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

Oct 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm New Road Baptist Church
Big data and AI are starting to feature in cancer research today, and will will play an even greater role in the future. Join researchers from Cancer Research UK to discover the technologies and methods[...]
Oct 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Wig and Pen
Scientists need your help! As we get more information about the Universe, we risk becoming overwhelmed but – as Oxford astronomer Chris Lintott explains in his new book, you can help. Hear from Oxford scientists[...]
Oct 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
Geographers have long been interested in the spaces brought into being by the internet. In the early days of the Web, digital technologies were seen as tools that could bring a heterotopic cyberspace into being:[...]
Oct 30 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are delighted to be joined by astrophysicist and YouTuber, Dr Becky Smethurst on her first book, Space: 10 Things You Should Know. Synopsis Written by Oxford astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst and composed of ten[...]
Nov 5 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Charles Babbage has been called the ‘great-uncle’ of modern computing, a claim that rests simultaneously on his demonstrable understanding of most of the architectural principles underlying the modern computer,band the almost universal ignorance of Babbage’s[...]
Nov 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm The Beacon
The Night Sky Show will take you on an epic journey from our celestial back yard and across the cosmos. Comedy, astronomy and so much more. A show for anyone with a slight interest or[...]
Nov 15 @ 7:45 pm – 8:45 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
Hella Pick is one of the trailblazers for the modern female foreign correspondent. She worked across three continents and covered the death of Yugoslavia’s leader, President Tito. Yugoslavia was always the saving grace of covering[...]
Nov 21 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
This talk will describe a class of machine learning methods for reasoning about complex physical systems. The key insight is that many systems can be represented as graphs with nodes connected by edges. I’ll present[...]
Dec 4 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Saïd Business School
Inaugural event in our new events series focusing on responsible leadership: Driving Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Series. Progress on diversity in the UK civil service and why it matters. How the dial only really shifted[...]
Jan 16 @ 7:45 pm – 9:00 pm The Northcourt Centre
Since a change in planning rules in 1990, there has been a huge amount of archaeological work on development sites all over England. This work is required by planning permissions and paid for by the[...]
Feb 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Union Hall, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Hear a whole phD in just three minutes! Can you understand a whole phD in just three minutes? Perhaps you are an Undergraduate or Masters student who is aiming for a future PhD? Join Humanities[...]
Feb 20 @ 7:45 pm – 9:00 pm Northcourt Centre,
Beacons of the Past is a three and a half year project part funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Chiltern Society, and the National Trust , amongst others. Its purpose is to engage and[...]
Feb 25 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Cheney School
A talk on underground in the Roman town of Herculaneum
Mar 2 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Wolfson College
Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford, will deliver a lecture on the contemporary decline of the liberal order, and call for a rethinking of liberal ideas and practices.[...]
Mar 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Join us as we hear from Prof Martin Bureau (University of Oxford) about his research on Supermassive black holes. ‘Supermassive black holes are now known to lurk at the centre of most galaxies. They are[...]
Mar 3 @ 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Wolfson College
A workshop to scrutinize the transformation of the contemporary international order, encompassing its social, political, legal, economic, and technological dimensions. The workshop will serve as an in-depth examination of the issues outlined in Professor Sir[...]
Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from burials and texts, Barry Cunliffe reconstructs the lives of the Scythians, exploring their beliefs,[...]
Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Phoenicians were famously great traders who, from their base in modern-day Lebanon, traded their wares around the Mediterranean and beyond. Learn about their culture, art, achievements, and cities at home in the Levant and[...]
Mar 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Moran’s ‘Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon’ pictures 19th-century America at its most bucolic and pastoral. It was painted, however, amidst a conflict that threatened to tear the young country apart. Examine Moran’s landscape as an allegory[...]
Mar 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Learn about the vast trade network of the Phoenicians, the goods traded and their trading partners, who included the Greeks and Etruscans, as well as people in Sardinia and southern Spain. The Phoenicians Phoenicia Part[...]
Apr 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The city of Hereford stands a couple of hours from Oxford along one of the most scenic train rides in England. Follow the Medieval Pilgrim trail, discovering a landscape alive with holy wells, sacred shrines,[...]
Apr 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
What happens when new artificial intelligence (AI) tools are integrated into organisations around the world? For example, digital medicine promises to combine emerging and novel sources of data and new analysis techniques like AI and[...]
Apr 30 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Just an hour by train, discover one of the great lost buildings of England, an ancient centre of pilgrimage and scholarship. Discover what unique artworks and architectural gems survive within the townscape and further afield.[...]
May 2 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Using images and eye-witness accounts, David Stuttard paints a vivid picture of the classical Greek Games – a thousand years of speed trials, brawn and horsemanship underpinned by religious ritual, lavish feasting, political chicanery and[...]
Nov 7 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm The Great Hall
Come along to the long-awaited Night Sky Show at the fantastic Great Hall in Cholsey. It will certainly be a night to remember! Facts, fiction, laughter and more in a fantastic place, for one night[...]
Nov 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Online
The FinCEN Files investigation, coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, exposed more than $2 trillion in suspicious deals. Criminals, politicians and others sent money through the world’s major banks, which initially ignored red[...]
Nov 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Online
In this talk Professor Gina Neff, Oxford Internet Institute and Professor Ian Goldin, Oxford Martin School, will examine publicly known “failures” of AI systems to show how this gap between design and use creates dangerous[...]
Nov 26 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Online
In 2020, Governments around the world made the decision to lock down their country to help stop the spread of Covid-19. This led to teaching, meetings, conferences, contacting family and more being conducted from home[...]
Dec 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Online
On the 30th November it was announced that the Artificial Intelligence computer programme AlphaFold had made a decisive breakthrough in the determination of the 3-D structures of proteins. The announcement was immediately hailed as one[...]
Jul 24 @ 11:00 am – 2:30 pm Online
Join us on Facebook and find out when and where the magnificent specimen of the Ichthyosaur was discovered in Abingdon. Local Archaeologist Jeff Wallis talks about his find with Palaeobiologist Megan Jacobs. The find originally[...]