Some face-to-face events are returning. Check carefully for any requirements.

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Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Ashutosh Tewari 8:00 am
Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Ashutosh Tewari @ Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Lecture Theatre 1
Oct 2 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Surgical Grand Rounds - Professor Ashutosh Tewari @ Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Lecture Theatre 1 | Oxford | United Kingdom
Professor Tewari is a world-renowned urologist and prostate cancer specialist. As Director of the Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, he leads a multidisciplinary team committed[...]
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Alok Jha & The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance @ Oxford Skeptics in the Pub 7:30 pm
Alok Jha & The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance @ Oxford Skeptics in the Pub @ St Aldates Tavern
Oct 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Alok Jha & The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance @ Oxford Skeptics in the Pub @ St Aldates Tavern | Oxford | United Kingdom
Water may seem the most ordinary of substances – it pours from our taps and falls from the sky – but you would be surprised at what a profoundly strange substance it is. It bends[...]
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Jim Baggot on Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation 6:00 pm
Jim Baggot on Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation @ Andrew Wiles Building (Mathematical Institute)
Oct 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Jim Baggot on Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation @ Andrew Wiles Building (Mathematical Institute) | Oxford | United Kingdom
Join Jim Baggott, scientist and author of ground-breaking new book Origins, as he tells the amazing scientific story of the Universe: from the Big Bang to the arrival of humans 13.8 billion years later.
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Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Avigdor Scherz 8:00 am
Surgical Grand Rounds – Professor Avigdor Scherz @ Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre. John Radcliffe Hospital
Oct 9 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Surgical Grand Rounds - Professor Avigdor Scherz @ Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre. John Radcliffe Hospital | Oxford | United Kingdom
Professor Avigdor Scherz holds the Robert and Yadelle Professorial Chair in Biochemistry in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where he leads an exciting programme of[...]
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The Heart and the Head – and evening of storytelling and song under the dinos 7:30 pm
The Heart and the Head – and evening of storytelling and song under the dinos @ University Museum of Natural History
Oct 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The Heart and the Head - and evening of storytelling and song under the dinos @ University Museum of Natural History | Oxford | United Kingdom
Join researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Oxford based folk band “James Bell and the Half Moon All Stars” for an afterhours event under the dinosaurs as they mix eclectic experiences,[...]
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Do Computer Games Really Harm Children? – FREE Talk by Dr Andrew Przybylski 4:30 pm
Do Computer Games Really Harm Children? – FREE Talk by Dr Andrew Przybylski @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology
Oct 13 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Do Computer Games Really Harm Children? - FREE Talk by Dr Andrew Przybylski @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology | Oxford | England | United Kingdom
This talk is FREE! Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available after the talk. Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology ******************** Andrew Przybylski is an experimental psychologist based at the[...]
Too Valuable to Die? The ethics of science and scientists going to war 7:00 pm
Too Valuable to Die? The ethics of science and scientists going to war @ Museum of the History of Science
Oct 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Too Valuable to Die? The ethics of science and scientists going to war @ Museum of the History of Science | Oxford | England | United Kingdom
Silke Ackermann (Director, Museum of the History of Science) Liz Bruton (Co-curator, “Dear Harry”… Henry Moseley: A Scientist Lost to War) and Nigel Biggar (Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford) will[...]
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Cyberselves in Immersive Technologies 9:15 am
Cyberselves in Immersive Technologies @ Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre
Oct 14 @ 9:15 am – Oct 15 @ 4:00 pm
As part of our AHRC-funded project, Cyberselves in Immersive Technologies, researchers from Oxford University and the University of Sheffield are organising a two-day symposium on virtual reality, telepresence and associated technologies. The symposium will be[...]
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De revolutionibus: a Marxist history of astronomy 7:30 pm
De revolutionibus: a Marxist history of astronomy @ Town Hall (Court Room)
Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
De revolutionibus: a Marxist history of astronomy @ Town Hall (Court Room) | Oxford | United Kingdom
Talk, Q&As, and discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion. There’s no need to book: just turn up on the day.
