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Upcoming university events.
Surgical Grand Rounds - Innovations in Global Surgery: From Flat Pack Hospitals to NASA
Friday, 15 May 2026, 8.10am to 9am
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Simon Knight (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences), Mr David Cunningham (KidsOR)
Department: Surgical Sciences (Department)
Organiser: Ben Alexander
Series: Surgical Grand Rounds
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
Rethinking AI, Tech and Health Equity in Medicine
This is the eighteenth Human Welfare Conference, organised annually since 2008 by graduate students at Green Templeton.
Friday, 15 May 2026, 9am to 4pm
Speaker(s): Dr Jess Morley (Yale Digital Ethics Centre), Dr Peter Hamley (Scripta Therapeutics), Professor David Clifton (Chair of Clinical Machine Learning, University of Oxford), Dr Henrietta Hughes (Patient Safety Commissioner for England)
Department: Green Templeton College (College)
Host: Nick Parrott
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
T cell shapeshifting during immune surveillance
Friday, 15 May 2026, 9.15am to 10.15am
Speaker(s): Edward Jenkins, Dustin Group
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Series: MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses in medicine
Friday, 15 May 2026, 9.30am to 12.30pm
Speaker(s): Eli Harriss, Suzannah Bridge
Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)
Organiser: Helen Bond
Series: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Audience: Other Format: In Person
Undergraduate critical thinking with newspaper and social media sources
Friday, 15 May 2026, 10am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Elizabeth McIntosh, Helen Bond
Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)
Organiser: Helen Bond
Series: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Audience: Other Format: Online
Pain Network Meeting
Friday, 15 May 2026, 10.30am to 11.30am
Speaker(s): Dr Charlotte Krahé
Department: Clinical Neurosciences (Department)
Organiser: Dr Danielle Hewitt
Series: Oxford Pain Network Meetings
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
William Kiffen in Context: A Seventeenth-Century Baptist Minister and Leatherseller
A day conference at Regent's Park College
Friday, 15 May 2026, 10.30am to 5.30pm
Department: Regent's Park College (College)
Organiser: Centre for Baptist Studies
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Controlling speed of cell decisions: molecular mechanisms harnessing criticality and transient dynamics
This forms part of the weekly Mathematical Biology and Ecology Seminar Series
Friday, 15 May 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Dr Ruben Perez-Carrasco (Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London)
Department: Mathematical Institute (Department)
Organiser: Sara Jolliffe
Host: Dr Carles Falco Gandia
Series: Mathematical Biology and Ecology Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Ndd-mediated nucleoid disruption
Friday, 15 May 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Dr Romain Koszul (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
Department: Biochemistry (Department)
Organiser: Professor Tobias Warnecke
Host: Professor Tobias Warnecke
Series: Microbiology and Systems Biology Seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Competing Powers
Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
Friday, 15 May 2026, 11am to 12.15pm
Speaker(s): Andrea Prat (Columbia Business School)
Department: Economics (Department)
Series: Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
'Paiban'/Clappers, Rhythm, and Cultural Integration
Talk in Mandarin followed by Q&A (Mandarin and English)
Friday, 15 May 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Speaker(s): Professor Wu Dan (Zhejiang University)
Department: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Department)
Organiser: Dr Yang Han
Host: Professor Todd Hall and Dr Yang Han
Series: Mandarin Forum
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Volatile recycling at the Lesser Antilles subduction zone: Hydration of the incoming Atlantic oceanic crust
Friday, 15 May 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Speaker(s): Prof Jenny Collier (Imperial College London)
Department: Earth Sciences (Department)
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
The Political Development of American Debt Relief
TT26 Politics Research Colloquia
Friday, 15 May 2026, 12.45pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Emily Zackin (Johns Hopkins University)
Department: Politics & Int Relations (Department)
Series: Politics Research Colloquium
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Venture Bites: five best kept secrets from a negotiation expert
Join this webinar on the art of negotiation for founders with speaker Maxine Aldum.
Friday, 15 May 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Department: Said Business School (Department)
Organiser: Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre
Host: Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre
Series: Venture Bites
Audience: Public Format: Online
DPAG HoD Seminar: 'Why do we get fat? Macronutrient drivers of energy balance'
Friday, 15 May 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Professor John Speakman (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology and University of Aberdeen)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Host: Professor Ana Domingos and Dr Mootaz Salman
Series: DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
PASSAGE: Atlantic Crossings, Archival Connections, and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade
New archival research will piece together missing histories of enslaved people aboard ships bound for the Caribbean.
Friday, 15 May 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Dr Philippa Hellawell (The National Archives)
Department: Humanities (Division)
Organiser: Bryony Varnam
Host: Caribbean Studies Network and CaribOx
Series: Caribbean Studies Network
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Macroeconomics Workshop
Macroeconomics Workshop
Friday, 15 May 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Will Pagel, Jakob Kalb
Department: Economics (Department)
Series: Macroeconomics Workshop
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Hepatitis B cure – what would it take for curative therapies to reach the clinic?
Hepatitis B cure – what would it take for curative therapies to reach the clinic?
Friday, 15 May 2026, 2pm to 3pm
Speaker(s): Professor Anna Lok (University of Michigan, USA)
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine (Department)
Host: Prof Jane McKeating and Prof Helen Byrne
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Proteolysis-driven immunity: New insights into the role of proteasome-cleaved peptides in adaptive and innate immunity.
Friday, 15 May 2026, 3pm to 4pm
Speaker(s): Prof Yifat Merbl (Weizmann Institute)
Department: Pathology Dunn School (Department)
Organiser: Melissa Wright
Host: Prof Bass Hassan
Series: Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Sources of Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Applied Microeconomics Seminar
Friday, 15 May 2026, 4pm to 5pm
Speaker(s): Tobias Salz
Department: Economics (Department)
Series: Applied Microeconomics Seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person