Department: Humanities Division
Talks:

Monday 20 October 2025

Welcome seminar and discussion of approaches to ‘play’ within histories of childhood and youth
Date: 20 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : N/A
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Powered by the Sun: Energising Empire in the Age of Solar.”
Date: 20 October 2025, 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker : Sebastian Lund
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.079, Humanities Building
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discussion Group: The Politics of Rhetoric and the Poetics of Intuition: Some Thoughts on Translating Colette
Date: 20 October 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Belinda Jack (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organiser: Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Host: Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Trauma and Ideology in the Book of Lamentations
Date: 20 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Danilo Verde (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 30.301 B, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Schwarzman Centre Level 3
Organiser: Prof Katherine Southwood
Hosts: TBA

Artificial Intelligence in Science and Religion: Challenges and Opportunities
Date: 20 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Professor Mark Harris (Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Ground Floor (Room 00.079)
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

The Science of Why Human Excrement Matters. Pierre Leroux and the circulus
Date: 20 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Michael Drolet (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Event, story and image in writings of John Arderne (1307-c.1380), English surgeon
Date: 20 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Jones (King's College Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Career Researchers Forum
Date: 20 October 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.424, English Faculty
Organisers: Dr Luisa Ostacchini (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Edward, Second Duke of York’s Master of Game: A New Edition for EETS
Date: 21 October 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : David Scott-Macnab (North-West U)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Towards a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
Date: 21 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Scottish Diplomatists in the Age of Enlightenment: The Edinburgh Network
Date: 21 October 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Patrick Flood (New College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Switch
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Sophie Cundale
Venue Details: East Oxford site | 128 Bullingdon Rd, Oxford OX4 1QP (Accessibility info: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Speculation in the UK, 1785-2019
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : John Turner (Queens University Belfast)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.015, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany: Orchestras and their Audiences
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Neil Gregor (Southampton)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Autocracy 2.0: How China's Rise Reinvented Tyranny
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
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)
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Ceola Daly
Hosts: TBA

‘The Maritime Closet: Queer Lives at Sea’
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'The Attribution Game'
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Joe Hone (Newcastle)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.303, Humanities Building
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Race-making, Religion, and the Gendered “Business” of Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire
Date: 22 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ceyda Karamursel (SOAS, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Spectacles of Empire: Colonialism, Gender, and Humanitarianism
Date: 22 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Adrita Mitra (Oxford), Mathilde Lyons (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Sir Howard Stringer Room
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Opus Dei: from an obscure spiritual sect to a global ideological apparatus
Date: 22 October 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Daniel Gunnar Kressel
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rights and Obligations in the Early Modern Hispanic World - Inaugural Talk of the 2025-26 Academic Year
Date: 22 October 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Tamar Herzog (Harvard University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Billy Budd' roundtable discussion
Date: 22 October 2025, 16:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford), Dr Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London), Hester Blum (Pennsylvania State University), Antoine Traisnel (University of Oxford), Michael Jonik (University of Sussex), Edouard Marosin (Université Paris Cité)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

LGBTQ+ History Network and WGQ Reading Group
Date: 22 October 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue Details: Gardeners Arms Pub, Plantation Road, Oxford OX2 6JE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Rothermere American Institute

Tudor Liveliness? Discovering Vividness in Post-Reformation England
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Christina Faraday
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Military entrepreneurs, foreign soldiers, and Sweden’s wars of emergence 1560–1630
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Jaakko Björklund (Helsinki)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clémence Smith, Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

Everybody’s History of Sexuality
Date: 23 October 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Colin Johnson (Indiana University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Induction session for graduate students in modern British history
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Induction
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

‘Fantasy & the Occult: Charles Williams, Dion Fortune and the Order of the Golden Dawn’
Date: 23 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Felix Taylor (English, St Hugh’s)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Bourgeois Vacation Spot
Date: 23 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Carolyn Abbate (Harvard University)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What' s happening in the United States? Historians ' Reflections
Date: 23 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:45
Speaker s: Professor Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford's Koch Centre), Professor Colin Johnson (Indiana University), In converstion with Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Remembering the Nanjing Massacre: Three Theses Revisited
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Licheng Qian (Birmingham City University)
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: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)

