| Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam |
Dr Christian C Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies), talks about his new book, the discussants are Phil Booth (Faculty of Theology) and Professor Julia Bray (Oriental Institute). |
Christian C Sahner, Phil Booth, Julia Bray |
26 November, 2018 |
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| 5 What to do About Failure: Personal Actions. |
How to take action to change the role failure plays in your life. |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko |
22 May, 2018 |
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| 4 What to do About Failure: Personal Attitudes. |
How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret. |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham |
22 May, 2018 |
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| 3 Failure and the Farewell to Academia. |
Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure? |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Rachel Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham |
22 May, 2018 |
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| 2 Failure and Other People |
Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them. |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham |
22 May, 2018 |
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| 1 The Feeling of Failure |
What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it? |
Susan Blackmore, Julia Bray, Chiara Cappellaro, Barbara Gabrys, Adam Hart-Davis, Jaz Hill-Valler, Leanne Hodson, Dan Holloway, Ritchie Robertson, Emily Troscianko, Chris Wickham |
22 May, 2018 |
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| Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin |
Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. |
Julia Bray |
23 February, 2018 |
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| Tombstone of a Muslim girl |
On what were people’s feelings about death and the dead in North Africa a thousand years ago? What does this tombstone tell us? With Professor Julia Bray, Arabic, University of Oxford. |
Julia Bray |
23 January, 2017 |
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| The Role of Religion in Identity |
Julia Bray (University of Oxford) delivers a keynote lecture on the role of religion in identity |
Julia Bray |
7 July, 2016 |
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| Reading the Corpus |
LAL’s contribution to cultural diplomacy, diffusion, literary exchanges, and education. Wen-chin Ouyang and Chip Rossetti lead discussion with Philip Kennedy, Sean Anthony, Julia Bray, Robert Irwin and Mohamed-Salah Omri. |
Wen-Chin Ouyang, Chip Rossetti, Philip Kennedy, Julia Bray, Robert Irwin, Mohamed-Salah Omri |
29 May, 2015 |
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| Editing the Corpus |
Methods and approaches to establishing the texts, linguistic difficulty, history of transmission, literary character, audience. Michael Cooperson leads discussion with Julia Bray, Joseph Lowry, and Devin Stewart. |
Michael Cooperson, Julia Bray, Joseph Lowry, Devin Stewart |
29 May, 2015 |
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| Remembering the Corpus [Part 2] |
Different genres embraced by LAL and modes of writing. Julia Bray and James Montgomery lead discussion with Beatrice Gruendler and Shawkat Toorawa. |
Julia Bray, James Montgomery, Beatrice Gruendier, Shawkat Toorawa |
29 May, 2015 |
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| Human Chain |
Is the study of Arabic literature in the western academy going round in circles or moving forward? What has been the most important recent development in the field? |
Julia Bray |
12 June, 2014 |
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