Department: University of Oxford
Talks:

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Trusted Research Briefing for MSD
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:45
Speaker s: Professor Patrick Grant (Chair) (University of Oxford (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research)), Dr Jenny Gladstone (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: The Richard Doll Building- G Lecture Theatre, Old Campus Road, Oxford OX3 7LF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Research Data in Action: Planning, Organising, and Safeguarding Your Data
Date: 21 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Department for Continuing Education
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
Date: 21 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No CSAE Seminar this week
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: CELS Group & CPM
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744207060876?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Adipose tissue expandability, lipotoxicity and the metabolic syndrome
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Costas Christodoulides (University of Oxford)

Gender and intersectional analysis in health systems research: Lessons for studies in African hospitals - Webinar
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Bintu Mansaray (University of Bristol), Prof. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (University of Ottawa), Evelyn Kabia (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust)
Organisers: Yingxi Zhao (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Host: Yingxi Zhao (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)

Macro-financial dynamics in energy transitions: a stock-flow consistent, input-output approach
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrew Jackson (University of Surrey)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

AI and Equality by Design
Date: 21 May 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Faculty of Law - Seminar Room F
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Central European Perspectives on Climate and Environment in 18th-Century North America
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Oliver Kruk (Oriel College, Oxford and University of Bamberg)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Fixing our food system is central to tackling the world's climate, biodiversity, water and human health crisis
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Pete Smith (Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Will AI Destroy or Save Nature?
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Andres Valenciano Yamuna (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean), Riad Meddeb (UNDP), Ángel Melguizo (Partner at ARGIA Green, Tech & Economics), Tin Hinane El Kadi (TIDE Centre), Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)
Venue: Middle East Centre Library, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: TIDE Centre (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Will AI Destroy or Save Nature?
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Islamic Spain and English Romanesque Architecture: The Fortunes of a Theory and the Construction of "the West"
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Performing the Wild West: Staging Indigeneity in Photography and Theatre
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"'It's not what you know, it's who you know': Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby"
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T. S. Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Blueprints: how mathematics shapes creativity - Marcus du Sautoy
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)

20th Annual Roger Moorey lecture: Bacchylides' Journey: The afterlife of a lyric poet in Egypt and London
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Susan Walker (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In Conversation with Prof Vladislav Zubok: How the Kremlin's Past Shapes its Present
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

Scientific writing: core skills
Date: 22 May 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Modeling tumor heterogeneity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Damien Grégoire (IGMM Montpellier)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : John Guillory
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Use cases for consumer sleep technology
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Hannah Scott (Flinders University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Venue (hybrid but please attend in person if you can): Main Seminar Room, Phase 1, Ground Floor - 20-026
Organiser: Dr Akanksha Bafna (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Simon Kyle (University of Oxford)

ORNN Seminar Series: Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where? Dr Steph Fowler, University of Oxford
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:30
Speaker s: Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Fieldnotes: Notes from the field
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker s: Abismrita Chakravarty (University of Oxford), Alice Tawell (University of Oxford), Jiayi Li (University of Oxford), Zaiba Patel (University of Oxford), Rachel Robinson (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Psychological Medicine - 'Bench to bedside: Implementation of SMaRT Oncology RCT into everyday practice in the cancer centre and beyond'
Date: 22 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Luke Solomons, Dr Lindsay Carpenter
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Aled Davies (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Has Liberalism Failed? With Matt Sleat
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Room to be confirmed on registration
Organiser: Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)
Host: Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)

Mechanism of DNA binding by the ALT-essential factor FANCM
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Lara Abbouche (St Vincents Institute, Melbourne)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Room 3 a/b
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Dr Rebecca Smith (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology), Prof Ivan Ahel (Dunn School of Pathology)

Modelling human decision making and learning in continuous, interactive environments
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Improving education through a multi-level analysis of conceptual change research and developmental education research
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Thomas Gennen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Dr Ian Thompson (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Making the Most of Supervisory Meetings: Practical Strategies for Doctoral Students
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Frederick Morgan (University of Oxford), Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford), Clara Fortes Brandao (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Venue: 6 Worcester Street, 6 Worcester Street OX1 2BX
Venue Details: Social Sciences Division
Organiser: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Jeffrey Pang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1 (20-026)
Organiser: Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
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Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: The Art of Choosing
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Sheena S. Iyengar (Columbia Business School)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

A quantum coherent spin defect in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum technologies
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Hannah Stern (University of Oxford, Department of Materials)
Venue: Hume-Rothery Building, Parks Road OX1 3PH
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lorraine Laird (Department of Materials)
Host: Professor Andrew Briggs (University of Oxford)

Discussion with the Planetary Portals collective of their website and Photographers’ Gallery exhibition I am in your dreams but you are not in mine: Hallucinations of empire and the AI archive
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Planetary Portals
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Desert room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

MIDD’s Growing Role in Global Health: A Case Study of Primaquine Exposures in Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Karen Rowland-Yeo (Certara), Prof Joel Tarning (MORU), Dr Mellie Gilder (MORU), Dr Nada Abla Geiser (Medicines for Malaria Venture)
Organiser: Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

An Introduction to the MAIHDA Approach for Estimating Intersectional Inequalities and its Statistical Advantages
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Professor George Leckie (University of Bristol)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Homecoming - BBC Africa Eye
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Filmscreening
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Peter Brooke
Hosts: TBA

Winant-Mellon Symposium: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR
Organisers: Professor Kimberley Johnson (Winant Professor, RAI), Professor Des King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

TANGO IN JAPAN: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Yuiko Asaba (SOAS)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford and Zoom
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A room with a view: Can communities survive gentrification?
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Simone Abram (Durham University)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, 61 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organiser: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)
Host: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)

What makes effective conservation? Overcoming barriers to conservation success in the 21st century
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Amy Dickman (University of Oxford), Sophus zu Ermgassen (University of Oxford), Dr Alexandra Zimmerman (Senior Research Fellow, WildCRU), Sahil Nijhawan (University College London and ZSL), Dave Stone (Chief scientist, JNCC)
Venue: Ship Street Centre, 4 Ship Street OX1 3DA
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TANGO IN JAPAN: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Yuiko Asaba (SOAS)
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford and Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Emergency as Genre
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Quality Assurance and National Assessment – Denmark’s 10-Year Experiment with Adaptive Online Assessment in Public Education
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christian Ydesen (Chair of History of Education and Education Policy Analysis at the University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and Online
Organiser: Dr Michelle Meadows (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 23 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
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Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Causal inference Best Practice: How to Strengthen your Causal Analysis with Bounds On Your Causal Effect of Interest
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Jakob Zeitler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room LG0 and online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Characterisation of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine-induced immune responses in immunocompromised individuals through multi-omic approaches – a journey leading to analysis of the role of IgM monoclonal antibodies
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Sam Murray (Barnes Group, University of Oxford), Callum Board (Barnes Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thinking bigger, choosing better
Date: 23 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker s: Professor Sheena S. Iyengar (Columbia Business School), Professor Anandi Mani (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Modelling infectious diseases within-host
Date: 23 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ruth Bowness (University of Bath)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L2
Organiser: Sara Jolliffe (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Robin Thomspon (University of Oxford), Dr Eamonn Gaffney (University of Oxford)

Targeting Organelle Dysfunction for New Therapeutics at the ARUK-Oxford Drug Discovery Institute
Date: 23 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Margarida Raus (Centre for Medicines Discovery)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Prof Ira Milosevic (Centre for Human Genetics)
Hosts: TBA

