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3 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Peter Carey |Lucy Worsley |Matthew Parris |Tim Waterstone
Founding editor of Prospect magazine and policy analyst David Goodhart argues for new policies that support gender equality while also recognising the importance of stable families and community life. Goodhart says changes to family life over the last 60 years have brought good things, including increased opportunities for women, greater freedom and autonomy, and more equality in domestic life.
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3 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Ken Hom |Matthew Parris |Colin Thubron |Tim Waterstone
Academic Professor Justin Schlosberg, educational consultant and life peer Lord Tony Sewell and journalist Zoe Strimpel debate the causes of the 2014 anti-immigration riots and ask who can be held responsible. Anti-immigration riots broke out across the UK in the summer of 2024. The riots were triggered by a stabbing in Southport. Three children were murdered. The false allegation took hold that the attacker was a Muslim asylum-seeker.
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4 weeks ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Paul Auster |Tim Waterstone |Anne Tyler |Matthew Parris
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah talks about his new novel, Theft, his first since the Nobel award, and receives the honorary fellowship of Oxford Literary Festival in recognition of his outstanding contribution to literature. The fellowship will be presented by the president of the festival, Miles Young, warden of New College.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Ken Hom |Lucy Worsley |Matthew Parris |Tim Waterstone
Contemporary historian and Europe expert Professor Timothy Garton Ash discusses his desire for more and better freedom of expression in the first of a new series of annual festival conversation in which a leading figure is invited by Lord Chris Patten to discuss freedom of speech. Garton Ash has written widely about contemporary Europe including the activities of dictators and dissidents. He also leads the Free Speech Debate project.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Kazuo Ishiguro |Lucy Worsley |Ken Hom |Tim Waterstone
Join our panel of leading political and media figures, Professor Simon Heffer, Marina Purkiss, Zoe Strimpel and Adele Walton, for lively debate on topics of the day, chaired by Yasmin Alibhai Brown. Ticketholders are invited to email questions before the event, and Yasmin will pick a representative range for audience members to ask. Heffer is a journalist and historian. He is a professor of modern British history at the University of Buckingham.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Lucy Worsley |Anne Tyler |Tim Waterstone |Kazuo Ishiguro
Writer and broadcaster Matthew Teller discusses a new collection of stories he has co-edited about literature and culture in Gaza. Daybreak in Gaza weaves together stories about Gaza’s history with war diaries and memoirs of ordinary citizens – artists, writers and poets, farmers, shopkeepers. Together they display the wealth of Gaza’s cultural landscape and the breadth of its history.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Matthew Parris |Colin Thubron |Tim Waterstone |Paul Auster
Experts in international affairs and corruption Professor John Heathershaw and Tom Mayne discuss their analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law. The authors explain how the British government allowed extremely wealthy kleptocrats based largely in Russia and Eurasia to move to London and thrive with impunity.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Paul Auster |Tim Waterstone |Lucy Worsley |Colin Thubron
Baltic: The Future of Europe 10:00am 1 hour Bodleian: Convocation House £8 - £15 Foreign correspondent Oliver Moody looks at the nine Baltic countries and explains why the area is both critical to European security and increasingly a centre of political and military power.
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1 month ago | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Tim Waterstone |Peter Carey |Matthew Parris |Colin Thubron
Oxford Debate: Rising Fascism? 2:00pm I hour 15 minutes Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre £8 - £15 Political commentator Matthew Goodwin and academic Professor Justin Schlosberg debate the nature of fascism and whether concern about an apparent rise is justified.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
oxfordliteraryfestival.org | Colin Thubron |Tim Waterstone |Anne Tyler |Lucy Worsley
Historian and constitutional expert David Torrance tells the story of the first UK Labour administration and the ‘wild men’ who shook up the establishment. Torrance explains how the 1923 election was only the second time all adult men had been able to vote, and it opened the way to a new government of working-class men who had never before occupied the corridors of power.
