Department: University of Oxford
Talks:

Friday 25 April 2025

Governing Digital China
Date: 25 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Training Session (in-person)
Date: 25 April 2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Picky Eaters: How macrophages select targets for phagocytosis
Date: 25 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Meghan Morrissey (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47
Date: 25 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Professor Yuri Shapoval, Dr Filip Slaveski, Professor Stephen Wheatcroft
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Host: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)

Blavatnik Book Talk: Our Dollar, Your Problem
Date: 25 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), Andrea Ferrero (Professor in Economics University of Oxford), Clare Leaver (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women
Date: 25 April 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Emily Owens (Brown University), Kaisha Esty (Wesleyan University)
Venue Details: online only
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 April 2025

New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students
Date: 28 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Shreya Ganguli (Oxford), Kate Harrison (Oxford), Camille Lund (Oxford), Rawdah Uddin (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dissecting the the composition and function of intestinal immune compartments in health and disease
Date: 28 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : William Agace (Lund University)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Host: Prof Mark Coles (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology )

Discrepancies between teacher and student perceptions of students’ academic attitudes and abilities: the role of student socioeconomic background, ethnicity and gender
Date: 28 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Katherin Barg (University of Bristol)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Anti-bacterial vaccination in the context of gut ecosystem
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Lipid mediators in the pathogenesis of dengue
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Neelika Malavige (Dept. of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicole Zitzmann (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Astor Lecture: Treatment and Prevention of Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Golda S. Ginsburg (University of Connecticut School of Medicine)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd floor seminar rooms, lift available
Organiser: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Dynamic accessibility percolation
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Marcel Ortgiese (University of Bath)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Oxford Ministry for the Future presents: 'Art, nature and science: Imagining other worlds'
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Brian Eno, Kim Stanley Robinson, Laline Paull, J. M. Ledgard
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Ministry for the Future

Theme: Granular Ethnicity and Environment Data: Bridging Gaps in Health Research
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Associate Professor Sara Khalid (NDORMS), Dr Marta Pineda-Moncusi (NDORMS), Dr Qingze Gu (NDORMS)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Social and Environmental Consequences of the Twin Energy-Digital Transition
Date: 28 April 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Aurelien Saussay (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained (Hybrid)
Date: 28 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ann Kelly (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Court of Tunis: Negotiating Kingship in the Sixteenth-Century Maghreb
Date: 28 April 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Rubén González Cuerva (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Biography, Textual Authority, and the Transformation of the Carolingian World
Date: 28 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Graeme Ward (Tübingen)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Islam and Liberalism: More than a Modus Vivendi?
Date: 28 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Organiser: Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)
Host: Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Multivariate Machine Learning Techniques for Data Preprocessing, Decomposition, and Integration: Radiomics, Sparse Partial Least Squares, and Transformers
Date: 29 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr David Popovic (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Online only, via Zoom
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Ultrasound: Examples from India, The Gambia, Kenya, & Mozambique in cardiac & maternal care
Date: 29 April 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Dr Manisha Nair (National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford), Prof Aris Papageorghiou (Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo
Date: 29 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The "Care" Series: Reading: Anne Antoni, Juliane Reinecke, and Marianna Fotaki, 'Making Time to Care, and Caring for Time'
Date: 29 April 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: Lucile Richard (Political Theory, Nuffield College, Oxford), Sarah Knott (History, St John's College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Developing innovating and effective interventions for self-harm in young people: From educational settings and beyond
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Katrina Witt (University of Melbourne)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Helen Appleton (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

EDI Media Club - "Black and British: a forgotten history"
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room
Organisers: Dr Christina Heroven (Fernandes Group, University of Oxford), Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)

Rasch meta-metres of growth in reading and mathematics attainment tests
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor David Andrich (University of Western Australia)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ultrasound monitoring in acute stroke
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Claudio Baracchini (Stroke Unit & Neurosonology Lab, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padova, Italy)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Introduction to Carl Schmitt
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Ovarian Biology: from Bench to Bedside and Biosphere, from humans to rhinos
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Suzannah Williams (Nuffield Dept of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford ), Nilay Kuscu (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Dr Peter Kilbride (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Emmerson Teas (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Heidi Long (NDWRH, University of Oxford), Janet Kwan (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 1
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Antonia Delius (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Union and Firm Labor Market Power
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Miren Azkarate-Askasua (University of Mannheim)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Building wisdom: Aware and aligned via recursive wise world models
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ruben Laukkonen (Southern Cross University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Code Support Python Drop In Session
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Thomas Kiley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Israeli Far-Right amid the Erosion of the 'Legitimate Circle of Politics'
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Ferit Belder (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Fit-for-Purpose Natural Language Processing to Enrich Real-World Psychiatric Data
Date: 29 April 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Alexander Vance (Holmusk)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Moving to Opportunity, Together
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Heather Sarsons (Vancouver School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Truth-seeking AI
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford), Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford))
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Literary and Philosophical Societies as knowledge-making Communities in early nineteenth-century England
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Martha Vandrei (Exeter University)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Twlight (After School) Workshop: Doing Brilliant Biology and Ecology Fieldwork in your School Grounds
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kim Polgreen (Honorary Norham Fellow, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: The Cherwell School (Marston Ferry Road, Oxford OX2 7EE)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Violence and the Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Fiction
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor David C. Atherton (Harvard University), Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA)
Venue: 27 Winchester Road, 27 Winchester Road OX2 6NA
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Second-Class Citizenship In Peruvian Amazonia: Everyday life, civil society organisations and indigenous Awajun perspectives
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Sarah A. Radcliffe (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History - Defending Dignity: Black Women, Family, and Crafting Testimonials in Colonial Mexico
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Technological and Organizational Sophistication in North American Indigenous Economies, 1000-1500 - The Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ann M Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: The Pavilion
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh’s Inaugural Lecture ‘Catalysing the Data-enabled Transformation of Health - Globally’
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: Examination Schools, 75 - 81 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG
Organiser: Lucy Curtin (NDPCHS, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Technological and Organizational Sophistication in North American Indigenous Economies, 1000-1500
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Ann Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: Pavillion
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Designing Sound: Toward a History of Amplification
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Steve Waksman (University of Huddersfield)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Denis Arnold Hall
Organisers: Betty Yan (Faculty of Music), Jessica Edgar (Faculty of Music)
Hosts: TBA

‘Editing Shakespeare’s Lyric Poetry’
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Lukas Erne (University of Geneva)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Press of the Royal Institution
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The discovery of ReNU syndrome
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker s: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Yuyang Chen (University of Oxford), Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Susan Walker (Genomics England), Dr Sarah Wynn (Unique)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Quantum in a Flash
Date: 29 April 2025, 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Clarendon Laboratory - Townsend, Parks Road OX1 3PU
Venue Details: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Introduction to Staying in the UK to Work (from the Visa and Immigration Advisors)
Date: 30 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Practical tools for supporting neurodivergence in the higher education workplace
Date: 30 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Cressida Ryan (Faculty of Theology & Religion)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Mandy Nicolle (IDRM and Department of Paediatrics)

Code to Confidence: unleashing creativity and problem-solving through Minecraft Education and playful learning
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Kate Whyles (Nottingham College)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: IT Services, 13 Banbury Road
Organiser: Digital Capabilities Team (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Securing an Internship as a Postgraduate Student
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: 56 Banbury Road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Back to the future? The promise and peril of historical analogies in AI governance
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Julia Morse (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

No seminar this week
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

GCP for Laboratory Staff
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Boundary Brook House, Churchill Drive, Headington OX3 7LQ
Venue Details: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/boundary-brook-house
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Epithelia and macrophages in lung infection: Roles in tissue damage, protection and repair
Date: 30 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Andreas Wack (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Ling-Pei Ho (University of Oxford)

Shedding Light on Conflict and Cholera: Using Night Lights to Track Infrastructure Collapse and Disease Risk
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Daniel Parker (Associate Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: LG Seminar Room 0
Organiser: IDDO (Centre for Global Health Research, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Newton (University of Oxford)

Epigenetics and alternative splicing in spinal muscular atrophy
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Albero Kornblihtt (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Nick Proudfoot (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

The Transformative Power of Multidimensional Poverty Statistics for Social Development
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
Organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Hosts: TBA

Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture
Date: 30 April 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Mr Mitchell Warren (Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC))
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Robin Beachy (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

