Events at Balliol

Drinks with Record Financial Group

20 November 2023, 5.00pm (refreshments will be provided), Old Common Room, Balliol College

All Balliol students are warmly invited to a drinks and information evening with Record Financial Group, which offers paid summer internships within the sales, investments, technology and sustainability teams to Balliol students. RSVP to the Development Office.



Balliol Online Lecture

21 November 2023, 5.00-6.30pm, Online

Please join Carolyn J. Heinrich (George Eastman Visiting Professor 202223) for her online lecture, ‘Bad Bets, Bad Apples or Bad Policy? ‘Ordeals’ in 21st-century policymaking.’ Register here.


Amit Chaudhuri reading

25 October 2023, 5.30pm, The Master's Lodgings

Professor Amit Chaudhuri (1987 and Honorary Fellow) will be in conversation with Professor Seamus Perry (Massey Fellow and Tutor in English). Copies of Sweet Shop: New and Selected Poems 19852022 (NYRB) will be on sale for a special cash price of £15.00.


Montague Burton Chair in International Relations Inaugural Lecture

2 November 2023, 5.00pm, Examination Schools, North Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG

Professor Neta Crawford FBA (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations and Professorial Fellow of Balliol) will deliver the lecture ‘The “Fierce Urgency of Now”: war, climate, and change in the deep time of world politics’, to mark her appointment to the position. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. Free lecture, open to the public. Booking required: details here.


Ways of Seeing

24 November 2023, 12.30pm, Staircase 21, Room 8, Balliol College

Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.812.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome. 


Ways of Seeing

17 November 2023, 12.30pm, Staircase 21, Room 8, Balliol College

Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.812.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome. 


Ways of Seeing

10 November 2023, Staircase 21, Room 8, Balliol College

Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.812.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome. 


Ways of Seeing

3 November 2023, 12.30pm, Staircase 21, Room 8, Balliol College

Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.812.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome. 


Ways of Seeing

27 October 2023, 12.30pm, Staircase 21, Room 8, Balliol College

Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.812.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome. 


Ways of Seeing

20 October 2023, 12.30pm, Staircase 21, Room 8, Balliol College

Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.812.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome. 


Ways of Seeing

13 October 2023, 12.30pm, Staircase 21, Room 8, Balliol College

Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.812.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome. 
 


Ghost stories in the Library

8 November 2023, 5.30-7.00pm, Old Dean's Room, Balliol Library

All members of Balliol, past and present and including staff, are invited to attend Balliol Library’s annual Halloween ghost story evening, and to submit a chilling yarn for the evening. The winning story will be read at the event.


Research Consilium

22 November 2023, 6.00pm, Old Common Room

Dorian Gangloff, ‘Putting uncertainty to work (or how to build technologies based on quantum entanglement)’. Members of the Common Room only.



Christmas Carol Service

26 November 2023, 5.30pm, Chapel

A service of hymns and carols for Advent and the Christmas season. Everyone welcome.


Evensong

19 November 2023, 5.30pm, Chapel

Preacher: Revd Helen Sims Williams, Assistant Curate, Emmanuel Church West Hampstead.


Evensong: Remembrance Sunday

12 November 2023, 5.30pm, Chapel

Preacher: Revd Canon Dr Peter Groves, Vicar of St Mary Magdalen’s Church, Oxford.


Choral Eucharist: All Saints

5 November 2023, 5.30pm, Chapel

Preacher: Revd and Worshipful Justin Gau, Barrister at Law; Chancellor, Diocese of Bristol.


Evensong: Bible Sunday

29 October 2023, 5.30pm, Chapel

Preacher: Professor Peter McCullough, Sohmer Fellow in English Renaissance Literature, Lincoln College.