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			1 Book at Lunchtime: Why We Need the Humanities 12:30 pm Book at Lunchtime: Why We Need the Humanities @ St Luke's Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Jun 1 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets How has humanities scholarship influenced biomedical research and civil liberties and how can scholars serve the common good? Entrepreneur and scholar Donald Drakeman will discuss his new book exploring the value and impact of the[...] ‘Innovation for Development’ Research Seminar by Oxford TMCD 1:00 pm ‘Innovation for Development’ Research Seminar by Oxford TMCD @ Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House Jun 1 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Department of International Development will be hosting two research seminars in the coming weeks – The afternoons of May 19 and June 1st. We invite researchers[...] White Matter Tractography and Human Brain Connections Using GPUs (Moises Hernandez-Fernandez from the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain) 1:00 pm White Matter Tractography and Human Brain Connections Using GPUs (Moises Hernandez-Fernandez from the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain) @ Oxford e-Research Centre, Conference Room 278 Jun 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Moisés Hernández-Fernandez from the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, UK will present a seminar on the 1st of June 2016, (at 1pm) entitled “White Matter Tractography and Human Brain[...] ‘Food is the best medicine’: displacement, return and good (in)security in the Horn of Africa 5:00 pm ‘Food is the best medicine’: displacement, return and good (in)security in the Horn of Africa @ Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development Jun 1 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Speaker: Dr Laura Hammond (Reader in Development Studies, Department of Development Studies, SOAS) St Peter’s College: EU Referendum Forum 6:00 pm St Peter’s College: EU Referendum Forum @ St Peter's College Chapel Jun 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Three high-profile SPC alumni return to their college to discuss the impending EU Referendum in a forum chaired by the Master, Mark Damazer CBE. Join the Editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens (BA Modern[...]	2 David M. Berry on Digital Humanities: Ferment in the Field 1:00 pm David M. Berry on Digital Humanities: Ferment in the Field @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library Jun 2 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets As Digital Humanities continues to grow and develop as a discipline, both in terms of its interdisciplinary work and the development of research questions specific to itself, there has emerged a number of controversies about[...]	3 Surgical Grand Rounds: Pre-hospital emergency medicine 8:00 am Surgical Grand Rounds: Pre-hospital emergency medicine @ Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital Jun 3 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Lt Col Ross Moy will give a talk on ‘Pre-hospital emergency medicine – recent developments and top tips for the first on scene’ Lt Col Moy is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine in the British[...] ‘The 21st-century researcher’s library: balancing the physical and the virtual’, Alasdair Watson 5:00 pm ‘The 21st-century researcher’s library: balancing the physical and the virtual’, Alasdair Watson @ Lecture Theatre, Weston Library Jun 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Roger Hood Public Lecture: ‘Criminal Justice in the Service of Security.’ 5:00 pm Roger Hood Public Lecture: ‘Criminal Justice in the Service of Security.’ @ Lecture Theatre Jun 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets The history of criminal justice is beset by the tension between state coercion in the name of public safety and protecting the individual from unwarranted state power. This lecture by Professor Lucia Zedner, University of[...]	4 Centre for Criminology 50th Anniversary Summer Conference: Contemporary Dilemmas in Criminal Justice 9:15 am Centre for Criminology 50th Anniversary Summer Conference: Contemporary Dilemmas in Criminal Justice @ The Andrew Wiles Building, Jun 4 @ 9:15 am – 6:00 pm Tickets Our 50th Anniversary Summer Conference brings together MPs, QCs, senior Police, and many high-profile key-note figures from criminal justice non-profits to discuss ‘Contemporary Dilemmas in Criminal Justice’ in three panels chaired by distinguished panel hosts[...]
