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Tuesday, 28 July 2026

Members' Exclusive Print Room Visit — Spotlight on William Turner 'of Oxford'
Tuesday, 28 July 2026 at 14:00
Ashmolean Membership
Art History

Thursday, 6 August 2026

Painting and Genre Conference
Free
Thursday, 6 August 2026 at 13:45
Speaker: Emma Barker, Miles Fletcher, Anastasia Skoybedo, Alyse Muller, Daniel Sobrino Ralston, Vittoria Cervini, Tom Zille, Sarah Hegenbart
St Edmund Hall - Old Dining Hall, Queen's Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 4AR, United KingdomSofya Dmitrieva
Art History

Thursday, 27 August 2026

Visiting Fellow Talk: Lewis Carroll: Early Transmedial Storyteller
Free
Thursday, 27 August 2026 at 17:30
Speaker: Professor Alison Halsall
Christ Church, St Aldates, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1DP, United KingdomChrist Church Library
Literature History Art

Thursday, 3 September 2026

Celebrating the Centenary of Women's Library and 100 Years of Women's History
Thursday, 3 September 2026 at 13:00
History Activism Human Rights

Saturday, 19 September 2026

The 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 College
Art History

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

Valedictory Lecture: Anti-fascism in British politics and culture 1933-1945
Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Tom Buchanan
Kellogg CollegeKellogg College
History Politics Activism

Friday, 2 October 2026

China 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 China
Art History Geography

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Aphrodite: The Making of a Goddess
Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 10:00
History Art Religion

Tuesday, 20 October 2026

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 KingdomMSAS
Activism History Human Rights

Thursday, 22 October 2026

Thursday, 5 November 2026

Across 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-Fouquet
History Geography Politics

Tuesday, 10 November 2026

Between epistemology and manuscript studies: the mathematical notes of Thomas Harriot
Free
Tuesday, 10 November 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Stefano Farinella
Champneys Room, Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EWProfessor Robert Fox and Mrs Rebecca Bricklebank
History Mathematics Philosophy

Wednesday, 25 November 2026

Apartheid as a crime against humanity
Free
Wednesday, 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 Events
Law & Justice Human Rights History

Tuesday, 1 December 2026

Singing 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 Srinivasan
Music History Philosophy

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