UKSC's Decision in For Women Scotland and The Gender Recognition Act 2004 at 20: The state of the field
Date: 30 April 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Law Faculty Seminar Room F
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special Reading Group - Hungarian LGBTQ+ History
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue Details: The Jolly Farmers, Downstairs Area
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Pre-Launch: Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (OUP, 2025)
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Mohsen al Attar (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University), Claire Smith (University of Amsterdam), Dr Radha D’Souza (Westminster Law School), Nciko Wa Nciko (Amnesty International), Dr Raghavi Viswanath (School of Oriental and African Studies), Yang Han (University of Oxford), Dr Jinan Bastaki (NYU Abu Dhabi), Dr Shahab Saqib (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organiser: Yang Han (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture as a Site of Indigenous Resistance
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Natural tilings: from hard rock to soft cells - Gábor Domokos
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Gábor Domokos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 May 2025

Enhancer variation and chromatin folding, shaping the face in evolution and disease
Date: 1 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Hannah Long (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research)

Harnessing tissue regulatory T cells in the brain
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Adrian Liston (University of Cambridge)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Hashem Koohy (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Opportunities in healthcare AI at Oxford
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Oliver Harrison (Royal Society EIR in Oxford- CEO of Koa Health)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Basement Seminar Room and via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Betina Nair (University of Oxford), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Writing the Environmental History of the Medieval Islamic East
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Thomas Laskowski (MPhil Islamic Studies)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Respiratory Medicine
Date: 1 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Synucleinopathy disorders: A tale of two neurotransmitters
Date: 1 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Ilse Pienaar (University of Birmingham)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Alex Green (University of Oxford)

CVs for non-academic roles (for researchers)
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Life Between "Enigma" and "Influence": Dona Torr Interprets Marx
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Sam Miller (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Temperance Women and the Franchise: The New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union, The British Woman’s Temperance Association, and Women’s Suffrage, 1876-1914
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Danielle Van Dalen (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Growing Up Queer: 1837-1918
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Hannah Stovin (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Development of Motion Vision
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Kristina Nielsen (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organiser: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Associate Professor Kerry Walker (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for neuromodulation of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Sean Froudist-Walsh (University of Bristol)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Migration & The Arts
Date: 1 May 2025, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker s: Bartolomeo Bartolini (Puppeteer, Performer, Producer), Anja Meinhardt (Artistic Dirctor, Justice in Motion), Antônia Spohr Moro (Offbeat Producer), Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Mawby Room (wheelchair accessible)
Organiser: Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
Host: Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)

Disorderly conduct: battery cathode materials behaving badly
Date: 1 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Robert House (University of Oxford, Department of Materials)
Venue: Hume-Rothery Building, Parks Road OX1 3PH
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (ground floor, next to the reception foyer). What3Words to our front door are: 'Lace.Media.Gallons'.
Organiser: Lorraine Laird (Department of Materials)
Host: Professor Mauro Pasta (University of Oxford)

Lessons learned across 20 years of cultural adaptation research with Latinx populations
Date: 1 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Professor Ruben Parra-Cardona (The University of Tennesee), Professor Ruben Parra-Cardona (The University of Tennesee)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: Dr Gabriela Pavarini (University of Oxford), Dr Mark Fransham (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China' by J P Park
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : J P Park (Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Exploitation in the Bedchamber: Maidservants in Late Ming Erotic Novels
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Where International Relations Theory Went Wrong, and How It Can Get Back on Track – and Become Policy Relevant Again
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Marco Verweij (Constructor University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 2 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

The Brazilian Studies Programme Annual Conference: Pathways to Development
Date: 2 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford), Felipe Krause (University of Oxford), Gregory Thaler (University of Oxford), Graham Denyer Willis (University of Cambridge), Karabekir Akkoyunlu (SOAS), Malu A. C. Gatto (University College London), Daniel H. Alves (King's College London), Andreza Souza Santos (King's College London), Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford), Rodrigo Frazalossi de Moraes (University of Southampton), Marina Duque (Newcastle University), Matthew Richmond (Newcastle University), Tom Long (University of Warwick)
Venue: St Hugh's College, St Margaret's Road OX2 6LE
Venue Details: Mordan Hall
Organiser: Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Enhancer variation and chromatin topology, shaping faces in health and disease
Date: 2 May 2025, 10:45 - 11:45
Speaker : Hannah Long (Institute of Genetics and Cancer | The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford), Fiona Lambert (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Medicine)
Host: Professor Doug Higgs (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Do the shapes of tumour cell nuclei influence their infiltration?
Date: 2 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Kharthik Bharath (School of Mathematics, University of Nottingham)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Helen Byrne (University of Oxford)

Getting the Most out of your Career Development Review
Date: 2 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Marc Adams (People and Organisational Development)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Hosts: TBA

Modelling mineral equilibria in igneous and metamorphic rocks: a new thermobarometric method and equations of state
Date: 2 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Eleanor Green (University of Melbourne)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 2 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Alyssa Rusonik (HEC Paris)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Why the drugs should work: A deep cellular atlas reveals a mechanistic overlap between Parkinson’s disease and Type 2 Diabetes
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Caleb Webber (UK Dementia Research Institute and Cardiff University)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

The Political Correlates of Organized Criminal Violence: Evidence from Contemporary Mexican Municipalities
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Javier Perez Sandoval (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Steering the evolution of bacteria within hosts
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof. Médéric Diard (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)

Title TBC
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrew Ellis (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imputation of counterfactual outcomes when the errors are predictable
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Serena Ng (Columbia University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week One: Beginnings
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Economics of Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Edward Barbier (Colorado State University)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

2025 Astor Lecture: Beyond Mere Inconvenience: United States and Civilian Harm
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Helen M. Kinsella (University of Minnesota)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing Dark Heritage to Light: Monuments to Wartime Foreign Laborers in Japan
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Andrew Gordon (Harvard University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 3 May 2025

Everyday Muslim: Telling Our Stories - Oxford
Date: 3 May 2025, 12:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Karim Khan
Venue Details: Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 5 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Redistribution after War: Evidence from the US Reconstruction
Date: 5 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Megan Stewart (Michigan)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Recovering Sayagyi U Ba Khin: Globalizing Vipassanā from a Post-nuclear Rangoon
Date: 5 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Daniel M. Stuart (University of Hamburg)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Salvation, alienation and sacrifice zones from medieval to modern thought
Date: 5 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Amanda Power (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

The changing mental health research funding landscape
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Andy Ratcliffe (MQ Mental Health)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)

Thesis and Report Writing
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: LR7, Information Engineering Building
Organiser: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)
Host: James Cunning (University of Oxford)

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 6 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Simon Cowan (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mechanisms of competition between healthy and malignant haematopoiesis
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Cristina Lo Celso (Imperial College, London)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organisers: Kay Levendale (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), Beatriz Hirt-Font (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)
Host: Anindita Roy (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Thrombolysis Review
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Data Theme Seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 2
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Qingyu Chen (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Political Theology
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Shock Therapy for Clean Innovation: The Dynamics of Firms’ R&D Investments
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Esther Boler (Imperial College Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: William Forsythe - “Hard to say, not knowin…”
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : William Forsythe
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Minds, Models and Markets: How Managerial Cognition Shapes Pricing Strategies
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:15
Speaker : Professor David Huffman (University of Pittsburgh)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

SeedWISE - Cultivating Women's Excellence in STEM
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Careers Lounge
Organisers: MPLS Enterprise, Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)
Host: Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)

Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions'
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Yair Berlin (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 5
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The Lean Theorem Prover/Will computers prove theorems?
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Professor Leo De Moura (AWS), Professor Kevin Buzzard (Imperial)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Causal machine learning for predicting treatment outcomes
Date: 6 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Stefan Feuerriegel (University of Munich)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Was Serfdom Good for the Economy? Peasants, Lords, and Markets in Early Modern Bohemia
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Inquiry Complex
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

SKOPE Seminar: Discourses of Widening Participation at Higher Education Institutions
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Benjamin Hart (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Losing Hurts: Defeated Legislators and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Araceli Mateos Díaz (University of Salamanca)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Timothy Power (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Ibrahim Bangura (Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone), Dr Christine Cheng (Department of War Studies, King's College London), Dr John Gledhill (University of Oxford), Dr Gloriana Rodriguez (KCL), Prof. Niloufer Siddiqui (SUNY-Albany)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Revd Dr Liz Carmichael (OxPeace), Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations)
Hosts: Revd Dr Liz Carmichael (OxPeace), Professor Richard Caplan (University of Oxford)

