All events
Upcoming university events.
Surgical Grand Rounds - AI in Transplantation : Overcoming the barriers
Friday, 22 May 2026, 8am to 9am
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Simon Knight (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Department: Surgical Sciences (Department)
Organiser: Ben
Series: Surgical Grand Rounds
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
BSP Conference 2026: "Values, Ideology, and Opinions of Brazilian Political Elites: Insights from the 10th Wave of the Brazilian Legislative Survey (2025)"
Brazilian Studies Programme Conference 2026
Friday, 22 May 2026, 8.30am to 4pm
Department: Latin American Centre (Unit)
Host: Timothy Power (Oxford) and Cesar Zucco (Columbia University)
Audience: Public Format: In Person
SMARTbiomed seminar - From obesity GWAS to central mechanism
Friday, 22 May 2026, 9am to 10am
Department: Psychiatry (Department)
Organiser: Naomi Wray
Series: SMARTbiomed Seminar series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Large Language Model Research: Challenges to and from Computer Science and the Humanities
Thatched Barn, next to Visitors' Centre, Christ Church Meadow
Friday, 22 May 2026, 9am to 11am
Speaker(s): Chloe Lubinski (Anthropic), Chris Olah (Anthropic)
Department: Theology and Religion (Department)
Organiser: Andrew Davison
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Postnatal reprogramming shapes human intestinal epithelial immune competency
In person only
Friday, 22 May 2026, 9.15am to 10.15am
Speaker(s): Dr Chloe Hyun-Jung Lee, Simmons Group
Department: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Unit)
Organiser: Alina Bovtenko; Renata Sojka
Series: MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Earth System Dynamics Research Day
Friday, 22 May 2026, 9.30am to 4pm
Department: School of Geography and Environment (Department)
Organiser: Solomon Gebrechorkos, Julie Durcan, Callum Munday, Rosie Huck
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Paternalistic Mechanisms
Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
Friday, 22 May 2026, 11am to 12.15pm
Speaker(s): Julien Combe (École Polytechnique / CREST)
Department: Economics (Department)
Series: Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Heterogeneity matters: Mathematical insights into eco-evolutionary dynamics in cancer radiotherapy
This forms part of the Weekly Mathematical Biology and Ecology Seminar Series
Friday, 22 May 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Dr Giulia Chiari (University of Oxford)
Department: Mathematical Institute (Department)
Organiser: Sara Jolliffe
Host: Dr Stephanie Abo
Series: Mathematical Biology and Ecology Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Chasing water: The oceanography of the transport of floating material
Friday, 22 May 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Speaker(s): Prof Dr Erik van Sebille (Utrecht University)
Department: Earth Sciences (Department)
Series: Earth Sciences research seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
*SOLD OUT* Bee walk
A guided biodiversity walk around University Parks.
Friday, 22 May 2026, 12.30pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Liam Crowley
Department: Estates Services Business Administration (Unit)
Organiser: Environmental Sustainability team
Host: Environmental Sustainability Team
Series: Oxford Outdoors
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Pricing AI as a Service
Student Research Workshop in Micro Theory
Friday, 22 May 2026, 12.45pm to 1.45pm
Speaker(s): Yanwei Sun (Imperial College)
Department: Economics (Department)
Series: Student Research Workshop in Micro Theory
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
DPAG HoD Seminar: 'New Discoveries in Heart: Vascular Signaling and Heart Function'
Friday, 22 May 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Professor Jonathan Lederer (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Host: Dr Liron Boyman
Series: DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Macroeconomics Workshop
Macroeconomics Workshop
Friday, 22 May 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Giovanni Rosso
Department: Economics (Department)
Series: Macroeconomics Workshop
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Pre-Modern Cosmology: An Exploration (Day 2)
Day 2 of two-day lecture series with Dr Philipp Nothaft on the history of pre-modern cosmology
Friday, 22 May 2026, 1pm to 4pm
Speaker(s): Dr Philipp Nothaft (Oxford)
Organiser: Pharos Foundation
Host: Pharos Foundation
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Basics of SciFinder
Friday, 22 May 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Rachel Scanlon (Radcliffe Science Library), Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library)
Department: Bodleian Information Skills (Unit)
Organiser: Helen Bond
Series: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Online
Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses in medicine
Friday, 22 May 2026, 1.30pm to 4.30pm
Speaker(s): Nia Roberts, Suzannah Bridge
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
Nobody Knows How AI Works? On the Risks of Ethical Disclaimers and the Opportunity to Rethink the Human
An interdisciplinary mini symposium featuring two keynote talks, followed by moderated discussion and Q&A
Friday, 22 May 2026, 2pm to 3.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr Alberto Giubilini, Rebecca Gorman
Department: Humanities (Division)
Organiser: TORCH Humans in Humanities Network
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Locally Optimal Invariant Tests for Perturbed Fractional Integration
Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
Friday, 22 May 2026, 2.15pm to 3.30pm
Speaker(s): David Harris
Department: Economics (Department)
Series: Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Applied Ethics Graduate Discussion Group
When Withdrawal Seems Unlike Withholding, Moral Equivalence in Pediatric Compassionate Deactivation
Friday, 22 May 2026, 2.20pm to 3.20pm
Department: The Uehiro Oxford Institute (Department)
Organiser: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Host: Uehiro Oxford Institute
Series: Applied Ethics Graduate Discussion Group
Audience: Member of University - Students Format: Hybrid
Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology
Friday, 22 May 2026, 3pm to 4.30pm
Speaker(s): Professor Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Host: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Series: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person