Previous Events
Sociology Open Day Event 25 June
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - 18:30 to 19:45
Online
This Open Day is an exciting opportunity to explore the study of Sociology at The Open University (OU). Sociology is a dynamic and relevant field of study that enables students to critically examine social issues, inequalities, human behaviour, and societal structures.
Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence Conference
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 14:00 to Saturday, June 21, 2025 - 18:00
Foundling Museum, London
Co-hosted by Creative Interactions and Contemporary Cultures of Writing at The Open University, together with colleagues from Falmouth University and Northwestern University in Qatar, this event will be held at the Foundling Museum in London on the 20th and 21st of June, with online pre-sessions on the 10th and 19th of June. Registration is now open. Spaces are free, but limited in person.
5th GOTH Annual Symposium
Thursday, May 15, 2025 - 10:00 to Friday, May 16, 2025 - 17:00
Hybrid; Online (via Microsoft Teams) and In Person (Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes)
The Annual Gender and Otherness (GOTH) Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate, with a focus on aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, literature and visual culture.
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.
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