Friday 6 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
  Ian Johnson
  China Centre talks

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “Deliver us from doctors”: The New Zealand model of midwifery and the politics of maternity from 1970
  Professor Linda Bryder (Auckland)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - “In good marital confidence”: A German Consort’s Apologia Against Her Husband
  Charlotte Backerrra (University of Göttingen)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Graze, Forage, Cook: authenticity and authority in medieval monastic reform
  Andrew Jotischky (RHUL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Hong Kong: Not Just Another Chinese City
  Vaudine England (Leiden University)
  China Centre talks
• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: National Epics [nationalepics.com]: the Elusive Case of England’
  Prof. David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Introductory Party (in-person event only)
  N/A
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - War as a Catalyst for Financial Innovation and Speculation in the Early Modern Period: Examples from Marseille’s Marine Insurance Market, 1754-1783
  Mallory Hope (Harvard)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - “Elizabeth Bishop and Wordsworth”
  Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - The Well-Tempered Chase: Hunting, Emotions and Health in Early Modern Europe
  Valerio Zanetti (Oxford), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Literary Transmission as Political Action: Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs Compendium (c. 1650)
  Professor Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Politics of Voice and the Making of Mass Politics in Spain
  Matt Kerry (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture - Duelling in the Archive: Labour Quotas for Disabled Britons, 1944-1995
  Please note this talk is at 17:00 in the Auditorium at Magdalen College
  Lucy Delap (Cambridge)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Masters and Servants: Divinity and Masculinity in Early Modern England
  Dr Leif Dixon (Regent's Park College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Methods and Approaches
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 15:00 - Practical Ethics and Law Lecture: Should Doctors Disobey Abortion Bans?
  Professor Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia), Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - Writing a Global History of the End of Britain (Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture)
  Please note this session will take place at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture: Writing a Global History of the End of Britain
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Welcome Seminar and 20th Birthday Celebration
  Jennifer Crane (Bristol), Nicole King (Oxford), Helen Sunderland (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:00 - U.S. and European Legal Responses to Chinese Forced Labour
  Mr Aaron Halegua (Aaron Halegua PLLC)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 16:00 - How the Treasury Saved Britain: nationalism, liberalism and “high technology” in the post-war era
  Dr Thomas Kelsey (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - A Measure of Monastic Reform? New saints, ancient saints, and the re-forming of monastic communities in late 10th-century England
  Sumner Braund (History of Science Museum, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Court Business: Finance and Financiers at Louis XIII’s Court
  Marc Jaffré (Durham)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Imagining Margery and Julian: a reading and Q and A’
  Victoria MacKenzie
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Forced Removal and the Politics of Refugee Recognition in the American Revolutionary War
  James Mackay (University of Edinburgh)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - The Scottish Wonder’: David Wilkie, London, and British Culture
  Bob Harris (Worcester)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Dissecting the sinews of power: International trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823
  Noam Yuchtman (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - One Man Talking: Selected Essays of Shao Xunmei, 1929‒1939
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford), Dr Susan Daruvala (University of Cambridge)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: Annual Marilyn Butler Memorial lecture. ‘Mary Wollstonecraft for the Twenty-First Century’
  Professor Emma Clery (University of Uppsala)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Didn’t You Promise Us A River? Looking For The 17th-Century Mississippi
  Please note this seminar is at 14:00-15:30
  Katherine Ibbett (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - Empire & Exile
  Amita Mistry (Oxford), Julie Partsch (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - The "Private" Side of Empire: Letters from the Portuguese Estado da Índia
  Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Roundtable on Stuart Ward’s Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (2022)
  Ian McBride (Oxford), Vivian Kong (Bristol), Faridah Zaman (Oxford), Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - A study in failure: the Bishops’ Bible and the Elizabethan Church
  Dr Harry Spillane (Peterhouse, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Giving Migrants the Needle: Violent Restraint at European Air Borders, 1980-2001
  Fabrice Langrognet (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 4. “The Main Liturgy: The Yasna and its Variants”
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
  Professor Jane Burbank and Professor Fred Cooper (NYU)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Saturday 21 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Exhibition: Identity, Belonging, and Change: A Historical Portrait of Everyday Life in Sudan
  Bayan Abubakr (PhD Candidate of History, Yale University)
  Humanities Cultural Programme

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - <speaks> with Du Yun
  Please visit our website to register
  Professor Du Yun (Johns Hopkins University)
• 16:00 - The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing (Joint with Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Professor John Henderson (Cambridge)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - The Power of Courts, 1814-1918: Dynasties, Armies and Culture
  Philip Mansel (IHR/Versailles, Co-founder of the Society for Court Studies)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Dante’s Political Theology
  Matthew Kempshall (Wadham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Lecture 1: “Martin Luther King, Jr as Apocalyptic Seer”: Placing King in Conversation with 1 Enoch, The Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah, The Apocalypse of Abraham, and Mosaic Traditions
  Dr. Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Gifts and Books’
  Prof. Nicholas Perkins (St Hugh's College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:30 - Inside American Politics: A Dialogue with Top American Politics and Media Experts
  BOOKING REQUIRED
  Various Speakers
• 16:15 - West Indian Estate-ownership in England and Wales 1700-1830
  Elisabeth Grass (St Peter's)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Economic Shocks and Religious Conflict in Medieval India
  Sriya Iyer (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - “Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Reading, Voice, and Devotion”
  Mary Fairclough (York)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Unconventional Currents of Reform in Early Modern Italy
  Querciolo Mazzonis (Teramo), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Lecture 2: “Martin Luther King, Jr and the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21”
  Dr. Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
• 14:00 - New Histories of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike: Discussion of Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation (2023) & Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson, Women and the Miners’ Strike 1984-85 (2023)
  Robert Gildea (Oxford), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading), Freya Marshall Payne (Oxford), Andrew Seaton (UCL)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Subjects concealed within wives: statute and crime in the Star Chamber, 1558-1603’
  Chloe Ingersent (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The invention of terrorism in France, 1904-1939
  Chris Millington (MMU)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Spectres of Progress in a Northeast Asian Borderland
  Dr Ed Pulford (The University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - ‘‘Firstly printed under the name of the reformed English Church": Reformation writings between England and the Holy Roman Empire, 1547-1603
  Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 5. “Mountains, Palaces and Temples: Ritual Space and Ritual Practice”
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Indigenous Identities in Transition
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Moritz Mihatsch (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - “Are these the same children?”: Categorising Indian Childhood in the (De)legitimisation Debates on Child Labour in the Factories, 1870s-1940s
  Shreya Kundu (Ashoka University)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Framing epidemic geographies and displacement after the Great East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Dr Baihui Duan (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Networked Diplomacy: the Bahmani Sultanate in the Islamic world (ca. 1475)
  Meia Walravens (Trinity College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Dutch Gold and Charles I's Turn from Spain, 1634-1637
  Elizabeth Hines (Chicago)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Lecture 3: “All Things New: The Apocalyptic Project of Revolution in Revelation 21”
  Dr. Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Hidden Things: A Biblical Context for the Exeter Book Riddles’
  Dr Rachel A. Burns (Hertford College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: ‘ Bernard Picart, the Image about Religion, and the Production of a New Truth Social’
  Dr Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 16:00 - A History of Black Women Photographers in the Civil Rights Movement
  Emily Brady (University of Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - "Twelve Jamaicamen and South Sea Stock": Insurance and the Economy of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century London
  Hunter Harris (Nuffield)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Exploring Women's Work in Early Modern Rural Italy: Insights from the Republic of Venice
  Andrea Caracausi (Padua)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Rethinking the Renaissance, A Mediterranean Perspective
  Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - Business Interests, Global Networks, and the Trade in Enslaved Africans to Peru, 1580-1640: The Case of Manuel Bautista Pérez
  Linda Newson (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Lecture 4: “The Knock of Christ in Revelation 3: Divine and Human Agency in Conquering Evil”
  Dr. Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
• 14:00 - Birth Strikes, Women's Suffrage and Political Thought in Britain, 1907-1918
  Tania Shew (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Personality and Morality
  HYBRID EVENT see website link below for both online and in-person registration
  Professor Predrag Cicovacki (The College of the Holy Cross)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From a ‘Sea of Peace’ to a ‘NATO lake’? Security imaginaries of the Baltic Sea from the Second World War to the Present
  Juhana Aunesluoma (Helsinki)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Being English in Rome: national identity and global Catholicism
  Dr Lucy Underwood (Warwick University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 6. “Ritual and Revelation: Understanding the dēn”
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The British Gunpowder Industry and the Making of the Global Firearm Frontier, 1600-1900
  Dr Nicholas Radburn (Lancaster)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Abraham Bäck and Linnean racial science
  Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Financing Festivals, Music and Theatre in 16th and 17th century Italy and France
  Francesca Fantappiè (Université de Tours)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Pecia System and the Medieval Oxford Book Trade
  Alison Ray (St Peter's College and Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Christ’s Burial on the Late Medieval Stage’ / ‘“Hevenysh Revoluciouns”: The Complaint of Mars in motion’
  Sigrid Koerner (Jesus College), Shelley Williams (Jesus College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 16:00 - The Culture of Exposure
  Kaeten Mistry (UEA)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - William III, Mary II, and Naval Patronage, 1689-1702
  Stuart Parks (St Cross)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - "Contours of Death" Revisited: the Geography of Health and Mortality in Early Modern England
  Romola Davenport (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - “Gunpowder Jowls: Graphic Satires of Dissent, 1790-91”
  Stephen Bygrave (Southampton)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - ONLINE: Invisible Threads of Tradition: Refiguring Kinship and Knowledge in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1500
  Please note this seminar is online
  Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv), Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Drag: A British History
  Joint meeting with LGBTQ+ History Network
  Jacob Bloomfield (Konstanz)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Little cities: Experiencing and imagining the early modern military camp
  Dr Emily Rowe (KCL and Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Besterman Lecture 2023 - Hegel's Enlightenment
  Professor Richard Bourke (Cambridge)
• 17:00 - Making Peace with the Devil: The Problem of Ending Just Wars
  Dr Elisabeth Forster (University of Southampton), Dr Isaac Taylor (Stockholm University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - "He carried, secretly a knotted string": Catholic sailors on English Protestant ships fighting Spain (1568–1595)
  Dr Andrii Pastushenko (Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Forms of Expression and Communication
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - Libya’s Transition to Independence: Challenging the Paradigm of Competition between Italians and Tripolitanians
  Professor Antonio Morone (Pavia)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - How students created their own curriculum: Oxbridge student clubs in the age of the research university
  Professor Arne Schirrmacher (Berlin)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Towards a New Biography of Empress Matilda: what can be known about the women around her?
  Liesbeth van Houts (Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Maharajah’s Money: Duleep Singh and the Royal Finances of the Sikh Empire, 1843-1893
  Priya Atwal (Oxford)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: Urban Humanism and Chaucer’s House of Fame’
  Prof. Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 16:15 - "The entire performance gave universal satisfaction, and the audience went away delighted": Irish Protestant Audiences for Catholic Sacred Music in the Eighteenth Century
  Maura Valenti (Hertford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Patent Litigation in the Nineteenth-Century German Empire: An Empirical Analysis of Nullity Proceedings
  Jochen Streb (Mannheim)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: ‘Unearthly Objects’
  Dr James Metcalf (University of Manchester)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Globalizing East-Central Europe from the Ground Up: Minerals, Metals, and Mountains
  Suzanna Ivanic (Kent), Chair: Natalia Nowakowska
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - 1614, the World on the Thames: A Tentative Exercise in Global History and the History of Early Modern Empires
  Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS-LARHRA, Lyon)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Who Were They? The Social Origins of British Juvenile Delinquents (Male) ca.1918-1970
  Ross McKibbin (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Conflict, Welfare and Memory: Outcomes of the Civil War Petitions Project
  Professor Andrew Hopper and Dr Ismini Pells (Kellogg College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - An alternative conception of democracy. Franco's Spain and conservative political groups in France and Italy from 1945 to the 1960s
  Carlos Domper Lasús (Zaragoza)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Should people have indefinite lifespans? Ethical and social considerations in life-extension
  HYBRID EVENT see website link below for both online and in-person registration
  Professor João Pedro de Magalhães (University of Birmingham)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Slavery and Industrialization
  Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Professor Patricia Hudson FBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Managing the mayhem: pupil-teacher relations in English and Welsh comprehensive schools, 1960s–1980s
  Laura Carter (Université Paris Cité)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Cave Remedies: Ancient Wisdom in Stalactites
  Dr Jue Jin (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Translating Holiness: Relics and the Dynamics of Empire in the Late Antique Mediterranean
  Nadine Viermann (Durham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Fireworks at the Court of Louis XIII
  Please note this seminar will start at 17:00
  Marie-Claude Canova-Green (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Court Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - “‘We Are All Equally Creatures of Some Great Creator’: Compassion for Animals in the Poetry of Robert Burns”
  Malcolm Hay (Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 16:00 - They Cry Liberty: Imperial Crisis and Revolution in Atlantic Africa
  Bronwen Everill (University of Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - English Prison Reform from Below
  Kiran Mehta (Max Planck Institute/Leicester)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Book Launch: A celebration to mark the publication of The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam Chapters 11-12 of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār by Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād Translated Texts for Historians Volume 83
  DAME AVERIL CAMERON (Former Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History & Former Warden, Keble College, Oxford), Prof Nicolai Sinai (Pembroke College), Yuhan Vevaina, Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Does Cultural Assimilation Matter? (joint work with J S Bentzen, P Sharp, C V Skovsgaard, and C Vedel)
  Nina Boberg-Fazlic (TU Dortmund)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - The German Peasants’ War (1524–1526): Facts, Reception History and New Approaches
  Thomas Müller (Wittenberg), Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Being Parented: Disabled Children's Experiences in England, 1940-1970
  Samantha McCormack (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond the Wall: Rethinking East Germany
  Katja Hoyer (KCL)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Intertextual Whiggism: Political Aphorisms, Textual Appropriation, and Political Thought, 1570-1800
  Professor Mark Goldie (Churchill College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Contemporary Indigenous Perspectives
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - Capitalism and Empire: Europe's Hinterlands and its Oceanic Empires
  Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Historical activism, autobiographies and life story work with people with learning disabilities - using history and stories for social change (Joint with Disability History Month Seminar)
  Professor Elizabeth Tilley and Nathaniel Lawford (The Open University)
  Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Coined Money in the Early Middle Ages: did it matter?
  Rory Naismith (Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Louis XIV, Colbert and the Ordonnance du commerce of 1673
  Luisa Brunori (Paris)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Bureaucratic Protection and Foreign Policy Information Provision in China
  Dr Tyler Jost (Brown University)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Suffrage Skeptics and Realists: A History of Reluctant Endorsements of Woman Suffrage in the United States, 1840s-1920
  Helene Quanquin (Université de Lille)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - “An army marches on its stomach,” yet it is hungry: Surgeons, Soldiers, and Supply in Napoleon’s Grande Armée, 1806-1807
  Calum Johnson (Durham)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Centuries of the Elderly: Old Age, Pensions, and Retirement in Premodern Europe (c. 1000-1800)
  Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Colliding Empires: Material Trajectories Across the Early Modern Western Mediterranean
  Ana Struillou (London), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - Accountability: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Negotiation of Power in Early Colonial Peru
  Laura León Llerena (University of Durham)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - "Confronting the Obstacles to a Buddhist Physicalism"
  Prof. Mark Sederits (Seuol National University)
  Can there be Buddhist physicalism?
• 17:00 - "A Byrd flew over the cuckoo’s nest": the problem of the Chapel Royal in post-Reformation England
  Oscar Patton (Merton College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Commerce and Colonialism in the First World War
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - William Perkins and the constraints of reform in late Elizabethan England
  Eric Beach (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - "The Problem of Ownerless Consciousness"
  TBA
  Can there be Buddhist physicalism?
• 14:00 - "A Buddhist Physicalist Dissolution of the ‘Hard Problem’?"
  TBA
  Can there be Buddhist physicalism?
• 15:00 - How Nudging Upsets Autonomy
  Professor David Enoch (University of Oxford), Professor Thomas Douglas (Oxford)
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - The Offstage Storm? Decolonization and the Politics of Democracy in Post-war Western Europe
  Professor Martin Conway (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2021 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: The Persistence of Racism in Liberal Societies: Education, Health Care, and Policing (1/3)
  Professor Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2021 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: The Persistence of Racism in Liberal Societies: Education, Health Care, and Policing (2/3)
  Professor Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:30 - Visiting Professorship of Creative Media 2023-24 Lecture
  David Baddiel

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2021 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: The Persistence of Racism in Liberal Societies: Education, Health Care, and Policing (3/3)
  Professor Howard McGary (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures