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- Lincoln Leads 2018: What is Historical Truth
- One Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage: Where to Next?
- WORKSHOP: Gendering Internationalism - Gendering Jewish Internationalism
- Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
- The 2018 Isaiah Berlin Lecture (Week 4, HT18)
- Natalia Nowakowska - King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther The Reformation before Confessionalization (OUP, 2018)
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- An Interview with professor Anna Sapir Abulafia Part 5/5
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- Learning a Prelims language
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- Our Migration Story wins prize
- Reading Bass Culture: Linton Kwesi Johnson in conversation with Paul Gilroy
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- World Literature: For and Against (Part 2)
- The 2018 Isaiah Berlin Lecture (Week 5, HT18)
- The 2018 Isaiah Berlin Lecture (Week 7, HT18)
- "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
- Professor Nicolai Sinai Awarded European Research Council Grant
- Was the Buddha a Muslim?
- How hunger shook Europe and the Ottoman Empire after World War I
- Vernacular languages in the long ninth century
- Global Dome Exchange Programme: A PhD Accelerator in the Humanities
- Baroque between the Wars
- Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2018
- One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage: How Far Have we Come?
- Call for Papers: Beyond Truth: Fiction and (Dis)information in the Early Modern World
- The Annual Hicks Lecture - Rising Inequality and Globalization
- UNLOCKING THE WORLD’S OLDEST MYSTERY SCRIPT
- A brief history of dyslexia and the role women played in getting it recognised
- Innovating in humanities and social sciences
- Oxford researchers chosen as New Generation Thinkers
- New card game brings 'Mind-Boggling Medical History' to life
- 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
- Student-Led Teaching Awards Nominations
- 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
- Connections to Classics
- 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"
- Claire Dalton
- 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
- Ruth MacDonald
- 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
- Practical Ethics and Responsibility Competition
- Baillie Gifford networking dinner for postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers
- Announcement of Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
- HT20 New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Dr Neil Armstrong
- HT20 New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Professor Noam Zohar
- The Vulnerable World Hypothesis
- Public Talk: Brian D. Earp on the "reproducibility crisis"
- New Humanities Building – Update
- Year 12 Humanities BAME Study Day 2020
- 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation
- 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
- TT20 New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Professor Arthur Schafer
- Lessons for today's crisis from the humanities
- Anbara Khalidi
- Holly Knights
- Matt Pickles (on sabbatical)
- 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
- TT20 New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Dr Mackenzie Graham
- 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
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- Auditing your site
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- 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
- Scholarships and funding
- Launch of MSc in Digital Scholarship
- Clive Brown
- Graduate Supervision
- Announcing the launch of Digital Scholarship @ Oxford (DiSc)
- Oxford University submits planning application for new Humanities building
- How are modern debates changing the way we read novels?
- BBC programme celebrates artist and teacher from the Ruskin School of Art
- Future of the Tolkien Chair secured
- Gail Miller
- Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor announced for 2022-23 academic year
- Professor Daniel Grimley appointed Head of Oxford's Humanities Division
- Dr Oliver Cox appointed Trustee to the Churches Conservation Trust
- Jane Austen letters saved after national campaign
- Royal Society cautions against online censorship of scientific misinformation
- Professor Abigail Williams
- Castalian String Quartet to perform in Oxford
- Oxford University establishes the Jonathan Cooper Professor of the History of Sexualities
- New postdoctoral global scholarships funded by British Academy
- Inclusive Chairing Toolkit
- An analysis of Putin's imperial ambitions and Ukraine's 300-year road to statehood
- "The Arts and Humanities at Oxford are a cultural powerhouse": Interview with Professor Dan Grimley
- 9th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation
- Oxford University receives planning approval for the new Humanities building
- ''How philosophy occupies the everyday'' An interview with Timothy Williamson
- Celebrating the completion of the Complete Works of Voltaire
- Applying state-of-the-art AI to the study of ancient texts
