Mansfield Public Talks
Mansfield hosts a lively and engaging series of free public talks, every Friday from 5.30pm, during Oxford University term time.
The Mansfield Public Talks are convened by College Principal, Helen Mountfield QC, and platform leading figures from varied fields, aimed at opening up ideas and debate in front of a wide audience. The talks are open to all and as such are an important element of the College’s public engagement efforts.
Mansfield Public Talks: TrinityTerm 2022
Recordings of last term's Public talks can be found on Mansfield's YouTube channel, here.
Friday 29 April 2022
Advocacy and Activism – A Black Barrister’s Perspective
Matthew Ryder QC
Matthew Ryder QC reflects on the links and limits of political activism and legal advocacy, from the perspective of an eventful 30-year career at the Bar.
More details and book: here
Friday 06 May 2022
Resurrecting Human Rights in the Shadow of War
Professor Allida Black
Professor Allida Black in conjunction with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Rothermere American Institute, explores the link between war and Human Rights – by history, interpretation, and application and by fear, hope, and identity.
More details and book: here
Friday 13 May 2022
COVID-19 therapeutics: revelations and revolutions
Professor Sir Peter Horby
Professor Sir Peter Horby speaks on how COVID-19 has turbo-charged drug development, achieving in months what had previously taken years. The incredible impact of lightning speed computational biology, genomics, drug development, mega-platform trials and data linkage should revolutionise our expectations for the future.
More details and book: here
Wednesday 18 May 2022
The Streaming Self: The Joining Effects of Technology and Liberalism
David M Goodman explores the risks– both individual and political– to the ways that the self is being configured through the combined effects of technologically mediated social relations and the exigencies of living in a modern liberal political state.
More details & book: here
Friday 20 May 2022
Dreams of Peace & Freedom: Justice for Ukraine Concert
A performance in support of the international petition demanding a tribunal to enact justice for victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Song cycle, Dreams of Peace & Freedom tells, in his own words, David Maxwell Fyfe’s story as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, assembling evidence of crimes against peace, humanity and the conduct of war, cross-examining leading Nazis alongside musical settings of the poems that inspired him.
More details & book: here
Friday 27 May 2022
The Milton Lecture: Milton and Jefferson on Education, Tyranny and Superstition
Revd Dr Charles Brock
Revd Dr Charles Brock explores how respective Renaissance and Reformation polymaths were revolutionaries against hierarchies and privilege, taking action to make education more inclusive, and to save their nations from tyranny, superstition, and anti-scientific thinking.
More details and book: here
Friday 03 June 2022
CleanTech Innovation in the Pacific Northwest – Collaboration, Clusters and Equity
Mel Clark
Mel Clark will discuss the newest collaborative efforts at the Alliance, Washington states’ new Innovative Cluster Acceleration program, and the critical role equity plays in successful clean technology innovation.
More details and book: here