OxTalks is Changing

During Michaelmas Term, OxTalks will be moving to a new platform (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
For now, continue using the current page and event submission process (freeze period dates to be advised).

If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk

Friday 24 October 2025

• 08:00 - A new era in surgery – towards total robotic practice
  Mr Stuart Mercer (Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 09:00 - Harnessing type 2 diabetes heterogeneity for precision health applications
  Professor Jordi Merino (University of Copenhagen)
  SMARTbiomed Seminar series
• 09:15 - Mapping the specificity of natural and engineered TCRs
  In person only
  Kristen Koopmans (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Khuluud Hussein (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford)
  MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
• 09:30 - Choosing and using software for referencing
  Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 10:30 - Neutrons and Simulations Workshop
  Various Speakers
• 10:30 - Pain Network Meeting
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Pain Network Meetings
• 11:00 - Evolutionary dynamics of extra-chromosomal DNA
  Dr Weini Huang (Queen Mary University of London)
  Mathematical Biology and Ecology
• 12:00 - Early writings [ Week 2, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
  If you wish to attend in person and require access to the upper levels of the Schwarzman Centre, please write stevan.veljkovic@theology.ox.ac.uk.
  Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
  Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
• 12:30 - Venture Bites: building a strategy for fundraising
  Iynna Halilou (GP at the MBA Fund)
• 13:00 - Climate Change, Adaptation, and Sovereign Risk
  Sarah Duffy (University of Oxford)
  Macroeconomics Workshop
• 13:00 - Racing through Election Cycles: The Political Consequences of the Tour de France
  Ala' Alrababah (Bocconi University)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 13:00 - Mitochondria in Neurons and Glia: Insights into Brain Function, Behavior, and Therapeutic Opportunities
  Professor Carmen Sandi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))
  DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
• 14:00 - "The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
  Natalya Vince (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:15 - Dynamic Local Average Treatment Effects in Time Series
  Adam McCloskey (University of Colorado)
  Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
• 14:15 - Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation
  Jidong Zhou (Yale University)
  Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
• 14:30 - Oxford Health Histories and Local Policy
  Sally Frampton, Erica Charters, Dan Leveson, Stuart Bell
  Oxford Health Histories
• 15:00 - Distinguished Lecture. Making the World Computable: from Foundations to Technology (for Humans and AIs)
  Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram|Alpha)
• 15:00 - Transposon expression in early development
  https://rna.web.ox.ac.uk/events
  Francesco Rivetti (University of Oxford)
  Oxford RNA Club - Transcription & RNA monthly meetings
• 15:30 - Oxford Conservative Thought Week 2: Against Liberalism?
  TBA
  Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group
• 16:00 - Using Video Games to Study Intrinsic Motivation
  Franziska Braendle (University of Oxford)
  Behavioural Lab
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