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

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 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 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 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 10 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Wolfson College - Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Tenor Mark Padmore is preparing to take on the role of Aschenbach in David McVicar’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice at the Royal Opera House. Join Mark and a panel of experts, including[...]
Oct 14 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Wolfson College - Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Brazilian composer Claudio Santoro (1919-1989), one of the major figures in twentieth-century Brazilian music. His musical legacy includes nearly five hundred compositions. Among them there are fourteen symphonies,[...]
Oct 15 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Magdalen College Auditorium
Edward Higginbottom was Director of Music at New College from 1976 – 2014. In a talk for Oxford Civic Society he reflects on music making in the University and how, sometimes in spite of itself,[...]
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 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Greene's Institute
Alongside our conference on 19th October, Greene’s Institute will be hosting our first public event: a special interactive keynote with Professor Henrike Lähnemann (University of Oxford). This event promises to be a fantastic exploration of[...]
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 24 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm New Road Baptist Church
Big data and AI are starting to feature in cancer research today, and will will play an even greater role in the future. Join researchers from Cancer Research UK to discover the technologies and methods[...]
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[...]
Oct 28 @ 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm Oxford Martin School
Geographers have long been interested in the spaces brought into being by the internet. In the early days of the Web, digital technologies were seen as tools that could bring a heterotopic cyberspace into being:[...]
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 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 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre
he Technical & Moral Singularity- a Conversation about Artificial Intelligence and Ethics This event is a conversation between Prof Nigel Crook (Head of Computing and Communication Technologies (CCT) and Interim Head of Mechanical Engineering and[...]
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[...]
Nov 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Greene's Institute
In this lecture, in honour of Edward Greene, Donald Meek will describe the fascinating process of Gaelic Bible translation in Scotland and Ireland. Beginning with the standard Gaelic Bible, translated between 1767 and 1804, Donald[...]
Nov 21 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre
This talk will describe a class of machine learning methods for reasoning about complex physical systems. The key insight is that many systems can be represented as graphs with nodes connected by edges. I’ll present[...]
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 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 @ 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 20 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Oxford Brookes University
Compassion is a state of mind, a wish for beings to be free from suffering. When compassion is present in the heart there is no place for anger or hatred. In that moment a wish[...]
Feb 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
A disciple of Bonnard and Cézanne, Józef Czapski was a Polish painter, author, and critic notable for his singular pursuit of the world around him. He was witness to much of the upheaval of the[...]