Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 09:30 - How to do a Career Development Review, for reviewers (in-person)
  Regular meaningful Career Development Reviews are an important part of developing a positive research culture.
  Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 10:30 - Searching systematically in medicine
  Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
• 11:00 - Computational early cancer genome analysis at a national scale
  This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Isidro Cortes Ciriano (EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Peter Koepernik (University of Oxford)
  Junior Probability Seminar
• 11:00 - The House Always Wins: Arms Trafficking, Settler Capitalism, and the Making of Ottoman Jolan, 1878-1918
  Dr Ayşe Polat (Oxford)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 11:10 - Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
  David Hopkin (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 12:00 - Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director: Challenges, Controversies, and Realities
  Professor Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks
• 12:15 - Methodological Inquiry into Syriac Social History: The Case Study of Syriac Legal Literature
  Carlo Emilio Biuzzi
  Syriac Lunch Seminar
• 12:30 - No Place Like Home? The Causal Effect of Forced Relocation from Central Addis Ababa
  Simon Franklin (Queen Mary University of London)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 12:30 - Lunch & Learn: From DPAG to Meta Reality Labs – In conversation with Adam Packer
  This is a virtual Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
  Dr Adam Packer
  DPAG Lunch & Learns
• 12:45 - Uncoupling obesity from its metabolic complications
  In person
  Dr Maria Chondronikola (University of Cambridge)
  OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Getting started in Oxford libraries
  Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Wanne Mendonck (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - The Oxford Ministry for the Future Presents: The Arctic at the Crossroads
  Bathseba Demuth (of Floating Coast), Joanna Kavenna (of The Ice Museum), Laline Paull (of The Ice)
  TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Fighting inequality and mass deforestation in Brazil
  TBA
  ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
• 16:30 - Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
  Adolfo Polo y La Borda (University of Nottingham)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 16:45 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Postdoctoral Fellows Seminar
• 17:00 - Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel: Coming-of-Age 1990-2020
  Angelica de Vido (New York Historical Society)
• 17:00 - Early-modern orientalism and the recreation of the Islamic canon: from collections to catalogues
  Professor Claire Gallien (Tubingen)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Transatlantic security in an age of uncertainty
  Hybrid event
  Rachel Ellehuus (Director General, RUSI)
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