Department: Faculty of History
Talks:

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Seeing the Land, Drawing the Map, Making the Empire: Cartography in the Service of the State
Date: 20 May 2024, 10:00 - 11:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Elizabeth Baigent
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
Date: 20 May 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts: TBA

The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century
Date: 20 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

(Re)Présentez vos armes au roi. A Socio-Cultural History of the Militarization of the Courts of Versailles and Vienna in the 18th Century
Date: 20 May 2024, 16:30 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Maximilian Diemer (New College, Oxford)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Charles West, Helen Gittos, and Mirela Ivanova, in discussion: Inventing Slavonic Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople
Date: 20 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Charles West (Edinburgh), Helen Gittos (Balliol College, Oxford), Mirela Ivanova (Sheffield)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

What might Ship Names tell us about eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Port Elites?
Date: 21 May 2024, 16:15 - 17:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peter Solar (CEREC, UCLouvain - Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Safety Net: central bank balance sheets and financial crisis 1587-2020 (with Martin Kornejew, Paul Schmelzing, Moritz Schularick)
Date: 21 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Niall Ferguson (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: Vernon Harcourt Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

'A Muslim History of Oxford' Open Day
Date: 22 May 2024, 15:30 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

The Sultan of New York: An Ottoman Armenian in Nineteenth-Century America
Date: 23 May 2024, 11:00 - 12:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Nora Lessersohn (Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Earthsongs: reimagining material experiences of soil and gardening
Date: 23 May 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Bill Kroeger
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Married lesbians and notions of love and selfhood in post-war Britain
Date: 23 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Rebecca Jennings
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour
Date: 23 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Alfie Steer (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence
Date: 23 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
Date: 24 May 2024, 10:00 - 13:30 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : N/A
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Politics and Power relations: the Case of Medieval Women
Date: 27 May 2024, 10:00 - 11:00 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Rowena Archer
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Establishing a school of astronomy and astrology in the fourteenth century? The case of the universities of Paris and Oxford
Date: 27 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets (with Asaf Bernstein, Carola Frydman)
Date: 28 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: Vernon Harcourt Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Title TBC
Date: 29 May 2024, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: 47 Banbury Road, 47 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Echoes of Exile : Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Crimean Tatars' Deportation
Date: 29 May 2024, 15:30 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge), Dr Tamar Koplatadze (Moderator) (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Senior Common Room
Organisers: Yevhen Yashchuk (University of Oxford), Marly Tiburcio-Carneiro (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Science, Ecology and Romanticism in George Catlin’s travelling "Indian Gallery"
Date: 30 May 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Ruka Hussain
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Long Live Queer Nightlife
Date: 30 May 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Amin Ghaziani
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"God is an Equal Opportunities Employer - Pity about the Church": Humour and the Campaign for Women's Ordination in the Church of England, 1978-1994
Date: 30 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Grace Heaton (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Workshop
Date: 30 May 2024, 14:30 - 16:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period
Date: 30 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
Date: 31 May 2024, 13:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : N/A
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Children’s perspective on social movements in Finland, 1959-1989
Date: 3 June 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Heidi Kurvinen (University of Turku)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
Date: 3 June 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Phillip Gooding (McGill University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Itamar Toussia Cohen (Brasenose College)
Hosts: TBA

The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
Date: 3 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kat Lecky (LUC)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable: "Whose World Order?" with Evelyn Goh, Andrew Hurrell, and John Ikenberry
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), John Ikenberry (Princeton University), Andrew Hurrell (Oxford), Louise Fawcett (Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A room with a view: Chichele’s college
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peregrine Horden (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Safeguarding in times of crisis. The compensation of the former Bavarian royal family after 1918
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Nina Kreibig (Berlin)
Venue Details: ONLINE only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Reckoning with Race in Early Modern London
Date: 4 June 2024, 16:15 - 17:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Jamie Gemmell (KCL)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Recombinant novelty in early-modern English caselaw (with Peter Grajzl)
Date: 4 June 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: Vernon Harcourt Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Day 1 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Date: 6 June 2024, 9:30 - 16:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Female Homosociality and Homosexuality in the Classical World (Joint meeting with the History Faculty LGBTQ Network Reading Group)
Date: 6 June 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Mara Gold
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”
Date: 6 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Day 2 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Date: 7 June 2024, 9:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
Date: 7 June 2024, 13:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : N/A
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
Date: 10 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse/CAK/MFO)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Relics of Rome
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Katherine Jansen (Catholic University of America)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Late-Ming "Mine Tax" Reconsidered
Date: 10 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Gabriel Groz (Chicago)
Venue Details: ONLINE only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

How many jobs? Division of labour in early modern England and Wales (with David Chilosi, Giampaolo Lecce)
Date: 11 June 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: Vernon Harcourt Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Early Theories of the Child-Mind with Global Connections in the Child-Study Movement 1870-1920
Date: 12 June 2024, 13:30 - 14:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Julia Gustavsson (Oxford)
Venue: 47 Banbury Road, 47 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Stacie Vos
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Workshop
Date: 13 June 2024, 14:30 - 15:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Justinian Between East and West
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peter Sarris (Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Levine Building Auditorium, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Religion, Race, and Concepts of Difference in the Modern Middle East
Date: 14 June 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details:
Organiser: Dr Henry Clements (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
Date: 14 June 2024, 13:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : N/A
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Global Gender: Pasts Presents Futures - Day 1
Date: 24 June 2024, 9:00 - 16:00 (Monday, 10th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street OX1 2PH
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Maria Misra
Hosts: TBA

Colloquium 2024: Children and politics
Date: 24 June 2024, 9:30 - 17:00 (Monday, 10th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Global Gender: Pasts Presents Futures - Day 2
Date: 25 June 2024, 9:00 - 20:00 (Tuesday, 10th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Maria Misra
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

Global Gender: Pasts Presents Futures - Day 3
Date: 26 June 2024, 9:00 - 20:00 (Wednesday, 10th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Room
Organiser: Maria Misra
Hosts: TBA