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 7 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Vaults and Garden Cafe
The Aptness of Anger – Dr Amia Srinivasan Ancient and contemporary philosophers alike have argued that we ought not get angry, even when facing injustice, because doing so is harmful to ourselves. Christian mystics and[...]
May 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Blue Boar Lecture Theatre
2015 lies between the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth last year, and the 400th anniversary of his death next year. As celebrations of Shakespeare’s profundity and morality abound, James Sheldrake will be offering a timely[...]
May 11 @ 2:15 pm Lecture Theatre - APGRD, Classics Faculty
Helen McCrory, in conversation with Edith Hall (KCL), about her performance in the National Theatre’s recent production of Medea (2014). Free, all welcome, no booking required.
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 13 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Part of Book at Lunchtime, a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Free, all welcome – no booking required. Join us for a sandwich lunch from 12:45,[...]
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 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 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 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 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 20 @ 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities
Part of Book at Lunchtime, a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Free, all welcome – no booking required. Join us for a sandwich lunch from 12:45,[...]
May 20 @ 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 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 30 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Oxford Brookes University
As part of this year’s community outreach program, Oxford Brookes University’s 150th anniversary, and as a way showing our appreciation to all participants, clinicians, researchers, members of the public and organisations that have supported our[...]
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 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 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 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm The Mitre Pub (upstairs)
Join us on Monday for our second last event for the academic year to hear Jens Zimmerman speak on theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christian Humanism. Jens is a philosopher and theologian who specializes in hermeneutics[...]
Jun 10 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Brookes University, JHB Lecture Theatre, Headington Campus
So many of us are desperately busy doing what’s immediately in front of us rather than the things that make a real difference. Ben will tell the story of the GB men’s rowing 8+ in[...]
Jun 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
Twenty minute talk, Q&As, and an hour of discussion. Free entry, no need to book. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion.
Jun 12 @ 5:00 pm Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street
Tom Morris is internationally renowned as one of the UK’s foremost directors. He co-directed the National Theatre’s international smash-hit production War Horse, alongside Marianne Elliot, for which they won a Tony Award for Best Direction.[...]
Jun 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Rewley House
Brian Hurwitz is D’Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine and the Arts in the Department of English. He is a medical practitioner affiliated to the Division of Health and Social Care Research, King’s College London, directs[...]
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[...]
Jun 21 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm The Story Musuem
Two hour cycle ride with Max as he reveals some surprising facts about the science of cycling. Ride and demonstration. Please show up 10 minutes before departure at The Story Museum. The ride will finish[...]
Jun 21 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm The Story Musuem
Author and cyclist Max Gaskin explores the science of cycling from hydrogen to helmets! 6.30pm – 7.30pm £8/£5 concessions
Jun 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm MCS Festival Marquee
International table tennis player, broadcaster and writer, Matthew Syed will reflect on the psychology of performance.