Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
speaker: Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse, Defence Counsel at the ICTR and Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Sarah Mortimer from Christchurch College explains how the Reformation changed the society and puts the trials of the Oxford Martyrs into context. Free, booking required at smv.heritage@gmail.com http://www.smvheritage.co.uk/heritage/events-lectures/
The Art of Witnessing War With Dr Sue Malvern, Reading University Thursday 5 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Sue Malvern looks at the role of war artists and photographers as witnesses to conflicts and wars.[...]
Friday 6th June from 12.30pm – 5.30pm in the ESC Seminar Room and Saturday 7th June from 9am – 2pm at Maison Française d’Oxford Deakin Fellowship Workshop Decolonization and welfare during ‘les Trente glorieuses’ (1945[...]
Cézanne and the Modern Exhibition Lecture Cézanne and the Modern With Prof Christopher Butler, University of Oxford Friday 6 June, 2–3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Christopher Butler, author of Early Modernism: Literature, Music and Painting in[...]
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett Professor of Sociology at the LSE & Professor of the Humanities at NYU. His work studies the social ties in cities and the effects of urban living on individuals, and entails[...]
You are cordially invited to the Magdalen College Trinity Term Libraries & Archives Talk: Liam Dolan, Sherardian Professor of Botany, will speak on early botany. A talk in Magdalen Summer Common Room (Cloisters III) followed[...]
The Psalms in England With Prof M J Toswel, University of Western Ontario Tuesday 10 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre This lecture introduces the Anglo-Saxon psalter, and especially the interlinear vernacular versions in Latin psalters[...]
‘Syria Speaks’ – Seminar Day With Venetia Porter, British Museum, and Paul Collins, Ashmolean Museum Wednesday 11 June, 1.30-4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre The Art of Syria Past and Present: This lecture explores modern and contemporary[...]
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.[...]
‘Syria Speaks’ Lecture: Palmyra: City of Palms With Linda Farrar, archaeologist and lecturer Friday 13 June, 2-4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Famed for its hauntingly beautiful architectural remains, the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria[...]
‘On Form’ Sculpture Tour 3-5pm Friday 13 June, Gallery 21 Sculptors from ‘on form’, the exhibition of stone sculpture at the childhood home of the Mitford sisters, Asthall Manor, will be giving tours of selected[...]
‘Syria Speaks’ Series Evening Finale: Art & Culture from the Frontline With Malu Halasa and Zaher Omareen, curators and editors Friday 13 June, 6.30-9.30pm, Headley Lecture Theatre The Syrian uprising has seen an outpouring of[...]
On Friday 13th June, the Oxford Left Review will be launching OLR Issue 13. Come along to get your copy and chat with the writers and editors. This issue was partially themed on ‘Science, Technology[...]
Nuffield bike ride, in association with Oxford Bike Week Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 17th June Location: Tourist Information Centre, 15 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AS Description: Join us on a gentle, scenic, two-hour[...]
The Bodleian Library’s exhibition, ‘The Great War: Personal Stories from Downing Street to the Trenches,’ opens 18 June. Letters and diaries of politicians, soldiers and civilians, all connected with Oxford University, convey contemporary experiences of[...]
World War One Bike Ride: Part of Oxford Bike Week Time: 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 18th June Location: Tourist Information Centre, 15 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AS Description: Interested in knowing about what went[...]
Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan will challenge Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Medecins sans Frontieres and former French Foreign Minister, on France’s military interventionism. Are the country’s motives altruistic or do they respond to a neo-colonialist[...]
A new report by the Humanitarian Innovation Project, Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions, will be launched to coincide with World Refugee Day, on Friday 20 June 2014. It is one of the very first studies[...]
The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History With James Hall, author Saturday 21 June , 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Recounting the history of the self-portrait, this lecture offers insights into artists’ psychological and creative worlds. James Hall[...]
Oxford Transitional Justice Research is pleased to invite you to its 2014 Summer Conference ‘Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice’. This year’s conference, hosted with the support of the Planethood Foundation, Law Faculty, and the[...]
What do St. Augustine, Kafka, Samuel Johnson, William James, Susan Sontag, Douglas Adams, Hitler, and Hamlet all have in common? PROCRASTINATION. If it isn’t ‘the quintessential modern problem’ (New Yorker), it is certainly familiar to[...]
In 2014 Barnett House is celebrating its centenary. The celebrations culminate with the Reunion Weekend on 12-13 July 2014. This includes: – Keynote talk from Magdalena Sepulveda, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and[...]
with Professor A.M. Pollard FSA Professor of Archaeological Science Research Lab for Archaeology, University of Oxford
with Dr Rebecca Nicholson, Head of Environmental Archaeology at Oxford Archaeology
with David Radford, Oxford City Council Archaeologist
A public meeting with a short introductory talk followed by questions and discussion. The war to end all wars Thursday 17 July, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates All welcome Organised by Oxford[...]
The World Humanist Congress is taking place from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August in Oxford. Held every three years in different locations around the world, this years theme of the meeting is ‘Freedom[...]
Kenan Malik will be discussing ‘What can the history of morality tell us about the nature of morality’. The World Humanist Congress is taking place from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August in Oxford.[...]
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