Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
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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
![]() 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
![]() 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
![]() 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
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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
![]() 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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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
![]() 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
![]() 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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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
![]() 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
![]() 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
![]() 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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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
![]() 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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