Friday 7 November 2025

• 12:05 - The modern social imaginary [ Week 4, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
  If you wish to attend in person and require access to the upper levels of the Schwarzman Centre, please write stevan.veljkovic@theology.ox.ac.uk.
  Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
  Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
• 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
• 17:00 - How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science
  Please email kafka@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible if you have mobility / access needs.
  Aaron Schuster (Cornell University)

Monday 10 November 2025

• 14:00 - Above the Dust: Film screening + Q&As with Film Director
  Wang Xiaoshuai (Film Director)
• 14:30 - Deception, Subversion, and Femininity in the book of Esther and the Joseph Narrative
  Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar MT 2025
• 16:00 - Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
  Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Her Material World: Queens’ Stuff in the Global Seventeenth-Century
  Susannah Lyon-Whaley (University of York)
  Court Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The Inscriptive Economy in Fifteenth-Century England
  Tom Johnson (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 12:15 - Hosted jointly with the Medieval French Seminar
  Julia Mattison (U of Georgia)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Film screening: Hometown: Women, Memory, and Migration in China’s Third Front Movement
  English subtitles. Q&A with film director.
  Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - 'Unmaking a Man: The Contested Bodies of the Völundr Legend'
  Professor Caz Batten (University of Pennsylvania)
  Old Norse Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas
  Venue to be confirmed
  David de la Croix (UCLouvain)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?
  Maria Loh
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - NO MEETING
  There is no seminar in order to allow attendance at the Harmsworth Lecture at 17:00 at the Examination Schools, given by Professor Eliga Gould: The Declaration of Independence and the Difficult Birth of American International Relations
  Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War
  Doina Anca Cretu (Warwick)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Shakespeare’s Ballad Business’
  Professor Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:15 - Old English Graduate Reading Group
  TBA
  Old English Graduate Reading Group
• 17:30 - Sardinia: On the Margins of Romantic travel
  Dr Thomas Leonard-Roy (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 11:10 - Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
  Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 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
• 17:00 - Art History and Projective Tests (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
  Whitney Davis
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 18:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 11:30 - Women’s and Gender History: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Form - An Event with Professor Lyndal Roper
  Lyndal Roper (Oxford), Hannah Skoda (Oxford), Daniel Pick (Birkbeck), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - Feminism and the genderquake: “new” feminism in 1990s Britain
  Sarah Crook (Swansea)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 12:30 - What are White Storks (Ciconia ciconica) Doing in High and Late Medieval Calendars?
  Ryan Mealiffe (DPhil History, Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - ‘Translating Fantasy: Language, Culture and Mythology — with a Navajo Case study'
  Dr Mark Atherton (University of Oxford), Barbara Fischer
  Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the Wonderful
• 15:00 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being Chiang Wen-yeh: War, Colonialism, and the Cultural Revolution
  Dr Gavin Lee (Sydney Conservatorium)
  Graduate Research Colloquium
• 16:45 - Epistolary Activism: Re-tracing Louise Michel’s US Radical Networks
  J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Rethinking the 1650s
  Professor Michael Braddick (All Souls College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Framing in Museums
  Peter Schade (The National Gallery, London)
  Early Modern Art and Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - The 2025 Besterman Lecture of the Voltaire Foundation - The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment
  Antoine Lilti (Collège de France)
  The Annual Besterman Lecture of the Voltaire Foundation
• 17:00 - Knowing Hands: Hand-memory Techniques and Handy Knowledge in Ming Daily-use Encyclopedias
  Dr Marta Hanson (Center for Advanced Studies - Erlangen)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - 'Theinred of Dover (fl. c. 1300): A new context for him in fourteenth-century music theory'
  Elina Hamilton (University of Hawai’i, Mānoa), Peter Lefferts (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba (Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• 17:00 - Gwlithod Blewog a Mygydau Barddol: Golwg Newydd ar Garchariad Aneirin yn y Tŷ Deyerin
  Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Translating the image: art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi)
  Sinem Arcak Casale (Minnesota)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 14 November 2025

• 12:00 - The immanent frame [ Week 5, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
  Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
  Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
• 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

