Week 6

Ongoing

Christmas at Blenheim Palace - 15th November 2024 - 1st January 2025 - Everyday 10:30 AM - 8:30 PM. Activities include outdoor lights, ice skating, afternnon tea and a Christmas Market. The market is set up with traditional wooden chalets on the grounds of the palace, just a 30 minute bus ride on the S3 from the WEPO complex. More information here.
Oxford Gloucester Green Market. Open Wednesdays and Thursdays 9 AM - 4 PM, Fridays and Saturdays 9 AM - 5 PM. Lots of little trinkets, clothes, food, and more! Located in the centre of the city, right off George Street and near the bus station.
For more lectures not listed below, check out this Oxford Talks list.

4 PM: Department of Politics and International Relations Talk, 'Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine' Lecture will take place at the All Souls College Old Library.
4:30 PM: Alan Tayler Lecture and Drinks 2024 - St Catherine’s College has a long tradition in applied and industrial mathematics and has hosted an annual series of lectures on Mathematics and its Applications since 1986. The order of events will be as follows:
4.30-5pm: Tea & Coffee (Riverside Lecture Theatre Foyer)
5-6pm: Lecture (Riverside Lecture Theatre).
6-7pm: Drinks (Riverside Lecture Theatre Foyer)
7PM: Poker Night @ Cape Of Good Hope Oxford - A night packed with no risk poker, every Monday.

10:30 AM: Digital Scholarship coffee morning Talk will take place in Visiting Scholars Centre at the Weston Library. Speaker will be announced soon.
2 PM: Book Talk: Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir - Talk will take place in the Seminar Room, St Antony's College.
4 PM: Jobs for Mathematicians Fair - Attend the fair to meet recruiters in person and explore the opportunities available. You can also chat to careers advisers and ask questions to help your decision making. The fair will take place at the Mathematical Institute.
5:30 PM: David N. Lyon Lecture 2024, “Banning LGBTQ+ Conversion Practices; UK and Global Perspectives” - In light of the UK government’s recent commitment to a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices”, this year the David N. Lyon lecture will bring together an esteemed panel who will discuss the topic from both a national and global perspective. Lecture will take place in the Convocation House at the Bodlein Library.
8PM: Quiz Night at the Cape of Good Hope. Pub trivia every Tuesday night. Tickets are £1 per person.

12:30 PM: CSAE Lunchtime Seminars - 'Does it Matter What Others Think? Information, Norms, and Female Genital Mutilation in Ethiopia' - Event will be in the Seminar Room G, @ the Manor Road Building.
12:30 PM: The Present and Future of US Politics: Political Violence - In the aftermath of the 2024 election, we ask if there is a growing political violence in the United States? If so, why, and how will it matter? The seminars will open with a short presentation by an expert, followed by questions and discussion. Everyone with an interest in US politics is welcome. Lunch will be available. Seminar held in the Main Seminar Room at the Rothermere American Institute (1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB)
5 PM: History of War Seminar Series, 'History of War: How the Navy saved Britain 1793-1798.' Lecture will take place in the All Souls - Wharton Room.

10 AM: Bodleian Research and Learning Support, 'Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship.' Lecture will take place Online via Microsoft Teams.
7 PM: Autumn Science Lecture with Prof John Geddes. Lecture by John Geddes, the WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre. This talk will be held online using Zoom and is free to attend, but registration is essential. Registration will close at midday on the day of the lecture.
8 PM: Karaoke @ The Cape of Good Hope, Oxford. Free Karaoke every Thursday Night.

5:30 PM: Archaeology Seminar '‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory: Can prehistory inform our relationships with nature in the present day?' - Venue to be announced
12PM - 8PM: Banbury Victorian Christmas Market - Experience the magic of Banbury's Victorian Christmas Market with 100+ stalls and live entertainment. November 22nd-24th

7:30 PM: Oxford Harmonic Choir: Mendelssohn - Oxford Harmonic Choir and The Orchestra of Stowe Opera present St. Paul, the first of two oratorios completed by Felix Mendelssohn in his lifetime. More information and tickets here
10 AM - 1 PM: East Oxford Farmers' & Community Market at the East Oxford Primary School. Small local market with food staples like bread, eggs, milk, vegetables, and cheese as well as jewelry, clothing, and secondhand books. The market also has a cafe that sells breakfasts, lunches, cakes, and coffees. More information here.

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