Professor Shun-ichi Amari (2025 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology), a mathematical engineer who made pioneering contributions to opening up theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence and established the field of information geometry, delivers a lecture as part of the Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2026.

Join us for a conversation between AIG Visiting Fellow Dr Funke Adepoju and Professor Emily Jones on the future of public sector training and its role in driving effective governance.

Join political philosopher Lisa Herzog in dialogue with Sam de Canio, King’s College, London and Stuart White, Jesus College, Oxford to discuss her book The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy can Save our Political Ideals.

Join us in conversation with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos as he reflects on Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement, looking back at how that peace was won and forward to how it might inspire similar progress today.

Join us for a roundtable discussion on "Europe’s digital trajectory in a fragmenting world", jointly hosted by the Blavatnik School of Government and the Oxford Internet Institute.

Join writer and historian Thant Myint-U, in conversation with Dean Ngaire Woods, to discuss his new book Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations, and the Untold History of the 1960s.

Join political theorist Hélène Landemore, in conversation with Professor Philippa Webb, to discuss her new book Politics Without Politicians.

Join Professor Martin Williams, in conversation with Dean Ngaire Woods, to discuss his new book Reform as Process: Implementing Change in Public Bureaucracies.

This symposium, co-convened by the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and the Blavatnik School of Government, brings together leading experts on economic security and economic statecraft to share views on how debates and policies on these issues are evolving in different regions of the world.