• 11:00 - Crossing Borders, Reshaping Lives: Jewish Orphan Migrations and Humanitarian Relief Before the Holocaust (late nineteenth - early twentieth century)
  Charlotte Canizo (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: World Literature and Publishers’ Series: The Propyläen-Verlag's Werke der Weltliteratur (1920–1925)
  Evi Heinz (Humboldt-Universität)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 13:30 - Early Career Researchers Forum
  TBA
  English Early Career Researchers Forum
• 16:00 - Between Relationality and Holism: Rethinking the Quantum - Buddhism Convergence Hypothesis
  Allan Furic (Keble College, University of Oxford)
  Science and Religion Research Seminars | Ian Ramsey Centre Lectures
• 16:00 - Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
  Daniel Garber (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Phoebe Giannisi in conversation with Brian Sneeden and A. E. Stallings
  For more information go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/11/phoebe-giannisi-in-conversation-with-brian-sneeden-and-a-e-stallings
  Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, A. E. Stallings
• 17:00 - Between truth and justice: towards an intellectual history of post-Mongol Rus
  Angus Russell (King's College, Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 12:15 - Vulnerable Bodies: The Old English Verse Charms, Again
  Caroline Batten (New College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Survivors: The Converted Jews of Lisbon after the Massacre of 1506
  Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:15 - Three scholars will join Bob Harris to discuss his work ahead of his retirement in 2026
  TBA
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Albrecht Ritschl (LSE)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Women’s organizations and social rights in France and its empire (1946-1958)
  Anna Nasser (Deakin, St Antony's)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Roundtable: 'Jane Austen at 250'
  Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr Sandie Byrne (Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford), Octavia Cox (University of Oxford), Prof. Kathryn Sutherland (University of Oxford)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 11:00 - “My Copyist Pretends to Have Misunderstood Me”: Writing émigré Arabic journals in 1880s Paris
  Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 11:10 - Book Talk: 'Nationalism: A World History'
  Please note this seminar is in the Ruskin Room not the Kloppenburg Room
  Eric Storm (University of Leiden), Discussant: Faisal Devji (Balliol College, Oxford), Discussant: Abigail Green (Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 14:00 - War, Empire, and Displacement
  Megan Hamilton (King's College London), James Hua (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - Coca-Cola – a Religious History?
  Uta Balbier
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - New Christian Materiality: Reflections on a New Project
  Francisco Bethencourt (King's College London)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Natural History of Style: Specimens, Albums, and the History of Art in Early Modern Japan (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
  Kris Kersy
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:15 - Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
  TBA
  Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
• 17:15 - Leverhulme Early Career Researcher roundtable discussion
  Dr Mae Losasso (University of Warwick), Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Phillips (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 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

• 11:45 - Lightening Round: We gather for flash discussions of research
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - 'Liberal worlds: James Bryce and the democratic intellect’ [New book talk]
  Stuart Jones (Manchester)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 13:00 - ‘C.S. Lewis and the Atmospherics of Fantasy’
  Michael Ward
  Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the Wonderful
• 17:00 - Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
  Dr Sonia Tycko (University of Edinburgh), In discussion with Professor Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Turn and face the strange’: Analysing animal species present in medieval Irish narratives of transformation
  Roan Runge (Glasgow)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Beowulf Reading Group
  TBA
  Beowulf Reading Group
• 17:15 - New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: a talk and handling session
  Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:15 - ‘Gothic Slavery: Slave Revolt and the Gothic Imagination in British Caribbean Literature, 1789–1834’
  Stephanie Volder (Carlsberg Fellow, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
  This film screening will take place at St John's College. Booking required.
  Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 21 November 2025

• 12:00 - Beyond Rivalry: How Americans and Chinese View Global Justice
  Professor Xiaojun Li (The University of British Columbia)
  China Centre talks
• 12:00 - Epistemological realism [ Week 6, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
  Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
  Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
• 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
• 17:00 - Neo-Latin Play: Performance of Piccolomini’s Chrysis and Book Launch
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 November 2025

