Jaspreet Singh Boparai – Painting in Rome after Raphael
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Edward Howell – South Korean Politics
To Be Confirmed Oxford, United KingdomJoin Dr. Edward Howell, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford and a leading expert on Korean Peninsula affairs, for an insightful lecture on South Korea’s turbulent political landscape. In this talk, Dr. Howell delves into the dramatic events surrounding the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol in December 2024, exploring the causes, consequences, and broader implications for South Korea’s democracy. From the short-lived martial law declaration to the nation’s polarised response, gain a deeper understanding of this historic crisis and its impact on East Asian geopolitics.
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Sir Paul Marshall – Reflections of an Accidental Media Owner
FeaturedHolywell Music Room Wadham College, Holywell St, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United KingdomThe Pharos Spring Lecturer for 2025, Sir Paul Marshall, is one of the UK's leading investors, a major philanthropist, and now one of the country's most influential media owners. After spending the early part of his career at S.G. Warburg, he co-founded Marshall Wace LLP, one of London's first hedge funds, in 1997. He continues to serve as chairman and chief investment officer, and Marshall Wace is today one of Europe's largest hedge fund groups.
Marshall became heavily involved in educational philanthropy during the 2000s: as the author of several books on British schools, as founding trustee of the children's charity ARK and chairman of ARK Schools, and as lead Non-Executive Director at the Department for Education from 2013-16. His first venture into media was through the news website UnHerd in 2017. He later became a major investor in GBNews, briefly serving as chairman, before purchasing The Spectator in September 2024.
Formerly a major donor to the Liberal Democrats and a contributor to the Orange Book, Marshall left the party over its opposition to Brexit and his commitment to classical liberalism. He has since supported the Conservative Party and was one of the founders of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in 2023 with Jordan Peterson. He is one of Britain's premier philanthropists, often near the top of the Sunday Times Giving List. He was knighted in 2016.
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Dominic Cummings: What Is To Be Done?
Sheldonian Theatre Broad St, Oxford, United Kingdom'Why are western regimes in crisis? What can we do in Britain to turn the tide? Why have political and intellectual elites blown up their credibility? What replaces them?'
Dominic Cummings is a British political operative who served as Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister from 2019 to 2020. He previously served as director of Vote Leave during the EU Referendum of 2016, and as Special Adviser at the Ministry of Education from 2010 to 2014.
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Justin Marozzi – Islam and Slavery
Holywell Music Room Wadham College, Holywell St, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United KingdomMarozzi brings to life the complexity and humanity of the Islamic world’s entanglement with slavery using an extraordinary range of sources, across more than a millennium and across sweeping geographies. Not just a mesmerising book, but a profoundly important one too’.
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Reidar Due – The Ethics of Responsibility
Pusey House, Ursell RoomFocusing on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida, these lectures present a tradition of philosophical ethics in France. This ethics does not concern what we should do. Ethics concerns responsibility in an extensive, immaterial sense: how can you be a person who takes responsibility beyond your immediate personal and social interests? We shall see how for Ricoeur this leads to a reflection on memory as a responsibility for the past and for Derrida it entails a conception of political utopia understood as responsibility for the unfulfilled hopes of history.
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Reidar Due – The Ethics of Responsibility
Pusey House, Ursell RoomFocusing on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida, these lectures present a tradition of philosophical ethics in France. This ethics does not concern what we should do. Ethics concerns responsibility in an extensive, immaterial sense: how can you be a person who takes responsibility beyond your immediate personal and social interests? We shall see how for Ricoeur this leads to a reflection on memory as a responsibility for the past and for Derrida it entails a conception of political utopia understood as responsibility for the unfulfilled hopes of history.
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Reidar Due – The Ethics of Responsibility
Pusey House, Ursell RoomFocusing on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida, these lectures present a tradition of philosophical ethics in France. This ethics does not concern what we should do. Ethics concerns responsibility in an extensive, immaterial sense: how can you be a person who takes responsibility beyond your immediate personal and social interests? We shall see how for Ricoeur this leads to a reflection on memory as a responsibility for the past and for Derrida it entails a conception of political utopia understood as responsibility for the unfulfilled hopes of history.
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Andrew O’Shaughnessy – Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University
Buchanan Room, Jesus CollegeThomas Jefferson was intimately involved in every aspect of the creation of the University of Virginia. It represented what he regarded as one of the three greatest achievements of his life to be listed on his tombstone. It revealed his talents as a lawyer who drafted the legislation for the assembly; as a surveyor who personally mapped the grounds; as a politician who masterminded the strategy to win approval in the assembly and to deflect intense opposition; as an architect who designed the layout, chose the building materials, and corresponded with the craftsman; and as an intellectual who developed an innovative curriculum, suggested the books for the library and the criteria for selecting the faculty. Jefferson was concerned with what remains a perennial issue which is the importance of education in the success of the republican democratic experiment. It was integral to his political philosophy in which he regarded public education as essential for the functioning of government by the people. He was part of what he regarded as the moral revolution that should accompany the political revolution of 1776. Although dismissed in higher education histories as a “finishing school for southern aristocrats” which trained many of the future leaders of the Confederacy, the lecture will argue that his vision of public education was as revolutionary as the other achievements on his tombstone and that it still has the potential to stimulate discussion about the role of universities. Furthermore, his vision of a university anticipated the idea of a modern university more than any other college in America.
