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.
Professor Anna Deavere Smith, George Eastman Visiting Professor for Michaelmas Term 2023, will be ‘in conversation’ with Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. All are welcome, drinks to follow.
Please join Carolyn J. Heinrich (George Eastman Visiting Professor 2022–23) for her online lecture, ‘Bad Bets, Bad Apples or Bad Policy? ‘Ordeals’ in 21st-century policymaking.’ Register here.
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 1985–2022 (NYRB) will be on sale for a special cash price of £15.00.
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.
Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.8. 12.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome.
Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.8. 12.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome.
Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.8. 12.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome.
Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.8. 12.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome.
Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.8. 12.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome.
Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.8. 12.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome.
Free lunch and discussion about a masterpiece of European painting. Each Friday in Michaelmas, XXI.8. 12.30pm lunch, 1.00pm start. Everyone is warmly welcome.
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.
Dorian Gangloff, ‘Putting uncertainty to work (or how to build technologies based on quantum entanglement)’. Members of the Common Room only.
Professor James Belich, ‘Why Europe? Y. pestis. The Black Death and the Rise of West Eurasia’. Members of the Common Room only.
A service of hymns and carols for Advent and the Christmas season. Everyone welcome.
Preacher: Revd Helen Sims Williams, Assistant Curate, Emmanuel Church West Hampstead.
Preacher: Revd Canon Dr Peter Groves, Vicar of St Mary Magdalen’s Church, Oxford.
Preacher: Revd and Worshipful Justin Gau, Barrister at Law; Chancellor, Diocese of Bristol.
Preacher: Professor Peter McCullough, Sohmer Fellow in English Renaissance Literature, Lincoln College.