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

May 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
During a speech in 1957, Prime Minister Harold MacMillan declared “our people have never had it so good”. Now, more than half a century later, are we fundamentally any better off? Through discussion of technological[...]
May 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Department of Social Policy and Intervention
The Annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture
May 14 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
Twenty minute introductory talk, Q&As, one hour of discussion. Free entry, no need to book, all welcome.
May 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Department of Social Policy and Intervention
 
May 18 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre, Exeter College
Having seen the election results unfold, the topic of political strategy and communication is as relevant as ever in highlighting the ways in which politicians and organisations seek to influence public opinion and shape political[...]
May 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Delivered by Astor Visiting Lecturer Dr Mary McKay, NYU
Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Delivered by Professor Philippe Van Parijs, University of Louvain
Jun 4 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Museum of Natural History
Join us at the Museum of Natural History for an evening of talks and networking to celebrate the research behind our new exhibition,‘Biosense’. The exhibition features contemporary research, including how bacteria sense their micro-world, why[...]
Jul 1 @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm Oxford Brookes University
‘TRADE IN UK-AFRICA RELATIONS’: Event taking place on July 1st at Oxford Brookes University. This is part of an ESRC seminar series on British Policy after Labour: Coalition, Austerity, Continuity and Change. This seminar, the[...]
Jul 8 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Special Turner Event at the Ashmolean Museum Turner’s High Street, Oxford: a Unique Townscape With Colin Harrison Wednesday 8 July, 11am-12pm, Lecture Theatre Find out more about Turner’s most significant townscape and the greatest painting[...]
Jul 25 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
What the World is Losing, a talk with Dr Paul Collins, Dr Robert Bewley & Dr Emma Cunliffe A special talk with Dr Paul Collins, Curator of the Ancient Near East Collections at the Ashmolean[...]
Sep 16 @ 7:00 pm St Aldates Tavern
Are there gender differences in attraction? What are we looking for in a potential mate? Can you find someone attractive online? What other features make us more or less attractive? Join us to hear Dr[...]
Sep 18 @ 4:15 pm – 6:30 pm Inorganic Chemistry Lecture Theatre
The chemical elements, the fundamental ingredients of all matter, have fascinated people for centuries. Their stories have been richly described in Hugh Aldersey-Williams’ bestselling book, Periodic Tales, which forms the basis for a major exhibition[...]
Sep 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Playhouse
Actress, performer and researcher, Dr Naomi Paxton explores the importance of theatre, performance and propaganda in the campaign for Votes for Women. In 1908, the Actresses’ Franchise League was founded to support the suffrage movement.[...]
Sep 19 @ 9:45 am – 6:30 pm Pusey House
This conference will consider the various ways in which libraries have served as generators of professional knowledge, and examine how they succeeded in doing so. Keynote Address by Anthony Watkinson, Honorary Lecturer (UCL) and Principal[...]
Sep 29 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Story Museum
In parodying the paranormal chartered psychologist and performer Rob Bailey discovered he was replacing audiences’ beliefs in psychic powers with unwarranted beliefs in psychological ones. So his new show sees Rob perform mindreading and psychological[...]
Oct 13 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology
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[...]
Oct 14 @ 9:00 am – 4:45 pm Haldane Room, Wolfson College
In enabling the creation and rapid spread of social media, the internet has created a new social arena in which vast numbers of people are engaged. In common with other social arenas, such as the[...]
Oct 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Ruskin College, Dunstan Road, Old Headington, Oxford, OX3 9BZ
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system – a situation that the banking crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. So, what do you do about capitalism if[...]
Oct 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Demographic changes across the world pose one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Longer lifespans and shifting fertility rates bring with them an array of global health issues. In this lecture, Professor Sarah[...]
Oct 19 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm John Henry Brookes Building, Room 207
Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
Oct 22 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum
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[...]
Oct 23 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Oxford Brookes Marston Road Campus
Join Brookes’ social work society for an interactive discussion on Transgender identities and realities with Kae Smith of Ruskin College. A talk to raise awareness about Trans Liberation history, today’s realities and how you can[...]
Oct 27 @ 4:30 pm – Oct 28 @ 5:30 pm Lecture Theatre B, Department of Experimental Psychology
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[...]
Oct 29 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Auditorium, Wolfson College
Most modern democracies punish hate speech. Less freedom for some, they claim, guarantees greater freedom for others. But that view confuses democracy with liberalism, as if the two assume identical norms in principle, or entail[...]
Nov 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Come listen to a curator with the Smithsonian Institute, Dr. Ellen Feingold, talk about the ongoing fascinating ‘Money in Arica’ project at the British Museum, which aims to piece together African monetary history and its[...]
Nov 8 @ 9:30 am – 5:30 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane OX3 0BP
Venue: John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane OX3 0BP Time: Sunday 8 November (Week 5), 9:30 am – 5:30pm *********************************** The ‘Symposium in Applying Psychology & Neuroscience to Business’[...]
Nov 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Auditorium, Wolfson College
Timbuktu is the Palme D’Or-nominated film from the Mauritanian master director Abderrahmane Sissako, which depicts with heartfelt lyricism the crippling effects of extremist ideology on the lives of those visited by instability and war. The[...]
Nov 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Mass Circulation: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper With Richard Dorment, art critic, and Dr Alexander Sturgis, Director, Ashmolean Museum A special Ashmolean evening In Conversation event Wednesday 18 November 6‒7pm Lecture Theatre As[...]