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Oxbotica: Why Don’t Robots Get Lost? 1:00 pm
Oxbotica: Why Don’t Robots Get Lost? @ Lecture Room 2, Thom Building, Engineering Department
Oct 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Oxbotica: Why Don't Robots Get Lost? @ Lecture Room 2, Thom Building, Engineering Department | Oxford | United Kingdom
Oxbotica are an Oxford University Spin-Out Company from the mobile robotics group. Oxbotica specialize in mobile navigation and perception – allowing robots to precisely map, navigate and interact with their surroundings.” Graeme Smith, Oxbotica’s Chief[...]
How I Became a Cyborg – Talk by Professor Kevin Warwick AKA ‘Captain Cyborg’ 4:30 pm
How I Became a Cyborg – Talk by Professor Kevin Warwick AKA ‘Captain Cyborg’ @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology
Oct 20 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
How I Became a Cyborg - Talk by Professor Kevin Warwick AKA 'Captain Cyborg' @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology | Oxford | England | United Kingdom
Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event! Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology ******************** Professor Warwick instigated a series of pioneering experiments involving[...]
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SciBar event – Parasites: masters of disguise 7:00 pm
SciBar event – Parasites: masters of disguise @ St Aldates Tavern, The Blue Room
Oct 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
SciBar event - Parasites: masters of disguise @ St Aldates Tavern, The Blue Room | Oxford | United Kingdom
Dr Matt Higgins will discuss how tiny parasites that cause human disease stay undercover and evade detection, and how we can try to develop vaccines to stop them.
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Introductory Coin-Handling Session at the Ashmolean’s Heberden Coin Room 3:00 pm
Introductory Coin-Handling Session at the Ashmolean’s Heberden Coin Room @ Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum
Oct 22 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
What’s the deal about coins? How do I read them? What can I do with them? Join us for an introductory coin-handing session at the Heberden Coin Room, where Jerome Mairat demonstrates how we can[...]
“Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change?” with Prof Malcolm McCulloch and Prof Henry Snaith 5:00 pm
“Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change?” with Prof Malcolm McCulloch and Prof Henry Snaith @ Oxford Martin School
Oct 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Renewable energy is a strong component in the race to mitigate climate change, and solar power is a particularly cheap and viable green energy option. Considering current technologies, cost, markets and infrastructure, Professor Henry Snaith,[...]
Professor Richard Dawkins ‘Brief Candle in the Dark : My Life in Science’ 7:00 pm
Professor Richard Dawkins ‘Brief Candle in the Dark : My Life in Science’ @ Sheldonian Theatre
Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Blackwell’s is delighted to be hosting Professor Richard Dawkins at the Sheldonian Theatre to talk about the lastest volume in his autobiography, ‘Brief Candle in the Dark’ Professor Dawkins is an ethnologist, evolutionary biologist and[...]
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[C]lick your Screen: Probing the Senses Online – Talk by Dr Andy Woods 4:30 pm
[C]lick your Screen: Probing the Senses Online – Talk by Dr Andy Woods @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology
Oct 27 @ 4:30 pm – Oct 28 @ 5:30 pm
[C]lick your Screen: Probing the Senses Online - Talk by Dr Andy Woods @ Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology | Oxford | England | United Kingdom
Wine reception, snacks, and £5 year membership to PsyNAppS available. Alternatively, pay £2 for a single event! Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology ******************** We are at the cusp of some far-reaching technological[...]
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“Facing the unknown: the future of humanity” with Prof Nick Bostrom 5:00 pm
“Facing the unknown: the future of humanity” with Prof Nick Bostrom @ Oxford Martin School
Oct 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Professor Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, will explore the huge technological, scientific and environmental shifts that have led to humanity’s current state, and consider the choices that will determine our long-term[...]
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