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 3 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, Oxford
Book launch followed by reception and performance by Worcester College Choir – all welcome!
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 8 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Despite the non-recognition of caste identity by the Pakistani state, caste relations are a pervasive feature of everyday life, particularly in small-town and rural Pakistan. Using the case of the transformation of a formerly lower[...]
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 @ 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 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 – 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 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Union Hall, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
This workshop, facilitated by journalist Shaista Aziz, will introduce and explore the notions of ‘intersectional’ identities. Intersectionality may be defined as the way in which people’s experiences are shaped by their ethnicity, class, sex, gender,[...]
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 @ 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 23 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Department of International Development, Seminar Room 3
Dr Tahir Zaman is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on refugees and forced migration with particular reference to Iraq and Syria, transnationalism, diaspora contributions to conflict transformation[...]
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 26 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH
Saturday drop In session for everyone. Think art is just about looking? Think again! Join this session to find out how hearing, taste, smell and touch are activated in our encounters with painting and sculpture.
May 29 @ 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm Ursell Room, Pusey House, Oxford
Ed Clarke discusses his poetic versions of the Psalms.
May 29 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Join us for our Blackwell’s Open Mic Night, where there will be performances from an array of talented local performers, across a wide mix of creativity. Everyone is welcome to come along and listen, places[...]
May 31 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
American Literature in 1920s-30s with Alex Goody and Diana Leca chaired by Kristin Grogan. These literary experts get under the skin of American Literature in the 1920s and 1930s. This was the era of Gertrude[...]
Jun 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s presents an evening with madison moore, who will be exploring his new book ‘Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric’, an exploration of what it means to be fabulous – and why eccentric style,[...]
Jun 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Saïd Business School
About the talk Theatre was the new media of Elizabethan London. This talk discusses the industry via its entrepreneurs – playhouse owners, actors, writers, and publishers. We can trace how these innovators developed the new[...]
Jun 6 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s is delighted to welcome back to the bookshop Shashi Tharoor to discuss his latest book ‘Why I Am a Hindu’. Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose,[...]
Jun 6 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the UN, culminating as Under-Secretary-General. Tharoor, who also served as Minister of State for External Affairs in India, is oresently a Congress MP. The author of sixteen previous[...]
Jun 12 @ 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm Ursell Room, Pusey House, Oxford