Events at Balliol

College Communion for Ascension Day in the Chapel.

You are invited to a symposium and film screening exploring the Kumbh Mela, a triennial Indian religious festival and the largest gathering of people in the world.

You are invited to a one-day workshop exploring how and why languages were taught, learned, and sustained across the diverse and shifting socio-cultural landscapes of the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean.

Professor Christine Sypnowich, Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer, will be delivering an Oliver Smithies Lecture on ‘Dreaming Spires and Colonial Nightmares: Cultural Heritage, Human Flourishing and Social Justice.’

Professor Heather Sharkey, Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow, will be delivering an Oliver Smithies Lecture on ‘Taking Wikipedia Seriously: Scholarship for and about the Seventh Most-Visited Website in the World.’

Balliol Library warmly invites everyone to a new exhibition this Trinity Term, held at Balliol College Historic Collections Centre.

Balliol Library warmly invites everyone to a new exhibition this Trinity Term, held at Balliol College Historic Collections Centre.

Balliol Library warmly invites everyone to a new exhibition this Trinity Term, held at Balliol College Historic Collections Centre.

Balliol Library warmly invites everyone to a new exhibition this Trinity Term, held at Balliol College Historic Collections Centre.

Balliol members are invited to join Dr Romain Ruzziconi, Walker Early Career Fellow in Mathematical Physics, for his lecture, ‘Apples, black holes, and holograms: a brief history of gravity.’

Discussion and conversation over a free sandwich lunch. Open to Balliol member.

Speaker: Professor Simon Horobin on ‘C.S. Lewis and Oxford’

Discussion and conversation over a free sandwich lunch. Open to Balliol members. 

Speaker: Revd Dr Laura Biron-Scott on ‘When C.S. Lewis met Elizabeth Anscombe (and other stories from the Socratic Club)’

Discussion and conversation over a free sandwich lunch. Open to Balliol members. 

Speaker: Anthony Buckley on ‘Why Agatha Christie should matter to C. S. Lewis fans’

You are warmly invited to join Professor Nicola McEwen for this year’s Bingham Lecture, ‘Resetting relationships in the family of nations: a new year in intergovernmental relations?’

Raghavendra Srinivas (Early Career Fellow in Physics) on ‘Quantum adventures with trapped ions: clocks, springs, and qubits’. Fellows, lecturers, and members of the Common Room only.

Updated 7 May 2025: Unfortunately this event has been postponed due to illness. A new date for this event will be circulated in due course. 

All Balliol students are welcome.

Balliol students are invited to join a floral crown workshop organised by the Welfare team. 

Balliol students are invited to join a floral crown workshop organised by the Welfare team. 

All Balliol students are welcome.

All Balliol students are welcome.