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• "Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East"
• Writing Historical Biography: Problems and Challenges
• Paul and Patristics: A New Online Database
• Book Launch: Xu Bing 徐冰 in Conversation with Professor Peter D McDonald
• O'Donnell Lecture 2018 - Cheapside in Wales: Textiles and Commodities in Medieval Welsh Poetry
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• How hunger shook Europe and the Ottoman Empire after World War I
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• One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage: How Far Have we Come?
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• UNLOCKING THE WORLD’S OLDEST MYSTERY SCRIPT
• A brief history of dyslexia and the role women played in getting it recognised
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• In Medieval Britain, if you wanted to get ahead, you had to speak French
• Beyond Truth: Fiction and (Dis)information in the Early Modern World
• Twitter Workshop: Taster Session
• A fresh ear for late Schumann
• Edward Harcourt appointed Director of Research, Strategy and Innovation for AHRC
• Should all UK Citizens Speak English?
• On Science, Religion, and Dual Vocations
• The Sybille Haynes Lecture: ‘Tarquinia and the Origin of Etruscan Religion’
• The Don Fowler Memorial Lecture: 'Livy’s Faliscan schoolmaster’ (5.26-7)
• The Gaisford Lecture: 'The Greeks and a Short Long History of the Joke’
• The David Lewis Lecture: ‘Latin in Imperial Greece’
• How gold rushes helped make the modern world
• Georgi Gardiner wins a Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award
• Global Priorities Institute opens at Oxford
• 'Here Be Dragons': summer school to put fantasy genre in spotlight
• Prof Abigail Green on the transformative Impact of the Leadership Fellow's Scheme
• Professor John L. Brooke, The Astor Lecture in Global Environmental History
• Professor Sir Paul Nurse on ‘Science as Revolution’
• Professor Wayne Lee, The Global History of War Lecture
• Music and Memory: composer Jonathan Dove in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy
• 2018 Besterman Lecture: 'Methuselah and the unity of mankind: late Renaissance and early Enlightenment conceptions of time'
• Launch of new Ancient Philosophy journal: Dialogoi
• Ellen Higgins
• Solving the problems of Brexit with 500-year-old wisdom
• Indo-Iranian Philology Day
• Henk de Smaele Guest Lecture: A Political History of the Nude
• The "Empire Windrush" and Black British History
• Decolonising the History curriculum: A Panel Discussion
• Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art: The Body of the Nation
• The 2018 H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture
• The 2018 Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government
• Sir John Elliott receives the Premio Órdenes Españolas Award 2018
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• The Rebellious Royalist Women of the English Revolution
• The power of prediction in language comprehension
• Exploring the Sounds of South Asia
• Research Conversations Trinity Term 2018
• History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2018
• Bloomsbury wins 11-way auction for Josephine Quinn's How the World Made the West
• Professor Mary Beard receives honorary degree
• Professor Nino Luraghi appointed to the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History
• Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period Trinity Term Week5
• Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period Trinity Term Week6
• "Voices of Stone" bring ancient city to life
• American Poet A.E. Stallings Launches New Translation of Hesiod
• Classics Faculty celebrate excellent outcome from OxLAT Teaching Scheme
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• Dr Alison Rosenblitt receives a prestigious CAMWS 2018 award
• Constructing Authors and Readers in the Appendices Vergiliana, Tibulliana & Ovidiana
• Exegesis, Interpretation, Dialogue: Reading the Iliad Scholia
• Introducing Manuscripts from Ethiopia and Eritrea
• Lead pollution in Greenland ice shows rise and fall of ancient European civilizations
• Oxford University Press reissues the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
• Professor Jaś Elsner elected Fellow of the British Academy
• The Ancient Graffiti Project 15-29 July 2018
• The David Lewis Lecture
• The Graduate Workshop in Ancient Greek and Roman Music
• The Pathology of Love in Greek and Roman Art and Literature
• Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award 2017
• Winners of Oxford University Student-Led Teaching Awards announced
• Merve Emre and Nicholas Gaskill appointed as Associate Professors of American Literature
• 'Seeing Euclid' Display
• Drum, bass... and Opera
• What can ‘A Nice Cup of Tea’ tell us about Global Trade and Exploitation?
• Luciano Floridi awarded and appointed
• What does ancient Greek Music sound like?
• Dr Darren Sarisky to receive Teaching Excellence Award
• Portrait of Professor Donald Russell unveiled
• MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation
• British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 2018
• The Lidl German Language and Literature Graduate Scholarships and Student Funding
• The Iberian World and the East: Go-betweens and meditations, 16th-18th centuries
• New Voices in the History of War
• Oxford Arts Blog - How do we remember war?
