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Professor of Caribbean Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths University, Joan Anim-Addo brings us her voice on Black Women’s Writing and the place of the Black figure in the Humanities. This event will be hosted in[...]
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a persistent interest in technology emerged in both avant-garde and mainstream literature, and this multimedia presentation by Dr Eric White (Oxford Brookes University) and collaborators examines how radical reading[...]
Writer of autobiography, poetry, fiction and journalism and Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University Blake Morrison brings some of his latest work and interesting discussion to St. Anne’s.
Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Dr Sally Frampton, Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, will both talk about the role of Citizen Science in their[...]
Join English PEN (the literary network which works to defend and promote free expression) for an evening of poetry and debate, with discussion about how publishing and human rights campaigns can join forces to help[...]
Novelist Ali Smith, author of Artful, Hotel World, and The Accidental, returns to St. Anne’s after holding the Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in European Comparative Literature in 2012.
Between the artist and the museum Friday 9 May 2014, 5-6.30pm (doors will open at 4.45pm) Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre A symposium with Michael Govan (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries & Libraries at[...]
St. Anne’s hosts an evening with Welsh poet, author and scriptwriter Owen Sheers, in the beautiful setting of Oxford’s finest bookseller.
Step inside the parlour and drawing room of an eighteenth-century home, and together with Dr Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University) and musicians, enjoy readings, music, and the authentic sewing session of a ‘huswif’! Part of[...]
India: A Short History With Andrew Robinson, author Saturday 10 May, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre India is the world’s largest democracy and a fast-growing economy. It is also a civilization with roots more than four[...]
A collaboration between the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and the Archway Foundation (an Oxford-based mental health charity), this event will feature writing produced by the Archway Foundation’s services during workshops with Brookes’ creative writing students.
A view from the Pacific: re-envisioning the art museum Tuesday 13 May 2014, 5-6.30pm (doors will open at 4.45pm) Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre A lecture by Michael Govan (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries[...]
Tour: Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff With Colin Harrison, Senior Curator of European Art 3–3.45pm on Wednesday 14 May and Wednesday 11 June Tours are free, no booking is required. Please meet in Gallery 2.[...]
Martin Sixsmith will speak at St Peter’s College on Russia and the acclaimed film ‘Philomena’, based on his book ‘The Lost Child of Philomena Lee’ on Wednesday 14 May at 6pm. All are welcome –[...]
All are welcome to listen to Michael Ondaatje, the Sri Lankan/Canadian novelist, winner of the Booker prize for his novel ‘The English Patient’, and Wolfson College President, and esteemed literary biographer, Professor Dame Hermione Lee,[...]
Short talk followed by questions and discussion. All welcome.
Magnificence, Love and Scaffolds: Politics at the Court of Henry VIII, With Dr Suzannah Lipscomb Saturday 17 May, 11am–12pm, Ioannou Centre Historian, author, and broadcaster Dr Suzannah Lipscomb will speak on the politics of spectacle,[...]
How does the brain work? And how can we switch on and off specific neurons? Join us for a Pint of Science with top academics from Oxford University.
Internationally renowned historian Barbara Taylor will speak about her new book “The Last Asylum” with Ruth Harris (New College, Oxford) and Daniel Pick (Birkbeck College). The book charts her years of psychoanalysis and her experiences[...]
This year’s Wolfson Public Lecture Series, themed around South Asian writing, articulates a clear interest in family memoir. This OCLW seminar, featuring the biographer Lyndall Gordon (biographer of Emily Dickinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry James, T.S.[...]
You ever wanted to understand more about climate change? Is it real? what are the consequences? Come join us for an expert panel from Oxford University who will shed some light on this highly debated[...]
Australian novelist and short story writer Tim Winton will be discussing his new book “Eyrie” at Blackwell’s. Tim is the author of 25 novels for children and adults, has won the prestigious Miles Franklin award[...]
When is a volcano going to erupt and how do you measure that? What is Magma and how can we start studying it? These questions and more will be explained by top academics from Oxford[...]
Join us for lunch from 12:45, with discussion from 13:00 to 13:45. Professor Averil Cameron will be in discussion with: – Dr Jas Elsner (Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art) –[...]
How can we rewild animals to today’s environment? How does the future of lethal viruses is going to be? Are they going to stick around with us as long as humanity exists
For Sir Walter Scott he was the demonic quintessence of the Gothic, but thanks to Poe, Freud, and others E. T. A. Hoffmann is firmly established as a literary father figure of all things ghostly,[...]
We are hugely privileged to host Olivier award-winning actress, Dame Harriet Walter in Oxford on Tuesday 27th May. Best known for her portrayal of all the greatest Shakepearean female roles from Viola to Cleopatra and[...]
“Moments Captured” is the epic new novel about pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Robert J. Seidman is a novelist and screenwriter. He’s written three novels, “One Smart Indian” “Bucks County Idyll” and this, his latest, “Moments[...]
It is an honour for us to welcome the man who must surely have the most extensive knowledge of modern British theatre: Michael Billington, The Guardian’s lead theatre critic, will be attending the Oxford University[...]
Speaker: Professor Marina Warner, CBE Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and writer of fiction, criticism and cultural history. Her most recent book is Stranger Magic: Charmed States &the Arabian Nights. Once Upon a Time:[...]
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