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

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.[...]
Jun 5 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Vaults & Garden Cafe
Why have we become obsessed with squeezing the most out of every minute? What’s wrong with wasting time? Fr. Timothy Radcliffe OP, Dominican Friar and international writer and speaker, explores the delights and trials of[...]
Jun 5 @ 7:15 pm – 8:15 pm The Sutro Room, Trinity College
This talk addresses two objections to religious belief from Ned Hall, based on the claim that religious practices fail to show the epistemic virtues of those of natural science. First, individuals engaged in science adopt[...]
Jun 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Ertegun House
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Jun 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Mitre (function room)
Dr Stephen Backhouse is Lecturer in Social and Political Theology at St. Mellitus college. Stephen studied at the University of Oxford, then McGill, then Oxford again, where he completed his doctorate on Kierkegaard and religious[...]
Jun 10 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Psalms in England With Prof M J Toswel, University of Western Ontario Tuesday 10 June, 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre This lecture introduces the Anglo-Saxon psalter, and especially the interlinear vernacular versions in Latin psalters[...]
Jun 11 @ 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.[...]
Jun 11 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Oxford Martin School
This lecture is hosted by the Oxford Martin School and the International Migration Institute, an Oxford Martin School Institute If Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress can agree that eleven million unauthorized immigrants are[...]
Jun 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden
Speaker: Tom Price The archipelago of Japan is defined as one of the World’s 34 biodiversity hotspots. Learn how staff from the Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum are conducting expeditions to Japan to collect and[...]
Jun 13 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
‘Syria Speaks’ Lecture: Palmyra: City of Palms With Linda Farrar, archaeologist and lecturer Friday 13 June, 2-4pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Famed for its hauntingly beautiful architectural remains, the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria[...]
Jun 13 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
A colloquium on the writing of J M Coetzee will be held 2-6pm on 13 June in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. Speakers include Professor David Attwell, University of York, Professor Elleke Boehmer and Professor[...]
Jun 13 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
‘On Form’ Sculpture Tour 3-5pm Friday 13 June, Gallery 21 Sculptors from ‘on form’, the exhibition of stone sculpture at the childhood home of the Mitford sisters, Asthall Manor, will be giving tours of selected[...]
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 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Henry Wellcome Building for Human Genetics, Seminar Room A
Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex autoimmune disease affecting up to 1% of the population, causing a disabling inflammatory arthritis. The disease has two clinical similar subsets: autoantibody positive or seropositive disease, and autoantibody or seronegative[...]
Jun 17 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Haldane Room, Wolfson College
Mark Thompson will be speaking on his biography of the Serbian and Yugoslavian novelist Danilo Kis, Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis, and questioning, ‘how do you write a literary biography?’ The Life-Writing Lunch[...]
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 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Said Business School
The circular economy is rapidly gaining the attention of businesses, government and the next generation as a framework for re-thinking and designing the future economy. Join us on 19 June 2014 to debate this topic[...]
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Vaults & Garden Cafe
Dr Jonathan Jong, a researcher at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, explores how time is all “in the mind”. Philosophers disagree about the nature of time: does it really flow[...]
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Daubeny Lecture Theatre, Oxford Botanic Garden
Speaker: Guy Horwood In 2013, Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood was awarded a travel bursary
to join the prestigious International Dendrology Society on their study tour of the Czech Republic. The tour of this diverse and[...]
Jun 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm The Mitre
A short talk followed by questions and discussion. “The Dalai Lama: a study in bourgeois rationality” All welcome
Jun 19 @ 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm The Sutro Room, Trinity College
‘Can you Count the Clouds?’ asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist’s reading of[...]
Jun 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Seminar Room 3, Department of International Development
A new report by the Humanitarian Innovation Project, Refugee Economies: Rethinking Popular Assumptions, will be launched to coincide with World Refugee Day, on Friday 20 June 2014. It is one of the very first studies[...]
Jun 21 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History With James Hall, author Saturday 21 June , 2-3pm, Headley Lecture Theatre Recounting the history of the self-portrait, this lecture offers insights into artists’ psychological and creative worlds. James Hall[...]
Jun 26 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Internet Institute
Early cyberspace theorists predicted that the digital world would be a world of plenty. But today’s Internet users are faced with many kinds of artificially scarce virtual markers, from online game items and digital currencies[...]
Jun 27 @ 8:00 am – 5:30 pm The Cube, Law Faculty, St. Cross Road
Oxford Transitional Justice Research is pleased to invite you to its 2014 Summer Conference ‘Borders and Boundaries in Transitional Justice’. This year’s conference, hosted with the support of the Planethood Foundation, Law Faculty, and the[...]
Jun 27 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building
A TORCH day conference including keynotes from Terry Eagleton and George Pattison and parallel session papers on theodicy, evil in literature, film and TV, German philosophy (Hegel and Fichte), death and technology, Aristotle, the Akedah,[...]
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[...]