A subsectoral analysis of historical occupational data and their relation to economic growth, new data and methods
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Alexis Litvine (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Talk: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Clara Lloyd (Oxford Vaccine Group)
Host: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard (Oxford Vaccine Group)

A Subsectoral Analysis of Historical Occupational Data and Their Relation to Economic Growth, New Data and Methods
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexis Litvine (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Christine Cheng (KCL), Dr Ibrahim Bangura (University of Oxford), Dr Gloriana Rodriguez (KCL), Prof. Niloufer Siddiqui (SUNY-Albany)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: tba
Organisers: Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations), Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Revd Dr Liz Carmichael (St John’s College), Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Ibrahim Bangura (Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone), Dr Christine Cheng (Department of War Studies, King's College London), Dr John Gledhill (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations)
Host: Professor Richard Caplan (University of Oxford)

Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Laureates' panel
Date: 6 May 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Health Economics and Policy Evaluation: Online Course, 2025
Date: 7 May 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Get that fellowship (in-person)
Date: 7 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue Details: LR7, Information Engineering Building
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Sir John Pendry - Metamaterials, invisibility, & perfect lenses: a new world for electromagnetism
Date: 7 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England
Date: 7 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

WIN seminar by Daniel Reznik
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences)
Venue: FMRIB Centre, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Cowey Room, FMRIB Annexe
Organisers: Stuart Clare (University of Oxford), Dr Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: Carroll Group
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Jakub Hantabal (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744206771231?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Financial Security, Climate Shocks and Social Cohesion
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Sandra Sequeira (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How to Improve Your Interview Technique
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: 56 Banbury Road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using wearables to screen for atrial fibrillation
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Peter H. Charlton (Nokia Bells Lab)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Classical-evolutionary technological change
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Eric Kemp-Benedict (University of Leeds)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025: Paul F Hoffman - Dancing continents and frozen oceans: reading Earth’s diary in natural stone tablets
Date: 7 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Gender and Justice: A Transdisciplinary Feminist Journal
Date: 7 May 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Anna Carline, Dr Sharron FitzGerald
Venue Details: Law Faculty Seminar Room F
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON PRIZE LECTURE: New Insights into Basic Mechanisms of Synaptic Neurotransmission
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor James E. Rothman (Yale University School of Medicine)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gero Miesenboeck (University of Oxford)

Multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Eoghan Mulholland (University of Oxford)

'Shaping the dynamic chromatin landscape for gene expression at single-molecule resolution'
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Carl Wu (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom & Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joycelyn Longdon (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)
Host: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)

Localization in the Rohingya refugee response
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Miriam Bradley (University of Manchester)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Climate Realism: time for a reset
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Professor Dieter Helm, CBE (University of Oxford), Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 'Rethinking the inequality of lives' by Didier Fassin (Collège de France, Paris and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Didier Fassin (Collège de France, Paris)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Perig Pitrou (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

Humans As Ultra-Cooperative Great Apes
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:45 - 18:45
Speaker : Prof Michael Tomasello (Duke University)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre First floor with lift access
Organisers: TBA
Host: Robert Hepach (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 May 2025

Where Are We At? - PGR and ECR Symposium
Date: 8 May 2025, 9:30 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room West
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Towards nanopore proteomics: Single-molecule detection of post-translational modifications on full-length proteins
Date: 8 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Yujia Qing (University of Oxford)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Seminar room ORCRB-1
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Chunxiao Song (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

The mutational landscape of human tissues and the exceptional evolution of the male germline
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Raheleh Rahbari (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

Genetic diseases of chromatin: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Beagrie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room K
Organiser: Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hands on Science Engagement (in-person)
Date: 8 May 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Centenary Room, Careers Service
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Oncology
Date: 8 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Prelates as Political Appointees: Ecclesiastical patronage and its consequences for modern Britain, 1977-2009
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Kyle Siwek (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pensions, Poverty, and Policy: Gendered Inequalities in Old Age, 1975–2005
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Janina Bechtold (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Changing Global Politics and its impact on Singapore and ASEAN
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Mr Ng Teck Hean (Singapore's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Emily Usherwood (Oxford Department of International Development)
Host: Dr Joerg Friedrichs (Associate Professor of Politics, Oxford Department of International Development, and St Cross College, Oxford)

Migration and the arts of co-production: urban mobilities and carceral London
Date: 8 May 2025, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker s: Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum (UCL), Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford), Eda Yazici (University of Bristol)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Mawby Room (wheelchair accessible)
Organiser: Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
Host: Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)

Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police, and Social Order in Cold War Europe
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Henry Thomson (Arizona State)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Working with large amounts of qualitative data: the breadth-and-depth method
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Susie Weller (University of Oxford)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: Dr Gabriela Pavarini (University of Oxford), Dr Mark Fransham (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Future of Literary Knowledge in the Authoritarian West
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:45 - 17:45
Speaker : Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

On Painting Everything: Japanese Art in the Early Modern Information Age
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Chelsea Foxwell (University of Chicago)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Disobedient Buildings: Can ageing towers inspire better homes for all?
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof. Albena Yavena (Politecnico di Torino)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, 61 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organiser: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)
Host: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)

China Studies Seminar
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Iza Ding (Northwestern University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker s: Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organiser: Neta Crawford
Host: David Doyle (University of Oxford)

Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hans Keller's 'Group functioning of a string quartet'
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Laura Tunbridge (Professor of Music, Faculty of Music), Professor Eric Clarke (University of Oxford), Dr Jacob Downs (University of Oxford), Professor Jennifer Walshe (University of Oxford)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Denis Arnold Hall
Organisers: Betty Yan (Faculty of Music), Jessica Edgar (Faculty of Music)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 9 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Novel transcriptional regulators of neutrophil maturation
Date: 9 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Abhinandan Devaprasad (Udalova Group, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

5 years after COVID: what did modellers get right and wrong?
Date: 9 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Matt Keeling (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)

Convection in Europa's ocean subject to tidal heating from the mantle
Date: 9 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Daphne Lemasquerier (St Andrews)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The political geography of populism and anti-immigrant sentiment
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Sergi Pardos-Prado (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Developmental programmes in cancer
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Richard White (Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Mechanisms of Cellular Lipid Homeostasis: From Lipid Droplets to Ferroptosis
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof James Olzmann (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 9 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Daniel Rappoport (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cointegrating Multivariate Polynomial Regression Analysis
Date: 9 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Martin Wagner (University of Klagenfurt)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Climate and the Macroeconomy: why monetary policy makers are increasingly focusing on the impact of climate risks
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : James Talbot (Bank of England)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Two: Child Liberation
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen (Co-convened with the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network)
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Ship Street Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Afua Hirsch: The Problem with the West and why EDI depends on addressing it (SSD EDI Annual Lecture)
Date: 9 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker : Afua Hirsch
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)

In Conversation with Prof G John Ikenberry: Is Liberal Internationalism Dead?
Date: 9 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : John Ikenberry (Princeton University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Auditorium, Levine Building
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

Innovation Leadership Programme (ILP) - core programme (in-person & online)
Date: 12 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

An Introduction to Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) data
Date: 12 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Aden Kwok (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Making Every Electron Count: Phase retrieval in electron microscopy at low fluence
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Angus Kirkland (Department of Materials, University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Magdalena Gross
Host: Prof Marco Fritzsche (Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology, University of Oxford)

What Economists Really Do: The Political and Economic Risks of AI
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Regidter for link
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Contextualised changes in self-efficacy for types of beginning teachers using the multidimensional SET scale
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Helen Watt (University of Sydney)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Insight into Academia: Myths and Realities of starting a career in research
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The assembly and transport of carbohydrate (and other) polymers in bacteria
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor James Naismith (Head of MPLS, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Interference in number fact learning: From lab to classroom
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Camilla GiIlmore (Loughborough University)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar 2nd floor
Organiser: Professor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Gaia Scerif (University of Oxford)

The Moral Cost of Carbon
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sébastien Houde (Université de Lausanne)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid
Date: 12 May 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Prof Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoe Screti (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transport, Science and Policy: Reflections on being an Aotearoa New Zealand Government Transport Chief Science Advisor - Prof Simon Kingham
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Kingham (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/the University of Canterbury)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Diversity Room, SOGE
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)

Elite Rivalry, Mass Killing and Genocide in Authoritarian Regimes: Why Autocrats Kill
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Eelco van der Maat (Leiden)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

