| Launch of the 15th Century Booktrade |
Cristina Dondi and her colleagues launch the 15th Century Booktrade. |
Cristina Dondi, Kristian Jensen, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Simon Walton, Richard Sharpe, Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, Karen Limper-Herz, Matilde Malaspina, Yujie Zhong |
21 July, 2016 |
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| Brown's landscapes in the twenty-first century |
Join the head gardeners of Stowe and Compton Verney to explore the challenges, changes and rewards of protecting and preserving Capability Brown's landscapes in his tercentenary year. |
Barry Smith, Gary Webb |
21 July, 2016 |
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| Life, death and astrology in Shakespeare's England |
Lauren Kassell (Reader in the History of Science and Medicine, Cambridge) gives a talk for the Bodleian libraries. |
Lauren Kassell |
30 June, 2016 |
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| Eloquence vault mieulx que force |
Vernacular Translations of Plutarch and Political Argument in Renaissance France |
Rebecca Kingston |
30 June, 2016 |
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| Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies |
Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. |
Emma Smith |
2 June, 2016 |
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| Venus and Adonis |
Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Shakespeare's poem, Venus and Adonis. |
Katherine Duncan-Jones |
20 May, 2016 |
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| Donne to Death |
Peter McCullough, Professor of English, University of Oxford, gives a talk on John Donne. |
Peter McCullough |
13 May, 2016 |
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| Everyday death in Shakespeare's England |
This podcast talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare's day |
Steven Gunn |
5 May, 2016 |
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| The Magic of Shakespeare |
This lecture will celebrate Shakespeare's immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his burial. It will begin from Theseus' famous speech in A Midsummer Night's Dream about the magical, transformative power of poetry. |
Jonathan Bate |
3 May, 2016 |
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| Books for mind and community in 12th-century Oxford and Cirencester |
In this talk Andrew Dunning (Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Fellow) traces the development of the work of Alexander Neckam, one of the earliest known lecturers in Oxford, through manuscripts housed at the Bodleian. |
Andrew Dunning |
4 April, 2016 |
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| 1594: Shakespeare's most important year |
In the summer of 1594 William Shakespeare decided to invest around 50 Pounds to become a shareholder in a newly formed acting company: Lord Chamberlain's Men. This lecture examines the consequences of this decision, unique in English theatrical history. |
Bart van Es |
2 March, 2016 |
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| The Prayer-Book of Abbess Odilia |
Abbess Baerbel Goercke, Mariensee, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Bärbel Görcke |
22 February, 2016 |
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| Musical Notation |
Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Utrecht University, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Ulrike Hascher-Burger |
22 February, 2016 |
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| The Incunable Traces |
Alan Coates, Rare Books Assistant Librarian, Bodleain, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Alan Coates |
22 February, 2016 |
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| Cistercian Punctuation |
Nigel F. Palmer, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Nigel Palmer |
22 February, 2016 |
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| The Plaque in the Psalter and the Bindings |
Andrew Honey, Book Conservator (Research and Teaching), University of Oxford, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Andrew Honey |
4 February, 2016 |
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| Masterclass: Medingen Manuscripts - Introduction |
Introduction to the Masterclass by Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford. |
Henrike Lähnemann |
4 February, 2016 |
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| 200 years of fun and games |
Richard Ballam talks about the rich collections of games and pastimes he has recently donated to the Bodleian, the subject of the display Playing with History. |
Richard Ballam |
29 January, 2016 |
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| The Future of Research Libraries |
A talk delivered by Andrew Green at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. |
Andrew Green |
15 September, 2015 |
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| Leadership and Embedding a Culture of Innovation at the University of Manchester |
A talk delivered by Jan Wilkinson at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. |
Jan Wilkinson |
15 September, 2015 |
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| The State of the Archives in the UK and the Challenges Ahead |
A talk delivered by Clem Brohier at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. |
Clem Brohier |
15 September, 2015 |
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| Evidence-Based Decision Making for Collection Management |
A talk delivered by Paul Cavanagh and James Kay at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. |
Paul Cavanagh, James Kay |
15 September, 2015 |
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| Malone's Chronologizing of Aubrey's Lives (putt in writing... tumultuarily) |
Keynote lecture by Margreta de Grazia, (Emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) for the Marginal Malone conference held in Oxford on June 26th, 2015. |
Margreta de Grazia |
4 August, 2015 |
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| Distinguishing Marks of Genius |
What do geniuses have in common, across the arts and sciences? And how do we distinguish genius from talent? Andrew Robinson, author of Genius: A Very Short Introduction, considers (a little of) the evidence. |
Andrew Robinson |
15 July, 2015 |
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| Pieces of the jigsaw: history through the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera |
A lunchtime lecture by Julie-Anne Lambert accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Julie-Anne Lambert |
10 July, 2015 |
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