Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - INAUGURAL LECTURE: We are not good at translating lab science into new medicines for patients
  Chas Bountra (Professor of Translational Medicine; Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Spinoza: True Religion and the Narratives of Universal Faith
  Only Week 1 is on Wednesday, remaining seminars are on Tuesdays
  Professor Mogens Laerke (Maison Francaise d'Oxford)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Spinoza: True Religion and the Narratives of Universal Faith'
  Professor Mogens Laerke (Maison Frangaise d'Oxford)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Ancient Equalities? Constructing Hebrew, Classical, and "Northern" Cultural Origins to Legitimise a New Modern Culture
  Professor Maike Oergel (University of Nottingham)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Ancient Equalities? Constructing Hebrew, Classical and “Northern” Cultural Origins to Legitimise a New Modern Culture’
  Professor Maike Oergel (University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The English Universal History's Treatment of the Arab World
  Professor Ann Thomson (European University Institute)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘The English Universal History’s Treatment of the Arab World’
  Prof Ann Thompson (European University Institute)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - A Universal History of Ancient Art: Winckelmann's History of the Art of Antiquity
  Professor Elisabeth Decultot (Universitat Halle)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - A Universal History of Ancient Art: Winckelmann’s “History of the Art of Antiquity”
  Prof Élisabeth Décultot (Universität Halle)
• 17:15 - Universal Histories Research Seminar
  TBA

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - "The Crucifixion of Brother Peter": Moral Claims and Religious Imaginary in Two Competing Narratives about the Cochrane Collaboration
  Trish Greenhalgh (Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Edward Gibbon and Universal History
  Professor David Womersley (University of Oxford)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Gibbon and Universal History
  Professor David Womersley (St. Catherine’s)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Universalising European history? Arab Literati and Enlightenment Histories, 1800-1870
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - CANCELLED - ‘Universalising European History? Arab Literati and Enlightenment Histories, 1800-1870’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Philosophy of History: How Religious Is It? Transcendence and Immanence in Herder and Bossuet
  Professor Daniel Fulda (Universitat Halle)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - "I have begun this Philosophy of Man with his History": Lord Monboddo's Universal History of the Human Species
  Dr Silvia Sebastiani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘“I have begun this Philosophy of Man with his History”: Lord Moboddo’s Universal History of the Human Species’
  Dr Silvia Sebastiani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Wednesday 8 April 2020 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - POSTPONED: Oxford – People's Bank of China - PHBS Macroeconomic Policy Conference
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Monday 11 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Please contact Dr Marta Arnaldi for further information as to whether this event has been postponed or will be available online
  Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool)
  Translating Illness