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

Jun 1 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House
The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Department of International Development will be hosting two research seminars in the coming weeks – The afternoons of May 19 and June 1st. We invite researchers[...]
Jun 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm St Peter's College Chapel
Three high-profile SPC alumni return to their college to discuss the impending EU Referendum in a forum chaired by the Master, Mark Damazer CBE. Join the Editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens (BA Modern[...]
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 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Weston Library, Lecture Theatre
The decade following the turn of the millennium may have seen an epochal shift in the nature of the discussion of religion in public life in the UK. The 9/11 attacks in the USA, and[...]
Jun 13 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Upper Library, Christ Church, Oxford
When the Elizabethan gentleman John Sadler sat down to copy his music partbooks little did he know that he had chosen an overly acidic ink. He filled his manuscripts with Latin sacred music from throughout[...]
Jun 14 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library
Drawing upon sociology of culture and digital rhetoric literature, this talk will illuminate the persuasive function of hashtags in the context of the UK EU membership referendum. What makes a hashtag more influential, or more[...]
Jun 14 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Department of Economics, Manor Road Building, Seminar Room C
It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating many different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are domestically retained) counters pure[...]
Jun 20 – Jul 15 all-day Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University
A collaboration between Japanese artist Isao Miura and poet Chris Beckett, presented to the Glass Tank by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre. In spring 1689, Matsuo Bashō sold his house in Edo (now Tokyo) and[...]
Jun 20 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Magdalen College School
Professor of History at Oxford University, Laurence Brockliss, discusses the ups and downs of Magdalen College School’s fortunes since its foundation in 1480.
Jun 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Ultimate Picture Palace
One of Britain’s most significant and controversial artists Maggi Hambling discusses her career and recent work with Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum.
Jun 22 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Magdalen College School
Art critic, journalist and broadcaster Alastair Sooke talks about the final decade of one of the most beloved artists of the twentieth century, Henri Matisse.
Jun 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Discover the life and work of William Morris’ younger duaghter May, who managed the embroidery workshop at Morris & Co 1885-1896. This lecture includes material from her collection of needlework designs and photographs of English[...]
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 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Oxford Town Hall, Long Room
What would it have been like to visit your physician in the 19th century? Researcher Melissa Dickinson takes you on a time travel to discover how the sounds of the body helped determine medical diagnoses[...]
Jun 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Phoenix Picturehouse
Date/Time: Sunday 26 June, 18:00 Venue: Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford Admissions: Free, book online Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sun-opening-weekend.html Henry Moseley is regarded as one of the most important scientific heroes that never was. Just one[...]
Jun 27 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Magdalen College School
BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz returns to the Festival to talk about his latest book ‘Think Like An Artist’. Discover how we can all harness our own creativity and achieve extraordinary things.
Jun 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Museum of the History of Science
From King George III’s private observatory to the origins of the National Physical Laboratory, Lee Macdonald reveals new research on the remarkable story of Kew Observatory in this lecture at the Museum of the History[...]
Jun 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford Town Hall, Assembly Room
Barry Murnane reveals the latest discoveries from his TORCH partnership with the Science Museum London, using unusual objects from its collections to tell the history of lung disease in the 19th century.
Jun 29 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford Town Hall
A talk as part of the Oxfordshire Science Festival 2016. Barry Murnane reveals the latest discoveries from his TORCH partnership with the Science Museum London, using unusual objects from its collections to tell the history[...]
Jun 29 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Magdalen College School
Director of Modern Art Oxford Paul Hobson talks about what art has become today, explains why it’s easy to understand, and demystifies contemporary art.
Jun 30 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
In one hour flat, Jim Baggott tells the story of our universe, from the Big Bang to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later. Physics, cosmology and biology all combine[...]
Jun 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens
Shakespeare lived in one of the most unhealthy times and places in history. Disease was rife and hygiene poor, physicians could only be trained abroad, and there was no such thing as a public medical[...]
Jul 9 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
The Las Casas Institute presents a day-long conference on money as a prism through which we often view the world and its challenges. Join theologians, economists, and other experts in discussing what money reveals and[...]
Jul 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Glass Tank, John Henry Brookes Building, Oxford Brookes University
To coincide with the current exhibition by Isao Miura and Chris Beckett, ‘Sketches from the Poem Road (after Matsuo Bashō’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North)’, which runs from 20 June to 15 July,[...]
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[...]
Jul 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Museum of the History of Science
The Museum is helping to develop board games about medieval Islamic medicine. Daniel Burt (Oriental Institute, Oxford University) presents this exciting new project. Doors open at 6.30pm.
Jul 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Find out more about some of the 5000 medieval objects which make up the Durham River Wear assamblage, and what they tell us about how people traded, travelled and lived theri lives in post medieval[...]
Jul 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm New College (Lecture Theatre room 6)
Speakers: -Jonathan Scheele (Senior Member, St Antony’s College and Head of Representation at the European Commission Representation in the UK, 2010-12) -Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College and Foundation for European Progressive Studies) -Lise Butler (Pembroke College[...]
Aug 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Museum of the History of Science
Literally and figuratively, what was time for Shakespeare? When the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet announces that the performance will last two hours, what does Shakespeare mean? Professor Tiffany Stern (English, Oxford University) will explore[...]
Sep 10 @ 1:15 pm – 4:00 pm Weston Library
The Weston Library will be opening its doors for visitors to see many of the wonderful things that the University of Oxford has to offer. Doors open at 1 however talks will be from 1:15[...]