Thursday 10 April 2025

• 11:00 - Asylums at War: the Lancashire lunatic asylums and the Great War, 1914-1922
  Claire Deligny (MFO/Paris)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 25 April 2025

• 12:00 - Governing Digital China
  Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
  China Centre talks
• 18:00 - Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women
  Online via Zoom
  Emily Owens (Brown University), Kaisha Esty (Wesleyan University)

Monday 28 April 2025

• 16:00 - Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
  Please note registration is required for online attendance only
  Ann Kelly (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 12:15 - Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
  Helen Appleton (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
  Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
• 17:30 - The Press of the Royal Institution
  David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 17:15 - World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
  Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 2 May 2025

• 14:00 - Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
  Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 12:15 - Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
  Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
  Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
  Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
  Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 12 May 2025

• 16:00 - Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
  Zoe Screti (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 12:15 - Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
  Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - 'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
  Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Monday 19 May 2025

• 11:00 - Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
  This event has limited capacity - registration closes on Sunday 11 May
  Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
  Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 09:00 - The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025
  Sandra Leonie Field (Monash University), Pierre-François Moreau (ENS Lyon)
  The Oxford Spinoza Conference
• 12:15 - "Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
  Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
  Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Oxford Centre for European History
• 17:30 - Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
  Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 16:30 - The Winant-Mellon Symposium Keynote Address: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
  TBA
• 17:15 - Emergency as Genre
  Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 23 May 2025

• 16:00 - Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events

Monday 26 May 2025

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events
• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 12:15 - 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
  Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Byron and Consciousness
  Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 12:15 - Messy Chaucer
  Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
  Tom Jones (St Andrews)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
  Various Speakers

Friday 6 June 2025

• 10:00 - Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
  Registration deadline is midday on 31 April 2025
  Various Speakers
  The J H Elliott History Forum
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  Jowett Society

Monday 9 June 2025

• 16:00 - Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
  Laure Miolo (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
  Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Friday 13 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Jake Nebel (Princeton)
  Jowett Society

Monday 16 June 2025

• 16:00 - From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
  Iris Clever (Chicago)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:00 - Esmond Harmsworth Lecture
  Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)

Friday 20 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
  Jowett Society

Friday 7 November 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Potter (Cambridge)
  Jowett Society

Friday 5 December 2025

• 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 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

Friday 12 June 2025

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