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This discussion brings together experts who are also members of faith communities to speak from their own traditions and experience about what it means to have a “good death”. Speakers: Professor David Katz Professor of[...]
https://www.facebook.com/events/638172492880170/ Welcome to a night of unsuppressed creativity, crowdfunding and cocktails! Tickets available here: https://secure5.pm3hosting.com/pm3API/asp/PMWeb1?charityRef=1088315T&campaignRef=19 HOW DOES IT WORK? The Charities £10 entry to pledge to your charity of choice. Each charity, The Against Malaria[...]
Seeing the Human Heart A free Public Seminar Tuesday 26 November 2013, 5–7.45pm Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre Full PDF programme: http://www.ashmolean.org/assets/docs/AshmoleanUEPHeartInArtProgramme.pdf Organised by Professor Robin Choudhury and Dr Jim Harris Professor Robin Choudhury is[...]
The regulation of international migration and migrant rights are among the most contested public policy issues around the world. In 2013-14 a series of high-level policy meetings (including the High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development[...]
The Annual Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture: Baroness Lister of Burtersett, introduced by the Chancellor of the University, Lord Patten of Barnes
28TooMany is a charity working to end female genital mutilation (FGM). Their primary focus is on research and enabling local initiatives to end FGM in the 28 African countries where it is practiced. FGM, abhorrent[...]
The next few years are crucial for the global climate. There are suggestions from many quarters that previous approaches to international co-operation on climate change have been misguided and that fresh thinking is needed. At[...]
If Scotland becomes independent it will replace South Sudan as the youngest independent country in the world. Scottish self-determination is often discussed within a national context, and on occasion with reference to the European Union.[...]
Kitsugi: From Gold to New With Japanese Lacquer Craftsmen Special Study Day at the Ashmolean Museum Friday 24 January, 10.30am–4pm Kitsugi is the repair of cracked or chipped ceramics and glassware using Japanese lacquer and[...]
Why do so many charity photos look identical? What do Apple’s design principles, World War II propaganda, the infamous MySpace mirror portrait and mobile phone video scandals all have in common? At their root is[...]
Edward’s talk will highlight
many of the country’s most magnificent ancient trees and also discuss the various methods used to determine their ages, based on his work documenting, and promoting the protection of, ancient trees over[...]
Why Feminist Philosophy Matters In conversation: Pamela Sue Anderson, University of Oxford Beverley Clack, Oxford Brookes Lia Thompson, Bloomsbury Publishing Wednesday 5 February 2014 6pm-7.30pm Ashmolean Museum Education Centre Part of the ‘Why Philosophy Matters’[...]
The Oxford Climate Forum is the country’s biggest student-led conference on climate change and 2014’s is even bigger. Running from the 7th-8th of February with over 30 speakers from all around the world, the theme[...]
What is a Print? With Angelamaria Aceto, Ashmolean Print Room Supervisor Wednesday 12 February, 3.45–4.45pm Explore the ways printed images were created by looking at original copperplates and woodblocks alongside prints by various Old Masters,[...]
Talk and Q&A with John Sweeney, formerly of Newsnight and the Observer and currently working as an investigative journalist for Panorama. Having visited North Korea undercover, John Sweeney is coming to speak to Oxford Students[...]
Speaker: Tom Coward Gravetye Manor is most famous as the home of William Robinson, one of the most influential gardeners
of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Robinson was a prolific garden writer, promoting the[...]
Take a tour with artist Hannah Rickards of her new exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. Hannah will follow the tour in conversation with Canadian artist, Geoffrey Farmer.
Visions of Mughal India With Denise Derbyshire, Gallery Lecturer Thursday 20 February, 11.30am, 1.45pm & 3.15pm A small selection of paintings from the superb private collection of Howard Hodgkin (exhibited at the Ashmolean in 2012)[...]
If kindness can kill, how can we really help? AND ‘The Pavement Perspective’ DOCUMENTARY SCREENING With the 38% homeless cuts passed, homelessness in Oxford is now a bigger problem than before, whilst our awareness as to[...]
Come join us at lunch time for this interactive session, in which we will talk with Mike Belinsky, co-founder and partner of Instiglio, about social impact bonds and their impact and applications. Michael (co-founder of[...]
Best known for his novel THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, latterly staged by the National Theatre, Haddon has also written extensively for radio and television winning several Baftas and other awards.[...]
Speaker: John Massey John will talk about his garden
at Ashwood, firstly looking at architectural plants in mid-winter, and then following the natural sequence of flowering from hamamelis, hardy cyclamen, snowdrops, hellebores and hepaticas through to[...]
Interested in charitable organisations, emergency relief, medical aid, volunteering and the like? Come and listen to the head of the oldest charity in the world, HMEH Fra’ Matthew Festing, and learn how the Order of[...]
Magdalen College has over 12,000 title deeds relating to its various properties in England, which have been kept in the medieval muniment room especially built for them in the late fifteenth century. 2013 saw the[...]
Speakers: MARK AVERY, Conservation Director of the RSPB for nearly 13 years PAUL JEPSON, a critic of many conservation organisations MICHELE SANDERS from Synchronicity Earth an organisation that monitors the success of conservation organisations A[...]
Award-winning actress and playwright whose appearances on screen include SHAMELESS, SILK and SEE NO EVIL: THE MOORS MURDERS; her stage appearances include the critically acclaimed title role in MISS JULIE for Manchester Royal Exchange. Part[...]
Reflections on 25 years of Women’s Achievements and Changes for Women A panel of speakers and audience discussion to mark Changes For Women: Women Making Changes over the last 25 years. Speakers include Megan Dobney,[...]
On Saturday, March 8, International Women’s Day 2014, there will be a conference/workshop/celebration at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. This conference will run from 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm. It will include presentations by assorted[...]
Join us for the first of two lively debating events, where you’ll hear MSc in Global Health Science students and Oxford Global Health Group members weigh in on two motions relating to the ‘Priorities and[...]
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