Dates
Friday 20 - Sunday 22 September
Location
Mathematical Institute and various other Oxford locations
The University of Oxford Alumni Office brings you a weekend of thrilling talks and tours.
Full programme and booking is available via the Oxford Meeting Minds website.
We are delighted to highlight just a few sessions below with Wadham connections:
Are our Economies Ready for Climate Change?
Friday 20 September
16:00-17:00
Lecture Theatre 1, Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Rd, OX2 6GG
Join Professor Alexander Teytelboym (Wadham, 2008) and a panel of senior business advisors and researchers in the field of environmental economics as they discuss how business leaders and governments should think about climate change, how to build in resilience in our global economies and the economic principles raised by one of the defining global issues of our time.
Visualizing Quantum Matter at Atomic Scale
Saturday 21 September
09:30-10:30
Lecture Theatre 1, Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Rd, OX2 6GG
Everything each of us has ever experienced and virtually everything underpinning our technological society and economy is governed by quantum mechanics. Yet this most fundamental physical theory of nature often feels as if it is a set of counterintuitive ideas of no direct relevance to our lives. Professor J.C. Séamus Davis (Wadham Senior Research Fellow) will describe the development of techniques that allow us to visualize electronic quantum phenomena and new states of quantum matter directly at the atomic scale.
Five @ Fifty: the first co-ed colleges looking to the future
Saturday 21 September
12:30-13:30
Lecture Theatre 1, Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Rd, OX2 6GG
In 1974, Brasenose, Hertford, Jesus, St Catherine’s, and Wadham became the first five traditionally male colleges to admit female students. In this panel discussion, alumni from the colleges (including journalist and author, Mary Ann Sieghart (PPE, 1979)) come together, along with Vice Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey, to celebrate what has been achieved over the last 50 years, and consider the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Kafka's Legacy - 100 years on
Sunday 22 September
11:30-12:30
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, OX1 3AZ
Join Bodley's Librarian Richard Ovenden in conversation with Wadham's Carolin Duttlinger (Professor of German Literature and Culture) and other academics and curators involved in this year's centenary programme of events, as they discuss the interdisciplinary nature of Kafka's enduring global legacy.