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Joanna Lumley talks to Philip Lymbery
Compassion for All Life: The Peter Roberts Memorial Lecture
Schwarzman Centre: Theatre 6:30pm Fri Jan 29 Friday, 29 January 2027 See this event -
Daniel Susskind
What Should My Children Do? How to Flourish in the Age of AI
Schwarzman Centre: Theatre 10:00am Sat 13 Saturday, 13 March 2027 See this event -
Paul Johnson
Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sat 13 Saturday, 13 March 2027 See this event -
Gus Casely-Hayford
Objects & Us: Why Things Matter
Schwarzman Centre: Seminar Room 12:00pm Sat 13 Saturday, 13 March 2027 See this event -
Catherine Heymans
How to Design a Universe: The Science of Real and Virtual Worlds
Schwarzman Centre: Theatre 12:00pm Sat 13 Saturday, 13 March 2027 See this event -
James Crossland
The Afterwar: Britain’s Secret Battle Against Revolutionaries, Rioters and Russia After WWI
Pusey House: Chapel 2:00pm Sat 13 Saturday, 13 March 2027 See this event -
Edward Shawcross
The People’s Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III
Pusey House: Chapel 4:00pm Sat 13 Saturday, 13 March 2027 See this event -
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Colin Thubron interviewed by Alex Diggins
Passage
Pusey House: Chapel 6:00pm Sat 13 Saturday, 13 March 2027 See this event -
Hana Loftus
Sixteen Acres: The Life of an Apple Orchard
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Sun 14 Sunday, 14 March 2027 See this event -
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Peter Sahlins
Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sun 14 Sunday, 14 March 2027 See this event -
Paul Mason
Reds: A New History of Communism
Department for Continuing Education: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Sun 14 Sunday, 14 March 2027 See this event -
Stephen Sackur
Hard Truth: Ten Investigations which Shook the World
Schwarzman Centre: Theatre 12:00pm Mon 15 Monday, 15 March 2027 See this event -
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Alice Rio
The Dark Ages: How Women Shaped Medieval Europe
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Mon 15 Monday, 15 March 2027 See this event -
Joanna Moorhead
Plautilla Nelli: The Lost Artist of Florence, Renaissance Woman
Weston Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Tue 16 Tuesday, 16 March 2027 See this event -
Harry Spillane
Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the Bible
Weston Lecture Theatre 10:00am Wed 17 Wednesday, 17 March 2027 See this event -
Diana Darke
Damascus: Eternal City of Survival
Schwarzman Centre: Recital Hall 10:00am Wed 17 Wednesday, 17 March 2027 See this event -
Amy Orr-Ewing
Forgiveness: Reclaiming Its Power in a Culture of Outrage and Fear
Pusey House: Chapel 12:00pm Wed 17 Wednesday, 17 March 2027 See this event -
Guy Philipps talks to Mary Wellesley
Frederic Madden’s Journal: Life, Love & Loathing at the British Museum 1819-1872
Weston Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Wed 17 Wednesday, 17 March 2027 See this event -
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Jane Wellesley
Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit: The Wild Life of Dorothy Wellesley
Pusey House: Ursell Room 2:00pm Wed 17 Wednesday, 17 March 2027 See this event -
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Caroline Bicks
Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
Schwarzman Centre: Recital Hall 4:00pm Wed 17 Wednesday, 17 March 2027 See this event -
Jimmy Wales talks to William Hague
Chancellor’s Forum: The Seven Rules of Trust, from the Founder of Wikipedia
Sheldonian Theatre 6:00pm Wed 17 Wednesday, 17 March 2027 See this event -
Guy Laron
Oil Wars: The Struggle for Control that has Shaped the Modern World
Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Thu 18 Thursday, 18 March 2027 See this event -
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Mark Nicol talks to Alex Diggins
Blades: The Untold Story of SAS Operations in Afghanistan
Weston Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Thu 18 Thursday, 18 March 2027 See this event -
Janey Starling talks to Harriet Wistrich
Punishing Women: The Case Against Prison
Schwarzman Centre: Recital Hall 12:00pm Fri 19 Friday, 19 March 2027 See this event -
Francesca Peacock
Authoress: Where Are the Women Writers?
Pusey House: Ursell Room 4:00pm Fri 19 Friday, 19 March 2027 See this event -
David Vaiani
King and Country: The 1933 Student Debate that Shook the World
Weston Lecture Theatre 6:00pm Fri 19 Friday, 19 March 2027 See this event -
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Abdelrahman ElGendy
Huna: Memories of an Egyptian Political Prisoner
Schwarzman Centre: Theatre 2:00pm Sat 20 Saturday, 20 March 2027 See this event -
Jim Al-Khalili
On Time
Sheldonian Theatre 12:00pm Sun 21 Sunday, 21 March 2027 See this event -
Max Hastings
Max Hastings: Plunder, The Last of the War in Europe, 1945
Sheldonian Theatre 2:00pm Sun 21 Sunday, 21 March 2027 See this event -
Margaret Hodge
Battleaxe: A Memoir
Schwarzman Centre: Theatre 4:00pm Sun 21 Sunday, 21 March 2027 See this event
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