Carbonatite-related mineral deposits
Date: 23 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof John Mavrogenes (ANU (Australian National University))
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Immunology Across Disease Boundaries: Breaking Down Research Silos From Academia, Large Pharma, To Biotech
Date: 23 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Paul Peter Tak, M.D. PH.D (President & CEO at Candel Therapeutics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Simon Davis (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Regulating Nuffield Formals
Date: 23 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Justin Hadad (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Revisiting oxygen transport by red cells: getting excited about the most boring cell
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Creating data analysis pipelines: examples from the bioinformatic analysis of age
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Thomas Duffield (University of Liverpool)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Thames Suite, 13 Banbury Road
Organiser: Digital Capabilities Team (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Executive Influence on Legislative Institutions: Evidence from the UK House of Commons
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Tom Fleming (UCL)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm-associated infection
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Kimberly A. Kline (University of Geneva)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Chris Tang (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Data Monetization and Strategic Coordination
Date: 23 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Statistical Uncertainty in Empirical Economics
Date: 23 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

UK Catalysis Hub Early Career Researcher webinar with Prof. Meera Mehta (Oxford) and Dr. Lucy Costley-Wood (UCL)
Date: 23 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Prof. Meera Mehta (University of Oxford), Dr. Lucy Costley-Wood (University College London)
Venue Details: Teams Talk
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Josie Goodall (UK Catalysis Hub)

Winant-Mellon Symposium: Race(ing) the Administrative State
Date: 23 May 2025, 15:15 - 16:15
Speaker : Megan Ming Francis (University of Washington, Seattle)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers: Professor Kimberley Johnson (New York University), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jasmin Baier (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Nazrin Shah Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trees, Tales, and Tolkien: A Growing Environmental Consciousness from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings
Date: 23 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Andoni Cossio (Basque Country)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Decolonial and Indigenous Military Geographies of Okinawa and Beyond
Date: 23 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Hidefumi Nishiyama (University of Oulu)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Astor Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
Date: 26 May 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
Date: 26 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 26 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
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Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing War Back In
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Luis Schenoni (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

AI for Humanity w/ MayaCode
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organiser: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)

The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Seekers of Truth: The Life and Deeds of The South Asian Tradition of Etymology
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Paolo Visigalli (Shanghai Normal University (SHNU))
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How to Move the Masses on Chinese Social Media: A Narrative-Platform Approach
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Guobin Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Denise van de Kamp (University of Oxford)

People as property? Captives and slaves in medieval Iberia
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Teresa Witcombe (St John's College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

AI & Global Health
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford), Dr Pratap Kumar (UCL & Strathmore)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Get that fellowship (in-person)
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Zoe Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Centenary Room, Careers Service
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
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Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Michael Eldar (University of Oxford), Petra Oreskovic (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Immunosenescence: opportunities to reduce macrophage functional decline in ageing
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Heather Wilson (School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Grant Churchill (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker s: Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 5
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Hannah Timmis (University of Oxford), Anvita Ramachandran (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Wicked" problems in public health: epidemics, climate change, and migration
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Caroline Buckee (Harvard University)
Venue: Biology South Parks Road, South Parks Road OX1 3RB
Venue Details: Biology building South Parks Road (former Plants Sciences Building), Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Sunetra Gupta (Department of Biology)

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
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Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Contemporary Trends in Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity: Insights from Whole-Population Electronic Health Records in England.
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Angela Wood (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: Risk factors for stroke
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Oluwaseemo Osomo (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Capital, Ideas, and the Costs of Financial Frictions
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Pablo Ottonello (University of Maryland)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

African Military Thought
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unequal Opportunity Regimes: Policies, Contexts and the Everyday Experience of Disabled Students in the Nigerian HE
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Abass B. Isiaka (University of East Anglia)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Original Biodiversity Finance
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Susan de Witt (Stellenbosch & University of Oxford)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Atmosphere Room, ECI
Organiser: Andrey Levitskiy (University of Oxford)
Host: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Collective Intelligence
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ivan Vendrov (Midjourney)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Brenna Greer (Wellesley College)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Gender Inequality in Expenditure
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

English Criminal Law and Practice, 12th–19th centuries
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Deborah Oxley (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Female Servants in early modern England: a new history in global, long-run perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (University of Sheffield)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking conservation: inclusion and participation in the Pacific Islands
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai (Talanoa Consulting, Fiji)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

An ordinary journey: Student self-formation at lower-tier higher education institutions in China
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Yushan Xie (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room G/H and online
Organiser: Gonzalo Hidalgo Bazan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Indigenous Justice In Bolivia And The Travails Of Plurinational Constitutionalism
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : René Provost (McGuill University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

1st Annual Halsey Lecture: What is a student? Perspectives from across Europe
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Oxford)
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, HB Allen Centre, 25 Banbury Road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘“That Follows Not”: The Non Sequitur in Hamlet’
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof. Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'The Greatest American Rock Band'
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Denis Arnold Hall
Organisers: Betty Yan (Faculty of Music), Jessica Edgar (Faculty of Music)
Hosts: TBA

Special Roundtable: To celebrate the publication of India’s First Radicals: Young Bengal and the British Empire (2025) by Rosinka Chaudhuri. Chaired by Prof Santanu Das
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professors Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur), Robert Young, Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organiser: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Byron and Consciousness
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

In Conversation with Prof Abiodun Williams: Lessons in Leadership from the United Nations
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Abiodun Williams (The Fletcher School at Tufts University)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Project management: the essentials
Date: 28 May 2025, 9:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Fourth Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025, 9:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ising model on a Galton-Watson tree with a random external field
Date: 28 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
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Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Immuno-metabolic dysfunction in Psychosis and the use of Imaging
Date: 28 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Molecular Basis of RNA Virus Antigenic Shift
Date: 28 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Bauer (the Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1, Department of Biochemistry.
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Art of the Protest Novel
Date: 28 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Sarah Cole
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration
Date: 28 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
Date: 28 May 2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Lara Katz, Edward McLaren, Rocío Gómez
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Rocío Gómez-Ruiz, Leonor-Jo Barnard
Hosts: TBA

Coaching Skills for Leaders
Date: 28 May 2025, 13:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Marc Adams (People and Organisational Development)
Venue Details: LR8, Engineering Department
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Synthesizing Complexity: Build-to-Understand Strategies for Biomolecular Motor Systems
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Prof Ken'ya Furuta (Advanced ICT Research Institute & Osaka University)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Dr Isaac Wong (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology), Prof Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Synthetic Agents for Social Science Workshop
Date: 28 May 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Emma Madden (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)

An evaluation of mandatory calorie labelling in the out-of-home sector - what it tells us about mandatory calorie labelling and what it tells us about dietary public health policy making
Date: 28 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Jean Adams (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Indigenous Pictorialism: Richard Throssel’s Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Abhidhamma as Oral Text, the Mind as Oral Text
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Eviatar Shulman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Popular Classes and Royal Justice in Medieval England, 1330-31
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Chris Briggs (Cambridge)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: and online via livestream
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Revolution in Maritime Military Affairs? Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Commander Steve Walton (SST-CCW & Royal Navy)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
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Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Aryehi Bhushan (University of Oxford), Olivia Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Unbiased: Challenges and contradictions in defining a fair society." - The Annual Hicks Lecture 2025
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:45
Speaker : Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: In-person or online. Please register.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Python: Kick-off (Extended)
Date: 29 May 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Thames Suite, 13 Banbury Road
Organiser: Digital Capabilities Team (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Putting stories to work
Date: 29 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Transposons as genome regulators and immune triggers in acute myeloid leukaemia
Date: 29 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ozgen Deniz (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Pressure-driven fracture in elastic continuum materials
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Peter Stewart (University of Glasgow)
Venue Details: L3
Organiser: Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using a corpus analysis to explore the importance of historical consciousness in history teachers’ published discourse
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Katharine Burn (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Infectious Diseases - 'Sepsis: making sense of guidelines, management and underlying mechanisms'
Date: 29 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Andrew McCallum, Dr Clare Hird, Ms Felicity Phillips, Dr Ping Zhang
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1 (20-026)
Organiser: Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

