Monday 2 March 2026

• 12:00 - Seeking Wonder in the Long Nineteenth Century: Women, Folklore and Fairy Tales from a Transnational Perspective
  Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge)
  Italian Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 15:00 - On the coast of the Monsoon: Italian colonialism the environmental history of Somalia (1889-1960)
  Angelo Caglioti (Columbia University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
  Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Insular manuscripts: why membrane matters
  Please note: this session will be in-person only, not hybrid - this is due to restrictions governing the sharing of unpublished results by grant partners
  Jo Story (Leicester)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 March 2026

• 14:00 - Revoicing Classical Poetry
  Recording notice This event may be recorded and photographed. By attending, you consent to its use for archival, educational, and public purposes. Please let the organiser know if you prefer not to be included.
  Josephine Balmer, Ulrike Draesner, Inconversation with Professor Karen Leeder
• 15:00 - Film screening: Bored in Heaven
  TBA
• 16:00 - Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
  Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Undergraduate Thesis session (in-person only)
  Please note this session is in-person only.
  Various Speakers
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Modes of Remembering in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fictional World
  Mina Lukić Gunner (University of Belgrade)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Alessandro Nuvolari (School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reflections on writing the history of Europe under German occupation during World War II
  Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 6: Democratic Form
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy
• 17:15 - '"As if the dead the living should exceed": Unfeeling in Venus and Adonis'
  Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Poetic Fascination and the Metaphysics of Metre
  Dr Gregory Leadbetter (Birmingham City University)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Book Launch: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail with author Hélène Giannecchini
  Hélène Giannecchini (Author), Discussant: Katie Burke (Oxford), Discussant: Eszter D Kovács (Oxford)
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Wednesday 4 March 2026

• 12:30 - By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
  Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
  WGQ Centre
• 12:30 - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
  TBC
  Institute for Ethics in AI lunchtime seminars
• 12:30 - By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
  Lunch will be provided on a first come first serve bases
  Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
• 16:00 - The Anatomy of a Conversion: Nicolaus Steno and the Search for Religious Certainty in the “Scientific Revolution”
  Wine reception for attendees
  Dr Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Science and Religion Lecture Series | Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
• 17:00 - Expert Insights Seminar - AI and human agency
  Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)
  Institute for Ethics in AI colloquia
• 17:00 - Chinese Ritual Opera in Southeast Asia
  Professor Kenneth Dean (National University of Singapore)
• 17:00 - Koch History Centre Lecture: Church, State and Hierarchy
  David d'Avray
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 17:15 - "A learner, rather": Did Joyce Really "Teach Us How to Read Ulysses?" and '"Gilding What’s Eyesore": Visual Poetics and Hallucinatory Worlds in Sylvia Plath’s Flower Poems'
  Henry Barlow, Alice Sholto-Douglas
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 5 March 2026

• 11:45 - Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Community
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 14:00 - The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign: Race, Healthcare and Citizenship in late Twentieth Century Britain
  Saima Nasar (Bristol)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Burning Issues: Fire Management in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1892-1938
  Please note change of time to 14:00-15:30
  Jessica Chirboga (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 15:00 - 'Billie Eilish, Princess Nokia, and the Musical Vernacular of Depression'
  Jessica Holmes (University of Copenhagen)
  Graduate Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - First year graduate presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Control an Idea
  George Lewis (University of Leicester)
• 17:00 - Ma mère as Journal intime and Sheng Cheng’s Journey of Self-Realization in France
  Dr Vivienne Xiangwei Guo (King's College London)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Picturing marvels, magic and monsters at the Ottoman court, 1574–1603
  Günseli Gürel (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 6 March 2026

• 14:00 - Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
  Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor James Ladyman (Bristol)
  Jowett Society

Monday 9 March 2026

• 11:00 - Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Childhood Studies
  Kiera Vaclavik (QMUL), Sophie Ratcliffe (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:15 - Order of Knowledge
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Teaching the Coloniality of the Climate Crisis in Translation: Indonesian and Dutch Flood Narratives
  Lucelle Pardoe (UCL)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - Quantum Worldviews - Believing and Belonging
  Dr Shaun Henson (Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford)
  Science and Religion Research Seminars | Ian Ramsey Centre Lectures
• 16:00 - The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
  John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - A Caribbean Poet's Travels from Egypt to Al-Andalus: Ancient and Medieval Conviviality in Víctor Hernández Cruz
  Professor Sarah Quesada (Duke University)
  Caribbean Studies Network and CaribOx Talks
• 17:00 - Cowries, Cloth and Coins: Currency in Medieval Economic Anthropology
  Nick Evans (Birkbeck)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Theatre and cultural politics in the Academies of the Venetian Republic
  Lisa Sampson (UCL)
  Italian Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2026

• 14:00 - Investigations of Women’s Suicides in the County of Henneberg: 1590-1612
  This presentation examines historical sources that address suicide in the early modern period. Although the analysis is academic and contextualised, the subject matter may be upsetting or triggering for some listeners. Audience members are encouraged to prioritise their well-being and step away if needed.
  Louisa Bergold, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:00 - Special Contemporary History Seminar: The Rise and Demise of Italy’s Christian Democracy
  Rosario Forlenza (LUISS Rome)
• 16:00 - "A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
  Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - The Making of Marie Antoinette Style at The V&A
  Sarah Grant (The V&A), Oliver Cox (The V&A)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Habitatio est omen - or: like land, like people
  Thomas Honegger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:00 - Spinning at Home for the Market: Individual Productivity and Income in 18th Century Sweden
  Kathryn Gary (Lund University)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Artistic Exchanges during the Global Cold War: Algeria and the Eastern Bloc
  Katarzyna Falęcka (Newcastle)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:30 - "The Universal Vibration of Life": William Bartram's Swarm Ecology
  Sheila Byers (University of Oxford)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2026

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Presentations
  Please note these presentations will take place in the Schwarzman Centre, from 10:00-14:30
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
  Reading Group
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 14:00 - Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
  Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - From Sacrifice to Creation: Two Paradigms of Indian Political Thought
  Salmoli Choudhuri
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Title TBC
  Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile (Sorbonne)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Making Ireland Catholic: Morality and Modernity in the Free State
  Fearghal McGarry (QUB)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - How Economic Reform Revived Totalitarian Rule in China
  Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The Politics of Oracy and the Post-Literacy Panic
  Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex)
• 17:00 - The Past, Present, and Future of the US and the Western Hemisphere
  Various Speakers
• 17:15 - 'Moments of unselfing: Rachel Cusk, Amit Chaudhuri, and the new impersonal'
  Agota Marton
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 12 March 2026

• 12:00 - Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
  Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways
  Mattie Armstrong-Price (Fordham University)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:00 - Archival Fragments, Experimental Modes in Oxford
  Sara Johnson (UC San Diego), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  WGQ Centre
• 17:00 - 'No two books are the same: Interactions with early printed music and the people behind them'
  Elisabeth Giselbrecht (King’s College, London), Louisa Hunter-Bradley (King’s College, London), Katie McKeogh (King’s College, London)
  All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• 17:00 - Transnational Propaganda and Ethnic Polarization: Experimental Evidence from Malaysia
  Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - First year graduate presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:15 - Ancient Stones, Living Meanings: Local Turkish Interpreters' Encounters with Antiquities, 1608–1864
  Hüsamettin Şimşir (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 13 March 2026

• 14:00 - Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
  Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Intercultural Collaboration in the Context of China - Opportunities and Risks
  Farooq Chaudry OBE (Fengling Productions)

Monday 16 March 2026

• 12:00 - China–Russia Relations and Allies and Subsidized Capacity Building
  Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 19 March 2026

• 17:00 - America 250: What Makes A Revolution?
  Peter Mancall (University of Southern California)

Friday 20 March 2026

• 17:00 - America 250: The Declaration of Independence and American Identity at 250
  Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)

Thursday 16 April 2026

• 09:00 - Conference: War and Citizenship
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 4 May 2026

• 16:00 - Islamic China: An Asian History
  Dr Rian Thum (University of Manchester)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 5 May 2026

• 14:00 - Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
  This talk has been rescheduled from Michaelmas Term. Please note the change of venue
  Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar

Wednesday 6 May 2026

• 17:15 - Cultures of violence compared: France, Austria, Britain, Russia during the Napoleonic Wars
  Gundula Gahlen (FU Berlin)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 15 May 2026

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

Wednesday 20 May 2026

• 17:15 - One success and one failure: The Battle of Schladming and the Siege of Radstadt during the Great German Peasants' War 1524-6
  Robert Rebitsch (Innsbruck)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 29 May 2026

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

Wednesday 3 June 2026

• 17:15 - A Precedent for Nuremberg (1945-6): The Trial of Peter von Hagenbach (1474), history's first "War Criminal"?
  Michael Depreter (Leuven)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 4 June 2026

• 17:00 - Do Old-Age Security Concerns Still Motivate Fertility in China?
  Professor Yang Hu (University College London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 11 June 2026

• 09:00 - Day 1 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
  Various Speakers
  McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026: Reimagining Humanism
• 17:00 - Reimagining Humanism | McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026
  Register for the conference on Eventbrite. Please note that upon completing the Eventbrite registration, we will be in touch regarding payment methods.
  Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Slavica Jakelić (Richard P. Baepler Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Valparaiso University), Randi Rashkover (Nathan and Sofia Gumenick Chair of Judaic Studies, William & Mary), Eric Gregory (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Religion, Princeton University), Ufuk Topkara (Professor of Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin), Professor Joshua Hordern, Aaron Stalnaker (Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University), Chammah Kaunda (Academic Dean at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS))

Friday 12 June 2026

• 09:00 - Day 2 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
  Various Speakers
  McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026: Reimagining Humanism