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Discover how art can inflict both harm and harmony in this special live performance of Iris Murdoch’s Art and Eros. A panel discussion will follow a 45 minute play acted by Oxford Brookes University drama[...]
What’s it like to be haunted? Writer Jay Bernard’s augmented reality installation explores this question – unpicking how we can be haunted by our histories and our everyday lives. Listen to a reading while exploring[...]
Come and take a role in a simulation of our world between now and 2030. It’s a challenging time and other people will have different objectives to yours. How can business and society create the[...]
It’s such a strange experience: you’re in the place you want to be, researching a topic of great interest to you, you have time and space for research that senior academics often envy, and yet[...]
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann was described by Anthony Burgess as “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” After making a case in support of this claim, I shall tell the story of the[...]
With the UK population predicted to grow nearly 20% by 2050 (circa 77 million people), over 65s making up around 25% of the population and more and more demands being put on the healthcare system[...]
Lincoln Leads is a series of seminars tackling a different theme every week. All are warmly invited to attend this year’s Shakespeare Seminar on February 27th which will explore the question ‘Can Editing Influence a[...]
‘Job insecurity at the end of the 20th century has given way to income insecurity at the start of the 21st.’ – Andy Haldane, July 2019 Join us for a stimulating morning of talks exploring[...]
We all arrive at the experience of academic culture shock via different routes: the transition from a taught model of study to one driven only by ourselves; returning to study after a long break and[...]
Join us as we hear from Prof Martin Bureau (University of Oxford) about his research on Supermassive black holes. ‘Supermassive black holes are now known to lurk at the centre of most galaxies. They are[...]
Blake Gopnik’s definitive biography digs deep into the radical genius of Andy Warhol. Based on years of archival research and on interviews with hundreds of Warhol’s surviving friends, lovers and enemies, Warhol traces the artist’s[...]
Please note that this event has been cancelled. Join novelist Sarah Moss and historian Sarah Knott in conversation with critic Merve Emre.
Do you ever have the feeling that you don’t really deserve to be doing the PhD or research project you’re working on? Feel like everyone else is coping and progressing in a way that you’re[...]
Organised by Oxford Civic Society @oxcivicsoc. Gordon Mitchell, the City’s Chief Executive, takes a broad look at the many challenges and pressures facing the city and describes what the City Council is doing in response.[...]
A conversation about life-writing and the Lives of Houses. With Hermione Lee, Roy Foster, Alexandra Harris, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
An exploration of the work of prolific writer Jenny Diski, with a keynote lecture from Blake Morrison.
“Data work: the hidden talent and secret logic fuelling artificial intelligence” with Prof Gina Neff
What happens when new artificial intelligence (AI) tools are integrated into organisations around the world? For example, digital medicine promises to combine emerging and novel sources of data and new analysis techniques like AI and[...]
Critical feedback is a central component of academic work, and learning to engage constructively with it – and derive the maximum benefit from it – is a skill we need to develop as researchers if[...]
We all know networking is important – crucial, even – to successful academic development. And yet, for many researchers, networking doesn’t come easily or naturally. Don’t panic! Networking is a skill we can develop –[...]
Many researchers live with an incredible amount of uncertainty. This can be a source of considerable stress, pulling our energy, concentration and even time away from our work, family, friends and other interests. So, how[...]
The world faces many challenges, climate change, systemic racism, a crisis of leadership and the pandemic. As governments, business and organisations pivot to survive can the social impact sector do the same? What’s changed and[...]
In this talk Natasha Randall explores the task of biographical research into the figure of the literary translator Constance Garnett. Translators notionally produce non-original text but are there aspects of their work, their semantic tendencies[...]
Narrative Futures is an interactive podcast featuring interviews with leading authors and editors in the speculative genre and writing prompts designed to support the imagination of better futures. Narrative Futures is the capstone podcast project[...]
Lt. Major Cecilia Diaconeasa was a Cold War secret police informant who in March 1983, several weeks after the birth of her baby daughter, was assigned to extract confessions from a woman suspected of collaborating[...]
This is the Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing for Michaelmas Term 2020. Hermione Lee, whose biography of Tom Stoppard is published by Faber on 1 October, talks about his life and work, and the challenges for[...]
Come along to the long-awaited Night Sky Show at the fantastic Great Hall in Cholsey. It will certainly be a night to remember! Facts, fiction, laughter and more in a fantastic place, for one night[...]
In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy, the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Through poems about landscape and loss, the poems in her third collection, Return by[...]
Following her Research Forum talk in Trinity 2020, ‘The Elusive Subject: Biographies of Exiles’ Soledad Fox Maura returns to the OCLW programme for the launch of her first novel, Madrid Again (Simon & Schuster), in[...]
In this talk Professor Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute and Professor Ian Goldin, Oxford Martin School, will examine publicly known “failures” of AI systems to show how this gap between design and use creates dangerous[...]
In 2020, Governments around the world made the decision to lock down their country to help stop the spread of Covid-19. This led to teaching, meetings, conferences, contacting family and more being conducted from home[...]
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