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Programme of Events Programme www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk of events Alumni Weekend in Oxford 19–21 September 2014 How to book 1 Browse the brochure and use the handy pull-out planner to help decide which sessions to attend. You can now search for programme content by college and subject division (see pp37–47). 2 Book online at www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk OR complete the booking form and return it by Friday 12 September. We recommend that you book early, as some sessions sell out quickly. 3 We’ll send you a booking confirmation as soon as your registration has been processed. Final event details will be sent in early September. Booking opens: 7 July 2014 Booking closes: 12 September 2014 Cover art inspired by the Penrose Paving at the Maths Institute Rob Judges/Oxford University Images Welcome Contents Booking your place 2 Now in its eighth year, our annual Meeting Our main venue this year will be the recently- Minds event continues to showcase the best opened Mathematical Institute – the Andrew Friday 19 September 5 and brightest of Oxford – past, present and Wiles Building - on the Radcliffe Observatory Saturday 20 September 13 future. Quarter off Woodstock Road and within easy reach of the city centre and most colleges. Sunday 21 September 29 All of our Meeting Minds events (and you The building’s design demonstrates how can now enjoy these occasions in Asia, Europe Family-friendly events 35 mathematical ideas are part of everyday life and North America as well as in Oxford) shine from the paving, featuring patterns dreamt up Colleges 37 a spotlight on the real-world impact of University by Oxford mathematician Sir Roger Penrose research, through a programme of lectures Subjects 45 (one of our featured speakers), to the crystal- and panel discussions. like canopies and windows. We’ll be running Weekend resources 48 Our 2014 programme will cover a range of tours of the building throughout the Weekend themes, from the topical – Living with Flooding, for you to appreciate the whole space. Cybersecurity, and Understanding Fracking – Whether you can join us for three days, or only to the specialist –WB Yeats in Contemporary can drop in for a couple of hours, we hope that American Literature and Culture, Blackholes: you’ll find something in our programme to where Physics reaches its limits and A history tempt and inspire you. of the first sexual revolution. If you’d like to focus your Weekend around a particular area * New for 2014 * of research, you can turn to p45 for an index • Sessions focusing on topics of the programme content by subject area. related to the WWI Centenary • Social Enterprise Forum • Weekend guide by subject Booking your place Booking is open from 7 July to 12 September 2014 Booking How to book Booking notes • Book online at www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk • You will need your alumni number to book. You can find your number on your Oxford Online booking is the best way to secure your preferred sessions Alumni Card, your Oxford Today cover sheet, and avoid possible postal delays. or any email you have been sent by the University OR Alumni Office. If you don’t have your number, • Return the paper booking form by 12 September to: you can request it via the form on our website (www.alumni.ox.ac.uk). Alternatively, please Alumni Weekend, Alumni Office, telephone +44 (0) 1865 611610. University of Oxford, University Offices, • We regret that we are not able to take Alumni Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK Weekend bookings over the telephone. • If you are booking by post, you can indicate second and third choice sessions in particular timeslots, in case your first choice session is fully booked by the time we receive your paper form. If necessary, we may contact you by telephone to identify alternative sessions. • Sessions are allocated on a first-come, first- served basis. Please note that some sessions Rob Judges/Oxford University Images University Judges/Oxford Rob with a smaller capacity, for example walking tours, tend to book up quickly. • A booking confirmation will be issued once your registration has been processed and final event details will be sent in the week before the event. Please bring these with you to the Weekend. 2 Booking Cost Cancellations £65: Standard Alumni Weekend Pass After booking, if you are no longer able Gives you access to sessions across the to attend the Weekend, or a particular three-day event.* session, please let us know so that we can transfer your place to those on the waiting £55: Discounted Alumni Weekend Pass list. Further information about on-the-day For anyone matriculating in or after 2004, tickets and ticket swaps is available on p48. or in or before 1964. Please contact the Alumni Weekend team £40: Weekend Bundle on +44 (0)1865 611621 to give notice of The Bundle gives you access to four sessions* cancellations. Refunds will only be issued for spread over the three-day event. So you could cancellations made before 12 September. come to a session every day, or just come to four sessions on a single day – your choice! Enquiries No charge: Children and young adults under For all enquiries about the Alumni Weekend, the age of 18.** please contact the team on +44 (0)1865 611621 or by email at alumniweekend@ alumni.ox.ac.uk The Alumni Weekend *Some sessions carry a charge in addition to the ticket price. is funded, in part, by the **Sessions are not suitable for children under the age of 12. University of Oxford Alumni Office 3 Rob Judges/Oxford University Images University Judges/Oxford Rob Personal Stories from Downing Street to the Trenches 1914–1916 THE GREAT WAR An exhibition in the Bodleian Library until 2 November “… capturing history as it unfolded” – Hew Strachan Available from the Bodleian Shop and all good bookshops Hardback, £19.99 www.bodleianbookshop.co.uk Great War Alumni advert landscape.indd 1 04/06/2014 15:53 OPEN HOUSES & ALL DAY ACTIVITIES Chemistry at the Garden: Friday Self-guided walking trail 19 September Oxford Botanic Garden Discover a tree that smells of caramel, learn how lotus leaves repel raindrops, and see the natural world in an unexpected new way. If you visit the Oxford Botanic Garden during the Weekend, be sure to ask for a copy of the Chemistry at the Garden Discovery Audio Trail. This guided walk was put together by scientists in the Department of Kevin Nixon/Oxford University Images Chemistry, and it features exciting inventions and research based on the plants we find in nature. Rob Judges/Oxford University Images University Judges/Oxford Rob 5 2.30–3.45pm What is a Cyber-Attack? The Origins of Sex: The New Ashmolean Dante’s Purgatorio: Friday A history of the Poetical with the truth? Sadie Creese, Professor of Professor Christopher Brown first sexual revolution Cybersecurity, Director of Oxford’s CBE, Director of the Ashmolean Rev Dr Robert Ombres OP, Cyber Security Centre, Director Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Museum Blackfriars and Pontifical University of the Global Centre for Cyber Lecturer in Modern History and of St Thomas in Rome Dr Alexander Sturgis, Director Security Capacity Building at the Fellow of Exeter of the Holburne Museum in Bath Blackfriars, St Giles Oxford Martin School, and Fellow Flora Anderson Hall, of Worcester Headley Lecture Theatre, Explore how Dante presented the Somerville College Ashmolean Museum truth about the doctrine of purgatory Nissan Lecture Theatre, Faramerz Dabhoiwala has been in his Divine Comedy. This lecture will St Antony’s College The Ashmolean Museum is Britain’s described as the Stephen Hawking consider the sources and resources oldest public museum, and possibly What constitutes a cyber-attack of sex, and his book, The Origins available to Dante, the fundamental the oldest museum in the world. and who conducts them? What are of Sex: A History of the First Sexual themes to be found in his great poem, In recent years it has undergone the breadth and depth of risks that Revolution, has been acclaimed and outline some perplexities when a series of transformations: we face as a consequence of such around the world as one of the best he is read theologically. introducing temporary exhibitions, activity and the possible futures non-fiction debuts of recent years. such as Bacon/Moore, Cézanne Preceded by an optional lunch, that we may face? Sadie Creese In this witty, richly-illustrated talk, he and Tutankhamun, which have 1–2.30 pm at Blackfriars priced will discuss these issues and explain explains the origins of our modern attracted national and international at £10. research underway at Oxford to sexual culture – how we came to acclaim, the constant re-evaluation help in the detection and prevention believe in sexual freedom; how and improvement of permanent of attacks. the first sexual revolution affected displays, and making possible major men and women, homosexuals and acquisitions such as Manet’s Portrait heterosexuals; the birth of sexual of Mademoiselle Claus. Outgoing celebrity; and how we came to live Director Christopher Brown will talk in a world where sex is supposedly about the transformations which private, yet ever more publicised. have created this ‘New Ashmolean’. His soon-to-be successor, Alexander Sturgis, will introduce himself and talk about the experience he will bring to the museum. 6 2–3pm Philip Bate and the Maths in the City: Taverns and Alehouses Behind the Scenes Galpin Collectors An interactive walking tour of Oxford at the Oxford Playhouse Friday of Oxford Led by Andrew Lamb, Curator, Meet at the St Giles War Meet in the Playhouse Lobby Bate Collection Rewley House, Memorial, at the junction Join members of the Playhouse team 1 Wellington Square of Woodstock and Banbury Faculty of Music, St Aldate’s for an exclusive backstage tour of Road Book a place on a mathematical the theatre.
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