1st October 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

Increased prevalence of obesity isn't due to a lack of willpower - body weight is biologically regulated in ways that make it difficult to lose weight and keep it off.

15th October 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world’s largest, most advanced economies—the United States and China—have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change.

30th October 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

Join Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore and Arthur Kay for a provocative discussion on how our dependence on cars has shaped not only our cities and infrastructure, but our economies, health, and freedoms. Based on the ideas explored in their new work, this talk will interrogate the hidden costs of car-centric development and propose bold, systems-level alternatives to rethink how we move, live, and thrive in a climate-constrained world.

3rd November 2025: 9:15am   Registration Required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School

The Oxford Stem Cell Institute Symposium is an international event, unifying scientists and clinicians working in stem cells research in various fields of translational medicine.

6th November 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

In his new book 'Portals to a New Reality', Prof Vlatko Vedral argues that we are on the brink of a new revolution in physics. In this talk, he will describe a number of key thought experiments that test the foundations of physics, namely the interface between quantum physics and general relativity.