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 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 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 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Oxford Town Hall
Cyclox and the Oxford Pedestrians Association (OxPA) will be welcoming representatives of the bus companies that serve Oxford to a meeting to discuss the relationship between bikes, buses and pedestrians on the city’s busy streets.[...]
Jun 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm The Garden Room, Department of International Development
This is a panel discussion organised in collaboration with ‘Oxford Refugee Week’ by the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Chairing will be Dr Jeff Crisp, with speakers Prof. Alexander Betts, Prof. Cathryn Costello, Dr[...]
Jun 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern
Human-caused global warming has been making headlines for over two decades, but people’s opinions on it often depend on what headlines they’re reading. How is it that a scientific theory has become so politicised? Join[...]
Jun 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm OVADA
A discussion about the ethics of Arts Sponsorship with Jeremy Spafford, Director of Arts at the Old Fire Station, and representatives from arts activists Art Not Oil – a network is dedicated to taking creative[...]
Jul 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford Union
Join our expert panel for an evening of debate exploring the subject of the United Kingdom’s place within the European Union.
Sep 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm Oxford Martin School
To avoid dangerous climate change will require not only very steep cuts in emissions, but also the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Most of the models that avoid dangerous climate change do so[...]
Sep 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm European Studies Center, St. Anthony's College
My European citizenship rights…and why I don’t want to lose them. We warmly invite you to a public meeting, followed by a reception to launch New Europeans in Oxford. For details and speakers, please visit[...]
Oct 15 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Lecture Room B (off the main quad), Worcester College
Ordinary people across Europe have reacted with horror to the plight of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war and other conflicts—and sent solidarity. David Cameron reacted with callous cynicism. At first he held firm against[...]
Oct 24 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm United Refiorm Church Hall near Temple Ciowley Library
(1) Ancient Africa’s Gift to: Law, Architecture, Mathematics, Judaism, Islam & Christianity. This will be a 45 minute slide presentation. (2) Magna Carta, Ancient Africa’s Gift to the English. The ancient roots of Magna Carta[...]
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[...]
Dec 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Blasphemy and Apostasy exist in many countries in the world, commonly within the Middle East and North Africa. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws were first codified by India’s British rulers in 1860 and were inherited by Pakistan[...]
Dec 4 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building
This panel takes the publication of Ruti Teitel’s new book ‘Globalizing Transitional Justice’ as paperback 15 years after the publication of her seminal book ‘Transitional Justice’ (OUP 2000) as the entry point into a critical[...]
Feb 18 @ 9:00 am – 4:15 pm St Anne's College
As a cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, we are proposing a new format for presenting and elaborating thinking on what urban governance does, when it succeed and fails, and[...]
Feb 19 @ 9:00 am – 4:15 pm St Anne's College
As a cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, we are proposing a new format for presenting and elaborating thinking on what urban governance does, when it succeed and fails, and[...]
Feb 19 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Pipe Partridge Building, LMH
Erwin James murdered two men and spent 20 years behind bars. Now he has written a book called Redeemable. Is he? From 5.00pm, LMH will be selling copies of Erwin’s book in the lobby of[...]
Feb 22 @ 7:45 pm – 9:00 pm Lady Brodie Room, St Hilda's College
Now in its seventh year, St Hilda’s College Gender Equality Festival features speakers, workshops, debates, film screenings and a comedy night. Student, blogger, part-time model and eco-fashion-expert, and winner of the Vogue Talent Contest for[...]
Mar 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College
The introductory talk at the third annual Merton Equality Conversation will be given by Peter Tatchell. This will be followed by a discussion and Q&A, with a panel including: Helen Charlesworth, Vice-Chair of the University’s[...]
Mar 8 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Pipe Partridge Building, Lady Margaret Hall (LMH)
Sarah Boseley, James Randerson and Dr Hannah Devlin write about health, the environment and science for the Guardian. How do you write for the general public without dumbing down? Sarah Boseley is the health editor[...]
Jun 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm St Peter's College Chapel
Three high-profile SPC alumni return to their college to discuss the impending EU Referendum in a forum chaired by the Master, Mark Damazer CBE. Join the Editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens (BA Modern[...]
Jun 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
“Alternative Realities and New Perspectives on Family Violence” Panel Discussion 2: Professor Marianne Hester, Centre for Gender and Violence Research, Bristol University – “Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Relationships – What’s Gender Got To Do[...]
Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Said Business School
Welcome to Future Debates, a series of public events supported by the British Science Association. A genome is an entire set of DNA; all the instructions for making every part of a living thing. Research[...]
Jun 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Magdalen College School
A lively panel discussion exploring women’s ever changing roles and struggle for equality, featuring speakers Professor Ngaire Woods, Dr Dana Mills, Dr Joanna Williams and Helen Pike.
Jun 18 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Playhouse
A discussion with photographer Alison Baskerville and curator Brigitte Lardinois that will consider women as photographers and photographic subjects, and the effects of social and technological change on portrait photography over the last 100 years.
Jun 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Magdalen College School
Research psychologist Peter Etchells and author of ‘Death by Video Game’, Simon Parker, discuss the positive and negative effects of gaming.
Jun 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford Union
Join Oxford Festival of the Arts at the prestigious and historic Oxford Union for an evening of top class debating that will tackle one of this year’s key issues: the UK’s immigration policy.
Jun 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Town Hall, Assembly Room
‘Gene-editing’ sounds like science fiction, but today it is an emerging reality. This raises hope for treating medical problems, but also opens ethical quandaries about equality, privacy, and personal freedom. Discuss these questions with a[...]
Jun 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Magdalen College School
The question of how to educate the next generation has always been fraught with the anxieties of the age – so what do our current approaches reveal about our own anxieties? Discover the answer to[...]