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Power Games: Ritual and Rivalry at the Greek Olympics 11:00 am
Power Games: Ritual and Rivalry at the Greek Olympics @ Ashmolean Museum
Apr 2 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Power Games: Ritual and Rivalry at the Greek Olympics @ Ashmolean Museum | United Kingdom
For over a millennium, Greeks flocked to the Olympic Games to celebrate the power of the gods and the human body. Focusing on the Olympics of 416 BC, David Studdard throws light on the religion[...]
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Richard Owen: Sea Serpent Killer 7:00 pm
Richard Owen: Sea Serpent Killer @ Museum of the History of Science
Apr 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Richard Owen: Sea Serpent Killer @ Museum of the History of Science | Oxford | United Kingdom
Join Professor Brian Regal (Kean University, United States) at the Museum as he illuminates the Victorian fascination with the monstrous through the career of the major naturalist Richard Owen. The well-known naturalist, Richard Owen (1804[...]
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Daisy Christodoulou & Teaching pupils to be sceptical @ Oxford Skeptics in the Pub 7:30 pm
Daisy Christodoulou & Teaching pupils to be sceptical @ Oxford Skeptics in the Pub @ St Aldates Tavern
Apr 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Daisy Christodoulou & Teaching pupils to be sceptical @ Oxford Skeptics in the Pub @ St Aldates Tavern | Oxford | United Kingdom
How do we best teach children to have a sceptical and questioning attitude? Can pupils learn everything they need to know from first principles? Are there some things they just need to take on trust?[...]
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‘Bound Foot Blues’ by Yang-May Ooi 12:00 pm
‘Bound Foot Blues’ by Yang-May Ooi @ Jesus College Lecture Theatre
Apr 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
'Bound Foot Blues' by Yang-May Ooi @ Jesus College Lecture Theatre | Oxford | United Kingdom
For the seventh year in a row, St Hilda’s College Media Network presents its own dedicated day at the Oxford Literary Festival. Yang-May Ooi talks about her book ‘Bound Foot Blues, and one-woman West End[...]
The Improbability of Love (part of St Hilda’s Writers’ Day) 4:00 pm
The Improbability of Love (part of St Hilda’s Writers’ Day) @ Jesus Lecture Theatre (The Ship Street Centre)
Apr 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
The Improbability of Love (part of St Hilda's Writers' Day) @ Jesus Lecture Theatre (The Ship Street Centre) | Oxford | United Kingdom
For the seventh year in a row, St Hilda’s College Media Network presents its own dedicated day at the Oxford Literary Festival. 4pm: THE IMPROBABILITY OF LOVE Hannah Rothschild, Chair of the Board of the[...]
Catallus’s Bedspread (part of St Hilda’s Writers’ Day) 6:00 pm
Catallus’s Bedspread (part of St Hilda’s Writers’ Day) @ Jesus Lecture Theatre (The Ship Street Centre)
Apr 9 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Catallus's Bedspread (part of St Hilda's Writers' Day) @ Jesus Lecture Theatre (The Ship Street Centre) | Oxford | United Kingdom
6pm: CATALLUS’S BEDSPREAD Daisy Dunn on her biography: Catallus’s Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet and her new translations of his poems
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Prof Richard Fortey – Bringing trilobites back to life 7:45 pm
Prof Richard Fortey – Bringing trilobites back to life @ Nissan Institute, St Antony's College,
Apr 12 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm
Prof Richard Fortey - Bringing trilobites back to life @ Nissan Institute, St Antony's College,  | Oxford | United Kingdom
Trilobites were common and varied during a history stretching over hundreds of millions of years. But how can we infer the ecology of entirely extinct arthropods with no close living relatives? Prof. Fortey will show[...]
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The Accession of Henry III 2:00 pm
The Accession of Henry III @ Ashmolean Museum
Apr 13 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
800 years ago saw the hasty crowning of a nine-year-old monarch. War was raging and his kingship hung by a thread, yet fifty-six years later Henry III had reigned longer and left England more peaceful[...]
Planning in Scotland 6:00 pm
Planning in Scotland @ John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre
Apr 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Planning in Scotland @ John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre | Oxford | United Kingdom
Planning has been wholly devolved to the Scottish Government since devolution in 1999. Since then, the Scottish planning system has seen significant change, improvement and review. In this lecture, John will describe the evolution of[...]
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Transforming Innovations into Social Enterprises in the Developing World: Global Shapers Lecture with Saif Kamal 12:30 pm
Transforming Innovations into Social Enterprises in the Developing World: Global Shapers Lecture with Saif Kamal @ Oxford Internet Institute
Apr 14 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Transforming Innovations into Social Enterprises in the Developing World: Global Shapers Lecture with Saif Kamal @ Oxford Internet Institute | Oxford | United Kingdom
The Oxford Hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers invites you to a new lecture with Saif Kamal (Founder of Toru & Curator of the Dhaka Hub of the Global Shapers). Saif is visiting[...]
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IN[SCI]TE Undergraduate Conference 9:00 am
IN[SCI]TE Undergraduate Conference @ Merton College, Oxford
Apr 18 @ 9:00 am – Apr 19 @ 5:00 pm
IN[SCI]TE Undergraduate Conference @ Merton College, Oxford | Oxford | United Kingdom
IN[SCI]TE is a new interdisciplinary science, technology, and engineering conference, which will take place on Monday and Tuesday of 0th Week Trinity Term 2016. IN[SCI]TE is run by undergrads, and the talks will be both[...]
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Van Gogh: Captivated by the South 1:00 pm
Van Gogh: Captivated by the South @ Ashmolean Museum
Apr 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Painted in the strong sunlight of Provence, Van Gogh’s later works are probably his best known. Juliet Heslewood charts his discovery of Impressionism in Paris, an experience that lightened his dark, northern views forever.
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Neurodisabilities in LMICs – Seminar by Prof. Charles Newton & Dr. Melissa Gladstone 5:00 pm
Neurodisabilities in LMICs – Seminar by Prof. Charles Newton & Dr. Melissa Gladstone @ Kellogg College
Apr 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
The second session in on-going seminar series on Building capacity on disability in low- and middle-income countries will be given my Prof. Charles Newton and Dr. Melissa Gladstone. The theme of this session is the[...]
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Colonial India and the Hajj, 1865-1950 2:00 pm
Colonial India and the Hajj, 1865-1950 @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
Apr 26 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
 
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Marina Warner on The Sanctuary of Stories: Worlds of Words 5:30 pm
Marina Warner on The Sanctuary of Stories: Worlds of Words @ Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Apr 27 @ 5:30 pm
Marina Warner on The Sanctuary of Stories: Worlds of Words @ Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre | Oxford | United Kingdom
Humanitas Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature Lecture Marina Warner is an award winning novelist, short story writer, historian and mythographer, who works across genres and cultures exploring myths and stories. Recent work has[...]
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‘Save the planet: invest in fossil fuels?’ with Prof Myles Allen 5:00 pm
‘Save the planet: invest in fossil fuels?’ with Prof Myles Allen @ Oxford Martin School
Apr 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
To stabilise the climate, net global carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero. Yet fossil carbon has never been cheaper: the market capitalisation of Peabody Energy values its coal reserves (30 years’ production at[...]
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