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OxTalks is Changing

During Michaelmas Term, OxTalks will be moving to a new platform (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
For now, continue using the current page and event submission process (freeze period dates to be advised).

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Upcoming Talks

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Tuesday 14 October 2025

None - Fundamentals of open access
Sarah Humphreys
Part of: Open Scholarship

Wednesday 15 October 2025

None - Arabic Thought, Syriac culture: The Challenges of Editing and Translating Ps. Aristotle’s Epistle on the Craft
Salam Rassi
Part of: Syriac Lunch Seminar

Tuesday 21 October 2025

None - Workshop: Counter-Narratives, Illness, and Life-Writing
Dr Astrid Joutseno, Professor Hanna Meretoja, Professor Hanna Meretoja, Dr Danielle Spencer, Professor Angela Woods, Dr Tamarin Norwood
None - Edward, Second Duke of York’s Master of Game: A New Edition for EETS
David Scott-Macnab
Part of: Medieval English Research Seminar
None - Earth’s Biodiversity: Its Origins, Impacts and Potential Fate
David Tilman
Part of: Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series
None - Public Lecture: Santanu Das, ‘The Maritime Closet: Queer Lives Before the Mast’
Professor Santanu Das

Wednesday 22 October 2025

None - Dr William Kuskin: The Grid - Prefiguration In Ultimate Spider Man
Dr William Kuskin
Part of: Oxford Comics Network
None - Displacement, solidarity, counter-government
Professor David Owen
Part of: Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
None - Making the Weather - Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain
Professor Sir Vernon Bernard Bogdanor CBE FBA FRSA, Mr John Bowers KC

Thursday 23 October 2025

None - IX Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
Ian Preston, Hyejin Ku, Tamara Smith
Part of: Health Economics Seminar
None - REF open access policy briefing
Sarah Humphreys
Part of: Open Scholarship
None - Bodleian Student Editions
TBA
Part of: Centre for Digital Scholarship Events

Friday 24 October 2025

None - Choosing and using software for referencing
Kat Steiner, Andrew Kernot, Oliver Bridle, Matthew Henry
Part of: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 28 October 2025

None - Rights in Crisis: Unpaid Domestic Labour and Cash Transfer Schemes
Prof. Prabha Kotiswaran, Prof Sandra Fredman, Aradhana CV
Part of: Rights in Crisis: Conversations on Human Rights in India (OICSD and OxHRH)

Friday 31 October 2025

None - UK Catalysis Hub & Solar Chemicals Network Joint Workshop
TBA

Monday 3 November 2025

None - Partition, Bengali Refugee Critiques of Postcolonial Sate and Capitalism, and the Subaltern Origins of the Cold War in India, 1947-1950
Dr Milinda Banerjee
Part of: South Asian Intellectual History Seminars

Tuesday 4 November 2025

None - Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy
Dr Louise Tillin
Part of: Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
None - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
TBA
None - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Reading Group
Part of: Oxford Medical Humanities

Saturday 8 November 2025

None - Rhodes Forum on Technology & Society 2025
TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

None - Bodleian Student Editions
TBA
Part of: Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
None - Open monographs
Sarah Humphreys, David Watson
Part of: Open Scholarship

Friday 14 November 2025

None - Zotero for referencing
Georgina Kiddy, Andrew Kernot
Part of: Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 18 November 2025

None - Logistics of open scholarship
Sarah Humphreys
Part of: Open Scholarship

Friday 21 November 2025

None - ‘Life-writing and the far south: rhythm, disruption, and sensory extremes’ (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
Professor Elleke Boehmer, Dr Katherine Collins
Part of: Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop

Tuesday 25 November 2025

None - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: 'The Third Reich of Dreams': Amanda Rubin-Lewis and Devorah Baum in Conversation
Dr Devorah Baum, Amanda Rubin-Lewis
Part of: Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
None - Decoding the Hand: A History of Magic, Medicine and Science
Professor Alison Bashford
Part of: TORCH: Divination, Oracles, and Omens Network
None - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
TBA
None - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Reading Group
Part of: Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 26 November 2025

None - Non-signatory states in international refugee law
Professor Maja Janmyr
Part of: Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 November 2025

None - India in Focus: OICSD Research Showcase (Michaelmas 2025)
Medha Mukherjee, Ishani Mookherjee, Shreya Sharma, Bhimraj Muthu, Tanaya Nair, Ashish Gaurav
Part of: OICSD Research Showcase

Friday 28 November 2025

None - Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum
TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

None - ECR Firetalks
TBA
Part of: Perspectives in Psychology - Departmental Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 December 2025

None - The Miaphysite Abu Qurrah: Transmitting Christian-Muslim Polemic across Confessional Lines
Shane Patrick
Part of: The Impact of Islam on Christian Political Theology 622 to 1453

Wednesday 3 December 2025

None - Ed Hillyer: The Wild West Days of Comic Narrative
Ed Hillyer
Part of: Oxford Comics Network

Speaker: Sarah Humphreys (4); Andrew Kernot (2); Reading Group (2); Amanda Rubin-Lewis (1); Aradhana CV (1); Ashish Gaurav (1); Bhimraj Muthu (1); David Scott-Macnab (1); David Tilman (1); David Watson (1)

Location: 7-19 Banbury Road (2); Buttery (2); Flora Anderson Hall (2); Queen Elizabeth House (2); Radcliffe Observatory (2); St Antony's College (2); Weston Library (2); Brasenose College (1); Campion Hall (1); Dyson Perrins Building (1)

Series: Open Scholarship (4); Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications (2); Centre for Digital Scholarship Events (2); Oxford Comics Network (2); Oxford Medical Humanities (2); Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series (2); Health Economics Seminar (1); Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop (1); Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the Biodiversity Network seminar series (1); Medieval English Research Seminar (1)

Public Lists: Talks of Interest to Medical Sciences (13); Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust (6); Talks of interest to MPLS Division (6); Open Scholarship (4); Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in information discovery and scholarly communications (3); Asian Studies Centre (2); Faculty of English What’s On: events and talks of interest (2); India focused events (2); St Antony's College Events (2); Biodiversity related events (1)

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