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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
After Snowden @ Moser Theatre, Wadham College
Jun 2 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Alan Rusbridger shares his insights into the Snowden affair; what it revealed: the legal, editorial, political, logistical and ethical issues involved; and what should happen next.
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
Finding (and Exhibiting) the Spiritual in Early Ming Art @ Lecture Room 1, Tom 8 | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
Sustainable Architecture and Cultural Heritage in South America @ School of Geography and the Environment | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
Straight talking: Language, Gender and Heterosexuality @ Ruskin College Oxford
Jun 2 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Professor Cameron will be talking about how language creates and maintains inequality in sexuality and gender.
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Self-publishing in 18th century Paris/London 12:00 pm
Self-publishing in 18th century Paris/London @ Convocation House, Bodleian Library
Jun 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 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
Smashing Physics: News from the energy frontier @ St. Aldates Tavern | City Centre | United Kingdom
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
The Art of Witnessing War @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
The Art of Witnessing War @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
The Art of Witnessing War With Dr Sue Malvern, Reading University Thursday 5 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Sue Malvern looks at the role of war artists and photographers as witnesses to conflicts and wars.[...]
A new agenda for inclusive growth 4:00 pm
A new agenda for inclusive growth @ Oxford Martin School
Jun 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
A new agenda for inclusive growth @ Oxford Martin School | Oxford | United Kingdom
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[...]
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
Nature of Religious and Scientific Belief @ The Sutro Room, Trinity College
Jun 5 @ 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm
Nature of Religious and Scientific Belief @ The Sutro Room, Trinity College | Oxford | United Kingdom
This talk addresses two objections to religious belief from Ned Hall, based on the claim that religious practices fail to show the epistemic virtues of those of natural science. First, individuals engaged in science adopt[...]
Mark the Music-Shakespeare Festival Concert 7:30 pm
Mark the Music-Shakespeare Festival Concert @ Exeter College Chapel
Jun 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Mark the Music-Shakespeare Festival Concert @ Exeter College Chapel | Oxford | United Kingdom
As part of the Oxford University Shakespeare Festival, singers from across the university will present settings of Shakespeare texts for solo voice and choir. Solo settings by Quilter, Gurney and Finzi will be followed by[...]
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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
Cézanne and the Modern @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 6 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Cézanne and the Modern @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
Cézanne and the Modern Exhibition Lecture Cézanne and the Modern With Prof Christopher Butler, University of Oxford Friday 6 June, 2–3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Christopher Butler, author of Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in[...]
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
Experiments and Ethics @ Ertegun House
Jun 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
experimentsandethics.wordpress.com
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Experiments and Ethics 8:30 am
Experiments and Ethics @ Ertegun House
Jun 7 @ 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
experimentsandethics.wordpress.com
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
Professor Liam Dolan on early botany @ Magdalen College
Jun 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Professor Liam Dolan on early botany @ Magdalen College | Oxford | United Kingdom
You are cordially invited to the Magdalen College Trinity Term Libraries & Archives Talk: Liam Dolan, Sherardian Professor of Botany, will speak on early botany. A talk in Magdalen Summer Common Room (Cloisters III) followed[...]
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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The Psalms in England 1:00 pm
The Psalms in England @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
The Psalms in England @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
The Psalms in England With Prof M J Toswel, University of Western Ontario Tuesday 10 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre This lecture introduces the Anglo-Saxon psalter, and especially the interlinear vernacular versions in Latin psalters[...]
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Syria Speaks 12:30 pm
Syria Speaks @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 11 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Syria Speaks @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
‘Syria Speaks’ – Seminar Day With Venetia Porter, British Museum, and Paul Collins, Ashmolean Museum Wednesday 11 June, 1.30-4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre The Art of Syria Past and Present: This lecture explores modern and contemporary[...]
Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff 2:00 pm
Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
Tour: Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff With Colin Harrison, Senior Curator of European Art 3–3.45pm on Wednesday 14 May and Wednesday 11 June Tours are free, no booking is required. Please meet in Gallery 2.[...]
Border control and immigration reform politics 4:00 pm
Border control and immigration reform politics @ Oxford Martin School
Jun 11 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Border control and immigration reform politics @ Oxford Martin School | Oxford | United Kingdom
This lecture is hosted by the Oxford Martin School and the International Migration Institute, an Oxford Martin School Institute If Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress can agree that eleven million unauthorized immigrants are[...]
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
The Future of Collecting: Displaying Art in the Twenty-first Century @ Freud, Jericho | Oxford | United Kingdom
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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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap: mapping the future of crisis response 2:30 pm
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap: mapping the future of crisis response @ Oxford Martin School
Jun 12 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap: mapping the future of crisis response @ Oxford Martin School | Oxford | United Kingdom
Joseph Reeves, a contributor to Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, will talk about the importance of crowd sourcing and open data in providing information during a humanitarian crisis. Free, collaborative maps are uniquely valuable to humanitarian work, especially[...]
