Department: University of Oxford
Talks:

Tuesday 22 April 2025

Exploring functional dependencies in very high risk acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Date: 22 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Jean-Pierre Bourquin
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: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Between Underfunding and ‘Moral Superiority’: The Position of Diamond OA Journals
Date: 22 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Niels Taubert
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What is the role of academia in addressing the biodiversity crisis?
Date: 22 April 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford), EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity), Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organiser: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)

Wednesday 23 April 2025

The Knotty Problem of Neurofibrillary Tangles
Date: 23 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Kenneth S. Kosik (UC Santa Barbara)
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)

'Rare typicals and non-classical pathotypes: Insights from the genomes of enteric bacteria isolated in Nigeria' presented by Professor Iruka Okeke
Date: 23 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Professor Iruka Okeke (Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre Richard Doll Building
Organisers: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Oncology start-ups - from an idea to clinical trials
Date: 23 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Anthony Coombs (Oxford Vacmedix)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Associate Professor Shisong Jiang (University of Oxford)

What can your shopping basket say about your health?
Date: 23 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Anya Skatova (University of Bristol)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Exploring the link between microsctructure, order and toughness in bioinspired composites
Date: 23 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Florian Bouville (Imperial College London)
Venue: Hume-Rothery Building, Parks Road OX1 3PH
Venue Details: Hume-Rothery Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lorraine Laird (Department of Materials)
Host: Professor Katharina Marquardt (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 April 2025

Conference 'The art of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity' + Book launch for two publications: Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu, 'Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia' (2024) and 'Memories of Journeying through Life: Encounters and Happenings' 1(2025)
Date: 24 April 2025, 10:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Tawney Room, first floor
Organisers: Dr. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford), Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford), Dr. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)

Introduction to OpenSAFELY
Date: 24 April 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Professor Ben Goldacre (University of Oxford), Dr Martina Pesce (University of Oxford), Eli Holderness (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book launch: Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu, Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia, 2024
Date: 24 April 2025, 10:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Tawney Room, first floor
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Workshop on policy-oriented political philosophy
Date: 24 April 2025, 12:30 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New Insights on the relationship between the brain, psychometric instruments and clinical measures
Date: 24 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Todd Constable (Yale University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 24 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 25 April 2025

Governing Digital China
Date: 25 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Training Session (in-person)
Date: 25 April 2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Picky Eaters: How macrophages select targets for phagocytosis
Date: 25 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Meghan Morrissey (UC Santa Barbara)
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 Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47
Date: 25 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Professor Yuri Shapoval, Dr Filip Slaveski, Professor Stephen Wheatcroft
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Host: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)

Blavatnik Book Talk: Our Dollar, Your Problem
Date: 25 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), Andrea Ferrero (Professor in Economics University of Oxford), Clare Leaver (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women
Date: 25 April 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Emily Owens (Brown University), Kaisha Esty (Wesleyan University)
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 April 2025

New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students
Date: 28 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Shreya Ganguli (Oxford), Kate Harrison (Oxford), Camille Lund (Oxford), Rawdah Uddin (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dissecting the the composition and function of intestinal immune compartments in health and disease
Date: 28 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : William Agace (Lund University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Host: Prof Mark Coles (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology )

Discrepancies between teacher and student perceptions of students’ academic attitudes and abilities: the role of student socioeconomic background, ethnicity and gender
Date: 28 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Katherin Barg (University of Bristol)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of dengue
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Neelika Malavige (Dept. of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
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 Nicole Zitzmann (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Anti-bacterial vaccination in the context of gut ecosystem
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)
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)

The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: 'Art, nature and science: Imagining other worlds'
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Brian Eno, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull, J. M. Ledgard
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Ministry for the Future

