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.[...]
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.[...]
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[...]
Widely acclaimed for his sculpture, installations and public artworks Sir Antony Gormley’s work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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.
Join us for our Blackwell’s Open Mic Night, where there will be performances from an array of talented local performers, across a wide mix of creativity. Everyone is welcome to come along and listen, places[...]
American Literature in 1920s-30s with Alex Goody and Diana Leca chaired by Kristin Grogan. These literary experts get under the skin of American Literature in the 1920s and 1930s. This was the era of Gertrude[...]
Blackwell’s presents an evening with madison moore, who will be exploring his new book ‘Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric’, an exploration of what it means to be fabulous – and why eccentric style,[...]
About the talk Theatre was the new media of Elizabethan London. This talk discusses the industry via its entrepreneurs – playhouse owners, actors, writers, and publishers. We can trace how these innovators developed the new[...]
阴道之道l 牛津·女权话剧 Our Vaginas, Ourselves l Chinese Vagina Monologues at Oxford The play will be performed in Chinese with English subtitles. The Vagina Monologues is an episodic play written by Eve Ensler based on interviews[...]
How do pictures and words work together, and what can we do them? What can books do to kindle wonder, imagination and action in kids? Joined a noted author of books for children and a[...]
David Freeman demonstrates how the music business started in Victorian times. This event is all about how sound waves were first captured on fragile spinning wax cylinders and how this beautiful simple technology evolved into[...]
There will be a lecture by Bernard Richards on Susan Goddard’s work: ‘ART AS LIFE’ in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre (adjacent to the Gallery) from 5.30 – 6pm, followed by a private viewing of[...]
‘Home Sweet Home – a Memorial’ honours the living, the women and children who support their loved ones living with the after-effects of the war experience. The project has been created to pay tribute and[...]
An exhibition of photographs by Anthony Dawton and Jim MacFarlane showing the refugees of the now infamous Zaatari camp on the Syrian/Jordanian border.
Athi-Patra Ruga: ‘Of Gods, Rainbows and Omissions’ Monday 1st Oct, 6-7.15pm Oxford Brookes University, JHB Main Lecture Theatre To kick off our new season of talks, the Oxford Brookes Fine Art Research unit (FAR) will[...]
The Re-Imagining Cole symposium will examine the background, context and depictions of previously unseen caricatures of Christian Frederick Cole, Oxford University’s first Black African Scholar 1873, and the first Black African to practise Law in[...]
The esteemed ceramicist Claudia Clare is an artist who uses this traditionally domestic medium to present social commentary, often on issues of trauma, sexuality, and revolution. Having been subjected to censorship by public art institutions,[...]
Amanda Jewell will take you on a tour of our exhibition:‘Contrasting Arabia’ A contemporary photographic and film journey through the Zaatari Refugee Camp photographed by Anthony Dawton and Jim McFarlane – filmed by Mais Salman[...]
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