Day and Weekend Events
Join us online or in Oxford
Explore a topic in depth over one or two days with multiple speakers, hone your skills in small workshops and practical sessions, or extend your knowledge over several weeks with a lecture series.
Our day and weekend events, courses and lecture series are taught by lecturers and speakers who are specialists in their field of research. All courses and events are non-assessed and don't require coursework.
How to join an event
Events are delivered in the following teaching formats:
- 'Online – live' events are delivered online, with real-time discussion with tutors and other students taking place using an online platform.
- 'In-person' events meet in Oxford or at another specified location for face-to-face teaching.
- 'Hybrid teaching' events consist of livestreamed lectures and panel discussions. You can join us in person or online – you decide! Look for 'hybrid' in the course listings.
Upcoming courses
Online - live • Short courses
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest cloud computing service provider and one of the leaders in machine and deep learning. Learn how to use a collection of their powerful cloud-based machine/deep learning services at this online day school.
- Sat 12 Oct 2024
- 10:00am – 5:00pm
In-person day/weekend • Short courses
Introducing the physical and personal journeys and intercultural collaborations of independent British women as they travelled, and lived, in Ottoman Turkish Arabia and the post-WW1 Middle East at a time of dramatic change (1845-1945).
- Sat 12 Oct 2024
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
The people from the sparse populations and inhospitable lands surrounding the Baltic Sea have played a creative and totally disproportionate role in the history of Europe and the world. This lecture series examines their history and influence
- Wed 16 Oct 2024 – 20 Nov 2024
- 11:00am – 12:15pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
The Cold War posed difficult challenges for European countries both East and West. This lecture series analyses how six European leaders navigated their way through this period.
- Fri 18 Oct 2024 – 22 Nov 2024
- 2:00 – 3:15pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
Acknowledged to be a relative liberal in domestic policy, Nikita Khrushchev’s foreign policy was a complicated mixture of hard-line repression and conciliatory diplomacy with the US and NATO. This lecture examines the contradictions of ‘co-existence’.
- Fri 18 Oct 2024
- 2:00 – 3:15pm
Contact
If you have a question about any of our day and weekend events, including lecture series, please email: ppdayweek@conted.ox.ac.uk
Lecture series
Weekly lectures on a given topic. All can be enjoyed in person at Rewley House, with the majority also being livestreamed – so you can choose to attend online or in Oxford.Weekly learning
Study with Oxford on a weekly schedule over one or two terms. Choose from courses that meet in-person in Oxford, online courses with live-time sessions and flexible online courses.Online short courses and events
Study with Oxford University whenever it suits you, from anywhere in the world, with a flexible online course, live-time weekly class, online lecture series or day event.