This talk navigates rural, peri-urban, and urban contemporary fairs and festivals as sites of displaying South Asian ‘folk’ performances. As displays alongside other tangible cultural objects and artefacts, such performances often negotiate ‘authenticity’ both through the performers’ role-playing as well as the audiences’ reception. In this sense, these performances at once become truncated prototypes, showcases, and souvenir acts. More importantly, the sites of contemporary fair and festival performances are sought after by marginal performers as objectified capital.

Principal John Bowers will be in conversation with Brasenose College alumnus Siddarth Shrikanth.

COP28 closed with an agreement, that for the first time in three decades, includes oil and gas.

But what does the agreement mean in real terms? And is keeping the global temperature limit of 1.5°C within reach.

Join us as our panel of academics share their thoughts after attending COP28 and look forward to what it means for COP29 and the world over the coming years.

Panel:

Professor Myles Allen, Director, Oxford Net Zero
Dr Abrar Chaudhury, Senior Associate, Oxford Net Zero
Professor Benito Müller, Managing Director, Oxford Climate Policy (Chair)

With comments by Emily Dyson and Orlando Lazar