Monday 14 November
10:00 – 16:00 | Oxford-Valencia Neuroethics Workshop
Workshop Hosted by Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
12:45 – 14:00 | Allegories of Comparison: Benjamin and Hölderlin
Part of the OCCT Discussion Group
16:30 – 18:30 | Consequentialism for Cows
Part of the How to Count Animals, More or Less series
17:00 – 19:00 | ‘Deprofessionalization’
Part of ‘Literary Activism’, a series of public debates in collaboration with UEA, St Hugh’s College and TORCH.
17:00 | Crisis, Critique and Loss of Concepts: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein
Speaker: Professor Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford).
Tuesday 15 November
10:00 – 16:00 | Oxford-Bucharest Work In Progress Workshop
Workshop hosted by Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
17:00 – 19:00 | Deontology for Dogs
Part of the How to Count Animals, More or Less series
17:00 | "Voyage Littéraire Par-Delà les Frontières: Analyse de L'écriture Nomade dans L'oeuvre de Linda Lê"
Speaker: Veronica Ntoumos-de Remy (Phd student at Sorbonne University and ULB)
Wednesday 16 November
17:00 – 19:00 | Foundation for Frogs
Part of the How to Count Animals, More or Less series
17:15 – 18:30 | Gender and Authority Seminar
Speakers: Katherine Watson and Annika Forkert
18:45 | Problem Solving and Decision-Making in the Creative Process
Part of 'The Muse: A six-part series on the creative spark'
20:15 – 22:00 | Japanese Song
Study evening hosted Frances Watson
Thursday 17 November
14:00 – 15:30 | The Nature of Church-Based Global Relationships – Case Studies from the Worldwide Anglican Communion
Part of the Gender and Leadership in a Volatile World seminar series
16:00 | Scholarly Identities in War and Peace: The Paris Peace Conference and the Mobilization of Intellect
Speaker: Tomás Irish (Swansea University)
17:00 | “The Last Sad Testimony of Affection”: Picturing the Dead in Eighteenth-Century Britain
A History of Art Research Seminar
17:00 | The Enrichment Economy: Narratives, Collectables and Heritage as Economic Resources
This term’s lectures and seminars will focus on the economy and markets in a broad cultural context
17:15 | Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetic of Transitional Justice
Part of the Postcolonial Writing and Theory seminar series
17:15 | Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections of Work in Progress
2016 Besterman Lecture
19:00 – 22:30 | Don't Panic!
Promises and threats of science and technology
Friday 18 November
10:00 | The Enrichment Economy: Narratives, Collectibles and Heritage as Economic Resources
Speakers: Luc Boltanski (EHESS, Paris) and Arnaud Esquerre (CNRS)
12:45 – 14:00 | Re-Imagining Scandinavia in the World: Colonialism and Race
Speaker: Dr Michael McEachrane (UCL)
16:00 | Hope and Fear at Crossbones Graveyard
Strange goings on in a graveyard
17:00 16:30 | Medieval Occitan Reading Group
Michaelmas Term 2016 seminars
19:00 – 22:00 | Extinctions! Invasions! The Wild Side of Hopes and Fears
Come and find out more about the past of British fauna and cast your vote for its future in this interactive museum late event
Saturday 19 November
10:00 – 17:00 | Celebiography: Celebrity and Life-Writing in Dialogue
One-day workshop convened by Sandra Mayer, in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW)
Monday 21 November
11:00 – 13:00 | Trusted Source Article Writing Workshop
Find out more about Trusted Source and how to get involved
16:00 – 18:30 | The Dreamed Ones Preview and Q&A
With Director Ruth Beckermann
17:00 | The Inheritance of Isis
Speaker: Dr Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 22 November
10:00 – 16:00 | Ethical Considerations in Donor Compensation for Plasma-Derived Medicinal Products
Lecture hosted by Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
12:45 – 14:00 | The Correspondence of David Hume
Speaker: Felix Waldmann (University of Cambridge).
17:15 | Vouloir (Will) et Nouloir (Nill) dans la Philosophie Médiévale : Augustin, Abélard, Buridan
Alain de Libera (Collège de France)
17:15 – 19:00 | Jennifer Howell: 'The Algerian War in French-Language Comics'
A Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form event
18:30 – 22:30 | The Dreamed Ones Preview and Q&A
With Director Ruth Beckermann
Wednesday 23 November
10:30 – 16:00 | Race and the Academy
Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop organised by the Oxford Race and Resistance Programme
13:00 – 14:00 | Law and Ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005)
Seminar hosted by TORCH Fiction and Human Rights network
16:00 | Rescuing Maritime Strategy from the Continental Commitment: Julian Corbett's Analysis of Gallipoli and Jutland in the Official History of Naval Operations
Speaker: Professor Andrew Lambert (King's College London)
19:00 – 22:00 | Callaloo Conference 2016
Annual conference of the Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
17:30 – 19:00 | Was Acupuncture Developed by Han Dynasty Chinese Anatomists?
Part of the Ancient Medicine Seminar series
18:45 | Inspiration and Imagery in Japanese Poetry Prints
Part of 'The Muse: A six-part series on the creative spark'
Thursday 24 November
9:00 – 17:00 | Richard Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World
400th anniversary of the death of Richard Hakluyt (1552–1616)
9:00 – 20:30 | Callaloo Conference 2016
Annual conference of the Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
14:00 – 15:30| Integrating Female Military Peacekeepers: Lessons from Rwanda
Part of the Gender and Leadership in a Volatile World seminar series
16:30 | Old Irish in Ireland 1650—1850
Part of The Oxford Celtic Seminar series
17:00 | Baroque Between the Wars: Curzon Street, Camp, and the Importance of Being Amusing
A History of Art Research Seminar
17:00 – 18:30 | The Contested Seed of Abraham
Inaugural Lecture of Anna Sapir Abulafia Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions
17:15 – 19:00 | Michael Goodrum: '"Superman Believes that a Wife's Place is in the Home": Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane and the Representation of Women'
A Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form event
17:15 – 19:15 | The Politics of Prizing Translation
Part of the Translation and Criticism series
17:30 – 19:00 | ‘A Gem of a Small Nabataean Temple’
With authors Marlena Whiting and Hannah Wellman
17:30 – 19:00 | Privacy vs. Security
Lecture hosted by Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Friday 25 November
9:00 – 21:00 | Callaloo Conference 2016
Annual conference of the Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
12:30 – 14:00 | Collaborative Research Projects: Challenges and Benefits
Part of the Researching the Eighteenth Century seminar series
17:00 – 18:30 | Anglo-Norman Reading Group
Seminars during Michaelmas Term 2016
17:00 | Critical Technology
Is technological risk the main threat to the survival of humanity? Or do we need to rely on technology to survive?
19:00 – 22:30 | FRIGHTFriday
Being Human Festival Finale at the Ashmolean Museum
Saturday 26 November
10:00 – 12:00 | Callaloo Conference 2016
Annual conference of the Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
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