Schwarzman Centre Open House

On Saturday 25 April, the Schwarzman Centre will throw open its doors!

Join us for a free-entry festival of pop-up performances and events including bite-size talks, circus, poetry, dance, music, physical theatre and more. See the full schedule.

As part of the day, Faculties across the Humanities division have organised a series of events to highlight the excellent work being undertaken in the building.

Seminar Room 1: What is the humanities? (11:00 - 18:00)

11:00 - 12:30        Meet the researchers: Jonathan Walls (Linguistics), Emma Baxter (Medieval and Modern Languages), Andrew McNey (History)

12:30 - 13:15        Learn Korean in 15 minutes

13:15 - 13:30        Ten-Minute Book Club (TORCH Talk): Professor Kirsten Shepherd and Natasha Bradley (English)

13:30 - 14:30        Meet the researchers: Alfred Lo (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), Gina Mollicone-Long (Theology and Religion), Bhadrajee Hewage (History)

14:30 - 15:15        Ten-Minute Book Club (Workshop): Professor Kirsten Shepherd and Natasha Bradley (English)

15:30 - 17:00        Meet the researchers: Sharvi Maheshwari (Theology and Religion), Caroline Taylor (English) Xingyu Novak Shi (Linguistics), Rajaa Sahgal (History)

Seminar Room 4

13:15 - 14:00        Humanities: future imperfection (Panel)

• Chairing: Prof Dan Grimley (Music)
• Prof Helen Small (English)
• Dr Simon Kemp (Languages)
• Dr Gail Trimble (Classics)

17:00 - 17:45        End of liberalism (Panel)

• Chairing: Prof Martin Conway (History)
• Prof Bill Wood (Theology and Religion)
• Prof Ben Jackson (History)
• Prof Naomi Waltham-Smith (Music)
• Prof James B Lewis (Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) will also be holding a series of bite-size talks featuring English Faculty members talking on a variety of subjects from 'When Shakespeare met Trump' to '10 Myths About Witchcraft'. See the programme of talks on the TORCH website.

We will also be on hand during the day to answer any questions you have about the university, whether that’s about admissions, research, or our events!

©Foteini Christofilopoulou