St Anne's has a wide variety of events on offer to all members of the College - undergraduate, graduate and staff - throughout the course of the year.

These range from music recitals and films to discussion groups and talks from both academics and a wide range of people from public life. For a taste of the opportunities on offer, see the list below of events that took place in 2009-10.

• Lectures and Seminars
• Subject Families Events
• Lunchtime Discussion Groups

Lectures and Seminars

• Professor Roger Chartier, Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature: a series of four lectures entitled ‘Textual Trajectories in Early Modern Europe’
• Stephen Garrett, News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media: ‘How to Grow a Creative Business According to the Laws of Chance’ and ‘Why the Only Rule is that There Are No Rules’
• Carlo di Benedetti, Chairman, Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso / La Repubblica: ‘Newspapers and Democracy in the Internet era: The Italian Case’ (Reuters Memorial Lecture 2009)
• Armando Iannucci: ‘Do we get the politics we deserve?’ (Sarah McCabe Memorial Lecture)
• Dr Andrew Klevan: 'Internalising the Musical: Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)’ (ASM Spring Event Lecture)
• Jana Bennett, Director of BBC Vision and the most senior woman in British broadcasting: ‘The Future of Public Service Broadcasting’ (Principal’s Seminar Series, Leadership in the Modern World)
• Michelle Clayman, Founder and Chief Executive of New Amsterdam Partners in New York: ‘Working in Finance’ (Principal’s Seminar Series)
• Jan Younghusband, Commissioning Editor, BBC Music & Events: ‘Music in Broadcasting’ (Principal’s Seminar Series)
• Plumer Fellow Professor Iwao Hirose: ‘Climate Change and the use of Cost-benefit Analysis’
• Professor Alan Cocks: ‘An engineer in a material world’ (Domus Seminar)
• Professor Howard Hotson: ‘Small is Beautiful: territorial fragmentation and intellectual fertility in the Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806’ (Domus Seminar)
• Mr Christopher Wigg: ‘Change at work: how I managed. Views on Oxford from a corporate world’ (Domus Seminar)

Subject Families Events

Speakers at our regular termly Subject Family Events were:

• Ms Hilary Kalmbach, DPhil Student: ‘History as a Hobby in Interwar Egypt: Memoirs, Modernity and the Taqwim Dar al` Ulum Yearbook’
• Dr Brian Ball, Tutor in Philosophy: ‘Meaning, Truth, and Existence’
• Dr Martin Harry, Fellow and Tutor in Music: ‘From Grundriß to Aufriß: The impact of Stalinist architecture on my composition Eingestellt’
• Juan Gonzalez, Graduate Student in Zoology: ‘Conserving Rainforest Birds in the Philippines: the Hottest of Hot-Spots’
• Dr Andrew Goodwin, Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry: ‘Atomic Yogo: the Science of Flexibility’
• Imogen Goold, Fellow and Tutor in Law: ‘Do You Own Your Body Parts?’
• Nicholas Randel, MPhil Comparative Government: ‘Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Case Studies from Southern Africa'
• Ben Newton, MSc Education, ‘Educational Responses to Flooding in New Orleans and Hull’
• Professor Robert Falster (Senior Fellow at MEMC, Visiting Professor in Materials and Plumer Visiting Fellow): ‘Silicon rules OK: the dominance of silicon for microelectronics and solar energy applications’
• Dr Kate Watkins (Fellow and Tutor in Experimental Psychology): ‘Talking Brains’
• Denis Lapitski (DPhil student at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM): ‘Quantum Simulation: the Klein Paradox’
• Jim Thompson, DPhil student: ‘A novel structure for low cost silicon photovoltaics’
• Dr Isabelle Comte, post-doctoral researcher: ‘Galectin-3 modulates adult subventricular zone neuroblast migration’
• Dr Renata Pieragostini, Junior Research Fellow in Music at St Anne’s: ‘Medieval composers as witnesses of political events: an episode in the Western Schism and an English motet’

Lunchtime Discussion Groups

These are a weekly feature, organised by our MCR but open to all members of College. In 2009-10 the speakers and subjects were as follows:

Humanities and Social Sciences

• Tim Gardam, Principal of St Anne’s College: “Broadcasting in a Digital World”
• Prof Sheila Rowbotham, British socialist feminist theorist and writer, University of Manchester: “Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love”
• Prof Tony Shaw, Professor of Contemporary History, University of Hertfordshire: “George Orwell, the CIA and Cold War Movies”
• Prof Sally Shuttleworth, Head of Humanities Division, University of Oxford: “Defending the Humanities”
• Isabel Vasseur, Director of ArtOffice: “Developing the Public Art Movement in Britain”
• Michael Sibly, Secretary of Faculties and Academic Registrar, University of Oxford: “What are universities for, and who should pay for them?”
• Dr Mark Wheeler, Reader in London Metropolitan University: “The Hollywood-Washington relationship and celebrity political engagement”
• Michael Stanley, Director of Modern Art Oxford: “During the exhibition the gallery will be closed: place and context in contemporary art”
• Dr Julian Stallabrass, Reader in The Courtauld Institute of Art: “The Branding of the Museum”
• Sue Sharpe, Freelance Social Science Researcher: “Modern Motherhood: Pleasure and Pressure”
• Dr Gareth Davies, Fellow and Tutor in American History, St Anne's College: “Hurricane Katrina in Historical Perspective: The History of American Responses to Natural Disasters”
• Dr David Smith, St Anne’s College Librarian and Vice Principal: “The St Anne’s Book of Hours and Other Library Treasures”
• Patrick McGuinness, Professor of French and Modern Literature, St Anne’s College: “Modern War Poetry”
• Dr Adrian Bingham, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sheffield: “Sex, sensation and scandal? Reflections on historical research into the popular press”
• Dr Branwen Hide, Liaison and Partnership Officer at the Research Information Network: “The Future of Research? Research in a digital age”
• Dr Andrew Klevan, University Lecturer in Film Studies, St Anne’s College: “Internalising the Musical”
• Dr Matthew Reynolds, Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, St Anne’s College; Leverhulme Major Research Fellow 2006-09: “Designs for a Happy Home: A Novel in Ten Interiors”
• Dr Pierre Purseigle, Lecturer in Modern History, Director of the Centre for First World War Studies, University of Birmingham. Visiting Lecturer (Maître de conférences), Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris: “Uneasy Balance: Reflections of a First World War Historian on Scholarship and Memory”
• Jackie Ashley, Columnist & political interviewer, The Guardian: “The Cameron-Clegg Coalition - Can it Last?”
• James Attlee, Author of Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey: “The Art of Everyday Life” 

Sciences

• Prof Armand Leroi, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, Author and TV presenter: “The War Against Banality And Untruth”
• Dr Chris Lavy, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford: “African Children with Physical Impairment – Can we be Scientific and apply numbers?”
• Prof Ian Goldin, Director of the James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford: “Challenges of the 21st Century”
• Prof Steve Jackson, University of Cambridge & BBSRC’s Innovator of the Year: “Commercialization of academic science: how actively should this be pursued and how can an individual academic scientist get the balance right?”
• Dr Michael Bonsall, Reader in Zoology and University Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, member of the NERC Peer Review College and DEFRAs Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE): “What is the role of scientific information in government?”
• Dr Matthew Freeman, FRS, Head of Division of Cell Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge; Member of the Executive Committee of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (formerly Save British Science): “Making a CaSE for science, or how to punch above your weight when lobbying government”
• Prof Brian Cox, Royal Society URF, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester & Large Hadron Collider at CERN; also TV presenter: “The importance of ‘Big Science’”
• Prof John Mumford, Professor of Natural Resource Management and Head of Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, Chairman of GB Non-native Species Risk Analysis Panel: "How we do invasive species risk analysis, well and almost well"
• Prof David Macdonald DSc FRSE, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Director of WildCRU, University of Oxford: “Of mice and men - a view of wildlife conservation”
• Prof Sir Tim Hunt FRS, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2001; Group Leader, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute: “How to win a Nobel Prize!”
• Joseph Winters, Senior Press officer, Institute of Physics: “Making Science News”
• Dr Evan Harris, former MP for Oxford West & Abingdon, Liberal Democrat Science Spokesman (2005-); sits on the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee (2003-), and the Joint Committee on Human Rights (2005-): “Science and Policy”
• Prof Marian Stamp Dawkins, Professor in Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford: “The future of farming”
• Prof Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; Novelist & translator: “Adventures in science & literature”
• Prof Sir Martin Taylor FRS, Professor in Pure Mathematics, University of Manchester; recent Physical Secretary and Vice President of the Royal Society; Member of Council of EPSRC; Incoming master of Merton College, Oxford (from Oct 2010): “The Scientific Century: securing our future prosperity”
• Prof Charles Godfray FRS, Hope Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford; President, British Ecological Society; member, NERC Council; Chair, the Lead Expert Group of the Foresight Food and Farming Project: “Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People”