Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
OutBurst is the Oxford Brookes University festival at the Pegasus Theatre on Magdalen Road. Brookes will be bursting out of the university campus into the community, bringing great ideas, activities, and entertainment right to the[...]
https://www.facebook.com/events/495653777253176/ The Oxford Guild is very excited to welcome Larry Hirst CBE, former Chairman of IBM EMEA, to speak on Thursday 7th May. This will be an incredibly insightful talk and is not one to[...]
St Catherine’s College student Daniel Shao (2013, Music) has organised a music concert in aid of the Oxford branch of Crisis (the national charity for single homeless people). The concert will showcase a wealth of[...]
New College Chapel presents Paradise Lost: a staged reading of Milton’s epic poem in 3 parts, directed by Professor Elisabeth Dutton (Fribourg), featuring new settings of Milton’s hymns by the Organist, Robert Quinney, and anthems[...]
Enter a lost world of music and poetry as more than 300 years of Mughal rule approached its end at the hands of the British in 1857. William Dalrymple, award-winning historian, in performance with the[...]
Twenty minute talk, Q&As, and an hour of discussion. Free entry, no need to book. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion.
#### This event is fully booked. #### The second of the College’s 50th Anniversary termly lectures will be given by Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the 2012 Olympic Cauldron and one of Britain’s foremost design[...]
A talk in association with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
A talk by Roger Hunt, the award winning writer specialising in sustainability, old houses, housebuilding and traditional and modern building materials.
Part 2 of a three-part mini-series on notation: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Part 1 (July 16th) was Reading Slough and London Paddington: the persistent lure of spelling reform. Also coming up… Arithmetic: a study in[...]
The Oxford Architecture Society lecture series Lisa Finlay is coming to speak to us from Heatherwick Studio. Established by Thomas Heatherwick in 1994, Heatherwick Studio is recognised for its work in architecture, urban infrastructure, sculpture,[...]
The first OxArch workshop of the series ‘Behind Architecture: The Essentials’ is set to bring us back to the analogue process of representation. ‘Architecture in Watercolours’ presents an opportunity to begin the year with a[...]
Part 3 of a three-part mini-series on notation: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Part 1 was Reading Slough and London Paddington: the persistent lure of spelling reform (July 16th). Part 2 was Writing little messages in[...]
Conceptions of Enlightenment is a one-day conference concluding in a public lecture at 5pm. The lecture will be delivered by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston), author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment (CUP, 2014). Over the last[...]
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Nicoletta Demetriou will discuss her attempt to record the stories of Cyprus’s last surviving traditional fiddlers. She will talk about what musicians’ life stories can tell us about the music and[...]
This interdisciplinary workshop examines the impact of music on the brain from the point of view of different disciplines (medicine/physiology, psychology, philosophy). Following a series of short talks by St Hilda’s Fellows and expert guest[...]
Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event! Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology ******************** How do individuals and groups react to different environmental[...]
Philip Ross Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. He is the author of a number of books and articles on various aspects[...]
Exhibition opens at 3pm – Talks 5pm – Drinks 6.45pm The first English full-stage, masked production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex caused a sensation when it opened at Sadler’s Wells in January 1960. Directed by Michel[...]
Society for Dance Research/DANSOX presents a one-day conference on ‘The Role of the Choreographer in the Stage and Screen Musical’. With distinguished keynote speeches from Dame Gillian Lynne, acclaimed British dancer, choreographer, and theatre/television director;[...]
Professor Carl Heneghan will deliver an interactive workshop, taking an evidence-based approach to answering your own clinical questions. With over 20 year’s experience in clinical epidemiology, Professor Heneghan has over 200 peer reviewed publications that[...]
The Symposium, celebrating Ada Lovelace’s 200th birthday on 10 December 2015, is aimed at a broad audience of those interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting current scholarship on Lovelace’s[...]
Join Ben Ford as he speaks about the 2015 archaeological excavations from under the Westgate Shopping Centre @ Key Learning Centre, Oxford Castle.
‘A Conductor’s Point of View: Commonalities and Differences Between Wagner and Strauss’. A lecture by Christian Thielemann. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016, Christian Thielemann delivers a lecture on ‘A Conductor’s Point of View:[...]
Ian Bostridge, acclaimed tenor, talks about his passion for Schubert, with demonstrations from Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise.
‘Kapellmeister or Conductor’ Christian Thielemann in conversation with Roger Allen. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016, Christian Thielemann in conversation with Roger Allen. Chrisitian Thielemann is principal conductor of the Staatskapelle. In addition to[...]
Ada Lovelace’s notes on music and computation inspired the musical content of the Ada Lovelace Symposium held at the University of Oxford in December, on the 200th anniversary of her birth. These included a short[...]
‘Regietheater Revisited’ roundtable discussion chaired by Peter Franklin with participants including Barry Millington. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016, Christian Thielemann is taking part in a roundtable discussion chaired by Peter Franklin and participants[...]
‘Performing Opera’ roundtable discussion with Roger Allen (chair), Matthew Reese, Peter Franklin, Barry Millington, Christian Thielemann, and Barbara Eichner. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016, Christian Thielemann is taking part in a roundtable discussion[...]
While music libraries around the world are digitizing millions of musical scores, there are currently very few efforts underway at extracting the musical content from these page images and making the music notation available for[...]
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