Early Modern Selfhood Revisited: the Case of Feminism
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Hannah Dawson (KCL)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Itineraries of Literary Decolonization: Ghana, Africa and the African Diaspora, 1953-1964’
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Jarad Zimbler (Kings College London)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Collecting Iznik: the Benaki Museum, its patrons and influences in twentieth-century Greece
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Mina Moraitou (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bardic liberties: Bardism and slavery in the poetry of Iolo Morganwg
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Rhys Kaminski-Jones (CAWCS)
Venue Details: Oxford (hybrid) - Room 30.022 of the Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road. Please contact david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk if you need a link to join online
Organiser: Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beowulf Reading Group
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.304, Humanities Building
Organiser: Prof. Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 October 2025

Early writings [ Week 2, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 24 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre 30.301A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
Date: 24 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Natalya Vince (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Two Beginnings of Kafka's "The Castle"
Date: 24 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Dirk Oschmann (University of Leipzig)
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 October 2025

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 27 October 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7
Organiser: Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Host: Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

The Book of Jeremiah as a Cultural Trauma Narrative
Date: 27 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Christl Maier (Marburg University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 30.301 B, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Schwarzman Centre Level 3
Organiser: Prof Katherine Southwood
Hosts: TBA

Regulation of Anglo-American medical education and its effects on educational cultures
Date: 27 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Susan Lamb (Ottawa)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Princess of House d’Este at the English Court: Mary of Modena Between Religious-Political Alienation and Cultural Transfer
Date: 27 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Elena Taddei (University of Innsbruck)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ex urbe et ab Hierosolomis: The Materiality and Portability of Place in Pre-Reformation Europe
Date: 27 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Lucy Donkin (University of Bristol)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 October 2025

On the Life and Work of Vincent Gillespie
Date: 28 October 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker s: Prof. Mishtooni Bose (University of Oxford), Denis Renevey (Lausanne), Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford), Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Nicholas Watson (Harvard U)
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Jake Richards (LSE)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Economy, the Ghost in your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dora Costa (UCLA)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Value and Worthlessness: Why Blurring Anthropology and History is still essential
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Don Kalb (Bergen)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Shakespeare's Dark Cosmologies’
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Jane Degenhardt (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford), Bart van Es (English, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Songs of Robert Burns - Then and Now
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 October 2025

The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
Date: 29 October 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future
Date: 29 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Jonathan Chatwin
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)

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: Governing AI Datastructures
Date: 29 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Julie E Cohen (Georgetown University)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre/Remote
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Host: Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)

"Utopia across Disciplines”: A conversation between Douglas Mao and Duncan Bell
Date: 29 October 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University and 2025 Astor Visiting Lecturer, Oxford), Duncan Bell (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Garden Room, Levine Building
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joshua Travis Brown (John Hopkins)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution' (Oxford, 2025)
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Catriona Kennedy (York), Maria Luddy (Warwick), Ian McBride (Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Palais Stoclet
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Deborah Silverman
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"Listen. Time Passes": Literature and Radio, a conversation with Geoff Bird
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Geoff Bird, Chair: Lucy Powell (Trinity College, Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Levine Lecture Theatre - in-person only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

Solitude, Female Labour and the Lifecycle in Early Modern Britain
Date: 30 October 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Naomi Pullin (Warwick)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951
Date: 30 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Rebecca Goldsmith (Cambridge)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

More than Kindling: Algarrobo Posts and Social Memory on the Peruvian North Coast
Date: 30 October 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Madeleine Fyles (PhD Anthropology, University of Toronto)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

LifeWorks
Date: 30 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Martyn Harry (University of Oxford)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Heat of Modernity: Race, Energy, and Violence in the Native Son Manuscripts
Date: 30 October 2025, 16:45 - 17:45
Speaker : Harry Stecopoulos (University of Iowa)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Antoine Traisnel (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Language, Beliefs, and Belonging: Immigrant Students in Basque-Medium Education
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jaione Diaz Mazquiaran (Alan R King Etxepare Chair 2025)
Venue Details: CAWCS (hybrid at the Drwm, National Library of Wales). Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link.
Organiser: Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Mathematics and Meaning in the Art of Dürer and Holbein
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jeanne Nuechterlein (York)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Lecture Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Utopia and the End of the World”: a lecture (Hosted by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages)
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Doug Mao (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Auditorium, Levine Building
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'A cycle of masses for all seasons in the Burgundian court'
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ritualizing Filial Debt: Narrative and Performance in Chinese Popular Religious Storytelling
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Xiaosu Sun (University of Oxford)
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: Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford)

Sailing upon Storied Seas: The Maritime Environment in Seafarers’ Writings, 1650-1750
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Clothing the Caliphate: dress cultures of the early Islamic period
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Jochen Sokoly (VCUarts Qatar)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Crimea, The First Logistical Nightmare.”
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Susan Zieger
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.056, Humanities Building
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 October 2025

Phenomenology and ‘the background’ [ Week 3, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 31 October 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

Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism
Date: 31 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 November 2025

Children on the streets. Conceptual thoughts on a history of modernity and empirical explorations on the example of the late German Empire
Date: 3 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Joey Rauschenberger (University of Heidelberg)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online vya Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trauma Theories, Category Mistakes, and Postexilic Judah as a Traumatized Society
Date: 3 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : David Janzen (Durham University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 30.301 B, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Schwarzman Centre Level 3
Organiser: Prof Katherine Southwood
Hosts: TBA

From Teatime to TV: 200 Years of Science Communication at the Royal Institution
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Katy Duncan (Royal Institution)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Theology and Earth Sciences: Contours of a New Conversation
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Tim Middleton (Regents Park, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Ground Floor (Room 00.079)
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Non-Binary Gender in Abbasid Baghdad: Reality vs. Fiction
Date: 3 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Anna Chrysostomides (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

‘The Darker Side of the Middle Ages’
Date: 4 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Kathy Lavezzo (U of Iowa)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Darker Side of the Middle Ages
Date: 4 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Kathy Lavezzo (U of Iowa)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'"6am bad, 7am bad bad": The Diaries of William Woodman, Wigmaker of London (1706-1708)'
Date: 4 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Michael Powell-Davies (Birkbeck)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.303, Humanities Building
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Tom Hamilton (Durham), Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Transformation of the Corn Milling Trade in Early Modern England, 1540-1800
Date: 4 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Mike Braddick (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ulrike Linder (Cologne)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH, 1892- 1939
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Tim Guinnane (Yale)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Film screening: This is Life 烟火人间
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford)

Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Ceola Daly
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 November 2025

The House Always Wins: Arms Trafficking, Settler Capitalism, and the Making of Ottoman Jolan, 1878-1918
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ayşe Polat (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : David Hopkin (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director: Challenges, Controversies, and Realities
Date: 5 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Jinghan Zeng (City University of Hong Kong)
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)

Translation, Religion, and Law
Date: 5 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (Australian National University), Itamar Toussia Cohen (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Difference at the Margin: Religion and Race in the History of the Middle East
Date: 5 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Henry Clements
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Date: 5 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Adolfo Polo y La Borda (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel: Coming-of-Age 1990-2020
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Angelica de Vido (New York Historical Society)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Iris Moon
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A minor power in a total war: Sweden’s system of military procurement during the campaigns against Napoleon, 1805-1807 and 1813-1814
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Patrik Winton (Örebro)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

Queering the Très Riches Heures: Sexual Ethics, Service, Ganymede, and Dogs
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Bob Mills (UCL)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Foreign agitators” in Britain: overseas students and the British student movement in the 1960s
Date: 6 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Olana Peters (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

'Philip Pullman: Sense of an ending'
Date: 6 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Margaret Kean (St Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Anton Webern and the Enchantments of Music Theory
Date: 6 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Sebastian Wedler (Utrecht University)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Semiconductors and Transitional Justice: Reassessing Taiwan’s Place in the East Asian Order
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Tsai Chung-ming (National Chengchi University), Professor Yen-Pin Su (National Chengchi University)
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 Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

From Bosphorus to Nile: mapping, depicting, and portraying the Ottoman imperial world in the late eighteenth century
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Ayşe Hilal Uğurlu (MEF University, Istanbul)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

London Puritan networks and the publication of the 1630 Welsh Bible
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Oxford (online) - Please contact david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk if you need a link to join online.
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beowulf Reading Group
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.304, Humanities Building
Organiser: Prof. Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 November 2025

The modern social imaginary [ Week 4, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 7 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre 30.301A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
Date: 7 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sudhir Hazareesingh (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: 7 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Michael Potter (Cambridge)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka's New Science
Date: 7 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Aaron Schuster (Cornell University)
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 November 2025

Above the Dust: Film screening + Q&As with Film Director
Date: 10 November 2025, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Wang Xiaoshuai (Film Director)
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)

Deception, Subversion, and Femininity in the book of Esther and the Joseph Narrative
Date: 10 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 30.301 B, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Schwarzman Centre Level 3
Organiser: Prof Katherine Southwood
Hosts: TBA

Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Her Material World: Queens’ Stuff in the Global Seventeenth-Century
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Susannah Lyon-Whaley (University of York)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Inscriptive Economy in Fifteenth-Century England
Date: 10 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom Johnson (Oriel College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Hosted jointly with the Medieval French Seminar
Date: 11 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Julia Mattison (U of Georgia)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Film screening: Hometown: Women, Memory, and Migration in China’s Third Front Movement
Date: 11 November 2025, 13:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

NO MEETING
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Unmaking a Man: The Contested Bodies of the Völundr Legend'
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Caz Batten (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organiser: Prof. Gareth Evans (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Doina Anca Cretu (Warwick)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : David de la Croix (UCLouvain)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Maria Loh
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Shakespeare’s Ballad Business’
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker : Professor Tiffany Stern (Shakespeare Institute)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T S Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sardinia: On the Margins of Romantic travel
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Thomas Leonard-Roy (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Date: 12 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University)
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)

Art History and Projective Tests (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Whitney Davis
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

Women’s and Gender History: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Form - An Event with Professor Lyndal Roper
Date: 13 November 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Lyndal Roper (Oxford), Hannah Skoda (Oxford), Daniel Pick (Birkbeck), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Feminism and the genderquake: “new” feminism in 1990s Britain
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Sarah Crook (Swansea)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

What are White Storks (Ciconia ciconica) Doing in High and Late Medieval Calendars?
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Ryan Mealiffe (DPhil History, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Translating Fantasy: Language, Culture and Mythology — with a Navajo Case study'
Date: 13 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Mark Atherton (University of Oxford), Barbara Fischer
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Chiang Wen-yeh: War, Colonialism, and the Cultural Revolution
Date: 13 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Gavin Lee (Sydney Conservatorium)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Epistolary Activism: Re-tracing Louise Michel’s US Radical Networks
Date: 13 November 2025, 16:45 - 17:45
Speaker : J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Antoine Traisnel (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Gwlithod Blewog a Mygydau Barddol: Golwg Newydd ar Garchariad Aneirin yn y Tŷ Deyerin
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Simon Rodway (Aberystwyth)
Venue Details: CAWCS (hybrid at CAWCS) - Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link.
Organiser: Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking the 1650s
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Braddick (All Souls College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Framing in Museums
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Schade (The National Gallery, London)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Lecture Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Knowing Hands: Hand-memory Techniques and Handy Knowledge in Ming Daily-use Encyclopedias
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Marta Hanson (Center for Advanced Studies - Erlangen)
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), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The 2025 Besterman Lecture of the Voltaire Foundation - The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Antoine Lilti (Collège de France)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Grove Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Theinred of Dover (fl. c. 1300): A new context for him in fourteenth-century music theory'
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Elina Hamilton (University of Hawai’i, Mānoa), Peter Lefferts (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba (Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Translating the image: art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi)
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Sinem Arcak Casale (Minnesota)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 November 2025

