All events

Conference on AI, Education & International Development

Saturday, 30 May 2026, 1pm to 6pm

Department: St Antony's College (College)

Host: GCR VPs for Academic Affairs and the Chevening Education Community

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

Rainbows & Gardens: Bob Chilcott conducts the Choir of Worcester College

Worcester College Choir premieres Gardens, a brand-new commission inspired by the gardens of the Bible.

Saturday, 30 May 2026, 7.30pm to 9.30pm

Department: Worcester College (College)

Organiser: Caius Lee

Series: Music at Worcester

Audience: Public Format: In Person

UK EQUATOR Centre Publication School: Academic writing and publication skills for health researchers

2-day workshop on writing and publishing an effective health research journal article

Monday, 1 June 2026 to Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 9am - 5.30pm

Speaker(s): Jennifer de Beyer (UK EQUATOR Centre and Centre for Statistics in Medicine, NDORMS, University of Oxford), Paula Dhiman (Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford), Gary Collins (125th Anniversary Chair and Professor of Medical Statistics, University of Birmingham), James Harwood (UK EQUATOR Centre and Centre for Statistics in Medicine, NDORMS, University of Oxford), Jie Ma (Centre for Statistics in Medicine, NDORMS, University of Oxford)

Department: Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (Department)

Organiser: Jennifer de Beyer

Host: UK EQUATOR Centre, Centre for Statistics in Medicine

Series: Publication School

Audience: Public Format: In Person

Academic Writing with AI (online)

Every Monday from 1 - 22 June, 10.30 - 12.30. Delivered by the University of Oxford's Language Centre

Monday, 1 June 2026 to Monday, 22 June 2026, 10.30am - 12.30pm

Department: Maths, Physical & Life Sciences (Division)

Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed

Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

Academic Roundtable - Entangled Worlds: Methodological Conversations in Global History

Monday, 1 June 2026, 11am to 11.30am

Speaker(s): Anna Maguire (University College London), Richard Saich (London School of Economics & Political Science), Mahon Murphy (Kyoto University)

Department: History (Department)

Host: Oxford Transnational and Global History

Series: Transnational and Global History Seminar

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Online

Postgraduate Workshop: Writing with Magazines

Monday, 1 June 2026, 11am to 12.30pm

Department: History (Department)

Series: History LGBTQ Plus Network

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

The Game of Thorns: Opium Cultivation and Conflict in Afghanistan, 1994-2021

Political Economy Workshop

Monday, 1 June 2026, 11am to 12pm

Speaker(s): Maiwand Nangyal

Department: Economics (Department)

Series: Political Economy Workshop

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

“One Marshmallow Now or Two If You Wait”: Experimental Psychology, Colonial Childhoods, and the Origins of the Marshmallow Test

“One Marshmallow Now or Two If You Wait”: Experimental Psychology, Colonial Childhoods, and the Origins of the Marshmall

Monday, 1 June 2026, 11am to 12.15pm

Speaker(s): Susanne Schmidt (Basel)

Department: History (Department)

Organiser: Christina de Bellaigue, Siân Pooley, and Helen Sunderland

Series: Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid

Towards a tissue-level understanding of homeostasis and inflammation

Monday, 1 June 2026, 12pm to 1pm

Speaker(s): Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Uderhardt (University Hospital Erlangen)

Department: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology (Unit)

Organiser: Tess Lawless

Host: Professor Irina Udalova

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

How to Disrupt a Market

Monday, 1 June 2026, 12.45pm to 2pm

Speaker(s): Rebecca Heath (University of Cambridge)

Department: Sociology (Department)

Series: Sociology Weekly Seminar Series

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid

Development and Validation of the Motivations for Career Choice Scale: Illustrated Empirically in 2 Priority Fields of STEM and Teaching

Monday, 1 June 2026, 12.45pm to 2pm

Speaker(s): Professor Helen Watt (Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Sydney & Honorary Norham Fellow)

Department: Education (Department)

Host: Ariel Lindorff

Series: Quantitative Methods Hub

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid

Vocal Masterclass with Stephan Loges

Renowned German-British bass-baritone Stephan Loges leads a masterclass with Faculty students

Monday, 1 June 2026, 1pm to 4pm

Department: Music (Department)

Audience: Public Format: In Person

Art, Data & Story: The Role of ADT-Assisted and Arts-Based Approaches in Shaping Migration Narratives

Seminar exploring how digital tools & arts-based methodologies influence narratives about migration.

Monday, 1 June 2026, 1pm to 5pm

Speaker(s): Michael Keith (COMPAS), Melissa Weihmayer (COMPAS), Zhixi Zhuang (Toronto Metropolitan University), Robert McNeil (COMPAS)

Department: School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography (Department)

Organiser: Dr Zhixi Zhuang

Host: Centre on Migration, Policy & Society (COMPAS)

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid

IDEU Seminar - Optimising the prevention of pneumococcal infection in children and adults

Monday, 1 June 2026, 1pm to 2pm

Speaker(s): Professor David Goldblatt

Department: Nuffield Department of Population Health (Department)

Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann

Series: IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

Shaping up for division: on chromosomal structures for accurate segregation

Monday, 1 June 2026, 1pm to 2pm

Speaker(s): Professor Geert Kops

Department: Biochemistry (Department)

Organiser: Jessica Barnes

Host: Professor Lars Jansen

Series: Biochemistry Department Seminar

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person

Recruiting Politicians through Networks

Political Economy Seminar

Monday, 1 June 2026, 1.30pm to 2.45pm

Speaker(s): Lukas Leucht, Oded Galor (Brown University)

Department: Economics (Department)

Series: Political Economy Seminar

Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person