Do you work in #policy at local, regional, national government level? Fancy spending some time with like-minded researchers at @ox.ac.uk on the burning issues of the day? Consider our new Visiting Fellowship scheme just open this week: www.ox.ac.uk/research/usi...

We have a wonderful series of events coming up, save the dates in your diaries! Next week's Research Seminar will focus on "Filiation, Cannibalism, Carrier/Vehicle" with Emma Greensmith, Rosa Andújar, Giovanna Di Martino and Carla Suthren. #apgrd #classics #reception #metaphor

Join the Performance Research Hub on 11 November for a housewarming party in the brand new Schwarzman Centre! What do you want for performance research at Oxford? torch.ox.ac.uk/event/perfor...

'Recovering Laura Kieler--The Real Woman behind Ibsen's A Doll's House' -- Univ of Birmingham, Oct 29, 1.30-3pm, Arts Building 103 (Constance Naden Room – 1st fl). Please join us! www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/un...

The new TORCH Humour Network offers regular writing group meetings designed for scholars who engage with humour in their research. Open to all - DPhil students and ECRs especially welcome! Tuesdays week 1, 3, 5 and 7 details: tinyurl.com/yfjfu842

Join playwright Nicholas McInerny and BAFTA-winning actress Rakie Ayola on 25 October. Sensitivity reading as dramaturgy: can it really work? torch.ox.ac.uk/event/sensit...

Today we are delighted to launch the new Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, a one-of-a-kind space where academia and culture will intersect to create something extraordinary. Read more: humanities.web.ox.ac.uk/article/step...

For anyone in/ near Oxford, @marieminden.bsky.social and I are having a public conversation about our new books and ’new approaches to theatrical form’ with the fabulous Sos Eltis in November. There will be cake! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...

Join @marieminden.bsky.social @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social on 5 November for a book conversation: New Approaches to Theatrical Form! torch.ox.ac.uk/event/new-ap...

🎉🎉New exciting event just announced for November. 'Dressing “Greek”: Clothing, Movement and Performance from Ancient to Modern', Ertegun House, Oxford, 29th November. An interdisciplinary conference on ancient Greek bodies, performance and clothing. #clothing #performance #classics #reception

Performance Research at Oxford - what has happened over the last term? torch.ox.ac.uk/article/perf...

You are warmly invited to the 25th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July. University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London. Zoom link and Programme now available: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Expressions of Interest due mid-July. www.music.ox.ac.uk/british-acad...

On Tuesday 10 June, Dr Esther Cavett and Javier Rivas present at the Graduate Research Colloquia, exploring current conversations on the potential for participatory music-making to promote sustainable human coexistence.

Timothy Coombes, ‪@marinuleccia.bsky.social‬, @ehmacgregor.bsky.social, and Javier Rivas will each give presentations at OSiMTA on Tuesday. Please do join us from 5pm for this session on Music Theory, Analysis, Education and Play.

Join @kirstensb.bsky.social for a workshop looking at soon-to-be-published translations of the work of Henrik Ibsen and Laura Kieler - three plays in dialogue with one another. 19 May 2025. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/voiced...

What's In A Letter: Queer Temporalities. Listen to Ruskin DPhil researcher Jen DeNike on local BBC radio tonight at 9pm interviewed in the show Out with Kathy to hear all about Jen's performance lecture & exhibition in collaboration with Giulia Astesani, on Sat 3 May! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Join Jen DeNike & Giulia Astesani on 3 May for a performative lecture and conversation designed to collaboratively think through an (inherently queer) epistolary form. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/whats-...

EMPRes collaborate with @modernartoxford.bsky.social on Thursday 1 May to present an evening of experimental performance, electronic music, sound art, film, and movement.

Join us on 28 April for an open rehearsal of The White Whale, a new adaptation of Moby Dick by The Theatre, Chipping Norton in collaboration with Professor Christine Gerrard (English). @chippytheatre.bsky.social torch.ox.ac.uk/event/open-r...

Time's running out to book your free ticket for this evening's English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics #Shakespeare webinar. Delve into The #Tempest with Emma Smith and Lauren Working. 7 April at 6pm - 7.15pm Online via Zoom All welcome! #TeamEnglish #Cpd #BookSky

Are you an aspiring novelist, playwright or screenwriter? There's still time to enter the Oxford/42 New Writing Prize. We're looking for talented new voices in fiction & welcome experimental writing as well as work that would appeal to a broad audience. Closing date=30 April. #BookSky #amwriting

Join us on 9 May for Videographic Entanglements. At a time of extraordinary challenges to the university as a social institution, we gather to discuss the role of video in sustaining our research practices and collaborations. Book your place: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

Final reminder to sign up for A Colloquium on Aeschylus' Agamemnon! ⏰ 1.30pm Friday 21 March 📍 Ioannou Centre, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford 📢 FREE, but register to attend in person 🧑‍💻 Join online - no registration needed 🎭 All details: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/...

Excited to announce “TECHNO-UTOPIA”, my new concerto for Zubin Kanga commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. TECHNO-UTOPIA explores memory, magic, ruthless algorithms, and what makes music more than just data.

Don't miss the BBC Radio 3 broadcast of @danhulme.bsky.social's colloboration with Shiva Feshareki at the Barbican Centre! Listen along to the New Music Show from 10.45pm on Saturday evening. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

TODAY | Join us for an exciting event between the Sleep and the Rhythms of Life project, and Dansox, with live dance performance and panel discussion featuring experts from science, literature, music and history. Register here: tinyurl.com/2tdae7dy #dance

🎥 Our recording of last month's event 'The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the National Theatre' with Erin Lee (NT Head of Archive) and Jess Richardson (Head of Production and Content) is now available to watch online!🍿 @nationaltheatre.org.uk @apac-ssn.bsky.social shorturl.at/k3nnh

Putting climate negotiations on stage: A roundtable with the writers of Kyoto, a political thriller dramatising UN climate negotiations. Tue 11th Mar 17:00 - 18:30 St Catherine's College, Oxford Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1251676731... @goodchancetheatre.bsky.social Image (c) Manuel Harlan

Our RSC IF Fellow Amahra Spence is leading an event on 2 April as part of Marmalade Festival - see you there!

On Tuesday 4 March we're hosting our translated drama scratch night in collaboration with @oxfordcct.bsky.social! Come along to Trinity College's Beer Cellar at 7:30pm for an evening of short extracts of theatre translated into English from French, Italian, and Finnish 🎭

Coming up on Tuesday - Dr Elinor Grey and Pofessor Nicholas Baragwanath will be speaking at the Graduate Research Colloquium, discussing their collaborative project to develop a creative and historically-informed way to learn and perform Galant-style European music.

The Art of Variation: Free Concert. Sunday 23 February, 7.30pm. Holywell Music Room, Holywell St, Oxford OX1 3SB torch.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ar... Elinor Frey

On Sunday 23 February, the amazing Elinor Frey and Accademia de’ Dissonanti are coming to Oxford to perform a vivid program of eighteenth-century music and improvisation: The Art of Variation. Holywell Music Room, 7:30pm, free entry and no registration required! www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/25-02-...

Creativity in Motion 🌈 Try something new with our inclusive dance workshops. With artist Jane Castree, we'll be exploring movement in a welcoming and v... https://modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/creativity-in-motion?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=modernartoxford.bsky.social

Our Music Studio Manager @danhulme.bsky.social is collaborating with Shiva Feshareki on her latest piece 'Bab Khaneh', which is going to be performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Shiva at the Barbican Centre on Sunday 23 February, along with a broadcast on BBC Radio 3!

Join us and @oxfordcct.bsky.social for Theatre Translation Labs, Thursday 6 March or Monday 10 March! An interactive, practical workshop to explore a new translation of the Spanish Golden Age play Life Is A Dream. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/theatr...

Join us TOMORROW for our Theatre and Translation Roundtable! @prhoxford.bsky.social We'll explore the role of translation in theatre on both page and stage, from practical and academic perspectives. 7 February 13:15 to 14:30 Seminar Room 6, St Anne's College

🚨✨ JOB ALERT! Do you like #Performance? #Archives? #AncientDrama? Public Events? Come work with us! We're looking for an Archive Administrative Assistant (2 days per week, Oxford). Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLS746/a... 🏛️🏺 #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky

How can humanities research speak to the needs of present policy? Join the conversation with Professors Patrick Salmon and Patricia Clavin! @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social 🗓️ Tuesday 25 February, 17:00 - 18:30 talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/be4...

We're very excited about our Theatre and Translation Roundtable on Friday! We have 3 fantastic speakers talking about translation and performance! There will be a sandwich lunch provided. occt.web.ox.ac.uk/ev...

Next week's Contemporary Art Lecture at the Ruskin is by Gascia Ouzounian! A sonic theorist and practitioner, she will speak on her research exploring how cities become sites of atmospheric and spatial violence. 5pm Thursday 13th February More info & book free tickets: bit.ly/Ruskin_ContA...

On Friday 14 February, Ensemble Isis returns to the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building to perform works by Sally Beamish as well as pieces by student composers @yrrrrrrr.bsky.social, Henry Nurse, and Zosia Pilsworth.

Save the date! Our next Professor of Poetry lecture by @aestallings.bsky.social will take place on 21 February at 5.30pm in Examination Schools, Oxford. This event is open to the public and all are welcome! No booking required. #PoetrySky #poetry #Oxfordevents

Join Dr Minna Jefferey, Stephen Bailey and Tzen Sam for a discussion exploring the role of translation in theatre on both page and stage, from practical and academic perspectives. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/theatr... with @oxfordcct.bsky.social 7 Feb!

On March 4th, we’ll be hosting our first-ever scratch night! This term, we’ll be showcasing translated drama in conjunction with the Performance Research Hub, @prhoxford.bsky.social! occt.web.ox.ac.uk/ev...

Join OCCT and @prhoxford.bsky.social for our Theatre and Translation Roundtable! We'll explore the role of translation in theatre on both page and stage, from practical and academic perspectives. 7 February 13:15 to 14:30 Seminar Room 6, St Anne's College occt.web.ox.ac.uk/ev...

Take a look at this term's All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music - full details available at www.music.ox.ac.uk/all-souls-se...

'The Lost Music of Auschwitz' will air on TV tonight, telling the story of DPhil student Leo Geyer’s eight-year mission to piece together a treasure-trove of forgotten fragments of music manuscripts found in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. www.music.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

Hilary Term will also see the return of our Writing & Meditation workshops! Open to the entire community, these sessions work as a focused writing space to get those words down! 🙌🏽