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May 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Department of International Development, Seminar Room 3
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[...]
May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's College
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[...]
May 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
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[...]
May 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Department of International Development, Seminar Room 3
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”[...]
May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Bonn Square
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[...]
May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Quaker Meeting House
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[...]
May 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford Brookes University John Henry Brookes Building Forum and Lecture Theatre
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[...]
May 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Department of International Development, Seminar Room 3
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[...]
May 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Brookes University, John Henry Brookes Building Lecture Theatre
Kerry Hudson, Kit de Waal and Alex Wheatle are celebrated contemporary British novelists who have all written working-class experience into their fiction. At this event, the novelists are hosted by writer and critic Boyd Tonkin.[...]
May 25 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm The Green Room, Headington Hill Hall
The year is 1964 and ten defendants are on trial for their lives in South Africa in what is widely perceived as a politically motivated proceeding. The defendants include many prominent campaigners against apartheid, notably[...]
May 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm The Oxfordshire Museum
Discover how propaganda images and literature during the First World War marked a change in women and their roles in society.
May 31 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm St Aldates Tavern (The blue room)
To what extent what we perceive is real? How does experience affect our perception of the world? Dr Matthew Parrott, Prof Brian Rogers and Dr Kerry Walker are ready to take you for a captivating[...]
Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College
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[...]
Jun 9 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
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[...]
Jun 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s Bookshop Oxford Broad Street is delighted to welcome to the bookshop Afua Hirsch, who will be discussing her extraordinary book ‘Brit(ish)’. Voted by our booksellers as our championed Book of the Month on it’s[...]
Jun 18 all-day Green Templeton College Oxford
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,[...]
Jun 20 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Old Music Hall
Do you want to learn about artificial intelligence? Have you been put off by technical jargon or fears of terminator robots? Come along to this evening course for beginners run by the AI consultancy Oxford[...]
Jul 3 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
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[...]
Jul 5 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Festival Marquee, Magdalen College School
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[...]
Aug 20 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes University
‘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[...]
Aug 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Based on their first hand experiences as election watchers and their hundreds of interviews with presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, election officials, and conspirators, Cheeseman and Klaas document instances of election rigging from Argentina to Zimbabwe,[...]
Oct 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm Photo Studio, Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Road, Oxford OX3 0BP
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,[...]
Oct 30 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm JHB Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University
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[...]
Nov 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Simpkins Lee Lecture Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
New movements for social justice from the 1970s delivered searching critiques of the discipline and practice of social policy and the welfare state. But how far have such perspectives since influenced social policy as a[...]
Nov 16 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Christ Church, Lecture Room 2
Anna Milon, Education Secretary of the Tolkien Society will be joining us to give her talk, Neurodivergent Middle-earth: Existing scholarship on Tolkien and mental health has largely focused on the aftermath of trauma or the[...]
Nov 25 @ 11:00 am – 6:15 pm Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre & JHB207
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[...]
Nov 27 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm St Cross College
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[...]
Nov 29 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Wesley Memorial Church
Talk followed by questions and discussion. This is part of a series of eight meetings on Thursday evenings, each one beginning at 7:30 and ending at 9pm. 11 October The right to say untrue and[...]
Dec 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm John Henry Brookes Main Lecture Theatre
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[...]
Feb 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Wolfson College
FLJS Films is pleased to present a special screening of Golden Kingdom, the acclaimed first international feature film to be produced in Myanmar since its reopening. The film’s director Brian Perkins will discuss the film[...]