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 • Hybrid - in person or online
This is a dynamic multi-media day-school in which we will explore the evolution of popular culture from the 1950s to the present day, from the earliest stirrings of rock’n’roll youth culture, to the social media-saturated anxieties of our own time.
- Sat 11 Jan 2025
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
In-person day/weekend • Short courses
Music is all around us, woven into the fabric of our lives. Explore some of the properties of music that might hold the key to its power over our minds, our bodies, our social lives and even our souls at this day event in Oxford.
- Sat 11 Jan 2025
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Hybrid - in person or online
Illness loomed large in the Victorian period, and in this day school leading scholars on the topic will introduce you to important ways in which it was a central preoccupation of Victorian literature.
- Sat 18 Jan 2025
- 9:45am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
This lecture series will chart the broad history of painting and sculpture in Britain, from the Industrial Revolution to the 1930s: from the idyllic rural landscapes of Constable to the hard-edged Modernist abstractions of Hepworth and Moore.
- Wed 22 Jan 2025 – 26 Feb 2025
- 2:00 – 3:15pm
Online - live • Short courses • Lecture series • Hybrid - in person or online
This lecture will explore the contrasting approaches to landscape painting taken by Constable and Turner. Were the gentle Suffolk landscapes of Constable as idyllic as they at first appear? And what drove Turner’s fascination with the immensity of nature?
- Wed 22 Jan 2025
- 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.