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Please note that this event has been cancelled. Join novelist Sarah Moss and historian Sarah Knott in conversation with critic Merve Emre.
The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from burials and texts, Barry Cunliffe reconstructs the lives of the Scythians, exploring their beliefs,[...]
The Phoenicians were famously great traders who, from their base in modern-day Lebanon, traded their wares around the Mediterranean and beyond. Learn about their culture, art, achievements, and cities at home in the Levant and[...]
Moran’s ‘Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon’ pictures 19th-century America at its most bucolic and pastoral. It was painted, however, amidst a conflict that threatened to tear the young country apart. Examine Moran’s landscape as an allegory[...]
The Rediscovery & Reception of Gandharan Art Gandhara Connections 4th International Workshop Thursday 26th and Friday 27th March 2020 Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU The workshop abstract and provisional programme are available[...]
Learn about the vast trade network of the Phoenicians, the goods traded and their trading partners, who included the Greeks and Etruscans, as well as people in Sardinia and southern Spain. The Phoenicians Phoenicia Part[...]
Both worked on the outskirts of Pre-Raphaelitism and aestheticism, tackling ambitious subjects of love, spirituality, and time, to create beautiful artworks. Join De Morgan Curator, Sarah Hardy, to discover the previously ignored professional and personal[...]
A conversation about life-writing and the Lives of Houses. With Hermione Lee, Roy Foster, Alexandra Harris, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
An exploration of the work of prolific writer Jenny Diski, with a keynote lecture from Blake Morrison.
The city of Hereford stands a couple of hours from Oxford along one of the most scenic train rides in England. Follow the Medieval Pilgrim trail, discovering a landscape alive with holy wells, sacred shrines,[...]
One of the great triumvirate of High Renaissance masters, Raphael is famous for his calm serenity in even the most dramatic of his paintings. This year marks the 500th anniversary of his death, and Alice[...]
Learn about the young Rembrandt’s rise to fame. A major breakthrough happened when the Prince of Orange, Frederick Henry, began to commission works from the artist, some of which are on display in the Young[...]
Just an hour by train, discover one of the great lost buildings of England, an ancient centre of pilgrimage and scholarship. Discover what unique artworks and architectural gems survive within the townscape and further afield.[...]
A window into the intimate world of their makers, users and collectors, 18th- and 19th-century Greek embroideries have many stories to tell. Explore some of them through a selection of highlights on display in Gallery[...]
Towards the end of the 15th century, Florence had become a centre of artistic achievement. Ghirlandaio, a master of both the fresco and innovative oil techniques, ran a prestigious workshop in which the young Michelangelo[...]
Using images and eye-witness accounts, David Stuttard paints a vivid picture of the classical Greek Games – a thousand years of speed trials, brawn and horsemanship underpinned by religious ritual, lavish feasting, political chicanery and[...]
The Story of a Neglected Book: Hokusai’s Illustrated Tang Poetry of 1880 Mon 4 May, 5–6pm Ashmolean Museum Lecture Theatre With Dr Ellis Tinios, Visiting Researcher, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University Learn about a deluxe[...]
Lecture by Linda Farrar, a freelance researcher, lecturer and author of Ancient Roman Gardens. The art of gardening has a long history, with gardens being used in most ancient cultures to enhance living areas, and[...]
Identification, ecology and conservation of amphibians found in Oxfordshire.
To enhance our natural environment, we need to put the environment back into the heart of the economy. Using natural capital as the guiding principle, we can leave a better environment for future generations, implementing[...]
In this talk Natasha Randall explores the task of biographical research into the figure of the literary translator Constance Garnett. Translators notionally produce non-original text but are there aspects of their work, their semantic tendencies[...]
Narrative Futures is an interactive podcast featuring interviews with leading authors and editors in the speculative genre and writing prompts designed to support the imagination of better futures. Narrative Futures is the capstone podcast project[...]
Lt. Major Cecilia Diaconeasa was a Cold War secret police informant who in March 1983, several weeks after the birth of her baby daughter, was assigned to extract confessions from a woman suspected of collaborating[...]
This is the Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing for Michaelmas Term 2020. Hermione Lee, whose biography of Tom Stoppard is published by Faber on 1 October, talks about his life and work, and the challenges for[...]
In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy, the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Through poems about landscape and loss, the poems in her third collection, Return by[...]
BBC Radio Nottingham’s History advisor Gareth Howell returns to continue the story of WW2. The British and French have wasted tine over the winter of 1939/40, but now prepare to face the German onslaught on[...]
Following her Research Forum talk in Trinity 2020, ‘The Elusive Subject: Biographies of Exiles’ Soledad Fox Maura returns to the OCLW programme for the launch of her first novel, Madrid Again (Simon & Schuster), in[...]
During the English Civil War, the court of Charles the first moved to Oxford, along with his army. His Queen Henrietta Maria joined him there, bringing with her all her court ladies, some of whom[...]
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