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Lectures — Saturday 25th May 2013 Hide

Personal Obligatory Knowledge Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaa'ah

Islamic Personal Obligatory Knowledge of the Religion, all welcome.

6.00-7.00pm. Free

Asian Cultural Centre, Manzil Way, Oxford OX4 1GH

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Water-culture: Women's Work(s)

Fusion symposium of art, activism and research on water scarcity and women's work

4pm £10/£5 conc / students free

TS Eliot Lecture Theatre (Merton College), Rose Lane Buildings, (next to Botanic Garden), Oxford OX1 4JD

www.waterculturewomensworks.org Email Me 07530 234178

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Lectures — Tuesday 28th May 2013 Hide

The Big Energy Debate 2013 Oxford Energy Society

"This House Would Stop the Annual UN Climate Summits."

8pm £2 (free for members)

Oxford Union, Frewin Court OX1 3JB

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Oxford Health NHS FT's Health Matters with Anna Motz Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Join Anna Motz as she discusses treating violence, personality disorder and crime.

7.00pm - 9.30pm Free to members or £5 on the door

Science Oxford Live, 1 - 5 London Place, St Clements OX4 1BD, Saturdays, 10am to 5pm, during Term Time; Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm, during local school holidays.

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Lecture on Mughal Secretarial Class Oriental Institute and St Cross College

Language, Caste and the Secretarial Class in Mughal India by Dr. Najaf Haider. All Welcome

4.30 Free

Ertegun House, 37a St Giles'

www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/general/news.html Email Me 01865-284276

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Art — Tuesday 28th May 2013 Hide

Gorgeous and golden - early Italian art

Talks are led by Ashmolean Education Volunteers. Places are allocated on the day by tokens available from the Information Desk at 1pm (no advance booking). Numbers are limited to 15 people

1.15 - 2pm free - donations welcome

Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm

www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=31694

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Tours — Tuesday 28th May 2013 Hide

Temple of creation or where god died? Museum of Natural History: Behind The Scenes

An architectural tour of the Museum (John Ruskin's favourite building). Sorry no wheelchair access. Over 12s.

3-5pm £5 or free to Volunteers

Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, 10am - 5pm daily. Free entry.

www.oum.ox.ac.uk/visiting/whatson.htm Email Me 01865 272950

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Lectures — Wednesday 29th May 2013 Hide

A 'Wild' Night of Climate Conversation COIN (Climate Outreach and Information Network)

George Monbiot book launch and climate change conversation, hosted by COIN.

7-9pm £12/£10 conc

Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3BN

www.climateoutreach.org.uk

Must book by 28 May 2013 Book tickets

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Proust for Beginners

A dramatic reading of selected passages from Swann's Way in celebration of its 100th Anniversary.

Doors open at 6:45pm. Event starts at 7pm. Free

Blackwells Bookshop, 48-51 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BQ

www.ionianproductionstheatre.com/ Email Me 01865 333623

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Building stars, planets and the ingredients for life between the stars

Professor Dr E F van Dishoeck: An overview of how stars and planets are born in the extremely cold and tenuous clouds between the stars in the Milky Way, and a look at possibilities for life on exo-planets.

5 - 6pm free

Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Martin Wood Complex, Parks Road (next to University Parks), Oxford OX1 3PU

www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=31589 01865 273302

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Family ties: remittances and support in Puntland and Somaliland

The findings of a research project recently completed with the FAO Food Security and Nutrition Assessment Unit in Somalia.

5pm

Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB

www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=31396 01865 281707

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Folly in Foreign Policy: an Afghan Case Study Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Seminar by Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, former UK Special Representative for Afghanistan

17.00 - 18.30 Free

Taylorian Institute, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3NA

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An Evening on the Transfiguration St Theosevia Centre

with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware and Dr Nicholas Gendle

8pm - 9.30pm free, donations appreciated

St Theosevia Centre, 2 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU

www.theosevia.org Email Me 01865 310341

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Once and Future Arthurs: Arthurian Literature for Children

Lunchtime lecture accompanying the exhibition "Magical Books: From the Middle Ages to Middle-Earth"

1 - 1.30pm Free

Bodleian Library, Old Schools Quadrangle, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG

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Booking advised by 28 May 2013 Book tickets

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Meeting — Wednesday 29th May 2013 Hide

Theatre Discussion & Lunch Club Pegasus Theatre & Age UK Charity

Welcomes all over 50s. Talks from touring cast/crews. Live local writers/poets etc

1.00-2.00pm £1

Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 1RE

www.pegasustheatre.org.uk Email Me 01865 812150

Booking advised by 01 Sep 2013

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Courses and Workshops — Wednesday 29th May 2013 Hide

Introduction to the Tarot (over 4 evenings) The Jasmine Room

Come and learn to work with the Tarot in a small informal group.

7 - 8.30pm £45 for all four workshops

The Jasmine Room (East Oxford) OX4

Email Me 01865 777080

Must book by 07 May 2013

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Lectures — Thursday 30th May 2013 Hide

Thursday Lunchtime Talks At St Giles - St Francis Centre for Spiritual Growth

Ecology & Franciscan Spirituality by Samuel SSF, Hilfield Priory.

12.30pm, retiring collection

St Giles' Church, St Giles, Oxford OX2 6HT

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Ethics In Finance: A New Financial Theory For A Post-Financialized World

The lecture describes why financial theory and teaching has ignored ethics, viewing moral values as irrelevant.

5.30 - 7pm free

St Cross College, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ

www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=31596 01865 286888

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Experimenting with experiential methods in research and teaching

4 - 5.30pm

Oxford Learning Institute, Suite 3, Littlegate House, 16/17 St Ebbes, Oxford OX1 1PT, Term time: Monday- Friday 9.00 am- 5.00 pm Vacation: Monday - Friday 9.00 am- 5.00 pm

www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=31389 01865 286811

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Ancient Iran: Developments in Chronology & Copper Metallurgy

Mark Pollard explores the latest research in the metallurgy of Bronze Age Iran and the work to refine the chronologies of cultures of the Iranian Central Plateau.

5.30 - 6.30pm free

Ship Street Conference Centre

www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=31777 01865 278015

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Art — Thursday 30th May 2013 Hide

Master Drawings: Introduction to the Exhibition

Introduction tour of the Master Drawings exhibition. Tours are free with the price of admission. No booking necessary.

3 - 3.45pm

Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm

www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=31646 01865 278002

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People at work (Western art)

Talks are led by Ashmolean Education Volunteers. Places are allocated on the day by tokens available from the Information Desk at 1pm (no advance booking). Numbers are limited to 15 people

1.15 - 2pm free - donations welcome

Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm

www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=31696

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