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

May 6 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm JCR Lecture Theatre, St. Catherine’s College
The surviving polychromy of a second century Roman marble sculpture at the British Museum (BM SC 1597), also known as the Treu Head, was investigated scientifically and rigorously compared to other Greek and Roman works[...]
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 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 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 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 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
India: A Short History With Andrew Robinson, author Saturday 10 May, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre India is the world’s largest democracy and a fast-growing economy. It is also a civilization with roots more than four[...]
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 @ 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 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Tour: Joseph Beuys & Jörg Immendorff With Colin Harrison, Senior Curator of European Art 3–3.45pm on Wednesday 14 May and Wednesday 11 June Tours are free, no booking is required. Please meet in Gallery 2.[...]
May 16 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Magic Museums at Night Special Ashmolean Late Night Opening Friday 16 May 7–10pm FREE ENTRY For 2014’s Museums At Night event, the Ashmolean is putting on an evening of magic. Curators will be presenting the[...]
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 @ 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
Clay Live – Special Ceramics Demonstration With Clive Bowen and Dylan Bowen Sunday 18 May, 10.30am-3.30pm Ashmolean Museum Education Centre Slipware specialists, father and son, Clive and Dylan Bowen demonstrate their work and talk about[...]
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 @ 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 21 @ 11:45 am – 1:15 pm Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities
Join us for lunch from 12:45, with discussion from 13:00 to 13:45. Professor Averil Cameron will be in discussion with: – Dr Jas Elsner (Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art) –[...]
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 23 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Ashmolean Museum
Cézanne and the Modern Exhibition Lecture Gauguin’s Paradise Lost With Alastair Wright, Fellow of St John’s College Friday 23 May, 11am-12pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Like many Western visitors to Tahiti in the later 19th century,[...]
May 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Of Dogs and Men: Gilbert Cannan and his Mill (1916) by Mark Gertler With Jan Cox, art historian Friday 23 May, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre This lecture explores and analyses Mark Gertler’s apparently innocent painting[...]
May 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Ashmolean Museum
Cézanne and the Modern Exhibition Lecture Cézanne: a Modern Field of Vision With Miranda Creswell, Project Artist, Institute of Archaeology Saturday 24 May, 11am–12pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Cézanne’s unique and ground-breaking observations of landscape continue[...]
May 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm T. S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College
Olivier-award winning RSC designer, Stephen Brimson Lewis will be coming to Oxford on Wednesday 28th May. Known especially for his work with RSC artistic director, Gregory Doran, Stephen will be ready to answer your questions,[...]
May 29 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
Who Needs a Hero: Heroism Ancient & Modern With Prof Chris Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek; Dr Peter Claus, Fellow of Pembroke; Dr Liz Sawyer, Trinity College, University of Oxford Thursday 29 May, 2–3.30pm, Headley[...]
May 29 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm JCR Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's College
This talk will confront an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images: the conviction that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep or produce miraculous cures.[...]
May 30 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Wolfson College
The 2014 Roger Moorey Memorial Lecture Ancient Egyptian Biographies: From Living a Life to Creating a Memorial With Professor John Baines, University of Oxford Friday 30 May, 5.30–6.30pm, Wolfson College More than in most civilizations,[...]
Jun 2 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Lecture Room 1, Tom 8
Professor Craig Clunas, lecturer in the History of Art, Fellow at Trinity College and Curator at the British Museum speaks to The Edgar Wind Society. Clunas’ discussion, ‘Finding (and Exhibiting) the Spiritual in Early Ming[...]
Jun 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Art of Witnessing War With Dr Sue Malvern, Reading University Thursday 5 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Sue Malvern looks at the role of war artists and photographers as witnesses to conflicts and wars.[...]