Previous Events

Friday, July 9, 2021 - 10:30 to 19:00

Online

You are invited to join the 5th Black and Minority Ethnic Early Career Researchers Conference, ‘Moving on up’, hosted online by The Open University and the University of West London.

Thursday, May 27, 2021 - 11:15 to 13:30

Online

You are invited to join the OU COVID-19 Research: Online Learning and Education seminar, an online showcase of OU-funded projects presented by researchers from across the University who have led research to improve and support aspects of online learning and education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - 13:30 to 15:00

Microsoft Teams - please register via Eventbrite

We are delighted to announce that Professor Funmi Olonisakin, Dr Moses Tofa and Dr David Mwambari from the African Leadership Centre, Kings’ College, London will be joining us for April’s International Development and Innovation Seminar. The session will speak to how African states indi...

Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 14:00 to 16:00

Online seminar (Microsoft Teams)

We are delighted to invite you to “(Re)thinking racisms: The recursive and the new”, the third in a series of events hosted by the OU’s newly-created Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Researchers Group to discuss research and scholarship around race, ethnicity, coloniality and decolo...

Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 09:00 to Friday, March 20, 2020 - 17:00

Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London

Open University English researchers will headline a 2-day conference, ‘The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction’, at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House London, on 19-20 March 2020.

Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - 09:00 to Thursday, March 19, 2020 - 17:00

Loyola University, New Orleans

The AHRC-funded Heritage in War Project, led by Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers, explores the moral value of cultural heritage and how we ought to incorporate this value into our accounts of the ethics of war, and how to deal with damage to heritage in the aftermath of conflict.

Friday, March 13, 2020 - 09:00 to 17:00

University College London

Children on the move: Unsettling narratives of care, childhood, and the migration ‘crisis’: A joint symposium between The Open University and UCL.

Thursday, November 14, 2019 - 18:00 to 20:00

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK7 6AA

Discover what Professor David Rothery has found about the history of the planet Mercury and what Professor Carole Haswell has to say about exoplanets and how they serve to put planet Earth in context.As The Open University celebrates its 50th anniversary, it will host a joint inaugural lecture event...

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 19:00 to 20:00

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK7 6AA

As The Open University celebrates its 50th anniversary, Paul Lawrence, Asa Briggs Professor of History, will deliver his inaugural lecture on how a historical approach to criminal justice contributes to contemporary understandings of crime and justice.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 16:00 to 17:00

Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, The Open University, MK6 7AA

As The Open University celebrates its 50th anniversary, Gordon Liu, Professor of Marketing Strategy, will deliver his inaugural lecture on how effective corporate social responsibility strategies enhance a firm’s reputation with its key stakeholders.