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

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 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Ertegun House
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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 @ 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.[...]
Jun 11 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Oxford Martin School
This lecture is hosted by the Oxford Martin School and the International Migration Institute, an Oxford Martin School Institute If Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress can agree that eleven million unauthorized immigrants are[...]
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 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
A colloquium on the writing of J M Coetzee will be held 2-6pm on 13 June in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. Speakers include Professor David Attwell, University of York, Professor Elleke Boehmer and Professor[...]
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 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Blackwell's, Oxford
On Friday 13th June, the Oxford Left Review will be launching OLR Issue 13. Come along to get your copy and chat with the writers and editors. This issue was partially themed on ‘Science, Technology[...]
Jun 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Henry Wellcome Building for Human Genetics, Seminar Room A
Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex autoimmune disease affecting up to 1% of the population, causing a disabling inflammatory arthritis. The disease has two clinical similar subsets: autoantibody positive or seropositive disease, and autoantibody or seronegative[...]
Jun 17 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Haldane Room, Wolfson College
Mark Thompson will be speaking on his biography of the Serbian and Yugoslavian novelist Danilo Kis, Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis, and questioning, ‘how do you write a literary biography?’ The Life-Writing Lunch[...]
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 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm New Biochemistry, Seminar Room
RANDY RETTBERG, President of iGEM Randy Rettberg is the man behind iGEM, the global competition for undergraduates and high school students in designing brand new biological parts, or “genetically engineered machines”. An engineer by trade[...]
Jun 19 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Said Business School
The circular economy is rapidly gaining the attention of businesses, government and the next generation as a framework for re-thinking and designing the future economy. Join us on 19 June 2014 to debate this topic[...]
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Vaults & Garden Cafe
Dr Jonathan Jong, a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, explores how time is all “in the mind”. Philosophers disagree about the nature of time: does it really flow[...]
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 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History With James Hall, author Saturday 21 June , 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Recounting the history of the self-portrait, this lecture offers insights into artists’ psychological and creative worlds. James Hall[...]
Jun 26 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Internet Institute
Early cyberspace theorists predicted that the digital world would be a world of plenty. But today’s Internet users are faced with many kinds of artificially scarce virtual markers, from online game items and digital currencies[...]
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,[...]
Jun 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
As part of ‘LoveFriday’, a late night opening at the Ashmolean museum, join us for gallery talks on love, sex, gender, and poetry in the ancient world. Talks will be 15 minutes and given on[...]
Jun 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm MCS JS Hall, Saint Hilda's College
As part of our Discover Archaeology day, we are delighted to welcome Dr Liam McNamara and Dr Senta German of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. Dr Liam McNamara will speak on ‘Discovering Tutankhamun at the Ashmolean Museum’.[...]
Jul 2 @ 8:00 am – 5:30 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
What do St. Augustine, Kafka, Samuel Johnson, William James, Susan Sontag, Douglas Adams, Hitler, and Hamlet all have in common? PROCRASTINATION. If it isn’t ‘the quintessential modern problem’ (New Yorker), it is certainly familiar to[...]
Jul 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Said Business School
OBR would like to invite you to our next event in Oxford on Wednesday 16th July at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, the birth of next-generation[...]
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 19 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Boundary Brook House
Sue Bolton and Fiona Ruck, smoking cessation specialists, look at the effects of passive smoking and their campaign for smoke-free homes and cars across Oxfordshire. The talk will include myth-busting statistics and facts covering the[...]
Sep 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Divinity School, Bodleian Library
Sarah will be discussing her new book ‘The Paying Guests’ and will be signing copies of the book afterwards. Tickets cost £20 which includes entry to the talk and a copy of ‘The Paying Guests’.[...]
Sep 8 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Corpus Christi College
Join us for an evening at Corpus Christi College with the composer Robert Saxton, as he discusses his lifetime achievements in music with his fellow composer Thomas Hyde. Robert Saxton has worked with many experts[...]