Meet the Scientists: Try Out Research
Monday, 17 August 2026 at 10:30
Speaker: Oxford University Experimental Psychology team
University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PW, United Kingdom
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50 upcoming talks
Upcoming Talks
Summer Discoverers
Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 14:00
University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PW, United KingdomOxford Summer Academy for the Social Science of Health Innovation (SASHI) 2026
Monday, 24 August 2026 at 08:30
Speaker: Dr Anne Ferrey
St Hilda's College, Cowley Place, OxfordDr Anne FerreyVisiting Fellow Talk: Lewis Carroll: Early Transmedial Storyteller
FreeThursday, 27 August 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Alison Halsall
Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1DP, United KingdomChrist Church Library"Good growth in every postcode": the role of employee ownership
Thursday, 27 August 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Michie (Kellogg College President)
From the Laboratory to the Clinic 2026: Complex pathogenesis of disease
Tuesday, 1 September 2026 at 09:00
Trinity College, Broad Street, OxfordBetween Lived Experience and Clinical Wisdom in Mental Health Research and Policy
Tuesday, 1 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Ilina Singh (Chair), Dr David Crepaz-Keay, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, and one additional speaker to be announced
Assembly Room, Town Hall, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1BXANTITHESES & NEUROSECSocial Outcomes Conference 2026 (SOC26)
Thursday, 3 September 2026 at 09:00
Speaker: Professor Ole Helby Petersen
Blavatnik School of Government, Blavatnik School of Government Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6GG United KingdomGovernment Outcomes LabCelebrating the Centenary of Women's Library and 100 Years of Women's History
Thursday, 3 September 2026 at 13:00
Full-Network River Flow Modelling in the Era of Big Data
Friday, 4 September 2026 at 12:00
Speaker: Dr Yinxue Liu, Dr Peirong Lin
OnlineNancy GladstoneMusic in the (sub-)Arctic
Monday, 7 September 2026 at 09:00
Dr Charlotte DoesburgCSM's Randomised Controlled Trials Course: A Guide to Design, Conduct, Analysis, Interpretation and Reporting of RCTs
Monday, 7 September 2026 at 09:00
Merton College - T.S. Eliot lecture theatre, T.S. Eliot lecture theatre Merton College Merton Street Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 4JD United KingdomGardens in Bloom Tour - Trinity College
Tuesday, 8 September 2026 at 14:45
Trinity CollegeAstronomy for All: The universe from beginning to end
Saturday, 12 September 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: Professor Brian Schmidt (Australian National University)
Gardens in Bloom Tours - Trinity College
Tuesday, 15 September 2026 at 14:45
Trinity CollegeThe Selfish Gene at 50: An Evening with Richard Dawkins
Tuesday, 15 September 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Alan Grafen, Professor Richard Dawkins, Professor Marian Dawkins
OnlineFaculty of Music Open Day
FreeFriday, 18 September 2026 at 09:00
Faculty of Music, University of OxfordThe Private Lives of Paintings
Saturday, 19 September 2026 at 13:30
Speaker: Stephen Jones, Lucy Speelman
Kellogg College - The Hub, 62 Banbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6PN, United KingdomKellogg CollegeOxford Global Surgery Short Course
Monday, 21 September 2026 at 09:00
Manor Road - St Catherine's College, St Catherine's College Manor Road Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3UJ United KingdomValedictory Lecture: Anti-fascism in British politics and culture 1933-1945
Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Tom Buchanan
Kellogg CollegeKellogg CollegeThe Podium Institute Conference on Sports Medicine & Technology 2026
Thursday, 24 September 2026 at 09:00
Speaker: Dr Karen Jones, Professor Anthony Kontos, Professor Sanjay Sharma, Dr Charlotte Cowie, Professor Ann McKee
The Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3RB, United KingdomThe Podium Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology2026 Andrew Chamblin Memorial Concert
Tuesday, 29 September 2026 at 20:00
Christ Church, Christ Church St Aldates Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 1DP United Kingdom6th UK Clinical Vaccine Network Conference (UKCVN): Vaccines across the life course
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 10:00
The Life and Mind Building - Lecture Theatre 1, Lecture Theatre 1 The Life and Mind Building South Parks Road Oxford United KingdomClara LloydIntroduction to public involvement in research
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at 12:30
OnlinePolly KerrChina Centre events - Michaelmas Term 2026
Friday, 2 October 2026 at 11:48
Dickson Poon Building, Oxford China Centre - Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor), Canterbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6LU, United KingdomVisual Culture in Modern and Contemporary ChinaLaMB Public Open Day
Saturday, 3 October 2026 at 12:00
The Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3RB, United KingdomInside Life and Mind
FreeSaturday, 3 October 2026 at 12:00
The Life and Mind Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3RB, United KingdomAphrodite: The Making of a Goddess
Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 10:00
'The dual role of the financial system in AI risk: part of the problem, part of the solution' with Andrew Sutton
Monday, 12 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Andrew Sutton
