Hosted at College since 1991, the Linacre Lectures are a high-profile public lecture series rooted in an ethos of interdisciplinary research.
In Trinity Term 2025, Linacre Fellows Ashley Coutu, Tea Ghigo and Vibe Nielsen will lead the lecture series ‘Communicating Culture: New Horizons for Museums’ which will delve into the dynamics of cultural communication and explore the unprecedented challenges and opportunities facing art, archaeology and anthropology in a rapidly changing world.
The following lectures will take place in the Tanner Room at Linacre, 5pm – 7pm, on the dates listed below. Each lecture is free and there is no requirement to pre-book. There will be complimentary wine, cheese and refreshments for all attendees:
- 8th May 2025 – Prof Salvador Muñoz Viñas – ‘Conservation as meaning-making and unmaking’
- 15th May 2025 – Prof Katrien Keune – ‘Unlocking Art’s Wonders: Science as a Bridge to Public Engagement’
- 22nd May 2025 – Prof Wayne Modest in conversation with Prof Laura Van Broekhoven – ‘Curating Colonialism: The Future of Ethnographic Collections’
- 5th June 2025 – GLAM Round Table: New Horizons for the Gardens, Libraries and Museums of the University of Oxford
- 17th June 2005 – Ore Disu – ‘Museums as Spaces of Living Practice: Lessons from MOWAA’s Emergence’
Previous Linacre Lecture themes have included:
· ‘Disease and Environmental Change’
· ‘Climate Governance Beyond the Nation State’
· ‘The Unmaking of the English Landscape’
· ‘Managing Water Resources, Past and Present’
· ‘Globalisation, Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism’
· ‘The Peopling of Britain’: The Shaping of a Human Landscape
· ‘Managing the Earth’
· ‘Culture, Landscape and the Environment’
· ‘Environments and Historic Change’
. ‘Uncovering Women’s History’
Many of the Linacre Lectures have been gathered into edited volumes published by the Oxford University Press and these titles include: Environments and Historical Change edited by Paul Slack; Globalisation, Globalism, Environments, and Environmentalism edited by Steven Vertovec and Darrell A. Posey and Managing the Earth Edited by James C. Briden and Thomas E. Downing