The immanent frame [ Week 5, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 14 November 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 Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
Date: 14 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 November 2025

Crossing Borders, Reshaping Lives: Jewish Orphan Migrations and Humanitarian Relief Before the Holocaust (late nineteenth - early twentieth century)
Date: 17 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Charlotte Canizo (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Between Relationality and Holism: Rethinking the Quantum - Buddhism Convergence Hypothesis
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Allan Furic (Keble College, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Ground Floor (Room 00.079)
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Between truth and justice: towards an intellectual history of post-Mongol Rus
Date: 17 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Angus Russell (King's College, Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Career Researchers Forum
Date: 17 November 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.424, English Faculty
Organisers: Dr Luisa Ostacchini (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Vulnerable Bodies: The Old English Verse Charms, Again
Date: 18 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Caroline Batten (New College)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Survivors: The Converted Jews of Lisbon after the Massacre of 1506
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Three scholars will join Bob Harris to discuss his work ahead of his retirement in 2026
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Women’s organizations and social rights in France and its empire (1946-1958)
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Anna Nasser (Deakin, St Antony's)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Albrecht Ritschl (LSE)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Ceola Daly
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable: 'Jane Austen at 250'
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.303, Humanities Building
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

“My Copyist Pretends to Have Misunderstood Me”: Writing émigré Arabic journals in 1880s Paris
Date: 19 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Book Talk: 'Nationalism: A World History'
Date: 19 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker s: Eric Storm (University of Leiden), Discussant: Faisal Devji (Balliol College, Oxford), Discussant: Abigail Green (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

War, Empire, and Displacement
Date: 19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Megan Hamilton (King's College London), James Hua (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.501, Department of History of Art, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Coca-Cola – a Religious History?
Date: 19 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Uta Balbier
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New Christian Materiality: Reflections on a New Project
Date: 19 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Francisco Bethencourt (King's College London)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Natural History of Style: Specimens, Albums, and the History of Art in Early Modern Japan (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kris Kersy
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leverhulme Early Career Researcher roundtable discussion
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dr Mae Losasso (University of Warwick), Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Phillips (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Lightening Round: We gather for flash discussions of research
Date: 20 November 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Liberal worlds: James Bryce and the democratic intellect’ [New book talk]
Date: 20 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Stuart Jones (Manchester)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

‘C.S. Lewis and the Atmospherics of Fantasy’
Date: 20 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Michael Ward
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex),
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Dr Sonia Tycko (University of Edinburgh), In discussion with Professor Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Turn and face the strange’: Analysing animal species present in medieval Irish narratives of transformation
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Roan Runge (Glasgow)
Venue Details: Oxford (hybrid) - Seminar Room 30.022 of the Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road.. Please contact david.willis@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk if you need a link to join online.
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beowulf Reading Group
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.304, Humanities Building
Organiser: Prof. Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: a talk and handling session
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:30 - 20:30
Speaker : Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
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: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 November 2025

Epistemological realism [ Week 6, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 21 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre 30.301A
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 November 2025

Roundtable - The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute
Date: 24 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Rebecca Fasman (Curator), Professor Justin Garcia (Director), Liana Zhou (Librarian), Professor Matt Cook (Oxford), Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Animal Metaphors for Trauma and Illness in the Psalms
Date: 24 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Rosanne Liebermann (Aarhus University)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 30.301 B, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Schwarzman Centre Level 3
Organiser: Prof Katherine Southwood
Hosts: TBA