Astor Lecture: Treatment and Prevention of Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Golda S. Ginsburg (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms, lift available
Organiser: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Theme: Granular Ethnicity and Environment Data: Bridging Gaps in Health Research
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Sara Khalid (NDORMS), Dr Marta Pineda-Moncusi (NDORMS), Dr Qingze Gu (NDORMS)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Social and Environmental Consequences of the Twin Energy-Digital Transition
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Aurelien Saussay (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
Date: 28 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ann Kelly (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr David Popovic (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Ultrasound: Examples from India, The Gambia, Kenya, & Mozambique in cardiac & maternal care
Date: 29 April 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Dr Manisha Nair (National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford), Prof Aris Papageorghiou (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo
Date: 29 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Helen Appleton (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

EDI Media Club - "Black and British: a forgotten history"
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room
Organisers: Dr Christina Heroven (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)

Rasch meta-metres of growth in reading and mathematics attainment tests
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor David Andrich (University of Western Australia)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 1
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Antonia Delius (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

Introduction to Carl Schmitt
Date: 29 April 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)

Ultrasound monitoring in acute stroke
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Claudio Baracchini (Stroke Unit & Neurosonology Lab, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padova, Italy)
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)

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Union and Firm Labor Market Power
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Miren Azkarate-Askasua (University of Mannheim)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Code Support Python Drop In Session
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Thomas Kiley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Building wisdom: Aware and aligned via recursive wise world models
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ruben Laukkonen (Southern Cross University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Truth-seeking AI
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford), Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (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)
Hosts: TBA

Israeli Far-Right amid the Erosion of the 'Legitimate Circle of Politics'
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Ferit Belder (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Natural language processing to identify suicidal ideation and anhedonia in major depressive disorder
Date: 29 April 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Heather Sarsons (Vancouver School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Twlight (After School) Workshop: Doing Brilliant Biology and Ecology Fieldwork in your School Grounds
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kim Polgreen (Honorary Norham Fellow, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: The Cherwell School (Marston Ferry Road, Oxford OX2 7EE)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh’s Inaugural Lecture ‘Catalysing the Data-enabled Transformation of Health - Globally’
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: Examination Schools, 75 - 81 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG
Organiser: Lucy Curtin (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Editing Shakespeare’s Lyric Poetry’
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Lukas Erne (University of Geneva)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The discovery of ReNU syndrome
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker s: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Yuyang Chen (University of Oxford), Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Susan Walker (Genomics England), Dr Sarah Wynn (Unique)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

The Press of the Royal Institution
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : David Duff (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 30 April 2025

Introduction to Staying in the UK to Work (from the Visa and Immigration Advisors)
Date: 30 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Practical tools for supporting neurodivergence in the higher education workplace
Date: 30 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Cressida Ryan (Faculty of Theology & Religion)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Mandy Nicolle (IDRM and Department of Paediatrics)

Code to Confidence: unleashing creativity and problem-solving through Minecraft Education and playful learning
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Kate Whyles (Nottingham College)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road
Organiser: Digital Capabilities Team (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Securing an Internship as a Postgraduate Student
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: 56 Banbury Road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No seminar this week
Date: 30 April 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

Back to the future? The promise and peril of historical analogies in AI governance
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Julia Morse (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

GCP for Laboratory Staff
Date: 30 April 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

Epithelia and macrophages in lung infection: Roles in tissue damage, protection and repair
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
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)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

The Transformative Power of Multidimensional Poverty Statistics for Social Development
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
Organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Hosts: TBA

Epigenetics and alternative splicing in spinal muscular atrophy
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Albero Kornblihtt (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
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 Nick Proudfoot (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Shedding Light on Conflict and Cholera: Using Night Lights to Track Infrastructure Collapse and Disease Risk
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Daniel Parker (Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: LG Seminar Room 0
Organiser: IDDO (Centre for Global Health Research, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Newton (University of Oxford)

Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture
Date: 30 April 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Mr Mitchell Warren (Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC))
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Robin Beachy (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Book Pre-Launch: Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (OUP, 2025)
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Mohsen al Attar (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University), Claire Smith (University of Amsterdam), Dr Radha D’Souza (Westminster Law School), Nciko Wa Nciko (Amnesty International), Dr Raghavi Viswanath (School of Oriental and African Studies), Yang Han (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organiser: Yang Han (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Natural tilings: from hard rock to soft cells - Gábor Domokos
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Gábor Domokos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 May 2025

