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[...]
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[...]
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.
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[...]
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[...]
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,[...]
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[...]
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[...]
‘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[...]
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,[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, UN agencies, NGOs and the Red Cross / Crescent work to save lives and protect rights in the wake of natural disasters and armed conflict. How effective is the $27Billion sector?[...]
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[...]
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