Fantasy 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 Wonderful
Oxford talks in Oxford
28 upcoming talks
Upcoming Talks
Children’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 WonderfulDonald 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 KingdomThe 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 EventsSt 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
FreeMonday, 2 November 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Chris Packham, Jennifer Saunders, Deborah Meaden
Rewley House - Lecture Theatre, 1-7 Wellington Square, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2JA, United KingdomVisa 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 CiprianiFrom Psychopomp to Pop Cultural Fantasy
FreeThursday, 19 November 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Dr Clare Mulley
Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College's annex)Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the WonderfulApartheid as a crime against humanity
FreeWednesday, 25 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Dr. Victor Kattan
Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 1, 4 Mansfield Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3TB, United KingdomRefugee Studies Centre EventsDramatising Terry Pratchett
FreeThursday, 26 November 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Stephen Briggs
Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College's annex)Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the WonderfulSinging the Nation: Baul Traditions, Rabindrasangeet, and Rabindranath Tagore’s Oxford Lectures
Tuesday, 1 December 2026 at 14:00
Speaker: Sahana Bajpaie
St Antony's College - Pavilion Room, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6JF, United KingdomJanaki SrinivasanDiscussion Panel on "Should Humans Move to the Moon?"
Tuesday, 1 December 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Professor Neil Bowles (Chair), Professor Anu Ojha OBE, Professor Ilan Kelman, Dr Alessandra Marino, Dr Tony Milligan
St Cross Lecture Theatre, St Cross College, St Giles, OxfordDr Jo AshbournThe principle of non-refoulement and the United Nations Human Rights Treaties
Wednesday, 2 December 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Başak Çalı
Queen Elizabeth House - Seminar Room 1, 4 Mansfield Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3TB, United KingdomRefugee Studies Centre EventsBook talk - 'We Are Not Machines - The Fight for the Future of Work' with Sarah O'Connor
Wednesday, 2 December 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Sarah O'Connor
Oxford Martin School - Lecture Theatre (and Online), 34 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BD, United KingdomOxford Martin SchoolScience Fiction and Fantasy Audio Drama
FreeThursday, 3 December 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Dr Jen Sugden
Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College)Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the WonderfulSocial Justice: Quaker and Baptist Perspectives
FreeMonday, 8 March 2027 at 10:00
Speaker: Rhiannon Grant, Elizabeth Allison-Glenny, Richard Weaver, Mark Russ
Regent's Park College, OxfordAlan Kerry