Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
On Thursday, 9th June, we will welcome Ms. Clara Roquet, one of Spain’s most promising film makers. We will be hosting a conversation with Ms. Roquet before screening her last short film, “El adiós” (The[...]
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[...]
There is increasing recognition over the last decade that conservation, while conserving biodiversity of global value, can have local costs. Understanding these costs is essential as a first step to delivering conservation projects that do[...]
Welcome to Future Debates, a series of public events supported by the British Science Association. A genome is an entire set of DNA; all the instructions for making every part of a living thing. Research[...]
Telegraph writer Helen Yemm brings her column Thorny Problems to life by answering your gardening conundrums and dispensing invaluable advice in the picturesque setting of the Botanic Garden.
Date/Time: Saturday 25 June, 15:00 Venue: Oxford Town Hall, Long Room Admissions: £5/£4(conc.)/£16(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sat-opening-weekend.html Neural implants, nanomedicine, brain enhancing drugs, genetic engineering… Many human enhancement technologies are emerging and raise ethical[...]
In the era of the development of technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence, machines are more and more capable of outperforming human beings at work tasks. What will be the decline of today’s professions? What[...]
Ludo, snakes & ladders and draughts are all popular pastimes, but in the past couple of decades a new generation of board games from designers with backgrounds in maths and science has begun to break[...]
‘Gene-editing’ sounds like science fiction, but today it is an emerging reality. This raises hope for treating medical problems, but also opens ethical quandaries about equality, privacy, and personal freedom. Discuss these questions with a[...]
Join us for a sensational evening of cabaret – an alchemy of acts delivered by Science Oxford’s network of creative science performers. If you love science, stage and stand up, you’ll be in your element[...]
Date/Time: Sunday 3 July, 19:00 Venue: Amey Theatre, Abingdon School, Abingdon-on-Thames Admissions: £7/£5(conc.)/£22(fam.) Suitability: 16+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/grand-finale.html What are the next steps for human evolution? Natural changes or technologies? Combining gene splicing and trans-humanism,[...]
Colette Morgan works for SAFE! as the Child on Parent Violence Project Development Manager. Sadly, Child-on-Parent violence is on the rise and this fascinating talk will show us how SAFE! tackles this problem and works[...]
This Spotlight will showcase the Japanese theatre form kabuki, with the presentation of a filmed performance.
As part of our annual museum day-festival, PittFest, archaeologists and museum professionals will be joining us to give short talks sharing insights into their current research. Event info: If you like your archaeology experimental, join[...]
Join Photograph Collections curatorial staff for a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s dedicated research area. A special opportunity to receive a guided tour of the climate-controlled storerooms and to view collections[...]
Paul Griffith, co-author of ‘A Guide to the Japanese Stage’ will speak about the history and traditions of kabuki theatre.
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[...]
Join Cyclox and the Broken Spoke Bike Co-op along with Happy Cakes, Jimbobs Baguettes, I Scream Oxford, Pedal and Post, Oxford Mobile Cycle Repairs, Quarry Cycle Services, and Stig to discuss how they got started[...]
The Symposium focuses on drought and water scarcity in the UK and globally. A range of expert speakers give their perspectives from an academic and practisers view on the impact of drought and how to[...]
Country: USA Year: 2015 Director: Michael Moore Producers: Michael Moore, Carl Deal, Tia Lessin Runtime: 120 mins Language: English BBFC: 15 A Click here for trailer and Official Website Overview /Sypnosis To show what the[...]
SCREENING AND Q&A WITH EUROPEAN DIRECTOR OF MUSIC &MEMORY Country: USA Year: 2014 Director: Michael Rossato-Bennett; Producers: Michael Rossato-Bennett, Alexandra McDougald Runtime: 78 mins Language: English BBFC: n/a Click here for trailer and Official Website[...]
Geoffrey Davison, the great nephew of Emily Wilding Davison, will open the seminar with a personal insight into Emily’s life and the Suffrage movement. He will be joined by panel members who will include Professor[...]
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[...]
The First Amendment has had a mixed pedigree and a difficult birth. In this lecture, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Dan Robinson will demonstrate that, in offering protection of the basic liberties — freedom of[...]
Elain Harwood will look at David Roberts’s work in Cambridge and Oxford, and will place it in the context of the growth of higher education in the 1950s and 1960s, and the development of a[...]
Recollection Lecture: The Rev’d Dr Mark Clavier (St Stephen’s House, Oxford) To churches struggling to challenge both the excesses and the underlying potency of consumerism, Augustine offers a God whose Eloquent Wisdom can supersede all[...]
Julian Savulescu has argued for the duty to create the best children one can. Jeff McMahan has written of the benefits of prenatal diagnosis and selective termination. I suspect that neither has an adequately understanding[...]
Documentary photographer Stephanie Berger has photographed some of the world’s leading performers in the fields of theatre and dance for over twenty-five years. This talk will provide an insight into her work. Some of her[...]
As part of our Textiles in Focus day, go behind the scenes with Julia Nicholson, Joint Head of Collections and discover the secrets of the Sheila Paine textiles collection, then visit our special exhibition ‘Stitch[...]
Please join us for two insightful talks, followed by informal discussion and afternoon snack. Everyone is welcome! The talks will be given by: – Professor Lyn Parker (The University of Western Australia, Perth) Topic: “Intersections[...]
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