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“The Unexpected Maths of Juggling” – OU Scientific Society 8:15 pm
“The Unexpected Maths of Juggling” – OU Scientific Society @ Saskatchewan room, Exeter College
Nov 1 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm
"The Unexpected Maths of Juggling" - OU Scientific Society @ Saskatchewan room, Exeter College | England | United Kingdom
A juggling demonstration with hilarious explanations of the mathematical details of the practice. Juggling has fascinated people for centuries. Seemingly oblivious to gravity, the skilled practitioner will keep several objects in the air at one[...]
Dr Colin Wright – Juggling: Theory and Practice 8:15 pm
Dr Colin Wright – Juggling: Theory and Practice @ Saskatchewan room
Nov 1 @ 8:15 pm – 9:15 pm
Dr Colin Wright - Juggling: Theory and Practice @ Saskatchewan room | England | United Kingdom
Juggling has fascinated people for centuries. Seemingly oblivious to gravity, the skilled practitioner will keep several objects in the air at one time, and weave complex patterns that seem to defy analysis. In this talk[...]
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Gary Lineker In Conversation with Alan Rusbridger 5:45 pm
Gary Lineker In Conversation with Alan Rusbridger @ Simpkins Lee Theater, LMH
Nov 2 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm
Gary Lineker In Conversation with Alan Rusbridger @ Simpkins Lee Theater, LMH | England | United Kingdom
Join us at LMH for an In Conversation with Gary Lineker and Alan Rusbridger Gary Lineker OBE was one of England’s top football strikers in the 1980s and early 1990s, and holds England’s record for[...]
Anna Dumitriu: Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm
Anna Dumitriu: Artist’s Talk @ Museum of the History of Science
Nov 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Anna Dumitriu: Artist's Talk @ Museum of the History of Science | England | United Kingdom
Anna Dumitriu joins us to talk about the current special exhibition and her work exploring infectious diseases and emerging technologies through art. Part of the special exhibition Anna Dumitriu: BioArt and Bacteria
That night in which all horses are white: ancient Chinese philosophy 7:30 pm
That night in which all horses are white: ancient Chinese philosophy @ The Mitre
Nov 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
That night in which all horses are white: ancient Chinese philosophy @ The Mitre | England | United Kingdom
Talk followed by questions and discussion All welcome Oxford Communist Corresponding Society
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STEM Entrepreneurship Workshop and Project Hackathon
STEM Entrepreneurship Workshop and Project Hackathon @ Spyre Labs Ltd
Nov 4 – Nov 5 all-day
STEM Entrepreneurship Workshop and Project Hackathon @ Spyre Labs Ltd | Oxford | England | United Kingdom
For STEM Postgrads and Postdocs: Do you want to work with Science, Tech & Sustainable development companies, or start your own? Apply for Spyre’s LEEP into Business workshop: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise & Project Management. Delivered[...]
The very essence of what we are – Neuroscience Symposium 10:30 am
The very essence of what we are – Neuroscience Symposium @ Martin Wood Lecture Theatre Clarendon Laboratory Department of Physics
Nov 4 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm
The very essence of what we are - Neuroscience Symposium @ Martin Wood Lecture Theatre Clarendon Laboratory  Department of Physics  | England | United Kingdom
This one-day symposium open to the public aims to commemorate Ramon y Cajal discoveries in the 111th aniversary of his Nobel prize, and to bring neuroscience research closer to a general audience. We will go[...]
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Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño 5:30 pm
Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño @ Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College
Nov 6 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño @ Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College | England | United Kingdom
How a Bolivian became a Feminist: A Personal History Sonia Montaño is a Bolivian sociologist. She is currently active in Bolivia as a feminist researcher and activist and member of PIEB (Programa de Investigation Estrategica[...]
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My Body My Life
My Body My Life @ Old Fire Station
Nov 7 – Nov 11 all-day
My Body My Life @ Old Fire Station | England | United Kingdom
he travelling exhibition first launched at the Edinburgh Festival, and its next stop in Oxford has been designed to mark the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Act, which introduced a set of legal grounds for[...]
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Culture’s role in hazard and climate change risk: worldviews, belief systems and ‘alternative facts’ 4:15 pm
Culture’s role in hazard and climate change risk: worldviews, belief systems and ‘alternative facts’ @ Environmental Change Institute
Nov 8 @ 4:15 pm – 6:30 pm
Evidence from around the world indicates that culture can influence people’s vulnerability to climate variability and natural hazards, because expressions of culture include behaviour that results in exposure and sensitivity to hazards. Most studies have[...]
Dark Day – Fundraiser for Homeless Oxfordshire 6:30 pm
Dark Day – Fundraiser for Homeless Oxfordshire @ The Ultimate Picture Palace
Nov 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Dark Day - Fundraiser for Homeless Oxfordshire @ The Ultimate Picture Palace | United Kingdom
A talk by local charity Homeless Oxfordshire about Oxford’s ongoing issues around homelessness. The talk follows a screening of a documentary about a group of homeless New Yorkers living in an abandoned section of the[...]