The Queen’s Court: Materiality and Colour at Early Modern Scandinavian Courts
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Dustin Neighbors (University of Helsinki)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prospects for Multilateralism at the End of the Liberal Order
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Joel Ng (Nanyang Technological University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Professor Richard Caplan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The white ears of Ofsted: language, race, and the schools inspectorate
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ian Cushing (Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Dr Ian Thompson (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lessons for Late Medieval Literary History from Strasbourg
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stephen Mossman (University of Manchester)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Rethinking nosology, diagnosis, and prognosis
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Paris Lalousis (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Leveraging long-read sequencing to resolve regulatory and transcriptional complexity
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Adam Cribbs (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Andy Sewell (Systems Immunity Research Institute, University of Cardiff)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Exploring and overcoming Imposter Phenomenon (in-person)
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Tracy Bussoli (Association for Coaching)
Venue Details: LR7, Information Engineering Building
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Digital Health: The Systematic Public Health Empowerment, Research, & Education sites (SPHERES) project in Indonesia & Examples in digital health from Viet Nam
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Prof Louise Thwaites (University of Oxford), Dr Anuraj Shankar (OUCRU)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Learning to perceive and perceiving to learn
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Clare Press (University College London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Marco Wittmann (University College London)

Interested in AI? This Is Your Chance to Build With Qualcomm – Meet the Team. Learn the Tools. Build What Matters.
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Various (See programme), Nav Dean (Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, University of Oxford)
Venue: Linbury Building,
Organiser: Nav Dean (Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Infection dynamics in a changing world: from climate drivers to immunity and vaccination’ presented by Jess Metcalf
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Jessica Metcalf (Princeton University)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0+1, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
Organiser: Pandemic Sciences Institute
Hosts: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)

Early Career Forum
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Dr Felicity Brown (University of Oxford), Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Concept of the Political
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Tandem lesion stroke
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Alexandre Y Poppe (Université de Montréal)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

Ovarian Biology: from Bench to Bedside and Biosphere, from humans to rhinos
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sonia Muliyil (Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women’s Health)
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 3
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Brunkhorst (World Bank)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bunching and Taxing Multidimensional Skills
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Job Boerma (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Diversity in Pieces: The Fall and Future of Affirmative Action in Multiracial America
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Sonia Giebel
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Steiner in Zion: The Reception of Anthroposophy in Israel
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Professor Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Max Rollwage (Limbic AI)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Wage Expectations and Job Search
Date: 13 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Alexander Sebald (Copenhagen Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Privacy and the Future of AI
Date: 13 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell), Carina Peng (Apple)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

British espionage in 18th-century Italy: the case of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757)
Date: 13 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Riccardo Neri (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wage Differentials in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Professor Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wage Differentials in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Proposal To Unlock Investment For Small-Scale Farmers In Latin America
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker : Miguel Robles (Universidad del Pacifico, Lima)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Gaurab Aryal (Boston University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Trump’s First 100 Days: What Comes Next Economically and Geopolitically?
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Robert Westcott (Former White House Special Assistant for Economic Policy)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Private Colonialism in Africa
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

AI and the future of work in developing countries
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Pablo Egaña-delSol (UAI Business School)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Academic Self-concept: Cornerstone Of My 40-Year Evolvement as an Applied Quantitative Researcher
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Herb Marsh (Australian Catholic University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture - Engineering Climate Change Solutions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 19:15
Speaker s: Warren East, Professor Sarah Sparrow (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford), Professor Jesus Lizana (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
Venue: Rhodes House, South Parks Road OX1 3RG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prevention first vs. cap-and-trade policies in an agent-based integrated assessment model with GHG emissions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Lilit Popoyan (Queen Mary University London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Mary Lou Williams and the Re-Imagining of Jazz’s History
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tammy L. Kernodle (Miami University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Settler Realism and the Diorama Aesthetic: John K. Hillers’ Puebloan Survey Photographs
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Bronte Alexander (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Aryehi Bhushan (University of Oxford), Olivia Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

Telling stories that matter: communicating your research through story
Date: 15 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Data Engineers Meeting
Date: 15 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Adam Huffman (University of Oxford), Isaac Wade (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Long-term single live cell quantification: New tools for old questions
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Timm Schroeder (ETH Zurich)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OUCAGS Forum - in-person event
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Richard Cornall (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Details to follow
Organiser: Medical Sciences Division
Host: Dr Katherine Bull

Medical Grand Rounds - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Offer Holders Panel: Civil Service and Public Sector
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to public involvement in research
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
Venue Details: Online - Teams
Organiser: Polly Kerr (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Utilising multi-omics to better understand painful and painless peripheral neuropathy
Date: 15 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Georgios Baskozos (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe West Wing and Children's Hospital, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms A/B, Level 6, West Wing
Organiser: Niki Andrew (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A Trip to India: Cultural Indophilia, British Hippiedom, and Post-Imperial Memory
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Robert Taylor (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Edward A. Freeman, History, and "Public Affairs", 1884-1892
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Gabriel Smith (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Walking Lahore’s Orange Line
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Moffat (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Ammara Maqsood (UCL), Fizzah Sajjad (The London School of Economics and Poltical Science)
Venue Details: Online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How stochasticity and space shape the innate antiviral response to influenza virus
Date: 15 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Prof Christopher Brooke (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Matthew Freeman (Dunn School of Pathology)

Our Refugee, Your Refugee: A Story across Three Nations
Date: 15 May 2025, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker : Eun Hye Son (TV Reporter & Journalist, KBS)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: The Hub (wheelchair accessible)
Organiser: Nathan Grassi (COMPAS Administrator, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Care to Carewashing…and Back Again?
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Jo Littler (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: Dr Rosella Ciccia (University of Oxford), Professor Mary Daly (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Novel And/As/Of Information
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:45 - 17:45
Speaker : Ryan Ruby
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Public Service, Party-State: Teaching, Gender, Power, and Memory in China, 1940s-1980s
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Living with leaks: Can warm, safe homes be a reality when maintenance is a luxury?
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker : Dr Nikita Simpson (University of London)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, 61 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organiser: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)
Host: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)

Friday 16 May 2025

Sustainable Healthcare - Dispelling Myths and Misconceptions
Date: 16 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker s: Dr Soren Kudsk-Iversen (University of Oxford), Dr SanYuMay Tun (University of Oxford)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Leveraging Clonal Dynamics to Identify Tumour Specific T Cells in Human Cancer
Date: 16 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker s: Dr Mariana Pereira Pinho (Dong Group, University of Oxford), Dr Adam Bates (Dong Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Round the clock: circadian gene expression, growth and division in cyanobacteria
Date: 16 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Torkel Loman (University of Oxford)

Self-organisation in mafic cumulates: differential migration of immiscible silicate liquids in the crystal mush
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Marian Holness (Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Long-lived memory B cell responses against malaria
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Evelien M. Bunnik (The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Matthew Freeman (Dunn School of Pathology)

Metastatic dissemination from the perspective of the cancer cell, its microenvironment, and the host
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani (UCL Cancer Institute in London)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pathways for the entry and exit of solutes and proteins into and from the brain. Implications for neurological diseases
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Roxana Carare (University of Southampton)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TOP2B from discovery to first isoform selective inhibitor
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Caroline Austin (Newcastle University)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Randomization and the Robustness of Linear Contracts
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Juuso Toikka (Wharton University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Average Treatment Effects for Exchangeable Random Arrays
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Michael Jansson (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What is a “Trans Woman”?: Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis (Hybrid)
Date: 16 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jamey Jesperson (Victoria)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Three: Prison Abolition
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Old Library,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transforming Nature-based Solutions
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Prof Nathalie Seddon (Director, Nature-based Solutions Initiative)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 May 2025

Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from Elite Civil Service
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shaheen Naseer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Early Impacts of T Levels: A New Set of Hybrid Upper Secondary Vocational Qualifications
Date: 19 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Robbie Maris (University College London)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Amanda Fisher (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Insight into Academia: Roles, CVs & Applications
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Inconsistencies of AI Futures
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Sadler Room
Organiser: Robin Beachy (University of oxford, Department for Continuing Education)
Hosts: TBA

Theme: Using genetic data in biobanks to gain insights into genome-disease associations
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Peter Visscher (Oxford Population Health), Dr Siqi Wang (Oxford Population Health)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Stillness to Motion… Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Lung Injury and Repair
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 14:45
Speaker : Assisstant Professor Maurizio Chioccioli (Yale University)
Venue Details: Virtual (Please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Manuela Zaccolo MD (DPAG, University of Oxford)

The cardiovascular sequelae of preterm pre-eclampsia – rethinking the postnatal period
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Laura Ormesher (University of Manchester / St. Mary’s Hospital (ORC))
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Economic Costs of Lopsided Power Contracts: Evidence from Pakistan
Date: 19 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sugandha Srivastav (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Consociationalism: from democracy to ethnoi-cracy?
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Nenad Stojanovic (Geneva)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Surviving in the archives: how to make sense of early medieval relic labels
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Julia Smith (All Souls College, Oxford), Ana Dias (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sanskrit Buddhist Chant and Song: Medieval Traditions in Modern Transmission
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Stephen Ithel Duran (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Sandra Leonie Field (Monash University), Pierre-François Moreau (ENS Lyon)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Harold H.W. Lee Room
Organisers: James Read (University of Oxford), Olivier Yasar de France (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor George Mangun (University of California, Davis. (USA))
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)

GROW: Creating Compelling Narratives that Persuade and Succeed
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Roger Frosh (ARC Accelerator)
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Careers Lounge
Organiser: Sally Charles (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Enterprise

"Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research Data Management (in-person)
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : En Hua Hu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No CSAE Workshop this week
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Global Health Theme seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: This event is hybrid
Organiser: Michael Suttie (NDWRH, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

In the Fed we Trust? Measuring Trust in Central Banking and its Effects on the Macroeconomy
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Francesca Monti (Universite' Catholique de Louvain)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hybrid Warfare
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Decentralization in Science & AI
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Rakefet Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

The Knowledge Quartet 2002-25: the application of teacher knowledge to classroom practice
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Tim Rowland (University of Cambridge)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Dr Gabriel Stylianides (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Generative AI-powered Causal and Predictive Inference
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organiser: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

Sodium channel dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Kevin Bender (Center for Intergrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford)

Obfuscation in Competitive Markets
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

ONE Annual Lecture and briefing event
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danny Sriskandarajah (Chief Executive at New Economics Foundation)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1
Organiser: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

BURDON SANDERSON PRIZE LECTURE: Targeting calcium leak to treat disorders of heart, muscle and brain
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Andrew R. Marks (Columbia University)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (University of Oxford)

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Decentralization in Science & AI
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

The Tourism Geopolitics of China’s Arctic Interventions
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto (Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Desert Room
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Regina Grafe (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Taylorian Main Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Racial Capitalism in Early Modern England’
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Trusted Research Briefing for MSD
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:45
Speaker s: Professor Patrick Grant (Chair) (University of Oxford (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research)), Dr Jenny Gladstone (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: The Richard Doll Building- G Lecture Theatre, Old Campus Road, Oxford OX3 7LF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
Date: 21 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: CELS Group & CPM
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744207060876?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBD
Date: 21 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Gender and intersectional analysis in health systems research: Lessons for studies in African hospitals - Webinar
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Bintu Mansaray (University of Bristol), Prof. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (University of Ottawa), Evelyn Kabia (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust)
Organisers: Yingxi Zhao (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Host: Yingxi Zhao (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)

Macro-financial dynamics in energy transitions: a stock-flow consistent, input-output approach
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrew Jackson (University of Surrey)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Flooding and drought in early modern central Europe - Health, bodies, emotions
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anna Parker (Institute for Historical Research, University of London)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Performing the Wild West: Staging Indigeneity in Photography and Theatre
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In Conversation with Prof Vladislav Zubok: How the Kremlin's Past Shapes its Present
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

20th Annual Roger Moorey lecture: Bacchylides' Journey: The afterlife of a lyric poet in Egypt and London
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Susan Walker (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

Scientific writing: core skills
Date: 22 May 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : John Guillory
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Dr Damien Grégoire - title TBA
Date: 22 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Damien Grégoire (IGMM Montpellier)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Psychological Medicine
Date: 22 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Aled Davies (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: TBA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Florence Buchanan Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Oxford)

Making the Most of Supervisory Meetings: Practical Strategies for Doctoral Students
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: 6 Worcester Street, 6 Worcester Street OX1 2BX
Venue Details: Social Sciences Division
Organiser: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

MIDD’s Growing Role in Global Health: A Case Study of Primaquine Exposures in Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Karen Rowland-Yeo (Certara), Prof Joel Tarning (MORU), Dr Mellie Gilder (MORU), Dr Nada Abla Geiser (Medicines for Malaria Venture)
Organiser: Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: The Art of Choosing
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Sheena S. Iyengar (Columbia Business School)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Winant-Mellon Symposium Keynote Address: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR
Organisers: Professor Kimberley Johnson (Winant Professor, RAI), Professor Des King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A room with a view: Can communities survive gentrification?
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Simone Abram (Durham University)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, 61 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organiser: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)
Host: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)

Emergency as Genre
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Quality Assurance and National Assessment – Denmark’s 10-Year Experiment with Adaptive Online Assessment in Public Education
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christian Ydesen (Chair of History of Education and Education Policy Analysis at the University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and Online
Organiser: Dr Michelle Meadows (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 23 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Causal inference Best Practice: How to Strengthen your Causal Analysis with Bounds On Your Causal Effect of Interest
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Jakob Zeitler (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room LG0
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Naomi Wray (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Barnes Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Modelling infectious diseases within-host
Date: 23 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ruth Bowness (University of Bath)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organiser: Sara Jolliffe (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Robin Thomspon (University of Oxford), Dr Eamonn Gaffney (University of Oxford)

Carbonatite-related mineral deposits
Date: 23 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof John Mavrogenes (ANU (Australian National University))
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pathogenesis of Enterococcus faecalis biofilm-associated infection
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Kimberly A. Kline (University of Geneva)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Chris Tang (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Revisiting oxygen transport by red cells: getting excited about the most boring cell
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Pawel Swietach (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG), University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Data Monetization and Strategic Coordination
Date: 23 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 23 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Nazrin Shah Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
Date: 26 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
Date: 26 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 26 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing War Back In
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Luis Schenoni (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

People as property? Captives and slaves in medieval Iberia
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Teresa Witcombe (St John's College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

AI & Global Health
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:00 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford), Dr Pratap Kumar (UCL & Strathmore)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Get that fellowship (in-person)
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Zoe Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Centenary Room, Careers Service
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker s: Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: Risk factors for stroke
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Oluwaseemo Osomo (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Sara Mazzucco (University of Oxford)

CSAE Workshop Week 5
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Hannah Timmis (University of Oxford), Anvita Ramachandran (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"Wicked" problems in public health: epidemics, climate change, and migration
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Caroline Buckee (Harvard University)
Venue: Biology South Parks Road, South Parks Road OX1 3RB
Venue Details: Biology building South Parks Road (former Plants Sciences Building), Large Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Sunetra Gupta (Department of Biology)

Capital, Ideas, and the Costs of Financial Frictions
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Pablo Ottenello (University of Maryland)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unequal Opportunity Regimes: Policies, Contexts and the Everyday Experience of Disabled Students in the Nigerian HE
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Abass B. Isiaka (University of East Anglia)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Collective Intelligence
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ivan Vendrov (Midjourney)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Brenna Greer (Wellesley College)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

English Criminal Law and Practice, 12th–19th centuries
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Deborah Oxley (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Indigenous Justice In Bolivia And The Travails Of Plurinational Constitutionalism
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : René Provost (McGuill University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Female Servants in early modern England: a new history in global, long-run perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘“That Follows Not”: The Non Sequitur in Hamlet’
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof. Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'The Greatest American Rock Band'
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Denis Arnold Hall
Organisers: Betty Yan (Faculty of Music), Jessica Edgar (Faculty of Music)
Hosts: TBA

Byron and Consciousness
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

In Conversation with Prof Abiodun Williams: Lessons in Leadership from the United Nations
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Abiodun Williams (The Fletcher School at Tufts University)
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Fourth Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025, 9:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antonty’s College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Project management: the essentials
Date: 28 May 2025, 9:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

The Molecular Basis of RNA Virus Antigenic Shift
Date: 28 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Bauer (the Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1, Department of Biochemistry.
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration
Date: 28 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
Date: 28 May 2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Rocío Gómez-Ruiz, Leonor-Jo Barnard
Hosts: TBA

