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The Ruskin Degree Show 2026 Valerie Asiimwe Amani at the Venice Biennale Emery Prize winner Cerena Parkinson Dr Jinjoon Lee’s Empty Garden acquired by the Ashmolean Museum Ruskin Print Portfolio Oscar win for Ruskin alum Alexandre SinghOxford welcomes Shirin Neshat and Malcolm Rogers as Visiting Professors
The Ruskin School is collaborating with the Humanities Division, Magdalen College and Balliol College on a series of Visiting Professorships, which are intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to the University to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the Humanitas Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge are managed and funded by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue with the support of a series of generous benefactors, including Ivorypress and Foster + Partners.
The acclaimed Iranian artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat is this year’s Visiting Professor in Contemporary Art and the Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Malcolm Rogers is this year’s Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries & Libraries. Shirin and Malcolm will both be in Oxford in the second week of May, during which they will deliver a series of lectures, talks, workshops and masterclasses.
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