We are delighted to have been invited to team up with Imperial for this special visit to Banque Centrale du Luxembourg on Monday the 15th June at 18h00.
The evening will begin with a presentation in English outlining the institution’s activities, followed by a cocktail reception within the premises—an excellent opportunity for discussion and networking.
Please note that spaces are limited. We kindly ask you to confirm your attendance at your earliest convenience. For security and access purposes, participant names must be communicated to the bank one week in advance.We look forward to welcoming you to this insightful event.
Date and Time: Monday 15 June, 18h00. Venue: Banque Central de Luxembourg, 2, boulevard Royal L-2983 Luxembourg. Cost: the tour is free, and the reception is courtesy of the bank Sign-up by 8 June: please write chair@oxford.lu, cc to Silvia Colucci
Dinner: As something new at the Tripartite, the delicious cuisine at Belenhaff will be a festive barbecue, so that guests can mingle between courses as they serve themselves.
We have put together a splendid event for the music lovers of the OUSL.
The Ukrainian violinist Evgenia Avdieieva and pianist Katerina Avdieiva will offer us an hour’s programme of violin virtuoso pieces by Bach, Sarasate, Wieniawsky, Paganini and others, at Pianos Kelly large piano premises.
Afterwards the audience will enjoy a glass of crémant kindly offered by Pianos Kelly. Traditionally, we will then be a smaller group who go for an in formal meal with the artists at nearby Brasserie O.
There is no entrance fee, instead there will be a collection in aid of Ukraine: 🇺🇦‘AID RAID’ 🇺🇦 so kindly bring generous amounts of cash for 🇺🇦 AID RAID! 🇺🇦
Evgenia Avdieieva, a Ukrainian refugee living in Luxembourg since late 2022, studied at the M. Lysenko School in Kyiv (2013–2018) and later at the Central Music School attached to the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She spent two years at the Yehudi Menuhin School, studying with Alex Redington and Roman Mints, and has won prizes in several international competitions including Auer, Lviv, Stankovich and Kogan. Since 2023 she has performed together with her mother Katerina—who teaches piano at a local music school—as Duo Avdieieva. 🎻
Katerina Avdieieva, born in Kyiv, studied for twelve years at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and has worked as a concert pianist, accompanist and teacher in Kyiv, Lviv, Sharm el-Sheikh and Jordan. Now a refugee in Luxembourg, she lives in Echternach with her daughter Evgenia and is currently employed as a piano teacher at the local music school. She has also participated in numerous international competitions and performs with her daughter as Duo Avdieieva. 🎹
Date and time: Thursday 28 May 2026 at 18h30
Venue: Pianos Kelly, 17, rue de Munsbach, L-6941 Niederanven.
Dinner: After the concert – and crémant – there is the option to join the artists for a congenial dinner at nearby ‘Brasserie O’, 2A Rue de Munsbach, Niederanven 6941. (no pre-payment, individual orders)
Costs: The concert is free because Geoffrey Piper is generously covering the musicians’ expenses and Simon Kelly is offering his premises for free – and the post-concert bubbly, but prior reservation is necessary due to demand:
Reservations: kindly drop a line to chair@oxford.lu with cc to iryna.bahno@ukrainians.lu if you would like to reserve a seat for the concert. In the email, kindly add whether you would also like us to reserve a seat for you at Brasserie O for the meal afterwards
Organisers: The event is arranged in collaboration with the musicians, our member, Geoffrey Piper, as well as Simon Kelly, Mette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig and AID RAID!
Katerina Avdieiva & Evgenia Avdieieva
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🇺🇦AID RAID (not to be confused with AIR RAID!!) is truly remarkable. It was established by 3 Lithuanians (note: from a country which understands Putin much better then the west) shortly after the invasion. A tiny team buy vehicles, have them maintained, drive them to Ukraine and leave all but one on the spot (which includes the front line) and carry humanitarian goods and childrens’ toys in large quantities. AID RAID also organises events of all kinds in Mensdorf and surroundings which are attracting more than 100 people at a time.🇺🇦
Formal convocation will be sent out soon, but we hope as many of you as possible would like to join us for our Annual General Meeting.
