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Recorded on: Wednesday 24^th November at 7pm

The 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.
We talk to four people who have found that to be the case.

Recorded on: Wednesday 10^th November at 5.30pm

Principal'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 4^th November at 5.30pm

Universities 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, 1^st 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.

Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer

Recorded on: Wednesday 6^th October

Peter Sinclair Memorial Service 

Recorded on: Tuesday 15th June 2021

Join Principal John Bowers QC in conversation with Professor Elspeth Garman. Retiring BNC Fellow, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Dept. of Biochemistry, and Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow.

Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer

Recorded on: Thursday 10th June 2021

Join Principal John Bowers QC in conversation with George Monbiot. Guardian columnist, author, environmental and political activist, and BNC alumnus.

Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer

Recorded on: Thursday 3rd June 2021

Join Principal John Bowers QC in conversation with Ambassador Dennis Ross. Senior diplomat and advisor on the Middle East to several US Administrations.

Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer

Recorded on: Tuesday 25th May 2021

Join Principal John Bowers QC in conversation with Declan Kelleher. Former Permanent Representative of Ireland to the European Union; and former Ambassador of Ireland to China.

Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer

Recorded on: Wednesday 19th May 2021

Join Principal John Bowers QC in conversation with Professor J Michael Kosterlitz, Nobel prize-winning physicist, BNC Honorary Fellow.  This Conversation is co-hosted by Professor Daniela Bortoletto, Professor of Physics and Nicholas Kurti Senior Research Fellow.

Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer