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

Jun 10 @ 10:00 am – 8:30 pm Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
A one-day conference, with Professor Dame Marina Warner and featuring a rehearsed reading of Roberto Cavosi’s Bellissima Maria (after Phaedra/Hipploytus). Registration is £25, or £20 for students, and includes: lunch, refreshments, a drinks reception and[...]
Jun 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
A rehearsed reading of Roberto Cavosi’s Phaedra/Hippolytus inspired play, Bellissima Maria; performed by Marco Gambino and Sasha Waddell. Please join us in the Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building from 6pm for a Drinks Reception, and[...]
Jun 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Herbertson Room, School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road
There is increasing recognition over the last decade that conservation, while conserving biodiversity of global value, can have local costs. Understanding these costs is essential as a first step to delivering conservation projects that do[...]
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 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Telegraph writer Helen Yemm brings her column Thorny Problems to life by answering your gardening conundrums and dispensing invaluable advice in the picturesque setting of the Botanic Garden.
Jun 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
William Zappa performs from his ABC-radio-commissioned, one-man version of the Iliad. Free, all welcome. No booking required. This performance concludes day-one of the APGRD’s 16th annual joint Postgraduate Symposium (but you do not have to[...]
Jun 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Old Fire Station, Oxford
Ludo, snakes & ladders and draughts are all popular pastimes, but in the past couple of decades a new generation of board games from designers with backgrounds in maths and science has begun to break[...]
Jun 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens
Shakespeare lived in one of the most unhealthy times and places in history. Disease was rife and hygiene poor, physicians could only be trained abroad, and there was no such thing as a public medical[...]
Jul 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Glee Club
Join us for a sensational evening of cabaret – an alchemy of acts delivered by Science Oxford’s network of creative science performers. If you love science, stage and stand up, you’ll be in your element[...]
Aug 6 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Photographer Akio Kushida will share her photographs and experiences of capturing the backstage view of kabuki and other forms of Japanese theatre. Her photographs are currently on display in the Museum’s Long Gallery exhibition ‘Kabuki[...]
Sep 10 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Join Photograph Collections curatorial staff for a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s dedicated research area. A special opportunity to receive a guided tour of the climate-controlled storerooms and to view collections[...]
Nov 1 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Lady Margaret Hall
The Tim Hetherington Society and the Oxford PPE Society present: 7 Days in Syria, an evening with Janine di Giovanni. Join us for free in the Simpkins Lee Theatre at Lady Margaret Hall for a[...]
Nov 17 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Christ Church, Lecture Room 2
Martin Barker (Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Aberystwyth University, Director of the Global Hobbit Project) will be visiting Oxford to discuss the results of the landmark Global Hobbit Project, a research initiative examining the[...]
Nov 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Moser Theatre, Wadham College
Please join us at 7pm on Thursday of 7th Week (November 24th) for a presentation by Daniel Castro Garcia and Thomas Saxby on their recent publication ‘Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–2016’. —————————————————– “The photographs are[...]
Nov 28 @ 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Ioannou Centre Lecture Theatre
Ruth Webb (Charles-de-Gaulle Lille III): “Bodies and texts: Attitudes towards tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity”. Free, all welcome, no booking required.
Nov 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm St Aldates Tavern
Jenny Josephs & Why eating insects might soon become the new normal By 2050 the global population will reach 9 billion and this will put ever increasing pressure on food and environmental resources. It will[...]
Dec 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
A twenty minute talk to introduce the topic, followed by Q&As and about an hour’s discussion. All welcome.
Jan 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Department of Earth Sciences
From Lesotho Rock art to Peruvian orchids, multi-award winning fine art photographer Quintin Lake will share his highlights from visiting over 70 countries. Quintin will speak on his approach to expedition photography having photographed for[...]
Feb 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Sean O’Brien, Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative European Literature, on ‘For dreams are licensed as they never were’. What becomes of the history poem? Other lectures in this series: Tuesday 14 February – Displacement: Irish[...]
Feb 27 @ 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Ioannou Centre, Lecture Theatre
Director and adaptor, Wayne Jordan will be in conversation with Fiona Macintosh, discussing his acclaimed version of Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus’ at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2015. At 2.15pm on Monday 27 Feb. 2017. Followed by[...]
Feb 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Examination Schools,
Lord Browne of Madingley is presently Chairman of L1 Energy, the Chairman of Trustees of both the Tate and the QEII Prize for Engineering, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of[...]
May 20 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Professor Clare Harris shares her latest research focussed on the visual anthropology of Tibet, showing stunning images from her recent book.
Jun 20 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Museum of the History of Science
A quirky theatrical evening of drama, discussion and disease. Killer germs, superbugs, pestilent plagues and global pandemics have fascinated writers, musicians and thinkers for centuries. As diseases spread through a population, likewise myths and ideas[...]
Jun 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
Isabelle Torrance (Associate Professor at Aarhus University) delivers an APGRD Public Lecture on Tom Paulin’s adaptation of Aeschylus’s Prometheus. Free, all welcome. No booking required. This lecture is at the conclusion of day one of[...]
Jun 29 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Blackwell’s Bookshop
Join us for the first in Blackwell’s free summer series of lunchtime events, where we will be joined by Greg Garrett author of ‘Living with the Living Dead’. The zombie apocalypse is one of the[...]
Aug 19 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Photographer Roger Chapman discusses his exhibition and international photography project ‘Camel: A Journey through Fragile Landscapes’, currently being premiered at the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Oct 2 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Daubeny Lecture Theatre
Botanic gardens offer the opportunity to conserve and manage a wide range of plant diversity ex situ, and in situ in the broader landscape. The rationale that botanic gardens have a major role to play[...]
Oct 11 @ 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm St Catherine's College, Oxford
We are delighted to be welcoming Sir Tom Stoppard to St Catz to deliver his inaugural lecture as the 26th holder of the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Theatre.
Oct 16 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Daubeny Lecture Theatre
Professor Simon Hiscock, Director of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Oct 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
A lecture-performance by APGRD Artists in Residence, Paul O’Mahony and Out of Chaos theatre company, on the development of their new version of the ‘Aeneid’, entitled ‘Crossing the Sea’. Free, all welcome, no booking required.