Marie Curie and public histories of science
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Sarah Dry (Oxford), Stéphane van Damme (CNRS/MFO)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male Marriage Gaps, Dynastic Centralisation and Habsburg Trust Fund Babies: Analysing Early Modern Dynasties from a Long(er)-Term Perspective
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Liesbeth Geevers (Lund University)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

NO SEMINAR
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : No seminar
Venue Details: No Seminar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Professor Sarah Knott's Inaugural Lecture: Why a History of Care?
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“The Grounds of Empire: Relay and Resistance”
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Clare Pettitt
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.424, Humanities Building
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Roundtable: The Politics of Care
Date: 25 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752) – Jacobitism, Philosophy and Knowledge of the World
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Please ask the lodge for directions
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752): Jacobitism, Philosophy, and Knowledge of the World
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The End of Europe: A Global History of European Integration
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marlène Rosano-Grange (Sciences Po)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The success of the informal state in England
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘True Fire: Saint Augustine, the Climate Crisis, and Creative Non-Fiction’ / ‘Affective Ecologies in Petrarch’s Lyric Poems’
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Francesca Southerden (Italian)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.424, English Faculty, Humanities Building, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wordsworth's Infinitive
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Oliver Clarkson (LMH)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 November 2025

Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Date: 26 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Everywhen: Photography and Indigeneity
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geoffrey Batchen
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Williams: A Composer's Life
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tim Grieving (University of Southern California)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

Songs of Seven Dials, *Shared Seminar with Modern British History*
Date: 27 November 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Matt Houlbrook (Birmingham)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Songs of Seven Dials’ [New book talk]
Date: 27 November 2025, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker : Matt Houlbrook (Birmingham)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Prequels and the Mother-Ship: House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones’
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: The Fitzhugh Lecture Theatre, Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford (Exeter College’s annex)
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

On Not Wanting To Burn with a Hard Gem-Like Flame: Intensity in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Antoine Traisnel (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

What was modern Islamic art?
Date: 27 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : William Gallois (Exeter)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Dros Gymru’n Gwlad’: hanes sefydlu’r Blaid Genedlaethol
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Gwen Angharad Gruffudd, Arwel Vittle
Venue Details: CAWCS (hybrid at CAWCS) - The National Library of Wales or at CAWCS. Please contact a.elias@wales.ac.uk for the link.
Organiser: Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Royal Attitudes to Raphael and Renaissance Art from Henry VIII to Victoria and Albert
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Lecture Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
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)
Hosts: TBA

Documenting Multiculturalism: The Arabic Documents of Sicily
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Jeremy Johns (Khalili Research Centre), Dan Burt (Khalili Research Centre)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 November 2025

Phenomenology and disenchantment [ Week 7, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 28 November 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

Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A symposium on current journals, to mark the birthday of 'The Review of English Studies'
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861
Date: 1 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Aisha Djelid (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Borrowed Time: reflections on the history and philosophy of library use in nineteenth-century Birmingham and beyond.”
Date: 1 December 2025, 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Garden Room
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Dr Clare Broome Saunders (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Trauma, Self-Defence, and Revenge in Esther
Date: 1 December 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Alexiana Fry (University of Copenhagen)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 30.301 B, Faculty of Theology and Religion, Schwarzman Centre Level 3
Organiser: Prof Katherine Southwood
Hosts: TBA

Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Proposal for Integrating AI into Science and Religion
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Lyndon Drake (Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Ground Floor (Room 00.079)
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Margins, marginality, and marginalisation: drawing lines within and around late medieval Catholicism
Date: 1 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Robert Swanson (University of Birmingham)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Career Researchers Forum
Date: 1 December 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Pub social
Organisers: Dr Luisa Ostacchini (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

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

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 : Marc Howard (Independent Scholar)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
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

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)

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

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

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

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

Postcolonial Writing and Theory Research Seminar
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof Elleke Boehmer (English, Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (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

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

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

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)

Wednesday 25 February 2025

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

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

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