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

Mar 23 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, John Henry Brookes Building
Think Human Festival is proud to host this panel on Writing Working-Class Fiction. Kerry Hudson, Kit de Waal and Alex Wheatle are celebrated contemporary British novelists who have all written working-class experience into their fiction.[...]
Apr 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Balliol College Historic Collections Centre - St Cross Church, next door to Holywell Manor
Anna Espínola Lynn, MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture (Wadham College, Oxford), will be speaking on the transmission of style in fifteenth-century Catalan manuscript production. All welcome! Feel free to bring your lunch.[...]
Apr 25 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Deakin Room, St Antony's College
The emergence of Islamic liberalism in Southeast Asia over the last two decades has been characterized by its highly uneven reception across and within national contexts. In Malaysia, liberalism is a thoroughly negative category in[...]
Apr 27 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Andrew Wiles Building (Mathematical Institute), Lecture Theatre 3
Award-winning composer Jonathan Dove talks to broadcaster Kate Kennedy about music, war and commemoration. Their discussion will be illustrated with excerpts from his compositions. Dove’s works include In Damascus, To An Unknown Soldier and the[...]
May 1 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Carrie Gracie grew up mostly in North-East Scotland and set up a restaurant before taking a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. She spent a year teaching in two Chinese universities and then[...]
May 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
The talk is part of seminar series, ‘India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series’, organised by the Indian National Student Association (INSA), with support from the South Asian Studies Programme at[...]
May 4 @ 5:00 pm Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, Hands Building, Mansfield College
Widely acclaimed for his sculpture, installations and public artworks Sir Antony Gormley’s work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.
May 7 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's College
The Oxford Guild and its Collegium Global Network in association with the Oxford PPE Society is delighted to welcome a very special guest – Tawakkol Karman, one of the most famous and most decorated Nobel[...]
May 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Deakin Room, St Antony's College
The Making of the Indonesian Migrant Labour Movement Junko Asano (St Antony’s, International Development) The Bold and Brave of Burma: A Micro-Level Study of the first Movers of Dissent between 1988-2011 Jieun Baek (Hertford, Blavatnik[...]
May 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Deakin Room, St Antony's College
The Making of the Indonesian Migrant Labour Movement Junko Asano (St Antony’s, International Development) The Bold and Brave of Burma: A Micro-Level Study of the first Movers of Dissent between 1988-2011 Jieun Baek (Hertford, Blavatnik[...]
May 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
The talk is part of seminar series, ‘India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series’, organised by the Indian National Student Association (INSA), with support from the South Asian Studies Programme at[...]
May 10 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre, Exeter College
Johan Eliasch, Swedish Billionaire CEO and Chairman of Head N.V (a global sporting goods group) since 1995, a global philanthropist and former special representative to the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on clean energy and[...]
May 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
American Cool Modernism Series: ‘State of the Nation’ with Bonnie Greer and Sarah Churchwell What does America stand for in the twenty-first century? What is the true story behind the ‘American dream’? What does ‘America[...]
May 11 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
As part of the Surgical Grand Round lecture series, Professor David Cranston from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford will discuss ‘Medicine in Art’.
May 11 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm St Luke's Chapel
The Race and Resistance Programme at The Oxford Center in the Humanities, is honoured to host the Honorable Peter Gastrow, on the afternoon of the 11th of May, (Friday of 3rd Week). Gastrow, a former[...]
May 11 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Speaker: Jacques Rupnik (Sciences Po Paris)
May 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Shulman Auditorium, The Queen's College, Oxford
Film Screening with Director: Kit Hung’s Soundless Wind Chime (無聲風鈴) The Shulman Auditorium, The Queen’s College, Oxford *Multilingual dialogue with English subtitles Open and free of charge for all, please register on Eventbrite Supported by:[...]
May 12 @ 6:30 pm – 8:15 pm Wytham Woods
True to our name, we bring opera anywhere! Our latest new Puccini production goes into the woods at Wytham! Puccini’s Heroines at Wytham Woods! – 12th May Puccini’s Heroines – 1.30pm to 3.30pm – FREE[...]
May 15 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Jesus College Ship Street Centre
We are now in the Anthropocene – human activity has become a major influence on the climate and ecosystems of the earth. It has never been more important that the public are aware of the[...]
May 16 @ 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Saïd Business School
About the talk Using examples from his recent exhibition in the Musee D’art Moderne in Paris, Ian thinks through how we might come to a painting, image, object or model with little information or prior[...]
May 16 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
The talk is part of seminar series, ‘India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series’, organised by the Indian National Student Association (INSA), with support from the South Asian Studies Programme at[...]
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 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm St John's College Auditorium
Professor Linda McDowell, CBE, DLitt, FBA (The School of Geography and St John’s College) presents Moving Stories: the working lives of migrant women in post-war Britain. “Migration and employment are central issues in understanding the[...]
May 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, John Henry Brookes Building
Join us for live music in the John Henry Brookes Building – Forum before the panel discussion at 18:00 in the Lecture Theatre. Most political movements are accompanied by protest songs. This Think Human Festival[...]
May 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford Brookes University John Henry Brookes Building Forum and Lecture Theatre
Join us for live music in the Forum of the John Henry Brookes Building from 17:00 before the panel discussion in the John Henry Brookes Lecture Theatre at 18:00. Most political movements are accompanied by[...]
May 22 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Our DNA holds clues to the demographic history of our ancestors. Dr Clare Bycroft presents recent work looking at the genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula.
May 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm The Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2AQ
From palaeolithic shamanism to the politics of classical Rome, interpreting the movements and sounds of birds was highly valued as a way of learning what forces might be influencing the events of our world, whether[...]
May 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
American Cool Modernism with Miguel de Baca and Eric White, chaired by Tara Stubbs. ‘America’s Cool Modernism’ is an exhibition which has garnered critical acclaim and captured the imagination of many, bringing together some of[...]
May 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Oxford Town Hall
Talk followed by questions and discussion
May 25 @ 10:00 am – 4:15 pm OVADA, The Warehouse 14a Osney Lane Oxford OX1 1NJ
Craft Activism: Collaborative crafting as activism, the search for justice & the creation of emotional objects’ This event explores crafting as a form of activism by setting it in its historical, social, and gendered context.[...]