Previous Events
Open Research Week 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025 - 10:00 to Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 14:00
Online, via Microsoft Teams
Join The Open University (OU) from Monday 24th March to celebrate and promote open research, showcasing examples of our open practices across many disciplines. Throughout the week, you’ll hear about the real world applications and engagement of our openly available data, outputs and citizen science platforms.
Researching Global China Conference – Innovation and Challenges
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 09:00 to Wednesday, February 26, 2025 - 16:30
Hub Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Welcome to the Researching Global China Conference, with this year’s theme looking at methodologies around Innovation and Challenges.
China/Europe and the Changing Global Order seminar series: Chinese Investment Boom in Hungary: Semi-Peripheral Perspectives and Implications for European Identity
Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 12:30 to 14:00
Online via MS Teams
Come along to our seminar and hear Dr Viktor Eszterhai from John Lukacs Institute for Strategy and Politics speak on: Chinese Investment Boom in Hungary: Semi-Peripheral Perspectives and Implications for European Identity.
Literature Matters: Call for Papers
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 10:00 to Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 20:00
Online, via MS Teams
This FREE 3-day online international conference, Literature Matters, encourages participants to interrogate the importance (or not) of literature and writing in the 21st century.
Economics seminar series: Balancing investment, consumption and employment in Tanzania
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:30
Online and in-person, Wilson B Room 5, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Tanzania’s biggest economic challenge in the next 25 years is to leverage its rapidly growing labour force. Marc Wuyts will argue that promoting growth by restraining consumption – the focus of past development plans - is problematic in an economy characterised by extensive surplus labour and rapid labour-force growth. Input-output and consumption multiplier analysis can help ensure the future expansion of consumption and employment remain in tune with the pace and the patterns of investment today.
GCSJ roundtable: How far did we decolonise
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 12:30 to 14:00
Online
This Centre for Global Challenges and Social Justice (GCSJ) roundtable event invites a critical exploration of the multifaceted work of decolonisation across the Open University.
GCSJ seminar series: Legislating against political lying: risks and feasibility
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online
In this seminar, Alex Barber (Philosophy) and Sean Cordell (Philosophy) identify four core challenges for the Senedd proposal in its latest iteration. More positively, we identify some potential workarounds and some alternative approaches to the problem of political lying in a democracy.
GCSJ seminar series: Mothers, boys' circumcision and a new politics of harm in Kenya
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online, via Microsoft Teams
We explore how Kenyan mothers are becoming involved in male circumcision, which is usually a men-only space. The talk examines new ideas about cultural rights, genital cutting, and harm in the law and ethics in Kenya.
Next Generation: Arts & Social Sciences Lecture Series
Thursday, July 4, 2024 - 13:00 to 20:00
Online
From nineteenth century literature to nuclear activism in 1980s Wales, from English Literature to Criminology, join us for fascinating talks by PhD students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences every Thursday at 1pm and 7pm, from 13 June – 4 July
Literature and Music Research Group Symposium on Words, Music and Silence
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 10:00 to 19:00
Bournemouth University
In partnership with University Music, Bournemouth, The Open University Literature and Music Research Group are organising a one-day symposium on the theme of Words, Music and Silence, which will take place on Friday 28th June, 2024 at Bournemouth University (BH12 5BB). The day will conclude with a lecture recital exploring words, music, silence and disability given by the concert pianist Duncan Honeybourne, whose career has been shaped by his autism.
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