Events at Balliol

Ascension Day

29 May 2025, 12.00pm, Chapel

College Communion for Ascension Day in the Chapel.


Kumbh Mela: current research symposium and film screening

16 May 2025, 2.00pm, Master's Dining Room and Gillis Lecture Theatre (for film screening)

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.



Oliver Smithies Lecture

29 May 2025, 5.15pm, OCR

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.’


Oliver Smithies Lecture

15 May 2025, 5.15pm, Gillis Lecture Theatre

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 Online Lecture

20 May 2025, 5.00pm - 6.30pm, Online

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.’


Chaplain’s Lunch

30 May 2025, 12.45pm, Chaplain's Room (XXI 8)

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

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


Chaplain’s Lunch

16 May 2025, 12.45pm, Chaplain's Room (XXI 8)

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)’


Chaplain’s Lunch

2 May 2025, 12.45pm, Chaplain's Room (XXI 8)

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’


Bingham Lecture 2025

27 May 2025, 5.00pm, Gillis Lecture Theatre

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?’


Research Consilium (Postponed)

7 May 2025, 6.00pm, Old Common Room

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. 





Polyphonia Singing Group

29 May 2025, 5.30pm - 6.30pm, The Chapel/Master's Garden (subject to weather)

All Balliol students are welcome.


Polyphonia Singing Group

22 May 2025, 5.30pm - 6.30pm, The Chapel/Master's Garden (subject to weather)

All Balliol students are welcome.