This presentation will examine the upsurge in the popularity of Hildegard of Bingen. The presentation will use of methodology of crystallisation (Richardson 2000) to examine the subject from a variety of dimensions including the performative in the form of story-telling, the lecture including images of her visions and the meditation using words and music (some from Hildegard and some from the author).
Dr June Boyce-Tillman MBE, FRSA,FHEA is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester. She read music at St Hugh’s College, Oxford in 1962 and has published widely in the area of education, most recently on spirituality/ liminality.
This event is part of the series A Festival of Anniversaries.
The event is organised in collaboration with the International Gender Studies Centre based at Lady Margaret Hall and whose Patron is St Hugh’s alumna Aung San Suu Kyi (PPE 1964). Sylvie Brieu’s new book portraying the voices of female activists in Myanmar will be available to discuss and purchase.
Sophie Marnette is Professor of Medieval French Studies, Fellow of Balliol College. A senior staff editor at the National Geographic Magazine in France, Sylvie Brieu has been covering cultural diversity issues and minority rights for almost 20 years.
Her recently published book, “When our voices rise From the Andes to the Amazon, a journey through native lands” will be available.
This event is part of the series A Festival of Anniversaries.
2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of the Cultural Revolution in China, where controversy over its meaning and its legacies continues to wage. Although the Communist Party’s unequivocal condemnation labelling the entire movement as “a grave ‘Left’ error… responsible for the most severe setback and the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People’s Republic,” decades later, it remains a lightening rod for contention. Professor Patricia M. Thornton of the Dickson Poon China Centre provides a brief overview of “Mao’s Last Revolution” and its legacies, both in China, as well as across the world.
Professor Patricia Thornton is a political scientist whose research interests span the political, socio-economic, and cultural history of modern China. She is a Fellow of Merton College where she is Tutor in the Politics of China, Associate Professor of Chinese Politics.
This event is part of the series A Festival of Anniversaries.
Alex Hibbert (Biological Sciences 2004) will talk about his pioneering experiences after his time at St Hugh’s. Alex Hibbert is the world record-holding polar traveller who has skied further on an unsupported Arctic journey than anyone in history.
“In July 2008, Alex completed his 1374-mile, 113-day ‘Long Haul’ return crossing of a new ice sheet route along with team-mate George Bullard. They received no resupplies or physical support and completed the final week on almost no food.” Highly active in the polar and cold regions, Alex has led independent projects every year since 2006. Journeys since the Long Haul have included a high-speed icecap crossing (330 miles in less than 12 days), an on-going Dark Ice Project (North Pole in winter) and nearly half a year living with the Polar Eskimos.
He is the author of three books; ‘The Long Haul’, ‘Maybe’ and ‘Kalaallit Nunaat’. His fourth is due out in 2017. His photographic collection has been widely published and he has been a BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year finalist three times.
This talk is part of the series A Festival of Anniversaries
Between 1995 and 2011, remittances to developing world economies, that is, money sent by emigrants to family and friends in their country of origin, grew from US$55 billion to over US$372 billion, to exceed all overseas development assistance to the developing world, and all private debt and portfolio equity flows.
Latin America is a major recipient of remittances. Over 5.2 per cent of the region’s population are migrants and in 2011 alone, US$62 billion was remitted to Latin American households. Despite the scale of these transfers however, we still do not know how remittances might affect political preferences and political behaviour among recipients, what this might mean for policy outcomes, and how these dynamics might shape the political system in countries heavily dependent on this capital.
In this talk, Professor Doyle will outline how the regular receipt of remittances is changing the political preferences of recipients, which will have long-lasting effects on politics and policy in Latin American countries dependent upon remittances, relative to countries that are not.
Professor Doyle is the Tutorial Fellow in the Politics of Latin America and Associate Professor of Comparative Politics Department of Politics and International Relations. He is a member of the Latin American Centre.
Geoffrey Davison, the great nephew of Emily Wilding Davison, will open the seminar with a personal insight into Emily’s life and the Suffrage movement. He will be joined by panel members who will include Professor Senia Paseta, Anneliese Dodds MEP & Lyndsey Jenkins who is researching the Women’s Social & Political Union (WSPU) who will discuss the history of the Suffrage movement and its importance for today and the future.
Part of the series, A Festival of Anniversaries
Ruth Webb (Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III): “Bodies and texts: Attitudes towards tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity”. Free, all welcome, no booking required.
Acclaimed poet Alice Oswald returns to the APGRD. Free, all welcome, no booking required.
This talk is given by Dr Merlin Cox
Dr Merlin Wilcox is a practicing GP and is currently coordinating the Oxford contribution to two EU-funded collaborative projects, working in partnership with European and African Universities, especially in Mali, Uganda and South Africa.
His research focuses on global health, particularly primary health care in low-income countries. In such countries, maternal and child mortality is significantly greater than in the UK – one in five children die before their fifth birthday. Primary health care has the potential to save most of these lives, if it is implemented according to the best evidence.
Merlin will talk about the different studies and designs he has used in his work trying to address child mortality in Africa.
This talk is being held as part of The Introduction to Study Design and Research Methods module which is part of the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care.
This is a free event and members of the public are welcome to attend. For more information and to book your free place please visit http://trials-and-tribulations-in-africa.eventbrite.co.uk.
Professor James Byrne from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences will give a talk on ‘Flow disrupters for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms unsuitable for endosaccular coiling’.
All members of the University and NHS clinical staff are welcome.