New thinking on climate change policy and endogenous preferences
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Linus Mattauch (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Fiona Burbage (INET Oxford, University of Oxford), INET Oxford (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Eric Beinhocker (INET Oxford Executive Director), INET Oxford (University of Oxford)

Artificial intelligence for electronic health records
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

The role of the gut environment in shaping the intestinal microbiota and disease outcomes
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Carolina Tropini (University of British Colombia)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)

Differentially private M-estimation via noisy optimization
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:15 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L2, Andrew Wiles Building
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

The Memeplex. The three regimes of online communication
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Prof Tommaso Venturini (University of Geneva)
Venue Details: This event is online only
Organiser: Ellen Mobbs (Oxford Internet Institute)
Host: Francisco Nunes (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)

Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
Date: 29 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Jeffrie Quarsie (University of Oxford), Ines Fernandes (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: Naji Safadi (University of Oxford), Shubhankar Kashyap (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
Date: 29 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Students’ Emotional Landscape in English-Medium Higher Education: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods study in China (Research Talk)
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Sihan Zhou (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser: Professor Heath Rose (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Pombal’s reforms in Brazil
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond four walls: how do we nurture care, connection and belonging?
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Andrew Byerley (Stockholm University)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, 61 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organiser: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)
Host: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)

A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 May 2025

Population-based screening for prostate cancer is being introduced in Sweden: Why and how?
Date: 30 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Professor Ola Bratt (University of Gothenburg)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Spatially resolved insights into fistulating Crohn's disease pathogenesis
Date: 30 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Agne Antanaviciute (Simmons Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Modelling the rheology of biological tissue
Date: 30 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Suzanne Fielding (Dept of Physics Durham University)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Eamonn Gaffney (University of Oxford)

Metabolic vulnerabilities and opportunities in brain function
Date: 30 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Timothy A. Ryan (Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Prof Ira Milosevic (Centre for Human Genetics)
Hosts: TBA

Who gives a fuchsite about chromite? What chromite tells us about the evolution of Earth’s mantle and continents
Date: 30 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Pedro Waterton (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Sanjari Kalantri (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Polarization and Cooperation: A Behavioral Experiment (with Ignacio Jurado and Albert Falcó)
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Sandra León (University of Autonoma-Madrid)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Discovering new membrane proteins' functions with multi-scale molecular simulations
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stefano Vanni (University of Fribourg)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Geoeconomics is Back! With Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre and Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Annie Liang (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Geoeconomics is Back! With Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Date: 30 May 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre or Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Enslaved Experiences and Critical Fabulation in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Sarah Levin-Richardson (University of Washington)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford), Nikki Vellidis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Megafauna recovery and relevance amidst people and poverty in India
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Ninad Mungi (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (Book launch)
Date: 30 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Week 6: English Faculty Early Career Forum Cover Letter Workshop
Date: 2 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Seminar Room B, Faculty of English
Organisers: Dr Felicity Brown (University of Oxford), Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A One-with-Many Approach to Understanding Reciprocity in the Student-Teacher Relationship
Date: 2 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Mirna Sumatic (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools
Date: 2 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Chana Teeger (London School of Economics)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Department of Sociology
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Will the next pandemic be caused by H5N1 influenza?
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Combining cryo-electron tomography and single particle analysis to reveal sperm molecular diversity and evolution
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Lindsay Baker (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Anne Treisman Lecture: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"Spatial interaction models for the spread of species and diseases".
Date: 2 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor John Drake (University of Georgia)
Venue: Biology Mansfield Road, 11a Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Annabel Halfhead (University of Oxford), Andrea Kastner (Department of Zoology)
Hosts: Prof Sunetra Gupta (Department of Biology), Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Biology)

What the Body Knows – a Guide to our Immune System
Date: 2 June 2025, 15:15 - 16:15
Speaker : Professor John Trowsdale
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Goss Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
Date: 2 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Alette Smeulers (Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Sarvamedha, Pañcavārṣika, and Nirargaḍamedha: Ritual Transmission from India to China
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Zhen Liu (Dali University and Harvard-Yenching Institute)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Diu nocteque: Investigating Liturgical Programs of Prayer for Tenth-Century Ruling Women
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Megan Welton (UCD)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"Courageous or Coerced?" Europe´s role in a changing geopolitical order
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:45 - 19:00
Speaker : Lukas Mandl (European Parliament)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: Europeanist Society (University of Oxford), Severin Dauer (University of Oxford)
Host: Europeanist Society (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Oxford Parkinson's Research Day (this event is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only & is not aimed at members of the public)
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Scientific Writing: Getting Your Paper Published (in-person)
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Centenary Room, Careers Service
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Targeting the glutamate system to treat schizophrenia
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Katherine Beck (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 3 June 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
Date: 3 June 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Harnessing the power of proteogenomic in large biobanks for drug target discovery
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Zhengming Chen (CTSU, University Of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Ming Lei (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Messy Chaucer
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The potential of the school setting for supporting adolescents impacted by suicide: from prevention to postvention
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Eibhlín Walsh (National Suicide Research Foundation, Ireland)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

Coalitions and Recurrent Negotiation in Multilateral Relational Contracts (with David Miller)
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Joel Watson (UCSD)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sonia Muliyil (Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women’s Health)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Political Romanticism
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Researchers’ Town Hall: Shaping The Future Together
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Mahreen Khan (University of Oxford), Professor Leanne Hodson (Professor of Metabolic Physiology, Radcliffe Dept. of Medicine), Professor David Gavaghan (University Advocate for Research Staff, University of Oxford), Tanita Casci (Director, Research Strategy & Policy Unit, University of Oxford), Prof Patrick Grant (Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Rachel Bray (Head, Researcher Hub, Oxford University)
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 6
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Priya Manwaring (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Risky Business Cycles
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

When the Dust Settles: The behind-the-scenes story from the UK's top disaster planner
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Lucy Easthope (University of Bath)
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Network Estimation via Source Separation (NESS): Novel Perspectives on Linear Decomposition for Functional Brain Mapping
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Prof Leonardo Bonetti (Aarhus University and University of Oxford), Dr Mattia Rosso (Aarhus University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Winnok De Vos (University of Antwerp)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Launch of Forced Migration Review 75 - Dangerous journeys: Saving lives and responding to missing migrants and refugees
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Immunology Network termly seminar: Immunology and Metabolism
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Barbara Kronsteiner-Dobramysl (University of Oxford), Prof Hal Drakesmith (WIMM HIU)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre and atrium
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (Universiy of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : David Deming (Harvard University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Habermas Machine
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Michael Henry Tessler (Google Deepmind)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Stuart Delery (Former White House Counsel)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Role of subplate neurons in the development and evolution of the mammalian neocortex
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Developmental Neuroscience Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Zoltan Molnar (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Beyond a Lutheran Plague: Exploring Motivation and Intent in Early Modern Suicide by Proxy
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Andreas Berger-Gehringer (Universität Bern)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Our Current Boundaries: Peace Studies from Africa and the Global South. Book Launch and talk.
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room, accessible
Organiser: Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)
Host: OxPeace (University of Oxford)

