British Studies at Oxford
July - August 2011
Sunday
Monday
7/10
3:00 & 4:30 Orientation
Tour-Brasenose & Town
7:00-Welcome Dinner
Classes Begin 7/11
1:30 Walking tour – north
Oxford, museums, St.
Mary’s Church, University
Parks; webcam rendezvous
(10:00 AM EST)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Classes meet AM 7/12
Classes meet AM 7/13
1:30: Walking tour –
Medieval Oxford, inc. Christ
Church College
1:30: Mini-lecture: Much Ado
about Nothing; Stonehenge;
Salisbury Cathedral
Time TBA, Screening of
Beowulf, the Movie, JCR
Thursday
London Trip 7/14
Depart BNC at 9:00 AM.
Concludes with 7:00 PM
performance of Much Ado
About Nothing at the Globe
Theatre
7/17 Classes meet AM 7/18
Classes meet AM 7/19
Classes meet AM 7/20
Classes meet AM 7/21
1:30 Walking Tour including
Bodleian Library
Drama class: Globe Theatre
Touring Company, As You
Like It, 7:00 PM, Bodleian
Courtyard
Farmer’s Market , 8:00 –
4:00, Gloucester Green
Mystery Trip! For
everybody! Depart BNC at
1:30 PM
Classes meet AM 7/25
Classes meet AM 7/26
Classes meet AM 7/27
Classes meet AM 7/28
7/24
Art in Action Festival,
Waterperry House,
Oxfordshire
3:30 Tea w/ Dr. Bennett
7/31 Classes meet AM 8/1
Time TBA: Screening of
Monty Python & the Holy
Grail, JCR
Punting?
Classes meet AM 8/2
Drama class: Oxford
Shakespeare Co.,
Importance of Being Earnest,
Wadham College Garden,
7:00PM.
Drama class to London
(Cherry Orchard at Nat’l
Thtre & Doll’s House at
Arcola; other class
excursions.
Classes meet AM 8/3
Farmer’s Market , 8:00 –
4:00, Gloucester Green
Friday
Saturday
Classes resume 7/15
7/16
Ancient Britain Tour
(optional): Stonehenge,
Avebury, Salisbury
Cathedral). Departs 9:00
AM; returns 7:30 PM
Deathly Hallows Pt. 2
Premiere
7/22
City of Bath excursion
(optional): Departs 9:00 AM;
return 7:00 PM.
7/29
7/23
Shopping at Portobello
Road and/or Spitalfields
Markets (London)?
See Prof. Connery if
interested.
7/30
Warwick Castle excursion
(optional): departs 9:00 AM,
returns 7:00 PM.
Classes meet AM 8/4
Reception 6:30 PM
Gala Dinner 7:00 PM
8/5
Check out of BNC by 12:00
PM.
8/6
Address at Brasenose College:
Student’s Name
c/o Oakland University
Brasenose College,
Oxford,
OX1 4AJ
UK
To leave a message by phone, call the Porter’s Lodge. From the USA, dial 011 44 1865 277830. (011 is the code to get an international line out of the US; 44 is the UK international dialing code;
1865 is the Oxford area code; 277830 is the local phone number for the BNC Porter’s Lodge.)
Contact info for Professor Connery: Email: connery@oakland.edu . Upon my arrival in Oxford, I will email to interested parents and friends my land line number at Brasenose and my cell phone
number. If you call, please remember that it is five hours later in Oxford than in the Detroit Metro area. In anything less than an emergency, given my minimal competence with both voice mail
and cellphones, I suggest either leaving a message for me at the Porter’s Lodge (above) or emailing me and asking that I call you. I check my email several times a day, and the Porter will leave
any messages for me in my mailbox in the Lodge, which I also check two or three times a day. Parents and friends are also welcome to “friend” me on Facebook, where, when I have time, I will
post photographs of the group.
Webcam rendezvous: A live webcam is set up in the center of Oxford, though it operates fitfully. You can find it at http://webcam.oii.ox.ac.uk/. I will try to have the group live on camera at
approximately 10:00 AM EST on Monday, July 5. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Websites for events or venues mentioned in the calendar:
Oxford webcam: http://webcam.oii.ox.ac.uk/
Alice Day, July 10: http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/the-story-museum/familyevents/alice
Oxford Moonlight Stroll, July 10-11: http://www.oxfordmoonlightstroll.org.uk/index.htm
British 10K, London, 9:35 AM July 11: http://www.thebritish10klondon.co.uk/Frameset/British10K2010.htm
Spitalfields Market is actually 5 markets, plus galleries, an improvised food court set up in a giant parking lot, and more. Crafts, boutique designs, art,
antiques. http://www.visitspitalfields.com/index.html
The Portobello Rd. Market, open on Saturdays, is also a thrift-shop aficionado’s paradise: http://www.portobelloroad.co.uk/
Art in Action Festival, July 21-24: http://www.artinaction.org.uk/
Globe Theatre Traveling Company production of As You Like It, presented in the courtyard of the Bodleian Library, July 19-31:
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/about/exhibitions/forthcoming_events/shakespeare2
Oxford Shakespeare Company: http://www.oxfordshakespearecompany.co.uk/
Blenheim Palace: http://www.blenheimpalace.com/
Roman Baths: http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/
Warwick Castle: http://www.warwick-castle.co.uk/
Oxford museums for a rainy afternoon:
Oxford Museum of the History of Science: “Eccentricity,” http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs, rocks, fossils, the dodo bird, http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/index.htm *
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, “Cultural Revolution: State of Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s,” and “Heracles to Alexander the Great:
Treasures From the Royal Capital of Macedon, A Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy” http://www.ashmolean.org/
Pitt-Rivers Museum of Anthropology, collections of anything made by people throughout the world; “Disciples of a Crazy Saint” http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/
Modern Art Oxford, “Haegue Yang,” http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/
University of Oxford Botanic Garden, http://www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/
Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/
London: Major museums and galleries:
National Gallery (British and European Fine Arts): “Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500” and “Take One Picture: A Display of Work by Primary
Schools,” http://nationalgallery.org.uk/
Tate Modern (International modern and contemporary art): “Miró,” “Photography: New Documentary Forms,” “Level 2 Gallery: Burke + Norfolk: Photographs
From the War in Afghanistan,” “Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus,” “After we Arrive, Before we Leave…,” “Taryn Simon,” and “Tate Modern Movie Exhibition,”
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
Tate Britain (British and International Fine Arts after 1500): “Colour and Line: Turner’s Experiments,” “Romantics,” “Watercolour,” “James Stirling: Notes from
the Arcvihve,” “The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World,” “Art Now: Corin Sworn,” and “Has the Film Already Started?” http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
Royal Academy of Arts (Fine Arts, British): Annual summer exhibition by invited artists and “Journeyings: Recent Works on Paper by Frank Bowling RA,” “RA
Schools Show 2011,” Eyewtiness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century,” “Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement,” “Albert Irvin RA: From Holyrod to
Stratford,” and “Morphosis” http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
Saatchi Gallery (Contemporary art): “Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture,” http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/ . Convenient to Harrod’s and high-end
shopping.
Victoria and Albert Museum: (Decorative Arts), “Picturing Plants: Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration,” & “’So Noble a Confection’ Producing and
Consuming Chocolate 1600-1880,” http://www.vam.ac.uk/ Convenient to the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum.
Science Museum: “Cosmos & Culture,” “A Time-Eating Clock,” “Plasticity,” http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
Natural History Museum: Darwin Centre, “Age of the Dinosaur,” & “Sensational Butterflies” http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
British Museum: Art objects and artifacts from antiquity to the present, “Treasures of Heaven,” & “Australia Landscape,” http://www.britishmuseum.org/
British Library: “Out of This World,’ & “Growing Knowledge,” exhibit, http://www.bl.uk/
Tower of London: http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/
Hayward Gallery: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-visual-arts/ “Gilbert and George,” & “Art on Poetry.” In the South Bank Centre,
close to Tate Modern, Aquarium, Dali exhibit in the old Town Hall,
Museum of London: Artifacts of London history, http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/
Imperial War Museum: “Women War Artists” and “Once Upon a Wartime: Classic War Stories for Children,” http://www.iwm.org.uk/
Walking Tours: Regularly scheduled walking tours with well-informed guides; cost varies, but frequently includes reduced admission fees. Good people to go
with for standard fare like Westminster Abbey; good tour of Greenwich with boat trip; the Jack the Ripper tour is internationally famous but offered
only occasionally. http://www.walks.com/ Downloadable pdf file with full schedule.