Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.

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The Will of the People? The History of Petitioning in Britain and Its Implications for Today 5:30 pm
The Will of the People? The History of Petitioning in Britain and Its Implications for Today @ Wolfson College
May 2 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
The Will of the People? The History of Petitioning in Britain and Its Implications for Today @ Wolfson College | England | United Kingdom
Is there, as Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Liz Truss has suggested, a ‘settled will of the people’? If so, how is this best expressed: through a referendum, through Parliament, or through[...]
“Lewis, Happiness, and Rome” Speaker: Dr. Stewart Goetz 8:15 pm
“Lewis, Happiness, and Rome” Speaker: Dr. Stewart Goetz @ Ursell Room, Pusey House
May 2 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Although it has been almost seventy years since Time declared C.S. Lewis one of the world’s most influential spokespersons for Christianity and fifty years since Lewis’s death, his influence remains just as great if not[...]
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Nihilism in the 21st Century:A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra, Shruti Kapila and David Priestland 5:00 pm
Nihilism in the 21st Century:A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra, Shruti Kapila and David Priestland @ Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
May 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Nihilism in the 21st Century:A Conversation with Pankaj Mishra, Shruti Kapila and David Priestland @ Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College | England | United Kingdom
Shruti Kapila lectures at the Faculty of History and is a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. Her publications include a co-edited special issue ‘Bhagavad Gita and[...]
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Progressive trends in Upper Palaeolithic cave art 7:30 pm
Progressive trends in Upper Palaeolithic cave art @ The Mitre
May 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Progressive trends in Upper Palaeolithic cave art @ The Mitre | England | United Kingdom
Talk followed by questions and discussion
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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 2:00 pm
The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
May 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971 @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College | England | United Kingdom
Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the then West Pakistani (later Pakistani) military and their local East Pakistani (later Bangladeshi) collaborators as birangonas, (“brave women”).[...]
The Magic of Crystallography: From Penicillin and Chocolate to Drug Discovery 6:00 pm
The Magic of Crystallography: From Penicillin and Chocolate to Drug Discovery @ Museum of the History of Science
May 9 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Professor Elspeth Garman (Biochemistry, University of Oxford) discusses how Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin unravelled the 3-D shape of penicillin using crystallography, and highlights what else this field has taught us since Hodgkin’s pioneering work in the[...]
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Ada Lovelace in her Mathematical Context 5:30 pm
Ada Lovelace in her Mathematical Context @ Seminar Room 3, St Anne's College
May 10 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Ada Lovelace in her Mathematical Context @ Seminar Room 3, St Anne's College | England | United Kingdom
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar Series. All welcome, no booking required. Ursula Martin, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, will be speaking on Ada Lovelace in Her Mathematical[...]
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Storming Utopia 12:30 pm
Storming Utopia @ St Luke's Chapel
May 11 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Storming Utopia @ St Luke's Chapel | England | United Kingdom
Professor Wes Williams (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) and Richard Scholar (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) are hosting an event for their Storming Utopia Knowledge Exchange project. Thomas More’s ground-breaking island fantasy, first[...]
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India Conquered and Unconquered: The Chaos of Empire and the End of British power in India 2:00 pm
India Conquered and Unconquered: The Chaos of Empire and the End of British power in India @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
May 16 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
India Conquered and Unconquered: The Chaos of Empire and the End of British power in India @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College | England | United Kingdom
Histories of the British empire in India often present it as a stable and effective form of state power and a coherent ideology. Drawing on the argument of his recent book, India Conquered. Britain’s Raj[...]
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World 5:00 pm
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World @ Wolfson College
May 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World @ Wolfson College | England | United Kingdom
In this keynote lecture, leading political writer Timothy Garton Ash will present his ten guiding principles for a connected world, and offer a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age. Drawing on a[...]
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Public Sex: Josephine Butler and Human Trafficking in Victorian Britain – Prof Sarah Williams 5:00 pm
Public Sex: Josephine Butler and Human Trafficking in Victorian Britain – Prof Sarah Williams @ Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
May 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Public Sex: Josephine Butler and Human Trafficking in Victorian Britain - Prof Sarah Williams @ Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter | England | United Kingdom
The second lecture in our ‘Arts of Leading’ series is given by Professor Sarah Williams, Professor in the History of Christianity at Regent College, Vancouver, who will speak on the life and leadership of feminist[...]
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Leadership on the edge: Saving our wilderness 6:30 pm
Leadership on the edge: Saving our wilderness @ Oxford University Museum of Natural History
May 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Earth Trust invites you to a lecture by Robert Swan, OBE. Robert Swan is the first man to have walked unsupported to both poles and is currently attempting to walk with his son to the[...]
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Scribes, Paper and the Formation of the Colonial State in North India, 1780-1840 2:00 pm
Scribes, Paper and the Formation of the Colonial State in North India, 1780-1840 @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
May 23 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Scribes, Paper and the Formation of the Colonial State in North India, 1780-1840 @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College | England | United Kingdom
The transition to colonialism in South Asian history has been a vibrant and hotly contested part of India’s history. The role of scribes as historical actors of change in India’s history has only recently been[...]
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On the Stratification of Language 5:30 pm
On the Stratification of Language @ Seminar Room 3, St Anne's College
May 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
On the Stratification of Language @ Seminar Room 3, St Anne's College | England | United Kingdom
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar series. All welcome, no booking required. Dr James Emmott, Oxford Brookes University, will be speaking on On The Stratification of Language. ‘There are few sensations more[...]
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The Old Silk Road: Retracing Steps toward One Belt One Road
The Old Silk Road: Retracing Steps toward One Belt One Road @ Wolfson College
May 26 all-day
The Old Silk Road: Retracing Steps toward One Belt One Road @ Wolfson College | England | United Kingdom
In this opening workshop in the One Belt One Road programme, a multidisplinary group of scholars will reassess the Old Silk Road, the centuries-old, pan-continental trading route that helped to establish China as a world[...]
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Lives of Houses
Lives of Houses @ Wolfson College
May 27 all-day
Lives of Houses @ Wolfson College | England | United Kingdom
A one-day colloquium convened by Oliver Cox & Sandra Mayer, and hosted by OCLW in collaboration with TORCH will bring together academics, biographers and curators to explore the ways in which the life stories of[...]
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Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th century India 2:00 pm
Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th century India @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
May 30 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th century India @ Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College | England | United Kingdom
This talk examines the writings of Jamal al-din al-Afghani (1838-1897) with particular attention to his polemical piece against Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), entitled “The Refutation of the Materialists” (1881). Scholars have assumed that al-Afghani was[...]
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