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Department: Humanities Division
Talks:
Tuesday 2 December 2025
German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Gabriele Marcon (Vienna),
Chair: Howard Hotson
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
“Of myself alone”: Inventing the Written Proposal of Marriage in Long Eighteenth-Century England
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker
:
Sally Holloway (Warwick)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
What Did the Romans Ever do for Them? Aqueducts and the Administration of the Empire
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Andrea Papadia (York)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Writing the History of an Invisible Group: Old Women in Germany, 1950-2010
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL/QMUL)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Rafael Pérez Evans | Dumping to Release: Material Dissent
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Rafael Pérez Evans (University of Oxford)
Venue: 128 Bullingdon Road, 128 Bullingdon Road OX4 1QP
Venue Details: Ruskin School of Art (East Oxford site) Accessibility info: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Artist talk: Hope Strickland
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Hope Strickland
Venue: 128 Bullingdon Road, 128 Bullingdon Road OX4 1QP
Venue Details: Ruskin School of Art (East Oxford site) Accessibility info: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers:
Clemence Smith,
Ceola Daly
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Modern Transimperial History: An Introduction
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Prof Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
John-Paul Ghobrial
Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Lunchtime Seminar for competition winners: Bernard Williams Essay Prize
Date: 3 December 2025, 12:30 - 14:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre room 00:308/Remote
Organisers:
Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford),
Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Edward Harcourt (University of Oxford)
Knowledge, Science, and Development across Global Contexts
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Madeline White (Oxford),
Koyna Tomar (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History
Organisers:
Asma Shakeel (Oxford),
Asmita Sarkar (Oxford),
Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
People as property? Captivity and conflict in medieval Iberia
Date: 3 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker
:
Teresa Witcombe
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World
Date: 3 December 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Charlene Villaseñor Black (Worcester College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Created in Canton: The Past and Present of Pith Paper Watercolours
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Liu Zhiwei (Zhongshan University),
Professor May Bo Ching (City University Hong Kong),
Lyu Ziyuan
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser:
Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers:
Clemence Smith,
Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts:
TBA
The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
M T Howard (Independent Scholar)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 3 December 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.402, Schwarzman Centre for Humanities
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 4 December 2025
The Madwoman in the Factory: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Imagination
Date: 4 December 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker
:
Marybeth Hamilton (History Workshop)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Religion as a liberating force? Black British feminist movements, localised activism, and faith communities in London, 1970-1990
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Hannah Elias (Goldsmiths)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
Joshua Bennett,
Matthew Grimley
Hosts:
TBA
DPhil student talks
Date: 4 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Jim Hickson (University of Oxford),
Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez (University of Oxford),
Lorane Prévost (University of Oxford)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Writing James VI and I
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
'Voice-parts and voice-types in Tudor England'
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Kerry McCarthy
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser:
Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
The Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers:
Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford),
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford),
Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford),
Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford),
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford),
Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford),
Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host:
Dr Wuyutong Yao (University of Oxford)
Beowulf Reading Group
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.304, Humanities Building
Organiser:
Prof. Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
'Irony, Agency and African Global Imaginaries: Book Discussion'
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Dr Penny Cartwright (Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers:
Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson),
Prof Elleke Boehmer (English, Oxford),
Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Fuchsia Hart (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Resear Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Lexical prescription in Breton: what does it involve and who is taking notice?
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Oxford (hybrid) - Seminar Room 30.022 of the Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road.
Organisers:
Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford),
Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 5 December 2025
Phenomenology and reenchantment [ Week 8, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 5 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre 30.301A (Seminar Room A)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Cooperating, Challenging, Communicating: Reflections on Five Years of Diplomacy in Beijing
Date: 5 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dame Caroline Wilson
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Songs of Solidarity Writers' Room
Date: 17 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Organiser:
APGRD (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 18 December 2025
Kinship Bonds, Examination Hell and the Learning of Heaven: Wang Zheng’s (1571–1644) Turn to Christianity
Date: 18 December 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Professor Chang Woei ONG (National University of Singapore)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser:
Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 23 January 2025
Week 1, Charles Taylor and Hermeneutics
Date: 23 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 27 January 2025
Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics
Date: 27 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam),
Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Lecture 1: Crafting Order
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 28 January 2025
A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 29 January 2025
Lecture 2: Media
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 3 February 2025
Lecture 2: Coming to Terms
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 5 February 2025
Lecture 3: Self
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 February 2025
The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
Date: 10 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO),
Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Lecture 3: The Capacity of Power
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 11 February 2025
Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Margot Tudor (City)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 12 February 2025
Lecture 4: State and Economy
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 17 February 2025
Lecture 4: Making Equality
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 19 February 2025
Lecture 5: Self and Society
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 20 February 2025
Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Graham Priest (CUNY)
Organiser:
Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Host:
Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Tuesday 24 February 2025
Lecture 5: The Sense of Beauty
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 25 February 2025
Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Joint session with the History of War seminar. Title TBC
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker
s:
Julia Heinemann (Antwerp),
Chair: Peter Wilson
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 26 February 2025
Lecture 6: Self vs. Society
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 3 March 2025
Lecture 6: Democratic Form
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 6 March 2025
Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 March 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor James Ladyman (Bristol)
Organiser:
Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 10 March 2025
Postgraduate presentations - title TBC
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 11 March 2025
Postgraduate Presentations
Date: 11 March 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 May 2025
Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
Date: 5 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
s:
Peter Burke (Cambridge),
Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 15 May 2025
Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 29 May 2025
Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 May 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Selim Berker (Harvard)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA