Wolfson Tibetan Losar

Add to Calendar Wolfson Tibetan LosarZoom
Location
Zoom
Speakers
Lelung Rinpoch, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Losel T Topgyal, Tsering Bawa, Ngawang Lodup & Oxonian Tibetanists.
Cluster
Tibetan Himalayan Studies Centre
Event type
Parties and Dinners
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
Lama Jabb
Contact email
lama.jabb@orinst.ox.ac.uk

The Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre's celebration of the Tibetan New Year of the Iron Ox 2148!

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Be a Craftivist! Feminist Collage Night

Add to Calendar Be a Craftivist! Feminist Collage NightZoom
Location
Zoom
Event type
Clubs & Societies
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
Hanna Psychas
Contact email
wolf.fem.soc@gmail.com

Join the Wolfson Feminist Society for a casual crafting event! We will look at the work of some collage and 'femmage' artists and activists for inspiration before trying our hand at feminist collage. All are welcome, including any other members of your household who would like to join in.

If you would like a materials kit delivered to your pidge ahead of the event, please sign up here.

The meeting will take place on Zoom

Skilled Crafts in the early Stone Age

Add to Calendar Skilled Crafts in the early Stone AgeZoom
Location
Zoom
Speakers
Laurence Hutchence
Event price
No charge - open to all.
Event type
Networking
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
College Archivist
Contact email
archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Old Wolves event

Thursday 11 February 2021 1.30 p.m. via Zoom*

Skilled Crafts in the early Stone Age

A talk by Laurence Hutchence

Wolfson DPhil candidate Laurence Hutchence has degrees in Archaeology from UCL and Cambridge. He worked in Media before returning to academia.

In his spare time, when not adding to his collection of homemade tools, Laurence works in the Wolfson College Library and assists the College Archivist.

*Please join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 880 7151 7595
Passcode: 817485
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The event is organised as part of our Old Wolves series but is open to all – no charge. It is a change to the original programme.

Contact: College Archivist archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
 

Cycling at the limits of the Roman empire

Add to Calendar Cycling at the limits of the Roman empireMicrosoft Teams
Location
Microsoft Teams
Speakers
Penny Coombe
Event price
Free - all welcome
Cluster
Ancient World Cluster
Event type
Lectures and Seminars
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
Janet DeLaine
Contact email
janet.delaine@classics.ox.ac.uk

The edge of the Roman empire at its fullest extent ran from Scotland to the Black Sea, down to the Red Sea, and across northern Africa. On 1 June 2016, Penny Coombe set out to cycle solo the first leg of a complete circuit, from the coast of the Netherlands to Bratislava via the Rhine, Moselle, and Danube, and along Hadrian's Wall: around 2300km of cycling with visits to dozens of Roman sites and museums. This talk is part travelogue, but also considers what this kind of journey brings to academic research. Her travels were supported by the AWRC Lorne Thyssen Research Fund.

Weinrebe Lecture - Sylvia Plath: An Iconic Life

Add to Calendar Weinrebe Lecture - Sylvia Plath: An Iconic LifePre-recorded video
Location
Pre-recorded video
Speakers
Professor Heather Clark
Cluster
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Event type
Annual Lecture
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
Dr Alice Little
Contact email
admin.oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Heather Clark, whose 1,100-page biography of Sylvia Plath was published by Alfred A. Knopf and Jonathan Cape in October 2020, talks about her experience writing the life of an iconic figure who has been mythologized and pathologized for half a century. Clark spent eight years researching and writing her biography. Her book draws upon a wealth of new material—including key letters, interviews, manuscripts, and psychiatric information—to give a fuller portrait of Plath’s early life, college years, marriage to Ted Hughes, and literary career. Clark will discuss the fraught history of Plath biography, her own decision to write a new life of Plath, and some of the challenges she encountered along the way. She will also talk about the merits of “slow” biography in the age of the soundbite, and why we need more big biographies of women.

Life Writing Beyond Words - What can life-writing learn from the expressive forms of the animal kingdom?

