Oxford Brookes University

Department of Social Sciences

Upcoming Events
Pragmatism, International Norms and the Challenges of Global Governance
With Prof. Jason Ralph
24 February 2020
Hunting for monkeys: how humans change primate behaviour
A seminar with Dr Sarah Papworth (Royal Holloway University of London)
24 February 2020
Sekaigo - the international languages of Meiji Japan
With Ian Rapley, Cardiff University
26 February 2020
(B)Ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire
With Dr Nadine El-Enany
02 March 2020
Liberia’s chimpanzees: what’s the future for our critically endangered closest living relatives?
A seminar with Professor Ben Garrod (University of East Anglia)
02 March 2020
Postgraduate Open Evening
Gain a deeper insight into our postgraduate study programmes at Oxford Brookes, with our Postgraduate Open Evening.
03 March 2020
Remembering Transnational Queer Cultures of 1990s Japan: Drag, Art and Activism
With Mark Pendleton, University of Sheffield
04 March 2020
Life, Earth, Colony: Friedrich Ratzel's Necropolitical Geography
With Dr Ian Klinke
09 March 2020
Asian apes and issues of rescue, rehabilitation and reintroduction
A seminar with Dr David Chivers (University of Cambridge)
09 March 2020
Can I Get a Witness? An Insider/Outsider Perspective on Parliamentary Scrutiny of DFID
With Dr Danielle Beswick
16 March 2020

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13Jun
Postgraduate open evening
Graduate Your Career - A postgraduate qualification can help you to develop your career, deepen your learning, pursue a passion, or build the knowledge and skills to get you back into the workplace. Find out more about the postgraduate and professional development opportunities we offer at our open evening.
08Jun
MA International Relations and MA International Security Open Morning
Explore MA International Relations and MA International Security.
31May
GSA Conference 2018
Themes covered will include migration and borders, the challenges of the anthropocene, human rights, globalisation and cultural change, and more!
30May
Emotions across the disciplines
Emotions, Museums and Memory
26May
Food writing: Enhancing the human condition
Panel discussion and Q&A. In this session acclaimed writers Claudia Roden, Bee Wilson and Jeremy Lee will explore the power of food literature to enhance our lives. Whether through cookery writing that reveals the nature of cultural heritage, works of food history that highlight changing social conditions, or campaigning journalism that tackles corruption in the food industry.
26May
Routes into Research: the humanities and social sciences
Leading academics, at the forefront of their disciplines, will talk about what inspired them to become researchers in the humanities and social sciences
26May
Mum's the Word
An award-winning production by playwrite Sue Bevan inspired by Professor Tina Miller’s book 'Making Sense of Motherhood'
26May
Stimulate your Senses: Five Senses Tour
Think art is just about looking? Think again! Join this session to find out how hearing, taste, smell and touch are activated in our encounters with painting and sculpture
25May
Stanza and Stand Up: the Comedy vs. Poetry Slam
This poetry vs comedy event is hosted by Alex Farrow, stand-up comedian, philosophy teacher and resident MC at Jericho Comedy Oxford and by Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre. Come, laugh, be inspired, and remember - you decide who wins!
25May
Murder Among The Mateys
Pirate themed historical murder mystery in which one guest meets a tragic demise and ends up in Davy Jones' Locker leaving the rest of the party goers to bring the guilty to the gallows

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Contact us
Department of Social Sciences

+44 (0)1865 483752
social.sciences@brookes.ac.uk

Department of Social Sciences,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Gibbs Building,
Headington Campus,
Oxford OX3 0BP