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Events Open To All
Events subject to change; please contact organiser for full details. All telephone numbers are in Oxford (code '01865') unless otherwise shown.
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Date: 1 April 2005
Saturday 2 April
Botanical Illustration Class
Illustrating yellow flowers, with Rosemary Wise, Oxford's Botanical Artist and Associate Staff Member, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Venue & time: The Conservatory, Botanic Garden, Rose Lane, 10 am-4 pm
Tickets: £30, excluding lunch and refreshments
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Monday 4 April
Botanic Garden: The Gardening Year
Alpine and Rock Garden Plants, the Saxifrage Family and Hellebores
Venue & time: Botanic Garden, Rose Lane, 10.30 am-1 pm
Tickets: £15, including coffee
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Thursday 7 April
The Shock of the Old 5: Implementing Innovation
One-Day Conference on Educational Technologies
The Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services is pleased to announce our fifth annual one-day conference on educational technologies. The Shock of the Old conference will explore the issues arising from using educational technology to bring about innovation in academic practice. Rather than concentrate solely on the technology itself, papers will additionally discuss the cultural and organisational factors which hinder innovation from occurring. What are the key factors that impact on the implementation and adoption of innovation in e-learning?
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street
For full details see www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2005/
Thursday 7 - Sunday 10 April
Christ Church Special Interest Weekend
History - An English Revolution: The Civil War 1642-49
Botany and Discovery - A Passion for Plants: A Garden Revolution
Full board residence in Christ Church; all meals in Hall, including Gala Dinner; talks by Oxford tutors and distinguished guest speakers; special programme and special tours
For more information contact Miss Alex Webb, Steward's Office, Christ Church, Oxford, OX1 1DP, tel: 276174, fax: 286328, email: conferences@chch.ox.ac.uk
Friday 8 April
Beyond the Red Tape: Attitudes Not Policies Are Stifling Innovation in Educational Uses of Technology
One-Day Debate on Educational Technologies
Why do many teachers and lecturers feel reluctant to use IT in their courses? Is it just a reluctance to try out new things, are they afraid of technology, or do they have justifiable reasons based on their teaching practices?
Are the Government and educational institutions doing enough to support and promote e-learning, or do they actually hinder its adoption? Are things like traditional exam methods to blame? Or is it the measures by which teachers are externally audited?
Come and debate the role that technology should play in our schools and universities.
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street
For full details see www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2005/
Saturday 9 April
Botanic Garden: Creating Plant Supports for the Garden
With artist Tom Hare. Learn how to make basic plant supports and woven structures for the garden, and produce a plant support to take home.
Venue & time: Harcourt Arboretum, Nuneham Courtenay, 10 am-4 pm
Tickets: £45, including sandwich lunch
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Friday 15 April
Botanic Garden Study Day: A Day with Fergus Garrett on Successional Planting
Join the Head Gardener of Great Dixter as he unravels the mysteries of keeping your garden looking good for twelve months of the year.
Venue & time: Jacqueline du Pré Auditorium, St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, 10 am-4 pm
Tickets: £45 includes sandwich lunch and parking in Magdalen College School if required
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Poetry Reading
A bi-lingual poetry reading, with two distinguished German poets, Michael Krüger and Ulrike Draesner, as part of the Flaschenpost colloquium.
For more information on the colloquium, see www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/flaschenpost
Venue & time: Long Room, New College, Holywell Street, 5.30 pm
Admission free. Wine will be served.
Contact karen.leeder@new.ox.ac.uk for further details
Saturday 16 April
Botanical Illustration Class
Illustrating blue flowers, with Rosemary Wise, Oxford's Botanical Artist and Associate Staff Member, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Venue & time: The Conservatory, Botanic Garden, Rose Lane, 10 am-4 pm
Tickets: £30, excluding lunch and refreshments
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Museum of the History of Science: Mapping the Universe
A workshop and opportunity to take part in artist Jem Finer's project exploring concepts of mapping in the universe. Jem Finer is currently artist-in-residence in the University's Astrophysics Department.
Free
tel: 277280, or see the Museum website
Thursday 21 April
Oxford Private Equity Forum and Launch of the Oxford Private Equity Network (OxPEN): the first university-wide private equity network in Europe
Leading practitioners from the private equity industry and the investment community will come together to discuss key issues related to the private equity industry and participate in the launch of the first university-wide private equity network in Europe (and among a handful in the US: Stanford, Chicago, Wharton and Tuck). The evening will also feature a special address by the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, an Oxford alumnus.
The Forum runs from 2.30 pm-7 pm and is followed by a drinks reception for all. Corporate guests are welcome to attend all or part of the Forum and have the option to join us at 5 pm or 6 pm for the final parts of the programme.
For more information contact Achint Mahajan (email achint.mahajan@sbs.ox.oc.uk, tel: 07780 994715) or Laurent Pasquier (email laurent.pasquier@sbs.ox.ac.uk, tel: 07903 123220)
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street
Website: www.oxpen.org
Saturday 23 April
Sustainable Oxfordshire
Inspiration, celebration and debate about making Oxfordshire more sustainable.
A revitalising lunch of local and sustainable produce.
