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OU Presents Study Day at Oxford Lieder Festival

Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 11:00 to 16:30

The Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College The Berrow Foundation Building, Turl St, Oxford OX1 3DR

For the fourth year in a row, the Literature and Music Research Group at the OU is presenting a Study Day as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival. This year’s festival is called The Grand Tour: A European Journey in Song, and the Study Day reflects this theme with its title, Reaching Out: European Song across Borders.

History of Books and Reading Research Conference

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 09:30 to 18:30

Gordon Room, Senate House, University of London

The Book as Cure: Bibliotherapy and Literary Caregiving from the First World War to the Present.

A one-day conference exploring the legacy of bibliotherapy from WW1 to the present, led by English & Creative Writing Siobhan Campbell, Sara Haslam, and Edmund King.

Home? IF: Milton Keynes

Thursday, July 26, 2018 - 15:30 to 17:30

The Arabian Tent Festival Central Campbell Park Milton Keynes MK9 4AD

Home? is an open-forum ideas lab intended to inspire, challenge and provoke. Facilitated by Agnes Czajka (Open University) with the participation of artist and filmmaker Richard DeDomenici, Home? will reflect on, and preview some of the themes and questions raised by the making of The Democratic Set Milton Keynes, by Back to Back Theatre.

The inaugural lecture of Professor Derek Matravers, 'Should we risk lives to save history?'

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 18:00 to 19:45

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA

The dilemma of how to protect culture and heritage in war zones, while making human life a priori