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

May 22 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Oxford Martin School
While the links between natural resources, conflict and peace are well understood within the academic community, the UN system has been slow to respond to the risks and opportunities in a comprehensive way. A combination[...]
May 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Saskatcehewan Room, Exeter College
Sir Frank Berman is a distinguished diplomat and civil servant. After a Rhodes Scholarship to Wadham College, he joined Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, and from 1965-1971 served as an assistant legal advisor for the Foreign[...]
Jun 1 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Britton Room, Trinity College
Richard Barrett CMG OBE is a counter-terrorism expert, highly respected around the world for his insight and experience in combating violent extremism. Formerly a British diplomat (and Oxford student), Barrett has worked in the Foreign[...]
Jun 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Mansfield College
Carol Sanger, is the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia University.
Jun 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Speaker: Rudrangshu Mukherjee (Vice-Chancellor, Ashoka University). This lecture is co-organised by the Asian Studies Centre of St Antony’s College, the Free Speech Debate Project – a research project of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study[...]
Jun 6 @ 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm Ursell Room, Pusey House
Among all the books of the Bible the psalms have provided a unique spur to human creativity. In the Christian tradition particularly this has not only involved musical settings but also illuminations and illustrations. In[...]
Jun 8 @ 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm Saïd Business School
N.B. This event is not yet confirmed; however we expect it to be very popular. Please register your interest and, once confirmed, your registration will be converted into an order. In 2013, the Bank of[...]
Jun 9 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Britton Room, Trinity College
A leading centre-left political scientist and author within the EU, Mark Leonard graduated from Cambridge University, where he chaired the student Labour Party, and first worked for the think tank Demos before founding the Foreign[...]
Jun 14 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Danson Room, Trinity College
Dr John Reader launches his new book, published by Palgrave Macmillan – Theology and New Materialism: Spaces of Faithful Dissent. A panel presentation will preface a wider debate following chapters in the book which include[...]
Jun 14 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Seminar Room B, Manor Road Building
Why are there so few advocates for state-mediated economic redistribution and social welfare in contemporary Myanmar (Burma)? Moving beyond a focus on the regime-led political transition since 2011, this seminar explores how informal institutions generated[...]
Jun 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford Town Hall
The first synthetic virus self-replicated in 2002. Its DNA molecules were created in a laboratory, using genetic information copied from nature. In 2016 an international project, the Human Genome Project – Write, was launched to[...]
Jun 27 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Outside Wolvercote Village Hall
Swift experts Jocelyne Hughes and Chris Mason will lead an evening stroll around Wolvercote, with plenty of stops to watch swifts and talk, in between searching for swift nests. Dr Jocelyne Hughes is Director of[...]
Jul 1 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Oxford Festival of the Arts at Magdalen College School
John Leighfield, OW, has had a passion for maps since his schooldays and will discuss, in a highly illustrated talk, how the maps of Oxford have developed from the 14th century until the present –[...]
Jul 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm The Studio, Magdalen College School
Is it time to decolonise the curriculum? The demand to decolonise education is growing ever louder. From Rhodes Must Fall in South Africa, and here in Oxford, to the “Why is my curriculum so white?”[...]
Sep 2 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Rewley House
Numerous free talks, walking tours and workshops over two days.
Oct 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
Why has Indian foreign/security policy been characterized by drift from time to time? Neoclassical realism offers a useful but incomplete way of explaining the phenomenon of suboptimal policy outcomes. It shows how material factors working[...]
Oct 5 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm Saïd Business School
Ann Ziff will be sharing her personal life story, from being the daughter of famed American opera singer Harriet Henders, to philanthropy and fundraising and the Metropolitan Opera. Ms Ziff will discuss fundraising as the[...]
Oct 11 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Deakin Room, St Antony's College
The predominance of the state is overstated. In Burma and other countries, pockets of territory remain under the control of non-state actors. The processes through which these counter state orders emerge are varied and often[...]
Oct 13 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus
Join us for what promises to be an amazing evening filled with passion and opportunity to have fun! The evening will feature a panel discussion on the experiences of the generation that became known as[...]
Oct 16 all-day Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus, Gibbs Building, Room G217
Abstract: Human rights and development cannot be understood separately. Both rest on the ontological separation between ‘human’ and ‘nature’, and so, while human rights deals with the social relationships among human beings, development deals with[...]
Oct 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm St Catherine's College
Tan Sri Fng Ah Seng is a Malaysian Entrepreneur with a wealth of experience as a newspaper columnist, an author on entrepreneurship and leadership, and a public motivational speaker. We are honoured to be welcoming[...]
Oct 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Can the world be thought of in terms of sepia and light? This talk will explore the relationship between archaic labour and photography in colonial Ceylon with an emphasis on pearlescence and how this might[...]
Oct 31 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
This paper (joint work with Shalaka Thakur) examines the parallel governance system that has emerged under the protracted ceasefire between the Indian government and the separatist National Socialist Council of Nagaland/Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) or NSCN(IM). Drawing[...]
Nov 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
As the world watches the Myanmar military decimate the country’s Rohingya Muslim population, in northern Myanmar the military is fighting a war by other means. Across Kachin and northern Shan state, an estimated 120,000 people[...]
Nov 2 @ 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm Simpkins Lee Theater, LMH
Join us at LMH for an In Conversation with Gary Lineker and Alan Rusbridger Gary Lineker OBE was one of England’s top football strikers in the 1980s and early 1990s, and holds England’s record for[...]
Nov 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Museum of the History of Science
Anna Dumitriu joins us to talk about the current special exhibition and her work exploring infectious diseases and emerging technologies through art. Part of the special exhibition Anna Dumitriu: BioArt and Bacteria
Nov 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Oxford Town Hall
The Oxford Guild is delighted to welcome a very special, high profile and unique guest for what will be one of the biggest and most exciting events of the year – Valtteri Bottas, the Formula[...]
Nov 6 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College
How a Bolivian became a Feminist: A Personal History Sonia Montaño is a Bolivian sociologist. She is currently active in Bolivia as a feminist researcher and activist and member of PIEB (Programa de Investigation Estrategica[...]
Nov 6 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm St Edmund Hall - Pontigny Room
Andy will take you on a journey from the creation of ghetto’s to the rise of Hip-Hop as a critique against social and racial injustice. He will discuss the empowerment that has emerged through this[...]
Nov 7 – Nov 11 all-day Old Fire Station
he travelling exhibition first launched at the Edinburgh Festival, and its next stop in Oxford has been designed to mark the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Act, which introduced a set of legal grounds for[...]