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This day event explores 1940s film noir, which will be read through the contexts of the genre including their relationship to German expressionism, the legacy of fascism, and the pulp noir fiction of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain.
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.
What happens inside your brain when you listen to music? Or perform it? Or think about it? This day school looks at recent advances in neuroscience that allow us to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms that underpin our musical experience.
What does the human body reveal about the soul? Explore Michelangelo’s masterpieces and discover how art, faith, and Renaissance thought come together in his powerful vision of the human form.
'What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know.' – Louis Armstrong. After exploring and analysing jazz music on this course, looking at its origins and development, and acquiring some strategies for listening to it, you will never have to ask.
Explore the histories of African art & archives in Oxford. From medieval collections to contemporary works, this course examines collecting practices, colonial histories, gender, ethics & repatriation. Includes object-based sessions at Pitt Rivers Museum.
This course will offer an opportunity to explore Seamus Heaney's earliest poems in depth, and discover the particular contexts in which they were written, and the figures who played such a foundational role in his making as a poet.
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 writings
This lecture will introduce the Brontë sisters and Jane Eyre, exploring its style, themes, key passages, and debates around Rochester, narration, the supernatural, and the novel’s controversial dedication to Thackeray.
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.
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.
The Modernist ‘Day Novel’ looks at 3 novels set over the course of a day: Untouchable by M. R. Anand (1935), Ulysses by James Joyce (1922), and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925). 3 talks and a Q&A will consider the enduring appeal of the ‘day novel’.
