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Upcoming university events.
Surfaces in Chinese Visual Culture
One-day workshop with multiple speakers and panels
Monday, 25 May 2026, 9.30am to 6pm
Department: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Department)
Series: Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Gender-based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work
Monday, 25 May 2026, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Speaker(s): Marie Buscatto (IDHE.S, University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne - CNRS), Discussant: Victoria D. Alexander (Goldsmiths University of London)
Host: Maison Française d’Oxford
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Candidate Entry into Local Government
Political Economy Seminar
Monday, 25 May 2026, 1.30pm to 2.45pm
Speaker(s): Niccolò Meriggi
Department: Economics (Department)
Series: Political Economy Seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Why was the East India Company interested in land?
Weekly South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Monday, 25 May 2026, 4pm to 6pm
Speaker(s): John Marriott (Oxford)
Department: Asian Studies Centre (St Antony's)
Organiser: Abraham Murad, Jack Jacobs
Series: SAIH Seminar Series
Audience: Public Format: Hybrid
The Coup Trap in Latin America
Speaker: Fabrice Lehoucq, UNC Greensboro
Monday, 25 May 2026, 4pm to 5.30pm
Speaker(s): Fabrice Lehoucq (UNC Greensboro)
Department: Politics & Int Relations (Department)
Organiser: Joana McCloy
Host: Stathis Kalyvas
Series: T. E. LAWRENCE PROGRAM ON CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974
Monday, 25 May 2026, 4pm to 5.30pm
Speaker(s): Jack Greatrex (Singapore)
Department: History (Department)
Host: Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Series: Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974
Monday, 25 May 2026, 4pm to 5.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr Jack Greatrex (Singapore)
Department: History (Department)
Host: Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Series: Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
China–US Relations in the 21st Century
Four-part public lecture series with Dr Chris Ford on Sino-American Competition in the 21st Century
Monday, 25 May 2026, 5pm to 6.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr Christopher A Ford
Organiser: Pharos Foundation
Host: Pharos Foundation
Audience: Public Format: In Person
The marrying kind: how late Roman emperors chose their wives
Monday, 25 May 2026, 5pm to 6.30pm
Speaker(s): Julia Hillner (University of Bonn)
Department: History (Department)
Series: Medieval History Research Seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Film Screening of 'Invisible Nation' and Q&A with Director Vanessa Hope
Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Monday, 25 May 2026, 5pm to 7pm
Speaker(s): Vanessa Hope (Double Hope Films), Issy Wells (University of Oxford), Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (Department)
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing
Series: Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Threats to the Rule of Law in Poland and Israel
Monday, 25 May 2026, 5pm to 6pm
Speaker(s): Professor Marek Safjan (University of Warsaw), Professor Eli Salzberger (University of Haifa)
Department: History (Department)
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
The steppe and its empires. The Russian empire and Its Eurasian counterpart
RESC Monday Seminar, Trinity Term Week 5
Monday, 25 May 2026, 5pm to 7pm
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Khodarkovsky (Loyola University Chicago)
Department: Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (St Antony's)
Organiser: Richard Ramage
Host: Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre
Series: RESC Monday Seminar
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Bach at New College: Lynda Sayce and Lisete da Silva Bull
Lutenist and theorbo player Lynda Sayce, and recorder player Lisete da Silva Bull perform works by Bach and Telemann.
Monday, 25 May 2026, 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Department: New College (College)
Series: Bach at New College
Audience: Public Format: In Person
The Biobank Rare Variant consortium powers the discovery of rare genetic associations through global collaboration
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 9.30am to 10.30am
Speaker(s): Duncan Palmer (BDI, University of Oxford)
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari
Host: Prof Thomas Nichols
Series: BDI/CHG Genomics seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
Title TBC - CAMS Oxford Institute Seminar
CAMS Oxford Institute - Seminar Series
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 9.30am to 10.30am
Department: NDM (CAMS Oxford Institute) (Unit)
Host: Ricardo Fernandes, Dannielle Wellington, Mimie Szyk
Series: CAMS Oxford Institute - Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 9.30am to 12.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr Catherine Seed
Department: Maths, Physical & Life Sciences (Division)
Organiser: James Cunning
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
‘Becoming an academic’ – A comparative perspective on early-career women researchers’ experiences in Austrian and US higher education
Early-career women researchers’ experiences in Austrian and US higher education
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Dr Franziska Lessky (University of Oxford)
Department: Education (Department)
Organiser: Professor Maia Chankseliani
Series: Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education
Audience: Public Format: Hybrid
Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Rachel Scanlon, Oliver Bridle
Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)
Organiser: Helen Bond
Series: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Introduction to Nextflow
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Anthony McGuigan (Big Data Institute, University of Oxford)
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari
Host: Prof Thomas Nichols
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Title tbc
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Speaker(s): Lisa Wells (Vice President of Translational Pharmacology, Perceptive (formerly Imanova))
Department: Pharmacology (Department)
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah
Host: Associate Professor Sri Vasudevan
Series: Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid