Friday 26 September 2025

• 12:00 - The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
  Professor Joseph Torigian (American University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 7 October 2025

• 12:30 - Warriors in Washington: World War II and the Politics of American Power
  Grant Golub (U.S. Army War College)

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 12:00 - From Confucius to Xi Jinping: The DNA of Chinese Politics
  Dr Willy Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: Empowering Workers in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
  Dr Tom Parr (University of Warwick)
  Institute for Ethics in AI lunchtime seminars
• 12:30 - Trump 2.0 and America’s Role in the World
  Please ensure to arrive in good time as this is likely to be a very popular event
  Peter Feaver (Duke University)

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 13:00 - ‘H. P. Lovecraft: The Madness and the Horror’
  Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 16:45 - American Literature Research Seminar
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Seeking the Origins: Reconsidering the Impact of 'Origins of the Śākyas' (Shishi yuanliu 釋氏源流) on Ming Book Culture
  Dr Noga Ganany (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 17 October 2025

• 12:00 - The Strategic Foundations of International Economic Order: China, Bretton Woods, and the Cold War
  Professor Amy King (Australian National University)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History 4th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture - Femina Oeconomica: Global Gender Orders and the Rise of Neoliberal Woman
  Professor Maria Misra (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 20 October 2025

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Early Career Researchers Forum
  TBA
  English Early Career Researchers Forum

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny
  Professor Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
  China Centre talks
• 17:15 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
  TBA
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 October 2025

• 17:00 - Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography
  Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
• 17:15 - Military entrepreneurs, foreign soldiers, and Sweden’s wars of emergence 1560–1630
  Jaakko Björklund (Helsinki)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
  TBA
  Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 13:00 - ‘Fantasy & the Occult: Charles Williams, Dion Fortune and the Order of the Golden Dawn’
  Felix Taylor (English, St Hugh’s)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:00 - Celtic Research Seminar
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
  TBA
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - Beowulf Reading Group
  TBA
  Beowulf Reading Group

Friday 24 October 2025

• 14:00 - "The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
  Natalya Vince (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 12:30 - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: Governing AI Datastructures
  Professor Julie E Cohen (Georgetown University)
  Institute for Ethics in AI lunchtime seminars
• 17:00 - Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed
  Joshua Travis Brown (John Hopkins)

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 16:45 - American Literature Research Seminar
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 31 October 2025

• 14:00 - Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism
  Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 November 2025

• 17:00 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
  TBA
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 12:00 - Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director: Challenges, Controversies, and Realities
  Professor Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel: Coming-of-Age 1990-2020
  Angelica de Vido (New York Historical Society)
• 17:15 - A minor power in a total war: Sweden’s system of military procurement during the campaigns against Napoleon, 1805-1807 and 1813-1814
  Patrik Winton (Örebro)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
  TBA
  Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 13:00 - 'Philip Pullman: Sense of an ending'
  Dr Margaret Kean (St Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Celtic Research Seminar
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
  TBA
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - Beowulf Reading Group
  TBA
  Beowulf Reading Group

Friday 7 November 2025

• 14:00 - Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
  Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Potter (Cambridge)
  Jowett Society

Monday 10 November 2025

• 14:00 - Above the Dust: Film screening + Q&As with Film Director
  Wang Xiaoshuai (Film Director)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 12:00 - The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
  Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 13:00 - ‘Translating Fantasy: Language, Culture and Mythology — with a Navajo Case study'
  Dr Mark Atherton (University of Oxford), Barbara Fischer
  Tolkien seminars
• 16:45 - American Literature Research Seminar
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 14 November 2025

• 14:00 - The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
  Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 17 November 2025

• 17:00 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Early Career Researchers Forum
  TBA
  English Early Career Researchers Forum

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
  TBA
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 17:15 - Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
  TBA
  Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
• 17:15 - Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
  Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 13:00 - ‘C.S. Lewis and the Atmospherics of Fantasy’
  Michael Ward
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:00 - Celtic Research Seminar
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Beowulf Reading Group
  TBA
  Beowulf Reading Group
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
  TBA
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 21 November 2025

• 14:00 - Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
  Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Research Seminar
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 17:00 - John Williams: A Composer's Life
  Tim Grieving (University of Southern California)

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 13:00 - ‘Prequels and the Mother-Ship: House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones’
  Prof Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 16:45 - American Literature Research Seminar
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 28 November 2025

• 14:00 - Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 1 December 2025

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Early Career Researchers Forum
  TBA
  English Early Career Researchers Forum

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 17:15 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 17:15 - Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
  TBA
  Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
• 17:15 - The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
  Marc Howard (Independent Scholar)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 17:00 - Celtic Research Seminar
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:00 - China Studies Seminar Series
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Beowulf Reading Group
  TBA
  Beowulf Reading Group
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
  TBA
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 5 December 2025

• 14:00 - The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
  Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
  Jowett Society

Friday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Graham Priest (CUNY)
  Jowett Society

Friday 6 March 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor James Ladyman (Bristol)
  Jowett Society

Friday 15 May 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
  Jowett Society

Friday 29 May 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Selim Berker (Harvard)
  Jowett Society