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

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 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Florey Room, Wolfson College
The speakers (OCLW visiting scholars) will present their current life-writing projects, and discuss the use of archives and memoirs in life-writing, and alternative methods of writing biographies. John Bak: ‘Editing Tennessee Williams’ Ur-Memoirs’ Lorraine Paterson,[...]
May 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm University of Oxford- Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Oxford Internet Institute Bellwether Lecture presented by Professor Dan Burk on Copyright, Culture, and Community in Virtual Worlds We have accumulated an increasingly rich body of data concerning online communities, particularly those that share virtual[...]
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 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford International College
Do you want to learn something new? The Knowledge Project offers affordable evening courses in exciting subjects. Our classes are taught by specialists in small, friendly groups and open to all. The coming term is[...]
May 12 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm White & Case Room, Faculty of Law
We live in a world of information. Together, both the so-called copyright (or content) industries and its consumers (via user-generated content) provide an enormous amount of information (or content). But paradoxically, we simultaneously suffer from[...]
May 12 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Javier Cercas, novelist and essayist, is one of Europe’s most distinguished contemporary writers. His works, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, include the acclaimed, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis, 2001), which[...]
May 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Seminar Room 1,Department of International Development
Speaker: Dr Marion Fresia (Professeure assistante, Institut d’ethnologie, Université de Neuchâtel) Ethnographic approaches of policy processes are usually interested in issues of power and control, translation and mediation, contestation and resistance, and the formal and[...]
May 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Department of Social Policy and Intervention
The Annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture
May 14 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Javier Cercas, novelist and essayist, is one of Europe’s most distinguished contemporary writers. His works, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, include the acclaimed, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis, 2001), which[...]
May 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Siddhartha will be reading from his books of poetry, Kalagora and Digital Monsoon, showing clips from his theatre work and film, as a way into exploring the relationship between memory, imagination and globalised environments. He[...]
May 15 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Seminar Room K, Faculty of English
Catherine Gallagher from Berkeley will give a talk on A Tale of Two Cities and the History of Modern Revenge as part of the Victorian Research Seminar series at the Faculty of English Language &[...]
May 16 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Wolfson College Oxford
Led by Hermione Lee, Elleke Boehmer, Rebecca Abrams, Kate McLoughlin and Jacob Dahl, this full-day workshop will focus on the challenges contradictory accounts about their subjects’ lives pose to life-writers. £70 (£55 unwaged). For more[...]
May 18 @ 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
Maarten De Pourcq (Radboud University Nijmegen) will present a paper on the links between Classics, the First World War, and the Rise of Flemish Culture. Followed by Q & A and refreshments. Free, all welcome.[...]
May 19 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Javier Cercas, novelist and essayist, is one of Europe’s most distinguished contemporary writers. His works, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, include the acclaimed, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis, 2001), which[...]
May 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development
Speaker: Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill (Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford) In 1977, as national refugee status determination procedures were gaining new life, States members of UNHCR’s Executive Committee asked the Office to provide[...]
May 21 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Javier Cercas, novelist and essayist, is one of Europe’s most distinguished contemporary writers. His works, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, include the acclaimed, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis, 2001), which[...]
May 21 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm New College Chapel
New College Chapel presents Paradise Lost: a staged reading of Milton’s epic poem in 3 parts, directed by Professor Elisabeth Dutton (Fribourg), featuring new settings of Milton’s hymns by the Organist, Robert Quinney, and anthems[...]
May 22 @ 5:00 pm – May 23 @ 4:30 pm Rooms 204 & 205, John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford
This symposium offers an innovative and exciting ‘coming together’ of language teachers and teachers of the creative arts, asking the questions: What does creativity mean to me? What do I do about it as a[...]
May 22 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm New College Chapel
New College Chapel presents Paradise Lost: a staged reading of Milton’s epic poem in 3 parts, directed by Professor Elisabeth Dutton (Fribourg), featuring new settings of Milton’s hymns by the Organist, Robert Quinney, and anthems[...]
May 26 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Javier Cercas, novelist and essayist, is one of Europe’s most distinguished contemporary writers. His works, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, include the acclaimed, Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis, 2001), which[...]
May 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Oxford Launchpad, Saïd Business School
Have you thought about using crowdfunding to fund your next degree, innovation, entrepreneurial project, charitable work, creative arts or sports club? What support you need from your college, the university and the crowdfunding platform? Speak[...]
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[...]
May 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development
Speaker: Dr Phil Orchard (Senior Lecturer, Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations, University of Queensland) In the past two decades, global policy on internal displacement has become a discernible area of activity for the[...]
May 30 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm St Theosevia Centre
C.S. Lewis is best-known for his Narnia Chronicles and works of Christian apologetics such as Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain, but he was professionally a literary critic and literary historian with carefully thought[...]
Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Radcliffe Observatory
Amy Hollywood (Harvard) delivers a series of lectures on “The real, the true, and the mystical” in Oxford.
Jun 4 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Radcliffe Observatory
Amy Hollywood : The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy: The Pursuit of the Real at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Jun 4 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Javier Cercas will be at St Anne’s College as Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative European Literature, and is one of Europe’s most distinguished contemporary writers. His works, which have been translated into more than twenty[...]
Jun 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Radcliffe Observatory
Roundtable: 25 years of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Eckhart and the Beguines Convenors: Ben Morgan and Johannes Depnering
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[...]