Think Human at Oxford Brookes University

16 - 20 April 2024

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Think Human Festival 2024

Our 2024 festival programme is here!

Free Think Human Festival events across the city provide opportunities to discuss and reflect on the importance of understanding ourselves as human beings, our relationships with others and the challenges we face as part of a changing society in a complex world.

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Festival programme

Thursday 4 April 2024

TimeEventLocation
19:00

Sancho & Me - for One Night Only

A special launch event for Think Human 2024

Oxford Brookes University’s Think Human Festival is extremely proud to present our Chancellor, Paterson Joseph, in Sancho & Me - for One Night Only.

A performance by Paterson Joseph, alongside Ben Park, a composer, performer and educator who has written, produced and performed extensively for film, television, dance and theatre. The performance is built around Paterson's critically-acclaimed debut novel, The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho, based on the true story of the 18th-century writer and composer who became the first known person of African descent to vote in a British parliamentary election.

The show is a partly improvised performance, delivered directly to the audience and explores ideas of belonging, language, education, slavery, commerce, violence, threat, politics, music and love – and where these themes intersect with Paterson’s own story of being Black and British.

The Old Fire Station, Oxford

Tuesday 16 April

TimeEventLocation
18:00 - 20:00From Hostility to Dignity: Challenging current developments under the UK’s immigration policy and the environment it creates for migrants and refugeesAssembly Room, Oxford Town Hall, OX1 1BX


Wednesday 17 April

TimeEventLocation
10:30 - 12:00Occupations & Interruptions: A Poetry Workshop for Carers - Part 1Online - Zoom Webinar. Contact d.roe@brookes.ac.uk to register
12:00 - 13:00Disability, "Unfit" Bodies and Eugenic Stigma: A Lunchtime TalkOxford Brookes University, JHBB Forum
18:00 - 19:30Three Remarkable Women: Hannah Arendt, Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil and The Politics of Experience - part of the What’s On at Brookes Open Lecture Series Oxford Brookes University, JHBB Main Lecture Theatre

Thursday 18 April

Time Event Location
12:00 - 14:00 Motherhood: Exploring Maternal Experiences of the Pandemic in the Digital Age Oxford Brookes University, Headington Hill Site, Drama Studio
16:45 - 18:30 The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk from Here to There - Guided Walk around Headington
Oxford Brookes University, JHBB Main Reception
18:30 - 19:30 The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk from Here to There - In Conversation with Jack Cornish
Oxford Brookes University, Sir Kenneth Wheare Hall
17:00 - 18:30 Who Gets My Vote? Could an Online Platform Help you Decide? Oxford Brookes University, Union Hall

Friday 19 April

Time Event Location
10:00 - 11:30 Does the Law have a Problem with Masculinity? (Schools)
Oxford Brookes University, Union Hall
12:30 - 14:00 AI Now (Schools) Oxford Brookes University, Union Hall
17:00 - 18:30 Changing Hearts & Minds with Music - live discussion and music with Martin Carthy Oxford Brookes University, JHBB Forum

Saturday 20 April

Time Event Location
10:30 - 12:00 Occupations & Interruptions: A Poetry Workshop for Carers - Part 2 Online - Zoom Webinar. Contact d.roe@brookes.ac.uk to register
11:00 - 14:00 The Scents of Love and Loss - A Creative Workshop Barracks Lane Community Garden, OX4 2AP
13:00 - 14:00 Racism, Eugenics and the Assumed Inferiority of Romani People - A Lunchtime Talk Museum of Oxford, OX1 1BX
14:00 - 15:30  An Iris Murdoch Walk: Friends, Homes, Colleges and Pubs Oxford City Centre - Meeting outside Corpus Christi College, Merton Street, OX1 4JF
18:00 - 19:30 Ghostly Encounters - A Haunting Experience The Old Fire Station, OX1 2AQ 

Exhibitions

Date and timeEventLocation
17 - 18 April
10:00 - 15:00
Dehumanisation and the Enduring Legacies of Eugenics Exhibition
Oxford Brookes University, JHBB Forum, Headington Campus
19 - 20 April
10:00 - 15:00
Dehumanisation and the Enduring Legacies of Eugenics Exhibition
Museum of Oxford, OX1 1BX

Highlights of previous festivals

As well as regular events, Think Human at Oxford Brookes University runs a bi-annual festival.