Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
Think Human Festival is proud to host this panel on Writing Working-Class Fiction. Kerry Hudson, Kit de Waal and Alex Wheatle are celebrated contemporary British novelists who have all written working-class experience into their fiction.[...]
The doors will open at 19.15 for this talk in the small Hall. Especially for those with an interest in Family History soem good tips on how to correct fading and other problems with old[...]
Dr Simone Sturniolo will talk about How computational science helps us understand the world and how you can try it too.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS The Oxford e-Research Centre welcomes Dr. Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center Founder. He will present a seminar[...]
Anna Espínola Lynn, MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture (Wadham College, Oxford), will be speaking on the transmission of style in fifteenth-century Catalan manuscript production. All welcome! Feel free to bring your lunch.[...]
The emergence of Islamic liberalism in Southeast Asia over the last two decades has been characterized by its highly uneven reception across and within national contexts. In Malaysia, liberalism is a thoroughly negative category in[...]
Award-winning composer Jonathan Dove talks to broadcaster Kate Kennedy about music, war and commemoration. Their discussion will be illustrated with excerpts from his compositions. Dove’s works include In Damascus, To An Unknown Soldier and the[...]
Book launch followed by reception and performance by Worcester College Choir – all welcome!
Talk followed by questions and discussion
Widely acclaimed for his sculpture, installations and public artworks Sir Antony Gormley’s work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.
Despite the non-recognition of caste identity by the Pakistani state, caste relations are a pervasive feature of everyday life, particularly in small-town and rural Pakistan. Using the case of the transformation of a formerly lower[...]
American Cool Modernism Series: ‘State of the Nation’ with Bonnie Greer and Sarah Churchwell What does America stand for in the twenty-first century? What is the true story behind the ‘American dream’? What does ‘America[...]
As part of the Surgical Grand Round lecture series, Professor David Cranston from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford will discuss ‘Medicine in Art’.
Film Screening with Director: Kit Hung’s Soundless Wind Chime (無聲風鈴) The Shulman Auditorium, The Queen’s College, Oxford *Multilingual dialogue with English subtitles Open and free of charge for all, please register on Eventbrite Supported by:[...]
True to our name, we bring opera anywhere! Our latest new Puccini production goes into the woods at Wytham! Puccini’s Heroines at Wytham Woods! – 12th May Puccini’s Heroines – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – FREE[...]
Speaker(s): Monika Bickert (Head of Product Policy, Facebook) Yvette Cooper (Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee) Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford) Convenor: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College)
About the talk Using examples from his recent exhibition in the Musee D’art Moderne in Paris, Ian thinks through how we might come to a painting, image, object or model with little information or prior[...]
As part of Think Human Festival, this one-off pop-up event is a unique opportunity for visitors of all ages to interact with leading academics from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes[...]
Our world is driven by technology and while it offers a variety of benefits to society, it also exposes us to a series of new and complex cybersecurity risks. These can relate to how we[...]
Since 2015 a group of research-active academics from Oxford Brookes School of Law have been investigating how the criminal law can, and should, tackle speech and images on the internet which are dangerous or offensive.[...]
This workshop, facilitated by journalist Shaista Aziz, will introduce and explore the notions of ‘intersectional’ identities. Intersectionality may be defined as the way in which people’s experiences are shaped by their ethnicity, class, sex, gender,[...]
Join us for live music in the John Henry Brookes Building – Forum before the panel discussion at 18:00 in the Lecture Theatre. Most political movements are accompanied by protest songs. This Think Human Festival[...]
Join us for live music in the Forum of the John Henry Brookes Building from 17:00 before the panel discussion in the John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre at 18:00. Most political movements are accompanied by[...]
From palaeolithic shamanism to the politics of classical Rome, interpreting the movements and sounds of birds was highly valued as a way of learning what forces might be influencing the events of our world, whether[...]
Dr Tahir Zaman is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on refugees and forced migration with particular reference to Iraq and Syria, transnationalism, diaspora contributions to conflict transformation[...]
The adoption of big data, machine learning, and simulation software in biology and drug discovery have allowed for rapid progress in these fields. So far these technologies have aided discoveries, but can they eventually replace[...]
American Cool Modernism with Miguel de Baca and Eric White, chaired by Tara Stubbs. ‘America’s Cool Modernism’ is an exhibition which has garnered critical acclaim and captured the imagination of many, bringing together some of[...]
Saturday drop In session for everyone. Think art is just about looking? Think again! Join this session to find out how hearing, taste, smell and touch are activated in our encounters with painting and sculpture.
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