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

May 6 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St. Anne's College
Professor of Caribbean Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths University, Joan Anim-Addo brings us her voice on Black Women’s Writing and the place of the Black figure in the Humanities. This event will be hosted in[...]
May 7 @ 4:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Foyer, St. Anne's College
Writer of autobiography, poetry, fiction and journalism and Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University Blake Morrison brings some of his latest work and interesting discussion to St. Anne’s.
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 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 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St. Anne's College
Novelist Ali Smith, author of Artful, Hotel World, and The Accidental, returns to St. Anne’s after holding the Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in European Comparative Literature in 2012.
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 @ 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 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 @ 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
A view from the Pacific: re-envisioning the art museum Tuesday 13 May 2014, 5-6.30pm (doors will open at 4.45pm) Ashmolean Museum Headley Lecture Theatre A lecture by Michael Govan (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries[...]
May 16 – May 17 all-day Rotunda, Iffley, Oxford
Are you interested in developing your personal or organisational self? Would you like to experience a new way to develop this insight, within a broader social and ecological framework?a one day experiential workshop, introducing mapping[...]
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 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 21 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Wig and Pen
How can we rewild animals to today’s environment? How does the future of lethal viruses is going to be? Are they going to stick around with us as long as humanity exists
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 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Lecture Room 23, Balliol College
onathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is an eminent writer, broadcaster, environmentalist and commentator on sustainable development. He will be talking at Cerberus about his new book, ‘The World We Made’, in which[...]
Jun 9 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
OxTET is happy to welcome Riva-Melissa Tez – lecturer at the DAB university in Berlin, founder of the Berlin Singularity, Associate Director of Longevity Intelligence Communications, and co-runner of Kardashev Communications. Riva will be speaking[...]
Jun 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Freud, Jericho
Join us at Freud this Wednesday as we consider how the collections, interpretations and rituals of our cultural institutions shape society today. Paul Hobson, director of Modern Art Oxford and Dr Christopher Brown, director of[...]
Jun 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Mansfield College
Speaker: Susie Orbach Psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. Her books include Fat is a Feminist Issue and Bodies. A convenor of Anybody, an organisation that campaigns for body diversity. Co-founder of Antidote which works[...]
Jun 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Blackwell's, Oxford
On Friday 13th June, the Oxford Left Review will be launching OLR Issue 13. Come along to get your copy and chat with the writers and editors. This issue was partially themed on ‘Science, Technology[...]
Jun 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Oxford Union
Al Jazeera host Mehdi Hasan will challenge Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Medecins sans Frontieres and former French Foreign Minister, on France’s military interventionism. Are the country’s motives altruistic or do they respond to a neo-colonialist[...]
Jun 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm New Biochemistry, Seminar Room
RANDY RETTBERG, President of iGEM Randy Rettberg is the man behind iGEM, the global competition for undergraduates and high school students in designing brand new biological parts, or “genetically engineered machines”. An engineer by trade[...]
Jun 19 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm The Port Mahon
The use of GM technologies is growing beyond agricultural crops. GM vaccines and GM animals are available and their use may need different regulatory considerations. In this talk, Dr Michael Bonsall from the Dept of[...]
Jun 27 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
As part of ‘LoveFriday’, a late night opening at the Ashmolean museum, join us for gallery talks on love, sex, gender, and poetry in the ancient world. Talks will be 15 minutes and given on[...]
Jul 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Said Business School
OBR would like to invite you to our next event in Oxford on Wednesday 16th July at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, the birth of next-generation[...]
Jul 17 @ 6:15 pm – 7:45 pm Andrew Wiles Building
Speaker: Martin Roth, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum was founded during the tumult of the Industrial Revolution; a period of intense technological and social change. Today brings another[...]
Aug 9 @ 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
The World Humanist Congress is taking place from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August in Oxford. Held every three years in different locations around the world, this years theme of the meeting is ‘Freedom[...]