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

May 7 – May 9 all-day Pegasus Theater
OutBurst is the Oxford Brookes University festival at the Pegasus Theatre on Magdalen Road. Brookes will be bursting out of the university campus into the community, bringing great ideas, activities, and entertainment right to the[...]
May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Habakkuk Room, Jesus College
https://www.facebook.com/events/495653777253176/ The Oxford Guild is very excited to welcome Larry Hirst CBE, former Chairman of IBM EMEA, to speak on Thursday 7th May. This will be an incredibly insightful talk and is not one to[...]
May 11 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Holywell Music Room
St Catherine’s College student Daniel Shao (2013, Music) has organised a music concert in aid of the Oxford branch of Crisis (the national charity for single homeless people). The concert will showcase a wealth of[...]
May 22 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm New College Chapel
New College Chapel presents Paradise Lost: a staged reading of Milton’s epic poem in 3 parts, directed by Professor Elisabeth Dutton (Fribourg), featuring new settings of Milton’s hymns by the Organist, Robert Quinney, and anthems[...]
Jun 5 @ 6:15 pm – 9:00 pm Museum of Natural History, Lecture Theatre
Enter a lost world of music and poetry as more than 300 years of Mughal rule approached its end at the hands of the British in 1857. William Dalrymple, award-winning historian, in performance with the[...]
Jun 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
Twenty minute talk, Q&As, and an hour of discussion. Free entry, no need to book. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion.
Jun 16 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
#### This event is fully booked. ####   The second of the College’s 50th Anniversary termly lectures will be given by Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the 2012 Olympic Cauldron and one of Britain’s foremost design[...]
Jun 27 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Oxford Castle
A talk in association with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
Jun 27 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Oxford Castle
A talk by Roger Hunt, the award winning writer specialising in sustainability, old houses, housebuilding and traditional and modern building materials.
Aug 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Town Hall, St Aldates
Part 2 of a three-part mini-series on notation: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Part 1 (July 16th) was Reading Slough and London Paddington: the persistent lure of spelling reform. Also coming up… Arithmetic: a study in[...]
Sep 22 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University
The Oxford Architecture Society lecture series Lisa Finlay is coming to speak to us from Heatherwick Studio. Established by Thomas Heatherwick in 1994, Heatherwick Studio is recognised for its work in architecture, urban infrastructure, sculpture,[...]
Sep 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm The Abercrombie Building, 4th Floor, Studio Corner 5
The first OxArch workshop of the series ‘Behind Architecture: The Essentials’ is set to bring us back to the analogue process of representation. ‘Architecture in Watercolours’ presents an opportunity to begin the year with a[...]
Sep 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford
Part 3 of a three-part mini-series on notation: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Part 1 was Reading Slough and London Paddington: the persistent lure of spelling reform (July 16th). Part 2 was Writing little messages in[...]
Sep 30 @ 10:30 am – 6:00 pm Ertegun House
Conceptions of Enlightenment is a one-day conference concluding in a public lecture at 5pm. The lecture will be delivered by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston), author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment (CUP, 2014). Over the last[...]
Oct 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Florey Room, Wolfson College, Oxford
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Nicoletta Demetriou will discuss her attempt to record the stories of Cyprus’s last surviving traditional fiddlers. She will talk about what musicians’ life stories can tell us about the music and[...]
Oct 26 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Jaqueline du Pre Music Building
This interdisciplinary workshop examines the impact of music on the brain from the point of view of different disciplines (medicine/physiology, psychology, philosophy). Following a series of short talks by St Hilda’s Fellows and expert guest[...]
Nov 10 @ 4:30 pm – 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 ******************** How do individuals and groups react to different environmental[...]
Nov 10 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Philip Ross Bullock is Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. He is the author of a number of books and articles on various aspects[...]
Nov 14 @ 3:00 pm – 7:30 pm Outreach Room and Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
Exhibition opens at 3pm – Talks 5pm – Drinks 6.45pm The first English full-stage, masked production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex caused a sensation when it opened at Sadler’s Wells in January 1960. Directed by Michel[...]
Nov 28 @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm Jacqueline du Pre Building, St Hilda's College
Society for Dance Research/DANSOX presents a one-day conference on ‘The Role of the Choreographer in the Stage and Screen Musical’. With distinguished keynote speeches from Dame Gillian Lynne, acclaimed British dancer, choreographer, and theatre/television director;[...]
Dec 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm New Radcliffe House 2nd Floor
Professor Carl Heneghan will deliver an interactive workshop, taking an evidence-based approach to answering your own clinical questions. With over 20 year’s experience in clinical epidemiology, Professor Heneghan has over 200 peer reviewed publications that[...]
Dec 9 @ 10:00 am – Dec 10 @ 4:00 pm Mathematical Institute
The Symposium, celebrating Ada Lovelace’s 200th birthday on 10 December 2015, is aimed at a broad audience of those interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting current scholarship on Lovelace’s[...]
Jan 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Key Learning Centre @ Oxford Castle
Join Ben Ford as he speaks about the 2015 archaeological excavations from under the Westgate Shopping Centre @ Key Learning Centre, Oxford Castle.
Jan 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College
‘A Conductor’s Point of View: Commonalities and Differences Between Wagner and Strauss’. A lecture by Christian Thielemann. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016, Christian Thielemann delivers a lecture on ‘A Conductor’s Point of View:[...]
Jan 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Ian Bostridge, acclaimed tenor, talks about his passion for Schubert, with demonstrations from Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise.
Jan 22 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College
‘Kapellmeister or Conductor’ Christian Thielemann in conversation with Roger Allen. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016, Christian Thielemann in conversation with Roger Allen. Chrisitian Thielemann is principal conductor of the Staatskapelle. In addition to[...]
Jan 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library
Ada Lovelace’s notes on music and computation inspired the musical content of the Ada Lovelace Symposium held at the University of Oxford in December, on the 200th anniversary of her birth. These included a short[...]
Jan 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College
‘Regietheater Revisited’ roundtable discussion chaired by Peter Franklin with participants including Barry Millington. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016, Christian Thielemann is taking part in a roundtable discussion chaired by Peter Franklin and participants[...]
Jan 22 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm TS Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College
‘Performing Opera’ roundtable discussion with Roger Allen (chair), Matthew Reese, Peter Franklin, Barry Millington, Christian Thielemann, and Barbara Eichner. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016, Christian Thielemann is taking part in a roundtable discussion[...]
Jan 26 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library
While music libraries around the world are digitizing millions of musical scores, there are currently very few efforts underway at extracting the musical content from these page images and making the music notation available for[...]