The Open University’s Music Department, the Cowper & Newton Museum and Olney Parish Church are delighted to be co-hosting this conference as part of a year-long programme of events to commemorate the 250th anniversary of ‘Amazing Grace’, widely believed to have first been sung at Olney on 1 January 1773.

This talk explores the concept of essential work using a global feminist social reproduction perspective. Based on research conducted in the first phase of the pandemic, it shows that the meaning of essential work in essential work legislations/classifications is more ambiguous and politicised than it may appear.

Bringing together minority-led scholars from Europe, East Asia and the US, this conference specifically aims to address Western classical music performed by minorities, especially East Asians.

Join Professor Giles Mohan, Dr. Indrajit Roy and Dr. Nana de Graaff to hear the latest in cutting edge research on how China’s rise is reshaping the global economy, the liberal international order and the meaning of development.

In this third edition of the Eco-creativity conference, we invite interdisciplinary, empirical, and ethnographic approaches to understanding the role of arts and creative industries in delineating new ‘emotional landscapes’ of the climate and ecological crises.

Find out what happens when two OU art historians join forces with an environmental filmmaker to tell a new kind of history of climate change. 

Go behind the scenes of the recent BBC and OU co-production 'Art That Made Us' to discover more about how the show was made and why in this livestream and Q&A.