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 @ 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 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 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[...]
Jun 1 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Sheldonian Theatre
Amy Hollywood (Harvard) delivers a series of lectures on “The real, the true, and the mystical” in Oxford. At 7pm will be a play on Derrida in Oxford by John Schad and Fred Dalmasso. Tickets[...]
Jun 26 @ 5:30 pm – 7:01 pm T.S. Eliot Theatre
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. The documentary presents the personal narratives of young boys and[...]
Jul 8 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Special Turner Event at the Ashmolean Museum Turner’s High Street, Oxford: a Unique Townscape With Colin Harrison Wednesday 8 July, 11am-12pm, Lecture Theatre Find out more about Turner’s most significant townscape and the greatest painting[...]
Sep 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Playhouse
Actress, performer and researcher, Dr Naomi Paxton explores the importance of theatre, performance and propaganda in the campaign for Votes for Women. In 1908, the Actresses’ Franchise League was founded to support the suffrage movement.[...]
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 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 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm Okinaga Room, Wadham College, University of Oxford
The extraction of oil and the mining of coal are devastating communities across the world. These operations have forced people from their land, polluted the environment, and led to widespread human rights violations. According to[...]
Oct 20 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm All Bar One
WE would like to invite you to celebrate the WEP policy launch and the launch of the Oxford branch of the Women’s Equality Party. What is the policy launch? On Tuesday 20th October, at 11am,[...]
Nov 8 @ 9:30 am – 5:30 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane OX3 0BP
Venue: John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane OX3 0BP Time: Sunday 8 November (Week 5), 9:30 am – 5:30pm *********************************** The ‘Symposium in Applying Psychology & Neuroscience to Business’[...]
Nov 16 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm John Henry Brookes Building, room JHB207
Oxford Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society seminar series
Nov 24 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Martin School Lecture Theatre
Between Debt and the Devil challenges the belief that we need credit growth to fuel economic growth, and that rising debt is okay as long as inflation remains low. In fact, most credit is not[...]
Nov 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blue Boar Theatre, Christ Church College
**OxPolicy and #periodpositive are ready to launch their report on the state of menstruation education in the United Kingdom!** Join us on the evening of November 30th for a bloody good time (haw haw). We’ll[...]
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 9 @ 10:00 am – Dec 10 @ 4:00 pm Mathematical Institute
The Symposium, celebrating Ada Lovelace’s 200th birthday on 10 December 2015, is aimed at a broad audience of those interested in the history and culture of mathematics and computer science, presenting current scholarship on Lovelace’s[...]
Jan 19 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Broad Street
The use of data capture and visualisation technologies has grown dramatically, embracing the needs of researchers, stakeholder communities, cultural resource managers, tourists and the general public. This paper previews the types of techniques being used[...]
Jan 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern
Every day millions of people struggle with psychological and emotional problems. The Stressed Sex sets out to answer a simple, but crucial, question: are rates of psychological disorder different for men and women? Join us[...]
Feb 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
Acclaimed mathematician Marcus du Sautoy gives the second of the Weinrebe Lecture Series, on the theme of ‘Variations on Biography’, hosted by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing.
Feb 2 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Ecohydrologist Prof David Gowing will speak on “Plant species diversity: the role of soil moisture”. He will discuss the conundrum of how up to 40 species can all sustain themselves in a single metre square[...]
Feb 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Merton College
Millions of people worldwide are affected by natural hazards ranging from devastating but localised events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis to the more subtle but global effects of climate change. It is therefore[...]
Feb 15 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Oxford Brookes University, John Henry Brookes Building, JHB301
Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
Feb 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm St Michael in the Northgate
Dr Rachel Aldred is a Senior Lecturer in Transport at the University of Westminster, and specialises in cycling research. One of her current research projects is the Near Miss Project, funded by Creative Exchange and Blaze.[...]
Feb 17 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm JHB202, John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes University
Developments of the critical discursive tradition within social psychology offer both a conceptualisation of a gendered contemporary subject and an analytic approach to talk and text data, including media representations. In this paper I discuss[...]
Feb 18 @ 9:00 am – 4:15 pm St Anne's College
As a cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, we are proposing a new format for presenting and elaborating thinking on what urban governance does, when it succeed and fails, and[...]
Feb 19 @ 9:00 am – 4:15 pm St Anne's College
As a cornerstone initiative of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities, we are proposing a new format for presenting and elaborating thinking on what urban governance does, when it succeed and fails, and[...]
Feb 23 @ 5:15 pm – 7:00 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Pipe Partridge Building, LMH
The fourth annual Ockenden International Prize (www.ockendenprizes.org/) for excellence in self-reliance projects among refugees and displaced people will be presented by John Simpson CBE, BBC World Affairs Editor. Projects in Uganda, Lebanon and Chad will[...]
Feb 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre
“The Case Against 8 shows four people rising above a law that sought to lower them into second-class citizenship. It’s an inspirational film about a powerful victory.” – Henry Barnes (The Guardian) Oxford Brookes Documentary[...]
Feb 26 @ 4:45 pm – 6:15 pm Magdalen College, Grove Auditorium
Young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people (LGBTQ) are more likely to suffer from suicidal thoughts than their straight friends. 42% of young LGBTQ people have sought medical help for anxiety or depression. 52%[...]