of urban living on individuals, and entails[...]
Experiments and Ethics
5:00 pm
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Experiments and Ethics
8:30 am
The Future of the Universe
6:00 pm
The Future of the Universe
@ Mathematical Institute
Jun 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Book your tickets here: http://www.scienceoxford.com/live/whats-on-so/the-future-of-the-universe What is the future of our universe? Are we alone or could other universes exist? When and how might it end, or will it go on forever? These and other[...]
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Professor Liam Dolan on early botany
4:00 pm
Riva-Melissa Tez – Emerging Technology Businesses
6:00 pm
Riva-Melissa Tez – Emerging Technology Businesses
@ Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
Jun 9 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
OxTET is happy to welcome Riva-Melissa Tez – lecturer at the DAB university in Berlin, founder of the Berlin Singularity, Associate Director of Longevity Intelligence Communications, and co-runner of Kardashev Communications. Riva will be speaking[...]
A Kierkegaaridan account of Patriotism
6:30 pm
A Kierkegaaridan account of Patriotism
@ The Mitre (function room)
Jun 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Dr Stephen Backhouse is Lecturer in Social and Political Theology at St. Mellitus college. Stephen studied at the University of Oxford, then McGill, then Oxford again, where he completed his doctorate on Kierkegaard and religious[...]
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Syria Speaks
12:30 pm
Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff
2:00 pm
Border control and immigration reform politics
4:00 pm
Personalised Cancer Care – Prof Middleton & Dr Schuh
5:30 pm
Personalised Cancer Care – Prof Middleton & Dr Schuh
@ Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, lecture theatre 1
Jun 11 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Personalised medicine utilises advances in DNA sequencing technology to classify a tumours according to genetic make-up instead of where they are in the body – allowing cancer treatment to be tailored to the individual patient.[...]
The Future of Collecting: Displaying Art in the Twenty-first Century
6:30 pm
The Future of Collecting: Displaying Art in the Twenty-first Century
@ Freud, Jericho
Jun 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
![]() 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[...]
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Palmyra: City of Palms
1:00 pm
Workshop: Coetzee’s Lives
1:00 pm
Workshop: Coetzee’s Lives
@ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Jun 13 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
A colloquium on the writing of J M Coetzee will be held 2-6pm on 13 June in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. Speakers include Professor David Attwell, University of York, Professor Elleke Boehmer and Professor[...]
‘On Form’ Sculpture Tour
2:00 pm
‘On Form’ Sculpture Tour
@ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 13 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
![]() ‘On Form’ Sculpture Tour 3-5pm Friday 13 June, Gallery 21 Sculptors from ‘on form’, the exhibition of stone sculpture at the childhood home of the Mitford sisters, Asthall Manor, will be giving tours of selected[...]
Bodies – When Appearance is Fetishised
4:00 pm
Bodies – When Appearance is Fetishised
@ Mansfield College
Jun 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
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[...]
Syria Speaks; Culture from the Frontline
5:30 pm
Oxford Left Review Issue 13 launch
6:00 pm
Oxford Left Review Issue 13 launch
@ Blackwell's, Oxford
Jun 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
![]() On Friday 13th June, the Oxford Left Review will be launching OLR Issue 13. Come along to get your copy and chat with the writers and editors. This issue was partially themed on ‘Science, Technology[...]
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Using human genetics to understand rheumatoid arthritis
1:00 pm
Using human genetics to understand rheumatoid arthritis
@ Henry Wellcome Building for Human Genetics, Seminar Room A
Jun 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex autoimmune disease affecting up to 1% of the population, causing a disabling inflammatory arthritis. The disease has two clinical similar subsets: autoantibody positive or seropositive disease, and autoantibody or seronegative[...]
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Life-Writing Lunch Seminar
12:00 pm
Life-Writing Lunch Seminar
@ Haldane Room, Wolfson College
Jun 17 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Mark Thompson will be speaking on his biography of the Serbian and Yugoslavian novelist Danilo Kis, Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis, and questioning, ‘how do you write a literary biography?’ The Life-Writing Lunch[...]
Nuffield Bike Ride
5:00 pm
Nuffield Bike Ride
@ Tourist Information Centre
Jun 17 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
![]() Nuffield bike ride, in association with Oxford Bike Week Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 17th June Location: Tourist Information Centre, 15 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AS Description: Join us on a gentle, scenic, two-hour[...]
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Discovering World War I in the Archives
1:00 pm
AfterHours: Money Pitt
5:00 pm
AfterHours: Money Pitt
@ Pitt Rivers Museum
Jun 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
![]() Know the value of beetle legs? Aware of the worth of red feathers? Familiar with tea bricks? Join us to explore the world of global currencies and trade and how different cultures have responded to[...]
Oxford Bike Week – WW1 Bike Ride
5:00 pm
Oxford Bike Week – WW1 Bike Ride
@ Tourist Information Centre
Jun 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
![]() World War One Bike Ride: Part of Oxford Bike Week Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 18th June Location: Tourist Information Centre, 15 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AS Description: Interested in knowing about what went[...]
Al Jazeera at the Oxford Union: Can the West save the world?
6:00 pm
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Synthetic Biology, Short Past and Long Future
12:00 pm
Synthetic Biology, Short Past and Long Future
@ New Biochemistry, Seminar Room
Jun 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
RANDY RETTBERG, President of iGEM Randy Rettberg is the man behind iGEM, the global competition for undergraduates and high school students in designing brand new biological parts, or “genetically engineered machines”. An engineer by trade[...]
THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: if it decouples resource consumption from economic development does it mean redefining growth and success for economies and companies?
4:30 pm
THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: if it decouples resource consumption from economic development does it mean redefining growth and success for economies and companies?
@ Lecture Theatre, Said Business School
Jun 19 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
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[...]
Oxford Bike Week – Blue Plaque Ride
5:00 pm
Oxford Bike Week – Blue Plaque Ride
@ Tourist Information Centre
Jun 19 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
![]() Oxford Bike Week: ISIS Blue Plaque Bike Ride Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 19th June Location: Tourist Information Centre, 15 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AS Description: Easy pace ride, visiting sites of interest in[...]
Scibar: GM technologies: friend or foe?
5:30 pm
Scibar: GM technologies: friend or foe?
@ The Port Mahon
Jun 19 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
![]() The use of GM technologies is growing beyond agricultural crops. GM vaccines and GM animals are available and their use may need different regulatory considerations. In this talk, Dr Michael Bonsall from the Dept of[...]
A Waste of Time: In My Mind – Dr Jonathan Jong
6:30 pm
A Waste of Time: In My Mind – Dr Jonathan Jong
@ Vaults & Garden Cafe
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Dr Jonathan Jong, a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, explores how time is all “in the mind”. Philosophers disagree about the nature of time: does it really flow[...]
The Czech Republic with the International Dendrology Society
6:30 pm
The Dalai Lama: a study in bourgeois rationality
6:30 pm
The Dalai Lama: a study in bourgeois rationality
@ The Mitre
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
A short talk followed by questions and discussion. “The Dalai Lama: a study in bourgeois rationality” All welcome
Faith and Wisdom in Science – A Presentation, Panel and Book Launch
7:15 pm
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Signatures of Mutational Processes in Human Cancer
11:00 am
Signatures of Mutational Processes in Human Cancer
@ Henry Wellcome Building for Human Genetics, Seminar Room A
Jun 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
All cancers are caused by somatic mutations. However, the processes underlying the genesis of somatic mutations in human cancer are remarkably poorly understood. Recent large-scale cancer genome sequencing initiatives have provided us with new insights[...]
Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions
12:00 pm
Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions
@ Seminar Room 3, Department of International Development
Jun 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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[...]
Oxford Bike Week – Sculpture Ride
5:00 pm
Oxford Bike Week – Sculpture Ride
@ Tourist Information Centre
Jun 20 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
![]() Oxford Bike Week: Sculpture Ride Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 20th June Location: Tourist Information Centre, 15 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AS Description: Enjoy an easy pace ride around Oxford with regular stops to[...]
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The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History
1:00 pm
Investigating the Cook-Voyage Collections
1:30 pm
Investigating the Cook-Voyage Collections
@ Pitt Rivers Museum
Jun 21 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
![]() A recent two-year project, funded by the Clothworkers’ Foundation, allowed Jeremy Uden, Deputy Head of Conservation, to conserve and investigate the Cook voyage collections at the Pitt Rivers. He will talk about his research and[...]
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The Santos-FARC Peace Talks and the Juridical Framework for Peace: Transitional Justice in Colombia?
4:00 pm
The Santos-FARC Peace Talks and the Juridical Framework for Peace: Transitional Justice in Colombia?
@ Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk
Jun 25 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Modi’s Election. What does it mean for India?
6:30 pm
Modi’s Election. What does it mean for India?
@ Living Room (Upstairs, Turl St Kitchen)
Jun 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
![]() Speaker: Suhail Ilyas rs21.org.uk *** The largest election the world has ever seen resulted last month in the election of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. Modi was formerly chief minister in Gujarat, where[...]
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Book Launch: Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis
4:00 pm
Book Launch: Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis
@ Oxford Internet Institute
Jun 26 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
![]() 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[...]
UK Public Health Film Festival
11:00 pm
UK Public Health Film Festival
@ Phoenix Cinema, Oxford
Jun 26 @ 11:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Weekend of films screenings, talks and workshops about public health. Kicks off on Friday at 18.00 with a screening of Dallas Buyers Club at the Phoenix Picturehouse in Jericho. All welcome. Please visit our website[...]
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Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice
8:00 am
Evil: Interdisciplinary Explorations
8:00 am
Gallery talks on love, sex, gender, and poetry in the ancient world
6:00 pm
Gallery talks on love, sex, gender, and poetry in the ancient world
@ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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[...]
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Will Gompertz: How Art Can Change Your Life
6:30 pm
Will Gompertz: How Art Can Change Your Life
@ Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building, Saint Hilda's College
Jun 30 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Join BBC Arts Editor and former Director of Tate Media, Will Gompertz, for a fascinating talk on Modern Art. Gompertz’s talk will mark the launch of Magdalen Open, the Festival’s inaugural pop-up art show, featuring[...]
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