Coaching Skills for Leaders
Date: 28 May 2025, 13:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Marc Adams (People and Organisational Development)
Venue Details: LR8, Engineering Department
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Synthetic Agents for Social Science Workshop
Date: 28 May 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Emma Madden (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)

Indigenous Pictorialism: Richard Throssel’s Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Aryehi Bhushan (University of Oxford), Olivia Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Unbiased: Challenges and contradictions in defining a fair society." - The Annual Hicks Lecture 2025
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:45
Speaker : Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: In-person or online. Please register.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Putting stories to work
Date: 29 May 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Dr Ozgen Deniz - title TBA
Date: 29 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ozgen Deniz (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Parinaz Mehdipour (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford)

Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Geriatrics
Date: 29 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Artificial intelligence for electronic health records
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Thomas Nichols (University of Oxford)

The role of the gut environment in shaping the intestinal microbiota and disease outcomes
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Carolina Tropini (University of British Colombia)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Kevin Foster (University of Oxford)

Differentially private M-estimation via noisy optimization
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:15 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L2, Andrew Wiles Building
Organisers: Beverley Lane (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Christl Donnelly (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Myers (University of Oxford)

Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 29 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond four walls: how do we nurture care, connection and belonging?
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Andrew Byerley (Stockholm University)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, 61 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organiser: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)
Host: Inge Daniels (University of Oxford)

A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 May 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 30 May 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker : Professor Ola Bratt (University of Gothenburg)
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Spatially resolved insights into fistulating Crohn's disease pathogenesis
Date: 30 May 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Agne Antanaviciute (Simmons Group, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Modelling the rheology of biological tissue
Date: 30 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Suzanne Fielding (Dept of Physics Durham University)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Eamonn Gaffney (University of Oxford)

Who gives a fuchsite about chromite? What chromite tells us about the evolution of Earth’s mantle and continents
Date: 30 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Pedro Waterton (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Guru Ganeson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Discovering new membrane proteins' functions with multi-scale molecular simulations
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stefano Vanni (University of Fribourg)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Pedro Carvalho (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 30 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Annie Liang (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Megafauna recovery and relevance amidst people and poverty in India
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Ninad Mungi (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 June 2025

Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A One-with-Many Approach to Understanding Reciprocity in the Student-Teacher Relationship
Date: 2 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Mirna Sumatic (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Avian and human influenza
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lindsay Baker (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Sophie Zhou (University of Reading)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
Date: 2 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Alette Smeulers (Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Diu nocteque: Investigating Liturgical Programs of Prayer for Tenth-Century Ruling Women
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Megan Welton (UCD)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sarvamedha, Pañcavārṣika, and Nirargaḍamedha: Ritual Transmission from India to China
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Zhen Liu (Dali University and Harvard-Yenching Institute)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organisers: Pyi Phyo Kyaw (University of Oxford), Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Courageous or Coerced?" Europe´s role in a changing geopolitical order
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:45 - 19:00
Speaker : Lukas Mandl (European Parliament)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: Europeanist Society (University of Oxford), Severin Dauer (University of Oxford)
Host: Europeanist Society (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Oxford Parkinson's Research Day (this event is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only & is not aimed at members of the public)
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Targeting the glutamate system to treat schizophrenia
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Katherine Beck (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Scientific Writing: Getting Your Paper Published (in-person)
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: Centenary Room, Careers Service
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 3 June 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Messy Chaucer
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Joel Watson (UCSD)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CSAE Workshop Week 6
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Priya Manwaring (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Political Romanticism
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Rehabilitation Review
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Risky Business Cycles
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker : Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Winnok De Vos (University of Antwerp)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Oxford Immunology Network termly seminar: Immunology and Metabolism
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Barbara Kronsteiner-Dobramysl (University of Oxford), Prof Hal Drakesmith (WIMM HIU)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre and atrium
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (Universiy of Oxford)
Host: Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford)

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Habermas Machine
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Michael Henry Tessler (Google Deepmind)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

Beyond a Lutheran Plague: Exploring Motivation and Intent in Early Modern Suicide by Proxy
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Andreas Berger-Gehringer (Universität Bern)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Stuart Delery (Former White House Counsel)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : David Deming (Harvard University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Tom Raster (LSE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Timothy Coombes, Marinu Leccia, Elizabeth MacGregor, Javier Rivas (King's College London)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Committee Room
Organisers: Dr Esther Cavett (University of Oxford), Professor Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Tom Jones (St Andrews)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Three Minute Thesis - The Oxford Final
Date: 4 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
Date: 4 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Why and how to publish with Nature Communications, and editorial careers
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Hayleah Pickford (Nature Communications)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: Prof Angela Brueggemann (University of Oxford), Professor Susie Dunachie (University of Oxford)

GROW: How AI is changing industry futures
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: online
Organiser: Louisa Trevail (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Enterprise

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: IMCM
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Ludo van Hillegondsberg (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1744207138678
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unconditional Cash Transfers and Child Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The trouble with rational expectations in heterogeneous agent models: A challenge for macroeconomics
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Villanova University)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

International Macroeconomics Workshop
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Yan Bai (University of Rochester), Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University), Carlo Galli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Rohan Kekre (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), Federica Romei (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organiser: Federica Romei (University of Oxford)
Host: Federica Romei (University of Oxford)

Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
Organisers: Laura del Alisal (Reuben College), Ivi Fung (Exeter College), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College), Sam Miller (Jesus College), Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Cameron Bowman (Keble College)
Hosts: TBA

Interviewing for podcasts
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Long reads and organoid co-culture models: changing the way we treat cancer
Date: 5 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Beggs (University of Birmingham)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ross Chapman (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford) Decoding the molecular role of TDP-43 condensation in neurodegeneration using transcriptomics and biophysics
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Narrative CVs for Funding Applications
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Tanita Casci (University of Oxford), Dr Mary Muers (Research Culture Facilitator, Medical Sciences Division), Kanza Basit (Senior Research Facilitator, Social Sciences Division), Gavin Bird (Research Facilitator, Earth Sciences), Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Obstetric Medicine
Date: 5 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 5 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Recent Advances in Difference-in-Differences Methods for Policy Research
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Guangyi Wang (University of California, San Francisco)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Organisers: Dr Gabriela Pavarini (University of Oxford), Dr Mark Fransham (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin University), Joel Suarez (Harvard University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

The National Poetry Crisis
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:45 - 17:45
Speaker : Kamran Javadizadeh
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, Cohen Quad (Walton St)
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Annual McDonald Public Lecture (part of Christian Humanism and the Black Atlantic conference)
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 20:00
Speaker : Professor Paul Gilroy (Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: Mr Ben Nicka (University of Oxford), Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford)

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Friday 6 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 6 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Christian Humanism and the Black Atlantic
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:00 - 15:15
Speaker s: Professor Anthony G. Reddie (University of Oxford), Professor Jennifer A. Herdt (Yale University), Professor Jonathan Tran (Baylor University), Professor Jens Zimmermann (Regent College), Professor Tracey Rowland (University of Notre Dame Australia), Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Chine McDonald (Theos), Anne Snyder Brooks (Cardus/Comment Magazine), Michael Wear (The Center for Christianity and Public Life)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Mr. Ben Nicka (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Knight Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
Date: 6 June 2025, 10:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Cohen Quad, Walton Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Postdoc Power Hour Anniversary Careers Special
Date: 6 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Careers Service, 56 Banbury Road OX2 6PA
Venue Details: 56 Banbury Road
Organiser: Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
Hosts: TBA

Mathematical modeling of some aspects of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Date: 6 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Luca Alasio (INRIA Paris)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Maria Bruna (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Paul Kubes (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof David R Greaves (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford)

Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building
Organisers: Dr Mootaz Salman (DPAG, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor David Paterson (DPAG, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No Prices No Games
Date: 6 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv & NYU)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic Functional Data
Date: 6 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Won-Ki Seo (University of Sydney)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Ryle Room (first floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Filipa Simões (DPAG, IDRM, University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

IDEAL Conference 2025: Innovations in Surgical Research, Bridging Science & Practice
Date: 9 June 2025, 7:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas, USA
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Erlangen AI Hub: Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence Conference
Date: 9 June 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maths Building, QMUL London
Organiser: Erlangen AI Hub
Hosts: TBA

