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Past events
Every Ministry event is filmed and published here. Browse the full archive of conversations.
The events are the heart of the Ministry — where we invoke possibilities, promote imagination and ethical reasoning, and inspire others to act toward better futures. We give the stage to many voices, to inform, not to persuade.
Past conversations have tackled climate change, the biodiversity crisis, water stress, the Arctic, Big Tech and AI, and forest extraction. In April 2026 we crossed into Europe, inaugurating our first chapter — the Uppsala Ministry for the Future. Every event is filmed and published here.
Events in Oxford
2026
10 March 2026 · Oxford
A Moral Reimagination of Big Tech and AI: Conversations about Digital Ethics, Accountability, and Systemic Impact
With Joanna Kavenna, Carissa Véliz, Michael Wooldridge, Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Nicholas Andreou and Grace Sai
2025
5 November 2025 · Oxford
The Arctic at the Crossroads
With Bathsheba Demuth, Laline Paull, Joanna Kavenna, Isabelle Gapp, Marc Macias-Fauria and Vladyslav Vyazovskiy
2 June 2025 · Weston Library
Nature and Humans: Connectedness, Conflicts and Rights
With Elif Shafak, Jonny Thomson, Robert Hope, Paul Powlesland, Katherine Ibbett, Rebecca Henderson and Sandra Diaz
28 April 2025 · Sheldonian Theatre
Art, Nature and Science: Imagining Other Worlds
With Brian Eno, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull and JM Ledgard
2024
November 2024 · Sheldonian Theatre
In Conversation with Richard Powers
With Richard Powers, author of The Overstory (Pulitzer Prize 2019)
13 June 2024 · Sheldonian Theatre
Inaugural OMF Event — Climate Change
The first Oxford Ministry for the Future public event
2022 — Origins
14 June 2022 · Weston Library
Panel Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson
The conversation that planted the seed for an Oxford Ministry for the Future
International Events at Partner Universities
2026
April 2026 · Uppsala University
Forest Extraction
In cooperation with UUniCORN at Uppsala University. Inauguration of the Uppsala Ministry for the Future, OMF's first European chapter.