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

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 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[...]
May 29 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Old Road Campus
Genomic variation, through its effect on gene structure and expression, plays an important role in disease predisposition, biology and clinical response to therapy. In my presentation, I will provide examples of ongoing projects that emerged[...]
May 29 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Ashmoelan Museum
William Morris and Edward Burne- Jones developed the Pre Raphaelite’s ideals into both mystical and moral associations. Find out how these associations contributed to the Art Nouveau movement
May 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Danson Room, Trinity College
Join the Weidenfeld Scholars for an engaging debate on economic inequality moderated by Jon Snow. We will be engaging with what drives inequality, what economic, social and political impact inequality has and what policymakers ought[...]
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 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 – 6:30 pm Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Delivered by Professor Philippe Van Parijs, University of Louvain
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 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Museum of Natural History
Join us at the Museum of Natural History for an evening of talks and networking to celebrate the research behind our new exhibition,‘Biosense’. The exhibition features contemporary research, including how bacteria sense their micro-world, why[...]
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 Lecture Theatre
Free, all welcome, no booking required. After a week long residency choreographing to the ancient Greek text of Odyssey Book XI, Cathy Marston will discuss her approaches to adapting works of literature into dance performances[...]
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[...]
Jun 6 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm St Theosevia Centre
We are all aware that Christian communities with ancient roots in the Middle East, are again under enormous pressure.This study day looks in detail at the present situation and how different communities are responding. Mardean[...]
Jun 9 @ 4:00 pm – Jun 10 @ 5:00 pm Saïd Business School
How do the humanities engage with business, and vice-versa? And what might this relationship lead to in the future? This panel will explore the reciprocity – existing and potential – of business and the humanities,[...]
Jun 9 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre
Professor Sir John Bell has been invited to Oxford Brookes to discuss the future of medicine and the role of the Oxford Academic Health Science Centre. His research interests are in the area of autoimmune[...]
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 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Academic Centre, Lecture Theatre 1
The next Surgical Grand Rounds presentation at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is a Burdette Lecture and will be given by Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, President of the British Medical Association, President of the[...]
Jun 13 @ 10:30 am – 5:30 pm St Cross College
Part of a series of one-day conferences held by the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics (HAPP). Arguably the First World War saw the greatest advent of new science and technology and the[...]
Jun 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Pembroke College
Hosted by the Pembroke History Society, Professor Paul Hyams will give a guest lecture, open to all. Please register to attend. “This is a lecture for intelligent men and women who may wonder whether Magna[...]
Jun 16 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm John Radcliffe Hospital, Level6, NDS Seminar Room
The Patient Safety Academy at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences are pleased to invite you to a seminar on current safety issues for senior management, led by Dr Ken Catchpole from Cedars Sinai Healthcare,[...]
Jun 16 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
#### This event is fully booked. ####   The second of the College’s 50th Anniversary termly lectures will be given by Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the 2012 Olympic Cauldron and one of Britain’s foremost design[...]
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 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm OVADA
Six members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), including comedian and journalist Mark Thomas are taking legal action against the Metropolitan Police’s monitoring and keeping of their information on a database that deals with[...]
Jun 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre (upstairs function room)
Guest speaker: Dr Mike Macnair, Associate Professor in Law, University of Oxford Talk, Q&As, and discussion. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take part actively in the discussion. Free entry, no[...]
Jun 19 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am John Radcliffe Hospital, Academic Centre, Lecture Theatre 1
The next Surgical Grand Rounds presentation at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences will be given by Mr Nick Maynard and Dr Tom Macgregor, Consultant Upper GI Surgeon and Surgical SpR, Oxford University Hospitals NHS[...]
Jun 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm MCS JS Hall
Art critic and arts and culture journalist for The Guardian, Jonathan Jones will question whether art really is a civilising force.
Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm OVADA
The award-winning video journalist and campaign filmmaker, Zoe Broughton, has spent more than 20 years putting herself on the frontline – going undercover at an animal-testing lab, being chased by police while filming on a[...]
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[...]
Jun 27 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Oxford Castle
A lecture by Professor Richard Sharpe, University of Oxford.