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 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Conventional approaches to climate policy are failing to produce real results and need to be renovated. Professor Steve Rayner, Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, and editor of The Hartwell Approach to[...]
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 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 @ 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[...]
May 12 @ 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 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Mankind’s strategies of mitigation and adaptation may well turn out to be too weak and too late to avoid dangerous climate change later this century. So might we need to try a different route –[...]
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 14 @ 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 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 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 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am 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 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 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 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Can we develop transport technologies that are less harmful to the planet? Professor David Banister, Director of the Transport Studies Unit, and Professor Malcom McCulloch, head of the Electrical Power Group will present research into[...]
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 @ 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[...]
Jun 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Wig and Pen
Psychologist in the Pub, Mindfulness courses bring taught in UK schools to teachers and pupils. 6.30, for 7pm start.
Jun 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Beckit Room
Alongside global warming, the destruction of the world’s biodiversity and natural capital threatens to undermine economic growth. Another 3 billion people and a world economy some 16 times bigger by 2100 threatens environmental destruction on[...]
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 12 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, Dyson Perrins Building
Earth System scientists believe the Earth has entered a new epoch in the Geological Time Scale, the Anthropocene or ‘the Age of Man’, in which humans now rival the great forces of nature in determining[...]
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[...]