A weekend exploring novel and short-story writing: genre, character development, research, plot development, scene-setting, metaphor, narrative voice, first-draft completion. A fun, interactive event for writers with some previous experience.
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Positive Psychology offers a direct approach to help people create strategies towards wellbeing. Changing our interpretation of the world can help us feel happier, healthier, more positive, and become more resilient. Learn more at this online workshop.
From St Frideswide to Vice Chancellor Irene Tracey, women have always been active in Oxford, even if the University long chose to ignore them. On this walking tour, we’ll uncover the stories of some of Oxford’s most fascinating women.
This lecture series will explore the lives and works of Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë, examining how their remarkable imaginations produced six original, complex, and ground-breaking novels despite their confined lives.
This day school will uncover the neglected roles of women and children during the British Civil Wars (1638–1660). Speakers will address how such people participated in these revolutionary events, and in what ways they looked back on them afterwards.
The oldest known stone tools date back 3.3 million years and pre-date the first appearance of the genus Homo. Join us to explore tool making among our early hominin ancestors from the earliest probable origins to the comparatively advanced Oldowan.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will centre on twelve of Michelangelo’s drawings, from which we will also consider relationships with his sculptures and paintings. It will cover key periods of his career, techniques and working methods.
This guided viewing in the Ashmolean Museum will discuss key drawings by Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo individually and comparatively. Focusing on style and techniques, we will also consider relationships with their paintings, sculptures and writing.
Life is a struggle, for any organism. Plants, animals, and microbes share the same planet and have to battle or befriend others to survive. Participate in this day event to explore relationships that enable survival of organisms.
Drawing on psychology, sociology, anthropology and education, this day aims to help coaches of all backgrounds, and levels of experience, explore recent developments that affect their practice, highlight sources and pinpoint themes to watch in the future.
We will take a brief look at the workings of the brain, and how psychologists describe the functions of attention, perception and memory. Explore how these processes can work to fool us, and what we have learned from dysfunction.
An introduction to British art of the postwar era, from Neo-Romanticism to 'Kitchen Sink' realism and the emergence of Pop Art.