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

May 9 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Martin School
Is international governance facing a pivotal moment? Seventy years on from the creation of the UN, the list of issues requiring international co-operation is lengthy and complex, ranging from the conflict in Syria to infectious[...]
May 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Mitigating climate requires a transition to low carbon energy systems and renewable energy looks increasingly likely to play a key role, but the most important resources are intermittent. This lecture will describe the research of[...]
May 16 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, looks at what we mean by development and what citizens, governments and the international community can do to encourage it. Goldin explains how the notion of[...]
May 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
In this talk Professor Daniel Kammen, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow at INET Oxford, will discuss the strategies emerging to cost-effectively decarbonise energy systems worldwide. This work integrates elements of the science and engineering of energy[...]
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 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Prevention and management of infectious diseases remains one of this century’s biggest challenges. As drugs and vaccinations have proliferated, protection from disease has increasingly been seen as an individual problem, requiring individual action. But due[...]
May 21 @ 9:30 am – 1:30 pm Jacqueline du Pre Building, St Hilda's College
Interactive workshop with Lausanne-based dance company, Les Marchepieds on ‘Digitizing Ancient Dance’. All are welcome. No experience required. Workshop participants are also encouraged to attend the accompanying performance by Les Marchepieds of work they have[...]
May 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, and fellow author Chris Kutarna preview their forthcoming book about the risks and rewards of a new Renaissance taking place in our modern world. They will[...]
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 1 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm St Luke's Chapel, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
How has humanities scholarship influenced biomedical research and civil liberties and how can scholars serve the common good? Entrepreneur and scholar Donald Drakeman will discuss his new book exploring the value and impact of the[...]
Jun 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm The Sheldonian
Is there anything wrong with putting a price on health, education, citizenship, and the environment? Where do markets serve the public good, and where do they not belong? Join us for a lively discussion with[...]
Jun 9 @ 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
Talks on the poetry of John Milton (Dr Margaret Kean, St Hilda’s College, Oxford); music by George Frideric Handel (Dr Jonathan Williams, St Hilda’s College and Faculty of Music, University of Oxford); and Morris’s dance[...]
Jun 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Said Business School
Welcome to Future Debates, a series of public events supported by the British Science Association. A genome is an entire set of DNA; all the instructions for making every part of a living thing. Research[...]
Jun 23 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Museum of Natural History, Oxford
Leopold Eyharts flew on the Atlantis Shuttle to the International Space Station in 2008. Part of his mission included the installation of the Colombus Space Laboratory, the main contribution of Europe to the International Space[...]
Jun 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford Town Hall, Assembly Room
Date/Time: Saturday 25 June, 19:00 Venue: Oxford Town Hall, Assembly Room Admissions: £7/£5(conc.)/£22(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sat-opening-weekend.html Come and be part of a unique evening combining scientific talks with inspirational dance. Hear researchers from[...]
Jun 26 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Story Museum, Pembroke Street, Oxford
Visualise the world in the 21st century in seven new maps! Geographers Ben Hennig and Danny Dorling present some of the key challenges and questions relating to the future of people across the world, using[...]
Jun 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Story Museum
How to create in the lab the process taking place at the heart of the stars? How to harvest this energy to power the world? Nuclear fusion is arguably the hardest technical challenge humanity works[...]
Jun 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
In the era of the development of technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence, machines are more and more capable of outperforming human beings at work tasks. What will be the decline of today’s professions? What[...]
Jul 3 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Amey Theatre, Abingdon School
Join engaging physicist and Guardian science blogger Jon Butterworth in a lively and fun science adventure about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Share the excitement of the discovery of the Higgs boson, and the[...]
Jul 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Amey Theatre
Date/Time: Sunday 3 July, 19:00 Venue: Amey Theatre, Abingdon School, Abingdon-on-Thames Admissions: £7/£5(conc.)/£22(fam.) Suitability: 16+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/grand-finale.html What are the next steps for human evolution? Natural changes or technologies? Combining gene splicing and trans-humanism,[...]
Jul 16 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Finding Atlantis: The Archaeology of Sunken Cities Atlantis remains one of marine archaeology’s most enduring mysteries. But what is the archaeological reality of sunken cities? Discover the incredible story of the oldest submerged town so[...]
Sep 19 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Sutro Room, Trinity College
Jonathon Porritt and Shaun Chamberlin celebrate the launch of the late Trinity alumnus David Fleming’s extraordinary book, ‘Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy’. This intimate event will[...]
Oct 6 @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm Amey Theatre
Pen Hadow is one of the world’s leading polar explorers; in 2003 he made history and became the first, and so far only, person to trek solo without resupply from Canada to the North Pole.[...]
Oct 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Inequality is centre-stage in political debate both globally and in individual countries, being blamed for everything from Brexit to stagnating wages and growth. Professor Brian Nolan, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Inequality and[...]
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 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Examination Schools
One of the world’s leading inequality economists, Professor Branko Milanovic, presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains[...]
Oct 18 @ 7:30 pm St Michael at the Northgate
Sam Hampton who recently went to Leiden will be talking about what Oxford can learn from its twin city’s cycling infrastructure and culture.
Oct 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's College
DANSOX presents Siobhan Davies and Jeremy Millar in a dialogue between choreography and visual arts. In this talk they will discuss the different strategies of collaborating across artforms.The event will include performative moments with collaborator[...]
Oct 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Department of Earth Sciences
Ready to go on an expedition? Your health is of the utmost importance! OUEC is dedicated to provide you with a wealth of information for any expedition and wilderness medical advice or training! Our speaker,[...]
Oct 29 @ 9:30 am – 3:30 pm Green Templeton College
An unwinnable battle? Zika and Ebola. Two viruses that are emerging as huge global threats to human health. What can we learn from the past? How must we approach the future? Some of Oxford’s leading[...]