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,[...]
Jul 13 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
This public event brings global leaders in ethnographic museums together to consider how to reinvigorate museums with ethnographic collections, foreground indigenous knowledges and curatorial practices, and rethink assumptions about museums. Participants include: João Pacheco de[...]
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 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Lady Margaret Hall and Blackwell’s Celebrating 140 Years Blackwell’s opened its doors on January 1st 1879 on Broad Street, Oxford and have been trading continuously from there ever since. Since then they have grown to[...]
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 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 17 @ 8:30 am – Oct 18 @ 5:00 pm Lincoln College
This two-day conference will explore the evolving relationship between conflict and identity, with a specific interest in the role of history education in pre-conflict, at-conflict, and post-conflict societies. It will focus on how teachers and[...]
Oct 18 @ 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm Weston Library
How do our minds and bodies alter as we age? Can attitudes change from one generation to the next? How have the built and natural environments around us changed in the last 200 years? What[...]
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 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 @ 6:15 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 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 31 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop
Blackwell’s are honoured to be joined by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi, to talk about their hugely important book, Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change. Synopsis As a minority in a predominantly[...]
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 11 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Ashmolean Museum
Pompeii Rediscovered A talk with Massimo Osanna, Director General, Parco Archeologico di Pompei Mon 11 Nov, 6.30–7.30pm This event will be followed by drinks in the museum and a private view of the Last Supper[...]
Nov 12 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Oxford Martin School
Migration is present at the dawn of human history – the phenomena of hunting and gathering, seeking seasonal pasture and nomadism being as old as human social organisation itself. The flight from natural disasters, adverse[...]
Nov 13 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Pitt Rivers Museum
Some 45,000 years ago, a group of around 1500 humans who were genetically similar left Africa for Asia. Successive generations of their descendants were the first members of H.sapiens to explore the earth, apart from[...]
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 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm Andrew Wiles Building
Are we witnessing a new, more toxic kind of politics around the world? If so, what is the alternative? Should we lament a supposedly lost civility, or is the emergence of more forthright and angry[...]
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 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Department of Education
This seminar is part of our public seminar series on ‘Exclusion from School and its Consequences’, led by the Department of Education and convened by Harry Daniels (Professor of Education) and Ian Thompson (Associate Professor[...]
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 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Department of Education
This seminar is part of our public seminar series on ‘Exclusion from School and its Consequences’, led by the Department of Education and convened by Harry Daniels (Professor of Education) and Ian Thompson (Associate Professor[...]
Feb 3 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm Rewley House
Organised by Oxford Civic Society @oxcivicsoc. The Society’s Louise Thomas and Ian Green discuss the history of the city centre, emerging trends and their implications and present a vision which seizes opportunities and mitigates threats..[...]