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Professor Cameron will be talking about how language creates and maintains inequality in sexuality and gender.
speaker: Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse, Defence Counsel at the ICTR and Special Tribunal for Lebanon
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.[...]
In the wake of the financial crisis and global shifts in economic power, the Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Shadow Minister for Universities, Science and Skills, will speak about how best to foster an inclusive[...]
A short talk followed by questions and discussion. All welcome, whether you want to take part in the discussion or just listen.
OxTET is happy to welcome Riva-Melissa Tez – lecturer at the DAB university in Berlin, founder of the Berlin Singularity, Associate Director of Longevity Intelligence Communications, and co-runner of Kardashev Communications. Riva will be speaking[...]
Dr Stephen Backhouse is Lecturer in Social and Political Theology at St. Mellitus college. Stephen studied at the University of Oxford, then McGill, then Oxford again, where he completed his doctorate on Kierkegaard and religious[...]
‘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[...]
‘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[...]
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 short talk followed by questions and discussion. “The Dalai Lama: a study in bourgeois rationality” All welcome
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[...]
Speaker: Suhail Ilyas rs21.org.uk *** The largest election the world has ever seen resulted last month in the election of Hindu chauvinist Narendra Modi as Prime Minister. Modi was formerly chief minister in Gujarat, where[...]
Early cyberspace theorists predicted that the digital world would be a world of plenty. But today’s Internet users are faced with many kinds of artificially scarce virtual markers, from online game items and digital currencies[...]
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[...]
OBR would like to invite you to our next event in Oxford on Wednesday 16th July at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, the birth of next-generation[...]
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, held every three years, is a unique event bringing together humanists from over forty countries under the auspices of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. The 19th Congress is being organised[...]
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[...]
A public meeting with a short introductory talk followed by questions and discussion. The anti-war movement Thursday 21 August, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates All welcome Organised by Oxford Communist Corresponding Society.[...]
There are currently more than 2.8 million registered refugees from Syria. Ninety-six percent of these refugees are hosted by neighbouring countries – Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. With the exception of Germany and a[...]
A public meeting with a short introductory talk followed by questions and discussion. The end of violence Thursday 25 September, 7:30pm to 9:00pm Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates All welcome Organised by Oxford Communist Corresponding[...]
Speakers: Professor Deborah E Anker (Harvard University), Professor Efrat A Arbel (University of British Columbia) Based on a recent report published by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC), entitled Bordering on Failure: Canada–U.S. Border[...]
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