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

Nov 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Panel: Professor Charles Godfray, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and author of the chapter How can 9-10 Billion People be Fed Sustainably and Equitably by 2050? Professor Ian Goldin, Director, Oxford[...]
Nov 21 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Mathematical Institute
The Oxford Climate Forum is the country’s largest student climate change conference, held right here in Oxford. This year, a fantastic line-up of leading academics, activists and environmentalists will discuss and debate topics ranging from[...]
Nov 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Law Faculty
Join us for a critical review of the extent to which businesses promote HR in practice. Talk of corporate responsibility, pro-bono schemes and language of sustainability and accountability continues to increase but in reality are[...]
Nov 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Somerville College
Have you ever wondered if you choose your favourite cheese by its shape rather than its flavour? What if your glass of sauvignon blanc suddenly tasted nicer while listening to Mozart? Most synesthetes would have[...]
Nov 30 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Peace House
Introduction to Anthropology. Sunday 30th November. 10 – 5pm The Knowledge Project is exciting and innovative workshops this November. For one day, you will be introduced to a subject by an Oxford postgraduate with bags[...]
Dec 2 @ 6:00 pm John Henry Brookes LT, Oxford Brookes
Ben Okri OBE, Booker Prize-winning author, will be in conversation with Donald Sloan, Head of the Oxford School of Hospitality Management, on the topic ‘Food, Death and Ritual’. Hosted by Ken Hom OBE, this event[...]
Dec 4 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm TS Eliot Theatre
Come listen to the MSc in Global Health Science students debate two controversial motions relating to ‘Priorities in Healthcare’: ‘This house believes that communicable diseases require more funding than non-communicable diseases’ and ‘This house would[...]
Jan 22 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
Public meeting. Twenty minute talk, one hour discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or participate actively in the discussion. Free entry, no need to book.
Feb 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Stopforth-Metcalfe Room, Kellogg College
Ever more people are interested in the social impact that organisations are creating beyond their contributions to the economy (gross value added, employment, etc.). Despite an existent tradition of cost-benefit analyses and other types of[...]
Feb 7 @ 10:00 am Maths Institute
21CC is a multidisciplinary conference, which unites leading minds to explore the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Led by Oxford students it is partnered with the Oxford Martin School, which pioneers research, policy[...]
Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm Somerville College
s Islam a religion of peace? Does Islam have a place in the West? Is Islam at odds with Liberalism? Has Muslim integration failed? Is Islam really the biggest threat we face today? In the[...]
Feb 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Danson Room, Trinity College
Confirmed Guest Speakers: Dr Othon Anastasakis (Director of the European Studies Centre, Oxford) Professor Dr. Friedbert Pflüger (King’s College London, former mayoral candidate for the CDU in Berlin) For its first Oxford Panel, the YouthEPP[...]
Mar 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
Twenty minute introductory talk, one hour discussion. Free entry, no need to book, all welcome.
Mar 20 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Friends Meeting House
Almost a million people in Britain had to rely on food banks last year. Why, in the world’s fourth richest country, are there still people who cannot afford to eat?
Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Ruskin College
Professor Neil Davidson (Glasgow) ‘Why wasn’t England like China? Western absolutism and the road to the tributary state’ Professor David Parker (Leeds) ‘Absolute Monarchy: Recharging Feudalism’
Apr 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Friends Meeting House
What does our “tax-competitive” regime mean, and whose interests does it serve? Discussion with John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network.
Apr 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Sheldonian Theatre
Ten years ago, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman shone a light on how the world was ‘flattening’; how the convergence of world events and new technologies had opened up the global supply chain[...]
Apr 29 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Blue Boar Lecture Theatre
Co-hosted with the Oxford Finance Society and the Oxford University Engineering Society. Technology has changed rapidly in the last 30 years; in order to survive businesses have had to evolve or otherwise face extinction. As[...]
May 3 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Wadham College - Gillese-Badun Room
What would it mean, in the 21st century, for economic growth to come to an end? Why might this happen? Is a growthless or steady-state economy to be avoided—or, instead, pursued—at all costs? Is it[...]
May 7 – May 9 all-day Pegasus Theater
OutBurst is the Oxford Brookes University festival at the Pegasus Theatre on Magdalen Road. Brookes will be bursting out of the university campus into the community, bringing great ideas, activities, and entertainment right to the[...]
May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Habakkuk Room, Jesus College
https://www.facebook.com/events/495653777253176/ The Oxford Guild is very excited to welcome Larry Hirst CBE, former Chairman of IBM EMEA, to speak on Thursday 7th May. This will be an incredibly insightful talk and is not one to[...]
May 8 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Harris Seminar Room
The Hungarian ambassador to London will discuss Hungary’s Euro-Atlantic integration after regaining freedom in 1989. His Excellency will not skirt sensitive questions such as Hungary’s position on Russia, or European energy security and its consequences[...]
May 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
During a speech in 1957, Prime Minister Harold MacMillan declared “our people have never had it so good”. Now, more than half a century later, are we fundamentally any better off? Through discussion of technological[...]
May 18 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre, Exeter College
Having seen the election results unfold, the topic of political strategy and communication is as relevant as ever in highlighting the ways in which politicians and organisations seek to influence public opinion and shape political[...]
May 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Oxford Town Hall
Cyclox and the Oxford Pedestrians Association (OxPA) will be welcoming representatives of the bus companies that serve Oxford to a meeting to discuss the relationship between bikes, buses and pedestrians on the city’s busy streets.[...]
May 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
How can the human economy become more sustainable in the face of a rapidly changing climate? Professor Cameron Hepburn, Director of the Economics of Sustainability programme at The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the[...]
May 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Danson Room, Trinity College
Join the Weidenfeld Scholars for an engaging debate on economic inequality moderated by Jon Snow. We will be engaging with what drives inequality, what economic, social and political impact inequality has and what policymakers ought[...]
Jun 4 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
Twenty minute talk, one hour discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the discussion. Free entry, no need to book.
Jun 5 @ 6:15 pm – 9:00 pm Museum of Natural History, Lecture Theatre
Enter a lost world of music and poetry as more than 300 years of Mughal rule approached its end at the hands of the British in 1857. William Dalrymple, award-winning historian, in performance with the[...]