WHAT S ON APRIL JUNE 2018

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1 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD WHAT S ON APRIL JUNE 2018 TOLKIEN SAPPHO TO SUFFRAGE LIBRARY LATES

2 EXHIBITIONS OPEN NOW UNTIL 3 FEBRUARY 2019 Bodleian Treasures Sappho o Suffrage: women who dared Piraes and poes; suffragees and explorers 100 years of women s voes. This exhibiion celebraes he achievemens of women who dared o do he unexpeced by showcasing some of he Bodleian s greaes reasures alongside iems ha have rarely been displayed before. On show will be phoographs, ancien papyrus, leers, scienific insrumens, games, unique exs and much more, displaying he work of lierary geniuses like Mary Shelley and Jane Ausen as well as ground-breaking scieniss like Maria Sibylla Merian and French royal midwife Louise Bourgeois. Suiable for all ages. No booking required. THE TREASURY, WESTON LIBRARY ADMISSION FREE LAST CHANCE TO SEE This exhibiion illusraes he graphic design of handwrien manuscrips and inscripions for he firs housand years of English, across he Middle Ages. Suiable for all ages. No booking required. ST LEE GALLERY, WESTON LIBRARY ADMISSION FREE Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Compuer Scienis Chrisopher Hollings, Ursula Marin, Adrian Rice HB 20 Los Maps of he Caliphs Yossef Rapopor, Emilie Savage-Smih HB 40 UNTIL 22 APRIL Designing English NEW FROM BODLE Georgia: A Culural Journey Through he Wardrop Collecion Nikoloz Aleksidze HB 40 Available in he Bodleian Shops or order online a

3 OPEN 1 JUNE 28 OCTOBER Tolkien Maker of Middle-earh IAN PUBLISHING Tolkıen Tolkıen MAKER OF MIDDLE-EARTH Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earh explores Tolkien s amazing legacy from his genius as an aris, poe, linguis, and auhor o his academic career and family life. The exhibiion akes you on a journey hrough Tolkien s famous works, The Hobbi and The Lord of The Rings, displaying an array of draf manuscrips, sriking illusraions and maps drawn for his publicaions. Discover Tolkien s early absrac painings from The Book of Ishness, he ouching ales he wroe for his children, rare objecs ha belonged o Tolkien, never before seen fan mail, and privae leers. Book your free icke now a: hps://olkien.bodleian.ox.ac.uk 1 booking fee per ransacion. There will be a limied number of ickes available each day on a firs come, firs served basis. Suiable for all ages. ST LEE GALLERY, WESTON LIBRARY ADMISSION FREE Caherine McIlwaine Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earh Caherine McIlwaine HB 40 PB 25 Collecor s Ediion 295 Available in he Bodleian Shops from 1 June or preorder online a Tolkien: Treasures Caherine McIlwaine PB wih flaps 12

4 TALKS & EVENTS To avoid disappoinmen for popular evens, book your ickes in advance online: Booking fees may apply. Free alks and evens on subjecs relaing o he exhibiions a he Weson Library ALL TALKS ARE IN THE ADMISSION FREE BOOKING REQUIRED Maria Sibylla Merian nauralis and illusraor par excellence Mon 25 June pm Dr Jeyaraney Kahirihamby Maria Sibylla Merian was one of he firs nauraliss o make careful observaions of he meamorphosis of insecs and amphibians, a a ime when lile was known abou i. This alk will discuss her work. Thinking 3D Wed 27 June 5 6pm Laura Morei & Daryl Green This Byrne-Bussey Marconi alk will ell he sory of he landmark exs which are shaping he narraive and informing he curaorial work of he Bodleian s Treasures exhibiion in 2019, Thinking 3D from Leonardo o presen. SaurDIY: Sappho o Suffrage Sa 19 May 12 5pm Drop in o play he game of Suffrageo and make your own badge inspired by women who dared. The Young Women s Music Projec will be creaing heir own inerpreaions of he exhibiion and playing a se a 4pm. A lab of one s own: science and suffrage in he Firs World War Wed 25 July 5 6pm Professor Paricia Fara 2018 marks a double cenenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and Briish women won he voe afer decades of sruggle. This alk commemoraes boh anniversaries by revealing he unold lives of female scieniss, docors and engineers who helped o win he war. Myhopoeia: myhcreaion and Middle-earh Tue 5 June pm Panel discussion wih Marina Warner, Dimira Fimi, Verlyn Flieger. Booking required: hps://olkien.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Library Laes: Tolkien Sa 16 June pm Booking is essenial for his special Library Lae. Enjoy an evening of alks and aciviies in he imaginaive world of Tolkien s Middle-earh. BLACKWELL HALL, WESTON LIBRARY Booking required: hps://olkien.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