In Conversation with Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House): Making Sense of Trump's First 100 Days in Power
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Pontigny Room
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Timothy Coombes, Marinu Leccia, Elizabeth MacGregor, Javier Rivas (King's College London)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Committee Room
Organisers: Dr Esther Cavett (University of Oxford), Professor Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Challenging Honesty in Net Zero Claims
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Baroness Natalie Bennett (House of Lords, Green Party), Josh Gabbatiss (Carbon Brief), Sebastien Cross (BeZero Carbon)
Venue: Ship Street Centre, 4 Ship Street OX1 3DA
Venue Details: Jesus College Conference Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Myles Allen (Environmental Change Institute, University Of Oxford)

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Tom Raster (LSE)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How to Begin?
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Organiser: Cultural Programme (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Tom Jones (St Andrews)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Three Minute Thesis - The Oxford Final
Date: 4 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Digital Health and Climate Justice
Date: 4 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Jesus College Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
Date: 4 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Marina McKay, Adam Guy
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Why and how to publish with Nature Communications, and editorial careers
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Hayleah Pickford (Nature Communications)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: Prof Angela Brueggemann (University of Oxford), Professor Susie Dunachie (University of Oxford)

GROW: How AI is changing industry futures
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: online
Organiser: Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Enterprise

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: IMCM
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Ludo van Hillegondsberg (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744207138678
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unconditional Cash Transfers and Child Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lunch & Learn: The Funding Landscape
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Peter Barber
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building & Online, please visit booking url to register
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The trouble with rational expectations in heterogeneous agent models: A challenge for macroeconomics
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Migration through Time: Individual and Collective Memories
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: East Lab, School of Geography and the Environment
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century
Date: 4 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Cécile Fromont (Harvard University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kai Heron (Lancaster University)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: New Space at Gradel Quad
Organisers: Kendall Gardner, Theo Hickfang, Miyo Peck-Suzuki
Hosts: TBA

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Villanova University)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Blavatnik Book Talk: Constitutional Intolerance
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Jo Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Maya Tudor (BSG, Oxford), Tarun Khaitan (University of Oxford), Dr Nazila Ghanea ((Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford))
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford)

Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
Organisers: Laura del Alisal (Reuben College), Ivi Fung (Exeter College), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College), Sam Miller (Jesus College), Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Cameron Bowman (Keble College)
Hosts: TBA

International Macroeconomics Workshop
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Yan Bai (University of Rochester), Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University), Carlo Galli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Rohan Kekre (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), Federica Romei (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organiser: Federica Romei (University of Oxford)
Host: Federica Romei (University of Oxford)

Interviewing for podcasts
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Long reads and organoid co-culture models: changing the way we treat cancer
Date: 5 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Beggs (University of Birmingham)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford) Decoding the molecular role of TDP-43 condensation in neurodegeneration using transcriptomics and biophysics
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OCIAM TBC
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel (Graz University of Technology)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

50 years with David Smith on location: from chromaffin granules to neurodegeneration via synapses
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )

Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ross Chapman (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Narrative CVs for Funding Applications
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Tanita Casci (University of Oxford), Dr Mary Muers (Research Culture Facilitator, Medical Sciences Division), Kanza Basit (Senior Research Facilitator, Social Sciences Division), Gavin Bird (Research Facilitator, Earth Sciences), Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Collectives in/of Solidarity: Student Activism by Women of Colour at the University of Oxford
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker : Georgia Lin (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Obstetric Medicine
Date: 5 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 5 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Astrid Brandner (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: room 40-091
Organiser: Aleksandr Kovalenko (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A lens for Policy Analysis
Date: 5 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : William Ferguson (Grinnell College, USA)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Fiona Burbage (INET Oxford, University of Oxford), INET Oxford (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Eric Beinhocker (INET Oxford Executive Director), INET Oxford (University of Oxford)

Making Data Work: Practical Strategies for Managing Research Data
Date: 5 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Guanlin Wu (University of Oxford), Russell Kapumha (School of Archaeology), Lena Easton-Calabria (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Venue: 6 Worcester Street, 6 Worcester Street OX1 2BX
Venue Details: Social Sciences Division
Organiser: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 5 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin University), Joel Suarez (Harvard University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Recent Advances in Difference-in-Differences Methods for Policy Research
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Guangyi Wang (University of California, San Francisco)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: Dr Gabriela Pavarini (University of Oxford), Dr Mark Fransham (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The National Poetry Crisis
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:45 - 17:45
Speaker : Kamran Javadizadeh
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, Cohen Quad (Walton St)
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in China and Taiwan?
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Reader in Entrepreneurship & Sustainability | Associate Dean, Global Engagement King’s Business School | King’s College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

Annual McDonald Public Lecture (part of Christian Humanism and the Black Atlantic conference)
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 20:00
Speaker : Professor Paul Gilroy (Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: Mr Ben Nicka (University of Oxford), Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford)

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 6 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Richard Bryant (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Christian Humanism and the Black Atlantic
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:00 - 15:15
Speaker s: Professor Anthony G. Reddie (University of Oxford), Professor Jennifer A. Herdt (Yale University), Professor Jonathan Tran (Baylor University), Professor Jens Zimmermann (Regent College), Professor Tracey Rowland (University of Notre Dame Australia), Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Chine McDonald (Theos), Anne Snyder Brooks (Cardus/Comment Magazine), Michael Wear (The Center for Christianity and Public Life)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Mr. Ben Nicka (University of Oxford)

Influence of aging on the Host response to sepsis
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Maxime Nguyen (Knight Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Security and Warfare in Ukraine: Domestic and Global Developments Post-2022
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:30 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Theatre
Organisers: Yevhen Yashchuk (University of Oxford), Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Yevhen Yashchuk (University of Oxford), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR & OSGA, Nuffield & St. Anthony’s College), Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)

Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
Date: 6 June 2025, 10:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Cohen Quad, Walton Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Southern Encounters: Nanyang and New Cultural Regionalities in Chinese Studies
Date: 6 June 2025, 10:30 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Postdoc Power Hour Anniversary Careers Special
Date: 6 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: 56 Banbury Road
Organiser: Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Hosts: TBA

Mathematical modeling of some aspects of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Date: 6 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Luca Alasio (INRIA Paris)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Maria Bruna (University of Oxford)

19th ANNUAL DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Opening windows for cognition through precise timing of cortical neurons
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Thomas Klausberger (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Discussion group on Roman architecture
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Janet DeLaine (University of Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford), Nikki Vellidis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Searching for Expertise
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Guru Ganeson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imaging Immunity within the peritoneal cavity
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Paul Kubes (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof David R Greaves (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Does Fairness Matter? Opportunity, Inequality and Redistribution (joint with David Rueda)
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Verena Fetscher (DPIR Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Control of mitochondrial shape & function through lipid transport at organelle contact sites
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Robin Klemm (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A+B
Organiser: Prof Ira Milosevic (Centre for Human Genetics)
Hosts: TBA

Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic Functional Data
Date: 6 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Won-Ki Seo (University of Sydney)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No Prices No Games
Date: 6 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv & NYU)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Ryle Room (first floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Vatsal Khandelwal (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
Date: 6 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

