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Jun 13 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Saïd Business School
Oxford India Speaker series and Saïd Business School presents: Ajay G. Piramal in conversation with Dean Peter Tufano The event will span a range of topics including entrepreneurship, the future of the Indian economy and[...]
Jun 16 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm Sheldonian Theatre
As long as humans have lived together, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. Emergency medicine and rehabilitation programmes have had to keep pace with advanced war zones and domestic terrorism. We are[...]
Jul 8 all-day Wolfson College
How do people write about the lives of dancers and choreographers? How does dance as a silent form represent life stories? Featuring biographers and practitioners, with papers and discussions on the relationship between dance and[...]
Oct 13 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus
Join us for what promises to be an amazing evening filled with passion and opportunity to have fun! The evening will feature a panel discussion on the experiences of the generation that became known as[...]
Nov 6 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Oxford Brookes University, Gibbs Building, Room G217
Abstract: The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) was created in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 (“9/11”). Its aim was to increase dialogue and reduce enmity between “civilizations,” notably between Christians and Muslims. In[...]
Nov 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm St Edmund Hall - Pontigny Room
Andy will take you on a journey from the creation of ghetto’s to the rise of Hip-Hop as a critique against social and racial injustice. He will discuss the empowerment that has emerged through this[...]
Nov 12 @ 9:30 am – Nov 14 @ 6:30 pm Jacqueline du Pré
Watch the process of creating a new ballet in an interdisciplinary workshop with writer, Marina Warner, choreographer Kim Brandstrup, pianist and composer Joanna MacGregor, and professional dancers. Rawaa comes from Arabic – the root for[...]
Nov 16 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Renowned actress Lisa Dwan discusses her recent work and invites discussion of her repertoire – especially ‘Not I’ and other stunning dramatisations of Samuel Beckett. She explores how her dance training enabled her to refine[...]
Nov 21 @ 7:45 pm – 9:45 pm Christ Church College Lecture Room 2
HOW we fund impact as important as what we fund? What’s new in INNOVATIVE FINANCING using technology to allow investors to match their risk, return and impact preferences with specific investments and portfolios. Oxford Impact[...]
Dec 8 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus
“The international community has failed Syria”. We are honoured to welcome human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell to deliver this year’s Nabeel Hamdi lecture: Peter Tatchell discusses the flaws and limits of international human rights law[...]
Dec 8 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University
The annual Nabeel Hamdi Lecture, presented by CENDEP and the Oxford Human Rights Festival. Emeritus Professor Nabeel Hamdi is the founder of the MA in Development and Emergency Practice and long term director of CENDEP[...]
Jan 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm TBA (central Oxford College) - see the Facebook event for updates
70 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, has the UN Human Rights Council lost its credibility? The Oxford Israel Forum and The Oxford Forum are delighted to host Hillel Neuer,[...]
Feb 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Main Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus
Dr Peter Lovatt (AKA Dr Dance) will talk about the relationship between movement, health, hormones and thinking. The simple act of dancing can change us in fundamental ways. It can make us more creative, improve[...]
Feb 14 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Central Oxford College (TBA)
The Oxford Israel Forum, Oxford PPE Society and Oxford International Relations Society are delighted to host Dan Meridor, former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. Mr Meridor will be discussing the current political situation in Israel[...]
Feb 16 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm The Oxford Union
Join Oxford Chancellor Lord Patten of Barnes in conversation with former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans in a special UK launch of the Evans’s recently published political memoir Incorrigible Optimist. Gareth Evans, Oxford PPE graduate[...]
Feb 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
A screening of the newly reversioned documentary film, ‘New Wave Ballet’, followed by a discussion led by Dame Monica Mason. Featuring interviews and never before seen archival footage, ‘New Wave Ballet’ explores British choreographer Kenneth[...]
Feb 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
The universe exhibits a strong tendency to create – the universe itself arose out of nothing; galaxies, stars, and planets formed out of the primordial plasma; life began and evolved; human beings acquired the faculty[...]
Mar 1 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
Alastair Macaulay (Chief Dance Critic of the New York Times) will deliver a guest lecture on Fred Astaire. The lecture will discuss the legendary Astaire’s life and work, with illustrations and film footage.
Mar 13 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University
The second of the Oxford Human Rights Festival lunchtime seminars showcasing work done here at Brookes around the theme of IDENTITY. Dr Supriya Akerkar is a senior lecturer in Disaster Risk Reduction with CENDEP, Oxford[...]
Mar 23 @ 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Saïd Business School
Alan Morrison and Rupert Younger will lead a discussion with Carlo Messina on the future of the financial services industry and the role of major financial institutions in society today. The discussion will draw out[...]
May 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Department of International Development, Seminar Room 3
The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50% of Syria’s population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (Hurst Publishers) places the current[...]
May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's College
The Oxford Guild and its Collegium Global Network in association with the Oxford PPE Society is delighted to welcome a very special guest – Tawakkol Karman, one of the most famous and most decorated Nobel[...]
May 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Department of International Development, Seminar Room 3
Dr Sophia Hoffmann is a political scientist focused on the international relations of the Middle East. Her current research project “Learning Intelligence: the Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between Germany and the Arab Middle East”[...]
May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Bonn Square
As part of Think Human Festival, this one-off pop-up event is a unique opportunity for visitors of all ages to interact with leading academics from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes[...]
May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Quaker Meeting House
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (2018 / 63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as ‘Fracking’. Undercurrents productions show what happens[...]
May 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Department of International Development, Seminar Room 3
Dr Tahir Zaman is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on refugees and forced migration with particular reference to Iraq and Syria, transnationalism, diaspora contributions to conflict transformation[...]
May 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm The Oxfordshire Museum
Discover how propaganda images and literature during the First World War marked a change in women and their roles in society.
Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College
All welcome. Registration essential. For further information and to register, please contact global@history.ox.ac.uk Francis Bacon once opined: “Augustus Caesar would say, that he wondered that Alexander feared he should want work, having no more worlds[...]
Jun 18 all-day Green Templeton College Oxford
Her Excellency Minister Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf, Minister of Women and Human Rights Development, Federal Government of Somalia Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in conflict-affected contexts: Current challenges and opportunities in Somalia. In Somalia,[...]
Jul 5 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Festival Marquee, Magdalen College School
Daniel Sandford OW is BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, reporting on terrorism, crime, policing, prisons and immigration. He was previously BBC Moscow Correspondent during the height of the Ukraine and Crimea crisis. Whilst in Ukraine and[...]