5 TALKS & EVENTS THE LYELL LECTURES 2018 Book ownership in Suar England David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography This lecure series will explore seveneenhcenury personal book ownership, looking no only a book acquisiion paerns bu also invesigaing moives and collecing culures. A key heme will be he use of maerial evidence from books hemselves o help o enhance our undersanding of seveneenh-cenury values. ADMISSION FREE BOOKING REQUIRED Seing he scene: rends and paerns Tue 24 April 5 6pm Books for use and books for show Thu 26 April 5 6pm Women and books in he seveneenh cenury Tue 1 May 5 6pm Books for he common man Thu 3 May 5 6pm Culures of collecing in he seveneenh cenury Tue 8 May 5 6pm Ballads a he Bodleian: songs of life & love Sun 22 April 11am 4.30pm As par of Oxford Folk Weekend, fesival direcor Ca Kelly has unearhed six popular songs from he Bodleian s collecion of broadside ballads and wrien new arrangemens for local communiy choirs. Drop in o enjoy soryelling, prining, folk music performances, an inroducion o broadside ballads and a song sharing workshop. BLACKWELL HALL, WESTON LIBRARY ADMISSION FREE The Polish-Ialian royal wedding of 1518: dynasy, memory and language Wed 25 April 5 6pm Dr Naalia Nowakowska In 1518, he Milanese- Neapolian princess Bona Sforza ravelled o Krakow o marry King Sigismund I of Poland, in one of he mos celebraed weddings seen in Renaissance Cenral Europe. This lecure explores he meeing of hese wo culures and considers he new poliical ideas generaed by he royal wedding. ADMISSION FREE BOOKING REQUIRED Persian ars of he book Wed 16 May 10am 1pm Dr Mandana Barkeshli and Sadra Zekrgoo Learn abou he maerials used o creae radiional Persian manuscrips. Inroducing he ingrediens used for dyeing paper and making ink, he lecures also explain how modern scieniss are able o idenify he maerials used in he making of manuscrips. ADMISSION FREE BOOKING REQUIRED

6 DISPLAYS All displays are open daily. Check opening hours online before visiing. ADMISSION FREE MS. D Orville 301, fols. 31v 32r A renaissance royal wedding 17 March 13 May Marking he 500h anniversary of a lavish Renaissance royal wedding, his small display explores he surprising Ialian- Polish connecions creaed by he marriage of Bona Sforza and King Sigismund I in BLACKWELL HALL, WESTON LIBRARY Necessiy and invenion: science from he Grea War 31 March 2 June The Firs World War was one of mechanizaion and science. This display looks a some of he scienific advances born of he crisis which would leave a posiive legacy afer he guns fell silen. PROSCHOLIUM, OLD SCHOOLS QUAD Looking a Euclid 19 May 15 July This display will explore he geomerical worlds of he early modern Briish Isles by looking a he recepion of Euclid s Elemens. BLACKWELL HALL, WESTON LIBRARY Curiosiy uncovered: opening he child s library cabine, 1800 Opens 9 June How did he cabine of lieraure open a curious world of science, hisory, and language? Through he child s library, his display uncovers he evolving echnology of early nineeenh-cenury educaional ephemera. Check online for final opening daes whason PROSCHOLIUM, OLD SCHOOLS QUAD COURSES Check online for booking informaion a Linocu one-day course Sun 6 May 10am 4pm Robin Wilson and Rosie Fairfax- Cholmeley Learn o make a linocu prin, from a blank shee of paper o a glorious poser, in one day. SCHOLA MUSICAE, OLD BODLEIAN LIBRARY BOOKING REQUIRED 60 Make a hand prined book in 5 days July 10am 5pm Design, ype-se, illusrae and prin your own bookle using hand-operaed presses in he Bodleian s prining workshop. SCHOLA MUSICAE, OLD BODLEIAN LIBRARY BOOKING REQUIRED 400

7 FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN EVENTS Friends of he Bodleian evens are open o all wih free admission, unless oherwise saed. To avoid disappoinmen please book online a Booking fees may apply. Phoo Richard Bryan/arcaid.co.uk Turn End, he film: he home and garden of archiec Peer Aldingon Thu 10 May pm This special viewing of he film Turn End, ells he sory of he creaion of he houses and garden and will be followed by a Q&A wih film creaors led by John Creaser. BOOKING REQUIRED 12 When Oscar Wilde came o Oxford Tue 22 May pm Michèle Mendelssohn, Associae Professor of English Lieraure, Universiy of Oxford; Visiing Professor, McGill Universiy Insiue for he Sudy of Canada A alk abou he previously unold sory of Oscar Wilde s undergraduae days in a Vicorian England oering owards moderniy. Goehe à l anglaise: singing he poe s song in a srange land Fri 8 June 6 7pm Lecure by Dr Derek McCulloch illusraed wih music performed by Café Mozar Special even abou he naure of song, he relaionship beween words and music, and when a song is no a song. CONVOCATION HOUSE, BODLEIAN LIBRARY BOOKING REQUIRED 10 William Morris ( ) by Frederick Hollyer, 1887 V&A Museum Wha would Morris say? Tue 12 June pm Dr Phillippa Benne, Senior Lecurer in English, Universiy of Norhampon; Fellow, Higher Educaion Academy This alk will consider how he legacy of William Morris migh help us undersand and respond o some of he mos pressing issues of our own era. SUPPORT THE BODLEIAN MAKE A DONATION TODAY Help safeguard some of he world s greaes lierary and culural reasures by making a donaion o he Bodleian Libraries oday. Your suppor will allow he Bodleian o keep exhibiions free for all, broaden access o collecions hrough digiizaion, and ensure fragile iems are conserved for fuure generaions. To donae online or find ou more abou he ways you can suppor he Bodleian Libraries, please visi uk/ge-involved/give You can also conac us a developmen@ bodleian.ox.ac.uk or Already leaving a legacy o he Bodleian Libraries? Please le us know so we can make sure o include you in our Bodley s Circle members group.

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