Speakers include:
Brenda Boardman, Environmental Change Institute: The 40% house
Robin Murray, Director of RED, The Design Council's Innovation Unit: Zero waste
Rebecca Willis, Associate, Green Alliance: A micro-generation manifesto
For more details see www.oxfordinspires.org/events-SustainableOxfordshire.html, or contact Eka Morgan, Science and Sustainability Officer, Oxford Inspires, email: eka.morgan@sbs.ox.ac.uk, tel: 278817
Venue & time: Lloyd Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, 9.30 am-4.30 pm
Cost: £10 (including lunch)
Organised by Oxford Inspires, Environmental Change Institute (Oxford University) and Environmental Information Exchange (Oxford Brookes University).
Monday 25 April
Monday Seminars in Cardiovascular Medicine
Prof Frenneaux, Head of Department and BHF Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Birmingham: Diastolic ventricular interaction and the impact of biventricular and LV pacing in heart failure
Venue & time: Level 5 Seminar Room, John Radcliffe Hospital, 12.30 pm
Friday 29 April
Graduate Theological Society Debate: Belief in God Makes Sense in Spite of Tsunamis
With Dr William Lane Craig and A C Grayling
Venue & time: The Oxford Union, Frewin Court, St Michael's Street, 8 pm
Further information: www.acgrayling.com & www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig
Student Society Event
Thursday 5 May
Department of Biochemistry: 7th Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture
Dr Sydney Brenner, FRS, Distinguished Professor, Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA: Biological complexity and protein biochemistry
Venue & time: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, 4.30 pm
Champagne reception in the Museum Upper Gallery: 5.30 pm
see www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/rodneyporter/ for more information
Rothermere American Institute Lecture Series: Posthumanism
Cary Wolfe, Rice University: 'The eye is the first circle': modernity and observation in Emerson and systems theory
Venue & time: Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, 5 pm
tel: 282711, email: catherine.morley@rai.ox.ac.uk, or see the Rothermere American Institute website
Saturday 7 May
Botanical Illustration Class
Illustrating white flowers, with Rosemary Wise, Oxford's Botanical Artist and Associate Staff Member, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Venue & time: The Conservatory, Botanic Garden, Rose Lane, 10 am-4 pm
Tickets: £30, excluding lunch and refreshments
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Monday 9 May
Botanic Garden: The Gardening Year
Ground Cover Plants, Plants for Shade, and Plants for Damp Soil
Venue & time: Botanic Garden, Rose Lane, 10.30 am-1 pm
Tickets: £15, including coffee
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Monday Seminars in Cardiovascular Medicine
Prof Godfrey Smith, Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow: Modulation of cardiac contractility by adenoviral mediated up-regulation of specific regulatory proteins
Venue & time: Level 5 Seminar Room, John Radcliffe Hospital, 12.30 pm
Thursday 12 May
Rothermere American Institute Lecture Series: Posthumanism
Randy Malamud, Georgia State University: Americans do weird things with animals
Venue & time: Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, 5 pm
tel: 282711, email: catherine.morley@rai.ox.ac.uk, or see the Rothermere American Institute website
Saturday 14 May
University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum: In a Different Light...
Enjoy an intimate, after-hours encounter with the collections, Javanese music and the lights down low: Gamelan orchestra, shadow puppets, fluorescing bugs, glow in the dark minerals and other illuminations. An evening to remember.
Free admission, refreshments
Venue & time: University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Parks Road, 7 pm-10 pm
Supported by the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
In association with the 'Lights in the Night' European Night of Museums
Saturday 21 May
Botanical Illustration Class
Illustrating pink flowers, with Rosemary Wise, Oxford's Botanical Artist and Associate Staff Member, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
Venue & time: The Conservatory, Botanic Garden, Rose Lane, 10 am-4 pm
Tickets: £30, excluding lunch and refreshments
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May
Pitt Rivers Museum: Objects of Desire
Take a tour round the displays with a Museum Friend who will introduce you to some of the less known but more desirable objects on show. There will be an opportunity to record your own choice of favourites on our feedback board.
Venue: Pitt Rivers Museum, Parks Roadtel: 270927, e-mail prm@prm.ox.ac.uk, or see the Museum website
Thursday 2 June
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography
Rob Watts, Bournemouth University & Digi-Data Technologies Ltd: Paper to pixels: the digital manipulation of The Gough Map
Venue & time: School of Geography and the Environment, Mansfield Road, 5 pm
tel: 287119, email: nam@bodley.ox.ac.uk
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography are supported by the Friends of TOSCA, ESRI (UK) Ltd, Oxford Cartographers, and the School of Geography and the Environment
Rothermere American Institute Lecture Series: Posthumanism
Erika Rundle, Yale University: Primate dramas and the crisis of humanism
Venue & time: Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, 5 pm
tel: 282711, email: catherine.morley@rai.ox.ac.uk, or see the Rothermere American Institute website
Monday 6 June
Botanic Garden: The Gardening Year
Mediterranean Herbaceous Plants, Foliage and Roses
Venue & time: Botanic Garden, Rose Lane, 10.30 am-1 pm
Tickets: £15, including coffee
tel: 286690, or see the Botanic Garden website
Monday Seminars in Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor Fredrick Karpe: title to be confirmed
Venue & time: Level 5 Seminar Room, John Radcliffe Hospital, 12.30 pm
Thursday 9 June
Rothermere American Institute Lecture Series: Posthumanism
Bethany Schneider, Bryn Mawr University: Queer animalities
Venue & time: Rothermere American Institute, 1a South Parks Road, 5 pm
tel: 282711, email: catherine.morley@rai.ox.ac.uk, or see the Rothermere American Institute website
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