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

Mar 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm The North Wall Arts Centre
Artist, writer and activist Jess Thom has Tourettes syndrome, a neurological condition that means she makes movements and noises she can’t control, called tics. In 2010 she co-founded Touretteshero as a creative response to her[...]
Mar 18 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from burials and texts, Barry Cunliffe reconstructs the lives of the Scythians, exploring their beliefs,[...]
Mar 19 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Phoenicians were famously great traders who, from their base in modern-day Lebanon, traded their wares around the Mediterranean and beyond. Learn about their culture, art, achievements, and cities at home in the Levant and[...]
Mar 21 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Moran’s ‘Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon’ pictures 19th-century America at its most bucolic and pastoral. It was painted, however, amidst a conflict that threatened to tear the young country apart. Examine Moran’s landscape as an allegory[...]
Mar 26 all-day Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
The Rediscovery & Reception of Gandharan Art Gandhara Connections 4th International Workshop Thursday 26th and Friday 27th March 2020 Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU The workshop abstract and provisional programme are available[...]
Mar 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Learn about the vast trade network of the Phoenicians, the goods traded and their trading partners, who included the Greeks and Etruscans, as well as people in Sardinia and southern Spain. The Phoenicians Phoenicia Part[...]
Mar 27 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Both worked on the outskirts of Pre-Raphaelitism and aestheticism, tackling ambitious subjects of love, spirituality, and time, to create beautiful artworks. Join De Morgan Curator, Sarah Hardy, to discover the previously ignored professional and personal[...]
Apr 15 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The city of Hereford stands a couple of hours from Oxford along one of the most scenic train rides in England. Follow the Medieval Pilgrim trail, discovering a landscape alive with holy wells, sacred shrines,[...]
Apr 22 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
One of the great triumvirate of High Renaissance masters, Raphael is famous for his calm serenity in even the most dramatic of his paintings. This year marks the 500th anniversary of his death, and Alice[...]
Apr 24 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Learn about the young Rembrandt’s rise to fame. A major breakthrough happened when the Prince of Orange, Frederick Henry, began to commission works from the artist, some of which are on display in the Young[...]
May 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
A window into the intimate world of their makers, users and collectors, 18th- and 19th-century Greek embroideries have many stories to tell. Explore some of them through a selection of highlights on display in Gallery[...]
May 2 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
Towards the end of the 15th century, Florence had become a centre of artistic achievement. Ghirlandaio, a master of both the fresco and innovative oil techniques, ran a prestigious workshop in which the young Michelangelo[...]
May 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Ashmolean Museum
The Story of a Neglected Book: Hokusai’s Illustrated Tang Poetry of 1880 Mon 4 May, 5–6pm Ashmolean Museum Lecture Theatre With Dr Ellis Tinios, Visiting Researcher, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University Learn about a deluxe[...]
Jun 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:15 pm St Margaret's Institute
Identification, ecology and conservation of amphibians found in Oxfordshire.
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[...]
Oct 13 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Online
Life-Writing Beyond Words is a research network and termly series of public events, hosted by Felix Appelbe, the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and Ocean Ambassadors, that explores how we move between words and the non-verbal.[...]
Nov 19 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Online
The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to[...]
Dec 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Pitt Rivers Museum (Online)
The ethnographic museum is full. Clothes, objects and tools fill the walls and floors. But where is the love? The three speakers take the exhibition ‘Losing Venus’ as their starting point to discuss how emotion,[...]
Dec 11 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Kellogg College
Lecture by Jane Owen, preceded by OGT’s Christmas drinks party. Jane Owen, Founder Member of OGT, avid gardener, garden historian and previously Deputy Editor of the Financial Times, gives us her personal take on garden[...]