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Name: Mark Williams
University of Oxford
http://www.oxfordmindfulness.org/about/people/research-scientists/
Events this person is speaking at:
Wednesday 21 September 2016
Mindfulness in the modern world: Behind the hype
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 21 September 2016, 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker
s:
Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian),
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 26 January 2023
Celtic Research Seminar: Magic and violence in Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi
Date: 26 January 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organiser:
Prof. David Willis
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Thursday 18 January 2018
‘Time and Time Again: Strategies of Temporal Mixing in Early Welsh and English Poetry’
Date: 18 January 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr David Callandar (Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Cambridge)
Venue: Ship Street Centre, 4 Ship Street OX1 3DA
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 25 January 2018
‘Europa Celtica: Celtic National Origins in Early-Modern Antiquarianism’
Date: 25 January 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ian Stewart (London School of Economics)
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 February 2018
‘Brut Ieuan Brechfa: A Welsh Poet Writes the Early Middle Ages’
Date: 1 February 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Ben Guy (Robinson College, Cambridge)
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 8 February 2018
‘“In this the Egypt of our island”: Reflecting Jewish History in Medieval Ireland’
Date: 8 February 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Elizabeth Boyle (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 15 February 2018
‘Gwenogvryn Evans and his private press’
Date: 15 February 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Angela Grant (Jesus College, Oxford)
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 22 February 2018
‘“Throwing The Welsh Language Head Over Heels”: William Owen Pughe's Revolutionary Orthography’
Date: 22 February 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Rhys Kaminski-Jones (Aberystwyth)
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 March 2018
Title TBC
Date: 1 March 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Kristyna Syrova (St John’s College, Oxford)
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 8 March 2018
‘Rewriting the Mabinogi’ (including a reading of his new verse rendering of the Fourth Branch)
Date: 8 March 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Prof. Matthew Francis (Aberystwyth)
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 5 May 2023
O'Donnell Lecture
Date: 5 May 2023, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Rowan Williams
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers:
Prof. David Willis,
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 October 2023
Medieval English Research Seminar: National Epics [nationalepics.com]: the Elusive Case of England’
Date: 10 October 2023, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Prof. David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organiser:
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 November 2023
Medieval English Research Seminar: Urban Humanism and Chaucer’s House of Fame’
Date: 14 November 2023, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Prof. Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers:
Daniel Wakelin,
Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
