Arts

Today marks 70 years since the first of the Nuremberg trials began. 

Dr Jan Lemnitzer, historian at Pembroke College, Oxford University, researches how modern international law was created in the 19th century, how it came to be applied across the globe, and what that meant for international politics.

This Sunday (22 November) the Ashmolean will host a free, fun-filled day of events and activities in which visitors will explore what it was like to be alive in Roman times, discover how the Romans remembered their dead and see newly installed displays in the museum's Roman Gallery.

A tree being planted on Oxford University’s Radcliffe Observatory Quarter would not normally be considered news.

But an interesting piece of public art, which was unveiled by Oxford's Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton on Friday, is worth a mention.

In Arts Blog we try to cover the latest research findings in the humanities and social sciences. But what about the story behind the research?

Here, Dr Alice Kelly, a Postdoctoral Writing Fellow in the Women in the Humanities Programme in TORCH | The Oxford Centre for the Humanities, explains how she made a recent discovery about Edith Wharton.

Two of Oxford's museums opened late on Friday 30 October for Halloween-themed events. The Pitt Rivers Museum held an event called 'Day of the Dead' as part of its AfterHours series.

The World Series is the biggest contest in baseball so a lot is at stake for the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals as they face off this week.

The contest has also divided two leading American historians at Oxford and Cambridge, who have come up with an unusual bet on the outcome of the match.

Oxford University's Wytham Woods were visited by a "National Living Treasure" last weekend.

No, Dame Judy Dench did not visit (as far as we know, anyway) but the University welcome famous Japanese potter Isezaki Jun, who has the title of the fifth National Living Treasure of Bizen, a place in Japan famous for its pottery.

The wait is over. The Ruskin School of Art's new building at 128 Bullingdon Road has officially opened today.
 
Featuring state-of-the-art facilities including a multi-media lab, three editing suites, a print room and wood and metal workshops, the new building makes the School a technologically sophisticated teaching and research environment.   

How can lawyers draw on literature to make their case? Can English professors benefit from a legal perspective? These are among the questions to be tackled by a new network set up by TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities.

This year is the 100-year anniversary of the death of Henry ‘Harry’ Moseley, a promising English physicist who died in Gallipoli in World War One in 1915, aged only 27.

His work on the X-ray spectra of the elements provided a new foundation for the Periodic Table and contributed to the development of the nuclear model of the atom.