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

Apr 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Westgate Oxford
Anthony Horowitz will be talking about his latest James Bond novel Forever and A Day at Blackwell’s Westgate on Tuesday 9th April at 7pm. Anthony will be talking about talking about 007 and taking up[...]
Apr 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting one of Britain’s most influential literary critics, Terry Eagleton, to talk about his latest book, Humour. A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western[...]
Apr 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Jennifer Eberhardt, associate professor at Stanford University, joins us for the next in our Let’s Discuss series. She will be discussing unconscious racial bias in the context of her new book Biased. The talk will[...]
Apr 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Join us at Blackwell’s to hear writer and campaigner, Caroline Criado-Perez discuss her latest book, Invisible Women. Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug[...]
Apr 30 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are delighted to once again invite you to Short Stories Aloud. Listen to actors perform short stories written by Stacey Halls and Jess Kidd. Afterwards, author Sarah Franklin will be interviewing both authors about[...]
May 7 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm St Anne's College, Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 7th May 2019: The Violet Postage Stamp Thursday 9th May 2019: Landscape in Chains Tuesday 21st May 2019: The Aerial Warfare of Images Thursday 23rd May 2019: For the Dying Calves The lectures will[...]
May 7 @ 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm Pusey House
In a recent anthropological discussion on the concept of person in Ancient Israel R. Di Vito claimed that in the Old Testament the person is “lacking … ‘inner depths’” and is “’authentic’ precisely in their[...]
May 9 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm St Anne's College, Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 7th May 2019: The Violet Postage Stamp Thursday 9th May 2019: Landscape in Chains Tuesday 21st May 2019: The Aerial Warfare of Images Thursday 23rd May 2019: For the Dying Calves The lectures will[...]
May 17 @ 9:30 am – May 18 @ 4:00 pm Green Templeton College
The 11th Annual Human Welfare Conference is entitled ‘Innovate: Balancing Interests in Resource-Constrained Settings’. The conference will focus on solutions being developed at various scales to improve human wellbeing in areas as diverse as poverty[...]
May 21 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm St Anne's College, Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 7th May 2019: The Violet Postage Stamp Thursday 9th May 2019: Landscape in Chains Tuesday 21st May 2019: The Aerial Warfare of Images Thursday 23rd May 2019: For the Dying Calves The lectures will[...]
May 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm St Anne's College, Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 7th May 2019: The Violet Postage Stamp Thursday 9th May 2019: Landscape in Chains Tuesday 21st May 2019: The Aerial Warfare of Images Thursday 23rd May 2019: For the Dying Calves The lectures will[...]
May 29 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Sheldonian Theatre
The 5th Annual Oxford Business and Poverty Conference will feature a diverse range of speakers addressing the Paradoxes of Prosperity. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual-oxford-business-poverty-conference-tickets-57733957822 Hosted at the Sheldonian Theatre, the conference will feature keynotes by:[...]
May 30 @ 7:30 pm – Jun 1 @ 9:30 pm The North Wall Arts Centre
Coriander Theatre presents a new play ‘My Mother Runs in Zig-Zags’ at the North Wall Arts Centre, 30th May – 1st June 2019, 7:30pm, Saturday Matinee 2:30pm. Sometimes, race and trauma are like leaky old[...]
Jun 10 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Wolfson College
The Wife’s Tale is a ‘beautiful, complicated [and] sensual account’, according to Ondaatje prize judge and novelist Michèle Roberts. Its ‘original form and newly minted language create a strong, delicate structure embodying her grandmother’s spirit[...]
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 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,[...]
Oct 6 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Sheldonian Theatre
Blackwell’s is delighted to be hosting an event with Philip Pullman at the Sheldonian Theatre to celebrate the launch of The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two. The event will be recorded live[...]
Oct 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
The poppy as a recurring image in poetry and art, and as a symbol of wartime loss, is powerfully resonant in our culture. Dr Andrew Lack, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Biology at Oxford Brookes University,[...]
Oct 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Wolfson College - Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Tenor Mark Padmore is preparing to take on the role of Aschenbach in David McVicar’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice at the Royal Opera House. Join Mark and a panel of experts, including[...]
Oct 11 @ 9:15 am – 5:00 pm Nash Room
Marking 70 years of Nineteen Eighty-Four. An interdisciplinary symposium involving Joshua Dienstag, political scientist from UCLA; political historian Greg Claeys (RHUL); literary scholars Anna Vaninskaya (Edinburgh) and Nathan Waddell (Birmingham); novelist Joanna Kavenna; Dorian Lynskey,[...]
Oct 16 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
We are delighted to announce a very special Philosophy in the Bookshop event to mark our fifth anniversary in the series. Host Nigel Warburton will be joined by philosopher Philip Goff and author Sir Philip[...]
Oct 19 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm John Radcliffe Hospital
Join Oxford Hospitals Charity in celebrating ten years since the Oxford Heart Centre was first opened. You will hear from our brilliant clinicians about the difference the new Oxford Heart Centre has made, as well[...]
Oct 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
This month at Short Stories Aloud you can listen to stories by Sophie Hardach (Confession With Blue Horses) and Fanny Blake (A Summer Reunion) read aloud by trained actors. The authors will then be interviewed[...]
Oct 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
For twenty years New York Review Books Classics have been devoted to two causes: discovering important, previously untranslated books from all over the world and rediscovering wonderful books in English that have fallen into undeserved[...]
Oct 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Waterstones Bookshop
Join Oxford University Press for a special science-themed “speed dating” event. Mingle with a range of topics, including reptiles, psychopathy, environmental law, synaesthesia and circadian rhythms with expert authors from the Very Short Introductions series.[...]
Oct 24 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm The Sheldonian Theatre
We are honoured to announce that Elif Shafak will give this year’s Annual Blackwell’s Lecture on Thursday 24th October 2019 at 7.30pm in the Sheldonian Theatre. Elif Shafak will deliver this year’s Annual Blackwell’s Lecture[...]
Oct 31 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting a special Hallowe’en event exploring black magic, with Thomas Waters and Lucie McKnight Hardy as they discuss their books ‘Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in[...]
Nov 5 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Wolfson College - Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Join prize-winning author Olivia Laing in conversation with Professor Dame Hermione Lee. Olivia Laing is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring and The Lonely City. Her latest book, Crudo, is[...]
Nov 14 @ 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Shulman Auditorium
Join Galician poet Chus Pato and Canadian translator Erín Moure for a reading from Chus Pato’s new book of poems, Un libre favor. The event marks the completion of their residency with The Queen’s College[...]
Nov 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Wolfson College - Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Biographer and critic Lucasta Miller will give this term’s lecture in memory of Harry M Weinrebe, philanthropist and founder of the Dorset Foundation. A former visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and Beaufort[...]