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

Apr 10 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Butterflies and moths are suffering impacts from changes in climate, habitats and plant communities, alongside wider challenges to nature. The talk will describe these challenges, some of the actions being taken to tackle them, locally[...]
Apr 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern (The Blue Room)
Dr Simone Sturniolo will talk about How computational science helps us understand the world and how you can try it too.
Apr 26 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm New Biochemistry Building
What if I like research but not teaching? What if I do not like any of them? What alternatives to academia do I have? We would like to introduce the “SIU Career Sessions”, a termly[...]
Apr 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory
The Inaugural Quantum Materials Public Lecture will be presented by Professor Andrew Boothroyd. Please join us for an exploration of quantum materials – what they are, what they can do, and why they are so[...]
Apr 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Oxford Town Hall
Talk followed by questions and discussion
Apr 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Mathematical Institute (Lecture Theatre L2)
This is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Climate Research Network Managing the risk to coastal populations, infrastructure, and ecosystems resulting from sea level rise presents unique and daunting challenges.[...]
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[...]
Apr 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
This talk draws on findings from applying novel empirical approaches to understanding climate change and its impacts in the past, present, and future. The talk will highlight the impact major ‘natural’ changes in global climate[...]
May 1 @ 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Oxford Martin School
Plastics (polymers) and other organic materials are typically thought of as insulating materials that surround conducting metals (e.g. copper) to protect us from shocks. However, through careful design, a class of so-called “pi-conjugated” organic compounds[...]
May 1 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Jesus College Conference Centre
Geoengineering, the practice of artificially altering the climate, has long been a contentious topic. Its attractiveness to scientists and policy makers who aim to engineer alternative solutions to mitigate the dangers of climate change is[...]
May 1 @ 7:45 pm – 9:15 pm The Old School Room, St Peter's Church
This presentation covers the highlights of almost half a century of observing local wildlife. It includes dormice, reptiles, rare orchids, rare butterflies, moths and other insects, great-crested newts and other amphibians, moths and wildlife observed[...]
May 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
There is mounting evidence that the planet’s capacity to sustain a growing human population, expected to be over 8 billion by 2030, is declining. The degradation of the planet’s air, water and land, combined with[...]
May 7 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm St Anne's College
Professor Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gone but not Forgotten: Coming to Grips with Extinction 5.30—7.00, Seminar Room 3, St Anne’s College Extinction is a timely and controversial topic now, as it has been[...]
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 @ 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 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College
St Anne’s College is proud to host an inspiring group of entrepreneurs to demystify the field of entrepreneurship and explain some of the paths to a career in this field. Our speakers will present their[...]
May 10 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm St Cross College
Speaker: Carlo van de Weijer Digitisation has entered the mobility arena. The car has evolved from a mechanical device into a “data producing embedded software platform”, and the internet is quickly linking the supply and[...]
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 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldates Tavern
“3.5 million cyber-crimes recorded, true figure could be 20.5 million” – this is just one of the headlines that exemplify how significant cybercrime is today. Cybercrime has been ruthless, victimising everyone from corporations to charities[...]
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 @ 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 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Quaker Meeting House
Power Trip: Fracking in the UK (2018 / 63mins) takes you onto the frontlines of UK resistance in the battle to stop the controversial energy extraction process known as ‘Fracking’. Undercurrents productions show what happens[...]
May 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
For many people science in the media is lovely science stories like gravitational waves, the God particle and incredible discoveries about our natural history. But science is also to be found in messy, politicised and[...]
May 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Oxford e-Research Centre
Our world is driven by technology and while it offers a variety of benefits to society, it also exposes us to a series of new and complex cybersecurity risks. These can relate to how we[...]
May 18 @ 5:00 pm Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, Hands Building, Mansfield College
Former Member of the European Parliament, author, journalist and environmental campaigner. Founder and co-chair Environmentalists for Europe.
May 21 @ 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Oxford Martin School
The Paris Agreement has provided an opportunity to strengthen the global action on climate change. The Paris Agreement emphasizes for limiting global temperature at 2°C and even at 1.5°C above pre-industrial conditions to avoid 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[...]