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

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Music and Musical Instruments in the Ashmolean’s Chinese Paintings Collection 1:00 pm
Music and Musical Instruments in the Ashmolean’s Chinese Paintings Collection @ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Music has taken many forms during China’s long cultural history and many traditions have endured to this day. In this talk, Paul Bevan will look at a selection of the paintings in the Ashmolean collection[...]
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Paula Rego – An International Women’s Day talk with Alice Foster, Art Historian 2:00 pm
Paula Rego – An International Women’s Day talk with Alice Foster, Art Historian @ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 10 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Explore the work of Dame Paula Rego, who is revered for her unflinching images of women, often living under oppressive political conditions. She draws upon the real and imagined, using her own experiences and references[...]
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The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe – with Professor Barry Cunliffe 1:00 pm
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe – with Professor Barry Cunliffe @ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from burials and texts, Barry Cunliffe reconstructs the lives of the Scythians, exploring their beliefs,[...]
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The Land of the Phoenicians – with Linda Farrar, Archaeologist 2:00 pm
The Land of the Phoenicians – with Linda Farrar, Archaeologist @ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Phoenicians were famously great traders who, from their base in modern-day Lebanon, traded their wares around the Mediterranean and beyond. Learn about their culture, art, achievements, and cities at home in the Levant and[...]
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A Nation at a Crossroads: The United States in Thomas Moran’s ‘Autumn Afternoon, The Wissahickon’ 11:00 am
A Nation at a Crossroads: The United States in Thomas Moran’s ‘Autumn Afternoon, The Wissahickon’ @ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Moran’s ‘Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon’ pictures 19th-century America at its most bucolic and pastoral. It was painted, however, amidst a conflict that threatened to tear the young country apart. Examine Moran’s landscape as an allegory[...]
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Gandhara Connections International Workshop, Oxford – 26th/27th March 2020
Gandhara Connections International Workshop, Oxford – 26th/27th March 2020 @ Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Mar 26 all-day
The Rediscovery & Reception of Gandharan Art Gandhara Connections 4th International Workshop Thursday 26th and Friday 27th March 2020 Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU The workshop abstract and provisional programme are available[...]
The Phoenicians in the West – with Linda Farrar, Archaeologist 2:00 pm
The Phoenicians in the West – with Linda Farrar, Archaeologist @ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Learn about the vast trade network of the Phoenicians, the goods traded and their trading partners, who included the Greeks and Etruscans, as well as people in Sardinia and southern Spain. The Phoenicians Phoenicia Part[...]
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Evelyn de Morgan and Edward Burne-Jones: Friends or Foes? 1:00 pm
Evelyn de Morgan and Edward Burne-Jones: Friends or Foes? @ Ashmolean Museum
Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Both worked on the outskirts of Pre-Raphaelitism and aestheticism, tackling ambitious subjects of love, spirituality, and time, to create beautiful artworks. Join De Morgan Curator, Sarah Hardy, to discover the previously ignored professional and personal[...]
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