Our member Francis Carpenter and his wife are kindly opening their lovely home for us for the event which will be followed by a glass of champagne curtesy of our hosts, and amuses bouches courtesy of OUSL.
More to come, but do sign up for this evening of Oxonians only. The AGM lasts around 45 minutes and the rest is a congenial get-together where Francis Carpenter may show us some of his rare collections of PreColumbian Artefacts, from the Pacific Coast to the Machu Pichu areas.
WHO CAN COME: All paid-up members of the OUSL! So you haven’t already done so, do hurry to pay the €40 for 2026 – otherwise, and forgive this foray into less festive legal speak – but you are only defined a member if pay the annual membership fee. Without it no membership and no right to vote a the AGM.
More info to come, but registration is now open:
Sign-up: Kindly ensure you have paid your €40 annual subscription prior to sig-up: Chair@Oxford.lu
We are delighted to present this long awaited conference with Professor A B A leading authority on the Roman world, Prof. B will talk about his pioneering work on the administration of the Roman Empire, and most notably on the Vindolanda Tablets. The Vindolanda tablets are along Britain’s and Northern Europe’s oldest surviving handwritten documents, offering unparalleled insights into life of Roman Britain, including the earliest known birthday party invitation written by a woman. Discovered in 1973 at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, they have transformed our understanding of the early Roman occupation of Britain and (military) life in Northern Europe. We will hear how Professor B and his team enlisted the aid of medical imaging facilities of the Oxford University medical faculty to help in the task of deciphering the tablets.
This conference is organised in collaboration between Oxford Alumni, INRA and partners. It ties in with Camsoc-organised event with Professor Martin Millett 19 June, in an Oxbridge miniseries on Ancient History. Members of both societies are warmly invited to attend both events.
Venue: The Bowman Conference will take place in the large auditorium of Musée Dräi Eechelen, 5, Park Dräi Eechelen, L-1499 Luxembourg. There is no need to sign up for the talk as there is free access.
AFTER THE TALK, the OUSL is fortunate to have the opportunity to continue the evening over dinner with the speaker for a limited number of guests. See details below.
DINNER: We have secured the nearby Restaurant Feierwon, for an exclusive post-conference dinner with Professor Bowman. The dinner is limited to 20-25 seats, so if you wish to join, do not hesitate to register.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Alan Bowman, Professor emeritus is a historian of the Roman empire with particular research interests in the documentary evidence from Egypt and northern Britain. Positions he has held include tutor in Ancient History at Christ Church, University of Oxford, Camden Professor of Ancient History and Principal of Brasenose College, President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, Vice-President (Humanities) of the British Academy (elected Fellow in 1994).
So, to sum up: Date: Wednesday 6 May 2026 Time: TALK : 18.30. Dinner: c. 20.00 Venue for talk: Musee 3 Eecheleen, hosted by the National Museum. Venue for Dinner (must be pre-booked): Restaurant de Feierwon, 6 Rue du Fort Niedergruenewald, 2226 Kirchberg, Luxembourg.
Organisers: INRA (organiser), /MNAHA(host)/OUSL(organiser)/University of Luxembourg OUSL (co-host) in cooperation with INRA (Institut national de recherches archéologiques)
Do join us for a convivial time with ‘the other place’. Kindly sign up with with John Speed (president@cambridgesociety.lu) with cc Mette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig.
Date: Thursday 30 April, 19h,
Venue: La Reserve, 23 Av. Pasteur, 2311 Limpertsberg Luxembourg
First the Conference on green cities: Green Cities and Urbanism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
We are invited to this creative conference on how we can shape our cities in order that they meet the multiple demands of city living while also improving green, sustainable living.
Venue: Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg, 37D avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg
Sign-up: free entrance, so feel free to come!
Organisers: the Conférence Saint-Yves and the Association luxembourgeoise pour le droit de l’environnement (ALDE), in collaboration with the BnL.