5	6 Professor Trevor Young // Your Brain Needs YOU: Why Psychiatry Is the Best Specialty for the Brightest Medical Minds 6:00 pm Professor Trevor Young // Your Brain Needs YOU: Why Psychiatry Is the Best Specialty for the Brightest Medical Minds @ Blue Boar Lecture Theatre Jun 6 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Professor Trevor Young, Dean of the University of Toronto and world expert on bipolar disorder, is coming to Oxford to give a talk on “Your Brain Needs YOU: Why Psychiatry Is the Best Specialty for[...]	7 The Supreme Court Re-Assessed: What do the next 7 years hold for the UK’s Final Court? 5:30 pm The Supreme Court Re-Assessed: What do the next 7 years hold for the UK’s Final Court? @ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium Jun 7 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets In this Max Watson Annual Lecture, Alan Paterson OBE, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Professional Legal Studies at the Strathclude University of Law, will take a detailed look at the Supreme[...] Democratic Renewal 6:00 pm Democratic Renewal @ New College Jun 7 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets The political, economic and social landscape is changing and, as in similar circumstances in the past, the Fabian Society is at the cutting edge. As Andrew Harrop, General Secretary of the Fabian Society, recently wrote[...]	8 Innovation Revolution: Exploring the Future of Publishing 7:00 pm Innovation Revolution: Exploring the Future of Publishing @ Art Cafe Jun 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In such a competitive and fast-moving industry, what measures can publishers take to remain fresh and unique? Today, innovation in publishing goes far beyond the e-book. From crowdfunding to creating book apps, to interacting directly[...]	9 Conversation with Clara Roquet 6:00 pm Conversation with Clara Roquet @ Christ Church Lecture room 1 Jun 9 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets On Thursday, 9th June, we will welcome Ms. Clara Roquet, one of Spain’s most promising film makers. We will be hosting a conversation with Ms. Roquet before screening her last short film, “El adiós” (The[...]	10 Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor George Youngson CBE 8:00 am Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor George Youngson CBE @ Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital , Lecture Theatre 1 Jun 10 @ 8:00 am – 9:30 am Tickets Professor George Youngson is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Aberdeen. He will be talking about ‘Non-technical skills for surgeons: a hard time for soft skills’. Italy and the Classics 10:00 am Italy and the Classics @ Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre Jun 10 @ 10:00 am – 8:30 pm Tickets A one-day conference, with Professor Dame Marina Warner and featuring a rehearsed reading of Roberto Cavosi’s Bellissima Maria (after Phaedra/Hipploytus). Registration is £25, or £20 for students, and includes: lunch, refreshments, a drinks reception and[...] Learning Inconsistent Systems and Language Change – R. Alex Schumacher, Northwestern University 2:00 pm Learning Inconsistent Systems and Language Change – R. Alex Schumacher, Northwestern University @ Oxford e-Research Centre, Conference Room 278 Jun 10 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Tickets Natural languages are highly structured, but they are never perfectly regular. In language contact situations, learners face the challenge of learning inconsistent input. Inconsistent input is a major factor in language change, like in the[...]	11
12	13 Creating a Collaborative Reconstruction of John Sadler’s Elizabethan Music Partbooks 2:30 pm Creating a Collaborative Reconstruction of John Sadler’s Elizabethan Music Partbooks @ Upper Library, Christ Church, Oxford Jun 13 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Tickets When the Elizabethan gentleman John Sadler sat down to copy his music partbooks little did he know that he had chosen an overly acidic ink. He filled his manuscripts with Latin sacred music from throughout[...]	14 Yin Yin Lu: #Brexit or #StrongerIn? The Rhetoric of EU Referendum Hashtags 1:00 pm Yin Yin Lu: #Brexit or #StrongerIn? The Rhetoric of EU Referendum Hashtags @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library Jun 14 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Drawing upon sociology of culture and digital rhetoric literature, this talk will illuminate the persuasive function of hashtags in the context of the UK EU membership referendum. What makes a hashtag more influential, or more[...] How a Minimum Carbon Price Commitment Might Help Internalize the Global Warming Externality 3:00 pm How a Minimum Carbon Price Commitment Might Help Internalize the Global Warming Externality @ Department of Economics, Manor Road Building, Seminar Room C Jun 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating many different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are domestically retained) counters pure[...]	