Monday 27 February
14:15 | THE MACREGOL GOSPELS
Part of the Palaeography and Manuscript Studies seminar series
14:15 | DIRECTOR WAYNE JORDAN IN CONVERSATION WITH FIONA MACINTOSH
Public lecture organised by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
17:00 | THE ENLIGHTENMENT RADICALISM OF ALEXANDER RADISHCHEV
Part of the Besterman Enlightenment workshop series
Tuesday 28 February
11:30 – 13:00 | THE LIMITS OF 'WHITE SLAVERY'
Speaker: Rachael Atwood (Westminster University)
16:00 | "O SAY CAN YOU SEE?"
Art, Propaganda, and the First World War
17:30 | IN CONVERSATION WITH PATRICK MCGUINNESS
With Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature Sean O'Brien
17:30 | YOKO TAWADA AT OXFORD: MULTILINGUAL READING AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Daad Writer in Residence at the University of Oxford
18:00 – 20:30 | OUT IN OXFORD: PARIS IS BURNING
AfterHours event
18:15 | THE PSALMS AND THE MIXED LIFE
Speaker: Mike Kuczynski (Tulane University)
Wednesday 1 March
12:15 – 14:00 | SHAKESPEARE’S CONVIVIALITY
Event organised by Said Business School
12:30 – 14:00 | POLITICS AND PUBLIC SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY ARGENTINE POETRY: THE LYRIC AND THE STATE
Book at Lunchtime session
13:00 – 14:00 | 'ALL THE MONEY I RAISED, I RAISED FROM GHANA': UNDERSTANDING REVERSE REMITTANCE PRACTICE AMONG GHANAIAN MIGRANTS IN THE UK AND THEIR RELATIVES IN GHANA
Part of the International Migration Institute Seminar Series
13:00 – 14:00 | THE PALACE OF ART: ROSSETTI AND BURNE-JONES
Speaker: Emily Carrington Freeman (MSt History of Art, University of Oxford)
17:00 | THE MATERIAL PRESENCE OF ABSENT ANTIQUITIES
With Caroline van Eck (Cambridge University)
17:00 | REVISITING INDIGENEITY: ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISM IN PALESTINE
Speaker: Illan Pappe (University of Exeter)
17:00 | TEMPORAL DOUBLE ORIENTATION: THE CASE OF DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS
Speaker: Marcin Moskalewicz (University of Oxford)
17:15 – 19:15 | WRITING AN ACADEMIC REVIEW
Marilyn Booth discusses how to write an academic book review
17:30 | WRITING VIOLENCE: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS
Avril Bruten Lecture
17:30 – 19:00 | 'MY HEART! MY HEART!': BODILY METAPHOR IN EXPRESSIONS OF MENTAL DISTRESS AND DISORDER IN AKKADIAN
Part of the Ancient Medicine Seminar series
17:30 – 19:00 | ANCIENT MEDICINE SEMINAR
Speaker: Dr Ido Israelowich (University of Tel Aviv)
Thursday 2 March
12:15 – 15:15 | ROUSSEAU, FREEDOM AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Speakers: Olivier Tonneau (University of Cambridge), Yannick Bosc (Rouen), and Daniel Thévenon (University of Cambridge)
14:00 – 15:30 | THE GEOGRAPHY OF LESBIAN GENDERS: RE-CREATING LESBIAN SUBJECTIVITY
Part of the Feminist Mappin in a Volatile World: Spaces of Creativity and Survival series
14:15 | TRADITIONS IN MOTION: THE CIRCULATION OF TEXTS, 1100-1900
Thomas Smith (1638-1710) and His Journey to the Levant: Continuities and Transformations in Oriental Scholarship
16:00 – 17:30 | WORCESTERSHIRE’S WOMEN: LOCAL STUDIES AND THE GENDER POLITICS OF THE GREAT WAR AND ITS LEGACY
Speaker: Dr Maggie Andrews (University of Worcester)
16:30 | GWYNEDD'S DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE 1267-1277
Part of The Oxford Celtic Seminar series
17:00 | ANTHROPOLOGY AS VULNEROLOGY? READING POSSIBILITY INTO THE CITY'S SUTURES
Speaker: Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven, Belgium)
17:15 – 19:00 | COMICS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Event co-hosted by Fiction and Human Rights and Comics and Graphic Novels networks
17:30 – 19:00 | AUTISM AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY: EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND THE REACTIVE ATTITUDES
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Richman
Friday 3 March
9:30 – 11:00 | HEIDEGGER READING GROUP
Graduate led reading group
12:30 – 13:45 | ANDREW W. MELLON FELLOWSHIP RESEARCH PRESENTATION
Speaker: Anne Margaret Castro (University of Oxford)
14:00 – 16:00 | PHENOMENOLOGICAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY READING GROUP
Convenor and contact: Marcin Moskalewicz
14:30 – 17:30 | HANDS, GESTURES, VOICES
An afternoon study event looks the relationship between songs and their performers
15:00 – 17:00 | GETTING YOUR HANDS DIRTY WITH THE DIGITAL MANUSCRIPTS TOOLKIT
Bodleian Library workshop on getting the mose out of digitized material
17:00 – 19:00 | OFFERED TO SAINT CONSTANTINE: THOUGHTS ON THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EARLY BYZANTINE SILVER HOARD OF KARLSRUHE
Part of the Cult of Saints in the First Millennium project
19:30 – 22:00 | SUPERSONIC LIVEFRIDAY
Late night opening at the Ashmolean Museum
Saturday 4 March
9:30 | MOURNING IN ITALIAN POETRY
Oxford Medieval Studies conference
17:00 – 18:00 | POETRY READING: POETRY READING BY ANTONELLA ANEDDA
With Jamie McKendrick
Monday 6 March
12:45 – 14:00 | OCCT DISCUSSION GROUP: WHAT IS GOOD LITERATURE?
An Experiment in Aesthetic Judgement & Implicit Comparison
17:00 | THE LURE OF PARIS: THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SPEED-DATING
Part of the Besterman Enlightenment workshop series
Tuesday 7 March
11:30 – 13:00 | READING GROUP
Centre for Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity
17:00 | THE MERTON EQUALITY CONVERSATION 2017 - DISABILITY AND EDUCATION
Introductory talk at the fourth annual Merton Equality Conversation
17:00 | LIVING DIVERSITY: IDENTITIES IN MEDIEVAL CITIES
Annual Medieval Studies Lecture
17:00 | SCREENING OF 'GARAGE' (2007)
Followed by a panel discussion
18:00 – 19:30 | THE ROLE OF IDENTITY POLITICS IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Oxford Women in Politics (OxWiP) Inaugural event
18:15 | THE PSALMS AND THE QUR’AN
Speakers: Dr Danny Crowther and Shirin Shafaie
Wednesday 8 March
10:00 | MASTERCLASS WITH OXFORD FILM STUDENTS
With Lenny Abrahamson (Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Film and Television 2016-17)
12:30 – 14:30 | CRITICAL VISUALIZATION LUNCHTIME SEMINAR
A TORCH Critical Visualization Network event
13:00 – 14:00 | THE SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING OF AFRICAN TRANSNATIONAL PARENTS IN EUROPE
Part of the International Migration Institute Seminar Series
14:00 – 15:30 | THE RELATION OF LITERATURE AND LEARNING TO SOCIAL HIERARCHY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
With papers by John O'Brien and Brodie Waddell
17:00 | NATURALISM, TRUTHFULNESS AND THE VALUE OF NOT KNOWING
Lecture with Lenny Abrahamson (Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Film and Television 2016-17)
17:00 | THE MATERIAL PRESENCE OF ABSENT ANTIQUITIES
With Caroline van Eck (Cambridge University)
17:15 – 19:15 | ONLINE AND OFFLINE FORUMS FOR CULTURAL PRODUCTION
This event invites participants to think about the different ways in which online and offline forums function as locations of literary and intellectual culture
17:30 – 18:45 | GENDER EQUALITY IN OXFORD: HOW FAR HAVE WE COME?
A Roundtable Discussion for International Women's Day
Thursday 9 March
13:00 – 14:00 | GRIEF AND THE WORK OF ART AS A SITE OF EMOTION
Speakers: Kirsten Smith (DPhil Psychology, University of Oxford) and Emily Knight (DPhil History of Art, University of Oxford)
14:00 – 15:30 | CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY IN CONCERT
Part of the Feminist Mappin in a Volatile World: Spaces of Creativity and Survival series
14:15 | TRADITIONS IN MOTION: THE CIRCULATION OF TEXTS, 1100-1900
The Story of 'Antar in Jewish and Christian Manuscripts
16:30 | READING HIS WAY TO ROYALISM: THE LIBRARY, POLITICS, AND RELIGION OF SIR THOMAS MYDDELTON, 1639-1666
Part of The Oxford Celtic Seminar series
17:00 | DECOLONIAL CITIZENSHIP: AFRICAN WOMEN'S POLITICAL PRACTICES IN CONTESTED SPACES
Speaker: Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Arizona, USA)
17:30 | OUR COLLECTIONS & THEIR AUDIENCES
Part of the 'MOVING, TEACHING, INSPIRING: The National Trust & University of Oxford in the 21st Century' lecture series.
17:30 – 19:00 | BEYOND THE BOOK
ODNB Discussion Panel
Friday 10 March
9:30 – 11:00 | HEIDEGGER READING GROUP
Graduate led reading group
11:00 – 13:00 | THE RISE OF ENDLESS WAR
Speaker: Professor Samuel Moyn (Harvard University)
12:45 – 14:00 | STEERING GROUP MEETING
TORCH Race and Resistance programme
14:00 – 16:00 | PHENOMENOLOGICAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY READING GROUP
Convenor and contact: Marcin Moskalewicz
17:00 | ARE HUMAN RIGHTS NEOLIBERAL?: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
Professor Samuel Moyn discusses the history of modern rights advocacy
17:30 | SILENT CINEMA AND THE CLASSICS
Purity (1916) and L' Esclave de Phidias (1917)
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