Saturday 18 October 2025

• 09:00 - 2-Day Conference 18-19 October: Climate, Health and Faith - Understanding Science, Building Trust
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
• 14:00 - Biology Week: Poo Trivia Quiz
  Dr Kate Coldwell (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
• 14:00 - Decolonial Pedagogies Through Dance: A Workshop with Tjimur Dance Theatre
  Tjimur Dance Theatre
• 18:30 - Cities on the frontline: urban governance in the age of the polycrisis?
  Ievgeniia Kopytsia (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 October 2025

• 10:00 - Managing Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Among People With Severe Mental Illness
  Professor Dan Siskind (The University of Queensland)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Political Economy Workshop
• 11:00 - Welcome seminar and discussion of approaches to ‘play’ within histories of childhood and youth
  N/A
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:00 - Do men lie more than women?
  Johannes Abeler (University of Oxford)
  What Economists Really Do (W.E.R.D.)
• 12:00 - The promise of proteomics: insights into autoimmune disease pathogenesis and translational potential
  In-person only
  Dr James Peters (Imperial College London)
  Kennedy Institute Seminars
• 12:15 - “Powered by the Sun: Energising Empire in the Age of Solar.”
  Sebastian Lund
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:45 - Quant Hub: Leveraging electrodermal activation data to capture and understand emotional activation in education: Approaches and lessons learned from ten years of multimodal research
  Jason M. Harley (McGill University, Canada)
  Quantitative Methods Hub Seminars
• 12:45 - Sundays Unbound: Blue Laws, Church Attendance, and Shifting Moral Attitudes in the U.S.
  Ozan Aksoy (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 13:00 - Breaking (is) Bad: how bacterial supercoiling machine works, how to inhibit it, and why we bother
  Associate Professor Dmitry Ghilarov (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)
  Biochemistry Department Seminar
• 13:30 - Frontier Rule and Conflict
  Dr Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Pascal Maillard (Toulouse)
  Probability seminar
• 14:00 - Streamlining randomised trials by re-using healthcare systems data: From theory to practice
  Dr Charlie Harper (Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford)
  HDRUK Oxford Monthly Meetup
• 14:15 - Plastic Turkey: International Impacts of China's Waste Import Ban
  Banu Demir Pakel (University of Oxford)
  Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
• 14:30 - The Development of the Melkite Legal Tradition under Islamic Rule
  Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person at least five minutes before the seminar begins.
  Dr Johannes Pahlitzsch (University of Mainz)
  The Impact of Islam on Christian Political Theology 622 to 1453
• 15:00 - Re-excavating an 11th-century Yaozhou ware sherd in the Ashmolean Museum: A journey from China to al-Fustat to North Oxfordshire
  Eleanor Sandley
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 16:00 - The problem with mental health awareness (in schools)
  Dr Lucy Foulkes (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)
  Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series
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