• Oxford Arts Blog - The unique issues facing women refugees in the UK
• Oxford Arts Blog - Digitising Iran's cuneiform collection
• Endowment of Chair in the History of Science announced
• Harvey Brown, “On Probability, Multiverses, and Yogi Berra"
• Krisztina Lugosi
• Equality and Diversity
• Athena SWAN
• University equality and diversity policies
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• Funding announced for almost 400 new doctoral places in arts and humanities
• Book Launch with Uehiro Centre
• Clarendon Lecture 1: Messing About in Boats – Rilke's 'Auswanderer-Schiff' or 'Emigrant Ship'
• Compassion in Politics: What would it look like and how do we get it?
• Crack the Code! Learn about the atbash cipher and how to crack it!
• Dr Jeremy Catto 1939-2018
• England’s Insular Imaginings – Inaugural Lecture of Professor Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature
• Ethiopian and Eritrean Ge’ez Manuscripts Discovery Day
• New Generation Thinker, Dafydd Daniel: An Interview
• Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 1: Shakespeare Without a Life
• Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Timeline
• Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 3: The Archive and its Discontents
• Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 4: Shakespeare's Dateless Sonnets
• Professor of Poetry Lecture: 'Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' – Simon Armitage
• Research Day: Reconstructing Nicholas Crouch: the library of a seventeenth-century medic
• Wisdom & Ethics Workshop
• What has theology got to say about healthcare?
• Theologies of Retrieval: An Exploration and Appraisal
• The Bible and the Academy
• Continuities and Transformations Conference
• Academic Futures scholarships available for 2024-25
• Performing Print in the Western Art-Song Tradition, c.1800-1900
• From Oral Wisdom to Written Rules: Law-Making in Pre-modern Tibet
• Vicarious Publication through Judicial Records in Medieval England
• Eighteenth-century English theatre: publication beyond print
• Mass communication before printing: coin circulation in the Roman world
• Bohemia in East Germany: Samizdat in the GDR 1980-1990
• Arabic Ergodic Literature
• Artificial Intelligence and the future of news publishing
• The Dynamics of Publication on Stone in Democracies and Oligarchies
• The Reformation beyond Print
• ‘Publication’, papyri, and literary texts: process and presentation
• From pre-print to post-print: transformations in (the study of) epigraphic culture
• Under Pressure: Women Commissioning Manuscripts in a Time of Print
• The Vedas: the Once and Future Scriptless Texts
• Bullying and Harassment
• Disability History Month Workshop: “Disability History at Oxford: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Future”
• Smart People Work Everywhere: Using Your Research Skills Outside Academia
• Annual Special Lecture - The night of broken glass: Kristallnacht after 80 years
• Benjamin Mountford & Stephen Tuffnell (eds.), A Global History of Gold Rushes (UCP, 2018)
• BESTERMAN LECTURES: ‘Writing Rights in 1789’
• Amia Srinivasan wins the Sanders Public Philosophy Award
• Humanities IT Team
• Clarendon Lecture 2: Messing About in Boats – Rimbaud's 'Bateau Ivre' or 'Drunken Ship'
• Clarendon Lecture 3: Messing about in Boats – Montale's 'Barche sulla Marna' or 'Boats on the Marne'
• Clarendon Lecture 4: Messing About in Boats – Solie's 'The World'
• Future of Humanity Institute Scholarship Programme
• Alice Purkiss
• Kathryn (Kate) Boyd-Miller
• Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor announced for 2019-20 academic year
• The Slade Lectures - Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm
• Bart van Es wins 2018 Costa Biography Award for his book 'The Cut Out Girl'
• Medical Humanities Summer School 2019
• Professor John Blair short-listed for the Wolfson History Prize
• Simon Armitage to be next Poet Laureate
• State school teachers win Oxford award after being nominated by English students
• The places of and for ancient graffiti
• Colophons, community, and the making of the Christian Middle East, 1500-1900
• Hearing the Page
• Re-reading Plowden’s Political Theology
• Diplomacy beyond Print: Unprinted Publications and Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to the Ottoman Court
• Voltaire’s Worlds of Publication: Manuscript – Print – Digital
• The performance of English-language poetry, 1900 to the present
• Textual Genesis Beyond Print: From Modern Manuscripts to Digital Editions
• Paddy and the Public Sphere
• Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy 2019
• Career Conversations
• Baillie Gifford networking dinner for postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers
• Announcement of Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
• The Vulnerable World Hypothesis
• New Humanities Building – Update
• Year 12 Humanities BAME Study Day 2020
• History student makes 1810 diary discovery
• Dr Justine Shaw
• Megan Gooch
• Architect appointed for new Humanities building
• Erin Gordon
• Resources and support: the pandemic and beyond
• How to learn a language during lockdown
• From podcasts to virtual readings - new digital content released
• Lessons for today's crisis from the humanities
• Anbara Khalidi
• Holly Knights
• Matt Pickles
• Phil Taylor
• Ian Lyne
• Two Oxford authors on Wolfson History Prize shortlist
• Latin classes for state school pupils go online during the Coronavirus lockdown
• Report shows value of humanities to meeting today's challenges
• Athena Swan Bronze awards for English and Music
• Academics shortlisted for Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Awards
• Two projects receive Coronavirus research awards
• The ethics of Covid-19 contact tracing
• New COVID-19-inspired theatre performance based on Oxford research
• Two Ruskin artists receive Turner Bursaries
• Baillie Gifford-AHRC scholars 'pursue dreams' at Oxford
• Humanities BAME study day will be held virtually
• Humanities successes in Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards
• Seven academics named as Fellows of the British Academy
• Report on BAME Humanities Study Day
• Boost for sustainability of Digital Humanities
• Introducing the 'Ten Minute Book Club'
• Minderoo-Oxford Challenge Fund in AI Governance launched
• Digital Accessibility
• Accessibility Resources
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• Auditing your site
• Making a plan to fix problems
• Publish an accessibility statement
• Make plans for maintaining accessibility
• Robyn Pearce-Jones
• Inaugural director and academic team appointed to Institute for Ethics in AI
• Report and panel discussion marks 100th anniversary of PPE
• Humanities Division Accessibility Statement
• Kam Miles
• Greg Waiting
• 19 new undergraduates arrive for Classics Bridging Course
• Ingrid Locatelli
• In focus: Isabelle Riepe, Lidl Graduate Scholar
• Nobel Prize for Literature 2020: our experts react
• Theologian wins Philip Leverhulme prize
• Research award highlights: recent prizes for Oxford Humanities researchers
• Prize highlights: recent recognition for members of Oxford Humanities
• US election night 2020: how the presidency has evolved over time
• Initial public consultation for new building launched
• Online Rehearsals Service (ORS)
• Online Rehearsals Guide
• TIDE Salon: a radical new archive
• A musical advent calendar
• Historian awarded major ERC grant
• Stellar advisory council announced for Humanities Cultural Programme
• Unpicking the priorities of the Biden Administration
• Ireland, Empire and the Early Modern World: this year's Ford Lectures to start on Friday
• New graduate scholarships to help further understanding of Armenian heritage
• Terra Foundation Visiting Professor for 2021-22 will bring new perspectives on American art in a global context
• Online Rehearsals Service - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• New book explores the relationship between sound and space
• Two faculties top global subject rankings table
• Slade Lectures: Philip Guston (1913-1980) History and the Art of Painting
• The James Ford Lectures 2019 - After the Black Death: Society, economy and the law in fourteenth-century England
• Two researchers announced as New Generation Thinkers
• 'World's largest painting' by Ruskin School alum sold for charity
• 21 conversations about dyslexia: documentary launch
• Humanities, innovation and impact: the search for an Academic Champion
• Ancient and modern languages in primary schools
• Donation secures future of professorship in German language and literature
• Marking two 100 year anniversaries of the Agnelli-Serena Chair in Italian Studies
• 400 years of moral philosophy: reflections from the White's Professor
• Research Staff Representation
• Telling Our Stories Better: new project launches
• Successful BAME Study Day held online
• Academics recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours List
• Proposed design for new Humanities building presented during a second public consultation
• Prestigious award for philosopher’s research on ending data inequality
• New project aims to show prospective students that Classics is for everyone
• MSc in Digital Scholarship
• Ruskin artist wins Fourth Plinth commission
• Announcing a new Master's degree in Digital Scholarship
• Academics elected as new British Academy Fellows
• Theatre in the time of crisis: the show has gone on
• Professor Leeder elected to the Schwarz-Taylor Chair of German
• African Poetry Digital Portal: an online archive for the continent’s poetry
• MSt and MPhil in Celtic Studies
• Professor Laura Marcus
• "Exceptionally promising" classicists win 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize
• New initiative to address under-representation in Humanities doctoral study
• Oldest professorship in philosophy renamed after 400th anniversary donation
• Institute for Ethics in AI launches Advisory Council and website
• MSc Digital Scholarship: Curriculum
• Launch of MSc in Digital Scholarship
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