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 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Film Oxford
Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 7.30pm @ Film Oxford – FREE Drones – Aerial Filming & Photography. Everyone’s talking about Drones, come and find what the fuss is about! Speaker, Matthew Nicholson of HOLLYWOOD DRONES[...]
May 22 @ 5:00 pm – May 23 @ 4:30 pm Rooms 204 & 205, John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
This symposium offers an innovative and exciting ‘coming together’ of language teachers and teachers of the creative arts, asking the questions: What does creativity mean to me? What do I do about it as a[...]
Jun 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Lecture Theatre
Free, all welcome, no booking required. After a week long residency choreographing to the ancient Greek text of Odyssey Book XI, Cathy Marston will discuss her approaches to adapting works of literature into dance performances[...]
Jun 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm OVADA
Six members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), including comedian and journalist Mark Thomas are taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police’s monitoring and keeping of their information on a database that deals with[...]
Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm OVADA
The award-winning video journalist and campaign filmmaker, Zoe Broughton, has spent more than 20 years putting herself on the frontline – going undercover at an animal-testing lab, being chased by police while filming on a[...]
Aug 2 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm OVADA Gallery
Join Curator Katie Hill for an exhibition tour of WASTELANDS, a group show of contemporary Chinese art at OVADA this summer. Katie will provide background to the project and will introduce work by each of[...]
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[...]
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 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[...]
Nov 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Film Oxford
Adobe specialists Richard Curtis and Niels Stevens are coming to Film Oxford for a special presentation on the new features of Creative Cloud for photographers, designers and film makers. Don’t miss this opportunity to see[...]
Nov 20 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm St Hilda's College, Lady Brodie Room
‘Slavoj Žižek, Grace, and Contemporary Dance’ Speaker: Renate Braeuninger (Northampton) In his extensive reflections on German philosophy and German Idealism, particularly in ‘Less than Nothing’ (2012), Žižek alludes to ideas of ‘grace’ on a number[...]
Nov 24 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre
Between Debt and the Devil challenges the belief that we need credit growth to fuel economic growth, and that rising debt is okay as long as inflation remains low. In fact, most credit is not[...]
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[...]
Feb 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Acclaimed mathematician Marcus du Sautoy gives the second of the Weinrebe Lecture Series, on the theme of ‘Variations on Biography’, hosted by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing.
Feb 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Union Hall - JHBB - Oxford Brookes University GB
Workshop with writer and performer Ahmed Masoud. It follows his reading and performance of Home/Less.You can book tickets for the performance here. Dabke (Arabic: دبكة‎) is a modern Levantine Arab folk circle dance of possible[...]
Feb 27 @ 10:30 am – 5:00 pm St Cross College
This conference is intended to challenge the commonly held view of the prolonged gap in the progress of Western civilisation’s understanding of the natural world between the theories of the Ancient Greeks, led in particular[...]
Mar 2 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building ,
DANSOX presents: Distinguished Guest Lecture Alastair Macaulay, Chief Dance Critic, New York Times ‘Frederick Ashton: Steps, Stories, Style’ followed by drinks reception. Free but booking essential.
Mar 2 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
DANSOX presents: Distinguished Guest Lecture by Alastair Macaulay, Chief Dance Critic, New York Times ‘Frederick Ashton: Steps, Stories, Style’ Wednesday 2nd March 2016, 5.30pm followed by drinks reception. For further information contact susan.jones@ell.ox.ac.uk or go[...]
Mar 3 @ 6:15 pm – 7:45 pm Larkin Room, St John's College
The talk will cover: – Overview of Islamic finance – Role of Islamic finance and more ethical banking practices in the post-crisis world – Public policy and the role it plays in enabling such forms[...]
Mar 14 @ 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm Natural Motion Offices
This is the monthly meeting of the Oxford AI Meetup group. The talks include an analysis of Deep Mind’s AlphaGo software that has just beaten the world champion in their first match.
Apr 11 @ 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm Natural Motion Ltd
Our monthly meetup includes Alpha Go : How did Deep Mind beat the world champion and just how big an achievement is it? Fun with Recurrent Neural Networks The Latest AI news
Apr 18 @ 9:00 am – Apr 19 @ 5:00 pm Merton College, Oxford
IN[SCI]TE is a new interdisciplinary science, technology, and engineering conference, which will take place on Monday and Tuesday of 0th Week Trinity Term 2016. IN[SCI]TE is run by undergrads, and the talks will be both[...]
Apr 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Oxford Centre for Innovation
A Talk by Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Head of Technical Relations at Ethcore This will be about the Ethereum ecosystem and the blockchain
Apr 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Balliol College Historic Collections Centre, St Cross Church
Prof. Daniel Wakelin and Anna Sander in conversation with Oxford MSt students about creating, using and sharing images of medieval manuscripts, during a lunchtime break in a hands-on MS handling and photography workshop day. What[...]
Apr 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Film Oxford
Adobe’s Richard Curtis will join us in Oxford to provide a guided tour of Photoshop’s 3d tools. He will demonstrate how to work with virtual models to enhance photos, explain 3d printing functions, look at[...]