15 Complex System Simulations on GPUs: Accelerating network flow simulations of transport systems. Dr Paul Richmond, University of Sheffield 1:00 pm Complex System Simulations on GPUs: Accelerating network flow simulations of transport systems. Dr Paul Richmond, University of Sheffield @ Oxford e-Research Centre, Conference Room 278 Jun 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Dr Paul Richmond University of Sheffield June 15, 2016 – 13:00 to 14:00 Conference Room Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG 7 Keble Road Oxford OX1 3QG No booking required Open to[...] How does conservation impact local people’s wellbeing (and how can we know?) 4:00 pm How does conservation impact local people’s wellbeing (and how can we know?) @ Herbertson Room, School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road Jun 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets There is increasing recognition over the last decade that conservation, while conserving biodiversity of global value, can have local costs. Understanding these costs is essential as a first step to delivering conservation projects that do[...] Sharing your genetic blueprint – who should have access? 6:30 pm Sharing your genetic blueprint – who should have access? @ Said Business School Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tickets Welcome to Future Debates, a series of public events supported by the British Science Association. A genome is an entire set of DNA; all the instructions for making every part of a living thing. Research[...]	16 Oxford SciBar: Where have all the bumblebees gone? 7:00 pm Oxford SciBar: Where have all the bumblebees gone? @ St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room) Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets “Where have all the bumblebees gone?” Since the mid-nineteenth century, three species of bumblebee in the British Isles have gone extinct, and several other species have become so rare that they are at risk of[...]	17 Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Gerhard Schroth 8:00 am Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Gerhard Schroth @ John Radcliffe Hospital , Lecture Theatre 1 Jun 17 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Professor Gerhard Schroth is Emeritus Professor of Radiology/Neuroradiology at the University of Berne in Switzerland. The title of his talk is: ‘The development and effects of thrombectomy in the treatment of actute stroke.’	18 Helen Yemm: Thorny Problems Live 6:00 pm Helen Yemm: Thorny Problems Live @ University of Oxford Botanic Garden Jun 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Telegraph writer Helen Yemm brings her column Thorny Problems to life by answering your gardening conundrums and dispensing invaluable advice in the picturesque setting of the Botanic Garden.
19	20	21	22	23 Combined Medical-Surgical Grand Rounds: Professors Bill Fulford and Ashok Handa 1:00 pm Combined Medical-Surgical Grand Rounds: Professors Bill Fulford and Ashok Handa @ Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Lecture Theatre 1 Jun 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets Professor Bill Fulford is a Fellow of St Catherine’s College and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health, University of Warwick Medical School; and Director of the[...] Is there a Humanities in India? 5:15 pm Is there a Humanities in India? @ Colin Matthew Room Jun 23 @ 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Tickets A special postcolonial seminar with Professor Brinda Bose and Professor Prasanta Chakravarty (University of Delhi). This event is CHCI funded and supported by TORCH, the English Faculty Postcolonial Seminar, and Rhodes House. IN CONVERSATION WITH LEOPOLD EYHARTS, ESA ASTRONAUT 7:30 pm IN CONVERSATION WITH LEOPOLD EYHARTS, ESA ASTRONAUT @ Museum of Natural History, Oxford Jun 23 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Leopold Eyharts flew on the Atlantis Shuttle to the International Space Station in 2008. Part of his mission included the installation of the Colombus Space Laboratory, the main contribution of Europe to the International Space[...]	24	25 WHITESPACE: AN EXPLORATION OF SPACE SCIENCES IN ANTARCTICA WHITESPACE: AN EXPLORATION OF SPACE SCIENCES IN ANTARCTICA @ Oxford Town Hall Jun 25 all-day Tickets Date/Time: Saturday 25 June, 13:30 Venue: Oxford Town Hall, Assembly Room Admissions: £5/£4(conc.)/£16(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sat-opening-weekend.html What’s the closest environment to space on our planet? Antarctica ranks high on the list. Scientists and[...] CAN FIVE-A-DAY KEEP DEMENTIA AWAY? 3:00 pm CAN FIVE-A-DAY KEEP DEMENTIA AWAY? @ Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford Jun 25 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Date/Time: Saturday 25 June, 15:00 Venue: Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford Admissions: £5/£4(conc.)/£16(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sat-opening-weekend.html How does our lifestyle affect the likelihood of developing dementia? What choices can you make to reduce[...] HUMANS 2.0 – HOW TO REGULATE HUMAN ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES? 3:00 pm HUMANS 2.0 – HOW TO REGULATE HUMAN ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGIES? @ Oxford Town Hall, Long Room Jun 25 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Tickets Date/Time: Saturday 25 June, 15:00 Venue: Oxford Town Hall, Long Room Admissions: £5/£4(conc.)/£16(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sat-opening-weekend.html Neural implants, nanomedicine, brain enhancing drugs, genetic engineering… Many human enhancement technologies are emerging and raise ethical[...] WHY DO PEOPLE MIGRATE? 5:00 pm WHY DO PEOPLE MIGRATE? @ Oxford Town Hall, Long Room Jun 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets Date/Time: Saturday 25 June, 17:00 Venue: Oxford Town Hall, Long Room Admissions: £5/£4(conc.)/£16(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sat-opening-weekend.html Why do people move? How do you decide between the risk it takes to make the journey,[...]
