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Richard Ovenden 649
The Future of the Past:
The Bodleian’s Great Acquisitions
4pm/ Bodleian Library, Divinity Schools,
Catte Street / £7.50
Richard Ovenden was educated at Durham University
and University College, London and has worked as a
professional librarian since 1985. He has served on
the staff of the House of Lords Library, the National
Library of Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh,
and now at the Bodleian Library (as Keeper of Special
Collections and Associated Director of Oxford University
Library Services).
Richard has published widely on the history of collecting,
the history of photography and on professional concerns
of the library, archive, and information world. He holds
a Professional Fellowship at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Richard will talk on the Bodleian’s great acquisitions.
The library has recently benefited from Alan Bennett’s
gift of his literary archive, and has been able to save
for the nation the earliest surviving score of an opera
in the English language, Cavalli’s Erismena.
Paul Bailey and
Sophie Grigson
Chaired by Linda Challis
Remembering Jane Grigson
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6pm / Hall, Christ Church / £10.00
(includes a glass of wine)
Jane Grigson (1928-90) was one of Britain’s mostloved
and most literary food writers. The Jane Grigson
Trust, a charity founded in her memory, has gathered
together people who knew Jane Grigson at various
stages in her life and career, to join her daughter,
Sophie Grigson, herself a cookery writer, and Jane
Grigson’s good friend, the writer Paul Bailey, in a
conversation about her life, times and work. If you’re
a fan of Jane Grigson, use her recipes, or are just
curious about this great woman, this will be a
fascinating occasion.
Chaired by Linda Challis, Chair of the Jane Grigson Trust.
This event will be hosted by Oxford Gastronomica: The
Centre For Food, Drink and Culture, at Oxford Brookes
University - the home of the Jane Grigson Library.
FRIDAY APRIL 2009
Véronique Mottier 635
Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction
5.15pm (10 minutes) / Blackwell Festival Bookshop,
Meadows Marquee, Christ Church / Free
Is our sexuality a product of our genes, or of society,
culture and politics How have views of sexual norms
changed over time And how have feminism, religion,
and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex Véronique
Mottier briefly examines these questions and many
more, exploring what shapes our sexuality, and how
our sexuality shapes us.
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