Digi-Miss It

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

Speakers:

• Julia Kreitman (PPE, 1978) Founder partner of The Agency (London) Ltd, representing writers, directors and creatives for theatre, television and film

• Michael Jermey (PPE, 1982) Television executive, ITV's Director of News and Current Affairs

• Justine Kershaw (Modern Languages, 1985) Co-Founder and Creative Director of Blink Films

• Sarah Vaughan (née Hall) (English, 1991) Novelist and journalist, author of the international and Sunday Times bestseller “Anatomy of a Scandal” and forthcoming novel “Reputation” 

Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer

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 1^st December 2021 at 5:30pm

Principal'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 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