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Image Credit: Aleksandra Cywinska Onyx Magazine celebrated the launch of its inaugural issue on 18 October 2018, with the mandate to be a magazine created by and for black students at the University of Oxford. The first issue of Onyx contains 88 pages filled to the brim with poetry, art, and articles thematically linked to […]
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Image Credit: Flicker Guo-Sheng Liu was formerly co-chair of the SU LGBTQ+ Campaign, BME Representative of the LGBTQ+ Society, LGBTQ+ Representative at Lincoln College, committee member of the SU Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality and It Happens Here campaign. Racism operates beyond the individual. Racism is a system of beliefs, power, and privileges. Racism […]
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Image Credit: Michael Gribben Black History Month has just ended, and very few people can claim to know much about the contribution that black people have made to this country. Even fewer still, can claim to know that the black presence dates back centuries, and in fact thousands of years. Yet black people are still […]
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Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman What are the conditions that allow us to use and store knowledge? What supports (both physical and otherwise) do we use to access this knowledge? Moreover, how has this narrative changed in our age of new media digitisation? Joanna Vestey’s Conditions of Knowledge (2018) exhibition at the North Wall Arts Centre […]
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Image Credit: Kimberly Glassman On Wednesday 25 October 2018, Dr. Bert Hansen, author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America (2009) came to Green Templeton College as this year’s McGovern Lecturer on the history of medicine (endowed by the late Dr John McGovern […]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia I had come across The Science Gallery’s motto, “Where art and science collide,” months before I officially made the move to England. As an art historian and curator, this short statement had me wondering what kind of experiences one could expect to have in an exhibition space that brings art and science into […]
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Image credit: Facebook Yotam Vaknin is from Israel pursuing his MSc in Physics. One evening during my second week at Oxford, my flatmate explained to me how to read the little pictures on the stove that illustrates to which stove each switch is connected to. You might expect that getting accepted to Oxford would suggest I am […]
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Image credit: Pixabay Evalena is a visiting student from New York reading English. This is my first year at Oxford and the longest time I’ve spent in the UK. So, as a disclaimer, I have had admittedly limited exposure to Oxford’s particular words and their meanings. But by asking British students to explain what they mean, […]
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Image credit: Facebook Danielle is from Canada and is undertaking a DPhil in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. “Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to the programme of your dreams for start in October 2018.” Opening email, my heart dropped. It sank due to disbelief; I’m not sure why I, amongst the […]
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Image credit: Will Cross-Birmingham Isabella Deutsch is from Austria and is pursuing a MSc in Statistical Science at Oxford. “This all must be a bureaucratic error,” I thought to myself countless times this past summer – “Do I really belong at Oxford?” After my successful application, the allocation of my college, countless emails with my […]
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Image Credit: Ben Darwent On the first Friday evening of Michaelmas term, Trinity College welcomed Marco Bertozzi, a Vice-President of Spotify Europe, as a guest speaker for the Oxford University Media Society, a new society established this April. In the words of its President, Theo Davies Lewis, the society aims to connect many areas: “Media is […]
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Image Credit: Michael Dustin A memorial gathering for Oxford DPhil student Christopher Peel was held on 12 October 2018 at 4pm in the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology. Tributes have poured in after his unexpected death on 12nd August at the age of 28. Peel was pursuing a DPhil at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology under the […]
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Most students would vouch for the fact that caffeine is an integral part of student life here in Oxford. Whether you’re nursing your post-Park End hangover, cracking out a last-minute essay, or simply seeking a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the city, Oxford offers an abundance of coffeehouses and cafés suited to every […]
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Image Credit: Erica Yokoyama Last week, the Freshers’ Fair turned out to be a great success with each college’s freshers thronging in to over 400 booths. At the jam-packed Examination Hall, Oxford’s myriad of societies and clubs showcased their activities and recent achievements, with the goal of recruiting new members. But as any fresher will […]
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Image Credit: Hannaford The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) is an amazing intellectual hub of interdisciplinary research. Founded only 5 years ago in May 2013 with the mission to engage with a wider audience by transcending disciplinary and institutional boundaries, TORCH has hosted an impressive range of cross-disciplinary events and projects that bring […]
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The fourth attempt in our quest for a curry restaurant took us in an unexpected culinary direction and brought us not to another of Oxford’s Indian restaurants, but to Bangkok House near the train station. Having thus far not found our one true (curry) love in Oxford, we thought we would branch out and try […]
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Oxford’s libraries are, I often find, difficult places to work in. Despite the history and beauty of my college library, it is, particularly during exam season, a constant hub of anxiety. As finals and prelims draw closer, college libraries and the Bodleian become charged with the presence of stressed finalists and frenzied first years. As […]
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It was in 1871 that John Ruskin, Oxford’s first Slade Professor, opened his School of Drawing, intending to develop a course for the University that would lead to a degree in art. Originally housed in the University Galleries, the school eventually moved to its current home on the High Street in 1975, where it was […]
Continue ReadingOriginally launched in Manchester in 2015, Junkyard Golf Club is a new take on crazy golf, with nine-hole courses that are immersed in curious environments created from reclaimed and repurposed junk, car boot sale finds and charity shop treasure – all combined with a bar and a lot of UV paint. On the 5th of June, […]
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