Recorded on: Thursday 12th May 2022 at 5.30pm | Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Annual Diversity Lecture: “The effects of what you can't see” The Annual Diversity Lecture guest speaker is Rhys Phillip, Chief Executive Officer at Cornerstone, and the title of his lecture is “The effects of what you can't see”.
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer |
Recorded on: Wednesday 4 May 2022 5.30pm | Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Principal's Conversations with Hannah Cusworth and Zaiba Patel “What do we stand to gain from more inclusive history teaching?”
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer |
Recorded on: Tuesday 26 April 5.30pm | Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Principal's Conversations with Professor Jayne Birkby Jayne is a Tutorial Fellow in Physics at BNC and Associate Professor of Exoplanetary Science. She will be discussing her research on studying the atmospheres of some of the 5000+ other worlds now known beyond our Solar system, and how this extraordinary eclectic zoo of exoplanets is helping us to understand Earth and its place in the universe. She will also talk about the telescopes being built right now that will enable us for the first time to search for life elsewhere in the Milky Way. Jayne will also discuss more broadly about astronomy and astrophysics, the career path she has taken, and efforts to make astronomy research accessible to everyone.
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer |
Recorded on: Wednesday 2 March 5.30pm | Online (Zoom)
Principal's Conversations – Online Media Panel
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Recorded on: Tuesday 8 February 5.30pm | Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Principal's Conversations with Jason Stockwood Jason Stockwood is Founder of 53 Degrees Capital; Chairman and joint majority shareholder of Grimsby Town Football Club; author of “Reboot: A Blueprint for Happy, Human Business in the Digital Age”; and Transformational Leadership Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government. Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer |
Recorded on: Wednesday 1st December 2021 at 5:30pmPrincipal's Conversations with Lt Gen Michelle D Johnson Lt Gen Michelle D Johnson, Brasenose Honorary Fellow and Alumna (PPE, 1981). A retired Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force, and former Senior Vice President and Head of Referee Operations for the National Basketball Association. She will be talking on the subject of: "Lessons from Covid-19: what responsibility to the common good does a resilient democracy require?" Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer |
Recorded on: Wednesday 24th November at 7pmThe Happiness Project: 1974 Womens Network Panel Discussion In the midst of a pandemic many of us have wondered if there is an alternative to the traditional corporate office job. |
- Eleanor Mills (English, 1989) Keynote speaker - Founder and Editor in Chief of Noon, a new platform for women in mid-life
- Flora McLachlan (English, 1994)
- Harriet Rycroft (MFL, 1983)
- Michael Sanson (Engineering and Economics, 1985)
Recorded on: Wednesday 10th November at 5.30pmPrincipal's Conversation: Derek Winterbottom Join Principal John Bowers QC in conversation with Derek Winterbottom (Modern History, 1962). Author and historian. He will be discussing his new unofficial history of the College, "Brasenose College: a Short History". There is an opportunity to buy copies of the book from https://www.presenceofmann.com Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer |
Recorded on: Thursday 4th November at 5.30pmUniversities Tests Act 1871: a panel discussion to celebrate the 150th anniversary Chaired by Principal John Bowers QC, with guest speakers Professor Abigail Green, Professor of Modern European History and Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose, Revd Professor William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History and Tutorial Fellow at St John's College, and (please note change of previously advertised speaker) Dr Frederick Smith, Early Career Fellow in Early Modern History at Balliol College. The Universities Tests Act of 16th June 1871 finally removed the remaining religious restrictions on study or employment at Oxford. It thus started us on a bumpy road to becoming a modern global university, with students and staff of diverse faiths, sexualities, genders, ethnicities, nationalities and races. The significance of the Act is explained further at: https://staff.admin.ox.ac.uk/article/opening-oxford-to-the-world-1871#/ Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer |
Recorded on: Wednesday 20th October 2021
Principal's Conversations with Ursula Buchan Join Principal John Bowers QC in conversation with Ursula Buchan, award-winning writer and lecturer, specialising in social history, gardening, and garden history. Ursula talks about her most recent book, “A life of John Buchan – Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps”, a biography of her grandfather, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), and she illustrates her talk with photographs. An alumnus of Brasenose matriculating in 1895, John Buchan was a novelist, historian and politician who served as Governor General of Canada (1935-1940). He is remembered for his fiction, most chiefly for The Thirty-nine Steps, but his other publications included a History of the Great War and a history of Brasenose College. https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/john-buchan-writer There is a problem with the sound for the first few minutes of this recording - please accept our apologies for this.
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