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

Jun 2 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Lecture Room 1, Tom 8
Professor Craig Clunas, lecturer in the History of Art, Fellow at Trinity College and Curator at the British Museum speaks to The Edgar Wind Society. Clunas’ discussion, ‘Finding (and Exhibiting) the Spiritual in Early Ming[...]
Jun 4 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building
speaker: Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse, Defence Counsel at the ICTR and Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Jun 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Old Library, University Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Sarah Mortimer from Christchurch College explains how the Reformation changed the society and puts the trials of the Oxford Martyrs into context. Free, booking required at smv.heritage@gmail.com http://www.smvheritage.co.uk/heritage/events-lectures/
Jun 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Art of Witnessing War With Dr Sue Malvern, Reading University Thursday 5 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Sue Malvern looks at the role of war artists and photographers as witnesses to conflicts and wars.[...]
Jun 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Vaults & Garden Cafe
Why have we become obsessed with squeezing the most out of every minute? What’s wrong with wasting time? Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP, Dominican Friar and international writer and speaker, explores the delights and trials of[...]
Jun 5 @ 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm The Sutro Room, Trinity College
This talk addresses two objections to religious belief from Ned Hall, based on the claim that religious practices fail to show the epistemic virtues of those of natural science. First, individuals engaged in science adopt[...]
Jun 6 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Mansfield College
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett Professor of Sociology at the LSE & Professor of the Humanities at NYU. His work studies the social ties in cities and the effects of urban living on individuals, and entails[...]
Jun 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Mitre (function room)
Dr Stephen Backhouse is Lecturer in Social and Political Theology at St. Mellitus college. Stephen studied at the University of Oxford, then McGill, then Oxford again, where he completed his doctorate on Kierkegaard and religious[...]
Jun 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Psalms in England With Prof M J Toswel, University of Western Ontario Tuesday 10 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre This lecture introduces the Anglo-Saxon psalter, and especially the interlinear vernacular versions in Latin psalters[...]
Jun 11 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
‘Syria Speaks’ – Seminar Day With Venetia Porter, British Museum, and Paul Collins, Ashmolean Museum Wednesday 11 June, 1.30-4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre The Art of Syria Past and Present: This lecture explores modern and contemporary[...]
Jun 12 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Oxford Martin School
Joseph Reeves, a contributor to Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, will talk about the importance of crowd sourcing and open data in providing information during a humanitarian crisis. Free, collaborative maps are uniquely valuable to humanitarian work, especially[...]
Jun 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden
Speaker: Tom Price The archipelago of Japan is defined as one of the World’s 34 biodiversity hotspots. Learn how staff from the Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum are conducting expeditions to Japan to collect and[...]
Jun 13 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
‘Syria Speaks’ Lecture: Palmyra: City of Palms With Linda Farrar, archaeologist and lecturer Friday 13 June, 2-4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Famed for its hauntingly beautiful architectural remains, the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria[...]
Jun 13 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
‘On Form’ Sculpture Tour 3-5pm Friday 13 June, Gallery 21 Sculptors from ‘on form’, the exhibition of stone sculpture at the childhood home of the Mitford sisters, Asthall Manor, will be giving tours of selected[...]
Jun 13 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
‘Syria Speaks’ Series Evening Finale: Art & Culture from the Frontline With Malu Halasa and Zaher Omareen, curators and editors Friday 13 June, 6.30-9.30pm, Headley Lecture Theatre The Syrian uprising has seen an outpouring of[...]
Jun 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Oxford Union
Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan will challenge Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Medecins sans Frontieres and former French Foreign Minister, on France’s military interventionism. Are the country’s motives altruistic or do they respond to a neo-colonialist[...]
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden
Speaker: Guy Horwood In 2013, Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood was awarded a travel bursary
to join the prestigious International Dendrology Society on their study tour of the Czech Republic. The tour of this diverse and[...]
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm The Mitre
A short talk followed by questions and discussion. “The Dalai Lama: a study in bourgeois rationality” All welcome
Jun 19 @ 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm The Sutro Room, Trinity College
‘Can you Count the Clouds?’ asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist’s reading of[...]
Jun 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Seminar Room 3, Department of International Development
A new report by the Humanitarian Innovation Project, Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions, will be launched to coincide with World Refugee Day, on Friday 20 June 2014. It is one of the very first studies[...]
Jun 27 @ 8:00 am – 5:30 pm The Cube, Law Faculty, St. Cross Road
Oxford Transitional Justice Research is pleased to invite you to its 2014 Summer Conference ‘Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice’. This year’s conference, hosted with the support of the Planethood Foundation, Law Faculty, and the[...]
Jun 27 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building
A TORCH day conference including keynotes from Terry Eagleton and George Pattison and parallel session papers on theodicy, evil in literature, film and TV, German philosophy (Hegel and Fichte), death and technology, Aristotle, the Akedah,[...]
Jul 2 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm St. Aldates Tavern
https://www.facebook.com/events/562007383918459/ The Alpha Course runs in 162 countries and has been attended, according to their website, by 25 Million people. Over a 9 week period, students are guided through Christian theology ostensibly to “Explore the[...]
Jul 12 @ 9:30 am – Jul 13 @ 3:00 pm Exams School and the Department at Wellington Square
In 2014 Barnett House is celebrating its centenary. The celebrations culminate with the Reunion Weekend on 12-13 July 2014. This includes: – Keynote talk from Magdalena Sepulveda, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and[...]
Aug 7 – Aug 10 all-day Sheldonian Theatre, Examination Schools, Ashmolean Museum
The World Humanist Congress, held every three years, is a unique event bringing together humanists from over forty countries under the auspices of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. The 19th Congress is being organised[...]
Aug 9 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Peter Tatchell will be discussing ‘Organised Religion is the Greatest Global Threat to Human Rights’. The World Humanist Congress is taking place from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August in Oxford. Held every three[...]
Aug 10 @ 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Stephen Law will be discussing ‘Why I’m An Atheist’. The World Humanist Congress is taking place from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August in Oxford. Held every three years in different locations around the[...]
Oct 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm House of St Gregory & St Macrina
The seminar will focus on the role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the modern inter-Orthodox and inter-Christian relations, and the role of the Patriarchate in global politics.
Oct 9 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm University Church of St Mary the Virgin
The Future of the Church of England: A debate on the future of the Church of England, featuring speakers Revd Dr Andrew Davison, Professor Robin Gill, Lord Mawson, and Revd Canon Anna Norman-Walker. Chaired by[...]