On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Twitter has been telling us that when he was in quarantine from the plague, William Shakespeare wrote “King Lear”, but what’s the truth behind that narrative? What did Shakespeare actually do during the plague, where was he and what can it teach us about living with pandemics? Join host Professor Rana Mitter and guest speaker Professor Emma Smith, author of ‘This is Shakespeare’ and Professor of Shakespeare Studies, as they discuss how Shakespeare’s work can be seen as a cultural prophylactic against understanding disease solely in quantitative terms; a narrative vaccine.
Watch the event live on YouTube: youtu.be/082EH-78iEU
