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PAST EVENTS
Hilary 2024
Michaelmas 2023
Trinity 2023
Fri 5 May, 19.30h (Week 2)
Lecture Theatre, School of Geography & the Environment
Bringing the Story Back: a Q&A with Sophy Roberts
Sophy Roberts is an author and journalist based in West Dorset. Educated at Oxford University, then the Columbia School of Journalism, she is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, among other titles. Her writing focuses on remote places, often overlooked in the news — the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Tajikistan, Siberia, Iraq. She is the author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia (with publishing rights sold in 11 languages), host of the travel writing podcast, ‘Gone to Timbuktu’, and is currently working on her second book, set among Africa’s Great Lakes, for publication in 2024.
Tue 2 May, 19.30h (Week 2)
Lecture Theatre, School of Geography & the Environment
Geology, Time and the Nature of Australia
Mike & Mandy Bamford
Australia has an ancient history, unique wildlife and the oldest living culture in the world, yet 70% of species are still undescribed by western science, although the First peoples of Australia have known them for millennia. Life in Australia has been shaped by stable geology, continental drift, isolation and lack of glaciation to produce an extraordinary biodiversity. Australian ecologists Mike and Mandy Bamford will discuss the factors affecting the development of Australia's fauna, illustrated by the fauna studies that take them to remote corners of this ancient chunk of Gondwana.
Tue 25 Apr, 19.30h (Week 1)
The Lamb & Flag
OUEC Reunion
Join us for a pint at The Lamb & Flag as we reconvene, swap stories of adventures over the break, and begin planning for Trinity and beyond!
Just as we focused on planning and funding expeditions in Michaelmas, and organising logistics and fieldwork in Hilary, Trinity will see a soft focus on what to do when you come back home. How do you take raw data and transform it into a report, a film, or an article?
We will also be sending a number of our members on their own expeditions at the end of Trinity. Make sure to check in with their progress, ask questions, and learn from their experience.
Trinity 2022
Trinity 2021
Hilary 2021
Michaelmas 2020
Hilary 2020
Michaelmas 2019
Hilary 2019
Michaelmas 2017
Michaelmas 2016
Michaelmas 2013
Trinity 2013
Hilary 2013
Michaelmas 2012
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