Thursday 5 February 2025

• 10:30 - Is it acceptable to restrict patients’ welfare for physicians’ profit motive?
  
  Dr Julia Koenig (University hospital Heidelberg)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - God and Silicon Valley: The Place of Religion in the Development of Artificial Intelligence
  Professor Andrew Davison (Christ Church, University of Oxford), Dr Bartek Papiez (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - God and Silicon Valley: The Place of Religion in the Development of AI
  Professor Andrew Davison (Christ Church, University of Oxford), Bartek Papiez (Big Data Institute, Oxford)
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Friday 6 February 2025

• 17:30 - AfOx Insaka
  Professor June Bam (University of Johannesburg), Dr. Theofrida J. Maginga (Sokoine University of Agriculture)
  AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research

Monday 9 February 2025

• 16:00 - Disease and the Dead Body in Britain in the Long-Eighteenth Century
  Eleanor Kerfoot (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Public Seminar: What do research funders actually do? And how could they do it better?
  Stian Westlake
  Department of Education Public Seminars
• 17:30 - Building Confidence in AI
  Ella Wicks (Content Officer at the AI Competency Centre)
  Kellogg and AI Learning Lectures

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 09:30 - Nationwide studies on COVID-19 and brain disorders in Denmark
  Clara Springhorn Grønkjær (University of Copenhagen)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 17:30 - A Discussion on the Desirability of Life Extension with Professor John K. Davis
  Professor John K. Davis
  Part of the Boundaries of Humanity Discussion Series

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Mentzer & Fowler Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Thursday 12 February 2025

• 17:30 - Conversations on Consciousness: Who or what has consciousness?
  Prof Philip Goff (Durham University), Dr Heather Browning (University of Southampton), Dr Patrick Butlin (University of Oxford)
  Conversations on Consciousness
• 17:30 - The global AI inflection point
  Dr Lennard Lee (University of Oxford)
• 18:00 - Can electrodes in the brain treat chronic pain?
  Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Seymour (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 February 2025

• 16:00 - Chronic Constitutions: Experts, Disease Risks and Remaking Indian Bodies in Post Colonial India (1940-70s)
  Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 17 February 2025

• 15:00 - PSI seminar: ‘From local to continental: how vector ecology shapes tick‑borne disease emergence in Europe’ presented by Dr Helen Esser
  This seminar is primarily for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
  Dr Helen Esser (Assistant Professor, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation group, Wageningen University)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series

Wednesday 18 February 2025

• 12:30 - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
  Dr Felix Simon (University of Oxford)
  Institute for Ethics in AI lunchtime seminars
• 17:30 - Shaping the future of AI and Human Rights
  Professor Yuval Shany (King's College, London)
  Institute for Ethics in AI Accelerator Fellowship Programme events

Thursday 19 February 2025

• 12:00 - Hidden in plain sight – retinal imaging data for AI-driven early detection of systemic diseases and augmentation of drug discovery
  Dr Wen Hwa Lee (Foresight Research Ltd)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

Friday 20 February 2025

• 09:30 - The Valley Children: How collaborative creative practice can help us make sense of predictive genomics
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Monday 23 February 2025

• 13:30 - EDI Research Spotlight: Discrimination and Decolonisation
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - The Mental After-Care Association, Recovery and Psychotherapy
  Hannah Blythe (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - How AI will affect defence, foreign and security policy?
  TBA
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 24 February 2025

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Benjamin Perry (University of Birmingham)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 11:00 - AI Workers, Geopolitics, and Algorithmic Collective Action
  Sydney Reis (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: O'Callaghan & Beagrie Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 17:30 - AI if Human: The Ethics, Regulation and Governance of AI
  Sir Nigel Shadbolt (Jesus College)

Thursday 26 February 2025

• 19:15 - An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Friday 27 February 2025

• 15:00 - Music and the Medical Humanities
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 16:15 - AI for Nature Recovery – Improving the Journey from Data to Decisions
  Prof Kate Jones (University College London)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Monday 2 March 2025

• 16:00 - Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
  Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 3 March 2025

• 09:30 - Excitation-inhibition balance in psychosis - what does it really mean, and can we really measure it?
  Dr Rick Adams (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 March 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Cornall & Handunnetthi Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Dr Mukta Deobagkar-Lele (Cornall Group, University Of Oxford)
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Monday 9 March 2025

• 16:00 - The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
  John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 09:30 - Digital Innovation in Metabolic Psychiatry: AI-enabled Ketogenic and GLP-1-Supported Lifestyle Interventions
  Dr Megan Kirk Chang (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carroll & Irving-Pease Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 18 March 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carter & Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Michael Carter (University of Oxford), Dr Gavin Band (University of Oxford )
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Tuesday 28 April 2025

• 14:00 - What is data cosmopolitanism?
  Jon Rueda (President’s Cabinet and the Ethics in Research Department, Spanish National Research Council)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Wednesday 29 April 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Taylor Group (second group TBC)
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 13 May 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Knight & Milosevic Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 3 June 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Uhlig & Lang Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 24 June 2025

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Mentzer & Beagrie Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks