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				1 OBU Documentary Club: No Impact Man 7:00 pm OBU Documentary Club: No Impact Man @ John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building Oct 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics. The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students,[...]	2 Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Ashutosh Tewari 8:00 am Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Ashutosh Tewari @ Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Lecture Theatre 1 Oct 2 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Professor Tewari is a world-renowned urologist and prostate cancer specialist. As Director of the Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, he leads a multidisciplinary team committed[...]	3
4	5 ### CANCELLED ### Rights, Solidarity and Ethical Violence – Dr Lara Montesinos Coleman 4:15 pm ### CANCELLED ### Rights, Solidarity and Ethical Violence – Dr Lara Montesinos Coleman @ Gibbs Building, Oxford Brookes University Oct 5 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets This event was cancelled.	6 Summertown St Margarets Neighbourhood Plan – draft policies consultation 4:00 pm Summertown St Margarets Neighbourhood Plan – draft policies consultation @ Woodstock Road Baptist Church Oct 6 @ 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets What is a Neighbourhood (Development) Plan? Neighbourhood Forums can establish general planning policies for the development and use of land in their neighbourhood. These are described legally as Neighbourhood Development Plans. They need to be[...] ‘Sacrifice of a Genius’: Henry Moseley, scientist and soldier 7:00 pm ‘Sacrifice of a Genius’: Henry Moseley, scientist and soldier @ Museum of the History of Science Oct 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Evening lecture by Derek Stacey, Department of Physics and Elizabeth Bruton, Museum of the History of Science. Derek Stacey will open the evening with a description of Henry Moseley’s scientific discoveries, and the remarkable way[...] The Earth Trust: working towards a sustainable future – Dr Kerry Lock 7:45 pm The Earth Trust: working towards a sustainable future – Dr Kerry Lock @ The Old School Room, St Peter's Church Oct 6 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm Tickets The Earth Trust is an environmental learning charity based in Oxfordshire that reconnects people with their environment and encourages sustainable living, enhancing people’s quality of life as well as their environment. It believes that sustainability[...]	7 Educating students to become citizens 6:00 pm Educating students to become citizens @ Oxford Brookes University, John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre Oct 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets How live-project learning can build better communities? A lecture by Maria Faraone, Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes. Alok Jha & The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance @ Oxford Skeptics in the Pub 7:30 pm Alok Jha & The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance @ Oxford Skeptics in the Pub @ St Aldates Tavern Oct 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Water may seem the most ordinary of substances – it pours from our taps and falls from the sky – but you would be surprised at what a profoundly strange substance it is. It bends[...]	8 Jim Baggot on Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation 6:00 pm Jim Baggot on Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation @ Andrew Wiles Building (Mathematical Institute) Oct 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Join Jim Baggott, scientist and author of ground-breaking new book Origins, as he tells the amazing scientific story of the Universe: from the Big Bang to the arrival of humans 13.8 billion years later. Barry Cunliffe will speak about his latest book By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean 7:00 pm Barry Cunliffe will speak about his latest book By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean @ Waterstones Oxford Oct 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Barry Cunliffe tells the fascinating story of how humans started building the globalized world we know today. OBU Documentary Club: Better This World 7:00 pm OBU Documentary Club: Better This World @ John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building Oct 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics.’ The Oxford Brookes University Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of[...]	9 Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Avigdor Scherz 8:00 am Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Avigdor Scherz @ Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre. John Radcliffe Hospital Oct 9 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Professor Avigdor Scherz holds the Robert and Yadelle Professorial Chair in Biochemistry in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where he leads an exciting programme of[...] Dr Janina Ramirez ‘The Private Lives of the Saints’ 3:00 pm Dr Janina Ramirez ‘The Private Lives of the Saints’ @ Blackwell's Bookshop Oct 9 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets British Art Historian and TV Presenter, Dr Janina Ramirez will be talking about her new book ‘Private Lives of the Saints’. This free event will take place in the Norrington Room, Blackwell’s Bookshop, 48-51 Broad[...]	10 World War One: Local Connections, Global Conflict 10:00 am World War One: Local Connections, Global Conflict @ Museum of the History of Science Oct 10 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Tickets Are you interested in learning more about the First World War, from local connections here in Oxfordshire community through to the international Gallipoli campaign and beyond? In this one-day adult learning workshop inspired by our[...] The Heart and the Head – and evening of storytelling and song under the dinos 7:30 pm The Heart and the Head – and evening of storytelling and song under the dinos @ University Museum of Natural History Oct 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Join researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Oxford based folk band “James Bell and the Half Moon All Stars” for an afterhours event under the dinosaurs as they mix eclectic experiences,[...]
11	12 Marina Carr, in conversation about her new version of Hecuba 2:15 pm Marina Carr, in conversation about her new version of Hecuba @ Lecture Theatre Oct 12 @ 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Tickets An APGRD Public Lecture: Award-winning playwright Marina Carr, in conversation about her new version of Euripides’ ‘Hecuba’ at the RSC. Free, all welcome, no booking required. In conversation, followed by audience Q & A and[...] Democracy as Foreign Policy: Temporality and Othering in International Relations – Dr Cathy Elliot 4:15 pm Democracy as Foreign Policy: Temporality and Othering in International Relations – Dr Cathy Elliot @ John Henry Brookes Building, room 207 Oct 12 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series What has Evidence-Based Medicine done for healthcare 6:15 pm What has Evidence-Based Medicine done for healthcare @ Rewley House Oct 12 @ 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm Tickets EBM has been transformational for healthcare, however, currently it is poorly understood how this has occurred over time. Using Heart Attack as an example, Prof Carl Heneghan will demonstrate and discuss how EBM has saved[...] ‘Is the Old Testament God Immoral’ – by Dr Peter J Williams 7:30 pm ‘Is the Old Testament God Immoral’ – by Dr Peter J Williams @ Pusey House Chapel Oct 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets A wine reception will follow the talk	13 Do Computer Games Really Harm Children? – FREE Talk by Dr Andrew Przybylski 4:30 pm Do Computer Games Really Harm Children? – FREE Talk by Dr Andrew Przybylski @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology Oct 13 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets This talk is FREE! Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available after the talk. Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology ******************** Andrew Przybylski is an experimental psychologist based at the[...] National Academy of Writing: Public Edit 6:00 pm National Academy of Writing: Public Edit @ Jacqueline du Pre Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford Oct 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Need help with your writing? Join us for ‘Public Edit’, a unique event where experts publicly edit a text – working on the principle that writers all face the same challenges. In the first hour,[...] Graham Hancock ‘Magicians of the Gods’ 7:00 pm Graham Hancock ‘Magicians of the Gods’ @ Blackwell's Bookshop Oct 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Graham Hancock is the author of multi-million bestseller, Fingerprints of the Gods, a book that remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide ranging investigation into the mysteries of our past and the evidence for earth’s lost[...] Too Valuable to Die? The ethics of science and scientists going to war 7:00 pm Too Valuable to Die? The ethics of science and scientists going to war @ Museum of the History of Science Oct 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Silke Ackermann (Director, Museum of the History of Science) Liz Bruton (Co-curator, “Dear Harry”… Henry Moseley: A Scientist Lost to War) and Nigel Biggar (Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford) will[...]	14 Cyberselves in Immersive Technologies 9:15 am Cyberselves in Immersive Technologies @ Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre Oct 14 @ 9:15 am – Oct 15 @ 4:00 pm Tickets As part of our AHRC-funded project, Cyberselves in Immersive Technologies, researchers from Oxford University and the University of Sheffield are organising a two-day symposium on virtual reality, telepresence and associated technologies. The symposium will be[...] Social Media: Foundations of the Cyber-Society and the Role of Law 9:00 am Social Media: Foundations of the Cyber-Society and the Role of Law @ Haldane Room, Wolfson College Oct 14 @ 9:00 am – 4:45 pm Tickets In enabling the creation and rapid spread of social media, the internet has created a new social arena in which vast numbers of people are engaged. In common with other social arenas, such as the[...] How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour 2:00 pm How journalism faces a second wave of disruption from technology and changing audience behaviour @ Barclay Room - Green templeton college Oct 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism” The following seminars will be given at 2 pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College. Convenors: James Painter, David Levy Nic Newman,[...] Film Screening “Estate: a Reverie” – Future of Cities Programme 5:30 pm Film Screening “Estate: a Reverie” – Future of Cities Programme @ Old Library, All Souls College Oct 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Estate: a film forged by community, a spirited celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity The Director will be present Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism in 2015 5:30 pm Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism in 2015 @ Ruskin College, Dunstan Road, Old Headington, Oxford, OX3 9BZ Oct 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system – a situation that the banking crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. So, what do you do about capitalism if[...]	15 “Demographic change – the evolving health challenges” with Prof Sarah Harper and Prof Robyn Norton 5:00 pm “Demographic change – the evolving health challenges” with Prof Sarah Harper and Prof Robyn Norton @ Oxford Martin School Oct 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Demographic changes across the world pose one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Longer lifespans and shifting fertility rates bring with them an array of global health issues. In this lecture, Professor Sarah[...] Nancy Bentley (UPenn) — ‘Kinship Politics: Jewett, Zitkala-Sa, and Literary Clans’ 5:30 pm Nancy Bentley (UPenn) — ‘Kinship Politics: Jewett, Zitkala-Sa, and Literary Clans’ @ Rothermere American Institute, Large Seminar Room Oct 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Abstract: “I am sick to death of kinship.” Donna Haraway’s lament in 1990 was widely shared among academics who perceived that familialism had an enduring and destructive grip on American politics. Key projects from this[...] Oil Justice Now! Stop Corporate Impunity 5:30 pm Oil Justice Now! Stop Corporate Impunity @ Okinaga Room, Wadham College, University of Oxford Oct 15 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets The extraction of oil and the mining of coal are devastating communities across the world. These operations have forced people from their land, polluted the environment, and led to widespread human rights violations. According to[...] Psychologist in the Pub: Be well, be fast, live long with Professor Patrick Rabbitt 6:30 pm Psychologist in the Pub: Be well, be fast, live long with Professor Patrick Rabbitt @ Wig & Pen Oct 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Psychologist in the Pub events are completely free and open to everyone (British Psychological Society members and non-menbers), so pleae join us on: Thursday 15th October, 6:30 for 7pm start, with: Professor Patrick Rabbitt, University[...] OBU Documentary Club: Chasing Ice 7:00 pm OBU Documentary Club: Chasing Ice @ John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building Oct 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics. The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students,[...] Who was the real George Orwell? 7:00 pm Who was the real George Orwell? @ Waterstones Oxford Oct 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Robert Colls take us on a journey through the twists and turns of Orwell’s life and thought. 3D character animation online with Mixamo/Adobe 7:30 pm 3D character animation online with Mixamo/Adobe @ Film Oxford Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm Tickets 3D character animation online with Mixamo/Adobe On June 1st of this year Adobe announced its purchase of the company Mixamo. This evening John Twycross – Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production, Faculty of Technology, Design[...] De revolutionibus: a Marxist history of astronomy 7:30 pm De revolutionibus: a Marxist history of astronomy @ Town Hall (Court Room) Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Talk, Q&As, and discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion. There’s no need to book: just turn up on the day. Refugee lives matter: Why we say ‘open the border’ 7:30 pm Refugee lives matter: Why we say ‘open the border’ @ Lecture Room B (off the main quad), Worcester College Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Ordinary people across Europe have reacted with horror to the plight of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war and other conflicts—and sent solidarity. David Cameron reacted with callous cynicism. At first he held firm against[...]	16 Surgical Grand Rounds – Mr Hugh Grant 8:00 am Surgical Grand Rounds – Mr Hugh Grant @ John Radcliffe Hospital , Academic Centre, Lecture Theatre 1 Oct 16 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Mr Grant is a paediatric surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He will be speaking on: ‘LESS is more: single port surgery and surgical simulation outcome’. Social media and the UK 2015 election – Colin Byrne 5:00 pm Social media and the UK 2015 election – Colin Byrne @ Butler Room - Nuffield College Oct 16 @ 5:00 pm Tickets Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College. Convenors: Neil Fowler, David Levy, James Painter Colin[...] Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life 6:00 pm Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life @ Mathematical Institute Oct 16 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets To celebrate the publication of Jonathan Bate’s new biography, Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life we are joined by Bate, Seamus Perry and Oliver Taplin to discuss life-writing, poetry and the poet. We are also delighted[...]	17 Saturday Spotlight: How Early Societies Solved the Writing Problem 2:30 pm Saturday Spotlight: How Early Societies Solved the Writing Problem @ Pitt Rivers Museum, Oct 17 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets Jonathan Bard will talk about the Pitt Rivers Museum’s case 106A Writing and Communication. Jonathan will start by looking at the problems around writing down a spoken language and how these have been solved in[...]
18	19 Unlocking Archives: ‘Swinburne, Balliol and the pursuit of books’ – Dr Rikky Rooksby 1:00 pm Unlocking Archives: ‘Swinburne, Balliol and the pursuit of books’ – Dr Rikky Rooksby @ Balliol Historic Collections Centre, St Cross Church Oct 19 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets In this illustrated talk Rikky Rooksby discusses the life and legacy of the Victorian poet Algernon Charles Swinburne and the poet’s connection with Balliol, and relates the story of his own Swinburne book collection which[...] Mechanisms of Ethnic Filtering in Spanish Immigration Policy – Dr Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa 4:15 pm Mechanisms of Ethnic Filtering in Spanish Immigration Policy – Dr Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa @ John Henry Brookes Building, Room 207 Oct 19 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series Nigel Warburton ‘A Little History of Philosophy’ 7:00 pm Nigel Warburton ‘A Little History of Philosophy’ @ Blackwell's Bookshop Oct 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Philosopher Nigel Warburton will be discussing some of the thinkers and ideas that feature in his bestselling introductory book, A Little History of Philosophy. Blackwell’s have recently sold our 1000th copy of the book in[...]	20 Collecting music, collecting life stories: The Cypriot Fiddler project – Nicoletta Demetriou 1:00 pm Collecting music, collecting life stories: The Cypriot Fiddler project – Nicoletta Demetriou @ Florey Room, Wolfson College, Oxford Oct 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Nicoletta Demetriou will discuss her attempt to record the stories of Cyprus’s last surviving traditional fiddlers. She will talk about what musicians’ life stories can tell us about the music and[...] Oxbotica: Why Don’t Robots Get Lost? 1:00 pm Oxbotica: Why Don’t Robots Get Lost? @ Lecture Room 2, Thom Building, Engineering Department Oct 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Oxbotica are an Oxford University Spin-Out Company from the mobile robotics group. Oxbotica specialize in mobile navigation and perception – allowing robots to precisely map, navigate and interact with their surroundings.” Graeme Smith, Oxbotica’s Chief[...] How I Became a Cyborg – Talk by Professor Kevin Warwick AKA ‘Captain Cyborg’ 4:30 pm How I Became a Cyborg – Talk by Professor Kevin Warwick AKA ‘Captain Cyborg’ @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology Oct 20 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event! Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology ******************** Professor Warwick instigated a series of pioneering experiments involving[...] ### Fully Booked ### Laura Bates ‘Everyday Sexism’ 5:00 pm ### Fully Booked ### Laura Bates ‘Everyday Sexism’ @ Oxford Union Oct 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Tickets ### This event is sold out. ### Laura Bates will be discussing her new book ‘Everyday Sexism’. Laura is a feminist writer, whose work appears in the Guardian, the Independent, TIME, The New Statesman, The[...] Caroline Criado-Perez will talk about her new book, Do It Like a Woman, in conversation with Rachel Hewitt 5:30 pm Caroline Criado-Perez will talk about her new book, Do It Like a Woman, in conversation with Rachel Hewitt @ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College Oct 20 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Every day, all around the world, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male.[...] Women’s Equality Party Oxford Branch and Policy Launch 6:30 pm Women’s Equality Party Oxford Branch and Policy Launch @ All Bar One Oct 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets WE would like to invite you to celebrate the WEP policy launch and the launch of the Oxford branch of the Women’s Equality Party. What is the policy launch? On Tuesday 20th October, at 11am,[...] Helping make a Last Wish Come True 7:30 pm Helping make a Last Wish Come True @ Lime Walk Methodist Church Oct 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets You may have seen the recent BBC news story on visionary Dutch paramedic, Kees Veldboer. See link below. He is coming to Oxford to talk about his inspiring approach to working with terminally ill patients,[...]	21 How data can help journalists to do better storytelling and reporting – Jacqui Maher 2:00 pm How data can help journalists to do better storytelling and reporting – Jacqui Maher @ Barclay Room - Green Templeton College Oct 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism” The following seminars will be given at 2 pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College. Convenors: James Painter, David Levy Jacqui Maher,[...] Refugee economies: forced displacement and development 5:00 pm Refugee economies: forced displacement and development @ Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development Oct 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Professor Alexander Betts (Refugee Studies Centre) In recent academic and policy arenas in forced migration, the issue of how to understand refugees’ economic lives has emerged as one of the most pressing agendas. This[...] Sacred Prostitution in India: The Modern-day Devadasis 6:00 pm Sacred Prostitution in India: The Modern-day Devadasis @ Pitt Rivers Museum Oct 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Catherine Rubin Kermorgant will discuss her book ‘Servants of the Goddess: the Modern-Day Devadasis’. Married to the gods as young girls, devadasis are trained to sing and dance for the gods. Their sacred duties include[...] BioStars and OB360 – Oxford Info Session 6:30 pm BioStars and OB360 – Oxford Info Session @ Corpus Christi College Oct 21 @ 6:30 pm Tickets Innovative Science into Disruptive Business Join us at one of our official info sessions close to you to learn about BioStars, the most comprehensive Start-up building accelerator program, and OB360°; our flagship educational program for[...] Josiah Ober ”The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece’ 7:00 pm Josiah Ober ”The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece’ @ Blackwell's Bookshop Oct 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Josiah Ober will be joining us to discuss his book ‘The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece’. In ‘The Rise and Fall of Classic Greece’ Josiah Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece[...] SciBar event – Parasites: masters of disguise 7:00 pm SciBar event – Parasites: masters of disguise @ St Aldates Tavern, The Blue Room Oct 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Dr Matt Higgins will discuss how tiny parasites that cause human disease stay undercover and evade detection, and how we can try to develop vaccines to stop them.	22 Introductory Coin-Handling Session at the Ashmolean’s Heberden Coin Room 3:00 pm Introductory Coin-Handling Session at the Ashmolean’s Heberden Coin Room @ Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum Oct 22 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets What’s the deal about coins? How do I read them? What can I do with them? Join us for an introductory coin-handing session at the Heberden Coin Room, where Jerome Mairat demonstrates how we can[...] “Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change?” with Prof Malcolm McCulloch and Prof Henry Snaith 5:00 pm “Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change?” with Prof Malcolm McCulloch and Prof Henry Snaith @ Oxford Martin School Oct 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Renewable energy is a strong component in the race to mitigate climate change, and solar power is a particularly cheap and viable green energy option. Considering current technologies, cost, markets and infrastructure, Professor Henry Snaith,[...] OBU Documentary Club: Dior and I 7:00 pm OBU Documentary Club: Dior and I @ John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building. Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics.The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students, staff[...] Professor Richard Dawkins ‘Brief Candle in the Dark : My Life in Science’ 7:00 pm Professor Richard Dawkins ‘Brief Candle in the Dark : My Life in Science’ @ Sheldonian Theatre Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Blackwell’s is delighted to be hosting Professor Richard Dawkins at the Sheldonian Theatre to talk about the lastest volume in his autobiography, ‘Brief Candle in the Dark’ Professor Dawkins is an ethnologist, evolutionary biologist and[...] The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 7:00 pm The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 @ Ruskin College Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets Free film showing and discussion led by former Ruskin College Black Students’ Officer Yasmin Spark. An extraordinary window into the black freedom struggle in the United States, offering a treasure trove of fresh archival information[...] In other words: notes on the grammar of literary Martian 7:30 pm In other words: notes on the grammar of literary Martian @ The Mitre (upstairs function room) Oct 22 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Talk, Q&As, and discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion. There’s no need to book: just come along on the day.	23 Surgical Grand Rounds – Dr Clare Dollery 8:00 am Surgical Grand Rounds – Dr Clare Dollery @ Academic Centre, Lecture Theatre 1 Oct 23 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Dr Clare Dollery will be presenting the swab ‘never event’. Dr Dollery is Oxford University Hospital’s new Deputy Medical Director. She joined the Trust on 1 March 2015 and is part of the team reporting[...] Transgender 101 4:30 pm Transgender 101 @ Oxford Brookes Marston Road Campus Oct 23 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Join Brookes’ social work society for an interactive discussion on Transgender identities and realities with Kae Smith of Ruskin College. A talk to raise awareness about Trans Liberation history, today’s realities and how you can[...] Investigative journalism and US politics – Charles Lewis 5:00 pm Investigative journalism and US politics – Charles Lewis @ Butler Room - Nuffield College Oct 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College. Convenors: Neil Fowler, David Levy, James Painter Charles[...] Let’s Talk about Sex: Negotiating Mutual Consensual Sexual Relations in Modern Times. 