Principal John Bowers KC introduces Sir Vernon Bogdanor, Emeritus Fellow and former Professor of Politics, discussing his book 'Making The Weather: Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain'
Original event date: Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 5.30pm
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer
Brasenose Women in Media, Business and Finance
With Lucinda Riches, Jane Johnson, Victoria Fea and Hermione Davies
Original event date: Wednesday 5 March 2025 at 5.30pm
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer
Principal John Bowers KC introduces Jon Silverman, former BBC Home Affairs Correspondent and Emeritus Professor of Media & Criminal Justice at the University of Bedfordshire.
Original event date: Tuesday 18 February 2025 at 5.30pm
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer
Principal John Bowers KC introduces Brasenose Fellows Masooda Bano, Carole Bourne-Taylor, Banu Demir, Abigail Green, Anne Davies, Sos Eltis, Sonali Nag and Katerina Tertytchnaya
Original event date: Wednesday 29 January 2025 at 5.30pm
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer
Join Principal John Bowers KC for 'Medics in Antarctica: Dean Winslow & Julie Parsonnet' - in conversation with two Stanford Professors who have served at the McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
Original event date: Wednesday 12 February 2025 at 5.30pm
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer
Join Principal John Bowers KC in conversation with Nancy Weiss Malkiel, Professor of history, emeritus, at Princeton University and author of “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation.’
Original event date: Wednesday 13 November 2024 at 5.30pm
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer
Tim Mitchell (Physiological Sciences, 1983), President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and BNC alumnus in conversation with John Bowers, discussing his career and NHS reform.
Original event date: Thursday 17 October 2024 at 5.30pm
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer
We live in a world of fake news, misinformation, facts that abruptly become fictions (and vice versa). How can we fathom what is real and unreal? Who can we trust? What place do the creative arts have in a reality that is (far) stranger than fiction? A panel discussion with Eliane Glaser (BBC producer, author, books include Get Real), Joanna Kavenna, Benjamin Markovits (novelist, books include A Weekend in New York) and Phil Tinline (documentary maker, author, books include The Death of Consensus).
Original event date: Thursday 16 May 2024 5:30pm
Is novelty always required for art, literature and ideas to be important, or can we find value in traditional forms? What of AI art, post-modern irony, deep fakes and metatext? Is it possible to have a truly original thought? Are we condemned to retromania, or is there still a possibility of the New?
Original event date: Friday 10 May 5:30pm
Con Coughlin (Modern History, 1974), Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor at the Daily Telegraph, joins Principal John Bowers KC and the Oxford International Relations Society for a Principal’s Conversation looking at world events.
Original event date: Wednesday 8 May at 5.30pm
Generously supported by Robert & Lynne Krainer
