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 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Town Hall, St Aldates
Twenty minute talk, one hour discussion. Free entry, no need to book.
May 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Vaults and Garden Cafe
The Aptness of Anger – Dr Amia Srinivasan Ancient and contemporary philosophers alike have argued that we ought not get angry, even when facing injustice, because doing so is harmful to ourselves. Christian mystics and[...]
May 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford International College
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
May 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Oxford International College
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
May 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford International College
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
May 13 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Part of Book at Lunchtime, a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Free, all welcome – no booking required. Join us for a sandwich lunch from 12:45,[...]
May 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford International College
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
May 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford International College
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
May 16 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Wolfson College Oxford
Led by Hermione Lee, Elleke Boehmer, Rebecca Abrams, Kate McLoughlin and Jacob Dahl, this full-day workshop will focus on the challenges contradictory accounts about their subjects’ lives pose to life-writers. £70 (£55 unwaged). For more[...]
May 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Oxford International College
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
May 20 @ 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[...]
May 21 @ 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[...]
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[...]
May 30 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm St Theosevia Centre
C.S. Lewis is best-known for his Narnia Chronicles and works of Christian apologetics such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain, but he was professionally a literary critic and literary historian with carefully thought[...]
Jun 1 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Sheldonian Theatre
Amy Hollywood (Harvard) delivers a series of lectures on “The real, the true, and the mystical” in Oxford. At 7pm will be a play on Derrida in Oxford by John Schad and Fred Dalmasso. Tickets[...]
Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Radcliffe Observatory
Amy Hollywood (Harvard) delivers a series of lectures on “The real, the true, and the mystical” in Oxford.
Jun 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Radcliffe Observatory
Amy Hollywood : The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy: The Pursuit of the Real at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Jun 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Radcliffe Observatory
Roundtable: 25 years of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Eckhart and the Beguines Convenors: Ben Morgan and Johannes Depnering
Jun 6 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm St Theosevia Centre
We are all aware that Christian communities with ancient roots in the Middle East, are again under enormous pressure.This study day looks in detail at the present situation and how different communities are responding. Mardean[...]
Jun 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm The Mitre Pub (upstairs)
Join us on Monday for our second last event for the academic year to hear Jens Zimmerman speak on theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christian Humanism. Jens is a philosopher and theologian who specializes in hermeneutics[...]
Jun 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Wig and Pen
Psychologist in the Pub, Mindfulness courses bring taught in UK schools to teachers and pupils. 6.30, for 7pm start.
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 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 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Rewley House
Brian Hurwitz is D’Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine and the Arts in the Department of English. He is a medical practitioner affiliated to the Division of Health and Social Care Research, King’s College London, directs[...]
Jun 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Oxford Castle
This creative workshop will explore ideas of citizenship in the Magna Carta, led by Penny Boxall of the University Church.
Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Modern Art Oxford
Talk – Perspectives: Cheating A short series of talks on cheating, fakes and frauds to accompany the exhibition by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Speakers include: Nigel Warburton: The Ethics of Cheating Warburton discusses how and why[...]
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[...]
Aug 1 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm OVADA Gallery
As part of OVADA’s current exhibition of contemporary Chinese art, WASTELANDS, we are pleased to present an Ink Painting workshop with artist Shoran Jiang. This workshop introduces the Chinese tradition of calligraphy and ink painting[...]
Sep 12 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Headington Baptist Church
An open lecture by Professor Andrew Steane of Exeter College on the subject ‘Faithful to Science’. Professor Steane will contend against the prevailing view that science and faith are incompatible – for him each enriches[...]