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

Jun 22 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm St Cross College
This one-day workshop with St Cross College Professional in Residence David Scrymgeour covers the steps towards building a successful organisation, from designing, starting, and growing, to managing, changing, fixing, and evolving. The workshop will be[...]
Jun 24 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm St Cross College
In this lecture, entrepreneur David Scrymgeour will talk about developing an entrepreneurial mindset, sharing best practice and words of wisdom gleaned from a career in business. About David Scrymgeour: David Scrymgeour has worked as an[...]
Jul 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute 30 Polstead Road, Oxford
Dr Larkman is a retired Oxford biologist who has been chairman of OOS for the last 5 years. His main interest is the precipitous decline in the UK’s small, seed-eating farmland birds over the last[...]
Jul 8 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Saïd Business School
The art market is one of the most visible, yet least understood industries in the world. And it is in the midst of a digital transformation that is redefining what and how art is transacts[...]
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,[...]
Sep 3 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute 30 Polstead Road, Oxford
The ability to accurately identify and interpret Track and Sign rests on a body of traditional knowledge that previous generations of naturalists would have regarded as fundamental. Sadly, now it is largely unknown and untaught,[...]
Sep 25 @ 10:30 am – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Sculpt, Mould, Cast: The Art of Cast Making THREE DAY WORKSHOP AT THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM Follow in the footsteps of ancient Greek and Roman sculptors to create your own pint-sized plaster statue. You’ll be given[...]
Oct 1 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
Slime moulds thrive in damp woodlands and normally spread over rotting logs eating bacteria and fungi. They are also unusual in being single giant cells that show remarkably sophisticated behaviour considering their humble form. This[...]
Oct 8 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Magdalen College Auditorium
The Ashmolean Museum is treasured by local people and visitors alike for its eclectic and fascinating mix of exhibits and special exhibitions, all set within a superb building. Xa Sturgis reflects on five eventful years[...]
Oct 9 @ 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Thatcher Business Education Centre, Saïd Business School
Globally acclaimed Artist and Social Historian Nicola Green will discuss her role as witness to some of the most seminal events of our times. Green will share her experiences gaining remarkable access to iconic figures[...]
Oct 9 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
The poppy as a recurring image in poetry and art, and as a symbol of wartime loss, is powerfully resonant in our culture. Dr Andrew Lack, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Biology at Oxford Brookes University,[...]
Oct 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
In this book talk the Author, Carl Benedikt Frey, will discuss how the Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but how few grasped its enormous consequences at the time. Now that we are[...]
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 18 @ 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm Weston Library
Visual Artist Dr Clair Chinnery interprets the ‘shapeshifting’ capabilities of human bodies as they emerge, grow, mature and die, informed by the physical materials left behind when such changes occur. With Digital Developer Gerard Helmich[...]
Oct 23 @ 6:15 pm – 7:45 pm John Lewis and Partners
How people become unrecognisable depends on who’s viewing. Contouring, volumised lashes and a smokey eye change a look, but can it trick facial recognition software? Explore makeup artistry from Charlotte Tilbury and City of Oxford[...]
Oct 23 @ 6:45 pm – 9:15 pm Exeter Hall
Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture – Joint with Oxford Ornithological Society
Oct 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting a celebration in honour of the launch of Matthew Rice’s beautiful new book, Oxford. Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The[...]
Nov 6 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Jacqueline du Pre Music Building
Sarah Weir OBE, Chief Executive, Design Council, will lecture on ‘Designing the Future: Who is doing it?’ She will consider the question of what design is – a mindset and skillset; critical thinking and creativity[...]
Nov 14 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
The Classical Art Research Centre (CARC) welcome Oxford University’s own Dr Llewelyn Morgan to give the 2019 Gandhara Connections Lecture on ‘Heracles’ Track to the Indus: Ancients and Moderns in the Swat Valley’. Dr Morgan[...]
Dec 3 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
The talk will provide an overview of dragonflies and their life cycles and habitats as well illustrating a number of species that occur in England including those that are currently colonising from the Continent and[...]
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[...]
Dec 6 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Thatcher Business Education Centre,
Dr Jim Harris, Engaging with the Humanities at Oxford Saïd A Good Mix: Krasis and the Ashmolean as an Interdisciplinary Forum. What even is interdisciplinary work? In this talk, art historian, broadcaster and Teaching Curator[...]
Dec 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Mathematical Institute, Oxford
Bomberg and Kitaj – Two Types of Jewish Agony in Paint With Sir Simon Schama, Art Historian, Author and BBC Presenter Sat 14 Dec, 12–1pm Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road (Venue changed) Tickets are FREE. Booking[...]
Jan 13 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm OU Museum of Natural History
Tara Pirie recalls her three years living in a tent, while tracking and gathering data on these elusive, but beautiful big cats. She is now one of the world’s leading experts on Leopard ecology and[...]
Jan 21 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work,[...]
Jan 22 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Saïd Business School
Alice Kettle will discuss her works at the opening night of her exhibition at the Business School with Brandon Taylor, after which there will be a tour. Our new exhibition showcases Alice Kettle’s unique practice;[...]
Jan 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 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 ‘Art and the Brain’. Professor Chrystalina Antoniades (Oxford University), Dr Richard Jolley (University of Staffordshire),[...]
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 4 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
Warburg Memorial Lecture – Joint with BBOWT Volunteer-based botanical monitoring has been a mainstay of British and Irish botany for decades, but only recently has a recording scheme for plant communities been established. Dr Pescott[...]
Feb 12 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Saïd Business School
Sir Martin will review the theory and practice of genuine gender equality in the workforce, including personal experience of leadership challenges in implementing gender balance leadership. Martin was appointed President of Boeing Europe and Managing[...]