Oxford University's Voltaire Foundation has formed a new and surprising partnership.
Their ambitious project to publish the Complete Works of Voltaire is now being supported by LVMH Moët Hennessy, Louis Vuitton and Bernard Arnault, its Chairman and CEO.
Academics in The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities’ (TORCH) Race and Resistance Programme will host a discussion about the cultural value of hip hop this month.
On Friday 17th February, TORCH will host a lecture by Marcyliena Morgan, who is a professor from Harvard University’s Hiphop Archive and Research Institute.
If you don't have the energy to mark Burns Night by going to a ceilidh or cooking haggis, neeps and tatties, Arts Blog has a suggestion for how to mark the day.
We asked Fiona Stafford, Professor of English Language at Literature at Oxford University, to suggest a Robert Burns poem to share with our readers.
The first of Oxford University’s Slade Lectures for 2017 will be held tomorrow (18 January).
The Slade Lectures are annual lectures about art history. This year’s speaker is Caroline van Eck, who was appointed as Cambridge University’s first established professor of the history of art in October 2016.
Derek Parfit, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, who has died aged 74, was a celebrated philosopher. His book Reasons and Persons was described by the political theorist Alan Ryan as “close to a work of genius”.
A gallery of potraits of great Oxford classicists has been installed at the University's Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies.
The portraits, which include Dame Averil Cameron, Gilbert Murray, Anna Morpugo Davies and Sir Fergus Millar, can now be viewed by members of the public in the building on St Giles' in Oxford.
A long-lost song by English composer George Butterworth has been rediscovered at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, a century after his death in the trenches.
The three-page score is a musical setting of a short festive poem by Robert Bridges, beginning with the words Crown winter with green. It is believed to be the only surviving copy of this Butterworth composition.
Many of the stories on Arts Blog focus on research in the arts and humanities, but what about the students who are taking their first steps into research? In a new series, we hear the stories of some of Oxford's brilliant students.