WHAT S ON JANUARY MARCH 2018

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1 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD WHAT S ON JANUARY MARCH 2018 DESIGNING ENGLISH BODLEIAN TREASURES LIBRARY LATES

2 EXHIBITIONS OPEN NOW UNTIL 22 APRIL Designing English Graphics on he Medieval page Explore a housand years of English graphic design in his incredible exhibiion. Feauring an eclecic array of rare iems, from Old English picure books and fragmens of medieval songs, o maserpieces framed wih illusraions and gold, his exhibiion will explore he hisory of wrien English in he Middle Ages, following he experiences of boh he makers and users of wriing. Almanac A-G MS.Rawl.D.939 Designing English will be shown for he firs wo monhs alongside Redesigning he Medieval Book, a display of conemporary book ars inspired by he exhibiion hrough a workshop and compeiion. See more informaion overleaf in Display secion. Suiable for all ages. No booking required. ST LEE GALLERY, WESTON LIBRARY Asronomical volvelle diagram MS.Ashmole 370, fols 25r. Designing English: Early Lieraure on he Page Edied by Daniel Wakelin HARDBACK ISBN : 30 Available from December onsie in he Bodleian Shops or online a English Daniel Wakelin esigning English Early Lieraure on he Page

3 OPEN NOW UNTIL 11 FEBRUARY Bodleian Treasures 21 pairs and a ropical fores From Magna Cara and Shakespeare s Firs Folio, o Morse encoded pigeon feahers and he Bodleian s smalles manuscrip, explore he many differen reasures held in he Libraries 12 million srong collecions in our exoic Treasures exhibiion. Suiable for all ages. No booking required. THE TREASURY, WESTON LIBRARY OPENS 6 MARCH Bodleian Treasures From Sappho o Suffrage: Women who dared Piraes and poes; suffragees and explorers, his exhibiion celebraes he achievemens of women who dared o do he unexpeced. From Sappho o Suffrage showcases some of he Bodleian s mos remarkable and reasured iems. Suiable for all ages. No booking required. THE TREASURY, WESTON LIBRARY Making Medieval Manuscrips Chrisopher de Hamel PAPERBACK ISBN: Bodleian Library Treasures David Vaisey HARDBACK ISBN: The Making of The Wind in he Willows March 2018 PAPERBACK ISBN: Available in he Bodleian Shops or online a

4 TALKS & EVENTS Tickes for all alks and evens are free unless saed. To avoid disappoinmen for popular evens, book your ickes in advance online: Booking fees may apply. Lunchime lecures Free alks on subjecs relaing o he Designing English: Graphics on he Medieval Page exhibiion a he Weson Library. THE FOLLOWING TALKS ALL RUN FROM PM IN THE LECTURE THEATRE, WESTON LIBRARY Medieval graffii Reading he wriing on he wall? Wednesday 24 January Dr Mahew Champion Today mos forms of graffii are regarded as desrucive and ani-social. Prior o he middle decades of he nineeenh cenury, however, all forms of graffii were, like he ourageous marginalia of a medieval manuscrip, a leas acceped. As a resul our medieval churches, cahedrals and casles are covered in largely unrecorded inscripions; inscripions ha deal wih maers of faih, of commerce, and of life and deah. The King and I Alfred and Alfredian Projec Wednesday 7 February Professor Kaherine O Brien O Keeffe The Preface o he Pasoral Care (Bodleian MS. Haon 20), long aribued o King Alfred (d. 899), surveys he power of earlier kings and he sae of learning in England before he Viking invasions, and proclaims a programme of ranslaion o recover he learning of he pas by making Lain exs accessible in English. This alk considers he Alfredian projec and he work of I o represen he king in he Alfredian prefaces. The illuminaors craf Wednesday 28 February Dr Holly James-Maddocks, Universiy of York The use of glimmering gold and pricey pigmens were undoubedly he mos eyecaching elemens available o he crafspeople involved in he graphic design of he page. This alk will explore he role of he illuminaor in he conex of producion, providing an inroducion o he echniques employed, he ypes of exs ypically ornamened, and he various funcions of he images used. FT WEEKEND OXFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL MARCH A number of Fesival evens will be hosed in he Weson Library. Farewell o he Horse 17 March 4pm Ulrich Ralph Ada Lovelace Lecure* 19 March 6pm Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Compuer Science a he Universiy of Souhampon and Execuive Direcor of he Web Science Insiue *in associaion wih he Deparmen of Compuer Science An afernoon wih Brian Aldiss: Is Science Ficion Lieraure? A panel discussion 20 March 4pm An afernoon wih Brian Aldiss: Celebraing he work of Brian Aldiss 20 March 2pm Roy Davids Poery Reading 23 March 4pm ALL LECTURES WILL BE HELD IN THE LECTURE THEATRE, WESTON LIBRARY For more informaion visi hp://oxfordlieraryfesival.org

5 TALKS & EVENTS Library Laes: Designing English 23 February pm Mee a he Bodleian afer dark o discover he firs, fearless English graphic designers. How do you make a book from a sheep? When does a page urn 3D? Find ou abou edible charms, urine colour chars and swan branding. Relax over drinks in he café and enjoy drop-in aciviies including ariss demonsraions, curaor Q&As, mini ours and DIY bookmaking. BOOKING REQUIRED Pop-ups & Paper Engineering Workshop 19 January 10am 4pm This workshop wih celebraed book aris Paul Johnson imagines how medieval bookmakers migh creae a book using oday s paper engineering mehods. You will firs explore he Designing English exhibiion wih he curaor o discover medieval innovaions. Paul will hen each a range of paper folding echniques used in modern movable books. Inspired by medieval books in he exhibiion and his inricae paper engineering, you will creae your own moveable 8-page book. BOOKING REQUIRED 10 Reassembling he universiy: he idea of a universiy in a digial age 5 February 1 2pm Professor David M. Berry, Universiy of Sussex In imes of deep economic and poliical uncerainy here is a pressing need o revisi he consellaions of conceps grounding he idea of a universiy. This alk will examine he relevance of ideas ha assembled he universiy in differing hisorical periods o hink abou how we migh reassemble hese noions for possible new consellaions of an idea of a universiy in a digial age. LECTURE THEATRE, WESTON LIBRARY SaurDIY Sappho o Suffrage 10 March 12 3pm Drop in on he opening weekend of he Sappho o Suffrage exhibiion for familyfriendly aciviies. Discover he sories of women who dared and help us prin zines and alernaive guides o he exhibiion. Leerpress six-week course Design and prin workshop using he hand-operaed presses in he Old Bodleian Library. SCHOLA MUSICAE, OLD BODLEIAN LIBRARY BOOKING REQUIRED REGISTRATION FEE Course availabiliy in April. Linocu one-day course 3 March 10am 4pm Taking inspiraion from medieval books. SCHOLA MUSICAE, OLD BODLEIAN LIBRARY BOOKING REQUIRED 60 To regiser for prining courses see courses

6 DISPLAYS All displays are open daily. Check online before visiing. LAST CHANCE TO SEE The Full Picure: Oxford in Porrais Unil 7 January Hundreds of porrais of excepional individuals hang on he walls of he Universiy of Oxford: celebraing our pas, making visible our values for he fuure, and helping shape he presen environmen. The Full Picure: Oxford in porrais displays new porrais of a diverse range of people seleced from over a hundred nominaions of living Oxonians. This exhibiion is par of he Diversifying Porraiure projec, which is led by he Universiy s Equaliy and Diversiy Uni. Enry by Paul Johnson Phoo: Ben Seymour Making Manuscrips for a Prince of he Black Sheep Unil 14 January This small display showcases manuscrips made for Prince Pir Budaq, of he Turkman Black Sheep clan. I includes he firs illuminaed copy of he Ruba iya of Omar Khayyam, and a magnificen copy of he Masnavi of Jalal al-din Rumi. PROSCHOLIUM, OLD BODLEIAN LIBRARY Redesigning he Medieval Book Unil 11 March A display of newly creaed aris s books inspired by medieval manuscrips. We invied conemporary bookbinders, papermakers, calligraphers, illusraors, graphic designers, hand press priners and oher ariss o explore and redesign some of he medieval books from he exhibiion Designing English. Invenive, original and playful, he bes enries are on display in Blackwell Hall. Waler Beningon: Phoographic Porrais January 25 March Waler Beningon s phoographic porrais include leading members of Oxford and Cambridge Universiies as well as renowned figures such as Sir Arhur Conan Doyle and Alber Einsein. PROSCHOLIUM, OLD BODLEIAN LIBRARY 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 1518.

7 FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN Friends of he Bodleian evens are open o all, admission free. To avoid disappoinmen please book online a Booking fees may apply. The mysery surrounding a bus of James Gibbs in he Radcliffe Camera Tuesday, 13 February pm Dana Josephson, former Bodleian Exhibiions and Porrais Conservaor The Radcliffe Camera holds wo marble buss of is archiec, James Gibbs. One is by an unknown sculpor, and some doub ha i is really Gibbs. Recenly discovered evidence saes ha his bus, and no one by Michael Rysbrack in he V&A Museum, came from Srawberry Hill, he famous home of Horace Walpole. If rue, can his ell us any more abou he enigmaic bus? LECTURE THEATRE, WESTON LIBRARY SUPPORT THE BODLEIAN JOIN THE FRIENDS Enjoy exclusive evens and discouns from only 32 a year. Please visi our websie for more informaion, o give a donaion, become a member or presen our membership as a gif. bodley/friends Isabella Bird s phoographic journal of ravels hrough China Tuesday, 27 February pm Deborah Ireland FRGS, Curaor of Phoographs and Auhor Isabella Bird was one of he mos remarkable ravel wriers in he Vicorian age and he firs woman o be eleced Fellow of he Royal Geographical Sociey. She recorded her exensive ravels in books illusraed wih her own phoographs. In 1894, whils exploring Korea, she was expelled from he counry. This advenure changed her life and her undersanding of China forever. LECTURE THEATRE, WESTON LIBRARY 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 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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