Oxford Martin School - Lecture Theatre (and Online), 34 Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3BD, United KingdomOxford Martin SchoolThe timeless and the temporal nature of painting
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Lucy Stopford, Claire Shepherd
Kellogg College - The Hub, 62 Banbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6PN, United KingdomKellogg CollegeRefugee Governance in the Arab World: The International Refugee Regime and Global Politics – book talk
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Tamirace Fakhoury, Dawn Chatty, Dallal Stevens, Ann Christin Zuntz
Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 1, 4 Mansfield Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3TB, United KingdomRefugee Studies Centre EventsFantasy as Therapy
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Dr Juliana Dresvina
Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College's annex)Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the WonderfulChildren’s Music-Making in the Institution: Historical Perspectives on Music Education in the Long Nineteenth Century
Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 09:00
Understanding Allyship through the history of Civil Liberties Activism in India
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: Ankita Pandey
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6JF, United KingdomMSASBook talk - 'The Wage Standard: What's Wrong in the Labour Market and How to Fix It' with Prof Arin Dube
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Arin Dube
Oxford Martin School - Lecture Theatre (and Online), 34 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BD, United KingdomOxford Martin SchoolThe Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Dr Felix Taylor
Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College's annex)Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the WonderfulThe relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention in a fragmented world
FreeThursday, 22 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Sarah Singer and Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 4 Mansfield Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3TB, United KingdomRefugee Studies Centre EventsDonald Russell Memorial Lecture 2026
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 17:00
St John's College - Garden Quad Auditorium, Garden Quad Auditorium Auditorium St John's College Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3JP United KingdomSt Cross South African Township Music Concert
Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Luyanda Jezile, Prudence Jezile
Pusey House, St Giles' Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3LZ, United KingdomDr Jo AshbournThe Harrell-Bond Lecture 2026 with Barham Salih, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Monday, 26 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Barham Salih
Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, High Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 4AU, United KingdomRefugee Studies Centre EventsThe Idea of the Good Society
Wednesday, 28 October 2026 at 16:30
Speaker: Matt Beech, Kevin Hickson
Collier Room, Regent's Park College, OxfordAlan KerryThe People's Emergency Climate Briefing: Community Screening at Rewley House
Monday, 2 November 2026 at 19:00
Visa walls but porous borders: Venezuelan displacement, policy-induced irregularity and migrant integration in Peru
FreeWednesday, 4 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Omar Hammoud-Gallego
Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 1, 4 Mansfield Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3TB, United KingdomRefugee Studies Centre EventsAcross Anti-Imperial Metropolises: Nonstate Approaches to Modern Japan-France History (Two-day International Conference)
Thursday, 5 November 2026 at 09:30
Speaker: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet, Sho Konishi
Nissan Lecture Theatre, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford (Day 1); Conference Room, Maison Française d'Oxford (Day 2)Toma-Jin Morikawa-FouquetImaginative Fantasy in the 18th Century
Thursday, 5 November 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Dr Octavia Cox
Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College's annex)Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the WonderfulWhat is violence? How should it be measured? What are the implications for policy to halve violence against women and girls in ten years?
Friday, 6 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Professor Sylvia Walby
St John's College, Garden Quad Auditorium, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3JP, United KingdomProfessor Kenneth NelsonBetween epistemology and manuscript studies: the mathematical notes of Thomas Harriot
FreeTuesday, 10 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Stefano Farinella
Champneys Room, Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EWProfessor Robert Fox and Mrs Rebecca BricklebankWriting Fantasy vs Writing Historical Fiction
Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Julia Golding
Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College's annex)Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the WonderfulOxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum 2026
Friday, 13 November 2026 at 08:15
Saïd Business SchoolPsychedelic Therapy - mechanisms, promises and challenges
Tuesday, 17 November 2026 at 09:30
Speaker: Dr David Erritzoe
Seminar Room, Department of Psychiatry, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 7JX, United KingdomProfessor Andrea Cipriani