V-Fringe Pre-Opening

Our first Plenary: We'd like to introduce you to the V-Fringe and kick-off the live Symposium events to help us get familiar with Zoom! Before today's first event please ensure…

Tea Break

Let's have tea and start the conversation, chat with old friends and meet new ones - are you a returning symposiast? What brought you back? And for the first timers:…

Welcome Drinks

Drinks first! Join us with a gin tipple or your favourite aperitive and start to share the international spirit of the symposium. We are meeting on the virtual lawns of…

Bar

What is your own island life experience? Come and share over a glass of wine or a beer, and introduce yourself to even more new faces. Your hosts will be…

Lanza Lounge

You say digestif, I say digestive, join Fabrizia Lanza to learn it's neither! We'll meet in the lounge to discuss her film, Sicily's herbs and the bitter side of life.…

Saturday Breakfast

It's morning in Oxford, it's evening in Auckland, check out who else is up and share your plans for the day over an English breakfast or a flat white.  Your…

Coffee Break

Time to replenish caffeine levels! Perhaps we talk about. . . how our spice cupboards compare with those of our parents’ (or anything else that suits our fancy)? Your hosts…