Enhancer variation and chromatin folding, shaping the face in evolution and disease
Date: 1 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Hannah Long (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Harnessing tissue regulatory T cells in the brain
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Adrian Liston (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Hashem Koohy (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Opportunities in healthcare AI at Oxford
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Oliver Harrison (Royal Society EIR in Oxford- CEO of Koa Health)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room and via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Writing the Environmental History of the Medieval Islamic East
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Thomas Laskowski (MPhil Islamic Studies)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Synucleinopathy disorders: A tale of two neurotransmitters
Date: 1 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ilse Pienaar (University of Birmingham)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Life Between "Enigma" and "Influence": Dona Torr Interprets Marx
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Sam Miller (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Growing Up Queer: 1837-1918
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Hannah Stovin (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Temperance Women and the Franchise: The New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union, The British Woman’s Temperance Association, and Women’s Suffrage, 1876-1914
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Danielle Van Dalen (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CVs for non-academic roles (for researchers)
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Development of Motion Vision
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Kristina Nielsen (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for neuromodulation of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Sean Froudist-Walsh (University of Bristol)
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)

Migration & The Arts
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker s: Bartolomeo Bartolini (Puppeteer, Performer, Producer), Anja Meinhardt (Artistic Dirctor, Justice in Motion), Antônia Spohr Moro (Offbeat Producer), Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Mawby Room (wheelchair accessible)
Organiser: Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
Host: Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)

Lessons learned across 20 years of cultural adaptation research with Latinx populations
Date: 1 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Professor Ruben Parra-Cardona (The University of Tennesee), Professor Ruben Parra-Cardona (The University of Tennesee)
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 Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China' by J P Park
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : J P Park (Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
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

Where International Relations Theory Went Wrong, and How It Can Get Back on Track – and Become Policy Relevant Again
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Marco Verweij (Constructor University)
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 2 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
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

Getting the Most out of your Career Development Review
Date: 2 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Marc Adams (People and Organisational Development)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Hosts: TBA

Do the shapes of tumour cell nuclei influence their infiltration?
Date: 2 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Kharthik Bharath (School of Mathematics, University of Nottingham)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Helen Byrne (University of Oxford)

Modelling mineral equilibria in igneous and metamorphic rocks: a new thermobarometric method and equations of state
Date: 2 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Eleanor Green (University of Melbourne)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 2 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Alyssa Rusonik (HEC Paris)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Why the drugs should work: A deep cellular atlas reveals a mechanistic overlap between Parkinson’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Caleb Webber (UK Dementia Research Institute and Cardiff University)
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: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Steering the evolution of bacteria within hosts
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof. Médéric Diard (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
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 Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)

Imputation of counterfactual outcomes when the errors are predictable
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Serena Ng (Columbia University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrew Ellis (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week One: Beginnings
Date: 2 May 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

Economics of Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Edward Barbier (Colorado State University)
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)

Monday 5 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 5 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Redistribution after War: Evidence from the US Reconstruction
Date: 5 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Megan Stewart (Michigan)
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)

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Thesis and Report Writing
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)
Host: James Cunning (University of Oxford)

The changing mental health research funding landscape
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Andy Ratcliffe (MQ Mental Health)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 6 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Raphaela Rohrhofer (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

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Simon Cowan (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Political Theology
Date: 6 May 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)

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 6 May 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 Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

CSAE Workshop Week 2
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Qingyu Chen (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: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College, London)
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: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Inquiry Complex
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : 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: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

Minds, Models and Markets: How Managerial Cognition Shapes Pricing Strategies
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:15
Speaker : Professor David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: William Forsythe - “Hard to say, not knowin…”
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : William Forsythe
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

SeedWISE - Cultivating Women's Excellence in STEM
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Careers Lounge
Organisers: MPLS Enterprise, Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)
Host: Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)

Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions'
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Yair Berlin (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 5
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The Lean Theorem Prover/Will computers prove theorems?
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Professor Leo De Moura (AWS), Professor Kevin Buzzard (Imperial)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
Date: 6 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Stefan Feuerriegel (University of Munich)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Talk: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Clara Lloyd (Oxford Vaccine Group)
Host: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard (Oxford Vaccine Group)

Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Tess Somervell (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

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Laureates' panel
Date: 6 May 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Health Economics and Policy Evaluation: Online Course, 2025
Date: 7 May 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Get that fellowship (in-person)
Date: 7 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Sir John Pendry - Metamaterials, invisibility, & perfect lenses: a new world for electromagnetism
Date: 7 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

WIN seminar by Daniel Reznik
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences)
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organisers: Stuart Clare (University of Oxford), Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan 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 Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carroll Group
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Jakub Hantabal (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.tacv2/1744206771231?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

Financial Security, Climate Shocks and Social Cohesion
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics)
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

How to Improve Your Interview Technique
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: 56 Banbury Road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using wearables to screen for atrial fibrillation
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Peter H. Charlton (Nokia Bells Lab)
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)

Classical-evolutionary technological change
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Eric Kemp-Benedict (University of Leeds)
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

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Paul F Hoffman - Dancing continents and frozen oceans: reading Earth’s diary in natural stone tablets
Date: 7 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Shaping the dynamic chromatin landscape for gene expression at single-molecule resolution'
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Carl Wu (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University)
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 Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: New Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Synaptic Neurotransmission
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor James E. Rothman (Yale University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)

Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom & Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joycelyn Longdon (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)
Host: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)

Localization in the Rohingya refugee response
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Miriam Bradley (University of Manchester)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Humans As Ultra-Cooperative Great Apes
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:45 - 18:45
Speaker : Prof Michael Tomasello (Duke University)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre First floor with lift access
Organisers: TBA
Host: Robert Hepach (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 May 2025

Towards nanopore proteomics: Single-molecule detection of post-translational modifications on full-length proteins
Date: 8 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Yujia Qing (University of Oxford)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar room ORCRB-1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

The mutational landscape of human tissues and the exceptional evolution of the male germline
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Raheleh Rahbari (Wellcome Sanger 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 Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Genetic diseases of chromatin: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room K
Organiser: Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hands on Science Engagement (in-person)
Date: 8 May 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Prelates as Political Appointees: Ecclesiastical patronage and its consequences for modern Britain, 1977-2009
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Kyle Siwek (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pensions, Poverty, and Policy: Gendered Inequalities in Old Age, 1975–2005
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Janina Bechtold (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
Date: 8 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Migration and the arts of co-production: urban mobilities and carceral London
Date: 8 May 2025, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker s: Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum (UCL), Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Eda Yazici (University of Bristol)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Mawby Room (wheelchair accessible)
Organiser: Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
Host: Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Working with large amounts of qualitative data: the breadth-and-depth method
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Susie Weller (University of Oxford)
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

Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police, and Social Order in Cold War Europe
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Henry Thomson (Arizona State)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker s: Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organiser: Neta Crawford
Host: David Doyle (University of Oxford)

Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
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

Friday 9 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Plastics
Date: 9 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
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

Novel transcriptional regulators of neutrophil maturation
Date: 9 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Abhinandan Devaprasad (Udalova Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, 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

5 years after COVID: what did modellers get right and wrong?
Date: 9 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Matt Keeling (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)

Convection in Europa's ocean subject to tidal heating from the mantle
Date: 9 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Daphne Lemasquerier (St Andrews)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mechanisms of Cellular Lipid Homeostasis: From Lipid Droplets to Ferroptosis
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof James Olzmann (UC Berkeley)
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)

Developmental programmes in cancer
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Richard White (Ludwig Cancer Research, 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: Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 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: 9 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Daniel Rappoport (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cointegrating Multivariate Polynomial Regression Analysis
Date: 9 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Martin Wagner (University of Klagenfurt)
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: 9 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Two: Child Liberation
Date: 9 May 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

Afua Hirsch: The Problem with the West and why EDI depends on addressing it (SSD EDI Annual Lecture)
Date: 9 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker : Afua Hirsch
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)

