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

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 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Oxford Comedy Festival@The Jam Factory
Travis Jay presents his brand new, emotional roller-coaster of a show. It recounts Travis’s hilarious journey from childhood to fatherhood, and the many hiccups in-between. Nominated for The Leicester Mercury Comedian of the year in[...]
Jul 16 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Restore
Inspirational talk with finger buffet and hot drinks
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,[...]
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 7 @ 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm Oxford Brookes - John Henry Brookes Building (JHB202)
This paper explores the connectivities between violence, memory, personhood, place and human substances after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It explores the practice of ‘care-taking’ at genocide memorials – the preservation and care of human[...]
Oct 8 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
Kajal Odedra has always been passionate about helping other people affect change. She is Executive Director of Change.Org and author of ‘Do Something: Activism for Everyone’. Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform with 15[...]
Oct 22 @ 5:45 pm – 6:45 pm Monson Room, Lady Margaret Hall
Joris Luyendijk was born in Amsterdam and studied in Kansas, Amsterdam, and Cairo. He is a writer, journalist and anthropologist. He has written about the Middle East, the banking crisis and Brexit.
Oct 23 @ 6:45 pm – 9:15 pm Exeter Hall
Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture – Joint with Oxford Ornithological Society
Nov 11 @ 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm Memorial Room
Join Erín Moure for a workshop on translating poetry, part of the QTE Residency and Poets Translating Poets series. You will learn about the movement of meaning across languages, and how it’s not just dictionaries[...]
Nov 15 @ 7:45 pm – 8:45 pm Simpkins Lee Theatre, Lady Margaret Hall
Hella Pick is one of the trailblazers for the modern female foreign correspondent. She worked across three continents and covered the death of Yugoslavia’s leader, President Tito. Yugoslavia was always the saving grace of covering[...]
Nov 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Restore
Inspirational talk with hot drinks and finger buffet
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[...]
Jan 11 @ 10:30 am – 2:30 pm estia wellspace
Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom meets Modern Psychology in the Contemporary World Willem Kuyken University of Oxford
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 24 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Common Ground Workspace
Do you want to improve your digital security? Do you keep putting it off? We’re a group of cybersecurity researchers and activists, and we want to help you access free tools and resources to protect[...]
Jan 30 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Science Oxford Centre
Presenting 101 is an interactive workshop designed to help you flex your presenting muscles. Whether you have been presenting to the public for a long time or have just started, this workshop will help you[...]
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 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Union Hall, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University
Hear a whole phD in just three minutes! Can you understand a whole phD in just three minutes? Perhaps you are an Undergraduate or Masters student who is aiming for a future PhD? Join Humanities[...]
Feb 7 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Common Ground Cafe and Social Workspace, Oxford
It’s such a strange experience: you’re in the place you want to be, researching a topic of great interest to you, you have time and space for research that senior academics often envy, and yet[...]
Feb 18 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Restore Garden Cafe
Talk with finger buffet and hot drinks
Feb 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Science Oxford Centre theatre
We speak of earthquakes, floods, and fires as wild and untameable disasters – natural phenomena that spring unexpectedly from a hostile landscape and challenge our trust in the safety of our homes. But Ilan Kelman[...]
Mar 2 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Wolfson College
Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford, will deliver a lecture on the contemporary decline of the liberal order, and call for a rethinking of liberal ideas and practices.[...]
Mar 3 @ 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Wolfson College
A workshop to scrutinize the transformation of the contemporary international order, encompassing its social, political, legal, economic, and technological dimensions. The workshop will serve as an in-depth examination of the issues outlined in Professor Sir[...]
Mar 14 @ 1:45 pm – 4:00 pm Friends Meeting House
Talk, followed by walking tour of the park. Jane Kilsby, local historian shares her recent research into this well-loved 19th century public park. Maximum 20
Apr 7 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
How the Freshwater Habitats Trust’s ‘Saving Oxford’s Wetland Wildlife’ project is helping to improve and monitor Oxford’s valuable freshwater areas, and protect the species they support.
May 5 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
In recent years there have been some alarming media stories about declines in insect populations. This talk provides an overview of trends in British insect populations over the past four decades.
Jul 7 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
To enhance our natural environment, we need to put the environment back into the heart of the economy. Using natural capital as the guiding principle, we can leave a better environment for future generations, implementing[...]