IDEAL Conference 2025: Innovations in Surgical Research, Bridging Science & Practice
Date: 9 June 2025, 7:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas, USA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Erlangen AI Hub: Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence Conference
Date: 9 June 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maths Building, QMUL London
Organiser: Erlangen AI Hub
Hosts: TBA

Understanding the Economic Burden of Diseases: A Global Challenge
Date: 9 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford), Assoc Prof Jose Leal (HERC, University of Oxford), Stephen Rock (Health Foundation)
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Losing Their Religion: State Banning of Religion, Social Norms, and Female Participation
Date: 9 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shqiponja Telhaj (University of Sussex)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Recording tumour-immune communication through interaction-based labeling in vivo
Date: 9 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Aleksey Chudnovskiy (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Hosts: Dr Audrey Gerard (The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology), Dr Tal Arnon (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Benjamin Abrams (University College London)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Department of Sociology
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Connecting sensory input, movement, sympathetic activation, learning, and instructional activities
Date: 9 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Ellen Egeland Flø (University of Oslo)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Towards a new treatment for tuberculosis
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Judy Hirst, FRS, FMedSci (Professor of Biological Chemistry, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Chromothripsis and Genomic Instability from Mitotic Errors
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Peter Ly (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Weathering Poverty
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Clare Balboni (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Political Economy of Housing in an Aging Society
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:15
Speaker : Luzia Bruckamp (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Gasica Ouzounian (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: Thomas Hegghammer (University of Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg (Co-convened with the Oxford Court Studies Seminar)
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg (Co-convened with the Oxford Early Modern Central European Seminar Series)
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker lecture
Date: 9 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

The Cult of Saint Frideswide in Medieval Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

A Postcard from my Journey with the T cell Receptor: Nerding out on the TCR
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof. Chris Garcia (Stanford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Time Management
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: zoom
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Technologies in Medicines Quality
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Paul Newton (University of Oxford), Dr Celine Caillet (IDDO, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Viva practice and preparation
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar - Values Frameworks as Ideal Types: Navigating Ethics Conflicts with Normative Minorities
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Autumn Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 1 and on Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title tbc
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Host: Associate Professor Sridhar Vasudevan (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)

Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

Parental Self-Harm and Offspring Psychosocial Outcomes: Systematic Literature Review
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Irem Yanardoner (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts: TBA

Trials and tribulations: streamlining large randomized trials to answer important cardiometabolic questions
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Emeritus Professor Jane Armitage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete surgery?
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

CSAE Workshop Week 7
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Jordan Imahori (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Nomos of the Earth
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Winning the Peace Through Adaptation: The Importance of Innovation and Partnerships in the 21st Century Warfare
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Admiral Stuart Munsch
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Widening participation in Australian higher education: reforming the school to university pipeline
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Andrew Harvey (Griffith University)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

You and your Supervisor
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
Venue Details: online
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Identifies ERBB2 as a Key Driver in Brain Metastases of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Kadir Akdemir (MD Anderson)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar Room, Lower-Ground Floor
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Associate Professor Eileen Parkes (University of Oxford)

Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
Date: 10 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Danilo Bzdok (McGill University & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Global tech policy in an unsettled age
Date: 10 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Margrethe Vestager (World Leaders Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government), Jen Easterly (former Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)), Professor Michael Wooldridge (University of Oxford), Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Freedom through fascism? Italian fascist views of the individual, the state, and society in the 1920s
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Laura Cerasi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Conceptualising 'compounded suffering' in the post-war context
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorff Room, accessible
Organiser: Alejandro Posada Tellez (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Rev Dr Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford), OxPeace (University of Oxford)

Wealth & the Welfare State
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Professor Peter Whiteford (FASSA) (The Australian National University, Canberra)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organiser: Professor Kenneth Nelson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Financial Aid and Upward Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Juliana Londono-Velez (University of California, Los Angele)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘It’s like you’re an activist’: Sustainable teaching practices in a music outreach project in London
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Dr Esther Cavett (University of Oxford), Javier Rivas (King's College London)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Denis Arnold Hall
Organisers: Betty Yan (Faculty of Music), Jessica Edgar (Faculty of Music)
Hosts: TBA

Papers by Dr Felicity Brown, Dr Sean Geddes and Dr Leah Veronese
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Felicity Brown, Sean Geddes, Leah Veronese
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

National Service: Leading Institutions Today
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Organiser: Cultural Programme (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Getting started in policy engagement (in-person)
Date: 11 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division), Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

An indirect way of detecting viruses: MDA5 guards against infection by surveying cellular RNA homeostasis
Date: 11 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-138 Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)

Artificial intelligence bottlenecks - how we can achieve a brighter economic future?
Date: 11 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Georgios Petropoulos (USC Marshall School of Business)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 11 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Rohini Pande (Yale University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lunch & Learn: Elements of a Good Research Grant Application
Date: 11 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Peter Barber
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building and Online, please visit booking url to register
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: The Role of Calcium and Phosphorylation in Sleep
Date: 11 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Hiroki R. Ueda (University of Tokyo)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Translating optical probes for imaging immune cell function
Date: 11 June 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Professor Marc Vendrell (Chair of Translational Chemistry and Biomedical Imaging, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

Examining the causal role of circadian rhythms and sleep in physical and psychological health
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Richmond (University of Bristol)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Completing Your DPhil (in-person)
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Law and Custom in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Date: 11 June 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Kate Kirkpatrick
Venue Details: Law Faculty Seminar Room F
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Making China Policy in an Era of Great Power Competition: Panel Discussion feat. Prof Todd Hall, Prof Kerry Brown, and Ruby Osman (OxIRSoc)
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Todd Hall (Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford), Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London), Ruby Osman (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Oxford China Centre, Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Everything Everywhere All at Once: Exploring Medieval Place and Society through Local History
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Townley (Victoria County History of Oxfordshire)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: and online via livestream
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Vera Mensura: Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Aden Kumler (University of Basel)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Diana Allan (McGill University)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Podcast your science (in-person)
Date: 12 June 2025, 9:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis - Targeting the WRN helicase in MSI cancers
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Ground Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Microfluidic model of haemodynamics in complex media
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Anne Juel (University of Manchester)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L3
Organiser: Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Bill Smith (DPhil History)
Venue Details: ONLINE via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Navigating Digital Literacy: Exploring First-Year Students' Challenges and Support Needs in South African Higher Education
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Vuyo Mntuyedwa (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, AfOx fellow), Dr Danica Sims (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation Medicine
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Postgraduate Panel
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ideas to Action: Effective Public Engagement with Research (online)
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: online
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Insights into Scientific Publishing (Oxford Virology and Immunology Networks joint seminar)
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Dr Duc Le (Med journal), Dr Zoltan Fehervari (Springer Nature)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: seminar rooms A+B
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Miles Carroll (University of Oxford), Prof Fadi Issa (Department of Surgical Sciences)

War in the Ukraine and global inflationary pressures: How fiscal and monetary policy should cooperate in the face of temporary supply side shocks
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : David Vines (Balliol College, University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Fiona Burbage (INET Oxford, University of Oxford), INET Oxford (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Eric Beinhocker (INET Oxford Executive Director), INET Oxford (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Jasmine Gani (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: Naji Safadi (University of Oxford), Shubhankar Kashyap (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2025: Dead Important: Addressing the Archaeological Curation Crisis.
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter)
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: Keble College
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Christopher Ramsey (University of Oxford)

Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Time to reset : ending the self-deception in Africa-Europe relations
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town), Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Decolonising Environmental Research: Rethinking Knowledge and Power
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Carol Ibe (JR Biotek Foundation), Dr Ricardo Roche, Dr Catherine Souch (Royal Geographical Society), Dr Monique Mulder
Venue: Ship Street Centre, 4 Ship Street OX1 3DA
Venue Details: Jesus College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Intentions are Good but Instrumental Variables is Better (in Real-World Randomised Trials)
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network 2025 Annual Symposium
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:30 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research Ethics Colloquium 2025
Date: 13 June 2025, 10:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Symposium - Globalising Modern Spain: Debates and Perspectives
Date: 13 June 2025, 10:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cell-bulk compartmental reaction-diffusion systems: symmetry-breaking patterns with equal diffusivities and diffusion-Induced synchrony.
Date: 13 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Ward (Professor Michael Ward Dept)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Philip Maini (University of Oxford)

Terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks in a warmer world – new insights from ancient climates
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Gordon Inglis (Southampton)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

3D Modelling Workshop
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr John Hanson (Departmental Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford), Matthew Nicholls (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford), Nikki Vellidis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Regulating Information
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Pedro Gonzalez Fernandez (Maastricht University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Preparing for the academic interview process (for Researchers)
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Adjusted Expectations: Citizens' Willingness to Compromise Post-Election
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ida Hjermitslev (University of Aalborg)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

One for All: Sustainable Facilities for our Future Research
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Dr Marcelo J. Salierno (King's College, London), Dr Lucy Menage (King's College, London)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Hosts: Dr Saroj Saurya (Dunn School of Pathology), Prof Jordan Raff (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Competition, Persuasion, and Search
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Teddy Mekonnen (Brown University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jake Nebel (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tracking Relative Bias: Attention and Fairness Judgments in Hiring Decisions
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Xiaojie Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Platnauer Room
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
Date: 13 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
Date: 13 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors
Date: 16 June 2025, 10:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Oxford), Professor Agnès van Zanten (Science Po/CNRS)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Gonzalo Hidalgo (University of Oxford), Paulina Rodriguez (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor James Davies (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

End of term social event
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:15 - 14:15
Speaker : Social event
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Old Kitchen Bar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ethnicity, Care Experience and Criminalisation: Using Admin Data to Interrogate Youth (In)Justice in England
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Katie Hunter (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Structural glycobiology in the era of AI: Restoring protein glycosylation with GlycoShape
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Can a wearable a day keep the questionnaire away?
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Aiden Doherty (Oxford Population Health), Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Population Health)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Looking for meaning
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humoldt-Universitat zu berlin)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Asifa Majid (University of Oxford)

Interdisciplinary Research: Overcoming Barriers and Unlocking Potential
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Dr Ana Valdivia (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Marilou Polymeropoulou (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography), Dr William Kelly (OxfoDigital Ethnography Group), Professor Andrew Gosler (University of Oxford), Dr William Finnegan (University of Oxford), Lena Easton-Calabria (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Venue: 6 Worcester Street, 6 Worcester Street OX1 2BX
Venue Details: Social Sciences Division
Organiser: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:15
Speaker : Zhao Dong (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The transcriptional architecture of developing schistosomes
Date: 16 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Matt Berriman (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Biology Mansfield Road, 11a Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details: Biology building 11a Mansfield Road, OX1 3SZ, Seminar room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Gabriel Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Iris Clever (Chicago)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Lamprini Rori (Athens)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rewarding traditional or new forms of cultural capital? The introduction of holistic admissions at a French elite higher education institution
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Agnès van Zanten (Science Po/CNRS)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organisers: Gonzalo Hidalgo Bazan (University of Oxford), Paulina Rodriguez Anais (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

The Śyāma Jātaka in the Dazu Rock Carvings
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Li Ling (Sichuan University)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women's Political Representation?
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Book talk - 'How To Think About AI: A Guide For The Perplexed'
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Richard Susskind (Society for Computers and Law)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Aryehi Bhushan (University of Oxford), Olivia Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Harnessing neuroscience to translate genomic discoveries in psychiatry
Date: 17 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Hall (Director, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute & Theme Lead for Mind, Brain & Neuroscience, Cardiff University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Spatial-temporal dependency & interventions for radiation-induced cardiac toxicity
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Karl Butterworth (Queen's University Belfast)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Dr Kristoffer Petersson (University of Oxford)

Trusted Research Briefing at MPLS
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Professor Patrick Grant (Chair) (University of Oxford (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research)), Dr Jenny Gladstone (University of Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road OX1 3PU
Venue Details: The Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics
Organiser: Stephanie Mathyssek (Trusted Research)
Host: Stephanie Mathyssek (Research Services)

RyR2 in the spotlight: how mutations and phosphorylation shape cardiac rhythm and arrhythmia susceptibility
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Ana Maria Gomez (Faculty of Pharmacy, INSERM, University of Paris-Saclay)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: David Smith Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Carolyn Thackrah (University of Oxford, Department of Pharmacology)
Hosts: TBA

The CaTS-App: A new collaborative assessment tool for adolescent self-harm
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Prof. Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham)
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

Is Equal Opportunity Different from Welfarism?
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Gabriel Carroll (University of Toronto)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

State, Movement, People
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: TBA
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Large scale genetic consortia
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sergio Quezada (University College London Cancer Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine), Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

No CSAE Workshop this week
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : John Kegel (Netherlands Defence Academy)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Advanced meditation and the third wave of meditation research
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Matthew Sacchet (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Skill Up with Immersive: The Future of Hands-On Learning
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : James Pallister (Metaverse Learning)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Thames Suite, 13 Banbury Road
Organiser: Digital Capabilities Team (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Project Clinic
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Rohini Pande (Yale University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Co-research into higher education – theory and practice
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Krystian Szadkowski (Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland)), Magdalena Radomska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Adam Ochwat (University of Warsaw)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Host: David Mills (University of Oxford)

Celebrating Early Career Immunology at Oxford
Date: 17 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Adrien Sprumont (Bannard Group, University of Oxford), Veronika Pfannenstill (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford), Yavuz Yazicioglu (Clarke Group, University of Oxford), Sooraj Achar (Dustin Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Sequential College Admission Mechanisms and Off-Platform Options
Date: 17 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Arnaud Maurel (Duke University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cows and Commons: An Environmental Approach to Witchcraft Belief in Switzerland
Date: 17 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Aaron Larsen (St Hilda's College, Oxford), Noé Vonlanthen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

I Film, Therefore We Are: Chinese Labourers, UGC, and the New Collective Documentary
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leading Beyond Authority: Independent Leaders
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Oxford Playhouse, 11 Beaumont Street OX1 2LW
Organiser: Cultural Programme (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How children, scientists, and AI systems learn
Date: 17 June 2025, 18:00 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road OX1 3PW
Organiser: Tanya Gujral (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Networking: A strategic approach (in-person)
Date: 18 June 2025, 9:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: LR2, Engineering, Thom Building
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
Date: 18 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Structures and Stability: Battling Beams, Kirigami Computing, and Eye Morphogenesis
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L3
Organiser: Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

, “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Julian Murphet
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: iPSC & Cellular Imaging Facilities
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1745403260622?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lunch & Learn: Time Management
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Pandemic Therapeutics – bringing coals to Newcastle' presented by Saye Khoo
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Saye Khoo (University of Liverpool)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organisers: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

No seminar this week
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Shedding new light on GPCR signalling: why space and time matter
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Davide Calebiro (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Churchill OCDEM 1, Headington OX3 7LE
Venue Details: Robert Turner Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ana McIntyre (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Ray (University of Oxford)

Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2025: "Natural Selection of Artificial Intelligence"
Date: 18 June 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: In-person or online. Please register.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Addressing equity challenges in the environmental governance of food supply chains: the case of deforestation-risk commodities in the tropics
Date: 18 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Rachael Garrett (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Zero Poverty Society
Date: 18 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Professor Ive Marx (University of Antwerp)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organiser: Professor Kenneth Nelson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Authoritarian Personality and Political Culture Today
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Prof Benjamin Morgan (University of Oxford)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 6
Organisers: Kendall Gardner, Theo Hickfang, Miyo Peck-Suzuki
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

Getting Started with Public Engagement with Research (online)
Date: 19 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organiser: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Spatially mapping immune mediated kidney disease
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Addressing the Knowledge Divide: A Capability Approach to Digital Access Inequities in Graduate Education
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker : Priyanka Soni (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Respiratory - 'Neutralising the neutrophil: new therapies in airway disease'
Date: 19 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor James Chalmers
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Opportunities and Challenges of Navigating Fieldwork as Insider and Outsider Fieldworkers
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Dr Dolores Martinez (SAME), Jingsi Wang (SAME), Susan MacDougall (ISCA, Oxford), Professor Agnieszka Kubal (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Venue: 6 Worcester Street, 6 Worcester Street OX1 2BX
Venue Details: Social Sciences Division
Organiser: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How to Build Lasting Career Resilience
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 19 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dissecting the synaptic basis of learning in vivo
Date: 19 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr William (Jake) Wright (University of California, San Diego)
Venue Details: Virtual (Please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Randy Bruno (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 20 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker s: Professor Dominic Furniss (University of Oxford), Dr Sarah Howles (University of Oxford), Miss Catherine Lovegrove (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

RESPOND Conference
Date: 20 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Organiser: Professor Peter McCulloch (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Uhlig Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Nonlinear dynamics of passive and active particles in channel flows
Date: 20 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Rahil Valani (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organiser: Sara Jolliffe (University of Oxford)
Host: Mohit Dalwadi (University of Oxford)

Mitochondria-lysosome crosstalk in health and disease
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Assoc Prof Nuno Raimundo (Penn State College of Medicine)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Prof Ira Milosevic (Centre for Human Genetics)
Hosts: TBA

Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Resolving the Boundary Layer Paradox: Seismic Clues to the Origin of Lithosphere Discontinuities
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Totulope Olugboji (University of Rochester)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Hannah Platts (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford), Nikki Vellidis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How Electoral Fraud Facilitates Elite Rent-Sharing (joint with Liam Rose)
Date: 20 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Aliz Tóth (LSE)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Meena Jagadeesan (UC Berkeley (Computer Science))
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Screening With Tests
Date: 20 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker : Jeff Ely (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Blavatnik Book Talk: International Law Stories
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford)

p-Hacking Instrument Selection
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Patrick Vu (The University of New South Wales (UNSW))
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
Date: 20 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: SUMMER COMMON ROOM
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 June 2025

Research Jamboree 2025: Malaria and Vaccine Take-Up (CSAE/ Jenner Centre)
Date: 23 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Colloquium 2025: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences
Date: 23 June 2025, 9:15 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: and Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

UK EQUATOR Centre Publication School
Date: 23 June 2025, 9:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Professor Gary Collins (UK EQUATOR Centre, CSM, NDORMS, University of Oxford), Dr Jennifer de Beyer (UK EQUATOR Centre, CSM, NDORMS, University of Oxford), Dr Paula Dhiman (UK EQUATOR Centre, CSM, NDORMS, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 23 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)
Venue Details: English Faculty, Oxford
Organiser: Dr Caroline Anjali Ritchie (Exeter College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research Jamboree 2025: IO/Trade Session on Industrial Policy (joint with CMA Microeconomics Unit)
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 12:25
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leadership in Action
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Wolfson College
Organiser: Alison Trinder (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

1-Day Exploratory Workshop: Material Culture in Global History
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Clinical decision support: Examples from Viet Nam in dengue management and the South and Southeast Asian Community-based Trials Network (SEACTN) in Thailand
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Chanh Ho Quang (OUCRU)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research Jamboree 2025: Centre for Research on Outreach and Access
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

DPAG KAVLI SIR HANS KREBS PRIZE LECTURE 2025: Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering: Towards Oral Insulin and Artificial Pancreas
Date: 24 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: Professor Dame Molly Stevens (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford), Professor Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Research Jamboree 2025: Economics of Modern Slavery
Date: 25 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

Day 1: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
Date: 26 June 2025, 11:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In Conversation with Prof Cynthia Enloe: How to Make Feminist Sense of the World Today?
Date: 26 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research Jamboree 2025: Recent Advances in Panel Data and Network Econometrics
Date: 26 June 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Genitourinary Medicine - '’Oropharyngeal gonorrhoea infection: Where Mathematical Modelling and Sex Parties Meet'
Date: 26 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Nell Freeman Romilly, Dr Karan Dahele, Ms Katherine Whitaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

If you have MOG antibodies what do you have?
Date: 26 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Patrick Waters (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A & B, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital
Organiser: Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

History of Art study day - Image & Object: Reproduction
Date: 26 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Professor Geraldine Johnson, Dr Brigid von Preussen, Dr Vibe Nielson (Copenhagen), Dr Paul Taylor (The Warburg Institute)
Venue: Littlegate House, 16-17 St Ebbe's Street OX1 1PT
Venue Details: Department of History of Art
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title Beyond Preventing the Preventable: Health Economic Case for Cardiovascular Disease
Date: 26 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Zanfina Ademi Delane (Monash University)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Preventing the Preventable: Health Economic Case for Cardiovascular Disease
Date: 26 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Zanfina Ademi (Monash University)
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
Date: 26 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ling Tang (University of Melbourne)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ruoxi Liu (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 June 2025

Day 2: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:00 - 18:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room, and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dushek Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

From the continuity of the line to the completeness of the field of real numbers: foundational and didactical challenges
Date: 1 July 2025, 13:45 - 14:45
Speaker : Associate Professor Laura Branchetti (Department of Mathematics “Federico Enriques” Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Professor Sibel Erduran (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 July 2025

Lunch & Learn: Transitioning to Group Leader
Date: 2 July 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online (please visit booking url to register)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 2 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sooraj Achar (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Oxford Chinese Language Teaching Research Forum
Date: 2 July 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
Speaker : TBC
Venue Details: Department of Education, University of Oxford (15 Norham Gardens, OX2 8PY) and Online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 July 2025

Dr Elisa Oricchio - title TBA
Date: 3 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Elisa Oricchio (Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Medical Grand Rounds - Palliative Care/Pain
Date: 3 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 July 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Drakesmith Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Postdoc Power Hour: Dealing with Rejection
Date: 4 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ludovica Griffanti (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Hosts: TBA

A view of RNA isoform expression across single cells, cell types and anatomical structures in postnatal development of the brain and neurodegeneration
Date: 4 July 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Hagen Tilgner (Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof. Carlo Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

"Never let a good crisis go to waste": Finding geographies of hope and opportunity in times of upheaval
Date: 4 July 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Vlad Mykhnenko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 July 2025