In Conversation with Prof G John Ikenberry: Is Liberal Internationalism Dead?
Date: 9 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : John Ikenberry (Princeton University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Auditorium, Levine Building
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

An Introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
Date: 12 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) - core programme (in-person & online)
Date: 12 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

What Economists Really Do: The Political and Economic Risks of AI
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Regidter for link
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Contextualised changes in self-efficacy for types of beginning teachers using the multidimensional SET scale
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Helen Watt (University of Sydney)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor James Naismith (Head of MPLS, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
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)

Insight into Academia: Myths and Realities of starting a career in research
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar 2nd floor
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford)

The Moral Cost of Carbon
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sébastien Houde (Université de Lausanne)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid
Date: 12 May 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Prof Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Transport, Science and Policy: Reflections on being an Aotearoa New Zealand Government Transport Chief Science Advisor - Prof Simon Kingham
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Kingham (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/the University of Canterbury)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Diversity Room, SOGE
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)

Elite Rivalry, Mass Killing and Genocide in Authoritarian Regimes: Why Autocrats Kill
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Eelco van der Maat (Leiden)
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)

Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoe Screti (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The white ears of Ofsted: language, race, and the schools inspectorate
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ian Cushing (Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Dr Ian Thompson (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Andy Sewell (Systems Immunity Research Institute, University of Cardiff)
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

Exploring and overcoming Imposter Phenomenon (in-person)
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Tracy Bussoli (Association for Coaching)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Leveraging long-read sequencing to resolve regulatory and transcriptional complexity
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Adam Cribbs (University of Oxford)
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)

Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Rethinking nosology, diagnosis, and prognosis
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Paris Lalousis (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)

Digital Health: The Systematic Public Health Empowerment, Research, & Education sites (SPHERES) project in Indonesia & Examples in digital health from Viet Nam
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Prof Louise Thwaites (University of Oxford), Dr Anuraj Shankar (OUCRU)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Clare Press (University College 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: Professor Marco Wittmann (University College London)

Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
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

'Infection dynamics in a changing world: from climate drivers to immunity and vaccination’ presented by Jess Metcalf
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0+1, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
Organiser: Pandemic Sciences Institute
Hosts: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)

Tandem lesion stroke
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Alexandre Y Poppe (Université de Montréal)
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)

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

The Concept of the Political
Date: 13 May 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)

CSAE Workshop Week 3
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Brunkhurst (World Bank)
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

Bunching and Taxing Multidimensional Skills
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Job Boerma (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Privacy and the Future of AI
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Professor Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell), Carina Peng (Apple)
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)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Diversity in Pieces: The Fall and Future of Affirmative Action in Multiracial America
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Sonia Giebel
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Steiner in Zion: The Reception of Anthroposophy in Israel
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Professor Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Max Rollwage (Limbic AI)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Wage Expectations and Job Search
Date: 13 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Alexander Sebald (Copenhagen Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
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 14 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Gaurab Aryal (Boston University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Private Colonialism in Africa
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
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

Beyond Trump’s First 100 Days: What Comes Next Economically and Geopolitically?
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Robert Westcott (Former White House Special Assistant for Economic Policy)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Academic Self-concept: Cornerstone Of My 40-Year Evolvement as an Applied Quantitative Researcher
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Herb Marsh (Australian Catholic University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture - Engineering Climate Change Solutions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Warren East, Professor Sarah Sparrow (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford), Professor Jesus Lizana (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
Venue: Rhodes House, South Parks Road OX1 3RG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prevention first vs. cap-and-trade policies in an agent-based integrated assessment model with GHG emissions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Lilit Popoyan (Queen Mary University London)
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

I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Mary Lou Williams and the Re-Imagining of Jazz’s History
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tammy L. Kernodle (Miami University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Bronte Alexander (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

Telling stories that matter: communicating your research through story
Date: 15 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
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)

Data Engineers Meeting
Date: 15 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Long-term single live cell quantification: New tools for old questions
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Timm Schroeder (ETH Zurich)
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)

The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OUCAGS Forum - in-person event
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Richard Cornall (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Details to follow
Organiser: Medical Sciences Division
Host: Dr Katherine Bull

Offer Holders Panel: Civil Service and Public Sector
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utilising multi-omics to better understand painful and painless peripheral neuropathy
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Georgios Baskozos (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
Organiser: Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
Venue Details: Online - Teams
Organiser: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Edward A. Freeman, History, and "Public Affairs", 1884-1892
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Gabriel Smith (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Walking Lahore’s Orange Line
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Moffat (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Ammara Maqsood (UCL), Fizzah Sajjad (The London School of Economics and Poltical Science)
Venue Details: Online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Trip to India: Cultural Indophilia, British Hippiedom, and Post-Imperial Memory
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Robert Taylor (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 15 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: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Our Refugee, Your Refugee: A Story across Three Nations
Date: 15 May 2025, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker : Eun Hye Son (TV Reporter & Journalist, KBS)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: The Hub (wheelchair accessible)
Organiser: Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Care to Carewashing…and Back Again?
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Jo Littler (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: Dr Rosella Ciccia (University of Oxford), Professor Mary Daly (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

Sustainable Healthcare - Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions
Date: 16 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker s: Dr Soren Kudsk-Iversen (University of Oxford), Dr SanYuMay Tun (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

Leveraging Clonal Dynamics to Identify Tumour Specific T Cells in Human Cancer
Date: 16 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Mariana Pereira Pinho (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Adam Bates (Dong 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

Round the clock: circadian gene expression, growth and division in cyanobacteria
Date: 16 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Torkel Loman (University of Oxford)

Metastatic dissemination from the perspective of the cancer cell, its microenvironment, and the host
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani (UCL Cancer Institute in London)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Hosts: TBA

Self-organisation in mafic cumulates: differential migration of immiscible silicate liquids in the crystal mush
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Marian Holness (Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pathways for the entry and exit of solutes and proteins into and from the brain. Implications for neurological diseases
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Roxana Carare (University of Southampton)
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: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TOP2B from discovery to first isoform selective inhibitor
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Caroline Austin (Newcastle University)
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

Randomization and the Robustness of Linear Contracts
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Juuso Toikka (Wharton University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Average Treatment Effects for Exchangeable Random Arrays
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Michael Jansson (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Three: Prison Abolition
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Old Library,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Monday 19 May 2025

Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from Elite Civil Service
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shaheen Naseer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Early Impacts of T Levels: A New Set of Hybrid Upper Secondary Vocational Qualifications
Date: 19 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Robbie Maris (University College London)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
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 Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
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)

Insight into Academia: Roles, CVs & Applications
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Theme: Using genetic data in biobanks to gain insights into genome-disease associations
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Peter Visscher (Oxford Population Health), Dr Siqi Wang (Oxford Population Health)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The cardiovascular sequelae of preterm pre-eclampsia – rethinking the postnatal period
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Ormesher (University of Manchester / St. Mary’s Hospital (ORC))
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Johannes Bednar (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Consociationalism: from democracy to ethnoi-cracy?
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Nenad Stojanovic (Geneva)
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)

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Sandra Leonie Field (Monash University), Pierre-François Moreau (ENS Lyon)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Harold H.W. Lee Room
Organisers: James Read (University of Oxford), Olivier Yasar de France (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

GROW: Creating Compelling Narratives that Persuade and Succeed
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Roger Frosh (ARC Accelerator)
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Careers Lounge
Organiser: Sally Charles (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Enterprise

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor George Mangun (University of California, Davis. (USA))
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: Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)

"Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
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

Research Data Management (in-person)
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : En Hua Hu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
Date: 20 May 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)

No CSAE Workshop this week
Date: 20 May 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

In the Fed we Trust? Measuring Trust in Central Banking and its Effects on the Macroeconomy
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Francesca Monti (Universite' Catholique de Louvain)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hybrid Warfare
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Decentralization in Science & AI
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
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: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Decentralization in Science & AI
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
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)

"A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Rakefet Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The Knowledge Quartet 2002-25: the application of teacher knowledge to classroom practice
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Tim Rowland (University of Cambridge)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Dr Gabriel Stylianides (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sodium channel dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Kevin Bender (Center for Intergrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford)

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
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 Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

ONE Annual Lecture and briefing event
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danny Sriskandarajah (Chief Executive at New Economics Foundation)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1
Organiser: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

BURDON SANDERSON PRIZE LECTURE: Targeting calcium leak to treat disorders of heart, muscle and brain
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew R. Marks (Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

The Tourism Geopolitics of China’s Arctic Interventions
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto (Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Desert Room
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Obfuscation in Competitive Markets
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Taylorian Main Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Racial Capitalism in Early Modern England’
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
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 21 May 2025

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

Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: TBC
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

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

Title TBC
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Reshmaan N. Hussam (Harvard 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

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

In Conversation with Prof Vladislav Zubok: How the Kremlin's Past Shapes its Present
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
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: TBC
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Dr Damien Grégoire - title TBA
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)

ORNN Seminar Series
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

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
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

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

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
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)

TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Winant-Mellon Symposium Keynote Address: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
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

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 - Neuroradiology
Date: 23 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
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

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : 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

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: L4
Organiser: Sara Jolliffe (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Robin Thomspon (University of Oxford), Dr Eamonn Gaffney (University of Oxford)

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

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
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)

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)

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

Title TBC
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

Title TBC
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

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

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

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
Date: 26 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
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
Speaker
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)

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

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 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

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

"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)

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)

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

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

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
Date: 27 May 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)

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

Title TBC
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

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Collective Intelligence
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
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)

Title TBC
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

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)

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
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

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)
Organiser: Haitong Du (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

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Project management: the essentials
Date: 28 May 2025, 9:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: careers lounge
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

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

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

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

"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

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)

Dr Ozgen Deniz - title TBA
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)

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

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)

Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 29 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Urology
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

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : 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)

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 : Guru Ganeson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Avian and human 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)

Title TBC
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
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lindsay Baker (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sophie Zhou (University of Reading)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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)

"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
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)

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
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

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)

Scientific Writing: Getting Your Paper Published (in-person)
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (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

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

Title TBC
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

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

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)

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

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Habermas Machine
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
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)

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: IMCM
Date: 4 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.tacv2/1744207138678
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

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

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

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

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)

Prof Andrew Beggs - title TBA
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)

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)

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

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

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

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (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, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Friday 6 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds - Quality, Reliability, Safety and Teamwork Unit
Date: 6 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
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

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : 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

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

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)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
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)

TBC
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)

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

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

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

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, 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

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
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

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

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

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

Better 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

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

Tuesday 10 June 2025

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)

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

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)

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)

You and your Supervisor
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : TBC
Venue Details: TBC
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

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)

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

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)

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
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

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

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
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)

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

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)

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

Title TBC
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In conversation with Prof Adam Smyth and Prof Lloyd Pratt on Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2025)
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof. Kirsten McFarlane (University of Chicago)
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

"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)

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

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: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Diana Allen (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: TBC
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

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)

Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis
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)

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

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)

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

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

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 - Intensive care
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

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

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
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

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

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

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, 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

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
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

Monday 16 June 2025

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)

Title TBC
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
Organiser: 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?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
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)

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

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)

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)

Title TBC
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)

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
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)

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

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

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, 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

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
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: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

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

Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2025: "Incentive-compatible information design"
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

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)

TBC
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)

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Charmaine Lang (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

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

Combined Medical-Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 19 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
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

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

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture
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

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

To be announced
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)

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
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

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

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
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

Monday 23 June 2025

OPDC Seminar by Assoc. Prof. Antony Cooper - 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

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)

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: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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

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

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)

Friday 27 June 2025

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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

Title TBC
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

Thursday 10 July 2025

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)

OPDC Seminar by Assistant Professor Briana R. De Miranda. 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)

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

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

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

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: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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