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

May 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Oxford Launchpad
The panel will share their fundraising experience with the audiences. The main topic of the discussion will be on how they managed to raise substantial amount of money in their campaigns. Answers will touch topics[...]
May 6 @ 8:15 pm – 9:45 pm Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
On Wednesday of Week 2, we will be hosting Dr Joao Pedro Magalhaes who leads the Integrative Genomics of Aging Group at the Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool. As usual, our talks cost[...]
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 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 12 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford Martin School
This is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and The Oxford International Relations Society (IRSoC) The lecture is free and open to all and will be followed by a drinks reception for members[...]
May 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Department of Social Policy and Intervention
The Annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture
May 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
As former European Commissioner for Climate Action and as host Minister of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Connie Hedegaard has been at the sharp end of global agreements. While the Copenhagen talks[...]
May 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
This book talk is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict This book talk will see author Chris Woods discuss his new book Sudden[...]
Jun 3 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford Martin School
This is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and The Oxford International Relations Society (IRSoC) For more than a century, the United States has been the world′s most powerful state. Now some analysts[...]
Jun 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Oxford Launchpad
• Mike set up the volunteer organisation Smile Kids Japan (website under reconstruction…) in 2007 to promote sustainable and local volunteering at institutional care facilities (sometimes called orphanages) in Japan. This grew and has helped[...]
Jun 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm The Garden Room, Department of International Development
This is a panel discussion organised in collaboration with ‘Oxford Refugee Week’ by the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Chairing will be Dr Jeff Crisp, with speakers Prof. Alexander Betts, Prof. Cathryn Costello, Dr[...]
Jun 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern
Human-caused global warming has been making headlines for over two decades, but people’s opinions on it often depend on what headlines they’re reading. How is it that a scientific theory has become so politicised? Join[...]
Jul 1 @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm Oxford Brookes University
‘TRADE IN UK-AFRICA RELATIONS’: Event taking place on July 1st at Oxford Brookes University. This is part of an ESRC seminar series on British Policy after Labour: Coalition, Austerity, Continuity and Change. This seminar, the[...]
Jul 17 – Jul 18 all-day Keble College
The Humanitarian Innovation Project is delighted to announce the 2015 Humanitarian Innovation Conference, in partnership with the World Humanitarian Summit. Hosted in Oxford on 17 and 18 July 2015, the theme of this year’s conference[...]
Jul 25 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
What the World is Losing, a talk with Dr Paul Collins, Dr Robert Bewley & Dr Emma Cunliffe A special talk with Dr Paul Collins, Curator of the Ancient Near East Collections at the Ashmolean[...]
Aug 14 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Ertegun House
A one-day free exhibit featuring powerful children’s drawings from Burma and Sudan. The event is co-sponsored by Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) and Waging Peace. The drawings from Burma were collected on visits by HART[...]
Sep 22 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University
The Oxford Architecture Society lecture series Lisa Finlay is coming to speak to us from Heatherwick Studio. Established by Thomas Heatherwick in 1994, Heatherwick Studio is recognised for its work in architecture, urban infrastructure, sculpture,[...]
Sep 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford
Part 3 of a three-part mini-series on notation: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. Part 1 was Reading Slough and London Paddington: the persistent lure of spelling reform (July 16th). Part 2 was Writing little messages in[...]
Sep 29 @ 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm Ruskin College
Join us for the Oxford launch of the new NoNonsense series Panelists: Maggie Black, author of NoNonsense International Development A former co-editor of New Internationalist, Maggie has written numerous books on development subjects. She has[...]
Sep 30 @ 10:30 am – 6:00 pm Ertegun House
Conceptions of Enlightenment is a one-day conference concluding in a public lecture at 5pm. The lecture will be delivered by Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston), author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment (CUP, 2014). Over the last[...]
Oct 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Demographic changes across the world pose one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Longer lifespans and shifting fertility rates bring with them an array of global health issues. In this lecture, Professor Sarah[...]
Oct 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Renewable energy is a strong component in the race to mitigate climate change, and solar power is a particularly cheap and viable green energy option. Considering current technologies, cost, markets and infrastructure, Professor Henry Snaith,[...]
Oct 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Professor Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, will explore the huge technological, scientific and environmental shifts that have led to humanity’s current state, and consider the choices that will determine our long-term[...]
Nov 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Rising inequality is a key focus in today’s policy discussions and media discourse. Building on research from The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford), Professor Brian Nolan, Director of[...]
Nov 7 @ 10:30 am – 5:30 pm St Cross Building
A one-day interdisciplinary symposium to launch the Fiction and Human Rights Network at TORCH. The symposium brings together an eclectic range of thinkers to analyze the ways in which the genre of fiction might or[...]
Nov 25 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Devaki Jain Inaugural Lecture: Graça Machel DBE is a Mozambican politician and humanitarian. She is an international advocate for women’s and children’s rights and in 1997 was made a British dame for her humanitarian work.[...]
Dec 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm New Radcliffe House 2nd Floor
Professor Carl Heneghan will deliver an interactive workshop, taking an evidence-based approach to answering your own clinical questions. With over 20 year’s experience in clinical epidemiology, Professor Heneghan has over 200 peer reviewed publications that[...]
Dec 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Climate predictions provide key scientific input into climate policy – and will continue to do so in future years. Professor Tim Palmer, Co-Director of the Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, will discuss how scientific[...]
Dec 4 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building
This panel takes the publication of Ruti Teitel’s new book ‘Globalizing Transitional Justice’ as paperback 15 years after the publication of her seminal book ‘Transitional Justice’ (OUP 2000) as the entry point into a critical[...]