Losing Their Religion: State Banning of Religion, Social Norms, and Female Participation
Date: 9 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shqiponja Telhaj (University of Sussex)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Connecting sensory input, movement, sympathetic activation, learning, and instructional activities
Date: 9 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Ellen Egeland Flø (University of Oslo)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Better treatment for tuberculosis
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Judy Hirst, FRS, FMedSci (Professor of Biological Chemistry, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Simon Newstead (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Chromothripsis and Genomic Instability from Mitotic Errors
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Peter Ly (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Weathering Poverty
Date: 9 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Clare Balboni (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg (Co-convened with the Oxford Court Studies Seminar)
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg (Co-convened with the Oxford Early Modern Central European Seminar Series)
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Cult of Saint Frideswide in Medieval Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

A Postcard from my Journey with the T cell Receptor: Nerding out on the TCR
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof. Chris Garcia (Stanford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Viva practice and preparation
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Time Management
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: zoom
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Technologies in Medicines Quality
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Paul Newton (University of Oxford), Dr Celine Caillet (IDDO, University of Oxford)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
Date: 10 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: Seminar rooms, 2nd floor - lift available. Walton Street, OX2 6NW
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Matan Mazor (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Nomos of the Earth
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

CSAE Workshop Week 7
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Jordan Imahori (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete surgery?
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

You and your Supervisor
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
Venue Details: online
Organiser: James Cunning (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Widening participation in Australian higher education: reforming the school to university pipeline
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Andrew Harvey (Griffith University)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Identifies ERBB2 as a Key Driver in Brain Metastases of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Kadir Akdemir (MD Anderson)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ludwig Seminar Room, Lower-Ground Floor
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Associate Professor Eileen Parkes (University of Oxford)

Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
Date: 10 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Danilo Bzdok (McGill University & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal)
Venue Details: https://zoom.us/j/95344931920?pwd=PCBccrb6fpNR00nnnv3xIaM2yyFGd0.1
Organiser: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford)

Financial Aid and Upward Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Juliana Londono-Velez (University of California, Los Angele)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Conceptualising 'compounded suffering' in the post-war context
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorff Room, accessible
Organiser: Alejandro Posada Tellez (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Rev Dr Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford), OxPeace (University of Oxford)

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In conversation with Prof Adam Smyth and Prof Lloyd Pratt on Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2025)
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof. Kirsten McFarlane (University of Chicago)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘It’s like you’re an activist’: Sustainable teaching practices in a music outreach project in London
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Dr Esther Cavett (University of Oxford), Javier Rivas (King's College London)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Denis Arnold Hall
Organisers: Betty Yan (Faculty of Music), Jessica Edgar (Faculty of Music)
Hosts: TBA

"Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Getting started in policy engagement (in-person)
Date: 11 June 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division), Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 11 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Rohini Pande (Yale University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Completing Your DPhil (in-person)
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Vera Mensura: Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Aden Kumler (University of Basel)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Diana Allen (McGill University)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Podcast your science (in-person)
Date: 12 June 2025, 9:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
Venue Details: LR6, Engineering
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: Ground Floor Seminar Room
Organisers: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Sheena Lee (MSD Business Partnerships Office), Medical Sciences Division Business Partnerships Office (University of Oxford)
Host: Elizabeth Covey-Crump (MSD Business Partnerships Office)

Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Ian Hsu (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Bill Smith (DPhil History)
Venue Details: ONLINE via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Postgraduate Panel
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation Medicine
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Ideas to Action: Effective Public Engagement with Research (online)
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: online
Organiser: Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Insights into Scientific Publishing (Oxford Virology and Immunology Networks joint seminar)
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Dr Duc Le (Med journal), Dr Zoltan Fehervari (Springer Nature)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: seminar rooms A+B
Organiser: Sally Pelling-Deeves (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Miles Carroll (University of Oxford), Prof Fadi Issa (Department of Surgical Sciences)

Title TBC
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2025: Dead Important: Addressing the Archaeological Curation Crisis.
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter)
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: Keble College
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Christopher Ramsey (University of Oxford)

Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Intentions are Good but Instrumental Variables is Better (in Real-World Randomised Trials)
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Surgical Grand Rounds
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker
Venue: John Radcliffe Academic, Headington OX3 9DU
Organiser: Tarryn Ching (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences)
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network 2025 Annual Symposium
Date: 13 June 2025, 8:30 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Cell-bulk compartmental reaction-diffusion systems: symmetry-breaking patterns with equal diffusivities and diffusion-Induced synchrony.
Date: 13 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Ward (Professor Michael Ward Dept)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof Philip Maini (University of Oxford)

Terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks in a warmer world – new insights from ancient climates
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Gordon Inglis (Southampton)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar Rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Preparing for the academic interview process (for Researchers)
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Competition, Persuasion, and Search
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Teddy Mekonnen (Brown University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jake Nebel (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Platnauer Room
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor James Davies (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

End of term social event
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:15 - 14:15
Speaker : Social event
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Old Kitchen Bar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ethnicity, Care Experience and Criminalisation: Using Admin Data to Interrogate Youth (In)Justice in England
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Katie Hunter (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organiser: Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Phil Biggin (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Can a wearable a day keep the questionnaire away?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Aiden Doherty (Oxford Population Health), Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Population Health)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Natasha Sahgal (University of Oxford), Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The transcriptional architecture of developing schistosomes
Date: 16 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Matt Berriman (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Biology Mansfield Road, 11a Mansfield Road OX1 3SZ
Venue Details: Biology building 11a Mansfield Road, OX1 3SZ, Seminar room
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Gabriel Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Lamprini Rori (Athens)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Iris Clever (Chicago)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Aryehi Bhushan (University of Oxford), Olivia Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Harnessing neuroscience to translate genomic discoveries in psychiatry
Date: 17 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Hall (Director, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute & Theme Lead for Mind, Brain & Neuroscience, Cardiff University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Spatial-temporal dependency & interventions for radiation-induced cardiac toxicity
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Karl Butterworth (Queen's University Belfast)
Venue: Old Road Campus Research Building, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Ground Floor, Rooms 71a/b/c
Organiser: Yuliia Karpenko
Host: Dr Kristoffer Petersson (University of Oxford)

Trusted Research Briefing at MPLS
Date: 17 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Professor Patrick Grant (Chair) (University of Oxford (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research)), Dr Jenny Gladstone (University of Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road OX1 3PU
Venue Details: The Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics
Organiser: Stephanie Mathyssek (Trusted Research)
Host: Stephanie Mathyssek (Research Services)

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Gabriel Carroll (University of Toronto)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

No CSAE Workshop this week
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Room 3 (basement)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Julien Labonne (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

State, Movement, People
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: TBA
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:15 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Project Clinic
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cows and Commons: An Environmental Approach to Witchcraft Belief in Switzerland
Date: 17 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Aaron Larsen (St Hilda's College, Oxford), Noé Vonlanthen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker : Arnaud Maurel (Duke University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How children, scientists, and AI systems learn
Date: 17 June 2025, 18:00 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road OX1 3PW
Organiser: Tanya Gujral (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Networking: A strategic approach (in-person)
Date: 18 June 2025, 9:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: LR2, Engineering, Thom Building
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
Date: 18 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: iPSC & Cellular Imaging Facilities
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A&B or join on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad71fa3191ddd4beca3908573c7af2039%40thread.tacv2/1745403260622?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f6409fd2-8c5f-4389-a674-2d6ac1d9ec3e%22%7d
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No seminar this week
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G (third floor)
Organisers: Niccolo Meriggi (University of Oxford), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2025: "Incentive-compatible information design"
Date: 18 June 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: In-person or online. Please register.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

Getting Started with Public Engagement with Research (online)
Date: 19 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organiser: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Spatially mapping immune mediated kidney disease
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrew Wilkie (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford)

Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

ORNN Seminar Series
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Building, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Charmaine Lang (University of Oxford), Steph Fowler (University of Oxford), Ira Milosevic (University of Oxford), Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Respiratory
Date: 19 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Opportunities and Challenges of Navigating Fieldwork as Insider and Outsider Fieldworkers
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: 6 Worcester Street, 6 Worcester Street OX1 2BX
Venue Details: Social Sciences Division
Organiser: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How to Build Lasting Career Resilience
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 19 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

RESPOND Conference
Date: 20 June 2025, 8:00 - 09:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Organiser: Professor Peter McCulloch (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Uhlig Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

To be announced
Date: 20 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Rahil Valani (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organiser: Sara Jolliffe (University of Oxford)
Host: Mohit Dalwadi (University of Oxford)