PAEDIATRICS, KAVLI & DPAG SPECIAL LECTURE: Bespoke CRISPR Gene Editing Therapies at Nationwide Scale: an Actionable Path
Date: 7 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Fyodor Urnov (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Date: 8 July 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Innovations in epilepsy diagnosis in Kenya
Date: 8 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Professor Arjune Sen (Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group), Dr Symon Kariuki (Africa Population and Health Research Centre,)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Positive Experience Shifts Fear Memories Away from Basolateral Amygdala
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 July 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 9 July 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 9 July 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Enhancing Health Behaviors: Leveraging Smartphone Data and Electronic Medical Records for Optimized Health Outcomes
Date: 9 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Samah Hayek (University of Tel Aviv)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 July 2025

Oxford Women's Health Forum, Thursday 10 July 2025
Date: 10 July 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Prof. Irene Tracey (University of Oxford), Dr Ranee Thakar (President of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists), Prof. Bola Owolabi (Director of Health Inequalities NHS England)
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Organisers: Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Sciences, Department of Pschiatry, Oxford Population Health, Oxford Population Health, NPEU
Hosts: TBA

Full-Day Workshop: English as an Additional Language - Understanding Evidence for Policy and Practice
Date: 10 July 2025, 9:00 - 17:15
Speaker s: Professor Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford), Dr Hamish Chalmers (University of Oxford), Dr Faidra Faitaki (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Department of Education, University of Oxford (15 Norham Gardens, OX2 8PY)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Renal Medicine
Date: 10 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Aspirational Transport Infrastructure and Emerging Narratives of City-making in India
Date: 10 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Rutul Joshi (CEPT University)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Diversity Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 10 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Friday 11 July 2025

TBC
Date: 11 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Sarah McClelland (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Call for Papers : Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
Date: 15 July 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 15 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 15 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Bertie Gottgens (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Wednesday 16 July 2025

GCP for Laboratory Staff
Date: 16 July 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Boundary Brook House, Churchill Drive, Headington OX3 7LQ
Venue Details: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/boundary-brook-house
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Infectious Diseases
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Ideas for accelerated and integrated compute in imaging, genomics, and devices, in Biobank and other datasets
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Busby (NVIDIA)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 July 2025

Fundamentals of Graduate Economics and Finance (In-Person)
Date: 21 July 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Inés Moreno De Barreda, James Duffy
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Organiser: Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Stroke Medicine
Date: 24 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 July 2025

Preeclamptic placental extracellular vesicles; a cause of the long-term cardiovascular consequences of preeclampsia
Date: 28 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Larry Chamley (University of Auckland)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Hybrid: CCRF boardroom and Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 31 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Dermatology
Date: 31 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Rubeta Matin
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 September 2025

From the Laboratory to the Clinic: Generating more effective vaccines and therapies
Date: 2 September 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Various (See programme)
Organisers: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS), Professor Fiona Powrie (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatlogy)
Host: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS)

Title TBC
Date: 2 September 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Arno Alpi (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Prof Ketan Patel (University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 September 2025

TBC
Date: 4 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 8 September 2025

September Summer School 2025
Date: 8 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Steve Bond, Sergio De Ferra, Andrea Ferrero, Maximilian Kasy, Alexandre Kohlhas, Michael McMahon, Federica Romei, Romuald Méango, Alexei Parakhonyak, Greg Taylor, Petr Sedlacek
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Organiser: Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Christopher Buckley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 9 September 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 September 2025

Dementia Research Oxford Seminar - Professor Martin Turner
Date: 11 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Martin Turner
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 September 2025

Global Surgery Course 2025
Date: 15 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 September 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 17 September 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 September 2025

Biomechanical contributions to cancer progression
Date: 18 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Maddy Parsons (King's College London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Tuesday 23 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 25 September 2025

Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis - title TBA
Date: 25 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis (University of Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Monday 29 September 2025

Dr Hao Wu - title TBA
Date: 29 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Hao Wu (Harvard Medical School)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 29 September 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Rema Ramakrishnan (University of Oxford), Claire Carson (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Hybrid: CCRF boardroom and Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 September 2025

Title TBC
Date: 30 September 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Marketa Tomkova (Ludwig Cancer Research)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine), Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 October 2025

Dr Elizabeth Patton - title TBA
Date: 2 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

TBC
Date: 2 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hironori Funabiki (The Rockefeller University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 7 October 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 October 2025

Dr Mekayla Storer - title TBA
Date: 9 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Monday 13 October 2025

TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Jan Rehwinkel (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Zuzana Tothova (Harvard Medical School)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine), Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Epigenetic memory of 3D genome and Polycomb states in cell physiology and cancer
Date: 14 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Giacomo Cavalli (Université de Montpellier)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar room ORCRB-1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Yang Shi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 October 2025

GCP for Laboratory Staff
Date: 15 October 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Boundary Brook House, Churchill Drive, Headington OX3 7LQ
Venue Details: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/boundary-brook-house
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 21 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

IX Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
Date: 23 October 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Ian Preston (University College London), Hyejin Ku (University College London), Tamara Smith (Gov London)
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Dr Manel Esteller - title TBA
Date: 23 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Manel Esteller (Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Filipe Pereira (Lund University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Giulia Orlando (University of Oxford)

Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford), Professor Masud Husain (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

Dr Elisa Vilardo - Title TBA
Date: 30 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Elisa Vilardo (University of Vienna)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (Max Planck Institute for Infectious Biology)

Monday 3 November 2025

Oxford Stem Cell Institute Annual Symposium 2025 "Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy”
Date: 3 November 2025, 9:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Jamie Hackett (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Rome, Italy), Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge), Phil Jones (University of Cambridge), Manuel Serrano (Altos Labs, Cambridge), Peter Rugg-Gunn (Babraham Institute, Cambridge), Abdenour Soufi (University of Edinburgh), Ian Chambers (University of Edinburgh), Alberto Elosegui-Artola (The Francis Crick Institute, London), Eugenia Piddini (University of Bristol), Paul Riley (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Molly Stevens (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch), Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research), Sarah DeVal (DPAG, University of Oxford), Carlos Rinaldi (Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford), Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford), Oliver Stone (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: OMS Lecture Theatre, 1st floor. There is level access via powered entrance doors, and then "sesame lift" access up to reception and the ground floor. There is step free and lift access to all areas apart from the third floor attic level.
Organiser: Prof Colin Goding (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 4 November 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Cutting through the Complexity: Why Not a Lottery for College Admissions?
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Michael Bastedo (University of Michigan)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organiser: David Mills (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 November 2025

TBC
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sumana Sharma (Davis Group, University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 November 2025

Dr Jose Adrover - title TBA
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Jose Adrover (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

TBC
Date: 6 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor David Pellman (Harvard Medical School)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor KJ Patel (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Friday 7 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Michael Potter (Cambridge)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 12 November 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

TBC
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Bart Lambrecht (Ghent University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Oliver Bannard (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

TBC
Date: 20 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Bana Jabri (University of Chicago)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 25 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Tim Somervaille (Cancer Research UK, Manchester Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Thursday 27 November 2025

Prof Kim Midwood - title TBA
Date: 27 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Kim Midwood (The Kennedy Institute)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

TBC
Date: 27 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Hugh Brady (Imperial College London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Naeema Mehmood (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

TBC
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Wolfgang Huber (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Charlotte George (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Friday 5 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 January 2025

TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicholas Lakin (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Monday 2 February 2025

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Friday 20 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Graham Priest (CUNY)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Host: Joshua Loo (Oxford)

Tuesday 31 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 31 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Emma Butterfield (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Friday 15 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 May 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Selim Berker (Harvard)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 12 June 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 June 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA