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

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 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Open House Oxford
Two-thousand and nineteen marks the centenary of the Addison Act, the housing legislation which realised Lloyd-George’s ‘Homes fit for Heroes’ and the start of a nationwide system of state-owned housing that has lasted most of[...]
Mar 5 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
This book talk is co-organised with the Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease Vaccination raises ethical issues about the responsibilities of individuals, communities, and states in preventing serious and potentially life-threatening infectious[...]
Apr 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Brookes Philosophy Department presents Fiona Woollard speaking on her latest project ‘What a Mother’s Got to Do’.
Apr 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Jennifer Eberhardt, associate professor at Stanford University, joins us for the next in our Let’s Discuss series. She will be discussing unconscious racial bias in the context of her new book Biased. The talk will[...]
Apr 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Join us at Blackwell’s to hear writer and campaigner, Caroline Criado-Perez discuss her latest book, Invisible Women. Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug[...]
May 9 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College
This term’s topic of the popular St Hilda’s ‘Brain and Mind – from concrete to abstract’ series of workshops is ‘Dementia and the Brain’. Dr Sana Suri (Oxford University), Dr Marinella Cappelletti (Goldsmiths, University of[...]
May 17 @ 9:30 am – May 18 @ 4:00 pm Green Templeton College
The 11th Annual Human Welfare Conference is entitled ‘Innovate: Balancing Interests in Resource-Constrained Settings’. The conference will focus on solutions being developed at various scales to improve human wellbeing in areas as diverse as poverty[...]
May 29 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Sheldonian Theatre
The 5th Annual Oxford Business and Poverty Conference will feature a diverse range of speakers addressing the Paradoxes of Prosperity. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual-oxford-business-poverty-conference-tickets-57733957822 Hosted at the Sheldonian Theatre, the conference will feature keynotes by:[...]
May 30 @ 7:30 pm – Jun 1 @ 9:30 pm The North Wall Arts Centre
Coriander Theatre presents a new play ‘My Mother Runs in Zig-Zags’ at the North Wall Arts Centre, 30th May – 1st June 2019, 7:30pm, Saturday Matinee 2:30pm. Sometimes, race and trauma are like leaky old[...]
Jul 3 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm St Aldate's Tavern
https://www.facebook.com/events/470703583730859/ Why do we laugh? What makes something funny? Does the morality of a joke affect how good a joke is? Why is breaking the rule of three important? A broad overview at some of[...]
Jul 4 @ 8:15 pm – 9:30 pm Jericho Tavern
‘Philosophy A-Level’ is a humorous talk about the importance of philosophy and ethics in schools told through the stories teaching teenagers in east London
Jul 13 @ 11:30 am – 6:30 pm The Jam Factory
For this event, 12 artists from all over the country will be presenting work that they have been making as part of the Sound Diaries open call. The presenting artists are: Richard Bentley, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe,[...]
Aug 31 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
We are pleased to announce a very special Philosophy in the Bookshop to celebrate the release of a new comprehensive look at the history of Philosophy in one volume. Nigel Warburton will be in conversation[...]
Sep 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm The Sheldonian Theatre
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting a very special event at the Sheldonian Theatre with Alain de Botton on The School of Life: An Emotional Education. We spend years in school learning facts and figures[...]
Oct 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm The Sheldonian Theatre
Blackwell’s are delighted to present our monthly series of talks, Philosophy in the Bookshop. In a very special event, our programme moves across the street to the Sheldonian Theatre for one night only. Do we[...]
Oct 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:20 pm Jericho Tavern
An amusing talk and exploration of AI and the future of technology. Is the future more absurd than comedians can imagine? Will a driver-less BMW still cut you up? What do we do when a[...]
Oct 5 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
‘Philosophy in the Bookshop’ is our free monthly series of Philosophy events, hosted by Nigel Warburton and featuring a different thinker each month discussing their work. This month, Nigel discusses ‘Becoming Beauvoir’ with Kate Kirkpatrick.[...]
Oct 16 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
We are delighted to announce a very special Philosophy in the Bookshop event to mark our fifth anniversary in the series. Host Nigel Warburton will be joined by philosopher Philip Goff and author Sir Philip[...]
Oct 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
Data-driven micro-targeted campaigns have become a main stable of political strategy. As personal and societal data becomes more accessible, we need to understand how it can be used and mis-used in political campaigns and whether[...]
Oct 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:15 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
Michaelmas term’s topic of the popular St Hilda’s ‘Brain and Mind – from concrete to abstract’ series of workshops is ‘Creativity and the Brain’. Professor Jane Mellanby (Oxford), Dr Lambros Malafouris (Oxford), and Dr Matthew[...]
Oct 28 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Wolfson College
In this lecture, Professor Sir Richard Sorabji considers free speech in the age of social media, and questions whether legal restrictions on certain speech acts or self-restraint would be the most effective and appropriate means[...]
Nov 5 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Charles Babbage has been called the ‘great-uncle’ of modern computing, a claim that rests simultaneously on his demonstrable understanding of most of the architectural principles underlying the modern computer,band the almost universal ignorance of Babbage’s[...]
Nov 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s is thrilled to be welcoming Erling Kagge to discuss his new book ‘Philosophy for Polar Explorers’. Synopsis Erling Kagge was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth’s poles by foot[...]
Nov 12 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Wolfson College
Adam Smith is world-famous as a founding father of economics, and well-known to political theorists and philosophers for his Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). His work as a jurist is much less well known. As[...]
Dec 4 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Saïd Business School
Inaugural event in our new events series focusing on responsible leadership: Driving Diversity and Inclusion Seminar Series. Progress on diversity in the UK civil service and why it matters. How the dial only really shifted[...]
Feb 1 @ 2:30 pm – 6:00 pm The Weston Library, University of Oxford
St Benet’s Hall marks a special exhibition of The Rule of St Benedict MS. Hatton 48, fols. 14v-15r at the Weston Library, with a series of lectures on aspects of the mediaeval Benedictine contribution to[...]
Feb 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Arts at the Old Fire Station
What can dance tell us about human rights? What can hip hop say about equality and human dignity? Join an evening of dance and discussion to find out. We’ll watch live dance that explores the[...]
Feb 7 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm The Ultimate Picture Palace
As part of the Think Human Festival held by Oxford Brookes University, a film showing of ‘Life is Wonderful: Mandela’s Unsung Heroes’ is being held. Following the showing there will be a Q&A with a[...]
Feb 13 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Lecture Theatre, St Cross College
Speaker: Dr Neil Armstrong (Stipendiary Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Magdalen College) This paper uses ethnographic material of NHS mental healthcare to raise some questions about autonomy, risk and personal and institutional responsibility.[...]