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To celebrate the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, Master of St Cross Carole Souter and Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán, President of Patrimonio Nacional, will be talking about the challenges faced by the preservation of[...]
Butterflies and moths are suffering impacts from changes in climate, habitats and plant communities, alongside wider challenges to nature. The talk will describe these challenges, some of the actions being taken to tackle them, locally[...]
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[...]
This presentation covers the highlights of almost half a century of observing local wildlife. It includes dormice, reptiles, rare orchids, rare butterflies, moths and other insects, great-crested newts and other amphibians, moths and wildlife observed[...]
The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50% of Syria’s population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State (Hurst Publishers) places the current[...]
The Oxford Guild and its Collegium Global Network in association with the Oxford PPE Society is delighted to welcome a very special guest – Tawakkol Karman, one of the most famous and most decorated Nobel[...]
In celebration of the Oxford Festival of Nature, Blackwell’s Broad Street will be hosting a day of free Nature talks and activities. At 1pm we will be joined by Jeremy Mynott who will be discussing[...]
“Iraqi Migrants in Syria: The Crisis before the Storm” with Sophia Hoffmann @ Refugee Studies Centre
Dr Sophia Hoffmann is a political scientist focused on the international relations of the Middle East. Her current research project “Learning Intelligence: the Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between Germany and the Arab Middle East”[...]
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[...]
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (2018 / 63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as ‘Fracking’. Undercurrents productions show what happens[...]
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[...]
Discover how propaganda images and literature during the First World War marked a change in women and their roles in society.
All welcome. Registration essential. For further information and to register, please contact global@history.ox.ac.uk Francis Bacon once opined: “Augustus Caesar would say, that he wondered that Alexander feared he should want work, having no more worlds[...]
In celebration of the Oxford Festival of Nature, Blackwell’s Broad Street will be hosting a day of free Nature talks and activities. At 1pm we will be joined by Jeremy Mynott who will be discussing[...]
Her Excellency Minister Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf, Minister of Women and Human Rights Development, Federal Government of Somalia Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in conflict-affected contexts: Current challenges and opportunities in Somalia. In Somalia,[...]
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[...]
During the peak of the periods of Victorian post-Darwin enlightenment, ingenuity and discovery, Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918) started life as a curate in a London slum before moving to the Italian Riviera and the Maritime Alps[...]
Daniel Sandford OW is BBC Home Affairs Correspondent, reporting on terrorism, crime, policing, prisons and immigration. He was previously BBC Moscow Correspondent during the height of the Ukraine and Crimea crisis. Whilst in Ukraine and[...]
Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart Five Openings, and Caspar Henderson, author of A New Map of Wonders talk about honeybees and nature. All are welcome. 7.30pm on 16 July in the library in[...]
‘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[...]
A presentation on natural history covering kingfishers, butterflies, insects, and many mammals. The Preeces have been photographing wildlife for about 18 years after taking early retirement and have had their work published in many magazines.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Inclosure Act, a brief illustrated history will be given of a 4 acre allotment of land north of Oxford from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, together with a[...]
Organised by Oxford Civic Society @oxcivicsoc. In the second of his two talks on Oxford libraries, John Ashdown, former Conservation Officer for the City, talks about the most famous library of them all, the Bodleian. He[...]
Come along to a Fundraising Event for Slow Loris Conservation. 3-6pm – Children’s Activities including: nocturnal animal face painting and pumpkin carving (£3 each) and mask making; slow loris puppet show; how to be a[...]
Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture – Joint with OOS Prof. Richard Gregory is Head of Species Monitoring and Research at the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science. His talk will explain how the RSPB’s science is delivering[...]
Dr Marwa Al-Sabouni considers the impact of conflict on urban environments, and the opportunity to rethink the colonist-imposed town planning of her home city of Homs, which cut off neighbourhoods and replaced courtyard houses with[...]
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[...]
This talk will describe the background, purpose and methodology of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa Project. It will highlight many of the issues surrounding such a project, based in the[...]
Dani Linton has coordinated box checks looking for bat roosts rather than bird nests across Wytham Woods for over a decade, amassing a dataset of over 2500 day roosts, containing seven species and c.18,000 bat[...]
For 30 years, Professor John Runions has used microscopes to explore myriad miniature realms. His research into how cells function reveals the hidden beauty of the natural world in striking detail. Now we are faced[...]
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