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Thursday, 12 November 2026

Writing Fantasy vs Writing Historical Fiction
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Julia Golding
Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College's annex)Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the Wonderful
Literature History
Developing a cell or gene therapy? Do you know what it takes to get your research ready for GMP manufacturing?
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Sima Hirani
IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building - IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2, IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2, IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 7TY, United KingdomArancha de la Horra
Medicine & Health Engineering Business
Disability and Multidimensional Poverty: A Global Comparative Analysis
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 15:00
Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 2, Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House, 6 Mansfield Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3TB, United Kingdom
Human Rights Economics Medicine & Health
The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 15:30
Speaker: Dr Pritish Behuria
St Antony's College - Pavilion Room, Pavilion Room, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6JF, United KingdomAfrican Studies Centre
Economics Politics Geography
From Iranian Classical Music to Bad Bunny
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 15:45
Speaker: Carlos Vargas-Silva, Lorane Prevost, John Gledhill
COMPAS
Music Anthropology Politics
Social Accountability in Education: Empirical Evidence from India
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 16:00
Speaker: Dr Ricardo Sabates Aysa
VBR Department of Social Policy and Intervention, VBR Department of Social Policy and Intervention, 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 2ER, United KingdomDr William Rudgard
Education Social Science Human Rights
Youth voice: Use of creative methods to engage children and young people in co-designing school food policies and practice
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 16:00
Speaker: Professor Greta Defeyter
Oxford Martin School - Seminar room 1 (ground floor), Seminar room 1 (ground floor), Oxford Martin School, 35 Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3BD, United KingdomLexi Earl
Design Education Food & Drink
Translation Exchanges – Masterclass with Writer and Translator Polly Barton
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 16:30
The Queen's College, The Queen's College, High Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 4AW, United KingdomQueen's Translation Exchange
Language Literature
From protest to power: Serbia's student movement and the challenge of political change
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Luka Maksić, Filip Ubović
St Antony's College - North Site, European Studies Centre - Seminar Room, Seminar Room, St Antony's College - North Site, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6HR, United KingdomJulie Adams
Activism Politics Human Rights
ANDRÉS MOLINA ENRÍQUEZ: A Revolutionary in Mexico's National Museum
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Andrés Bustamante Agudelo, Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada
1 Church Walk - LAC Main Seminar Room, LAC Main Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6LY, United KingdomLatin American History Seminar Series
History Anthropology Politics
Being Human Festival - The Valley Children: Exploring Genetics Through Theatre
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Mehrunisha Suleman, Alberto Giubilini, Caitlin Stobie
Antitheses
Medicine & Health Philosophy Performing Arts
Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global Sixties and Seventies
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Dr Idriss Jebari
St Antony's College - Investcorp Lecture Theatre, Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 64 Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6JF, United KingdomMiddle East Centre
History Politics Activism
The Reciprocity Trap: Weak Parties, Elite Networks, and the Marginalization of the Poor in India
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Pradeep Chhibber
Wolfson College - Levett room, Levett room, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6UD, United Kingdom
Politics Economics Social Science
Nissan Seminar: Ian Rapley (Cardiff), ‘A Way of Play for the 20th Century: Towards a Modern History of the Game of Go’
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Ian Rapley
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies - Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 27 Winchester Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6NA, United KingdomNissan Institute of Japanese Studies
History Sport & Leisure Anthropology
Energy Security in a Changing Europe: Energy Independence, Resilience and Geopolitical Risk. A Fireside Chat with Petras Katinas
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Petras Katinas
St John's College, St John's College, St Giles', Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3JP, United KingdomGreta Latvenaite
Politics Environmental & Climate Military & War
Tolstoy as Historian: The Historical Novel in Intellectual History - Session 5: Philosophy and Reform
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 17:00
All Souls College
History Literature Philosophy
The Second Wave: From Early Rocket Pioneers to Today’s Tech Bros
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Jeffrey Manber
Saïd Business School, Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 1HP, United Kingdom
Astronomy & Space Business History
The North American Indigenous Songbook
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 19:00
Holywell Street - Holywell Music Room, Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX1 3BN, United Kingdom
Music Anthropology History

Friday, 13 November 2026

Saturday, 14 November 2026

Ali Smith - Brave Now World: Ali Smith in Conversation with Peter Boxall
Saturday, 14 November 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Ali Smith, Professor Peter Boxall
Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GGProfessor Peter Boxall
Literature Philosophy Politics

Oxford Talks

Thursday, 12 November 2026

Writing Fantasy vs Writing Historical Fiction

Developing a cell or gene therapy? Do you know what it takes to get your research ready for GMP manufacturing?

Disability and Multidimensional Poverty: A Global Comparative Analysis

The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise

From Iranian Classical Music to Bad Bunny

Social Accountability in Education: Empirical Evidence from India

Youth voice: Use of creative methods to engage children and young people in co-designing school food policies and practice

Translation Exchanges – Masterclass with Writer and Translator Polly Barton

From protest to power: Serbia's student movement and the challenge of political change

ANDRÉS MOLINA ENRÍQUEZ: A Revolutionary in Mexico's National Museum

Being Human Festival - The Valley Children: Exploring Genetics Through Theatre

Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global Sixties and Seventies

The Reciprocity Trap: Weak Parties, Elite Networks, and the Marginalization of the Poor in India

Nissan Seminar: Ian Rapley (Cardiff), ‘A Way of Play for the 20th Century: Towards a Modern History of the Game of Go’

Energy Security in a Changing Europe: Energy Independence, Resilience and Geopolitical Risk. A Fireside Chat with Petras Katinas

Tolstoy as Historian: The Historical Novel in Intellectual History - Session 5: Philosophy and Reform

The Second Wave: From Early Rocket Pioneers to Today’s Tech Bros

The North American Indigenous Songbook

Friday, 13 November 2026

Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum 2026

St Brice's Day Commemoration 2026

Solo violin masterclass with Rémy Ballot

25 Minutes on…Plague: ‘The Plague of Cyprian and the Crisis of the Roman Empire’ – Professor Andrew Wilson

Faculty of Music Lunchtime Recital Series

What Is Your Organisation For? Redesigning for Shared Purpose, Power and Profit

Marco Brambilla in Conversation

Whither the West? Europe and the politics of a changing America

Saturday, 14 November 2026

Ali Smith - Brave Now World: Ali Smith in Conversation with Peter Boxall

Sunday, 15 November 2026

Homi Bhabha, '"Woke", Revoke, and the Right to Narrate'

AMREF Health Africa Concert - Four-hand piano recital with Patsy Toh & Mitra Alice Tham

Kiran Desai in Conversation with Homi Bhabha

Monday, 16 November 2026

OCCT Discussion Group: Lyrics Nestled in Narrative: Folksongs as Poems and Paratexts in a Bihari Colonial

Probability Seminar

War, the End of Empire, and the Expansion of Women’s Political Citizenship

Shame and the Body: A History of Blushing in colonial North India

Torture’s Trajectories: State Violence and What It Tells Us about Israel’s Changing Political Order

Humanitarian Assistance in International Law

Book Launch- Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680

Buddhist Studies Events in Michaelmas Term 2026

Judge Theodor Meron - The Holocaust Poems and Echoes

Empire of austerity: Russia and the breaking of Eurasia

How diversity and pluralism enrich higher education

Bach at New College: Jane Chapman

Tuesday, 17 November 2026

Psychedelic Therapy - mechanisms, promises and challenges

The Imjin War (1592-1598) and Early Modern East Asia

A Region Transformed? Change and Continuity in Middle Eastern Grand Strategy After October 7

‘Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?’ The role of fiction in contemporary anthropology

Four Ways of Looking at This

Women’s Rights and the New World Order: The Case of Tanzania

The race for critical metals: is there a better way?

Exploring the Moral High Ground