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

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Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening 5:00 pm
Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening @ Rewley House
Feb 10 @ 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Overdiagnosis and Lung Cancer Screening @ Rewley House
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of “disease” that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient’s lifetime. Recent results of the NELSON Lung Cancer Screening Trial reports reductions in lung-cancer survival but not overall survival[...]
FameLab Heat 1 7:00 pm
FameLab Heat 1 @ St Aldates Tavern
Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
FameLab Heat 1 @ St Aldates Tavern
All the lab’s a stage, and nowhere more so than at the heats of FameLab Oxford 2020! Each contestant has just three minutes to explain a concept on science, mathematics or engineering without the use[...]
Massada Film Screening followed by Q&A 7:00 pm
Massada Film Screening followed by Q&A @ Where: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College
Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Screening of “Streetscapes” (winner of the 2017 German Critics Award) followed by Q&A. Dr Zohar Rubinstein, clinical and organizational psychologist, specialist in mental health in emergency situations, and one of the founding members of The[...]
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Writing Queer Lives 1:00 pm
Writing Queer Lives @ Wolfson College
Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Writing Queer Lives @ Wolfson College
How do we write about queer lives? Queer people have always existed, but a combination of censorship, coded language and omission from the historical record has made it difficult for scholars to clearly interpret and[...]
“Pyrrhic progress: the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production” with Dr Claas Kirchhelle 5:15 pm
“Pyrrhic progress: the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production” with Dr Claas Kirchhelle @ Oxford Martin School
Feb 11 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
In this book talk, Claas will review central findings of his research on the past 80 years of antibiotic use, resistance, and regulation in food production with introduction by Prof Mark Harrison, Director of Wellcome[...]
FameLab Heat 2 7:00 pm
FameLab Heat 2 @ St Aldates Tavern
Feb 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
FameLab Heat 2 @ St Aldates Tavern
All the lab’s a stage, and nowhere more so than at the heats of FameLab Oxford 2020! Each contestant has just three minutes to explain a concept on science, mathematics or engineering without the use[...]
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“Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health” with Prof Gerd Gigerenzer 5:00 pm
“Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health” with Prof Gerd Gigerenzer @ Oxford Martin School
Feb 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm
In modern high-tech health care, patients appear to be the stumbling block. Uninformed, anxious, noncompliant individuals with unhealthy lifestyles who demand treatments advertised by celebrities and insist on unnecessary but expensive diagnostics may eventually turn[...]
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From Connectomes to Nanowires – the Quest to Understand the Central Complex across Insect Species 12:00 pm
“The future of health in the UK – the next 20 years” Prof Chris Whitty 5:30 pm
“The future of health in the UK – the next 20 years” Prof Chris Whitty @ Oxford Martin School
Feb 26 @ 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
With the UK population predicted to grow nearly 20% by 2050 (circa 77 million people), over 65s making up around 25% of the population and more and more demands being put on the healthcare system[...]
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“Income insecurity in the 21st Century” with special guest speaker Andy Haldane 11:15 am
“Income insecurity in the 21st Century” with special guest speaker Andy Haldane @ Oxford Martin School
Feb 28 @ 11:15 am – 1:00 pm
‘Job insecurity at the end of the 20th century has given way to income insecurity at the start of the 21st.’ – Andy Haldane, July 2019 Join us for a stimulating morning of talks exploring[...]
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Marcus Chown – The Magicians 11:00 am
Marcus Chown – The Magicians @ Blackwell's Bookshop
Feb 29 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Blackwell’s are delighted to announce that we will be joined by award-winning science writer and broadcaster, Marcus Chown, who will be talking about his new book, The Magicians:The Visionaries Who Demonstrated the Miraculous Predictive Power[...]