Wednesday 11 February 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Mentzer & Fowler Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Thursday 12 February 2026

• 17:30 - Conversations on Consciousness: Who or what has consciousness?
  Prof Philip Goff (Durham University), Dr Heather Browning (University of Southampton), Dr Patrick Butlin (University of Oxford)
  Conversations on Consciousness
• 17:30 - The global AI inflection point
  Dr Lennard Lee (University of Oxford)
• 18:00 - Can electrodes in the brain treat chronic pain?
  Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Seymour (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 February 2026

• 09:00 - A Reconsideration of Care: Pursing Gender-Equal Care for Health and Well-Being in India
  Various Speakers

Monday 16 February 2026

• 16:00 - Chronic Constitutions: Experts, Disease Risks and Remaking Indian Bodies in Post Colonial India (1940-70s)
  Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Confidence and trust in adaptive decision making
  Nicholas Yeung (University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 February 2026

• 15:00 - PSI seminar: ‘From local to continental: how vector ecology shapes tick‑borne disease emergence in Europe’ presented by Dr Helen Esser
  This seminar is primarily for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
  Dr Helen Esser (Assistant Professor, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation group, Wageningen University)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series

Wednesday 18 February 2026

• 12:30 - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: What should we make of the role of AI in elections?
  Dr Felix Simon (University of Oxford)
  Institute for Ethics in AI lunchtime seminars
• 17:30 - Shaping the future of AI and Human Rights
  Professor Yuval Shany (King's College, London)
  Institute for Ethics in AI Accelerator Fellowship Programme events

Thursday 19 February 2026

• 12:00 - Hidden in plain sight – retinal imaging data for AI-driven early detection of systemic diseases and augmentation of drug discovery
  Dr Wen Hwa Lee (Foresight Research Ltd)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series

Friday 20 February 2026

• 09:30 - The Valley Children: How collaborative creative practice can help us make sense of predictive genomics
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Monday 23 February 2026

• 13:30 - EDI Research Spotlight: Discrimination and Decolonisation
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - The Mental After-Care Association, Recovery and Psychotherapy
  Hannah Blythe (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - How AI will affect defence, foreign and security policy?
  TBA
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 24 February 2026

• 09:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Benjamin Perry (University of Birmingham)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 11:00 - AI Workers, Geopolitics, and Algorithmic Collective Action
  Sydney Reis (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 12:15 - Friends, foes and the missing ties: Social relationships as determinants of mental health and socio‑economic futures
  Prof Louise Arseneault (King's College London)
  Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The cause(s) of autism spectrum disorder
  Prof Stephan Sanders (University of Oxford)
  Richard Doll Seminars

Wednesday 25 February 2026

• 12:00 - Academic ethics in the age of instant text generation
  Dr Hazem Zohny (University of Oxford)
• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: O'Callaghan & Beagrie Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 17:30 - AI if Human: The Ethics, Regulation and Governance of AI
  Sir Nigel Shadbolt (Jesus College)

Thursday 26 February 2026

• 17:30 - Conversations on Consciousness: What should we do with our consciousness?
  Iain McGilchrist (Oxford), Chris Fletcher (Professorial Fellow and Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library), Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  Conversations on Consciousness
• 17:30 - From Enigma to the Human Body: Decoding Health with AI
  Dr Ping Lu (Assistant Professor in Computer Science), Dr Xavier Laurent (University of Oxford)
• 19:15 - An Interfaith Discussion: The Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
  Brahmacharini Shripriya Chaitanya (Chinmaya Mission UK), Dr Mansur Ali (Cardiff University), Dr Jonny Torrance (University of Oxford)
• 19:15 - An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Friday 27 February 2026

• 15:00 - Music and the Medical Humanities
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 15:30 - Book Launch | Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Well-Being
  This event is followed by a drinks reception and nibbles for all attendees
  TBA
• 16:15 - AI for Nature Recovery – Improving the Journey from Data to Decisions
  Prof Kate Jones (University College London)
  Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series

Monday 2 March 2026

• 12:45 - The AI Turn in Sociology: From Disciplinary Transformation to Predictive Social Science
  Dr Fanqi Zeng (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 13:00 - Nipah virus vaccine development
  Professor Brian Angus (University of Oxford)
  IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
  Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 3 March 2026

• 09:30 - Excitation-inhibition balance in psychosis - what does it really mean, and can we really measure it?
  Dr Rick Adams (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 March 2026

• 12:30 - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
  TBC
  Institute for Ethics in AI lunchtime seminars
• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Cornall & Handunnetthi Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Dr Mukta Deobagkar-Lele (Cornall Group, University Of Oxford)
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
• 17:00 - Expert Insights Seminar - AI and human agency
  Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)
  Institute for Ethics in AI colloquia

Thursday 5 March 2026

• 12:30 - Legacies of Globalization and the Role of the State in the AI Economy
  Leonardo Baccini (McGill)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 9 March 2026

• 16:00 - The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
  John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 10 March 2026

• 09:30 - Digital Innovation in Metabolic Psychiatry: AI-enabled Ketogenic and GLP-1-Supported Lifestyle Interventions
  Dr Megan Kirk Chang (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 March 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carroll & Irving-Pease Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 18 March 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carter & Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Michael Carter (University of Oxford), Dr Gavin Band (University of Oxford )
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Tuesday 28 April 2026

• 14:00 - What is data cosmopolitanism?
  Jon Rueda (President’s Cabinet and the Ethics in Research Department, Spanish National Research Council)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Wednesday 29 April 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Taylor Group (second group TBC)
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 13 May 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Knight & Milosevic Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 3 June 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Uhlig & Lang Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks

Wednesday 24 June 2026

• 12:30 - Lunchtime Lab Talks: Mentzer & Beagrie Groups
  There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
  Various Speakers
  CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks