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Upcoming university events.
Pre-COP31 Dialogue: Oxford-Türkiye Climate Leadership Workshop
An exclusive pre-COP31 workshop with a high-level delegation from Türkiye on Tuesday 30 June Oxford.
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 9am to 11.30am
Department: Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (Unit)
Organiser: The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and the Oxford Martin School
Host: The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Oxford Palliative Care Academic Network Summer Research Symposium
Palliative Care Summer Research Symposium
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 9am to 4pm
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Experimental Medicine Division (Unit)
Organiser: Bee Wee CBE, Consultant in Palliative Medicine
Host: Oxford Palliative Care Academic Network
Audience: Health and social care staff and University staff and students interested in palliative care Format: Hybrid
Diagnostics for Low and Middle-Income Countries Conference 2026
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 to Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 9am - 5pm
Department: Reuben College (College)
Organiser: Reuben College
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Asian-Global Networks and Relationships in the Modern Spread of Buddhism
Two-day hybrid conference on Buddhist networks and relationships in the modern spread of Buddhism at Oxford
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 to Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 9am - 6pm
Speaker(s): Elizabeth Harris (University of Birmingham), Steven Kemper (Bates College), Mark Unno (University of Oregon)
Department: Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Department)
Organiser: Pyi Phyo Kyaw
Host: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford
Audience: Public Format: Hybrid
Exhibition ‘The MFO Turns 80: Celebrating Research, Culture, & Scientific Diplomacy (1946-2026)’
Exploring the History, Legacy, and Future of the Maison Française
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 to Sunday, 27 September 2026, 9am - 5pm
Host: Maison Française d'Oxford
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Connect@CHG Genomics Data Forum: "Using human genetics to understand the causes and consequences of childhood infection"
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 10am to 10.30am
Speaker(s): James Gilchrist
Department: The Centre for Human Genetics (Unit)
Organiser: Gavin Band / Helen Lockstone
Host: Gavin Band
Series: Connect@CHG Genomics Data Forum
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Botanical Painting & Drawings Workshops
Learn the basic techniques of watercolour used in botanical illustrations in this 3-day workshop. Booking required
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 to Thursday, 2 July 2026, 10.30am - 4pm
Department: Ashmolean Museum (Department)
Organiser: Public Programmes
Series: Shaped by Nature Season
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Transcultural and Interreligious Encounter: James Legge’s Translation of the Yijing (Book of Changes, 1882)
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 11am to 1pm
Department: Bodleian Libraries (Department)
Organiser: Kat Dickinson
Host: Centre for Digital Scholarship
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Exploring a Gross Wellbeing Index: Case Study in Japan
Our final seminar in this series exploring multidimensional well-being measures will look at a Gross Wellbeing Index.
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 12pm to 1pm
Department: International Development (Department)
Host: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Audience: Public Format: Online
Journal Club - Highlights from the AAN Annual Meeting
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 1pm to 2pm
Speaker(s): Michael Li
Department: Clinical Neurosciences (Department)
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li
Series: NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Developing an ecological capability and functionings for African and global higher education
CGHE Webinar
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 2pm to 3pm
Speaker(s): Melanie Walker (University of the Free State)
Department: Education (Department)
Organiser: Centre for Global Higher Education
Host: Centre for Global Higher Education
Series: Centre for Global Higher Education Webinars
Audience: Public Format: Hybrid
Literature and Education
Tuesday, 30 June 2026, 5pm to 6.30pm
Speaker(s): David Aldridge (Dean, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin)
Department: Education (Department)
Series: Philosophy, Religion and Education Research Group
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Online
Unintended consequences of open datasets: is agent-driven secondary analysis publishable?
A Bodleian, Oxford Open Scholarship Event (BOSE)
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Matt Spick (University of Surrey)
Department: Bodleian Libraries (Department)
Organiser: Bodleian Libraries Office for Open Research
Host: Bodleian Libraries Office for Open Research
Series: Bodleian Open Scholarship Event (BOSE)
Audience: Public Format: Online
Lunchtime Lab Talks: Stephanie Dakin, NDORMS
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Speaker(s): Stephanie Dakin
Department: The Centre for Human Genetics (Unit)
Organiser: Charmaine Lang; Isabel Schmidt
Series: CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
Towards a Grammar of Health: From Deep Phenotyping to Longitudinal Prediction
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 2pm to 3pm
Speaker(s): Prof Alexandre Perera i Lluna (UPC Barcelona and B2SLab)
Department: Big Data Institute - NDPH (Unit)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari
Host: Prof Aiden Doherty, Dr Anya Topiwala
Series: Digital Phenotyping
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: Hybrid
Shades of Survival
Join us for a screening of Shades of Survival, a film exploring the lives of Black women diagnosed with cancer.
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 4pm to 8pm
Speaker(s): Dr Toral Gathani, Associate Professor and Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon (Oxford Population Health and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), David Ayeni, the film's director, Georgette Oni, Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Petrina Kamara (Founder of Africa Cancer Support and patient with lived experience of breast cancer)
Department: Nuffield Department of Population Health (Department)
Organiser: Toral Gathani and Lulu Phillips
Host: Toral Gathani and Lulu Phillips
Series: Festival of Global Health
Audience: Public Format: In Person
Blavatnik Book Launch: Postpartum Depression
Join us for the launch of Postpartum Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach to Recovery.
Wednesday, 1 July 2026, 5pm to 6.30pm
Speaker(s): Anne Stewart (Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford), Heather O'Mahen (Professor of Perinatal and Clinical Psychology, University of Exeter), Alan Stein (Senior Research Fellow in Global Health and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government), Fiona Alderdice (Professor in Perinatal Health and Wellbeing, Queen's University Belfast)
Department: Blavatnik School of Government (Department)
Host: Blavatnik School of Government
Audience: Public Format: Hybrid
Professor Stefano Fusi
The geometry of spatial neural codes in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Host: Professor Randy Bruno
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
The geometry of spatial neural codes in prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12.30pm
Speaker(s): Dr. Stefano Fusi (Columbia University)
Department: Physiology Anatomy and Genetics (Department)
Organiser: Ian Cone
Host: Randy Bruno, Rui Ponte Costa
Series: Oxford NeuroAI Forum
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person
Timing Matters: How Hormonal Rhythms Govern Mutation Spread, Cancer Initiation, and Treatment Response
Thursday, 2 July 2026, 11am to 12pm
Speaker(s): Dr Jacco Van Rheenen
Department: Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (Unit)
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates
Host: Prof Richard White
Series: Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
Audience: Member of University - ALL Format: In Person