26 SEVEN NEW MAPS OF THE WORLD 1:00 pm SEVEN NEW MAPS OF THE WORLD @ Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford Jun 26 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tickets Visualise the world in the 21st century in seven new maps! Geographers Ben Hennig and Danny Dorling present some of the key challenges and questions relating to the future of people across the world, using[...] ACHIEVING NUCLEAR FUSION 4:00 pm ACHIEVING NUCLEAR FUSION @ Story Museum Jun 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Tickets How to create in the lab the process taking place at the heart of the stars? How to harvest this energy to power the world? Nuclear fusion is arguably the hardest technical challenge humanity works[...]	27 Unlocking Archives: ‘Spelt from Hopkins’ Leaves: Considering Archival “Remains” 1:00 pm Unlocking Archives: ‘Spelt from Hopkins’ Leaves: Considering Archival “Remains” @ Balliol College Historic Collections Centre at St Cross Church, Manor Road Jun 27 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Tickets What can be learned from three sketchbooks, a family commonplace book, a handful of letters, an essay notebook, and a few other “scraps, orts and fragments”? The Hopkins “remains” at Balliol, although comparatively few, have[...] THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSIONS, BY DANIEL SUSSKIND 7:00 pm THE FUTURE OF THE PROFESSIONS, BY DANIEL SUSSKIND @ Blackwell's Bookshop Jun 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In the era of the development of technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence, machines are more and more capable of outperforming human beings at work tasks. What will be the decline of today’s professions? What[...]	28 ‘WHAT WE CANNOT KNOW’, BY MARCUS DU SAUTOY 6:00 pm ‘WHAT WE CANNOT KNOW’, BY MARCUS DU SAUTOY @ Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building Jun 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tickets Britain’s most famous mathematician explores the limits of human knowledge, to probe whether there is anything we truly cannot know. Are there limits to what we can discover about our physical Universe? Is time before[...] BOARD GAMES: MOVERS AND SHAKERS 7:30 pm BOARD GAMES: MOVERS AND SHAKERS @ Old Fire Station, Oxford Jun 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Ludo, snakes & ladders and draughts are all popular pastimes, but in the past couple of decades a new generation of board games from designers with backgrounds in maths and science has begun to break[...]	29 PUBLIC DEBATE – IS GENETIC ENGINEERING OF HUMANS ETHICALLY JUSTIFIED? 5:00 pm PUBLIC DEBATE – IS GENETIC ENGINEERING OF HUMANS ETHICALLY JUSTIFIED? @ Oxford Town Hall, Assembly Room Jun 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tickets ‘Gene-editing’ sounds like science fiction, but today it is an emerging reality. This raises hope for treating medical problems, but also opens ethical quandaries about equality, privacy, and personal freedom. Discuss these questions with a[...] DISPERSING MISTS IN THE PHANTOM MUSEUM 7:00 pm DISPERSING MISTS IN THE PHANTOM MUSEUM @ Oxford Town Hall, Assembly Room Jun 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Barry Murnane reveals the latest discoveries from his TORCH partnership with the Science Museum London, using unusual objects from its collections to tell the history of lung disease in the 19th century.	30 ORIGINS: THE SCIENTIFIC STORY OF CREATION 7:00 pm ORIGINS: THE SCIENTIFIC STORY OF CREATION @ Blackwell's Bookshop Jun 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets In one hour flat, Jim Baggott tells the story of our universe, from the Big Bang to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later. Physics, cosmology and biology all combine[...] TAPPING THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: STEM CELLS & THE PROMISE OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE (ATOM) 7:00 pm TAPPING THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: STEM CELLS & THE PROMISE OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE (ATOM) @ Larkmead School Jun 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Tickets Date/Time: Thursday 30 June, 19:00 Venue: Larkmead School, Abingdon Admissions: £6/£4(conc.)/£19(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/abingdon-events.html Although the dramatic increase in life expectancy we have witnessed over the past century is arguably one of medicine’s[...] SHAKESPEARE’S TONIC 7:30 pm SHAKESPEARE’S TONIC @ Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens Jun 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Shakespeare lived in one of the most unhealthy times and places in history. Disease was rife and hygiene poor, physicians could only be trained abroad, and there was no such thing as a public medical[...]

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