Resolving the Boundary Layer Paradox: Seismic Clues to the Origin of Lithosphere Discontinuities
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Totulope Olugboji (University of Rochester)
Venue: Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road OX1 3AN
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 13:05 - 14:15
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:30
Speaker : Meena Jagadeesan (UC Berkeley (Computer Science))
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Screening With Tests
Date: 20 June 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker : Jeff Ely (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 June 2025

Research Jamboree 2025: Malaria and Vaccine Take-Up (CSAE/ Jenner Centre)
Date: 23 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 23 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)
Venue Details: English Faculty, Oxford
Organiser: Dr Caroline Anjali Ritchie (Exeter College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research Jamboree 2025: IO/Trade Session on Industrial Policy (joint with CMA Microeconomics Unit)
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 12:25
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leadership in Action
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Wolfson College
Organiser: Alison Trinder (University of Oxford)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Clinical decision support: Examples from Viet Nam in dengue management and the South and Southeast Asian Community-based Trials Network (SEACTN) in Thailand
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Dr Chanh Ho Quang (OUCRU)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research Jamboree 2025: Centre for Research on Outreach and Access
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson Building,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, Wolfson Building, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington Oxford. OX3 9DU
Organiser: Dr Linxin Li (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Joseph Kamtchum Tatuene (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Research Jamboree 2025: Economics of Modern Slavery
Date: 25 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

In Conversation with Prof Cynthia Enloe: How to Make Feminist Sense of the World Today?
Date: 26 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Grand Rounds - Genitourinary Medicine
Date: 26 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Research Jamboree 2025: Recent Advances in Panel Data and Network Econometrics
Date: 26 June 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

History of Art study day - Image & Object: Reproduction
Date: 26 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Professor Geraldine Johnson, Dr Brigid von Preussen, Dr Vibe Nielson (Copenhagen), Dr Paul Taylor (The Warburg Institute)
Venue: Littlegate House, 16-17 St Ebbe's Street OX1 1PT
Venue Details: Department of History of Art
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Preventing the Preventable: Health Economic Case for Cardiovascular Disease
Date: 26 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Zanfina Ademi (Monash University)
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 June 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dushek Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

From the continuity of the line to the completeness of the field of real numbers: foundational and didactical challenges
Date: 1 July 2025, 13:45 - 14:45
Speaker : Associate Professor Laura Branchetti (Department of Mathematics “Federico Enriques” Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Professor Sibel Erduran (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 July 2025

TBC
Date: 2 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Sooraj Achar (University of Oxford)
Venue: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road OX1 3RE
Venue Details: EPA Seminar Room
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Omer Dushek (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)

Oxford Chinese Language Teaching Research Forum
Date: 2 July 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
Speaker : TBC
Venue Details: Department of Education, University of Oxford (15 Norham Gardens, OX2 8PY) and Online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 July 2025

Dr Elisa Oricchio - title TBA
Date: 3 July 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Elisa Oricchio (Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

Medical Grand Rounds - Palliative Care/Pain
Date: 3 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 July 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 July 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Drakesmith Group (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A view of RNA isoform expression across single cells, cell types and anatomical structures in postnatal development of the brain and neurodegeneration
Date: 4 July 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Hagen Tilgner (Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC)
Venue: IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, Roosevelt Dr, Headington OX3 7TY
Venue Details: IDRM Seminar Rooms 1&2 or via Teams link
Organisers: TBA
Host: Prof. Carlo Rinaldi (University of Oxford)

Monday 7 July 2025

PAEDIATRICS, KAVLI & DPAG SPECIAL LECTURE: Bespoke CRISPR Gene Editing Therapies at Nationwide Scale: an Actionable Path
Date: 7 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Fyodor Urnov (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: Sherrington Building, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Blakemore Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Matthew Wood (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Date: 8 July 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Nicky Whiffin (University of Oxford), Duncan Palmer (University of Oxford)

Innovations in epilepsy diagnosis in Kenya
Date: 8 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Professor Arjune Sen (Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group), Dr Symon Kariuki (Africa Population and Health Research Centre,)
Organiser: Katherine Kalaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
Venue: Sherrington Library, off Parks Road OX1 3PT
Venue Details: Sherrington Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PT
Organisers: Dr Fei-Yang Huang (University of Oxford), Dr Sophia Shatek (University of Oxford), Dr Ali Mahmoodi (University of Oxford)
Host: Mark Walton (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 July 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 9 July 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 July 2025

Full-Day Workshop: English as an Additional Language - Understanding Evidence for Policy and Practice
Date: 10 July 2025, 9:00 - 17:15
Speaker s: Professor Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford), Dr Hamish Chalmers (University of Oxford), Dr Faidra Faitaki (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Department of Education, University of Oxford (15 Norham Gardens, OX2 8PY)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Renal Medicine
Date: 10 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 10 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Friday 11 July 2025

TBC
Date: 11 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Sarah McClelland (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, off South Parks Road OX1 3PL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Melissa Wright (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology)
Host: Prof Fumiko Esashi

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Call for Papers : Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
Date: 15 July 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 16 July 2025

GCP for Laboratory Staff
Date: 16 July 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Boundary Brook House, Churchill Drive, Headington OX3 7LQ
Venue Details: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/boundary-brook-house
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 17 July 2025

Ideas for accelerated and integrated compute in imaging, genomics, and devices, in Biobank and other datasets
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ben Busby (NVIDIA)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Infectious Diseases
Date: 17 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Monday 21 July 2025

Fundamentals of Graduate Economics and Finance (In-Person)
Date: 21 July 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Inés Moreno De Barreda, James Duffy
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Organiser: Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Stroke Medicine
Date: 24 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 July 2025

Preeclamptic placental extracellular vesicles; a cause of the long-term cardiovascular consequences of preeclampsia
Date: 28 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Larry Chamley (University of Auckland)
Venue: John Radcliffe Hospital - Main Building, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: CCRF Seminar Room & via Teams
Organiser: Yvonne Kenworthy (CCRF, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 31 July 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Dermatology
Date: 31 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 August 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 19 August 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 September 2025

From the Laboratory to the Clinic: Generating more effective vaccines and therapies
Date: 2 September 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Various (See programme)
Organisers: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS), Professor Fiona Powrie (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatlogy)
Host: Professor Sir Marc Feldmann (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS)

Thursday 4 September 2025

TBC
Date: 4 September 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Paresh Vyas (University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Monday 8 September 2025

September Summer School 2025
Date: 8 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Steve Bond, Sergio De Ferra, Andrea Ferrero, Maximilian Kasy, Alexandre Kohlhas, Michael McMahon, Federica Romei, Romuald Méango, Alexei Parakhonyak, Greg Taylor, Petr Sedlacek
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Organiser: Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 9 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Prof Christopher Buckley (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 9 September 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 September 2025

Global Surgery Course 2025
Date: 15 September 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 September 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 17 September 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 September 2025

Biomechanical contributions to cancer progression
Date: 18 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Maddy Parsons (King's College London)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Francesco Boccellato (University of oxford)

Tuesday 23 September 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 September 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 7 October 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 October 2025

TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Jan Rehwinkel (University of Oxford, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine)

Title TBC
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Lothar Schermelleh (Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 October 2025

GCP for Laboratory Staff
Date: 15 October 2025, 13:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Boundary Brook House, Churchill Drive, Headington OX3 7LQ
Venue Details: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/boundary-brook-house
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Statistics Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI conference room (lower ground, near the cafe)
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)

TBC
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Hal Drakesmith (MRC WIMM, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 21 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

TBC
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Filipe Pereira (Lund University)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Yasmine Saito (Weatherall Institute, University of Oxford)
Host: Giulia Orlando (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Date: 4 November 2025, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Michael Potter (Cambridge)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Date: 12 November 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: TEAMS
Organiser: Mark Crossley (University of Oxford - CTRG)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: Room A+B
Organisers: Dr Ricardo Fernandes (CAMS Oxford Institute), Dr Dannielle Wellington (CAMS Oxford Institute), Mimie Szyk (CAMS Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 January 2025

TBC
Date: 19 January 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Nicholas Lakin (Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

Monday 2 February 2025

TBC
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: Jessica Barnes (Department of Biochemistry), Sarah-jane Scard (Department of Biochemistry)
Host: Professor Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford )

Friday 20 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Graham Priest (CUNY)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Host: Joshua Loo (Oxford)

Friday 15 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 May 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Selim Berker (Harvard)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 12 June 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 June 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA