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ECLS 2013 Oxford - Information Package Welcome to Oxford and to the ECLS 2013 Conference. We hope you will spend a wonderful few days amongst the dreaming spires, and have compiled a little infor-mation to help you prepare your trip. Programme The detailed programme for the Conference is not yet complete, but it will last two full days: 19 and 20 September, from 9.00 until approximately 18.00. On 18 Septem-ber, a networking event will be organized at 17.00, to which all presenters are wel-come. Lunches will be provided on both conference days. Venue The Conference will take place in the Manor Road and St. Cross buildings. These are situated next to each other on the juncture of St. Cross and Manor Road (see map on last page). The Manor Road building is about 10-15 minutes walking from Oxford city centre. Entry requirements Unfortunately, the UK visa service takes a long time to process visa applications. Par-ticipants who need visa to enter the United Kingdom are therefore strongly advised to begin visa application procedures as soon as possible. The Conference organizers will provide visa application letters on request. If you need a visa letter, please send a message to [email protected]. How to get there Car: From Dover, follow the A20/M20 to London. Follow the M26 and M25, passing south of London, in the direction of Heathrow Airport. About 5 miles past Heathrow, turn onto the M40 in the direction of Oxford. Follow signs into the city. Note: Oxford is a medieval city, and measures are taken to dissuade car use in the city centre. If your hotel does not offer parking, long-stay car parks are available, but expensive. If you drive in for the day, you’re kindly advised to use the Park&Ride sys-tem. See also: http://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/oxford/ Train:
Frequent trains run between London Paddington and Oxford. The railway station is about 10 minutes walking from the centre of town. Buying in advance is recom-mended: tickets become more expensive closer to the day of travel. Maximum price is about £27 single between London and Oxford. See also http://www.nationalrail.co.uk Airplane Oxford is easily accessible from Heathrow, Gatwick and Birmingham airports. Luton and Stansted are not convenient. From Heathrow terminals 1, 2, 3 and 5, buses leave up to three times an hour. (From terminal 4, take the free train to any other termi-nal). Buses from Gatwick run every hour. For more information, see http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/main.php?page_id=25. From Birmingham airport, trains run every hour. Where to stay Colleges As proceedings take place outside of term time, rooms in different Oxford colleges are available at relatively inexpensive rates. It is a wonderful way to enjoy some of the Oxford charm. In many colleges, breakfast is served in the great hall, and most are very conveniently located in the city centre. Bookings are centralized via http://www.oxfordrooms.co.uk B&Bs A bed and breakfast is the quintessential English way to visit a town. Oxford has a good number of them, mostly located in North Oxford on Banbury Road. This offers a convenient and frequent bus service into the centre. Bookings can be made via http://www.visitoxfordandoxfordshire.com/accommodation/Guest-accommodation-bed-and-breakfast.aspx Hotels There aren’t many hotels in the centre of Oxford itself, and most of those are on the higher end of the budget scale. You may want to consider the following: The Old Parsonage The Old Bank Hotel The Randolph Hotel Malmaison Slightly more affordable, but still very good: Cotswold Lodge The Linton Lodge Hotel Eating and drinking Oxford has a number of wonderful pubs and restaurants. Here is a selection of a few of our favourites: Pubs: Hearty food, such as sausages and pies, and foaming pints of English ale, or Pimm’s during the summer. The King’s Arms, on the corner of Parks Road and Holywell Street. The Turf, tucked away at the back of New College, through Holywell Street and Bath Place.
