Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.
The hall is open from 19.15 for help and computer advice on searching for family history, free tea/coffee, new books avaiable to browse, cd’s to browse.
Professor Li Ruru: The Cultural Revolution and Me Tuesday, May 1, 5-7PM Lecture Theatre, China Centre, St Hugh’s College, Oxford Open and free of charge for all Supported by: Oxford Chinese Studies Society 2016 witnessed[...]
Speaker: ANAND MENON, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at Kings College, London, directs the ESRC Initiative ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’. Anand Menon has written for the Financial Times, Prospect, The Guardian,The[...]
The Hall will be open from 19.15 for refreshments, help and comouter advice for family history searches, new books to browse, cd’s to browse.
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[...]
Humans have been creating figurative art for at least 40,000 years. Professor Gillian Morriss-Kay, Chairman of the Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum, will present ideas about the evolutionary changes in perception that led to[...]
St Cross Special Ethics Seminar. The standard view in evolutionary anthropology is that human morality originated as an adaptation for solving problems of social living that early humans faced in the Pleistocene. This descriptive claim[...]
The Pitt Rivers Museum cares for a sail from an umiak, or women’s boat, collected from an Inuit group in the Hudson Strait in 1824. The sail is unique, in that it is made from[...]
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,[...]
Sunday, 25th November 2018 11am – 6.15pm (Registration starts at 10.30am) Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre & JHB207, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Road, Oxford OX3 0BP “What does it mean to[...]
Come and hear Rachel Sanderson, Land Officer from the Oxford Preservation Trust talk about how the flood alleviation scheme might help cycling. In theory this could be the cycling route from Botley to Sandford and[...]
Talk followed by questions and discussion. All welcome. This is the first of a series of weekly talks. The full list is: Brexit: archaic techniques of ecstasy Thursday 17 January: 7:30pm–9:00pm Wesley Memorial Church (New[...]
Join us as part of St Anne’s Equalities Week in collaboration with Oxford Women in Business for a panel event featuring Anne’s alumni. Under the banner of “Overcoming Challenges”, we shall discuss how best to[...]
Duncan Dollimore, Head of Campaigns, Cycling UK wants to hear our views on local cycle campaigning Cycling UK has spent the last few months considering how to work with local campaign groups. Duncan is coming[...]
We are delighted to invite to a documentary film-screening of the film Dreamland, followed by a Skype Q&A with one of the film-makers, Professor Britt Kramvig. The film: Viewed through the camera lens of a[...]
Talk followed by questions and discussion. All welcome
The 5th Annual Oxford Business and Poverty Conference will feature a diverse range of speakers addressing the Paradoxes of Prosperity. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual-oxford-business-poverty-conference-tickets-57733957822 Hosted at the Sheldonian Theatre, the conference will feature keynotes by:[...]
This public event brings global leaders in ethnographic museums together to consider how to reinvigorate museums with ethnographic collections, foreground indigenous knowledges and curatorial practices, and rethink assumptions about museums. Participants include: João Pacheco de[...]
A conference exploring how we can get people who used to cycle, or have never cycled, onto bikes, and the role of virtual reality cycling. Come and join us for a day full of informative[...]
This two-day conference will explore the evolving relationship between conflict and identity, with a specific interest in the role of history education in pre-conflict, at-conflict, and post-conflict societies. It will focus on how teachers and[...]
Pompeii Rediscovered A talk with Massimo Osanna, Director General, Parco Archeologico di Pompei Mon 11 Nov, 6.30–7.30pm This event will be followed by drinks in the museum and a private view of the Last Supper[...]
Blackwell’s is thrilled to be welcoming Erling Kagge to discuss his new book ‘Philosophy for Polar Explorers’. Synopsis Erling Kagge was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth’s poles by foot[...]
Migration is present at the dawn of human history – the phenomena of hunting and gathering, seeking seasonal pasture and nomadism being as old as human social organisation itself. The flight from natural disasters, adverse[...]
Some 45,000 years ago, a group of around 1500 humans who were genetically similar left Africa for Asia. Successive generations of their descendants were the first members of H.sapiens to explore the earth, apart from[...]
When the UK joined the EU in 1973 all previous trade barriers with the EU were abolished, which led to a strong intensification of trade with the European continent. This situation will soon be a[...]
Lord Sumption will discuss the impact on our constitution and political system of the referendum of 2016 and its aftermath. Part of the Oxford Martin Lecture Series: ‘Shaping the future’
Hear a whole phD in just three minutes! Can you understand a whole phD in just three minutes? Perhaps you are an Undergraduate or Masters student who is aiming for a future PhD? Join Humanities[...]
Speaker: Dr Neil Armstrong (Stipendiary Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Magdalen College) This paper uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility.[...]
In modern high-tech health care, patients appear to be the stumbling block. Uninformed, anxious, noncompliant individuals with unhealthy lifestyles who demand treatments advertised by celebrities and insist on unnecessary but expensive diagnostics may eventually turn[...]
This year’s Kenneth Kirkwood Memorial Lecture Day focuses on the always fascinating subject of death and last rites in different cultures. The day will consist of four very varied talks from a panel of eminent[...]
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