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

May 19 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
As part of the Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, Professor David Cranston (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences) tells the story of William Osler’s life and career. Sir William Osler was a Canadian physician and one[...]
May 19 @ 9:00 am – May 20 @ 6:30 pm St Hilda's College
This conference will bring together established and emerging philosophical researchers from the US and the UK to discuss philosophical problems about psychological self-knowledge and agency. Each talk will be followed by comments from a local[...]
May 19 @ 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm The Mint House
Geoff Emerson explores the issues and describes an initiative at HM Prison Bullingdon which is seeking to use Restorative Justice as part of the adjudication (internal discipline) process. Can Restorative Justice reduce violence and give[...]
May 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Butler Room, Nuffield College
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College. Convenors: Andrew Dilnot, David Levy, James Painter Kate O’Regan,[...]
May 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Mansfield College
Ben Okri, one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions. Notable works include “Flowers and Shadows” and “The Famished road” which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1991
May 19 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Earth Trust invites you to a lecture by Robert Swan, OBE. Robert Swan is the first man to have walked unsupported to both poles and is currently attempting to walk with his son to the[...]
May 20 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Professor Clare Harris shares her latest research focussed on the visual anthropology of Tibet, showing stunning images from her recent book.
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 22 @ 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm Rewley House
Trials registries are a relatively new phenomenon and are there to ensure that a complete view of research is accessible to all. Yet, half off all trial results go unreported. The talk will discuss the[...]
May 22 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Jam Factory
Jolyon Maugham is the lawyer behind the “Dublin case” which seeks to determine whether Article 50 is unilaterally revocable. While Brexit evidently means Brexit, it may turn out that Article 50 doesn’t necessarily mean Brexit…[...]
May 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Wolfson College
Professor Heather Walton and Professor Peter Ackers discuss writing biographies of faith. Walton is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow. She works in one of the most interdisciplinary areas of[...]
May 23 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Weston Library Lecture Theatre
This Research Uncovered talk is part of the Centre for Digital Scholarship’s Research Uncovered series. The internet is becoming an increasingly dominant feature of social life in the western world. More and more users rely[...]
May 23 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
The transition to colonialism in South Asian history has been a vibrant and hotly contested part of India’s history. The role of scribes as historical actors of change in India’s history has only recently been[...]
May 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm The Lecture Theatre, St Cross College
Jonathan Leader Maynard, Departmental Lecturer in International Relations (DPIR) and Lecturer in International Relations, New College Oxford. Free, all welcome. No booking required.
May 23 @ 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm Ursell Room, Pusey House
Richard Rolle hoped that his translation of the Psalms and his commentary would, through its vocabulary and layout, help the readers to a knowledge of Latin as well as of the English language. The Lollard[...]
May 24 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Balliol College Historic Collections Centre, St Cross Church Holywell next door to Holywell Manor, Oxford OX1 3UH, UK
Nikki Tomkins, OCC conservator, will give an illustrated talk in the Unlocking Archives series about her work for Balliol this past year, repairing early printed books as part of the Wellcome Trust – supported Reconstructing[...]
May 24 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Oxford e-Research Centre
Oxford e-Research Centre May 24, 2017 – 13:00 Conference Room (278) 7 Keble Road, Oxford Seminar No booking required Open to all Many-Core Series Lunch provided The Centre’s Research Associate Karel Adámek will present a[...]
May 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Barclay Room, Green Templeton College
CANCELLED Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism” The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College. Convenors: James Painter, Richard Sambrook Jim Waterson,[...]
May 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Deakin Room, St Antony's College
From 2010 to 2016, then President, Benigno Aquino balanced China’s expansive maritime claim in the South China Sea. President Aquino challenged China by shifting the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) focus from domestic security[...]
May 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Seminar Room 3, St Anne's College
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar series. All welcome, no booking required. Dr James Emmott, Oxford Brookes University, will be speaking on On The Stratification of Language. ‘There are few sensations more[...]
May 24 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Wolfson College
A book colloquium featuring Stuart H Newberger, an international lawyer who represented victims of the terrorist plot hatched by Colonal Qaddafi that brought down French Airlines Flight 772. His latest book The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism,[...]
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[...]
May 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
Competition over resources and territory is not just a feature of modern or historical times, but a recurrent theme in the natural world, and a phenomenon that reaches far back in human evolutionary history. While[...]
May 25 @ 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Vernoon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College
Launch and discussion of Mari Mikkola’s new book, ‘The Wrong of Injustice: Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy’
May 25 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford
Join the English Faculty Twentieth Century Poetry Reading Group for a special event at the T. S. Eliot Theatre: Kay Redfield Jamison – author of the groundbreaking memoir An Unquiet Mind, and world expert in[...]
May 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The Mitre
Free money for all: a capitalist utopia Talk followed by questions and discussion All welcome
May 26 all-day Wolfson College
In this opening workshop in the One Belt One Road programme, a multidisplinary group of scholars will reassess the Old Silk Road, the centuries-old, pan-continental trading route that helped to establish China as a world[...]
May 26 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital
As part of the Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, Professor Adrian Banning, along with Professor Raj Kharbanda, Dr Kate Grebenik, Mr George Krasopolous, Mr Rana Sayeed, will talk about ‘Key hole implantation of a new[...]
May 26 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Lecture Theatre, Mansfield College
Eleanor Stein (University of Albany), is a former Administrative Judge and recently retire from NY State Public Service Commission as project manager for Reforming the Energy Vision. Cecil Corbin-Mark has represented WE ACT and environmental[...]
May 26 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm St Hilda's College
The St Hilda’s Feminist Salon is a space to bridge the gap between feminist theory and practice, and to discuss the complexities of feminism today. A speaker from the cutting-edge of feminist theory, art and[...]