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Maimed Survival Seminar Series

Every Monday from Monday 19 October 2020, 12.30pm start

Pembroke College, St Aldates, Oxford - Room TBC

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Discussion Group - Poetry Reading

Monday 19 October 2020, 1-2pm

Online - Teams Live (registration required)

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PERLEGO

19 - 22 October 2020

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Queer Studies Research Tea: Quilting the Lesbian Archive and Representing African LGBTQ refugees

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 2pm

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Al-Muzani’s al-Mukhtasar: An Arabic legal text from 9th century Egypt

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 2-3.30pm

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Batman the Egyptologist: Egyptology, orientalism and museums in the superhero

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 5.15pm

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Spaces In/between: Critical approaches to care & collectivity online

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 6.30-8pm

Online - registration required

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Reevaluating authenticity: Creativity in contemporary craft making in China

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 11am

Book at Lunchtime: Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 1-2pm

Street art in Exarcheia, Athens

“Greek and Green? Eco-turn in Modern Greek Studies”

Wednesday 21 October, 5pm

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Shut Up & Write - Online Session

Thursday 22 October 2020, 3.00pm

Live Event: Talking Afropean

Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Talking Afropean

Thursday 22 October 2020, 5:00pm - 6.00pm

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Womens: Discovering the Work of Female Photographers

Saturday 24 October 2020, 9:30am

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Moving Together: Online Dance Flashmob

Saturday 24 October, 16:00

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In Search of the Arkand: Astral Science between India, Sasanian Iran, and the Early Islamicate World

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 2-3.30pm

Haiti as Method: On Haiti, History, and the Gods at 25

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 2-3pm

Online - registration required

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Authentically Old Leftovers? Philology, robbery, and the Yi Zhou shu in historical perspective.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, Time TBD

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Book at Lunchtime: Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 1-2pm

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Remembering Jon Thompson

Wednesday 28 October 2020. 5:00pm- 6:00pm

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Shut Up & Write - Online Session

Thursday 29 October 2020, 10:00am

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Ethics in AI Seminar - AI and Education

Thursday 29 October 2020, 5:00pm - 7.00pm

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Moving Together: Short Film Premiere and Q&A

Thursday 29 October, 18:30

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500 Years of Christian Freedom

Friday 30 October 2020, 5-6.30pm

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AVAILABLE ONLINE: Food for Thought Sessions - 2020

January - October 2020

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Discussion Group - OCCT Review on Transdisciplinary Modernism

Monday 2 November 2020, 1-2pm

Online - Teams Live (registration required)

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Decolonising Irish History? A Panel Discussion

Monday 2 November 2020, 4pm

Online - registration required

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Do You Love Me Yet?

2 - 7 November, various times

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A Zoroastrian Critique of Islam in the Škand Gumānīg Wizār in Pāzand

Tuesday 3 November 2020, 2-3.30pm

Uehiro Annual Lectures 2020: The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB)

Tuesday 3 November 2020, 15:30

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Lyce Jankowski and Stephanie Su in Discussion

Wednesday 4 November 2020, Time TBD

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Heritage Pathway: Current Issues in Arts and Heritage

Wednesday 4 November, 11:30am

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Book at Lunchtime: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

Wednesday 4 November 2020, 1-2pm

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Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Till it has loved - American Art Song in Recital

Thursday 5 November 2020, 5:00pm - 6.00pm

Instruments of Colonialism: Corruption and Abuse in the Puerto Rico Police Department

Monday 9 November 2020, 3pm

Online - registration required

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Embryonic New Persian: two letters by a Jewish Sogdian in eighth-century Khotan

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 2-3.30pm

Uehiro Annual Lectures 2020: The case for collective defined contribution (CDC)

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 15:30

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Live Event: Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 5:00pm - 6.00pm

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Fiction and Other Minds

Tuesday November 10 2020, 5.15-7.15pm

Online - Teams Live (registration required)

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The Couch under the Dome: Spatial Metaphors and the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Bechdel’s 'Are You My Mother?'

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 5.15pm

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Practicing Archaeology

11 November 2020, 12-2pm

Online (MS Teams)

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Under the Lens - Open-air exhibition

12- 22 November 2020

Also available online

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Live Event: Professor of Poetry Lecture

Thursday 12 November 2020, 5-6pm

Online - Live on Youtube

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Ethics in AI Live Event: Open Democracy in the Age of AI

Friday 13 November 2020, 5pm

Online - Live on Youtube

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POSTPONED: The Oxford Network for Armenian Genocide Research on the road

Postponed to November

Various Locations for different events.

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Discussion Group - Transitioning into the vernacular: China and Greece in parallel

Monday 16 November 2020, 1-2pm

Online - Teams Live (registration required)

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Storytelling for Researchers

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 10:00 - 12:00 & 14:00 - 16:00 and Thursday 19 November, 10:00 - 12:00

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Jewish Books in the Islamicate World

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 2-3.30pm

Uehiro Annual Lectures 2020: The case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAYG) pension

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 15:30

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Heritage Pathway: National Trust and Histories of Colonialism

Wednesday 18 November, 11:00am

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Through Wind and Ice: Communicating the Climate Crisis

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 2.30pm

Online - registration required

Live Event - Under the Lens

Friday 20 November 2020 , 5.00pm

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White Rose Circle Café

Saturday, 21 November 2020 | 13:00 - 15:00

Online - registration required

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Book-picking from a Conquered Citadel in the Summer of 1517

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 2-3.30pm

The Caribbean post-COVID 19: Lessons and Legacies

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 2-3pm

Online - registration required

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Ethics in AI Seminar - AI and Autonomy

Thursday 26 November 2020, 5:00pm - 7.00pm

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Discussion Group - What script teaches us about the state of world literary studies

Monday 30 November 2020, 5-6pm

Online - Teams Live (registration required)

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Remembering the Barmakids in a Persian Fürstenspiegel

Tuesday 1 December 2020, 2-3.30pm

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Dr Joe Sutliff Sanders - Batman: The Animated Series

Tuesday 1 December 2020, 5.15pm

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Heritage Pathway: Careers in Arts & Heritage (held in partnership with University of Oxford Careers Service)

Wednesday 2 December 2020, 11:00am

Keynote lecture: Marcus Rautman ‘Archaeology and the making of a Cypriot Late Antiquity’ (18 March 2020, 5 pm)

POSTPONED: Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity

History and Archaeology between the 6th and the 8th centuries

Wednesday 13 to Friday 15 January 2021

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles', Oxford

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