• 10:30 - Roundtable - The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute
  Rebecca Fasman (Curator), Professor Justin Garcia (Director), Liana Zhou (Librarian), Professor Matt Cook (Oxford), Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - Is China Building a Rival International Order and How Would We Know?
  Professor Matthew D. Stephen (Helmut Schmidt University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:30 - Animal Metaphors for Trauma and Illness in the Psalms
  Rosanne Liebermann (Aarhus University)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar MT 2025
• 16:00 - Marie Curie and public histories of science
  Please note this seminar will be held at the Maison Française d'Oxford, and will be followed by a drinks reception hosted by the MFO
  Sarah Dry (Oxford), Stéphane van Damme (CNRS/MFO)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Male Marriage Gaps, Dynastic Centralisation and Habsburg Trust Fund Babies: Analysing Early Modern Dynasties from a Long(er)-Term Perspective
  Liesbeth Geevers (Lund University)
  Court Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - NO SEMINAR
  Please note there is no seminar today to avoid a clash with Sarah Knott's inaugural lecture
  No seminar
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Professor Sarah Knott's Inaugural Lecture: Why a History of Care?
  Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:15 - “The Grounds of Empire: Relay and Resistance”
  Clare Pettitt
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 10:30 - Roundtable: The Politics of Care
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752) – Jacobitism, Philosophy and Knowledge of the World
  Please note: this seminar will be held jointly with the Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850, in Lincoln College at 16:00. Please ask at the lodge for directions.
  Professor Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 16:15 - Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752): Jacobitism, Philosophy, and Knowledge of the World
  Joint-Session with the Irish History Seminar
  Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The success of the informal state in England
  Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The End of Europe: A Global History of European Integration
  Marlène Rosano-Grange (Sciences Po)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
  For more details, please go to: https://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2025/11/constantine-cavafy-a-new-biography
  Gregory Jusdanis
• 17:15 - Old English Graduate Reading Group
  TBA
  Old English Graduate Reading Group
• 17:15 - Oxford CEMS in the Schwarzman: Early Modern Conversations in Ecology: ‘True Fire: Saint Augustine, the Climate Crisis, and Creative Non-Fiction’ / ‘Affective Ecologies in Petrarch’s Lyric Poems’
  Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Francesca Southerden (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Wordsworth's Infinitive
  Oliver Clarkson (LMH)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 11:10 - Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
  Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 17:00 - Religious Diversity and the early modern English State: views from the parishes
  Professor Emeritus Ann Hughes (Keele University)
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - John Williams: A Composer's Life
  Tim Grieving (University of Southern California)
• 17:00 - Everywhen: Photography and Indigeneity
  Geoffrey Batchen
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 11:45 - Songs of Seven Dials, *Shared Seminar with Modern British History*
  Matt Houlbrook (Birmingham)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 11:45 - ‘Songs of Seven Dials’ [New book talk]
  Joint meeting with the Women’s, Gender, and Queer History Seminar
  Matt Houlbrook (Birmingham)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - ‘Prequels and the Mother-Ship: House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones’
  Prof Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford)
  Fantasy Literature Seminar Series: The Weird and the Wonderful
• 13:00 - On Not Wanting To Burn with a Hard Gem-Like Flame: Intensity in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
  Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 16:00 - What was modern Islamic art?
  William Gallois (Exeter)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - ‘Dros Gymru’n Gwlad’: hanes sefydlu’r Blaid Genedlaethol
  Gwen Angharad Gruffudd, Arwel Vittle
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Soul-loosing Grid (mihun zhen 迷魂陣) and other Novelese Battle Arrays (zhen 陣): A Tentative Exploration of a 'Fictional' Reconstruction of Military Arts, Taoist Rituals, Performing Arts and Black Magic
  Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Royal Attitudes to Raphael and Renaissance Art from Henry VIII to Victoria and Albert
  Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures)
  Early Modern Art and Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?
  Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:15 - Documenting Multiculturalism: The Arabic Documents of Sicily
  Jeremy Johns (Khalili Research Centre), Dan Burt (Khalili Research Centre)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 28 November 2025

• 12:00 - Phenomenology and disenchantment [ Week 7, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
  Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
  Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
• 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
• 14:00 - A symposium on current journals, to mark the birthday of 'The Review of English Studies'
  professor Daniel Waklein (University of Oxford), Colin Burrows (University of Oxford), Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge), Juliette Atkinson (UCL), Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford), Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Monday 1 December 2025

