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

May 3 @ 6:00 pm Blue boar lecture theatre, Christ Church College
An event showcasing an unmissable two and a half hours of the best action and adventure films from around the world. Excess proceeds generated by ticket sales will be donated to the England and Wales[...]
May 5 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Mitre (function room)
Deconstruction as Old Testament midrash, with New Testament implications. Valentine Cunningham is a University Lecturer (CUF) in English, Professor of English Language and Literature and Vice-President of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. He has[...]
May 6 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Senior Common Room, Faculty of Law
 
May 6 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St. Anne's College
Professor of Caribbean Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths University, Joan Anim-Addo brings us her voice on Black Women’s Writing and the place of the Black figure in the Humanities. This event will be hosted in[...]
May 6 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Pegasus
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a persistent interest in technology emerged in both avant-garde and mainstream literature, and this multimedia presentation by Dr Eric White (Oxford Brookes University) and collaborators examines how radical reading[...]
May 7 @ 4:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Foyer, St. Anne's College
Writer of autobiography, poetry, fiction and journalism and Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University Blake Morrison brings some of his latest work and interesting discussion to St. Anne’s.
May 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Pegasus
Professor Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University), author of ‘Terrorist’s Creed’, will draw upon actual examples of terrorist attacks and a number of films in this talk to help explain why ‘ordinary’ individuals carry out violent[...]
May 8 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Oxford Martin School
Professor Sally Shuttleworth, Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and Dr Sally Frampton, Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, will both talk about the role of Citizen Science in their[...]
May 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Pegasus
Join English PEN (the literary network which works to defend and promote free expression) for an evening of poetry and debate, with discussion about how publishing and human rights campaigns can join forces to help[...]
May 8 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St. Anne's College
Novelist Ali Smith, author of Artful, Hotel World, and The Accidental, returns to St. Anne’s after holding the Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in European Comparative Literature in 2012.
May 8 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
William Kelly: Artist of Conscience Thursday 8 May 2014, 6.30-7.30pm (drinks from 6.15pm) Ashmolean Museum Education Centre (Evening entrance via St Giles) Internationally acclaimed US artist William Kelly talks about his life and work. Kelly’s[...]
May 8 @ 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm The Sutro Room, Trinity College
The spiritual and second-order sense of scripture, according to which, for example, the crossing of the Red Sea denotes Baptism, and Jacob’s ladder denotes the cross, presents at least two epistemological challenges. First, the history[...]
May 9 @ 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
Between the artist and the museum Friday 9 May 2014, 5-6.30pm (doors will open at 4.45pm) Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre A symposium with Michael Govan (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries & Libraries at[...]
May 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Mansfield College
Labour MP for Rhondda since 2001. Shadow Minister for Welfare Reform since October 2013. Author of several books including Parliament: The Biography. Part of the Mansfield Lecture Series, convener Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
May 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Pegasus
Step inside the parlour and drawing room of an eighteenth-century home, and together with Dr Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University) and musicians, enjoy readings, music, and the authentic sewing session of a ‘huswif’! Part of[...]
May 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
India: A Short History With Andrew Robinson, author Saturday 10 May, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre India is the world’s largest democracy and a fast-growing economy. It is also a civilization with roots more than four[...]
May 10 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pegasus
Led by David Aldridge, an academic philosopher, educationalist and experienced role-playing enthusiast, this evening is intended for curious or experienced gamers alike to sample Dungeons and Dragons, celebrating collaborative storytelling and raising serious questions about[...]
May 10 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Pegasus
A collaboration between the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and the Archway Foundation (an Oxford-based mental health charity), this event will feature writing produced by the Archway Foundation’s services during workshops with Brookes’ creative writing students.
May 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Roy Griffiths Room, ARCO Building
In this lecture series, Naomi Richman explores the evolution of the ideas central to major global belief-systems such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Marxism, and their status in the modern world from a social-scientific[...]
May 13 @ 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
A view from the Pacific: re-envisioning the art museum Tuesday 13 May 2014, 5-6.30pm (doors will open at 4.45pm) Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre A lecture by Michael Govan (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries[...]
May 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Tour: Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff With Colin Harrison, Senior Curator of European Art 3–3.45pm on Wednesday 14 May and Wednesday 11 June Tours are free, no booking is required. Please meet in Gallery 2.[...]
May 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm The Mitre
Short talk followed by questions and discussion. All welcome.
May 16 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Magic Museums at Night Special Ashmolean Late Night Opening Friday 16 May 7–10pm FREE ENTRY For 2014’s Museums At Night event, the Ashmolean is putting on an evening of magic. Curators will be presenting the[...]
May 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Ashmolean Museum
Magnificence, Love and Scaffolds: Politics at the Court of Henry VIII, With Dr Suzannah Lipscomb Saturday 17 May, 11am–12pm, Ioannou Centre Historian, author, and broadcaster Dr Suzannah Lipscomb will speak on the politics of spectacle,[...]
May 18 @ 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
Clay Live – Special Ceramics Demonstration With Clive Bowen and Dylan Bowen Sunday 18 May, 10.30am-3.30pm Ashmolean Museum Education Centre Slipware specialists, father and son, Clive and Dylan Bowen demonstrate their work and talk about[...]
May 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
In “The Soul of the World”, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today’s fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at[...]
May 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Wig and Pen
How can we rewild animals to today’s environment? How does the future of lethal viruses is going to be? Are they going to stick around with us as long as humanity exists
May 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Museum of Natural History, Lecture Theatre
Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum – Beatrice Blackwood Lecture 2014 With doors opening at 18.00 for a drinks reception in the Pitt Rivers Museum, join the Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum for author[...]
May 22 @ 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
On Thursday 22nd at 6pm the Simpkins Lee will host a panel discussion exploring the battle for women’s education. Featuring a heavyweight line-up of Jane Robinson (author of the bestselling ‘Bluestockings’), Sarah Pine (OUSU VP[...]
May 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm LR 23, Balliol College
event is free