Academic Services and University Collections (ASUC)
Series associated with Academic Services and University Collections (ASUC)
'Must it be a Man?' Women's contribution to the University of Oxford
A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums
Beyond the Binary: Queering and Questioning Collections and Displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Biodiverse Objects
Biology - Organisms Lectures
BOOKNESS at the Bodleian Library
Botanic Garden
Botanic Garden Audio trail
Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour
Cai Guo-Qiang Gunpowder Art Symposium
Centenary celebration of the first modern Spanish endowment at Oxford
Centre for the Study of the Book
Collecting COVID: Oral Histories
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures
Death at the Museum
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page
Digital Sketchbooks: Using tablets to support a museum art visit
History of the Book 2017-2019
Illuminating the Museums conference 2014
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women - Discovering the work of Female Photographers
Literatures of Multilingual Europe
Living in the Stone Age
Lyell Lectures
Making the Pitt Rivers Museum
Matters of Policy Podcast
Medieval German Studies
Messy Realities - the Secret Life of Technology
Museum of Natural History Public Talks
Oxford Kafka24
Oxford Union Library Audio Tour
Oxford Women in Computing: An Oral History
Persian arts of the book conference 13-14 July 2021
Pitt Rivers Museum
Plant Conservation
Plants and People
Reading, Writing, Romans
Recollecting Oxford Medicine: Oral Histories
Recording the Reformation
Reformation 2017
Researchers at work in Bodleian archives and historic collections
Sheldon Tapestry Maps
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Oral Histories
Staging History, 1780 to 1840
Symposium: Agrippa (a book of the dead)
Temple of Science
Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series
The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
The Elements of Drawing
The History of Science Museum
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography: Women and Maps
The Paratexts Podcast
The UN at 70: witness seminar
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection
Understanding Egyptian Collections: Innovative display and research projects in museums
Valentine's Day at Oxford
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| 592 | Susan Burge (part 1) | Derek Hockaday interviews Susan Burge, consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, 22 July 2015. | Susan Burge, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 591 | Joan Trowell | Derek Hockaday interviews Joan Trowell, consultant physician and former deputy Director of Clinical studies, 5 March 2015 | Joan Trowell, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 590 | Chris Winearls (part 2) | Derek Hockaday continues his interview with Chris Winearls, consultant nephrologist and associate professor of medicine, 4 March 2013. | Chris Winearls, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 589 | Chris Winearls (part 1) | Derek Hockaday interviews Chris Winearls, consultant nephrologist and associate professor of medicine, 4 March 2015. | Chris Winearls, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 588 | Michael Tunbridge | Derek Hockaday interviews Michael Tunbridge, former Director of Postgraduate Medical Education and Training, University of Oxford, 31 January 2014. | Michael Tunbridge, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 587 | Keith Hawton | Derek Hockaday interviews Keith Hawton, consultant psychiatrist and professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, 19 September 2014. | Keith Hawton, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 586 | Chris Adams (part 3) | The final part of Derek Hockaday's interview with Chris Adams, senior neurosurgeon, 26 August 2014. | Chris Adams, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 585 | Chris Adams (part 2) | Derek Hockaday continues his interview of Chris Adams, senior neurosurgeon, 26 August 2014. | Chris Adams, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 584 | Chris Adams (part 1) | Derek Hockaday interviews Chris Adams, senior neurosurgeon, 26 August 2014. | Chris Adams, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 583 | Hywel Jones (part 2) | Part 2 of Derek Hockaday's interview with Hywel Jones, consultant geriatrician, 20 May 2014. | Hywel Jones, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 582 | Hywel Jones (part 1) | Derek Hockaday interviews Hywel Jones, consultant geriatrician, 20 May 2014. | Hywel Jones, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
| 581 | Richard Boyd | Derek Hockaday interviews Richard Boyd, emeritus professor, lecturer in Medicine and fellow of Brasenose College, 30 August 2013. | Richard Boyd, Derek Hockaday | 15 Sep 2020 | |
| 580 | George Alberti | Derek Hockaday interviews George Alberti, research endocrinologist and former President of the Royal College of Physicians, 24 May 2013. | George Alberti, Derek Hockaday | 15 Sep 2020 | |
| 579 | John Spalding | John Oxbury interviews John Spalding, former consultant and research neurologist for Oxford United Hospitals, 26 July 2011. | John Spalding, John Oxbury | 15 Sep 2020 | |
| 578 | Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries | Join Rebecca Abrams in conversation with Samuel Fanous to discuss her riveting and beautiful new book, edited with César Merchan-Hamann, Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries. You can purchase the book https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/jewish-treasures | Rebecca Abrams, Samuel Fanous | 08 Jun 2020 | |