Andrew O’Shaughnessy is Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Between 2003 and 2022, he served as Vice President of The Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), and the Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. His book The Men Who Lost America. British Leadership, the American Revolution and the Fate of the Empire (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013) received eight national awards including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize, the George Washington Book Prize, The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award and The Society of Military History Book Prize. He is also the author of An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000). His most recent book books are The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021) and, co-authored with Trevor Burnard, Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence to be published by Yale University Press in September 2025. He is an editor of the Jeffersonian America series published by the University of Virginia Press. He coedited Old World, New World: America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010) and The Founding of Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press: 2019), and The European Friends of the American Revolution (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023).
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Reidar Due – The Ethics of Responsibility
Pusey House, Ursell RoomFocusing on the works of Paul Ricoeur and Jacques Derrida, these lectures present a tradition of philosophical ethics in France. This ethics does not concern what we should do. Ethics concerns responsibility in an extensive, immaterial sense: how can you be a person who takes responsibility beyond your immediate personal and social interests? We shall see how for Ricoeur this leads to a reflection on memory as a responsibility for the past and for Derrida it entails a conception of political utopia understood as responsibility for the unfulfilled hopes of history.
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Margaret MacMillan – World Orders: Past, Present, and Future
FeaturedTo Be Confirmed Oxford, United KingdomWe can no longer take for granted international institutions such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation, the validity of international law and agreements, or even international norms.
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Armand d’Angour – Songmaking to Socrates: New Light on Ancient Classics
Noel Salter Room New College, Holywell Street, Oxford, United KingdomThe Pharos Monday Lectures for Spring 2026
Lecture 1: The Sound of Music in Ancient Greece
Lecture 2: Archimedes’ Eureka
Lecture 3. Catullus and his Lesbia
Lecture 4. Aspasia, Teacher of Socrates
It is sometimes thought that answers to big questions in classics are either known or beyond solution - questions such as what Greek music sounded like, or the true identity of Catullus’s Lesbia. In this series Prof Armand D'Angour will address four such questions and show that even today it’s possible to provide new and convincing answers to problems that many scholars had given up on.
Armand d'Angour is Professor of Classics and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His work has ranged across wide areas of Greek culture, especially music and lyric poetry. His works include Socrates in Love (Bloomsbury 2019) and How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Princeton 2021).
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Armand d’Angour – Songmaking to Socrates: New Light on Ancient Classics
Noel Salter Room New College, Holywell Street, Oxford, United KingdomThe Pharos Monday Lectures for Spring 2026
Lecture 1: The Sound of Music in Ancient Greece
Lecture 2: Archimedes’ Eureka
Lecture 3. Catullus and his Lesbia
Lecture 4. Aspasia, Teacher of Socrates
It is sometimes thought that answers to big questions in classics are either known or beyond solution - questions such as what Greek music sounded like, or the true identity of Catullus’s Lesbia. In this series Prof Armand D'Angour will address four such questions and show that even today it’s possible to provide new and convincing answers to problems that many scholars had given up on.
Armand d'Angour is Professor of Classics and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His work has ranged across wide areas of Greek culture, especially music and lyric poetry. His works include Socrates in Love (Bloomsbury 2019) and How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Princeton 2021).
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James Tilley – Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain
Buchanan Room, Jesus CollegeOverview
The Pharos Tuesday Seminars for Spring 2026The tenth anniversary of the EU referendum is fast approaching and many will be focused on how Brexit has, or has not, changed the economic and political world. But what if the most important change was not to institutions, political parties and the economy, but to us? This lecture series explores how the referendum, and its aftermath, sparked a form of ‘tribal politics’ that reshaped how people saw themselves, each other and the wider world. The first lecture looks at how the referendum created two powerful and enduring political identities in Britain: Leavers and Remainers. Why did an issue of such little interest to so many people suddenly become the key way that people identified themselves and others? The second lecture turns to the consequences of this transformation. Why did Leavers and Remainers dislike, look down on and discriminate against people simply because they belonged to the other group? And how did those brand-new political identities come to change our views of not just other people, but reality itself? The final lecture explores the resilience and future of tribal politics in Britain. Why did some people embrace their identity so fervently while others did not, and what does this tell us about both the future of British politics but also political divides in other countries at other times?
James Tilley is a Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of two books and numerous articles that investigate how we form political attitudes and make political choices. His latest book, co-authored with Sara Hobolt, is Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain and will be published by Oxford University Press in March 2026. He regularly makes documentaries for BBC Radio 4 on all aspects of political attitudes, from primate politics to conspiracy theories, the most recent being a five-part series titled ‘The kids are alt-right?’.
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Armand d’Angour – Songmaking to Socrates: New Light on Ancient Classics
Noel Salter Room New College, Holywell Street, Oxford, United KingdomThe Pharos Monday Lectures for Spring 2026
Lecture 1: The Sound of Music in Ancient Greece
Lecture 2: Archimedes’ Eureka
Lecture 3. Catullus and his Lesbia
Lecture 4. Aspasia, Teacher of Socrates
It is sometimes thought that answers to big questions in classics are either known or beyond solution - questions such as what Greek music sounded like, or the true identity of Catullus’s Lesbia. In this series Prof Armand D'Angour will address four such questions and show that even today it’s possible to provide new and convincing answers to problems that many scholars had given up on.
Armand d'Angour is Professor of Classics and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His work has ranged across wide areas of Greek culture, especially music and lyric poetry. His works include Socrates in Love (Bloomsbury 2019) and How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Princeton 2021).