The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: ‘Art, Nature and Science: Imagining Other Worlds’ with Brian Eno and Kim Stanley Robinson

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The Esther tradition and Reformation in medieval and early modern Europe

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The purim tradition with Q&A

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Making sense of Sustainable Investing: A review of the motivations, approaches, and datasets.

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Mar 29

11:30

Conversations About Death

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'WHAT IS LIBERAL FASCISM': A two-day masterclass with Slavoj Zizek

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The looming global financial crisis: time to re-think development and democracy 2.0

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09:00

A conversation with Nicholas Kristof

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Modern Druids

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Apr 3

12:00

Professor David Edwards: Global warming risks dehydrating and inflaming human airways

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Crick Lecture | John Diffley

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The LGBT+ Showstopper: ‘I Am What I Am’

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African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return.

2025 ICPR Annual Lecture: 'Reimagining the Courtroom.' Delivered by Professor Jessica Jacobson

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Life with two X chromosomes

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Apr 5

16:00

Medieval Historians in Conversation

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17:00

English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: The Tempest

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How Surveillance Works

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Apr 9

13:00

Unlock Your Career in Bioinformatics: Live Q&A with Dr. Irene Nobeli

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A World Remade by Decolonization?

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13:30

WHO’s work on climate change and health in Africa and the politics of health in the global climate agenda

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Crick Lecture | Roderick Mackinnon

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What Rights and Duties are Missing from the U.S. Constitution?

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Professor Tanya Serisier's Inaugural Lecture - Speaking Out About Sexual Violence: Researching Public Survivors Before and After MeToo

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Apr 12

09:30

The Working Communities of Mill Road and East Cambridge

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Ambedkar's birthday: open archives + tour

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Online Info Session: Postgraduate Social Research Programmes

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Crick Lecture | Caroline Hill

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Why Are Cities Going Bankrupt?

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Palaeontology’s Contribution To Understanding Our Climate Crisis

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STAG: DNA testing (and not testing) among donor conceived young adults

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17:30

HOME

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Apr 28

13:00

The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: ‘Art, Nature and Science: Imagining Other Worlds’ with Brian Eno and Kim Stanley Robinson

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A Guide to Mastering Your Money and Managing Your Finances as a Freelancer by Underpinned (for Freelancers)

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Anglican and Catholic Synodality

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Does Net Zero Mean the End of Livestock Agriculture?

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh's Inaugural Lecture: ‘Catalysing the Data-enabled Transformation of Health - Globally’

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Scholars' Library: Sara Bronin on 'Key to the City'

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Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World

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Crick Lecture | Sadaf Farooqi

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'British History from the Middle of Nowhere', Julia Laite (Birkbeck, University of London)

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Dirty Old River

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Lecture 1 - The Beating Heart

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The Operatic Showstopper: ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’

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May 6

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Book Talk: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott

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Echoes on the map: unveiling the auditory history of late Ottoman Istanbul through digital cartography

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The Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies by Tima Bansal - 'Designing the future: Applying systems thinking to corporate practice."

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Crafting Resistance: An Evening with Common Threads Press

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Do Computers Get Sick? How Humans and Computers Fight Viruses

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Rethinking prostate cancer: my pursuit of the truth through surgical research

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How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding

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May 10

09:30

Hooke Park Open Day

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Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall

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Growth and regulation in the age of populism: the Financial Conduct Authority’s challenge in getting regulation right

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Dr. Joanne Gray: Powering Workplace Proactivity Book Launch

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Prayer in a distracted world

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The Troubled Brain: Ageing and Dementia

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Rhodes Film Fora: 'Daughters of Chibok' & 'The Mothers of Chibok'

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‘Breaking Ground’ and Beyond: A Century of Women and Geology at OUMNH 1813-1914

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May 14

11:00

Expanding Technological Indicators for Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability (CIMR debates in Public Policy) - Hybrid: Online and In-person

16:00

Modern Pagan Witchcraft

16:30

Making things that move us: a gaming lens on design, motivation, and everything else

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08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #6

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Political Studies Association (PSA) Sport and Politics Conference

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Oil, Decolonisation, and the Future of the Climate Emergency

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ANNUAL LAW LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS

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Documenting the Amazon: Film screening and Q&A with film director Fernando Segtowick

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The Moral Case for Stealing Data

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The Stegosaurian Dinosaurs

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The Murray Memorial Lecture 2025 with Neil MacGregor, a Fellow of Birkbeck

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Teaching and Learning Conference 2025

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The relentless sun: how do we live with severe space weather?

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Professor Elena Loizidou's Inaugural Lecture: Dreams to a better world

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15:00

Environment and History Reading Group (May 2025)

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Taking the Constitution into the Classroom

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Crohn's & Colitis Open Evening

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Frontiers of Climate Litigation

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16:30

Viruses, vaccines, and the written word

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A New Sky

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12:00

Beyond Neoliberalism Conference 2025

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From Machiavelli to Nietzsche: How Modern Thinkers Saw Ancient Lawgivers

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Keynote Panel: Creating the New Economy

Friday

May 30

09:00

Light: a colourful history

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Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps

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16:00

Sum Stories: Equations and their Origins

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Revitalising Peace Theologies for Today: A Multi-Faith Peace Conference

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Lawgivers in Modern Revolutions

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Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Food Politics: Belonging, Identity, and Sustainability

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16:00

The 2025 Gray's Inn Reading

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Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Co-produced Research in the Justice System: Questions, Challenges and Opportunities

Tuesday

Jun 10

14:00

The ecumenical Feast of Creation

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Do aliens exist and are they trying to find earth? Nobel Prize winner Professor Didier Queloz speaks about his career journey and discovering new planets

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Professor Pedro Gomes's Inaugural Lecture: Economics and its "Sins of Omission"

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16:00

The Future of Immunity

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Seeing the unseen: the pursuit of personalised cancer treatment

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Digital Fossils: Using X-ray to Uncover Secrets of the Past

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Jun 12

18:00

Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Carceral Diagonalism: The Punitive Safety Politics Linking Left and Right Anti-gender Mobilisations in Britain

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Illuminating the Dark Side of the Moon

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16:00

Outsmart the System: How Psychology Hacks Your Money Decisions

Tuesday

Jun 17

14:00

Uses of Scripture

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The Deceived Brain: Coding and Illusion

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Jun 19

08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #7

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Environment and History Reading Group (June 2025)

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Fertility Matters at Work...and here's why

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Jun 20

09:00

London Conference in Critical Thought 2025

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10:00

Projects Review 2025

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Wesley House - Living Stones Open Day

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Jun 23

17:00

Limitarianism and Capitalism

Wednesday

Jun 25

13:00

Environmental Education Across Disciplines

Thursday

Jun 26

09:00

New Perspectives on Law and Literature, Malet Street Room G16.

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Performance and In Conversation with artist Anne Tallentire

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08:30

'Breakfast with Birkbeck' Environment & Sustainability Webinar #8

Thursday

Aug 14

09:00

Does the World Need a Government?

Friday

Oct 17

16:00

New ways of working (and what that means for us as humans)

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The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: ‘Art, Nature and Science: Imagining Other Worlds’ with Brian Eno and Kim Stanley Robinson

Oxford University

April 28

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Join us for a thought-provoking performance and discussion on culture, science, and environmental responsibility. Renowned artist Brian Eno and acclaimed science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will be joined by novelist Laline Paull, writer J. M. Ledgard, and Oxford academics to explore the challenges facing our planet and the role of art, literature, and technology in shaping the future.