• 11:00 - Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861
  Aisha Djelid (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:15 - “Borrowed Time: reflections on the history and philosophy of library use in nineteenth-century Birmingham and beyond.”
  Professor Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Original Persian and (selective) Russian translations of Ahmad Dānish’s works: How Does the Process of Translation Become Political?
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:30 - Trauma, Self-Defence, and Revenge in Esther
  Alexiana Fry (University of Copenhagen)
  Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Seminar MT 2025
• 16:00 - A Proposal for Integrating AI into Science and Religion
  Dr Lyndon Drake (Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford)
  Science and Religion Research Seminars | Ian Ramsey Centre Lectures
• 16:00 - Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
  Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Margins, marginality, and marginalisation: drawing lines within and around late medieval Catholicism
  Robert Swanson (University of Birmingham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Early Career Researchers Forum
  TBA
  English Early Career Researchers Forum

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:00 - German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
  Gabriele Marcon (Vienna), Chair: Howard Hotson
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:15 - “Of myself alone”: Inventing the Written Proposal of Marriage in Long Eighteenth-Century England
  Sally Holloway (Warwick)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - What Did the Romans Ever do for Them? Aqueducts and the Administration of the Empire
  Andrea Papadia (York)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Writing the History of an Invisible Group: Old Women in Germany, 1950-2010
  Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL/QMUL)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 11:00 - Modern Transimperial History: An Introduction
  Prof Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 11:10 - Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
  Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 14:00 - Knowledge, Science, and Development across Global Contexts
  Madeline White (Oxford), Koyna Tomar (University of Pennsylvania)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - People as property? Captivity and conflict in medieval Iberia
  Teresa Witcombe
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Created in Canton: The Past and Present of Pith Paper Watercolours
  Professor Liu Zhiwei (Zhongshan University), Professor May Bo Ching (City University Hong Kong), Lyu Ziyuan
• 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
• 18:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 11:45 - The Madwoman in the Factory: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Imagination
  Marybeth Hamilton (History Workshop)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - Religion as a liberating force? Black British feminist movements, localised activism, and faith communities in London, 1970-1990
  Hannah Elias (Goldsmiths)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - DPhil student talks
  Jim Hickson (University of Oxford), Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez (University of Oxford), Lorane Prévost (University of Oxford)
  Graduate Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - 'Voice-parts and voice-types in Tudor England'
  Kerry McCarthy
  All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• 17:00 - Writing James VI and I
  Professor Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
  Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Beowulf Reading Group
  TBA
  Beowulf Reading Group
• 17:15 - Lexical prescription in Breton: what does it involve and who is taking notice?
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - 'Irony, Agency and African Global Imaginaries: Book Discussion'
  Dr Penny Cartwright (Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)
  Fuchsia Hart (Victoria and Albert Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 5 December 2025

• 12:00 - Phenomenology and reenchantment [ Week 8, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
  Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
  Charles Taylor and Phenomenology reading seminar
• 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
• 17:00 - Baillie Gifford Distinguished Lecture (China Centre)
  Dame Caroline Wilson
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Wednesday 17 December 2025

• 17:00 - Songs of Solidarity Writers' Room
  Various Speakers

Friday 23 January 2025

• 12:00 - Week 1, Charles Taylor and Hermeneutics
  TBA
  Charles Taylor and Hermeneutics reading seminar

Tuesday 27 January 2025

• 14:00 - Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics
  Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 1: Crafting Order
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy

Thursday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 2: Media
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 2: Coming to Terms
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy

Thursday 5 February 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 3: Self
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 14:00 - The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
  Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 3: The Capacity of Power
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy

Thursday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 4: State and Economy
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life

Tuesday 17 February 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 4: Making Equality
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy

Thursday 19 February 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 5: Self and Society
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life

Friday 20 February 2025

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

Tuesday 24 February 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 5: The Sense of Beauty
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 17:15 - Joint session with the History of War seminar. Title TBC
  Please note the change in regular time and place. This seminar will take place at All Souls College at 17:15 on Wednesday 25 February.
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 26 February 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 6: Self vs. Society
  Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life

Tuesday 3 March 2025

• 17:00 - Lecture 6: Democratic Form
  Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy

Friday 6 March 2025

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

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 14:00 - Postgraduate presentations - title TBC
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern World Seminar

Tuesday 5 May 2025

• 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

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