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The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Department of International Development will be hosting two research seminars in the coming weeks – The afternoons of May 19 and June 1st. We invite researchers[...]
Three high-profile SPC alumni return to their college to discuss the impending EU Referendum in a forum chaired by the Master, Mark Damazer CBE. Join the Editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens (BA Modern[...]
Is there anything wrong with putting a price on health, education, citizenship, and the environment? Where do markets serve the public good, and where do they not belong? Join us for a lively discussion with[...]
Drawing upon sociology of culture and digital rhetoric literature, this talk will illuminate the persuasive function of hashtags in the context of the UK EU membership referendum. What makes a hashtag more influential, or more[...]
It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating many different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are domestically retained) counters pure[...]
A collaboration between Japanese artist Isao Miura and poet Chris Beckett, presented to the Glass Tank by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre. In spring 1689, Matsuo Bashō sold his house in Edo (now Tokyo) and[...]
One of Britain’s most significant and controversial artists Maggi Hambling discusses her career and recent work with Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum.
Art critic, journalist and broadcaster Alastair Sooke talks about the final decade of one of the most beloved artists of the twentieth century, Henri Matisse.
Discover the life and work of William Morris’ younger duaghter May, who managed the embroidery workshop at Morris & Co 1885-1896. This lecture includes material from her collection of needlework designs and photographs of English[...]
Leopold Eyharts flew on the Atlantis Shuttle to the International Space Station in 2008. Part of his mission included the installation of the Colombus Space Laboratory, the main contribution of Europe to the International Space[...]
BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz returns to the Festival to talk about his latest book ‘Think Like An Artist’. Discover how we can all harness our own creativity and achieve extraordinary things.
Director of Modern Art Oxford Paul Hobson talks about what art has become today, explains why it’s easy to understand, and demystifies contemporary art.
The Las Casas Institute presents a day-long conference on money as a prism through which we often view the world and its challenges. Join theologians, economists, and other experts in discussing what money reveals and[...]
To coincide with the current exhibition by Isao Miura and Chris Beckett, ‘Sketches from the Poem Road (after Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North)’, which runs from 20 June to 15 July,[...]
Speakers: -Jonathan Scheele (Senior Member, St Antony’s College and Head of Representation at the European Commission Representation in the UK, 2010-12) -Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College and Foundation for European Progressive Studies) -Lise Butler (Pembroke College[...]
Jonathon Porritt and Shaun Chamberlin celebrate the launch of the late Trinity alumnus David Fleming’s extraordinary book, ‘Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy’. This intimate event will[...]
A two-day international conference in which leading scholars from the UK, Europe and the United States will discuss the meaning of public statues in cultures throughout history ranging from Roman Palmyra to Georgian England, from[...]
Between 1995 and 2011, remittances to developing world economies, that is, money sent by emigrants to family and friends in their country of origin, grew from US$55 billion to over US$372 billion, to exceed all[...]
Inequality is centre-stage in political debate both globally and in individual countries, being blamed for everything from Brexit to stagnating wages and growth. Professor Brian Nolan, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Inequality and[...]
Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
Delivering reliable drinking water to millions of rural people in Africa and Asia is an elusive and enduring global goal. A systematic information deficit on the performance of and demand for infrastructure investments limits policy[...]
Cornelia Parker OBE, RA is one of the UK’s most original artists and is currently a visiting fellow at LMH. Places are free of charge.
A free afternoon of artist talks. 3-5pm at OVADA Warehouse, Osney Lane. Our guest speakers will be independent publishing house Hurst Street Press and fine artist Tommy Watkins. This event is part of the exhibition[...]
Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
A twenty minute talk to introduce the topic, followed by Q&As and about an hour’s discussion. All welcome.
Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC is Principal of Mansfield College, a prominent barrister and a Labour member of the House of Lords. Author of “Eve was Framed: Women and British Justice” (1992). Anthony Barnett is a[...]
Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
Engaging with the Humanities: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus and Dr Giovanna Vitelli Wednesday 9 November 2016, 12.15 – 1.15pm Oxford Saïd is pleased to welcome the Ashmolean Museum of[...]
Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Michael Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg in conversation with Peter Tufano Thursday 17 November 2016, 5.45 – 6.45pm Oxford Saïd is excited to announce that Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg LP and former[...]
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