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 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 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 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.[...]
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[...]
Jun 26 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm OVADA
A discussion about the ethics of Arts Sponsorship with Jeremy Spafford, Director of Arts at the Old Fire Station, and representatives from arts activists Art Not Oil – a network is dedicated to taking creative[...]
Jul 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford Union
Join our expert panel for an evening of debate exploring the subject of the United Kingdom’s place within the European Union.
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 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm Oxford Martin School
To avoid dangerous climate change will require not only very steep cuts in emissions, but also the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Most of the models that avoid dangerous climate change do so[...]
Sep 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm European Studies Center, St. Anthony's College
My European citizenship rights…and why I don’t want to lose them. We warmly invite you to a public meeting, followed by a reception to launch New Europeans in Oxford. For details and speakers, please visit[...]
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 15 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Lecture Room B (off the main quad), Worcester College
Ordinary people across Europe have reacted with horror to the plight of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war and other conflicts—and sent solidarity. David Cameron reacted with callous cynicism. At first he held firm against[...]
Oct 24 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm United Refiorm Church Hall near Temple Ciowley Library
(1) Ancient Africa’s Gift to: Law, Architecture, Mathematics, Judaism, Islam & Christianity. This will be a 45 minute slide presentation. (2) Magna Carta, Ancient Africa’s Gift to the English. The ancient roots of Magna Carta[...]
Nov 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Mass Circulation: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper With Richard Dorment, art critic, and Dr Alexander Sturgis, Director, Ashmolean Museum A special Ashmolean evening In Conversation event Wednesday 18 November 6‒7pm Lecture Theatre As[...]
Dec 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Blasphemy and Apostasy exist in many countries in the world, commonly within the Middle East and North Africa. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws were first codified by India’s British rulers in 1860 and were inherited by Pakistan[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 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 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 19 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Pipe Partridge Building, LMH
Erwin James murdered two men and spent 20 years behind bars. Now he has written a book called Redeemable. Is he? From 5.00pm, LMH will be selling copies of Erwin’s book in the lobby of[...]
Feb 22 @ 7:45 pm – 9:00 pm Lady Brodie Room, St Hilda's College
Now in its seventh year, St Hilda’s College Gender Equality Festival features speakers, workshops, debates, film screenings and a comedy night. Student, blogger, part-time model and eco-fashion-expert, and winner of the Vogue Talent Contest for[...]
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 29 @ 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm Oxford Brookes University, John Henry Brookes Building, Room 301
Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society Seminar Series
Mar 4 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm L2, Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical Institute,
In his talk, Kerry will explore the pressing practical problem of how hurricane activity will respond to global warming, and how hurricanes could in turn be influencing the atmosphere and ocean.
Mar 4 @ 5:15 pm – 7:00 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Pipe Partridge Building, Lady Margaret Hall
The 2016 annual Heron-Allen lecture will be given by Dominic Johnson, Alastair Buchan Chair of International Relations, Director of Research, at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), Oxford. For millions of years, humans[...]
Mar 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College
The introductory talk at the third annual Merton Equality Conversation will be given by Peter Tatchell. This will be followed by a discussion and Q&A, with a panel including: Helen Charlesworth, Vice-Chair of the University’s[...]