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

Jan 15 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting a very special event with Tom Kibasi on Prosperity and Justice: A Plan for the New Economy. The Final Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice. The UK[...]
Jan 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
Professor Ian Goldin, Director of Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change, will identify the economic impact of migration and examine how the contribution that migrants make has been overwhelmed by the politics. As[...]
Jan 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting Roger Riddell for the launch of his latest book and debut novel Tapestries of Difference. Tapestries of Difference is a gripping love story starting and ending in contemporary London[...]
Jan 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Oxford Martin School
The advent of super-resolution microscopy has created unprecedented opportunities to study the mammalian central nervous system, which is dominated by anatomical structures whose nanoscale dimensions critically influence their biophysical properties. I will present our recent[...]
Jan 22 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: This presentation explores two workforces at the bottom of the coercive apparatus of the colonial state in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These are police constables, and village watchmen, also[...]
Jan 24 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
The last decade has seen a surge of interest in economic inequality and widely read books about its social and political consequences by Thomas Piketty, Anthony Atkinson, and Larry Bartels. Yet most scholarship focuses on[...]
Jan 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm History of Science Museum
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, is sometimes called the world’s first computer programmer. Professor Ursula Martin (University of Oxford) discusses how a young woman in the 1800s acquired the expertise to become a pioneer of computer[...]
Jan 25 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
This lecture series was established in honour of our alumna, Sue Lloyd-Roberts, an award-winning broadcast journalist whose uncompromising and courageous documentaries highlighted humanitarian issues across the world. We are delighted that our speaker this year[...]
Jan 29 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: This talk on the economics of religion in India is based on research conducted in India for over a decade. The talk asks why we need an economics of religion for India and discusses[...]
Jan 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
‘Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it’. So said the philosopher George Santayana and in that spirit we are launching a new series of free history talks to reflect on[...]
Jan 29 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Martin School
Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE and Director of the LSE India Observatory, will discuss his new book, with Himanshu of JNU, Delhi and Peter Lanjouw of the Free University[...]
Jan 29 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm St Cross College, West Wing Lecture Theatre
All welcome. A drinks reception will follow the talk. About the talk: During the 7th century CE, many predominantly Christian regions fell under Islamic political control, including Spain, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and the Caucasus. This[...]
Jan 30 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm Magdalen College Auditorium
Organised by Oxford Civic Society @oxcivicsoc. Since the 1960s there have been hundreds of digs in the city, revealing much about the world under our feet. Ben Ford from Oxford University’s Department of Archaeology will[...]
Jan 31 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Blavatnik School of Government
This is a joint event with The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and the Blavatnik School of Government The talk will argue that modern economic theory has led to the[...]
Feb 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
There seems to be a growing consensus that previous assumptions about the long term consequences of China’s rise have turned out to be misplaced. Rather than China becoming ‘socialised’ into the liberal global order (and[...]
Feb 5 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
Warburg Memorial Lecture – Joint with BBOWT Bryophytes in Cambridgeshire have been recorded continuously since 1927 and with increasing intensity in recent decades. A detailed analysis of the records reveals the remarkably dynamic nature of[...]
Feb 8 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Lecture Room 1, Thom Building (Dept of Engineering)
‘Triboreacted materials as functional interfaces in internal combustion engines and medical implants’ Reducing CO2 and particulate emissions to halt global warming and improve the air cleanliness in developed and developing nations is urgent. A similarly[...]
Feb 8 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Rewley House
Newspapers often feature studies that sound too good to be true and often they aren’t – they are myths. Some myths may be harmless but the phenomenon affects most kinds of research within evidence-based science.[...]
Feb 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
The economic case for limiting warming to 1.5°C is unclear, due to manifold uncertainties. However, it cannot be ruled out that the 1.5°C target passes a cost-benefit test. Costs are almost certainly high: the median[...]
Feb 14 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm History of Science Museum
In this alternative Valentine’s Day event Dr María del Pilar Blanco (University of Oxford) discusses the art of geriatrics and degeneration in Spanish America at the end of the 1800s, and how it entered the[...]
Feb 16 @ 11:00 am – 3:45 pm Abingdon County Hall Museum
Abingdon Area Archaeological & Historical Society members will give FREE talks at Abingdon County Hall Museum every third Saturday of the month starting in February 2019. Each will last 30 minutes and be about a[...]
Feb 19 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: Current commentary in legal and political philosophy conceptualises political parties either as private organisations, immune from legal regulation in their internal affairs, or as quasi-public institutions, where the state may justifiably mandate certain internal[...]
Feb 19 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm St Cross College
Stories for Our Times: Retelling the Norse Myths The Norse Myths, published by Quercus in 2018, is the latest in a long line of retellings of the myths and legends of medieval Scandinavia; tales that,[...]
Feb 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Oxford Martin School
In mammals the cell-autonomous circadian clock pivots around a transcriptional/post-translational feedback loop. However, we remain largely ignorant of the critical molecular, cell biological, and circuit-level processes that determine the precision and robustness of circadian rhythms:[...]
Feb 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Oxford Brookes John Henry Brookes building, room 406
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, UN agencies, NGOs and the Red Cross / Crescent work to save lives and protect rights in the wake of natural disasters and armed conflict. How effective is the $27Billion sector?[...]
Feb 23 @ 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Join us at Teddy Hall next week for a fantastic event on the ‘Neuroscience of Dance’ brought to you by the Centre for the Creative Brain! Science, dance and wine – what more could you[...]
Feb 25 @ 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm John Henry Brookes Building (JHB) Room 204
– GPES Seminar Series, Oxford Brookes University
Feb 26 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College
In the context of migration between Uttar Pradesh, other areas of India, and the Gulf, this paper explores the role of the imagination in shaping subjective experiences of male Muslim migrants from a woodworking industry[...]
Feb 27 @ 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Saïd Business School
The beginnings of a celebrity or star culture in the theatre of Shakespeare’s time. How many women went to Shakespeare’s plays? This talk explores the evidence and significance of female theatre going in the early[...]
Feb 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
Automation, AI and robotics are changing our lives quickly – but digital disruption goes much further than we realise. In this talk, Richard Baldwin, one of the world’s leading globalisation experts, will explain that exponential[...]