Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
OutBurst is the Oxford Brookes University festival at the Pegasus Theatre on Magdalen Road. Brookes will be bursting out of the university campus into the community, bringing great ideas, activities, and entertainment right to the[...]
https://www.facebook.com/events/495653777253176/ The Oxford Guild is very excited to welcome Larry Hirst CBE, former Chairman of IBM EMEA, to speak on Thursday 7th May. This will be an incredibly insightful talk and is not one to[...]
The Aptness of Anger – Dr Amia Srinivasan Ancient and contemporary philosophers alike have argued that we ought not get angry, even when facing injustice, because doing so is harmful to ourselves. Christian mystics and[...]
Oxford Internet Institute Bellwether Lecture presented by Professor Dan Burk on Copyright, Culture, and Community in Virtual Worlds We have accumulated an increasingly rich body of data concerning online communities, particularly those that share virtual[...]
During a speech in 1957, Prime Minister Harold MacMillan declared “our people have never had it so good”. Now, more than half a century later, are we fundamentally any better off? Through discussion of technological[...]
The presenter will introduce different crowdfunding platforms which serve different purposes, for instance education-related initiatives, charitable works, new products and start-ups. Presenter: Shan Huang, D.Phil student at Department of Education, Founder of OxFund
Part of Book at Lunchtime, a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Free, all welcome – no booking required. Join us for a sandwich lunch from 12:45,[...]
Adam Divák and Tamás Nagy from Synetiq Ltd. Ádám Divák (CTO) and Tamás Nagy (lead researcher) will talk about Synetiq, a Hungarian start-up providing neuromarketing research and emotional insights for media companies. They will show[...]
Have you thought about using crowdfunding to fund your next degree, innovation, entrepreneurial project, charitable work, creative arts or sports club? What support you need from your college, the university and the crowdfunding platform? Speak[...]
Amy Hollywood (Harvard) delivers a series of lectures on “The real, the true, and the mystical” in Oxford. At 7pm will be a play on Derrida in Oxford by John Schad and Fred Dalmasso. Tickets[...]
Amy Hollywood (Harvard) delivers a series of lectures on “The real, the true, and the mystical” in Oxford.
Amy Hollywood : The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy: The Pursuit of the Real at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Roundtable: 25 years of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Eckhart and the Beguines Convenors: Ben Morgan and Johannes Depnering
Enter a lost world of music and poetry as more than 300 years of Mughal rule approached its end at the hands of the British in 1857. William Dalrymple, award-winning historian, in performance with the[...]
Join us on Monday for our second last event for the academic year to hear Jens Zimmerman speak on theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christian Humanism. Jens is a philosopher and theologian who specializes in hermeneutics[...]
How do the humanities engage with business, and vice-versa? And what might this relationship lead to in the future? This panel will explore the reciprocity – existing and potential – of business and the humanities,[...]
• Mike set up the volunteer organisation Smile Kids Japan (website under reconstruction…) in 2007 to promote sustainable and local volunteering at institutional care facilities (sometimes called orphanages) in Japan. This grew and has helped[...]
Professor Rachel Bowlby from Princeton University will give a seminar on Commuters: From the Nineteenth Century to Now as part of the Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century seminar series. All are welcome,[...]
Twenty minute talk, Q&As, and an hour of discussion. Free entry, no need to book. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion.
Brian Hurwitz is D’Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine and the Arts in the Department of English. He is a medical practitioner affiliated to the Division of Health and Social Care Research, King’s College London, directs[...]
Guest speaker: Dr Mike Macnair, Associate Professor in Law, University of Oxford Talk, Q&As, and discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion. Free entry, no[...]
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. The documentary presents the personal narratives of young boys and[...]
If you run a small business and have been thinking about taking on an Apprentice, this event is for you. In a relaxed forum, experts will be on hand to answer all your questions and[...]
Special Turner Event at the Ashmolean Museum Turner’s High Street, Oxford: a Unique Townscape With Colin Harrison Wednesday 8 July, 11am-12pm, Lecture Theatre Find out more about Turner’s most significant townscape and the greatest painting[...]
The AllTrials campaign calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their full methods and summary results to be reported – half of all trials go unpublished. The AllTrials petition has[...]
Talk – Perspectives: Cheating A short series of talks on cheating, fakes and frauds to accompany the exhibition by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Speakers include: Nigel Warburton: The Ethics of Cheating Warburton discusses how and why[...]
What the World is Losing, a talk with Dr Paul Collins, Dr Robert Bewley & Dr Emma Cunliffe A special talk with Dr Paul Collins, Curator of the Ancient Near East Collections at the Ashmolean[...]
A one-day free exhibit featuring powerful children’s drawings from Burma and Sudan. The event is co-sponsored by Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) and Waging Peace. The drawings from Burma were collected on visits by HART[...]
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