5:00 pm Let’s Talk about Sex: Negotiating Mutual Consensual Sexual Relations in Modern Times. @ Mansfield College, Oct 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Mansfield College Lecture Series: Convener Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. Dr Nina Burrowes is a psychologist specializing in the psychology of sexual abuse. She is the author of The Courage to be Me and the creator[...] University College Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture – ‘Standing for the Whole’ by Arnie Graf 5:00 pm University College Clement Attlee Memorial Lecture – ‘Standing for the Whole’ by Arnie Graf @ 90 High Street Lecture Room, University College Oct 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Lecture by Arnie Graf (Industrial Areas Foundation), ‘Standing for the Whole’. All welcome.	24 ‘Why Doctors Don’t Do Much Good and How You Can Do More’ – Dr Gregory Lewis 4:30 pm ‘Why Doctors Don’t Do Much Good and How You Can Do More’ – Dr Gregory Lewis @ Blue Boar Lecture Theatre Oct 24 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets The Oxford Forum for Medical Humanities presents a talk on effective altruism and the true impact of a doctor, by (medical doctor) Dr Gregory Lewis. Doctors have a pretty solid reputation as do-gooders, and many[...] Oxford African History Celebration 5:00 pm Oxford African History Celebration @ United Refiorm Church Hall near Temple Ciowley Library Oct 24 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets (1) Ancient Africa’s Gift to: Law, Architecture, Mathematics, Judaism, Islam & Christianity. This will be a 45 minute slide presentation. (2) Magna Carta, Ancient Africa’s Gift to the English. The ancient roots of Magna Carta[...]
25	26 Paul Jobin – The people vs Taiwan’s Radio Corporation of America: A Groundbreaking Toxic Tort Class Action 2:00 pm Paul Jobin – The people vs Taiwan’s Radio Corporation of America: A Groundbreaking Toxic Tort Class Action @ China Centre, Seminar room 1, level 1 Oct 26 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets In April 2015, after seven years of court hearings and a mobilization that started in 1998, the district court of Taipei made a historic decision for legal class action in Taiwan, that bears important meanings[...] Hydropolitics in Central Asia: Power and Hegemony in the Aral Sea Basin – Dr Filippo Menga 4:15 pm Hydropolitics in Central Asia: Power and Hegemony in the Aral Sea Basin – Dr Filippo Menga @ Gibbs Building, Oxford Brookes University Oct 26 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series Music and the Brain 5:00 pm Music and the Brain @ Jaqueline du Pre Music Building Oct 26 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets This interdisciplinary workshop examines the impact of music on the brain from the point of view of different disciplines (medicine/physiology, psychology, philosophy). Following a series of short talks by St Hilda’s Fellows and expert guest[...] Fireside Chat with Paul Jobin 6:30 pm Fireside Chat with Paul Jobin @ Green Templeton College Oct 26 @ 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Paul Jobin is currently Associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies of Paris Diderot University. From 2007 to 2013, he conducted research at the French Centre for Research on Contemporary China – Taiwan[...] ‘Christianity and the Ku Klux Klan: Grappling with the dark side of Church History’ by Stephen Tuck 7:00 pm ‘Christianity and the Ku Klux Klan: Grappling with the dark side of Church History’ by Stephen Tuck @ The Mitre Oct 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets	27 [C]lick your Screen: Probing the Senses Online – Talk by Dr Andy Woods 4:30 pm [C]lick your Screen: Probing the Senses Online – Talk by Dr Andy Woods @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology Oct 27 @ 4:30 pm – Oct 28 @ 5:30 pm Tickets Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event! Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology ******************** We are at the cusp of some far-reaching technological[...] Questioning God in the Face of American Racism: The Secular Origins of the Civil Writes Movement 5:00 pm Questioning God in the Face of American Racism: The Secular Origins of the Civil Writes Movement @ Pusey Room Oct 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Martin Luther King, Jr. and other prominent Christian and Muslim leaders notwithstanding, religion played an important but sometimes ambiguous role in the history of the Black Civil Rights movement. Stephen Tuck, founding Director of The[...] Unveiling an Esoteric Life: Writing the Biography of Charles Williams – Grevel Lindop 5:30 pm Unveiling an Esoteric Life: Writing the Biography of Charles Williams – Grevel Lindop @ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College Oct 27 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Charles Williams (1886-1945) was an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings—the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams—novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru—was[...]	