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The annual Oxford University Alumni Weekend aims to showcase the Collegiate University as a whole, giving prominence to a range of current research and its application to real world situatio...
This Alumni Weekend panel discusses future energy needs and steps that must be taken to increase the chance that they can be met sustainably...
Re-visiting the time of Freud, Klimt and Schönberg, the Alumni Weekend panel surveys and analyse this unique period in Vienna’s history and...
Panel discussion of the Ukraine reviewing the current situation, exploring the context of the conflict which broke out in 2014, assessing it...
This talk illustrates how Tibetan Buddhism relates to the landscapes of the Tibetan plateau, to form a unique, truly Himalayan blend.
The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The W...
Ira Lieberman provides an expert analysis on the evolution of micro-finance institutions. Followed by Juan Guerra, founder of StudentFunder...
Social finance and social investment is creating a global buzz, with estimates that the sector will grow over the next decade – an emerging...
Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine and Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford, in conversation.
Chas Bountra, a popular speaker at the recent Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Asia, will explain how Oxford is creating a new ecosystem for...
Nigel Bowles explores Nixon’s politics that achieved a synthesis of strategy, imagination, ideologies, and calculation rare among Presidents...
Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian and Fellow of Balliol, and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church and Fellow of St...
How has mathematics emerged over recent decades as the engine behind 21st century science? Alain Goriely looks at this question and more.
Joe Cartwright provides a geological perspective into the exploration of shale gas reserves.
What constitutes a cyber-attack and who conducts them? What are the risks to society? Sadie Creese will discuss these issues and explain res...
Professor Lionel Tarassenko, an alumnus of the Department and its new Head as of September 2014, sets out his vision for the Department for...
Paul Newman talks about the UK’s first self-driving car – being developed at the Department of Engineering Science. He’ll explain the projec...
Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Ian Goldin argues that it al...
Professor Whatmore, who focuses on the interface between cultural geography, political theory and science and technology studies, will draw...
Drawing on European and Middle Eastern sources, historian Eugene Rogan provides an overview of the Great War in the Middle East from both si...
Tom Higham examines some of the projects the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit has been involved with over the last few years; from dating the Ne...
This panel debate discusses key facts and fiction in international migration, and presents new ideas for a better politics of immigration.
World-renowned mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, describes how crystalline symmetries are necessarily 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fo...
Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of Oxford University draws upon his experience at the highest levels in the public sector to share his uni...
This lecture by Jamie Lorimer explores new ways of thinking and doing environmentalism that need not make recourse to nature. The diagnosis...
Illustrated with photographs from previous trips, this talk by Professor Mark Smith contrasts the Nile Valley and the desert and explore how...
This lecture given by Dr Matt Friedman will look at the evolution of the unique flora and fauna of Madagascar and how it is intertwined with...
Panel discussion looking at healthcare in the future as part of the inaugural Oxford Alumni Weekend in Asia held in in Hong Kong.
Between 21 – 23 March, Oxford University hosted the inaugural Meeting Minds: Alumni Weekend in Asia in Hong Kong. These are some highlights...
Oxford University Chancellor Lord Patten of Barnes reflects on the offerings from academic sessions in Hong Kong as part of the inaugural Ox...
With topics ranging from prime numbers to the lottery, from lemmings to bending balls like Beckham, this creative session with Marcus du Sau...
Will this be the Asian Century? Four leading voices from Oxford University debate this motion, moderated by the Chancellor, Lord Patten of B...
Oxford University Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton kicks off a stimulating day of academic sessions in Hong Kong for the inaugural...
Panel discussion led by Vice Chancellor Andrew Hamilton, with Mike Nicholson, Helen Swift, Priscilla Santos and Jenny Brennan. Each year, Ox...
Dr Perkins gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend. Dr Nicholas Perkins curated the 2012 Bodleian exhibition 'The Romance of the Mid...
This session will examine the political and humanitarian dynamics behind the Arab Spring and the Syrian War. Starting with a long view of th...
Marianne Talbot talks about the uses and dangers of the relatively new discipline of synthetic biology.
Fireworks consultant, author and former Oxford chemist Dr Tom Smith explains the basic chemistry and construction of fireworks, and their us...
Professor Marcus du Sautoy (New College), Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science, author and broadcaster gives a talk...
Dr Sabina Alkire, Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend 2013. Wh...
Dr John Wheater (Head of Physics Department), Emeritus Professor Derek Stacey and Dr Jay Watson (alumnus), give a talk about the Oxford Phys...
Dr Simon Butt (Keble), Fellow and Tutor in Neuroscience, gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend. The human brain is an amazingly complex...
Professor Richard Washington, Professor of Climate Science at the School of Geography and the Environment; Fellow and Tutor in Geography, Ke...
In this lecture, Professor Goldin presents ideas from his latest book and focuses on issues such as the financial crisis, the internet, pand...
'Big data' in medicine is an emerging field with the potential to revolutionise healthcare research.This session will look at how Oxford is...
With digital broadcasting increasing and newspaper readership falling, how should we respond in ways that ensure the free flow of informatio...
See how modern analyses of the fossil record, genetics and development provide a new understanding of flatfish evolution, and how this bears...
This lecture, based on the recent biography by Bettany Hughes, looks at Socrates' life, following in his footsteps across Greece and Asia Mi...
Dr Rana Irshad, University of Oxford, gives a brief whistle-stop tour of the exciting initiatives Oxford has running in exploring the vast e...
Sir Adam Roberts, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford, gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend 2013.
Dr Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend 2013. Some have described the cur...