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

May 6 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Senior Common Room, Faculty of Law
 
May 6 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre, Said Business School
Join us in the Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre, Saïd Business School, for a talk by Dr Gavin Yamey MD MPH, a physician and medical journal editor with training in public health who leads the Evidence[...]
May 7 – May 9 all-day Mathematical Institute (Room L3)
An Interdisciplinary Conference sponsored by Las Casas Institute at Blackfriars Hall and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). The conference. In a time when globalization emphasizes the free flow of ideas, goods, and[...]
May 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Examination Schools,
Chairman of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP. David Boies has conducted many of the leading commercial, constitutional and civil liberties cases in the US. He represented Vice President Al Gore in “Bush v Gore” and[...]
May 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm SR 1, Department of International Development
Subtitle: Forced displacement, coercion and foreign policy Seminar by Professor Kelly M. Greenhill (Tufts University) Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Trinity term Public Seminar Series
May 7 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Haldane Room, Wolfson College
Popular Representations of Development takes a novel approach to the broad discipline of development studies that goes beyond narrow policy or social science frameworks. Instead, the authors reassess the breadth and popularity of development studies[...]
May 7 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Pegasus
Dr Simon Underdown (Oxford Brookes University) will explore how we made the journey from small-brained African apes to the dominant animal on the planet, answering questions such as ‘why are humans so smart?’, ‘why is[...]
May 7 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Main Lecture Theatre, Clerici, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
Progress to increase gender diversity in leadership roles across most sectors has been slow. Are quotas the answer to increase the number of women in leadership? What is the role of Business Schools in developing[...]
May 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Pegasus
Join English PEN (the literary network which works to defend and promote free expression) for an evening of poetry and debate, with discussion about how publishing and human rights campaigns can join forces to help[...]
May 9 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building
speakers: William Kelly, Artist and Humanist Dr. Rama Mani, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford and Councillor of the World Future Council
May 10 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Pegasus
A collaboration between the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and the Archway Foundation (an Oxford-based mental health charity), this event will feature writing produced by the Archway Foundation’s services during workshops with Brookes’ creative writing students.
May 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Seminar Room B, Manor Road Building
Speaker: Professor James Sweeney, Professor of International Law, University of Lancaster
May 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Ruskin College, Ruskin Hall, Headington
Talk on the impact of Law on our Education and the consequences for schools, children and the system.
May 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development
Solidarity & responsibility-sharing for refugee protection in the EU’s Common European Asylum System Speaker: Madeline Garlick (Radboud University) Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Trinity term Public Seminar Series
May 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm The Port Mahon
Why is laughter such an important human social tool? Neuroscientist and stand-up comedian Prof Sophie Scott will discuss her research on laughter (and apparently rats laugh too!).
May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Mansfield College
Speaker: Edward Fitzgerald, QC Renowned human rights lawyer and leading advocate in death row cases worldwide. Part of the Mansfield Lecture Series, convener Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.
May 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford Retreat
How does the brain work? And how can we switch on and off specific neurons? Join us for a Pint of Science with top academics from Oxford University.
May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Wig and Pen
You ever wanted to understand more about climate change? Is it real? what are the consequences? Come join us for an expert panel from Oxford University who will shed some light on this highly debated[...]
May 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Wig and Pen
When is a volcano going to erupt and how do you measure that? What is Magma and how can we start studying it? These questions and more will be explained by top academics from Oxford[...]
May 20 – May 21 all-day Saskatchewan Room, Exeter College
https://www.facebook.com/events/575525219212880/ Associate Professor Jake Lynch is fighting a case in Australia’s Federal Court to uphold his right not to take part in institutional collaborations between the University of Sydney, where he directs the Centre for[...]
May 20 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Senior Common Room, Faculty of Law
Intellectual Property Discussion Group (IPDG)
May 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building
ESRC Transitional Justice Research Manual Re-Launch Speakers: Dr Nicola Palmer, Lecturer in Criminal Law, King’s College London Dr Briony Jones, Senior Researcher, Dealing with the Past, swisspeace Dr Zoe Norridge, Lecturer in English and Comparative[...]
May 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm SR 1, Department of International Development
Socio-economic harm and non-refoulement in international law Speaker: Dr Michelle Foster (Melbourne Law School) Part of the Refugee Studies Centre Trinity term Public Seminar Series
May 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm LR 23, Balliol College
event is free
May 23 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Oxford Launchpad at Said Business School
The Start-Up Chile programme is now ready to select, fund and host a new round of start-ups so they develop their global business ideas in Chile, the growing start-up ecosystem that has everyone talking. **NO[...]
May 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development
A comparison of some recent practice from Italy and the UK Speakers: Dr Daniel Wilsher (City University London) and Francesca Cancellaro (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna) The detention of asylum seekers is always particularly[...]
May 28 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building
speaker: Radidja Nemar, PhD Candidate in Law, Université Paul Cézanne / Junior Research Fellow at French Strategic Institute, Military Academy
May 28 @ 4:30 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
In the 2014 Annual Lecture in Law and Society, Professor Carlo Guarnieri from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna will outline the changing nature of the civil law judge,[...]
May 31 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Harris Manchester College
Join Revd Mpho Tutu, daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as she discusses The Book of Forgiving, written jointly with her father. In the book, Desmond and Mpho Tutu offer guidance from their own lives and[...]
Jun 4 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building
speaker: Vincent Courcelle-Labrousse, Defence Counsel at the ICTR and Special Tribunal for Lebanon