Add to Calendar Life Writing Beyond Words - What can life-writing learn from the expressive forms of the animal kingdom?Pre-recorded video
Location
Pre-recorded video
Speakers
Martin Bencsik, Katherine Collins, Eleanor Morgan, Olivier Adam, Aline Pénitot
Cluster
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
Dr Alice Little
Contact email
admin.oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Life-Writing Beyond Words is a research network and termly series of public events, hosted by Felix Appelbe, the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and Ocean Ambassadors, that explores how we move between words and the non-verbal.

Life-writing is the study of lives, through letters, diaries, performance, memoir, autobiography and biography. But it frequently has to negotiate the non-verbal, for instance when describing the creative minds of composers, choreographers or artists, capturing the sound and light of childhood, or eavesdropping on the world of animal experience. How can these worlds be captured in words?

We are addressing this challenge by convening a network that spans many disciplines, bringing together academics, practitioners and performers who would otherwise not meet. Free-thinking lectures and laboratories will forge new pathways between the verbal and the non-verbal, journeying towards innovative experimental and performative methodologies.

This is the second in a termly series exploring the non-verbal in life-writing, with contributions from Martin Bencsik, Katherine Collins, Eleanor Morgan, Olivier Adam and Aline Penitot.

What can life-writing learn from the expressive forms of the animal kingdom? An interdisciplinary panel of artists and scientists convene to ask: what is the sound of a spider web? How do the vibrations of bees spread news? What do humpback whales make of human music, and how might human poetry learn from birdsong?

Ancient Lives presents - The Poetics of Displacement: Migration and multiculturalism in the Roman verse inscriptions

Add to Calendar Ancient Lives presents - The Poetics of Displacement: Migration and multiculturalism in the Roman verse inscriptionsZoom
Location
Zoom
Speakers
Peter Kruschwitz & Alexander Gangoly, University of Vienna
Cluster
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Event type
Lectures and Seminars
Booking Required
Required
Contact name
Dr Alice Little
Contact email
admin.oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

*The pre-recorded talk will be released on the OCLW website a week before the event - please watch the video before joining us on zoom at 6pm for the Q&A session.*



Poetry was the most affordable art form in the Roman world: all it required were words, and someone with a talent to arrange them in a meaningful, aesthetically convincing way. It offers a unique insight into Roman life; it also served as a form of life-writing. The verse inscriptions as evidence for poetry are ubiquitous, and attest to inclusive cultural practice of the people of ancient Rome beyond the palaces of its urban aristocracy. How is the empire’s considerable regional and ethnic diversity reflected in the engagement with inscribed verse?

'In Sickness and in Health': Writing Life through the Essay

Add to Calendar 'In Sickness and in Health': Writing Life through the EssayPre-recorded video
Location
Pre-recorded video
Speakers
Professor Hermione Lee, Dr Merve Emre, Luke Young, Caroline Curtis, Rowena Gutsell, Marie Allit,
Cluster
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Event type
Lectures and Seminars
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
Dr Alice Little
Contact email
admin.oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

A series of papers discussing life-writing in the form of the essay, and applying this form to life-writing on the subject of health and sickness. Please click through for further information on the OCLW website.



The event takes the form of 6 pre-recorded videos, all of which will be released online at 1pm. The total duration is just under 2 hours, but they can be watched in any order, and will remain online indefinitely.

Arabian Flights: aerial archaeology in the Middle East

Add to Calendar Arabian Flights: aerial archaeology in the Middle EastMicrosoft Teams
Location
Microsoft Teams
Speakers
Dr Bob Bewley
Event price
Free - all welcome
Cluster
Ancient World Cluster
Event type
Lectures and Seminars
Booking Required
Not Required
Contact name
Janet DeLaine
Contact email
janet.delaine@classics.ox.ac.uk

Dr Bob Bewley has worked in Britain, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa on aerial and field surveys, excavations and aerial archaeology training workshops, and is the Co-founder and Project Director of the EAMENA project (Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East & North Africa). He will be talking about his recent work in the Middle East.

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