Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Saturday 11 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
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10:00
- From Sicily to Sumatra: Conference in Honour of Professor Jeremy Johns
Lev Arie Kapitaikin (Tel Aviv University),
Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto),
Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria / University of York),
Teresa Bernheimer (LMU (Munich)),
Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A (London)),
Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford),
Joseph O'Hara (University of Oxford),
Laura Hinrichsen (Scholar),
Peter Nagy (Qatar Museums),
Julian Raby (Smithsonian Institution),
Jessica Rahardjo
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Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
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09:00
- Religion, Race, and Concepts of Difference in the Modern Middle East
Call for papers:
Funded by the European Research Council, this workshop proposes to untangle the foregoing concerns by attending to the problem of religion, race, and concepts of difference in the modern Middle East. What will bring the papers together is not necessarily an interest in “race” and “religion” as such but more so the question of concepts of difference raised by these two essential terms in scholarship on the Middle East.
Proposals from across disciplinary perspectives are welcome, but we are especially interested in contributions that engage with the history of concepts of difference across the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman Middle East. Examples of possible topics include but are not at all limited to:
- The transformation (or persistence) of concepts of difference rooted in terms like the Arabic jins, the Turkish millet, and so forth.
- The colonial racialization of Islam, Judaism, Eastern Christianity, and other traditions.
- Theoretical reflections on the relationship between race and religion in Middle Eastern contexts.
- The relationship between the classificatory practices of the late-Ottoman state, or the nation-states that emerged after its collapse, and the subjectivities of the peoples over whom they have ruled.
- The historical experience of communities from the Middle East as they encountered new concepts of difference upon migration to regions like North America.
- Anthropological considerations of modes of belonging in Middle Eastern contexts in relation to the categories of European social science.
Participants will be expected to pre-circulate papers of approximately 4,000-5,000 words, due by 1 June 2024. Each paper will be the focus of collective, seminar-style discussions over a two-day workshop, which will also bring together a wider set of colleagues working in Oxford. It is intended that these papers will be the basis for the publication of a collection of journal-length articles as part of a special issue on race, religion, and difference in the Middle East. Further details of publication will follow to participants.
To apply:
Proposals should include the following:
1. A brief (one-page max) statement of interest in the subject of the workshop;
2. A title and abstract of no more than 250 words for the proposed paper; and
3. A copy of your CV
Please send all the above as a single PDF file to the following address: movingstories@history.ox.ac.uk
**The deadline for all proposals is 7 March 2024**
All proposals will be reviewed by a small committee, and participants will be invited shortly thereafter.
Travel and accommodation:
At least two nights’ accommodation in Oxford will be provided for all participants. Travel expenses will be covered up to a limit, with preference given to early career researchers.
Please direct questions to:
Dr. Henry Clements
Research Associate, “Moving Stories: Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East” ERC-funded project
Junior Research Fellow, Jesus College
Faculty of History, Oxford University
(henry.clements@history.ox.ac.uk)
TBA
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Thursday 20 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
Thursday 18 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)
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09:00
- Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School 2024: Mind, Value and Mental Health (2 Day event)
This interactive two-day programme will focus on the following themes: Delusion (keynote topic), Philosophical Perspectives on Depression, Mental Disorder and Creativity, Neurodiversity and the Political Economy of Normal Functioning, The 'Insanity Defence' and the Criminal Law, What is Expertise by Experience? and Precision Psychiatry
Throughout the event, participants will engage in an intellectually stimulating environment featuring guest lectures and seminars. Presentations – each of which pairs a philosopher with an expert from outside philosophy including clinicians, scientists and people with lived experience – are informal and designed to encourage substantial dialogue with and among the audience. To be held in the state-of-the-art new Anniversary Building situated alongside the river at St Hilda’s College.
Lucy O'Brien (Richard Wollheim Professor of Philosophy, UCL),
Philip McGuire (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Academic Director, SPRINT. Principal Investigator, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging),
Alexander Bird (Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge),
Robert Chapman (Assistant Professor, Critical Neurodiversity Studies, Durham University),
Claire Hogg (Lecturer in Law, University of Surrey),
Dr Edward Harcourt (Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Radcliffe Humanities, University of Oxford),
Cecily Whiteley (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews)
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