Chequers, on the High Street, opposite the Covered Market. The Eagle and Child, on St. Giles, where Tolkien used to go for a snifter. The Lamb and Flag, on St. Giles, where all proceeds go to the funding of scholar-ships. Restaurants: Turl Street Kitchen, Turl Street: local food in an excellent location The Vaults and Gardens, Radcliffe Square: excellent lunches in the vault of the Uni-versity Church. My Sichuan, Gloucester Green: fiery peppers and fine spices recreate wonderful food from Chengdu. Sojo, Hythe Bridge Street: south Chinese specialities, outstanding fish. Byron’s Burgers, George Street: exactly what it says on the box. Walton Street: a collection of excellent restaurants in the old University Press neighbourhood. Particularly recommended are Brasserie Blanc and Branca. Bars: Raoul’s Bar, Walton Street, the best cocktails in Oxford. Freud’s, Walton Street: great atmosphere in a renovated church The Living Room: mix it up in the Oxford Castle Quarter What to see and do Museums: Oxford has a fine collection of large and small museums. Most of them are free of charge, and are open on Sundays. The Ashmolean, Beaumont Street: the first university museum in the world, with an extensive collection of art and archaeology. The Museum for the History of Science, Broad Street: a small but intriguing museum dedicated to the birth of science in the Renaissance age. Expositions change all the time. The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Parks Road: museum dedicated to ethnography and ar-chaeology. Shopping: Blackwell, Broad Street: book lovers, beware. Blackwell is so big, it takes up two buildings across a street. One room, the Norrington Room, contains nearly 200.000 volumes. The Covered Market, High Street/Covered Market Street: the Covered Market groups a number of independent shops, ranging from food, over lunch and coffee, to souvenirs, shoes and toys. Highly recommended. The Varsity Shop, High Street and Broad Street: all your Oxford and University sou-venirs. University buildings and grounds It is impossible to miss the University in the city, and its buildings dominate most parts of the Centre. Most colleges are open free of charge or at low ticket prices, with the exception of Christ Church, which charges £9 (but is worth it). Harry Pot-
ter fans, note, there are walking tours that show exactly which scenes in the films were shot where in the city. The same is true for Inspector Morse. Especially worth a visit are: Christ Church College, St. Aldate’s: possibly the most ornate college in Oxford, and seat of the Cathedral of the city. New College, Holywell Street: built around the old city wall, one of the oldest col-leges, ironically. All Souls College, High Street: a college without students, the career objective for most Oxford dons. Hertford College: the only college with a bridge across the street. Corpus Christi College, Merton Street: small, but very pretty. The Radcliffe Camera and the Bodleian Library, Radcliffe Square, quintessential scenes from Oxford. The Sheldonian Theatre: ceremonial hall, climb into the tower for wonderful views over the centre. The University Parks, Parks Road: enjoy the open space between the town and the river Cherwell. Outside of town Blenheim Palace and Woodstock: the seat of the Duke of Marlborough, a magnificent renaissance country pile and the birthplace of Winston Churchill. Easily reached by bus S3, which leaves Gloucester Green every half hour. Bicester Village: the largest outlet village in the world, about half an hour away with frequent S5 bus service from St. Giles. We hope this is a useful help in preparing your trip, if your have any questions, do not hesitate to e-mail: [email protected]
ECLS 2013 Oxford Presenter’s guidelines Dear Presenter Thank you very much for your presence at our conference. In order to ensure the smooth flow of presentations, we’d like to provide you with the following guidelines: Presentations are to last 15 minutes. It is up to the session chair to decide on Q&A after every presentation, or to do a grouped discussion session following every ses-sion. Out of consideration for speakers after you, we’d like to ask you to stay within the time limit. Please keep presentations concentrated. In order to be able to have a focused dis-cussion, you are kindly requested to zoom in on the core idea of your paper. Also, please keep presentation slides limited in number and content. We would like to publish a collection of the papers as an electronic edited volume. This will be made available under a Creative Commons licence on the ECLS website and the Conference website. You are, of course, free to opt out of the volume, please notify us via the e-mail address hereunder. Papers are expected to number 4.000 to 5.000 words, and to use the OSCOLA referencing system. It is envisaged that a special edition of the China-EU Law Journal will be published, on the basis of a number of papers presented at the conference. Selected presenters will be approached by the editors.
