Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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.
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[...]
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[...]
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:[...]
Shami Chakrabarti will speak on the topic of her new book, On Liberty, and about why our fundamental freedoms and rights are indispensable.
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[...]
Part 2 of a three-part mini-series on notation: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Part 1 (July 16th) was Reading Slough and London Paddington: the persistent lure of spelling reform. Also coming up… Arithmetic: a study in[...]
Conceptions of Enlightenment is a one-day conference concluding in a public lecture at 5pm. The lecture will be delivered by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston), author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment (CUP, 2014). Over the last[...]
A wine reception will follow the talk
The extraction of oil and the mining of coal are devastating communities across the world. These operations have forced people from their land, polluted the environment, and led to widespread human rights violations. According to[...]
Ordinary people across Europe have reacted with horror to the plight of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war and other conflicts—and sent solidarity. David Cameron reacted with callous cynicism. At first he held firm against[...]
Philosopher Nigel Warburton will be discussing some of the thinkers and ideas that feature in his bestselling introductory book, A Little History of Philosophy. Blackwell’s have recently sold our 1000th copy of the book in[...]
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Nicoletta Demetriou will discuss her attempt to record the stories of Cyprus’s last surviving traditional fiddlers. She will talk about what musicians’ life stories can tell us about the music and[...]
This interdisciplinary workshop examines the impact of music on the brain from the point of view of different disciplines (medicine/physiology, psychology, philosophy). Following a series of short talks by St Hilda’s Fellows and expert guest[...]
Professor Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, will explore the huge technological, scientific and environmental shifts that have led to humanity’s current state, and consider the choices that will determine our long-term[...]
Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event! Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology ******************** Professor Canter began his career as an architectural psychologist[...]
In this lecture, William Browder, author of New York Times bestseller Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, will give a firsthand account of corruption, dirty politics,[...]
A one-day interdisciplinary symposium to launch the Fiction and Human Rights Network at TORCH. The symposium brings together an eclectic range of thinkers to analyze the ways in which the genre of fiction might or[...]
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