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

Jun 21 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
As part of the Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences: Mr Ravish Jootun will present “Towards 0% 90-day Colorectal mortality: Accepting a low floor in the anastomotic leak[...]
Jun 22 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm St Cross College
This one-day workshop with St Cross College Professional in Residence David Scrymgeour covers the steps towards building a successful organisation, from designing, starting, and growing, to managing, changing, fixing, and evolving. The workshop will be[...]
Jun 24 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Rewley House
The global health burden of heart failure is high, both as the common end-point for many cardiovascular diseases (e.g. hypertension and heart attacks) and a common point on the trajectory of non-cardiovascular diseases (e.g. chronic[...]
Jun 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm St Cross College
In this lecture, entrepreneur David Scrymgeour will talk about developing an entrepreneurial mindset, sharing best practice and words of wisdom gleaned from a career in business. About David Scrymgeour: David Scrymgeour has worked as an[...]
Jun 26 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Rewley House
This guest lecture draws on nearly thirty years’ experience of doing qualitative research in a variety of health settings that contain people, blood, injury, disease, emotions, and technologies. Prof Catherine Pope will describe some of[...]
Jun 27 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Regent's Park College
Working towards Slavery-Free Communities The event will include: A keynote address from Kevin Hyland, (former first Independent Antislavery Commissioner for the UK) Input from Emily Chalke (founder of Ella’s Home and Together Free) Input from[...]
Jul 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute 30 Polstead Road, Oxford
Dr Larkman is a retired Oxford biologist who has been chairman of OOS for the last 5 years. His main interest is the precipitous decline in the UK’s small, seed-eating farmland birds over the last[...]
Jul 3 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldate's Tavern
https://www.facebook.com/events/470703583730859/ Why do we laugh? What makes something funny? Does the morality of a joke affect how good a joke is? Why is breaking the rule of three important? A broad overview at some of[...]
Jul 3 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Oxford Comedy Festival @The Old Fire Station
A storytelling lecture about how we cope with climate change from the ‘attractively impish’ (The Guardian) Dr Matt Winning. Presented by Oxford Comedy Festival. As seen as the Environmental Correspondent on ‘Unspun with Matt Forde’[...]
Jul 4 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm Jericho Tavern
‘Philosophy A-Level’ is a humorous talk about the importance of philosophy and ethics in schools told through the stories teaching teenagers in east London
Jul 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Join us as Gail Simmons explores her journey in ‘The Country of Larks’ as part of our Travel Series events taking place in July. ‘In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and the Footprint of[...]
Jul 6 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm Weston Lecture Theatre
Four talks starting at 10am 10am: Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland: an innovative adventure gamebook with a dangerous twist from Jon Green 11am: Alice in Guinness-time: a 1960s’ advertising campaign using Lewis Carroll’s characters from Brian[...]
Jul 6 @ 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm Oxford Comedy Festival @Trinity College Beer Cellar
Quickly approaching 50, Daphna Baram believes she is having a midlife crisis, though her GP thinks that’s highly optimistic. She looks back with no regrets but some remorse, and cracks up some insightful ideas about[...]
Jul 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Comedy Festival@The Jam Factory
Travis Jay presents his brand new, emotional roller-coaster of a show. It recounts Travis’s hilarious journey from childhood to fatherhood, and the many hiccups in-between. Nominated for The Leicester Mercury Comedian of the year in[...]
Jul 8 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Saïd Business School
The art market is one of the most visible, yet least understood industries in the world. And it is in the midst of a digital transformation that is redefining what and how art is transacts[...]
Jul 12 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
As part of our Travel Series Talks this July, we are delighted to welcome Jonathan Lorie to discuss his new book ‘The Travel Writer’s Way’ and share an insider’s tips on how to write travel.[...]
Jul 13 @ 11:30 am – 6:30 pm The Jam Factory
For this event, 12 artists from all over the country will be presenting work that they have been making as part of the Sound Diaries open call. The presenting artists are: Richard Bentley, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe,[...]
Jul 13 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
This public event brings global leaders in ethnographic museums together to consider how to reinvigorate museums with ethnographic collections, foreground indigenous knowledges and curatorial practices, and rethink assumptions about museums. Participants include: João Pacheco de[...]
Jul 15 @ 1:03 pm – 2:15 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
As part of our Let’s Discuss series, we’re proud to be welcoming international speaker, change-maker and global Sharing Economy expert, Benita Matofska and photographer with purpose Sophie Sheinwald, to Oxford for the launch of their[...]
Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Restore
Inspirational talk with finger buffet and hot drinks
Aug 1 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s is pleased to be hosting the launch of Lisa Cybaniak’s, Survivor to Warrior. Synopsis As a survivor of ten years of child abuse, Lisa gently walks you through effective strategies to help you reframe[...]
Aug 3 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
We are delighted to be joined by writer and musician, Catrina Davies, who will be in conversation with George Monbiot on her new book, Homesick and the current housing crisis. Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was[...]
Aug 10 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting a special event with Dr Matthew L. Tompkins on his fantastic book, The Spectacle of Illusion. Professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception[...]
Aug 22 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Oxford Town Hall
Talk followed by questions and discussion. This is the second in a three-part series of separate talks on democracy
Aug 31 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
We are pleased to announce a very special Philosophy in the Bookshop to celebrate the release of a new comprehensive look at the history of Philosophy in one volume. Nigel Warburton will be in conversation[...]
Sep 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm The Sheldonian Theatre
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting a very special event at the Sheldonian Theatre with Alain de Botton on The School of Life: An Emotional Education. We spend years in school learning facts and figures[...]
Sep 3 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute 30 Polstead Road, Oxford
The ability to accurately identify and interpret Track and Sign rests on a body of traditional knowledge that previous generations of naturalists would have regarded as fundamental. Sadly, now it is largely unknown and untaught,[...]
Sep 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm Oxford Martin School
Crocodiles once roamed the Arctic, during the Eocene about 50 million years ago. Polar regions were lush and warm. Greenhouse gas concentrations were higher than today, but at most about 4 times higher – not[...]
Sep 7 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm John Henry Brookes Building
A conference exploring how we can get people who used to cycle, or have never cycled, onto bikes, and the role of virtual reality cycling. Come and join us for a day full of informative[...]
Sep 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Join us at Blackwell’s on Broad Street to hear John Dyson in conversation with Ruth Deech on his life and career in a discussion of his new memoir, A Judge’s Journey. John Dyson is one[...]