- New global project will explore the teaching of classical languages in schools
- Institute for Ethics in AI becomes a founding member of the Philosophy, AI and Society Consortium
- Katie Melua and the BBC Concert Orchestra to perform original work inspired by Oxford research
- Oxford top for arts and humanities in the QS World University Rankings by Subject
- Book now: free concert at the Sheldonian will celebrate diversity of Oxford's community
- Professor Aditi Lahiri receives a record third ERC Advanced Grant
- DeepMind CEO to give lecture on AI's potential for scientific discovery
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Humanities recognised for high volume of world-leading research in REF 2021
- Modern Languages academic receives the prestigious Gapper Prize
- 50-year project reveals new insights about the evolution and influence of Voltaire's thought
- Graduate Facilities
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- Andrea Thomson
- Historian named Staff Champion in Vice-Chancellor's Diversity Awards
- Understanding America: introducing the RAI’s podcast series
- History Faculty launches new community history programme
- Marking three years since the announcement of the new Humanities building
- Introducing the Humanities Division's new Divisional Registrar and COO
- Digital Humanities Summer School returns to Oxford
- Four Humanities academics elected British Academy Fellows
- Announcing a change of name to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Watch now: DeepMind Founder’s lecture for the Institute for Ethics in AI
- Project aims to preserve Second World War memories
- Oxford tops The Times Good University Guide rankings
- "High-stakes" humanities research recognised in Vice-Chancellor's Oration
- J.R.R. Tolkien Professorship of English Literature and Language
- Undergraduates get a taste for Humanities research through UNIQ+ access programme
- The race to rescue archival documents in Ukraine
- Linguist wins £100,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Celebrating ten years of the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Scholarship Programme
- John Fulljames appointed as inaugural Director of the Humanities Cultural Programme
- "We will start from the perspective of the audience" - interview with John Fulljames
- Meet the students
- TEV UK Scholarship in the Humanities
- Humanities Division seeks to recruit Academic Officers
- Schwarzman Centre reaches construction milestone with commencement ceremony
- Empowered by scholarship: The Oxford students shaping the future of the humanities
- Laura Pearce
- Ancient drama competition launched for UK secondary school students
- IT Drop-in sessions
- Our frozen statue and season's greetings from Oxford Humanities
- Sarah Clay
- Dr Michele Warren
- Philosophy professor recognised in 2023 New Year Honours
- In profile: Professor Emma Smith
- Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor speaks of “awe of people trained in the humanities” in inaugural address
- Rave reviews for English professor's reexamination of the Wife of Bath
- Wolfson Foundation grant ushers in new phase for Oxford's unique collection of musical instruments
- "We can create a dynamic environment for learning, research and innovation"
- Professor Abigail Williams hosts docuseries on BBC Radio 4: I Feel Therefore I Am
- Oxford philosopher receives award for project to explore the ethics of AI
- Groundbreaking ceremony marks start of Schwarzman Centre construction
- Oxford Professor of Poetry applications now open
- Innovating in the Humanities: introducing our new campaign
- Oxford University announces the 2023-24 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor
- Two academics receive Einstein Fellowships
- IT Wellbeing
- Humanities Cultural Programme announces two key appointments
- IT Help request form
- David Baddiel announced as next Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media
- Humanities IT Team Members
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- Are we ethically prepared for Disease X?
- Professor David De Roure appointed Academic Director of Digital Scholarship @ Oxford
- Student Blog
- Lidl renews partnership with the University of Oxford for a further five years
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
- In profile: Lindsay Johns
- Humanities Division announces academic leadership appointments
- First appointment to the Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexualities announced
- New research shows how studying the humanities benefits young people's future careers and wider society
- Next Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion announced
- New prize raises the profile of an endangered European language
- Times Higher Education profiles Oxford's Value of the Humanities report
- Accessibility and esotericism: the ethics of making the unreadable, readable
- Practicum Placement: CLARIN-UK
- Academics from six Humanities faculties selected as Fellows of the British Academy
- Oxford University announces its next Professor of Linguistics
- Joe O'Connor
- Bard Music Festival receives stellar reviews after Music academic’s role as scholar-in-residence
- Oxford Open Doors: A chance to see the Schwarzman Centre so far!
- Three academics shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023
- Foundation Ceremony: Performances mark construction progress for the Schwarzman Centre
- Introducing our new Head of Impact and Head of Building Operations
- New donation from the Dieter Schwarz Foundation supports Oxford students to take German from scratch
- Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
- Jenny Winsland
- Oxford University tops global university ranking for eighth consecutive year
- Humanities IT Newsletter
- Rachel Kowalski
- A colourful concert comes to the Sheldonian Theatre
- Professor Jonathan Cross
- Professor Simon Park
- Machilu van Bever Donker
- Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study in the Humanities
- Professor Christine Gerrard
- Jessica Crawford
- Sarah Willcox-Jones
- Professor Nandini Das wins major British Academy book prize
- Lindo Nzama
- John Fulljames
- Sara St George
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- Rhiannon Jones
- Izabela Jaroslawska
- Julia Antal
- John Kennedy
- Phil Dines
- Karen Houghton
- Tasha Patel
- Rachel Delman
- Claudia Valiente
- Oxford mourns the loss of Mrs Mica Ertegun, CBE
- Diana Osborne
- Professor Erin Pauwels appointed ninth Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art
- Alexandra Vincent recognised with MBE for services to research funding
- New research suggests Cerne Abbas giant carved as muster station for King Alfred's armies
- HT24 Humanities Welcome Event
- New appointment establishes Faculty of Theology and Religion as “major centre” for study of Islamic philosophy and theology
- Mel Bywaters
- Anouska Bedford
- Courtney Johnson
- Farishta Mirbacha Naderi
- Shamisa Chasebi
- Broken Chords: Prof Dan Grimley makes the case for music in higher education
- Dorothee Boulanger
- Marilyn Booth and Jokha Alharthi win the Man Booker International Prize 2019
- Oxford Humanities joins TikTok!
- How I overcame my reading slump with the Ten-Minute Book Club
- Humanities Division: Use of cookies on this website
- Five Humanities nominees shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2024
- Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre moves to Oxford University after receiving continuation funding
- Kazakh Minister of Higher Education Signs MoU with Wolfson College and Oxford Birsöz Initiative
- Ruskin School of Art appoints new Associate Professors
- Topping-out ceremony celebrated new milestone for the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
- Humanities recognised at 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards
- Dance, music & creative activities combine for centenary celebration of Kafka
- Oxford researchers named among BBC New Generation Thinkers
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- Faculty of English unveils 25,000 World War II artefacts
- Ruskin Degree Show 2024
- Athens to host ground-breaking AI Ethics Conference
- Tim Davies
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- Sarah Knott appointed to Hillary Rodham Clinton Professorship
- Humanities Division joins city’s first-ever OxTrail
- Greek PM speaks at Lyceum Conference
- Watch John Tasioulas and Josh Ober discuss AI white paper
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- Ruskin alumni and associate professor on show at Venice Biennale
- Learn about our MSc Digital Scholarship from recent graduate and Gale scholar Jini Agbu
- Faculties and units
- Five Humanities academics elected British Academy Fellows
- Annual Leys festival returns to celebrate ‘building bridges’ within the community
- Rothermere American Institute's podcast: The Last Best Hope?
- New essay prize for state school students passionate about history and Classics
- Alison Bell
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- Simon Barfoot
- Sarah Livingstone
- Jean Pierre de Rosnay
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- Barbara Eichner
- Jasmine Gauthier
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- Launch of new Human-Centered AI Lab
- Federica Gigante awarded ERC grant for UNSEEN project
- Ignacio Cofone appointed Associate Professor in Law and Regulation of AI
- Oxford shines in university rankings
- Pioneering digital technology to examine musical themes of England’s most celebrated composer
- Courting India by Prof Nandini Das shortlisted for Wolfson History Prize 2024
- Oxford Humanities launches new institute to tackle contemporary ethical issues
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