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Events
Forthcoming Events
October
Book talk - 'Roadkill: Unveiling The True Cost Of Our Toxic Relationship With Cars' with Prof Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay
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.
November
Oxford Stem Cell Institute Symposium 2025: 'Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy'
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.
'The energy transition: too little/too late or a new hope?' with Alan Haywood
5th November 2025: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online
With the impacts of climate change becoming ever more evident and challenging – can we “transition away from fossil fuels”, and create a new energy system which meets the many and divergent needs of the global population?
Book talk - 'Portals to a New Reality' with Prof Vlatko Vedral
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.
Panel Discussion: 'The nature of post-Western order' with Prof Amitav Acharya
10th November 2025: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online
Join us for a roundtable discussion with Professor Amitav Acharya, Professor Faisal Devji, and Professor Andrew Hurrell, chaired by Professor Louise Fawcett.
James Martin Memorial Lecture: 'Environment, health, society and economics in the new era of geopolitics' with Lord Hague
12th November 2025: 5:00pm
Registration Required
The Sheldonian Theatre and Online
We welcome the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Hague, who will give this year's James Martin Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the School's 20th anniversary.
‘Globalisation, global change and emerging infectious diseases’ with Prof John Drake
18th November 2025: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online
In this Pandemic Sciences Institute & Oxford Martin School talk, Professor Drake will trace the historical record of major 20th and 21st Century pandemics, highlighting how global forces such as economic integration, urbanisation and climate disruption shape the emergence and spread of novel pathogens.
'Adapting food systems to climate change: lessons from aquaculture in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta' with Dr Dao Minh Hai
25th November 2025: 12:30pm
Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online
The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's "rice bowl" and a globally significant biodiversity hotspot, is on the front line of climate change.
Kim Darroch & Kathy Harvey in conversation: 'Navigating the chaos: Trump, Putin, the rise of populism and the end of the rules-based international order'
26th November 2025: 5:00pm
Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online
Kathy Harvey will be in conversation with Kim Darroch, former British Ambassador to the European Union, National Security Adviser and Ambassador to the United States, about the new disorder and its consequences for governments and businesses.
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