Collecting and conserving the flora of Japan 6:30 pm
Collecting and conserving the flora of Japan @ Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden
Jun 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Collecting and conserving the flora of Japan @ Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden | Oxford | United Kingdom
Speaker: Tom Price The archipelago of Japan is defined as one of the World’s 34 biodiversity hotspots. Learn how staff from the Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum are conducting expeditions to Japan to collect and[...]
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Palmyra: City of Palms 1:00 pm
Palmyra: City of Palms @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 13 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Palmyra: City of Palms @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
‘Syria Speaks’ Lecture: Palmyra: City of Palms With Linda Farrar, archaeologist and lecturer Friday 13 June, 2-4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Famed for its hauntingly beautiful architectural remains, the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria[...]
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 @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
‘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
Syria Speaks; Culture from the Frontline @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 13 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Syria Speaks; Culture from the Frontline @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
‘Syria Speaks’ Series Evening Finale: Art & Culture from the Frontline With Malu Halasa and Zaher Omareen, curators and editors Friday 13 June, 6.30-9.30pm, Headley Lecture Theatre The Syrian uprising has seen an outpouring of[...]
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
Oxford Left Review Issue 13 launch @ Blackwell's, Oxford | Oxford | North Carolina | United States
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 @ Tourist Information Centre | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
Discovering World War I in the Archives @ Convocation House, Bodleian Library
Jun 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Bodleian Library’s exhibition, ‘The Great War: Personal Stories from Downing Street to the Trenches,’ opens 18 June. Letters and diaries of politicians, soldiers and civilians, all connected with Oxford University, convey contemporary experiences of[...]
AfterHours: Money Pitt 5:00 pm
AfterHours: Money Pitt @ Pitt Rivers Museum
Jun 18 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
AfterHours: Money Pitt @ Pitt Rivers Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
Oxford Bike Week - WW1 Bike Ride @ Tourist Information Centre | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
Al Jazeera at the Oxford Union: Can the West save the world? @ Oxford Union
Jun 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Al Jazeera at the Oxford Union: Can the West save the world? @ Oxford Union | Oxford | United Kingdom
Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan will challenge Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Medecins sans Frontieres and former French Foreign Minister, on France’s military interventionism. Are the country’s motives altruistic or do they respond to a neo-colonialist[...]
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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 - Blue Plaque Ride @ Tourist Information Centre | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
Scibar: GM technologies: friend or foe? @ The Port Mahon | Oxford | United Kingdom
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 Czech Republic with the International Dendrology Society @ Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
The Czech Republic with the International Dendrology Society @ Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden | Oxford | United Kingdom
Speaker: Guy Horwood In 2013, Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood was awarded a travel bursary
to join the prestigious International Dendrology Society on their study tour of the Czech Republic. The tour of this diverse and[...]
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
Faith and Wisdom in Science – A Presentation, Panel and Book Launch @ The Sutro Room, Trinity College
Jun 19 @ 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm
 Faith and Wisdom in Science - A Presentation, Panel and Book Launch @ The Sutro Room, Trinity College | Oxford | United Kingdom
‘Can you Count the Clouds?’ asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist’s reading of[...]
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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 @ Tourist Information Centre | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History @ Ashmolean Museum
Jun 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History @ Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History With James Hall, author Saturday 21 June , 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Recounting the history of the self-portrait, this lecture offers insights into artists’ psychological and creative worlds. James Hall[...]
Investigating the Cook-Voyage Collections 1:30 pm
Investigating the Cook-Voyage Collections @ Pitt Rivers Museum
Jun 21 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Investigating the Cook-Voyage Collections @ Pitt Rivers Museum | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
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
Modi's Election. What does it mean for India? @ Living Room (Upstairs, Turl St Kitchen) | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
Book Launch: Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis @ Oxford Internet Institute | Oxford | United Kingdom
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
Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice @ The Cube, Law Faculty, St. Cross Road
Jun 27 @ 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Oxford Transitional Justice Research is pleased to invite you to its 2014 Summer Conference ‘Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice’. This year’s conference, hosted with the support of the Planethood Foundation, Law Faculty, and the[...]
Evil: Interdisciplinary Explorations 8:00 am
Evil: Interdisciplinary Explorations @ Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building
Jun 27 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
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,[...]
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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Discover Archaeology 3:00 pm
Discover Archaeology @ MCS JS Hall, Saint Hilda's College
Jun 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Discover Archaeology @ MCS JS Hall, Saint Hilda's College | Oxford | United Kingdom
As part of our Discover Archaeology day, we are delighted to welcome Dr Liam McNamara and Dr Senta German of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. Dr Liam McNamara will speak on ‘Discovering Tutankhamun at the Ashmolean Museum’.[...]
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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[...]