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

May 19 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Seminar Rooms at Queen Elizabeth House
The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Oxford Department of International Development invites you to our upcoming research seminars. These research seminars are intended to connect active researchers and students on the topics[...]
May 26 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
For most of the world’s toughest challenges, there exists a tension between the needs of an individual and what is best for the common good. Income derived from fishing may be vital to one country’s[...]
Jun 15 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Herbertson Room, School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road
There is increasing recognition over the last decade that conservation, while conserving biodiversity of global value, can have local costs. Understanding these costs is essential as a first step to delivering conservation projects that do[...]
Jun 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room)
“Where have all the bumblebees gone?” Since the mid-nineteenth century, three species of bumblebee in the British Isles have gone extinct, and several other species have become so rare that they are at risk of[...]
Jun 18 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Playhouse
A discussion with photographer Alison Baskerville and curator Brigitte Lardinois that will consider women as photographers and photographic subjects, and the effects of social and technological change on portrait photography over the last 100 years.
Jun 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Old Fire Station, Oxford
Ludo, snakes & ladders and draughts are all popular pastimes, but in the past couple of decades a new generation of board games from designers with backgrounds in maths and science has begun to break[...]
Sep 10 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Join Photograph Collections curatorial staff for a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s dedicated research area. A special opportunity to receive a guided tour of the climate-controlled storerooms and to view collections[...]
Sep 13 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm Syndicate Room, St Antony’s College
Oxford’s varied geology and green areas, both adjacent to river and stream corridors and on drier land make the city far richer in wildlife than large tracts of rural ‘green’ Oxfordshire. This talk will explore[...]
Sep 27 @ 9:15 am The Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
The Symposium focuses on drought and water scarcity in the UK and globally. A range of expert speakers give their perspectives from an academic and practisers view on the impact of drought and how to[...]
Oct 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Daubeny Laboratory, Oxford Botanic Garden
Professor Mark Chase FRS (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) talks about the DNA-based classification of flowering plants – an update from the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG IV. Part of the Oxford Botanic Garden Autumn Plant Science[...]
Oct 15 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Mordan Hall, St Hugh's College
Our present laws attacking conflict of interest and corruption came into existence during years of blistering financial and political corruption scandals in early Hanoverian England, notably the 1720 South Sea Bubble. But there was also[...]
Oct 25 @ 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm The Mint House
Tim Newell was a prison governor for 38 years, with the last ten governing Grendon and Springhill prisons. Grendon is a unique therapeutic community prison for people who have committed serious crimes. Springhill is for[...]
Nov 1 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Lady Margaret Hall
The Tim Hetherington Society and the Oxford PPE Society present: 7 Days in Syria, an evening with Janine di Giovanni. Join us for free in the Simpkins Lee Theatre at Lady Margaret Hall for a[...]
Nov 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Moser Theatre, Wadham College
Please join us at 7pm on Thursday of 7th Week (November 24th) for a presentation by Daniel Castro Garcia and Thomas Saxby on their recent publication ‘Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–2016’. —————————————————– “The photographs are[...]
Nov 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Drawing on his expertise as former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Achim Steiner, Director of the Oxford Martin School, will present the latest trends and explore the varied challenges of a global[...]
Dec 8 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Kellogg College
Helena Chance, author of The Factory in the Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age (Manchester University Press, 2017), discusses the evolution of corporate landscapes following the Second World[...]
Jan 17 @ 7:30 pm Department of Earth Sciences
An award-winning travel writer, Elsa Hammond has sailed from Samoa to Fiji, unicycled across England, carried out conservation work in the jungles of Borneo, and spent 51 days rowing alone on the Pacific Ocean. Whilst[...]
Jan 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Department of Earth Sciences
From Lesotho Rock art to Peruvian orchids, multi-award winning fine art photographer Quintin Lake will share his highlights from visiting over 70 countries. Quintin will speak on his approach to expedition photography having photographed for[...]
Jan 26 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm SaÏd Business School
Mary Keen, Paradise and Plenty – the How and Wow of Lord Rothschild’s private garden on the Waddesdon Estate Mary Keen is a writer, lecturer and renowned garden designer and will talk about the garden,[...]
Feb 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
This lecture is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and The Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School Dishonest practices brought to light by the 2008 crisis have raised questions[...]
Feb 23 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm SaÏd Business School
Victoria Summerley, London: An Unexpected Paradise Victoria Summerley is an award-winning journalist and author. She will be taking us on a personal tour of some of the gardens in her book, Great Gardens of London.
Feb 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Examination Schools,
Lord Browne of Madingley is presently Chairman of L1 Energy, the Chairman of Trustees of both the Tate and the QEII Prize for Engineering, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of[...]
Feb 28 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Lincoln College
Lincoln Leads In Material Culture In conversation with Robert Kerr • Former executive at Burberry • Dr Joshua Thomas • Fellow in Archaeology • Sarah Bochicchio • MSt in Modern History – Elizabeth I’s wardrobe[...]
Mar 3 @ 5:45 pm – 7:15 pm Lady Margaret Hall
With Rory Stewart OBE MP, Minister of State at the Department for International Development and Conservative MP for Penrith and The Border.
Mar 8 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Oxford Launchpad
Limited spaces available so register now to secure your place: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/skills-workshop-an-introduction-to-design-tickets-32120337795 Working on a start up but lacking skills in design? This session will help beginners and non-designers get comfortable with the basic principles of[...]
Mar 16 @ 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Saïd Business School
Saïd Business School is thrilled to announce Lawrence H. Summers, American economist and former Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama, will be in conversation with Dean Peter Tufano at the School on[...]
Apr 4 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm Old School Room, St Peter’s Church
Peter Newbold will give an introduction to the Mammals of Oxfordshire and an overview of how to identify and record this illusive taxon. After studying Environmental Science at Southampton University, Peter has been a professional[...]
Apr 11 @ 4:15 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Dyson Perrins Building, Herbertson Room
OCTF seminar followed by drinks Speaker: Prof Roger Kitching, Professor Emeritus, Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Australia This talk will review key aspects of recent research on the use of insect assemblages to detect[...]
Apr 26 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Saïd Business School
Saïd Business School is pleased to welcome Lubomira Rochet, Global Chief Digital Officer of the L’Oréal Group, to speak at the School on Wednesday 26 April. Leading digital transformation at L’Oréal L’Oréal is the world’s[...]
May 2 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm Old School Room, St Peter’s Church
The talk will cover: identification of Swifts and differences between them, House Martins and Swallows; causes of recent population decline; what is being to to help; how local people can assist; and an outline of[...]