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Eric Kaufmann, Keon West and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown chaired by Stephen Law

Oxford Debate: The Changing Landscape of Racism
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sat 29 Saturday, 29 March 2025 See this event
Janne Haaland Matlary and Rob Johnson

NATO and the Russian War in Ukraine SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Sun 30 Sunday, 30 March 2025 See this event
Philippe Sands talks to Richard Ovenden

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in London and a Nazi in Patagonia
Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm Sun 30 Sunday, 30 March 2025 See this event
Justin Schlosberg, Tony Sewell and Zoe Strimpel chaired by Stephen Law

Oxford Debates: Immigration and the 2024 Riots
Trinity College, Levene Building: Auditorium 2:00pm Sun 30 Sunday, 30 March 2025 See this event
Wolfgang Münchau talks to Paul Simons

Kaput: The End of the German Miracle
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sun 30 Sunday, 30 March 2025 See this event
Vernon Bogdanor talks to Andrew Blick

Making the Weather: Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Mon 31 Monday, 31 March 2025 See this event
Timothy Garton Ash talks to Chris Patten

Lord Patten Free Speech Conversation: Freedom of Expression is our Lifeblood
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Mon 31 Monday, 31 March 2025 See this event
Oliver Moody Matthew Stadlen

Baltic: The Future of Europe
Bodleian: Convocation House 10:00am Tue 1 Tuesday, 1 April 2025 See this event
Paul Morland

No One Left: Why the World Needs More Children
Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building 12:00pm Tue 1 Tuesday, 1 April 2025 See this event
Chris Atkins, Gen Glaister and Rob McKeon chaired by Stephen Law

Oxford Debate. Banged Up: Perspectives of an Ex-prisoner, Ex-prison officer, and Parole Board Member
Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm Tue 1 Tuesday, 1 April 2025 See this event
Matthew Teller talks to Atef Alshaer

Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Tue 1 Tuesday, 1 April 2025 See this event
Daniel Susskind, Carissa Veliz and Linda Eggert chaired by David Edmonds

The Morality of Artificial Intelligence SOLD OUT
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Tue 1 Tuesday, 1 April 2025 See this event
Keir Giles, Stephanie Baker and Mark Galeotti chaired by Dominic Nicholls

The Russian Threat: Why it has Grown and How to Fight Back
Sheldonian Theatre 10:00am Wed 2 Wednesday, 2 April 2025 See this event
David Starkey introduced by Nick Higham

A 21st Century Perspective: Our Life and Times Today
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Wed 2 Wednesday, 2 April 2025 See this event
A C Grayling talks to Stephen Law

Discriminations: Making Peace in the Culture Wars
Pusey House: Chapel 2:00pm Wed 2 Wednesday, 2 April 2025 See this event
Paul Caruana Galizia talks to Susannah Jowitt

A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family’s Quest for Justice
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Wed 2 Wednesday, 2 April 2025 See this event
Thomas Hale and Hannah Ritchie chaired by Matthew Stadlen

Charting the Path to a Sustainable Planet
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Wed 2 Wednesday, 2 April 2025 See this event
Helen Joyce talks to Julie Bindel

Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights SOLD OUT
Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm Wed 2 Wednesday, 2 April 2025 See this event
Rachel Shabi talks to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Off-White: The Truth about Antisemitism
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Wed 2 Wednesday, 2 April 2025 See this event
Paul Collier talks to Sophie Roell

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Wed 2 Wednesday, 2 April 2025 See this event
Simon Heffer, Marina Purkiss, Zoe Strimpel and Adele Walton chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Oxford Debate: You Ask the Questions
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Thu 3 Thursday, 3 April 2025 See this event
Alpa Shah talks to Nick Higham

The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Thu 3 Thursday, 3 April 2025 See this event
John Heathershaw and Tom Mayne chaired by Oliver Bullough

Indulging Kleptocracy: British Service Providers, Post-communist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Thu 3 Thursday, 3 April 2025 See this event
Feryal Ali-Gauhar and H Y Attia chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Women Writers of Pakistani and Asian Heritage
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Thu 3 Thursday, 3 April 2025 See this event
Mattias Desmet, Sunetra Gupta and Jolyon Maugham chaired by Stephen Law

Oxford Debate: Covid and Corruption
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Thu 3 Thursday, 3 April 2025 See this event
Zoe Strimpel and Jonathan Portes chaired by Stephen Law

Oxford Debate. Is Britain Broken? If it is, how do we fix it?
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 10:00am Fri 4 Friday, 4 April 2025 See this event
Nathan Robinson and Edward Fishman chaired by Matthew Stadlen

Trump, America and the Future World Order
Sheldonian Theatre 10:00am Fri 4 Friday, 4 April 2025 See this event
Phil Tinline

Ghosts of Iron Mountain
Bodleian: Convocation House 12:00pm Fri 4 Friday, 4 April 2025 See this event
Bruno Maçães talks to Lucian Hudson

World-Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Fri 4 Friday, 4 April 2025 See this event
Justin Schlosberg and Nigel Biggar chaired by Stephen Law

Oxford Debate: Rising Fascism? SOLD OUT
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Fri 4 Friday, 4 April 2025 See this event
Ian Williams and Michael Sheridan chaired by Sophia Yan

Facing up to Xi Jinping and the new China
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Fri 4 Friday, 4 April 2025 See this event
Anthony Seldon, Paul Johnson, Meg Russell and John Kampfner

The Conservative Effect, 2010–2024. 14 Wasted Years?
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Sat 5 Saturday, 5 April 2025 See this event
Shannon Monaghan

To Die with Such Men: Frontline Stories from Ukraine’s International Legion
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Sat 5 Saturday, 5 April 2025 See this event
David Goodhart

The Care Dilemma: How to Care Enough in the Age of Sex Equality
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 3 2:00pm Sat 5 Saturday, 5 April 2025 See this event
John Kampfner

The UK and Germany: Our Changing Relationship
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sat 5 Saturday, 5 April 2025 See this event
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Nigel Biggar and Richard Sanders chaired by Gary Francione

Oxford Debates. Woke and Free Speech: Universities and Beyond
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Sat 5 Saturday, 5 April 2025 See this event
Graham Brady talks to Anthony Seldon

Kingmaker: Secrets, Lies, and the Truth about Five Prime Ministers
Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 1 4:00pm Sat 5 Saturday, 5 April 2025 See this event
Ian Goldin

The Shortest History of Migration
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Sat 5 Saturday, 5 April 2025 See this event
Robert D Kaplan

The American Lecture. Wasteland: A World in Permanent Crisis
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Sat 5 Saturday, 5 April 2025 See this event
Ilan Pappé talks to Eugene Rogan

Conflict in the Middle East and the Pro-Israel Lobby
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Sun 6 Sunday, 6 April 2025 See this event
Marietje Schaake

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Sun 6 Sunday, 6 April 2025 See this event
Danny Dorling

Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Sun 6 Sunday, 6 April 2025 See this event
Constantine Sandis and Sophie Grace Chappell talk to Diarmaid MacCulloch

In Defence of Trans Realities
Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm Sun 6 Sunday, 6 April 2025 See this event
Thomas Levenson

So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 4:00pm Sun 6 Sunday, 6 April 2025 See this event

Festival information:

Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

The Oxford Literary Festival has in my mind become the leading literary festival of the year. The organisation, the roster of speakers, the ambience and the sheer quality of it all is superb.

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation . . . the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors but by challenging ideas and questions.

The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.