Renowned cellist Natalie Clein has joined the University as Director of Musical Performance in the Music Faculty.
Ms Klein, who has been appointed for a four year term, regularly performs in Oxford’s major music venues, most recently performing the complete Bach cello suits in the Sheldonian Theatre.
'Humanities and the Digital Age' is the topic of this year’s Annual Headline Series in The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH).
Over the next year, academics and practitioners from many different disciplines will discuss the relationship between the humanities, machines and technology.
Free public lectures on the history of Chinese art begin tomorrow.
The Slade Lectures will this year be given by Wu Hung, a specialist in East Asian art at the University of Chicago.
He is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Centre for the Art of East Asia in Chicago.
Board games from the last 200 years have gone on display at Weston Library.
The Bodleian Libraries has recently acquired a major collection of board games and pastimes dating from 1800 to the year 2000 and is showcasing a selection of them in a new display exploring how games have been used to teach history.
Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute is a leading light in a relatively new and fast-growing area of research: the 'existential risks' that threaten the very existence of humanity in the future.
A day of events to discuss the significance of the dodo took place last Wednesday (18 November).
'The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads' was organised by Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). It formed part of the national festival of the humanities, Being Human.
