Week 4
Friday 12 February
Friday (All Day) to Sunday (All Day) | German Song Onstage 1770-1914 Collaborative conference
12:00pm to 1:30pm | Heidegger Reading Group
Graduate led reading group
12:45pm to 2:00pm | The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature Lloyd Pratt (Associate Professor of English, Oxford) will speak about his new bookThe Strangers Book
2:15pm to 3:45pm | The Latitudes of Twilight in the North Speaker: Professor Peter Davidson (University of Oxford)
Saturday 13 February
9:30am to 4:45pm | Life-Writing Workshop: Emotional Lives A workshop with Hermione Lee and Patrick Hayes.
11:00am to 6:00pm | Wadham Race Symposium Confronting the White Institution
Week 5
Monday 15 February
ERC Project Workshop 7
2:15pm | Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Seminar: Nocturnal Emissions William MacLehose: ‘Mind, body and soul in medieval discussions of nocturnal emissions’
Tuesday 16 February
Speaker: Pierre Musitelli (ENS, Paris)
An afternoon of presentations and discussion with scholars working on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer histories.
Part of the ‘Building a Business’ lecture series for Humanities and Social Sciences researchers
4:30pm to 6:30pm | Reading Group Title of the book:What There Is? The Fundamental Ontology of the Natural World
5:30pm to 7:00pm | Against Biography Adam Phillips gives a Wienrebe Lecture for the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Pyschotherapist and essayist Adam Phillips gives a lecture as part of the 2016 Weinrebe Lecture Series
Wednesday 17 February
Seminar 2: Enacting co-production
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 -
Engaging with the Humanities: Emma Smith
4:30pm to 6:30pm | Essence as Generalized Identity and Real Definition
Speaker: Fabrice Correia (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Speaker: Magdalena Bosch Rabell (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Spain)
With Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England, as part of the Oxford Diversity Lectures 2016.
A Science, Medicine & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar with Graeme Gooday
Part of the Plain Song: A Short History of Music in the Church series
Thursday 18 February
Philip Bullock leads a workshop for undergraduates and graduate students registered at the University of Oxford for The Oxford Song Network
Speaker: Rachel Moore (New College, Oxford University)
Friday 19 February
A workshop to explore changing understandings of ‘politics’ in Europe, the Ottoman and Arab worlds and South Asia, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Graduate led reading group
A collaborative forum in which to read, translate and discuss a wide variety of Anglo-Norman texts.
5:00pm to 7:00pm | Art as Evidence for the Joint Cult of Saints: John The Baptist And John The Evangelist In Early Medieval Rome And Byzantium Speaker: Maria Lidova (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
Speaker: Dr Matthew Bevis (University of Oxford)
Week 6
Monday 22 February
Part of the Intermediality series
Jonathan Healey: ‘Old age, sickness and poor relief in seventeenth-century England’
Besterman Enlightenment Workshop with Tessa Whitehouse (Queen Mary University of London).
Alexandra Harris gives a Wienrebe Lecture for the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Roundtable discussion session
A lecture by Professor John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford
Tuesday 23 February
1:00pm to 2:00pm | Are the Humanities More Digital than the Sciences? A panel discussion with Howard Hotson, Andrew Prescott, Dave De Roure and Heather Viles
Rhea Sookdeosingh (DPhil History) delivers a seminar as part of the "Reading Images" series
Oxford University Annual LGBT History Month Lecture
Wednesday 24 February
Papers by Emma Whipday (King’s College London) and Tom Hamilton (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Title of the book: Barbara Vetter:Potentiality
This is part of the Inter-Asian Comparison series
Speaker: Lucy Whelan
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Margaret Kean and Stuart Lee discuss how the stories of J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, and Philip Pullman have been reimagined across different media
Part of the Plain Song: A Short History of Music in the Church series
Thursday 25 February
Join the "Rags to Riches" network discussions - Experiences of Social Mobility since 1800
Speaker: Elisabeth Forster (Oxford China Centre, Oxford University)
A brief introduction to early Chinese oracle bone script, using online materials for illustration
Part of the medieval and renaissance music seminar series
The launch of Mark Davies' biography of James Sadler (1753–1828), Oxford pastry cook and first English aeronaut.
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