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‘The ethics of Brexit’, by Prof Mervyn Frost (King’s College London) 4:15 pm
‘The ethics of Brexit’, by Prof Mervyn Frost (King’s College London) @ Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus, Gibbs Building, Room G217
Nov 13 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Abstract: This presentation will consider the ethical dimensions of Brexit. Specifically the case will be made that there are profound ethical questions posed by Brexit that have not properly been considered. The focus of the[...]
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‘The Desk-Bound Naturalist: An Unlikely Career as a Game Theorist’ 5:30 pm
‘The Desk-Bound Naturalist: An Unlikely Career as a Game Theorist’ @ The West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College
Nov 14 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
'The Desk-Bound Naturalist: An Unlikely Career as a Game Theorist' @ The West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College  | England | United Kingdom
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons grew up in Coventry and graduated in 1974 with a BA in Mathematics from the University of York and in 1977 with a DPhil in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He[...]
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Talking climate in Texas – Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and Christian 7:00 pm
Talking climate in Texas – Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and Christian @ The University Church of St Mary
Nov 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Talking climate in Texas - Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and Christian @ The University Church of St Mary | England | United Kingdom
Katharine Hayhoe has been named one of FORTUNE’s ‘World’s Greatest Leaders’, TIME’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ and Huffington Post’s ‘20 Climate Champions’, and has shared the stage with Barack Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio to talk[...]
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Energy transition – when? – Prof. Steve Cowley 5:00 pm
Energy transition – when? – Prof. Steve Cowley @ Oxford Martin School
Nov 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
By the end of the century our energy system will have to be transformed. However it is not clear when and how. Professor Steve Cowley, Acting Director of the Oxford Martin School and President of[...]
Swearing is Good for you 7:00 pm
Swearing is Good for you @ The Story Museum
Nov 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Swearing is Good for you @ The Story Museum  | England | United Kingdom
What is the naughtiest word you can think of? The baddest of bad language, the monarch of F-bombs? The word you swore you’d NEVER say, but sometimes makes a sneaky reappearance after a stubbed toe[...]
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Stress, Strain, and Overwork in Historical Perspectives 12:30 pm
Stress, Strain, and Overwork in Historical Perspectives @ Radcliffe Humanities
Nov 23 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
In this talk on Stress, Strain, and Overwork in Historical Perspective Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Faculty of English Language and Literature) will look at discussions of stress and overwork in both education and professional life in[...]
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What is Feminist Poetry? 7:30 pm
What is Feminist Poetry? @ East Oxford Community Centre
Nov 24 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
What is Feminist Poetry? @ East Oxford Community Centre | England | United Kingdom
Ever felt like there was something you really wanted to say but you just weren’t sure how? We’re exploring the why and how of women’s speech and writing with the help of some amazing women[...]
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Fabian Society regional conference, Oxford 9:00 am
Fabian Society regional conference, Oxford @ Quaker Meeting House
Nov 25 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Fabian Society regional conference, Oxford @ Quaker Meeting House | England | United Kingdom
The Oxford Fabian Society host the Fabian Society regional conference. Embracing Change: Socialism for a Brave New World Outline programme 9:00-9:30: registration 9:30: Welcome: Oxford and the Fabian Society. Michael Weatherburn (Secretary, Oxford Fabians) 9:45-10:15:[...]
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING 10:30 am
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING @ The Jam Factory
Nov 25 @ 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING @ The Jam Factory | England | United Kingdom
The Oxford constituency of the Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK) is holding a discussion panel entitled “Women in science and the glass ceiling” where three invited speakers will give a short talk about[...]
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“Vulnerability as a methodological and epistemological intervention: What might it mean to write vulnerably?” by Dr Tiffany Page (University of Cambridge) 12:00 am
“Vulnerability as a methodological and epistemological intervention: What might it mean to write vulnerably?” by Dr Tiffany Page (University of Cambridge) @ Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs Building, Room G217
Nov 27 @ 12:00 am – 12:00 am
Abstract: In this talk Tiffany Page will consider what vulnerability is and what it does, and its role within the research process. As part of this she will raise the idea of ‘vulnerable writing’, and[...]
‘Vulnerability as a methodological and epistemological intervention: What might it mean to write vulnerably?’ by Dr Tiffany Page (University of Cambridge) 4:15 pm
‘Vulnerability as a methodological and epistemological intervention: What might it mean to write vulnerably?’ by Dr Tiffany Page (University of Cambridge) @ Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs Building, room 217
Nov 27 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Abstract: In this talk Tiffany Page will consider what vulnerability is and what it does, and its role within the research process. As part of this she will raise the idea of ‘vulnerable writing’, and[...]
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THE INTRIGUING WORLD OF BUTTERFLY BIOLOGY: novel approaches and many surprises 6:00 pm
THE INTRIGUING WORLD OF BUTTERFLY BIOLOGY: novel approaches and many surprises @ Oxford Brookes University (John Henry Brookes Lecture Theater)
Nov 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Professor Tim Shreeve will explore why different species of butterflies have alternative responses to environmental change. Butterflies are important indicators of environmental change and their status in the UK and Europe is changing rapidly. Tim’s[...]
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Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa 5:00 pm
Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa @ Oxford Martin School
Nov 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Women in Africa are congregated in poorly paid and precarious work (ILO, 2016) and have very high rates of school dropout, mortality and childhood morbidity. This is crucially linked to their role in childbirth and[...]