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Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term) , continued from previous page

14:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Sources for Medievalists
Isabel Holowaty (University of Oxford), Hillla Wait (University of Oxford), Eva Oledska (University of Oxford), Charlotte Goodall (University of Oxford), Helen Scott (University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th century India
TBA
14:00 - Jamal al-din al-Afghani and Syed Ahmad Khan: Reform, Rivalry, and Heresy in late 19th-century India’
Teena Purohit (Boston)
Modern South Asia Seminar
14:30 - 'And the Goddess Gave Us the Love of Husband and Wife’: Hittite Kings and Their Queens
Dr Amir Gilan (Tel Aviv University)
Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)
15:30 - Glassmaking in Umayyad and post-Umayyad al-Andalus
Dr Chloe Duckworth (Newcastle University)
Khalili Research Centre Seminars
16:00 - ‘That Lady on the Hill: examining American liberalism at a crossroads in the 1970s’
Brian Balogh (Virginia)
American History Research Seminar
16:30 - Oxford GCRF Seminars: Research uptake working in DAC countries
Professor Christopher Adam (University of Oxford)
Oxford GCRF Seminars
17:00 - Fanon Transformed? The New Writings
TBA
Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
17:00 - Piers Plowman and Scholastic Theology / Vernacular Hagiography
Conor McKee (LMH), Lauren Urbont (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar
17:00 - ‘Fanon Transformed? The New Writings’
Robert Young (New York University)
17:00 - “The Least Successful Guerrilla Army of all time”? Umkhonto we Sizwe and its historians
Thula Simpson (University of Pretoria)
South Africa Discussion Group
17:00 - Panel discussion: State Formation & Decay in the Horn of Africa
Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh), Michael Walls (UCL), Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
17:00 - Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War - Fanon Transformed? The New Writings
Robert J.C. Young (Silver Professor, Dean of Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi; Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University)
17:00 - The Abgar-Story in Greek Inscriptional Traditions
Ida Toth (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Early Text Cultures Seminar: (Re-)Appropriation of Epigraphic Texts Across Cultures
17:00 - The Flower Girl (1972)
TBA
North Korean Film Series
17:30 - Sustainable Diets In The 21st Century
Professor Charles Godfray (University of Oxford), Professor Mike Rayner ( Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford), Helen Browning (Chief Executive of the Soil Association), Sir Peter Kendall (Former NFU President, Chairman of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board)
17:30 - Clio Barnard: The Selfish Giant
Clio Barnard

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Language and the First-Person Perspective in Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Advanced Seminar
Places are limited so registration is strictly necessary. Registration includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day, and informal dinner in the evening. Registration at: a.bergqvist@mmu.ac.uk.
Various Speakers
Theory Network, The Collaborating Centre for Values-Based Practice
10:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
John Southall (University of Oxford)
10:00 - The Idea of Antiquity in Chinese Art
Prof. Craig Clunas
Antiquity After Antiquity: Appropriations of the Classical Tradition in Art and Culture from Byzantium to Modernism

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