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For this term’s film night the Oxford University Anthropology Society will be screening “Marina Abramovic in Brazil: The Space in Between”. Join us at 19:30 for a viewing and discussion on the relationship between art[...]
Director and adaptor, Wayne Jordan will be in conversation with Fiona Macintosh, discussing his acclaimed version of Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus’ at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2015. At 2.15pm on Monday 27 Feb. 2017. Followed by[...]
The RAI Goes to the Movies: An American First World War Centenary Series As part of our events commemorating the centenary of American entry into the First World War, this film series explores what the[...]
Rare opportunity to see screening of acclaimed 2nd film of Lenny Abrahamson last shown in UK in 2007 followed by Q & A with filmmaker. Lenny Abrahamson is Humanitas Visiting Professor in Film & TV[...]
2017 Humanitas Visiting Professor in Film & Television and Oscar-nominated director Lenny Abrahamson will give lecture – the Uncertain Filmmaker – Naturalism, Truthfulness and the Value of Not Knowing. Tickets – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lenny-abrahamson-the-uncertain-filmmaker-tickets-31683434004
Following an introduction by Dr Pantelis Michelakis, two silent films – Purity (1916) and L’ Esclave de Phidias (1917) – will be screened to a live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne (BFI house pianist and[...]
A working-class Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy, it’s “practically their back yard”). However, they are forced to leave their beloved home, by the[...]
The Cypriot Fiddler is an attempt to trace the life stories of a dying class of traditional musicians on both sides of the Cypriot divide. The documentary, released in 2016, was entirely funded by members[...]
Eros & Thanatos: Matters of Life and Death. Medfest @ Oxford Arrive @ the Harris Lecture Theatre (on the Island Site, map available soon) for 4:15pm Sponsored by the Royal College of Psychiatrists FREE EVENT[...]
Come and watch a wide variety of films by local filmmakers, meet filmmaking enthusiasts amateur and professional, network and be inspired!
Oxford International Relations Society has the pleasure of welcoming Lord David Owen CH FRCP to give a talk about his illustrious career in British politics. Foreign Secretary from 1977-1979, Owen was involved in overseeing and[...]
Featuring Professor Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes) and more TBC.
Clio Barnard is one of Britain’s foremost directorial talents. She first gained critical acclaim for her film The Arbor (2010), which followed the life of West Yorkshire playwright Andrea Dunbar, and whose formal innovation mixed[...]
Speakers: Ivor Crewe (Master, University College, Oxford) Anne Deighton (Emeritus Professor of European International Politics, St Antony’s College, Oxford) Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford) Iain McLean (Emeritus Professor of Politics,[...]
A quirky theatrical evening of drama, discussion and disease. Killer germs, superbugs, pestilent plagues and global pandemics have fascinated writers, musicians and thinkers for centuries. As diseases spread through a population, likewise myths and ideas[...]
Isabelle Torrance (Associate Professor at Aarhus University) delivers an APGRD Public Lecture on Tom Paulin’s adaptation of Aeschylus’s Prometheus. Free, all welcome. No booking required. This lecture is at the conclusion of day one of[...]
Numerous free talks, walking tours and workshops over two days.
Oxford’s ‘Open Mic’ Film Networking Night 2nd Thursday of the month at Film Oxford. The evening is FREE – you can just turn up to watch but please BRING A SNACK OR DRINK TO SHARE.[...]
Documentary screening followed by a Q&A with Brass Eye director Michael Cumming. Michael will describe his experiences of working on-set with Chris Morris and reflect on twenty years since Brass Eye’s first transmission. The discussion[...]
Come along to the Graduate christian forum’s opening event to hear the Rev Dr Jonathan Brant (Chaplain of the Oxford Pastorate and Theology Research Fellow) give an engaging lecture on how studying leads to transformation[...]
We are delighted to be welcoming Sir Tom Stoppard to St Catz to deliver his inaugural lecture as the 26th holder of the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Theatre.
Film screening followed by a Q&A with director Polly Steele, producer Lizzie Pickering and soundtrack composer Philip Selway (Radiohead). Let Me Go is a British drama about three women who discover a disturbing family secret[...]
Oxford’s ‘Open Mic’ Film Networking Night 2nd Thursday of the month at Film Oxford. The evening is FREE – you can just turn up to watch but please BRING A SNACK OR DRINK TO SHARE.[...]
Join Sir Tim Rice for dinner on Thursday 19th October at Banbury Club for a meander through his magical, musical world! After a champagne reception, guests will join Sir Tim for a delicious four course[...]
As we mark 70 years since the Partition of India, we take a look at the legacy of colonialism through the Indian justice system, with this Winner of Best Feature Film at the National Film[...]
Amma Asante MBE will be coming to Oxford Brookes University, to deliver a talk about diversity in film as part of the Black History Month lecture series. Amma is BAFTA award winning film director and[...]
Talk followed by questions and discussion All welcome Oxford Communist Corresponding Society
A lecture-performance by APGRD Artists in Residence, Paul O’Mahony and Out of Chaos theatre company, on the development of their new version of the ‘Aeneid’, entitled ‘Crossing the Sea’. Free, all welcome, no booking required.
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[...]
A lost play, remixed… A sharing of ‘Fragments’, a new play-in-development inspired by fragments of Euripides ‘lost’ play Cresphontes, followed by a post-show panel discussion to discuss tragic fragments, ideas of fragmentation in perception and[...]
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