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
• 16:30 - 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)
  Please note: This talk will be held on Monday at 16:30 in the Memorial Room, Jesus College
  Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 16:30 - 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)
  Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Cult of Saint Frideswide in Medieval Oxford
  Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lessons from Establishing the AIIB
  Sir Danny Alexander (HSBC)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 16:00 - Freedom through fascism? Italian fascist views of the individual, the state, and society in the 1920s
  Laura Cerasi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
  Oxford Centre for European History
• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
  Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 16:15 - Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850
  Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
  Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Art of Anti-Utopia: Visual and Poetic Narratives on Russia’s War against Ukraine across the Taiwan Strait
  Professor Daria Berg (University of St.Gallen)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:15 - Papers by Dr Felicity Brown, Dr Sean Geddes and Dr Leah Veronese
  Felicity Brown, Sean Geddes, Leah Veronese
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘It’s like you’re an activist’: Sustainable teaching practices in a music outreach project in London
  Dr Esther Cavett (University of Oxford), Javier Rivas (King's College London)
  Graduate Research Colloquium
• 17:30 - National Service: Leading Institutions Today
  Venue: Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ
  Various Speakers
  Fuelling Change: Values and Ethics in Cultural Production
• 17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
  Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Vera Mensura: Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts
  Professor Aden Kumler (University of Basel)
  June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art
• 17:00 - A Talk on Japanese Atomic Bomb Literature (原爆文学, Genbaku Bungaku)
  Dr Juliana Buritica Alzate (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 09:45 - Day 1: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2025: Magical Mystery Tour
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 12:30 - Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
  Bill Smith (DPhil History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Postgraduate Panel
  Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Annual Lecture with Prof Jessica Riskin - The Onion Axiom: A History of the Outside-In Approach to Artificial (and Natural) Intelligence
  Professor Jessica Riskin (University of Stanford)
• 17:00 - ‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
  Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
  Please note this seminar will be on Thursday at 17:00 at the Rothermere American Institute
  Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Friday 13 June 2025

• 09:30 - Day 2: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2025: Magical Mystery Tour
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 10:30 - Symposium - Globalising Modern Spain: Debates and Perspectives
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for European History
• 12:30 - 3D Modelling Workshop
  Dr John Hanson (Departmental Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford), Matthew Nicholls (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Jake Nebel (Princeton)
  Jowett Society
• 17:00 - Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
  Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Saturday 14 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Translation Day 2025
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 09:30 - Creative Workshop: Manifestos for Activism in Translation
  Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 09:30 - "The One Who Has Arrived Late": Bengali Translation Workshop
  Utsa Bose (History, Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 11:00 - Translating Onomatopoeia: Creative Translation Workshop with Polly Barton
  Polly Barton
• 11:00 - Translating Multilingual Literature: Workshop with Dr Sheela Mahadevan
  Dr Sheela Mahadevan (University of Liverpool)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 12:30 - Starting Out in Translation Studies: Early Career Reflections
  Minna Jeffery, Aoife Cantrill, Dr Georgia Nasseh (University of Cambridge), Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Between Tongues: Poetry and Self-Translation in Celtic Languages
  Menna Elfyn, Petra Joana Poncarova, Mererid Puw Davies
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 15:30 - In Conversation: Polly Barton and Monica Cure
  Polly Barton, Monica Cure
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:45 - “This is Why”: Translators on Translating, Editors on Editing
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 18:30 - Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Short List Readings and Prize-Giving
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 16 June 2025

• 12:15 - End of term social event
  Social event
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 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
• 16:30 - Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
  Please note this seminar is on Monday
  Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
  Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm
  Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Śyāma Jātaka in the Dazu Rock Carvings
  Li Ling (Sichuan University)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 14:00 - Project Clinic
  Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Cows and Commons: An Environmental Approach to Witchcraft Belief in Switzerland
  Aaron Larsen (St Hilda's College, Oxford), Noé Vonlanthen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 17:00 - Narratives from European-African Encounters
  Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - I Film, Therefore We Are: Chinese Labourers, UGC, and the New Collective Documentary
  Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:30 - Leading Beyond Authority: Independent Leaders
  Venue: Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LW
  Various Speakers
  Fuelling Change: Values and Ethics in Cultural Production

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 11:10 - The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
  Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 12:00 - , “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
  Julian Murphet
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Woman You Become – Book Launch Event
  Marie Martine (University of Oxford)

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
• 14:40 - Mobility, Migration, and Transnational Communities around the Globe: Focusing on the UK and Japan: Panel Discussion & Public Viewing of Wasurena-gusa Project Interviews
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
  Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)

Friday 20 June 2025

• 12:00 - Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
  Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Hannah Platts (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
  Jowett Society
• 17:00 - The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
  Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 23 June 2025

• 09:15 - Colloquium 2025: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences
  Various Speakers
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 09:00 - One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
  Registration closes 31 May
  Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)
• 09:30 - 1-Day Exploratory Workshop: Material Culture in Global History
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 11:00 - Day 1: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 14:00 - History of Art study day - Image & Object: Reproduction
  Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Professor Geraldine Johnson, Dr Brigid von Preussen, Dr Vibe Nielson (Copenhagen), Dr Paul Taylor (The Warburg Institute)
  History of Art Events
• 17:00 - Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
  Dr Ling Tang (University of Melbourne)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 27 June 2025

• 09:00 - Day 2: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

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