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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[...]
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[...]
We live in a world of information. Together, both the so-called copyright (or content) industries and its consumers (via user-generated content) provide an enormous amount of information (or content). But paradoxically, we simultaneously suffer from[...]
This is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and The Oxford International Relations Society (IRSoC) The lecture is free and open to all and will be followed by a drinks reception for members[...]
Speaker: Dr Marion Fresia (Professeure assistante, Institut d’ethnologie, Université de Neuchâtel) Ethnographic approaches of policy processes are usually interested in issues of power and control, translation and mediation, contestation and resistance, and the formal and[...]
The Annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture
Having seen the election results unfold, the topic of political strategy and communication is as relevant as ever in highlighting the ways in which politicians and organisations seek to influence public opinion and shape political[...]
Speaker: Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford) In 1977, as national refugee status determination procedures were gaining new life, States members of UNHCR’s Executive Committee asked the Office to provide[...]
Cyclox and the Oxford Pedestrians Association (OxPA) will be welcoming representatives of the bus companies that serve Oxford to a meeting to discuss the relationship between bikes, buses and pedestrians on the city’s busy streets.[...]
This book talk is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict This book talk will see author Chris Woods discuss his new book Sudden[...]
Speaker: Dr Phil Orchard (Senior Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations, University of Queensland) In the past two decades, global policy on internal displacement has become a discernible area of activity for the[...]
As part of this year’s community outreach program, Oxford Brookes University’s 150th anniversary, and as a way showing our appreciation to all participants, clinicians, researchers, members of the public and organisations that have supported our[...]
This is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and The Oxford International Relations Society (IRSoC) For more than a century, the United States has been the world′s most powerful state. Now some analysts[...]
• 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[...]
Refugee Studies Centre 2015 Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture Speaker: Professor Miriam Ticktin (The New School for Social Research) With the grounding assumption that innocence plays a central role in the politics of forced migration and[...]
So many of us are desperately busy doing what’s immediately in front of us rather than the things that make a real difference. Ben will tell the story of the GB men’s rowing 8+ in[...]
This is a panel discussion organised in collaboration with ‘Oxford Refugee Week’ by the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Chairing will be Dr Jeff Crisp, with speakers Prof. Alexander Betts, Prof. Cathryn Costello, Dr[...]
Human-caused global warming has been making headlines for over two decades, but people’s opinions on it often depend on what headlines they’re reading. How is it that a scientific theory has become so politicised? Join[...]
Six members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), including comedian and journalist Mark Thomas are taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police’s monitoring and keeping of their information on a database that deals with[...]
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[...]
This is a special workshop hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre as part of Oxford Refugee Week. Programme: Chair: Professor Dawn Chatty, Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and former Director of the RSC Speakers:[...]
Two hour cycle ride with Max as he reveals some surprising facts about the science of cycling. Ride and demonstration. Please show up 10 minutes before departure at The Story Museum. The ride will finish[...]
Author and cyclist Max Gaskin explores the science of cycling from hydrogen to helmets! 6.30pm – 7.30pm £8/£5 concessions
International table tennis player, broadcaster and writer, Matthew Syed will reflect on the psychology of performance.
Shami Chakrabarti will speak on the topic of her new book, On Liberty, and about why our fundamental freedoms and rights are indispensable.
A discussion about the ethics of Arts Sponsorship with Jeremy Spafford, Director of Arts at the Old Fire Station, and representatives from arts activists Art Not Oil – a network is dedicated to taking creative[...]
‘TRADE IN UK-AFRICA RELATIONS’: Event taking place on July 1st at Oxford Brookes University. This is part of an ESRC seminar series on British Policy after Labour: Coalition, Austerity, Continuity and Change. This seminar, the[...]
Join our expert panel for an evening of debate exploring the subject of the United Kingdom’s place within the European Union.
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[...]
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