Research Events Archive
The new Climax Centre for Therapeutic Innovation at St Hilda’s is delighted to welcome Dr Nick Cammack, Head of the Wellcome Trust’s Snakebite Team, to deliver the Centre’s Hilary Term lecture, Snakebite: the case for action and the need for innovation in treatment approaches.
Alastair Macaulay (former Chief Dance Critic of The New York Times), will give a guest lecture on the great twentieth-century choreographer, George Balanchine.
Free and open to all, followed by a drinks reception.
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St Hilda's College Philosophy Symposium for this term will be given by Professor Nicholas Bunnin, Institute of Chinese Studies at Oxford University.
Title: 'The Heart-Mind: A Confucian Conception of the Self'
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This term's topic of the popular St Hilda's 'Brain and Mind - from concrete to abstract' series of workshops is 'Art and the Brain'.
Professor Chrystalina Antoniades (Oxford University), Dr Richard Jolley (University of Staffordshire), and Dr James Grant (Oxford University) will address...
Major contemporary choreographer Sir Richard Alston brings dancers from his company to the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building to demonstrate his work as he and Professor Jordan reflect on his life and career.
Free and open to all.
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DANSOX presents an evening of music and dance: Making "The Cellist".
The Royal Ballet and Choreographer, Cathy Marston, discuss the choreographic process for Cathy's new work for The Royal Ballet that was inspired by the momentous life and career of renowned cellist and Honorary Fellow of...
St Hilda's College welcomes this term's Philosophy Symposium guest speaker, Professor Dominic Scott, Lady Margaret Hall. The title of Professor Scott's talk is 'Why read Plato?'
The festivals of 1912 and 1913 at the garden city of Hellerau near Dresden, Germany are often cited as marking the birth of the modern theatre. Here, music, dance, lighting, theatre architecture and stage settings were integrated to present 'total' works of theatrical art to an astonished...
This term's seminar will be delivered by Professor Catherine Schenk, Professor of Economic and Social History. The title of the seminar is:
'100 Years after the Versailles Treaty: what we have learned (and forgotten)'
This term's topic of the popular St Hilda's 'Brain and Mind - from concrete to abstract' series of workshops is 'Creativity and the Brain'.
Dr Jane Mellanby (Oxford), Dr Lambros Malafouris (Oxford), and Dr Matthew Kiernan (Leeds) will address this topic from the points of view of...