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• 19:00 - Floras Before Forests: fossil insights into plant origins
  Dr Paul Kenrich (Natural History Museum, London)
  Autumn Science Lecture Series - University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum

Friday 24 October 2025

• 08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds - Upper GI
  Mr Stuart Mercer (Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:15 - TBC
  In person only
  Dr Ricardo Fernandes (Nuffield Department of Medicine - University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 09:30 - Choosing and using software for referencing
  Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:00 - Evolutionary dynamics of extra-chromosomal DNA
  Dr Weini Huang (Queen Mary University of London)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - Early writings
  Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
  Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
• 12:30 - Venture Bites: building a strategy for fundraising
  Iynna Halilou (GP at the MBA Fund)
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Student Research Workshop in Micro Theory
• 13:00 - Climate Change, Adaptation, and Sovereign Risk
  Sarah Duffy (University of Oxford)
  Macroeconomics Workshop
• 13:00 - Racing through Election Cycles: The Political Consequences of the Tour de France
  Ala' Alrababah (Bocconi University)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 13:00 - Mitochondria in Neurons and Glia: Insights into Brain Function, Behavior, and Therapeutic Opportunities
  Professor Carmen Sandi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - "The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
  Natalya Vince (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:15 - Title TBC
  Adam McCloskey (University of Colorado)
  Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
• 14:15 - Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation
  Jidong Zhou (Yale University)
  Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
• 15:00 - Distinguished Lecture. Making the World Computable: from Foundations to Technology (for Humans and AIs)
  Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram|Alpha)
• 16:00 - Using Video Games to Study Intrinsic Motivation
  Franziska Braendle (University of Oxford)
  Behavioural Lab
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Two: Origins, Omelas, Odo
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 16:15 - Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet
  David Farrier (The University of Edinburgh)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series
• 17:00 - The Two Beginnings of Kafka's "The Castle"
  Please email kafka@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible if you have mobility / access needs.
  Professor Dirk Oschmann (University of Leipzig)

Saturday 25 October 2025

• 09:45 - Researchers @ the Science, Engineering and Technology Fair (Pre-fair Talk)
  Various Speakers
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