| 577 | Looking forward to the next 100 years of the Osma Studentship | Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen, Osma Student ‘99–00, head curator of the Arab World collections at the V&A, traces with a specialist eye the collection at the Instituto and her research there, followed by an expert roundtable on the future of the Studentship. | Mariam Rosser-Owen, Carole Souter, Miriam Ali de Unzaga, Xenia Elsaesser | 02 Jun 2020 | |
| 576 | Osma Students from the past: The stories of British novelist Inez Pearn, first woman to hold the studentship ‘35–36, and Dr Alan Forey, Osma Student ‘56–57 and '57–58 | Simon Deefholts and Louisa Long, grand-daughter of Inez Pearn, talk about her time in Madrid before the Civil War as a source of inspiration for her novels. Dr Alan Forey, reader emeritus at the University of Durham, recalls his studentship in the 1950s. | Simon Deefholts, Alan Forey, Louisa Long | 02 Jun 2020 | |
| 575 | Stories of past de Osma Students and a journey through the Bodleian Archives exploring the history of the studentship | Osma Student ‘93–94 Dr Bruce Taylor speaks on his experiences in Madrid and predecessors who have passed, and centenary-organiser Dr Marina Pérez de Arcos shares her archival research on the history of the first modern Spanish endowment at Oxford. | Bruce Taylor, Marina Perez de Arcos | 02 Jun 2020 | |
| 574 | An archival apprenticeship experience and a biographical profile of Guillermo de Osma | Introduced by Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden, Prof Duncan Wheeler speaks on his experience as a studentship holder in 2009, and art historian Guillermo de Osma shares a biographical profile of his great-granduncle. | Richard Ovenden, Duncan Wheeler, Guillermo de Osma | 02 Jun 2020 | |
| 573 | Creative Commons | Trinity: A Real Life Spy Story | Frank Close tells the story of Klaus Fuchs and the Bodleian Library. Trinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. | Frank Close | 29 Apr 2020 |
| 572 | Pieces of Gold: Piecing together a mutilated Timurid masterpiece | Shiva Mihan, Harvard Art Museums and Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries, gives a talk on her work in Persian arts. | Shiva Mihan | 24 Apr 2020 | |
| 571 | Creative Commons | Accumulating narrative: Meaning and mutation in letterpress printing | David Armes (Red Plate Press), the Bodleian’s Printer in Residence 2019-20, describes artists and ideas that influence his work, asking how meaning can mutate through the process of production. | David Armes | 23 Apr 2020 |
| 570 | Islamic manuscripts and bindings as a window on East-West relations | The making, use and trade of manuscripts was an important part of Islamic culture, the technical developments influenced the making of books in the west from the later medieval period onward. | Karin Scheper | 20 Apr 2020 | |
| 569 | 2020 Colin Ford Lecture | Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight into his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne. | Larry Schaaf | 14 Feb 2020 | |
| 568 | Interview with Jennifer Scott, Professor of Mathematics at University of Reading, and Individual Merit Research Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Georgina Ferry interviews Jennifer Scott as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Scott discusses her D Phil in the Oxford Computing Lab, her fellowship at St. John's college and leading the Numerical Analysis Group at Rutherford | Georgina Ferry, Jennifer Scott | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 567 | Interview with Susan Hockey (part 2), Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London | Carrying on from episode 12, part 2 of Georgina Ferry's interview sees Susan Hockey discussing observations of gender split within the computing profession. | Georgina Ferry, Susan Hockey | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 566 | Interview with Susan Hockey, Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London | Georgina Ferry interviews Susan Hockey as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Hockey discusses digital humanities research, management and organisations, and her work for Oxford Computing Service from 1975-1991. | Georgina Ferry, Susan Hockey | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 565 | Interview with Jill Hoare, former programmer for Elliott Brothers and the NHS | Georgina Ferry interviews Jill Hoare as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Hoare discusses early experiences of coding and programming, work at Stanford University in 1973 and working on hospital systems for NHS Oxfordshire. | Georgina Ferry, Jill Hoare | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 564 | Interview with Linda Hayes (part 2), former head of User Services at the Oxford Computing Service | Carrying on from episode 9, the second part of Georgina Ferry's interview with Linda Hayes includes her recount her time at St. Cross College and the origins of the university single sign on system. | Georgina Ferry, Linda Hayes | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 563 | Interview with Linda Hayes, former head of User Services at the Oxford Computing Service | Georgina Ferry interviews Linda Hayes as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Hayes discusses her diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing at Cambridge, and working for the Oxford Computing Service 1965 onwards. | Georgina Ferry, Linda Hayes | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 562 | Interview with Eleanor Dodson, computational methods developer of Protein Crystallography | Georgina Ferry interviews Eleanor Dodson as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Dodson discusses her time as research technician for Dorothy Hodgkin, use of the Oxford Computing Service and Collaborative Computational project no.4. | Georgina Ferry, Eleanor Dodson | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 561 | Interview with Julia Dain, former research assistant for the Programming Research Group (PRG) | Georgina Ferry interviews Julia Dain as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Dain recounts her traineeship at Marconi company, studying Maths at Oxford and working in the computer science department at Warwick University. | Georgina Ferry, Julia Dain | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 560 | Interview with Jana Colchester (part 2), former programming teacher at Marconi College and University of Essex | Carrying on from episode 5, this second part of Georgina Ferry's interview with Jana Colchester includes Colchester discussing attitudes relating to gender in the maths and computing professions. | Georgina Ferry, Jana Colchester | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 559 | Interview with Jana Colchester, former programming teacher at Marconi College and University of Essex | Georgina Ferry interviews Jana Colchester as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Colchester discusses working in the Oxford Computing Labs, lecturing and teaching at a range of further and higher education institutions. | Georgina Ferry, Jana Colchester | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 558 | Interview with Shirley Carter, founding member of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) | Georgina Ferry interviews Shirley Carter as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Carter recounts early experiences of programming, her computer science lectureship at Liverpool in the 1970s and the formation and development of NAG. | Georgina Ferry, Shirley Carter | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 557 | Interview with Carol Bateman (part 2), former training and information manager for the Oxford Computing Service | Carrying on from episode 2, in the second part of Georgina Ferry's interview with Carol Bateman she discusses the professional computing community and needs of users of the Oxford Computing Service in the late 1980s-early 1990s. | Georgina Ferry, Carol Bateman | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 556 | Interview with Carol Bateman, former training and information manager for the Oxford Computing Service | Georgina Ferry interviews Carol Bateman as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Bateman discusses her route into computing via Glasgow University, and progression of the Oxford Computing Service. | Georgina Ferry, Carol Bateman | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 555 | Interview with Leonor Barroca, senior lecturer in Computing at the Open University | Georgina Ferry interviews Leonor Barroca as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Barocca recounts her time on the MSc Computing course at Oxford University and studying and teaching posts at the Universidade do Minho in Portugal. | Georgina Ferry, Leonor Barroca | 20 Jan 2020 | |
| 554 | Conference Programme | Conference Programme for the conference. | Conference Programme | 17 Jan 2020 | |
| 553 | Art History and Museum as Medium | Cai Guo-Qiang, Artist, gives the eighth and final presentation in the symposium. | Cai Guo-Qiang | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 552 | In the Volcano: Cai Guo-Qiang and Pompeii | Jerome Neutres, Independent Curator, gives the seventh talk in the symposium. | Jerome Neutres | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 551 | Cai Guo-Qiang: In Search of El Greco | Saul Nelson, Ruskin School of Art, DPhil Candidate, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium. | Saul Nelson | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 550 | Yi 羿 - Myth: Shooting the Suns | Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum, Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting, gives the sixth presentation in the symposium. | Paul Bevan | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 549 | Two Gunpowder Drawings and Cai Guo-Qiang in Japan | Lena Fritsch, Ashmolean Museum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, gives the fourth presentation in the symposium. | Lena Fritsch | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 548 | Cai Guo-Qiang and the Depths of Spectacle | David Taylor, University of Oxford, Associate Professor of English, gives the third presentation in the symposium. | David Taylor | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 547 | Context and Influence in Cai Guo-Qiang's Work | David Eliott, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, Vice Director and Senior Curator, gives the second talk for the symposium. | David Eliott | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 546 | Welcome and Introduction | Shelagh Vainker, Curator of Chinese Art and Exhibition Curator, gives the first talk in the symposium. | Shelagh Vainker | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 545 | Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power - Introduction | Introduction to Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power podcast series. | Jozie Kettle | 06 Jan 2020 | |
| 544 | Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 4: Queering Christianity and gender transition. | Olivia Sharrard (PRM) talks to Lance about changing representation in the Pitt Rivers museum, navigating life in Oxford and how they’ve ‘queered’ objects within the collections related to Christianity. | Lance Millar, Olivia Sharrard | 06 Jan 2020 | |
| 543 | Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 3: Bacchus – queer party god of contradictions? | Jozie Kettle (Pitt Rivers Museum), talks to Harriet Haugvik and Cameron Wallis about their involvement in the 2020 exhibition Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power. Harriet and Cam explore Bacchus’ complex and intriguing connections to queerness. | Harriet Haugvik, Cameron Wallis, Jozie Kettle | 06 Jan 2020 | |
| 542 | Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 2: Uncovering queerness within the collections | Jozie Kettle (Pitt Rivers Museum), talks to Mara Gold about her involvement in the 2020 exhibition Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power. | Mara Gold, Jozie Kettle | 06 Jan 2020 | |
| 541 | Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power Episode 1: Museums, beadwork and Indigenous agency | Jozie Kettle (Pitt Rivers Museum), talks to Dan Laurin about his involvement in the 2020 exhibition Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power. | Dan Laurin, Jozie Kettle | 06 Jan 2020 | |
| 540 | Creative Commons | Fitting it in, filling it out: from Christopher Saxton's survey to Ralph Sheldon's tapestry maps | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Hilary Turner | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 539 | Creative Commons | The Catholic Gentry in Ralph Sheldon’s Midlands | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Katie McKeogh | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 538 | Creative Commons | Power, Propaganda, Magnificence: the cartographic background to the Sheldon tapestry maps | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Peter Barber | 02 Dec 2019 |
| 537 | One stitch at the time: Returning the Sheldon Tapestry Maps to life | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Nick Millea, Virginia llado-Buisan | 02 Dec 2019 | |
| 536 | Polish Literature | Dr Kasia Szymanska gives a highlight overview of Polish literature from the Middle Ages to the present. | Kasia Szymanska | 19 Nov 2019 | |
| 535 | Introduction to Modern Greek Literature | Professor Peter Mackridge takes his audience on a whistle-stop tour of the major landmarks of Modern Greek Literature. | Peter Mackridge | 19 Nov 2019 | |
| 534 | See-touch-think-wonder | Stories, objects and pictures as methods of engagement in research in assistive living technologies. | Gemma Hughes, Joe Wherton, Beth McDougall | 12 Nov 2019 | |
| 533 | Technology, aging and progression: from amulets to robots | Discussions about the protective powers of amulets, alarms and jewellery are interrupted by the arrival of a cuddly robot. | Gemma Hughes, Caitlin Pilbeam, Jozie Kettle, George Leeson | 12 Nov 2019 | |
| 532 | Living objects - ageing bodies | Researchers and community members go behind the scenes at the Pitt Rivers Museum to learn more about the care and ethics involved in conservation. | Caitlin Pilbeam, Jozie Kettle, Jem Uden, Andrew Hughes | 12 Nov 2019 | |
| 531 | Technologies: love or hate them? | The context of the Pitt Rivers Museum stimulates discussion about human-technology relations. | Gemma Hughes, Joe Wherton, Laura van Broekhoven, Sara Shaw | 12 Nov 2019 | |
| 530 | The magic of everyday technologies | Exploring how everyday objects support health and wellbeing: medicines containers and mobility aids. | Gemma Hughes, Caitlin Pilbeam, Beth McDougall, Jozie Kettle | 12 Nov 2019 | |
| 529 | Introducing Messy Realities: the Secret Life of Technology | Professor Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues discuss what assistive living technologies are and how they engaged the public in exploring assistive living technologies at the Pitt Rivers Museum. | Gemma Hughes, Trisha Greenhalgh, Jozie Kettle, Beth McDougall | 12 Nov 2019 | |
| 528 | Creative Commons | When Life Got Hard | In this podcast episode Museum research fellow Dr Duncan Murdock talks about the first animals to build skeletons, and what they did with them. | Duncan Murdock | 13 Sep 2019 |
| 527 | The Great Debate; Should We Engineer Our Way Out of Climate Change? | We must reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to avoid dangerous climate change, right? But can we? Is it too late? Should we focus our efforts on adapting to the coming change instead? Or should we engineer the earth system to avoid climate change? | Gideon Henderson, Nick Eyre, Felix Heilmann, Friederike Otto | 04 Jul 2019 | |
| 526 | Defying Hitler: The White Rose Resistance Group | Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Lecturer in German, Magdalen College and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, gives a talk on the White Rose Resistance Group. | Alexandra Lloyd | 25 Jun 2019 | |
| 525 | Creative Commons | Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions | 6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'. | Matthew Landrus | 12 Jun 2019 |
| 524 | Creative Commons | Particles in space | Join Dr Donal Hill for a tour of the invisible, as he describes how particle detectors measure 3D information to help uncover the secrets of tiny fundamental particles. | Donal Hill | 12 Jun 2019 |
| 523 | Creative Commons | Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D | Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau. | Kerstin Timm, Justin Lau | 12 Jun 2019 |
| 522 | Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings | Dr Karl Kinsella introduces a 12th-century manuscript which explores the mystical visions of the prophet Ezekiel and contains some of the earliest architectural drawings in existence. | Karl Kinsella | 12 Jun 2019 | |
| 521 | Parallel lines down the centuries | For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. | Christopher Hollings | 12 Jun 2019 | |
| 520 | Decay and closure of libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (6) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the sixth and final lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 16 May 2019 | |
| 519 | Growth, competition, stability, loss, renewal - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (5) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fifth lecture inthe 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 14 May 2019 | |
| 518 | Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fourth lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy | Richard Sharpe | 09 May 2019 | |
| 517 | Library books and personal books - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (3) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the third lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 07 May 2019 | |
| 516 | English medieval library catalogues - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (2) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the second lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 02 May 2019 | |
| 515 | Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 30 Apr 2019 | |
| 514 | The conservation of Japanese collections at Bodleian Libraries | Learn about the conservation of unique Japanese items such as Naraehon, a Japanese genre of lavishly-illustrated literature from the fifteenth-eighteenth centuries. | Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán | 11 Apr 2019 | |
| 513 | Thinking 3D: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture | Thinking 3D is an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of three-dimensionality and its impact on the arts and sciences, co-investigated by Dr Laura Moretti and Daryl Green. | Laura Moretti, Daryl Green | 05 Apr 2019 | |
| 512 | Medingen Manuscripts | For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony). | Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 511 | Second part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian | Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen. | Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 510 | Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian | A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen. | Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 509 | Creative Commons | The Gut-Brain Axis and How What We Eat Affects How We Feel | For Brain Awareness Week, Dr Phil Burnet (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford) speaks about how the gut microbiome can affect mood and mental health. | Phil Burnet | 19 Mar 2019 |
| 508 | 15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database | Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019. | Marco Bertagna | 08 Mar 2019 | |
| 507 | Creative Commons | Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books | A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. | Emily Martin | 12 Feb 2019 |
| 506 | Scottish and British Authors Published Abroad 1470-1700 | Jane Stevenson, Senior research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford, gives a talk fo the History of the Book seminar series on 1st February 2019. | Jane Stevenson | 06 Feb 2019 | |
| 505 | Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne | Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019. | Earle Havens | 30 Jan 2019 | |
| 504 | Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries | An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. | Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron | 29 Jan 2019 | |
| 503 | Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth | A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. | Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi | 25 Jan 2019 | |
| 502 | Tales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation | Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | James Ivory, Richard Parkinson, Katherine Harloe, Jennifer Ingleheart | 18 Dec 2018 | |
| 501 | Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England | Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english. | Julia Mattison | 03 Dec 2018 | |
| 500 | Marconi lecture 2018: Imperial Wave: how empire shaped the network of wireless in South Asia at the turn of the twentieth century | Dr Medha Saxena (Delhi, and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow), gives the 2018 annual Marconi lecture. | Medha Saxena | 03 Dec 2018 | |
| 499 | Creative Commons | The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum | Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. | Richard Ovenden, Julia Smith, Helen Snaith, David Clark | 16 Nov 2018 |
| 498 | Old Norse | Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse. | Eleanor Parker | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 497 | Old English | Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english. | Mark Atherton | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 496 | Gothic | Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest. | Elizabeth Solopova | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 495 | Medieval Welsh | Tolkien once termed Welsh 'the elder language of the men of Britain'; this talk explores how the sounds and grammar of Welsh captured Tolkien's imagination and are reflected in Sindarin, one of the two major Elvish languages which he created. | Mark Williams (English Faculty) | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 494 | Middle English | This lecture is on Tolkien and middle english. Professor Carolyne Larrington, Tutorial Fellow in English Literature, St John's College, Oxford gives the first talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. | Carolyne Larrington | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 493 | Why Read Frankenstein in 2018? | Two hundred years after it was first published, Nick Groom explains the abiding appeal and extraordinary contemporary relevance of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. | Nick Groom | 22 Oct 2018 |
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