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Wiki Club Gathering January 4, 2022: Roberta’s Sum-Up on the Lead Section

This month, given that it is the beginning of the year, we looked at how Wikipedia articles begin: the lead section, or introduction (a re-cap of the basics is at…

Ursula Heinzelmann 12 January 2022

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Wiki Club Gathering Dec 7, 2021: Roberta’s Sum-Up on Translations and Languages

This month we looked at translations and languages. There are 195 countries in the world today, and approximately 6500 languages, depending on how you count them. The online encyclopedias that…

Ursula Heinzelmann 22 December 2021

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Season’s Greetings from your friendly neighbourhood blog-hosts, OFS Trustees Elisabeth Luard and Gamze Ineceli, and the merriest-possible New Year to everyone who’s stuck with us through thick and thin throughout 2021.

Our monthly gatherings at the Kitchen Table carry on apace (programme news will be on its way shortly). And while we don’t record the actual talk-fests – what’s said at…

Ursula Heinzelmann 21 December 2021

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Wiki Club Gathering November 2, 2021: Roberta’s Sum-Up on Resources and Citations

This month we looked at resources and citations. Wikipedia depends on reliable sources. (WP::RS.) Ideally, each factual assertion in every article should be backed up. This is where you come in. You…

Ursula Heinzelmann 12 December 2021

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Food & Imagination: Sharing the Magical Worlds of three Remarkable Chefs from Different Corners of the World

"Cultural practices must evolve and change, as does nature herself. Our shared future depends on it."

Elisabeth Luard 4 July 2021

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An Artist’s Mind at Work: Jake Tilson

Jake Tilson is an artist, author, typographer, graphic designer, self-confessed typography-addict and many-times-over Oxford Symposium Trustee. Jake’s artworks and books are held in many museums and public collections around the…

Elisabeth Luard 26 May 2021

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Our Patron Theodore Zeldin’s thoughts on the foundation of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery

Our founding Symposiast Theodore Zeldin – Palestine-born Emeritus Fellow of St. Anthony’s College, philosopher, historian of all things French, seeker after happiness and intelligent conversation – provided an introduction to the Symposium’s 2011 cookbook, Celebrations, published to mark our 30th anniversary. As President of The…

Elisabeth Luard 1 May 2021

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As we get ready to celebrate our 40th year, symposium Chair Elisabeth Luard takes us back to the beginnings of OSFC

Wind the clock back forty years to 1981. Assembled at St Antony’s College, Oxford, is random collection of philosophers, historians, scholars, non-scholars, readers, writers, scientists, biologists and (mostly) subscribers and…

Elisabeth Luard 30 March 2021

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