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Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

15:30 - “Work in Progress” colloquium
Marius Del Core (Pisa/Oxford), Stefano Milonia (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples)
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:30 - In Conversation with Peter Brathwaite - Rediscovering Black Portraiture: History, Art and the Archives
Peter Brathwaite, Meleisa Ono-George
2023 Black History Month events

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:15 - Michaelmas Term Lecture - Understanding Solid Figures in Early Medieval Manuscripts: how Rhetoric and Geometry interact
Mary Carruthers (NYU and Oxford)
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:30 - “Work in Progress” colloquium
Anthony Ellis (Bern), Sara De Martin (Oxford)
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

19:15 - Rediscovering Attenborough's Echidna
James Kempton (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:15 - Mathematising certainty in the 18th century. Jacob Bernoulli’s and Thomas Bayes’ redefinition of “absolute” and “moral” certainty through probability calculus
Dinh-Vinh Columban (Université Paris Nanterre)
History of Mathematics Seminar

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - QTE: Politics and Prose in Kurdish Literature
Bachtyar Ali (Iraqi Kurdish novelist), Kareem Abdulrahman (Translator), In discussion with: Professor Marilyn Booth
The Queen's College Translation Exchange (QTE)

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Crafting Documents project launch
Julia Smith, Ana Dias, José Andrés Porras (Wadham College, Oxford), Professor Ira Rabin (BAM, Berlin)

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

17:30 - 'Inflammable Air': Oxford Balloons, Enlightenment Science, and the Poetry of Flight
Professor Frank James (UCL), Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford), Chair: Professor Fiona Stafford (English Faculty, Oxford), Matthew Shaw (The Queen's College, Oxford)

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Discussion Group: Soviet Film and British Documentary Film
Professor Emma Widdis (University of Cambridge), Professor Jo Fox (University of London)
TORCH: Britain and the Soviet Union: Early Cultural Encounters Network

Saturday 2 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

10:00 - British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress 2024
Jason Yip (Middlesex University), David Virgili (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Saša Popovic (University of Rijeka), Paul-Emmanuel Timotei (SPHERE Université Paris Cité), Aoife Kearins (Independent Scholar), Kate Hindle (University of St Andrews), Eleanor Brittain (University of Cambridge), Clément Bonvoisin (SPHERE Université Paris Cité), Frederike Lieven (Paris Sorbonne Université), Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland)