Please join us to discuss Wise Children by Angela Carter over a glass of wine.

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the role of courts, judges and the legal profession more widely in the social sciences. The traditional focus on judicial behaviour in the US has given way to a greater geographical, methodological and theoretical diversity of research on these questions. The growth of the research field has been spurred by an increase in politically salient and contested court decisions even in countries with a traditionally apolitical judiciary, such as the UK. The first OxonCourts Judicial Studies Graduate Colloquium at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, aims to give graduate students working on this field the opportunity to share and discuss their research, in particular work in its early stages, across disciplines.

This workshop brings together experts from different backgrounds in order to address general and specific issues related to the repairing and restoring of buildings in Ancient Greece. Ancient repairs have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars over the past two decades, but this interest has been mostly confined to moveable objects. While the study of ancient architectural repairs has recently developed in Roman contexts, the Greek world has been somewhat left behind. Therefore, the purpose of the workshop is to assess the importance of this new field for the understanding of ancient Greek construction, with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary approaches. Technical and institutional aspects, as well as methodological issues, will be addressed.

Lunch Table in Hall from 12:30, followed by a talk in the Florey Room at 1.15 delivered by Revd. Dr. Martin Henig entitled “Roman Life as Reflected in Cameos”. Coffee and cakes will be served. Lunch Table open to Cluster Members Talk open to ALL

Lunch Table in Hall from 12:30, followed by a talk in the Florey Room at 13:15 delivered by Dr Elise Morero (Postdoc researcher at the Khalili Research Centre) on The contribution of ancient technology analysis to the history and history of art: the study of relief-carving on medieval Islamic rock crystal vessels (9-12th c.). Coffee and cakes will be served.

Lunch Table open to Cluster members.

Talk open to ALL.

Lunch Table in Hall from 12:30, followed by a talk in the Florey Room at 13:15 delivered by Prof John Brockington and Mrs Mary Brockington entitled “Verbal and visual in the transmission of the Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa narrative”. Coffee and cakes will be served.

Lunch Table open to Cluster members.

Talk open to ALL.

This conference explores scientific disciplines or knowledge-systems that have had a significant impact on premodern Asian culture and thought, namely grammar, mathematics & astronomy, music and medicine. Each of these traditions will form the scope of an individual panel and be chaired by a specialist in the field; an additional panel will be held on "technology" in premodern Asia.

The exhibition will display incredible artistic works of young Tibetan artists from Snow Land Art School in Tibet. The event will be started with a brief introduction by Ngawa Choepjor, who is the co-founder of Snow Land Art School in Tibet.

The LGBTQ society of Wolfson College will hosting a film screening of the movie Fire (1996) on the 13th of November. Directed by Deepa Mehta and with stellar performances by actors like Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das, the movie was the first of its kind to open the debate on homosexuality in India. The movie promises to be deeply engaging. Please do come for a discussion after the movie and for delicious cakes and cookies.

Michael Macdonald, leader of the Badia Epigraphic Surevey witll speak about the results of his most recent experdition. Mihael's wider reserach intersts span languages, inscriptions, and history of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ways in which literacy was used in the ancient Near East. He has also written on the ancient history of the nomads of the Middle East, the pre-Islamic Arabs, and the rock art of the Syro-Arabian deserts. He is also the academic director of the "Ancient Arabia: Languages and Cultures" project, based at the Khalili Research Centre, which has created a website to make available large amounts of previously unpublished material on the ancient history and languages of Arabia. and is co-directing a project to create an online Corpus of the nearly 50,000 inscriptions from Ancient North and Central Arabia known so far.