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 • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
An investigation into humanism in its contemporary sense (sometimes called ‘secular humanism’). What is the humanist alternative to religious world-views, and what are its strengths and weaknesses? Join us for this series of lectures in Oxford or online.
- Tue 28 Jan 2025 – 04 Mar 2025
- 2:00 – 3:15pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
Investigate the complex relationship between the established academic arts of the mid-19th century, and the innovations of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Artists whose work will feature include Millais, Rossetti and Hunt. Join in Oxford or watch online.
- Wed 29 Jan 2025
- 2:00 – 3:15pm
Online - live • Short courses
We will take a brief look at the workings of the brain, and how psychologists describe the functions of attention, perception and memory. Explore how these processes can work to fool us, and what we have learned from dysfunction.
- Thu 30 Jan 2025 – 31 Jan 2025
- 2:00 – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses
Who am I? Why am I this way? Why do I make certain choices? Can I change? This online day school presents the main psychological theories of personality and explains how psychologists measure it.
- Thu 30 Jan 2025
- 10:00am – 5:00pm
In-person day/weekend • Short courses • Lecture series
The poet Rellstab compared the first movement of this iconic work with the play of moonlight on the waters of a lake. Concealed beneath the dreamy surface of this movement, however, is a structure every bit as tight as anything Beethoven ever wrote.
- Fri 31 Jan 2025
- 11:00am – 12:15pm
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.