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

May 7 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Ho Tim Seminar Room, China Centre, Oxford
Book Launch with Author & Translator: Yan Ge (顏歌)’s The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, translated by Nicky Harman https://www.facebook.com/events/605485149803274/ 2018/May/07 Monday 5-7PM Ho Tim Seminar Room, China Centre, St Hugh’s College, Oxford Open and free[...]
May 8 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College
Join St Cross alumna Kristina Lunz (MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy, 2014), co-founder of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, for a panel discussion on diplomacy, feminist foreign policy and social entrepreneurship. Joining her will[...]
May 9 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Jesus College - Ship Centre Lecture Theatre
How do we define a sound or a taste for which our language does not have a dedicated word? Typically, we borrow words from another sensory modality. Wines, for example, are often described by words[...]
May 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
In celebration of the Oxford Festival of Nature, Blackwell’s Broad Street will be hosting a day of free Nature talks and activities. At 1pm we will be joined by Jeremy Mynott who will be discussing[...]
May 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
In today’s fast changing, highly interconnected, culturally diverse world our current approaches to policy need to become more responsive to change. Currently the dominant mode of policy making is still based on what we might[...]
May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Bonn Square
As part of Think Human Festival, this one-off pop-up event is a unique opportunity for visitors of all ages to interact with leading academics from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes[...]
May 17 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm The Mint House
Lunchtime talk and discussion led by Pete Wallis of Oxfordshire’s Youth Justice Service at the Mint House, Oxford Centre for Restorative Practice. Refreshments from 12.45.
May 21 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Chakrabarti Room (JHB208)
Since 2015 a group of research-active academics from Oxford Brookes School of Law have been investigating how the criminal law can, and should, tackle speech and images on the internet which are dangerous or offensive.[...]
May 25 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm The Green Room, Headington Hill Hall
The year is 1964 and ten defendants are on trial for their lives in South Africa in what is widely perceived as a politically motivated proceeding. The defendants include many prominent campaigners against apartheid, notably[...]
May 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Department of International Development, Seminar Room 3
Federica Infantino is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Group for Research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her project ‘Practicing Immigration Detention and Deportation in the EU. Actors,[...]
May 31 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
This lecture explores the global preoccupation with criminality in the early twenty-first century, a preoccupation strikingly disproportionate, in most places and for most people, to the risks posed by lawlessness to the conduct of everyday[...]
Jun 8 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, Hands Building, Mansfield College
Founder and co-head of Doughty Street Chambers, Europe’s largest human rights practice. He has argued leading cases in constitutional law, criminal law and media law. Author.
Jun 9 @ 10:30 am – 5:00 pm Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Dept of Physics, Parks Rd, Oxford
Since antiquity there has been a fascination with the notions of space and time with Aristotle’s philosophy remaining dominant until the advent of the heliocentric Copernican system of the Solar System marked the first steps[...]
Jun 9 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
In celebration of the Oxford Festival of Nature, Blackwell’s Broad Street will be hosting a day of free Nature talks and activities. At 1pm we will be joined by Jeremy Mynott who will be discussing[...]
Jun 13 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Wolfson College
It is generally thought that China and the West have developed historically along different lines, each with its own understanding of society and the ideas and concepts on which society is founded. Nowhere is this[...]
Jun 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room)
Conjuring the Universe: The origins of the laws of nature Peter Atkins most recent book (OUP) is ‘Conjuring the Universe: the origins of the laws of nature’. In this talk he will explore why the[...]
Jun 18 all-day Green Templeton College Oxford
Her Excellency Minister Deqa Yasin Hagi Yusuf, Minister of Women and Human Rights Development, Federal Government of Somalia Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in conflict-affected contexts: Current challenges and opportunities in Somalia. In Somalia,[...]
Jun 18 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College
A History of Food Fraud and Its Detection Dr Duncan Campbell (DPhil Soil Solution Chemistry, 1986) Duncan’s talk will cover the long history of food adulteration from medieval Germany to 19th century America, the pioneers[...]
Sep 4 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
A look at the clothes, underclothes, shoes and accessories which would have been worn by some of the more colourful characters in the Palace’s 300-year history. This talk considers the part that arsenic, lead, mercury[...]
Sep 13 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Large numbers of satellites currently circle Earth, continuously observing its surface in a variety of ways. In this lecture, Professor Barry Parsons will explain how these satellites may be used to investigate earthquakes – mapping[...]
Oct 2 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Martin School, Seminar Room 1
Introducing a pioneering approach to ‘global legal epidemiology’, Prof Steven Hoffman will discuss legal mechanisms available for coordinating international responses to transnational problems, their prospects, and their challenges. Global legal epidemiology is the scientific study[...]
Oct 16 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Department of Physics, University of Oxford
How does lab research become a technology that affects your everyday life? Come and find out how Oxford Physics researchers working on cutting-edge physics research and technology development are creating innovative products that could end[...]
Oct 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Wesley Memorial Church
This talk has unfornately been cancelled.  It will be rescheduled for the New Year.   Talk followed by questions and discussion. This is part of a series of eight meetings on Thursday evenings, each one[...]
Nov 13 @ 5:30 pm Seminar Room 2, Wolfson College
In recent years, several developing countries have adopted regulatory laws to remain relevant in an increasingly globalized world. On the Indian Subcontinent, the entire Indian and Pakistani legal systems – their Constitutions and Codes of[...]
Nov 14 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm Magdalen College Auditorium
Organised by Oxford Civic Society @oxcivicsoc. Al Bell, Director of Oxford Citizens Advice, talks about the charity’s role in helping Oxford people and influencing decision makers on a range of contemporary social and economic issues[...]
Nov 25 @ 11:00 am – 6:15 pm Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre & JHB207
Sunday, 25th November 2018 11am – 6.15pm (Registration starts at 10.30am) Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre & JHB207, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Road, Oxford OX3 0BP “What does it mean to[...]
Nov 28 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Laser Support Services
Meet thermal imaging applications specialist to discuss how thermal imaging can be used in your application.
Nov 29 @ 11:00 am – 1:30 pm Laser Support Services
Meet thermal imaging applications specialist to discuss how thermal imaging can be used in your applications
Nov 29 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Laser Support Services
Meet thermal imaging applications specialist to discuss your application and how thermal imaging can be used
Nov 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
This is a joint lecture with The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the Oxford Martin School Ana María Loboguerrero, Head of Global Policy Research at CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture[...]