28 Can data save journalism? How analytics change the newsroom and beyond – Klaus Miller 2:00 pm Can data save journalism? How analytics change the newsroom and beyond – Klaus Miller @ Barclay Room - Green Templeton College Oct 28 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism” The following seminars will be given at 2 pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College. Convenors: James Painter, David Levy Klaus Miller,[...] Displacement economies: thinking through the paradoxes of crisis and creativity 5:00 pm Displacement economies: thinking through the paradoxes of crisis and creativity @ Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development Oct 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Professor Amanda Hammar (Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen) RSC Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term: Refugee Economies Conveners: Alexander Betts and Naohiko Omata In recent academic and policy arenas in forced migration, the[...] St Cross College 50th Anniversary Lecture with Professor Dame Marina Warner 6:00 pm St Cross College 50th Anniversary Lecture with Professor Dame Marina Warner @ Pusey House Chapel Oct 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets The third of St Cross College’s 50th Anniversary termly lectures is entitled “Saint Helena Dreams of the Cross: Mapping Stories, Sowing Relics”, and will be given by Honorary Fellow Professor Dame Marina Warner, award-winning writer[...] More Than the Middle Man: the Literary Agent 6:30 pm More Than the Middle Man: the Literary Agent @ Wig & Pen, Oxford Oct 28 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets In today’s publishing world, it has become the norm for publishers to only receive submissions that come via a literary agent, but what does it really take to excel in this oft’ overlooked role? What[...]	29 “Facing the unknown: the future of humanity” with Prof Nick Bostrom 5:00 pm “Facing the unknown: the future of humanity” with Prof Nick Bostrom @ Oxford Martin School Oct 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Professor Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, will explore the huge technological, scientific and environmental shifts that have led to humanity’s current state, and consider the choices that will determine our long-term[...] Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship 5:30 pm Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship @ Auditorium, Wolfson College Oct 29 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Most modern democracies punish hate speech. Less freedom for some, they claim, guarantees greater freedom for others. But that view confuses democracy with liberalism, as if the two assume identical norms in principle, or entail[...] OBU Documentary Club: The Fourth Estate 7:00 pm OBU Documentary Club: The Fourth Estate @ John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building Oct 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Tickets Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is dedicated to bringing you interesting and inspiring documentaries that give voice to a wide variety of topics. The Oxford Brookes Documentary Club is run by a volunteer committee of students,[...] On reflection, there isn’t anything there: the importance of vampires in contemporary culture 7:30 pm On reflection, there isn’t anything there: the importance of vampires in contemporary culture @ The Mitre (upstairs function room) Oct 29 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Talk, Q&As, and discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion. There’s no need to book: just come along on the day.	30 Surgical Grand Rounds – Dr Elmi Muller 8:00 am Surgical Grand Rounds – Dr Elmi Muller @ Academic Centre, Lecture Theatre 1 Oct 30 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Dr Elmi Muller will be speaking on ‘HIV positive donors for HIV positive recipients: changing transplant practices around the world’ Dr Muller is a General Surgeon who has been working in the field of Transplantation[...] Bizen Ware and Oxford Anagama with Jim Keeling 2:00 pm Bizen Ware and Oxford Anagama with Jim Keeling @ Ashmolean Museum Oct 30 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Tickets The Oxford Anagama Project is building an anagama kiln to explore japan’s oldest pottery making technique. Jim Keeling will talk about his visits to Bizen, and report on the willow kilns in Wytham Woods as[...] Dr Precious Lunga Mobile Phone Technology in Africa: The Hope for a Healthier Continent 5:00 pm Dr Precious Lunga Mobile Phone Technology in Africa: The Hope for a Healthier Continent @ Mansfield College Oct 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Mansfield Lecture Series: Convener Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. Dr Precious Lunga is a neuroscientist and epidemiologist. She is currently working in Africa using technology to improve access to health. The challenge of impartiality for the BBC during referendums – Ric Bailey 5:00 pm The challenge of impartiality for the BBC during referendums – Ric Bailey @ Butler Room - Nuffield College Oct 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College. Convenors: Neil Fowler, David Levy, James Painter Ric[...]	31 China’s Embedded Activism: Conflict, Civic action and Environment in a Semi-Authoritarian Context 12:00 pm China’s Embedded Activism: Conflict, Civic action and Environment in a Semi-Authoritarian Context @ Green Templeton College, Barclays Room Oct 31 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Tickets China’s Embedded Activism: Conflict, Civic action and Environment in a Semi-Authoritarian Context Peter Ho (Chair Professor of Chinese Economy and Development and Director of the European Research Council (ERC) Project on Land Policy and Administration[...]

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