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

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 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 @ 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 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm The Oxford Union
Alyse Nelson is President and CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, the preeminent non-governmental organization (NGO) that identifies, trains and empowers emerging women leaders and social entrepreneurs around the globe, enabling them to create a[...]
May 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Jesus College, Ship Street Lecture Theatre
Alumni Lecture 2014. In the Department of Social Policy and Intervention’s Centenary year, Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard, will deliver the Alumni Lecture, followed by a drinks reception. Make a booking by sending an email to events@spi.ox.ac.uk
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 8 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
William Kelly: Artist of Conscience Thursday 8 May 2014, 6.30-7.30pm (drinks from 6.15pm) Ashmolean Museum Education Centre (Evening entrance via St Giles) Internationally acclaimed US artist William Kelly talks about his life and work. Kelly’s[...]
May 8 @ 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm The Sutro Room, Trinity College
The spiritual and second-order sense of scripture, according to which, for example, the crossing of the Red Sea denotes Baptism, and Jacob’s ladder denotes the cross, presents at least two epistemological challenges. First, the history[...]
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 9 @ 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
Between the artist and the museum Friday 9 May 2014, 5-6.30pm (doors will open at 4.45pm) Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre A symposium with Michael Govan (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries & Libraries at[...]
May 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Pegasus
Step inside the parlour and drawing room of an eighteenth-century home, and together with Dr Nicole Pohl (Oxford Brookes University) and musicians, enjoy readings, music, and the authentic sewing session of a ‘huswif’! Part of[...]
May 10 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Pegasus
Led by David Aldridge, an academic philosopher, educationalist and experienced role-playing enthusiast, this evening is intended for curious or experienced gamers alike to sample Dungeons and Dragons, celebrating collaborative storytelling and raising serious questions about[...]
May 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Roy Griffiths Room, ARCO Building
In this lecture series, Naomi Richman explores the evolution of the ideas central to major global belief-systems such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Marxism, and their status in the modern world from a social-scientific[...]
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 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 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm University Museum of Natural History
Places must be booked with ros.connell@linacre.ox.ac.uk. Ms Chakrabarti is Director of Liberty and Chancellor of Brookes University
May 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Ashmolean Museum
Magnificence, Love and Scaffolds: Politics at the Court of Henry VIII, With Dr Suzannah Lipscomb Saturday 17 May, 11am–12pm, Ioannou Centre Historian, author, and broadcaster Dr Suzannah Lipscomb will speak on the politics of spectacle,[...]
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 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Department of International Development
Speaker: Dr Maha Shuayb (Centre for Lebanese Studies) Description: Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, more than 3 million refugees have fled to the neighboring countries Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.[...]
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 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College
OULC and LGBTQ Society are delighted to jointly welcome Peter Tatchell for an event at the Corpus Auditorium. A prolific human rights campaigner, Peter is particularly known for his work with LGBTQ movements. Famously, he[...]
May 20 @ 2:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Department of International Development
On 14 December 2013, the second edition of the Visible Award was awarded to The Silent University, a knowledge exchange platform initiated by the artist Ahmet Öğüt and led by a group of asylum seekers,[...]
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 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
In “The Soul of the World”, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today’s fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at[...]
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 @ 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
On Thursday 22nd at 6pm the Simpkins Lee will host a panel discussion exploring the battle for women’s education. Featuring a heavyweight line-up of Jane Robinson (author of the bestselling ‘Bluestockings’), Sarah Pine (OUSU VP[...]
May 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm LR 23, Balliol College
event is free
May 22 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm LR 23, Balliol College