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Forthcoming Events

Threats to the Rule of Law

Lord Neuberger (Former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)

This lecture will begin at 5pm in the Centre's Jerusalem Room. Prior booking is not required. All welcome.

20 Nov

2024

Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future

Dr Suzanne Bartington (University of Birmingham)

Air pollution is the greatest environmental risk to human health in the UK responsible for an estimated 26,000 to 38,000 early deaths each year. Oxford has recognised air quality challenges, with the whole city declared as an Air Quality…

26 Nov

2024

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places

Professor Sir Paul Collier (University of Oxford

This lecture will begin at 5pm in the Centre's Jerusalem Room. Prior booking is not required. All welcome.

27 Nov

2024

News & Notices

Lecture: Crafting Medieval Spain: the Torrijos ceiling in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen is Curator responsible for the Arab World collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is a specialist in the Islamic Mediterranean, especially al-Andalus and the Maghrib, during the…

5 Jun

2023

A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

New Open Access resource available online

A Literary History of Medicine: The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

https://brill.com/view/db/lhom

6 Mar

2020

Lecture: Picturing the court: Mughal artists and material culture in the 17th century

The lecture places the portraits in historical and art historical context, and show how the evolution of Mughal painting produces greater accuracy in the depiction of material culture. The portraits then become an important source of information…

Threats to the Rule of Law

Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places

Lecture: Crafting Medieval Spain: the Torrijos ceiling in the Victoria and Albert Museum

A Literary History of Medicine - The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah

Lecture: Picturing the court: Mughal artists and material culture in the 17th century

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