Department: Humanities Division
Talks:

Friday 25 April 2025

Governing Digital China
Date: 25 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women
Date: 25 April 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Emily Owens (Brown University), Kaisha Esty (Wesleyan University)
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 April 2025

New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students
Date: 28 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Shreya Ganguli (Oxford), Kate Harrison (Oxford), Camille Lund (Oxford), Rawdah Uddin (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
Date: 28 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ann Kelly (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Helen Appleton (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Truth-seeking AI
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford), Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford))
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

‘Editing Shakespeare’s Lyric Poetry’
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Lukas Erne (University of Geneva)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Press of the Royal Institution
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 May 2025

Writing the Environmental History of the Medieval Islamic East
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Thomas Laskowski (MPhil Islamic Studies)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Growing Up Queer: 1837-1918
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Hannah Stovin (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Temperance Women and the Franchise: The New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union, The British Woman’s Temperance Association, and Women’s Suffrage, 1876-1914
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Danielle Van Dalen (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Life Between "Enigma" and "Influence": Dona Torr Interprets Marx
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Sam Miller (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China' by J P Park
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : J P Park (Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
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

Friday 2 May 2025

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Inquiry Complex
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 May 2025

Prelates as Political Appointees: Ecclesiastical patronage and its consequences for modern Britain, 1977-2009
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Kyle Siwek (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pensions, Poverty, and Policy: Gendered Inequalities in Old Age, 1975–2005
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Janina Bechtold (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
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

Monday 12 May 2025

Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoe Screti (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Privacy and the Future of AI
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Professor Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell), Carina Peng (Apple)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Beyond Trump’s First 100 Days: What Comes Next Economically and Geopolitically?
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Robert Westcott (Former White House Special Assistant for Economic Policy)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Mary Lou Williams and the Re-Imagining of Jazz’s History
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tammy L. Kernodle (Miami University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Thursday 15 May 2025

The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Trip to India: Cultural Indophilia, British Hippiedom, and Post-Imperial Memory
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Robert Taylor (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Edward A. Freeman, History, and "Public Affairs", 1884-1892
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Gabriel Smith (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Sandra Leonie Field (Monash University), Pierre-François Moreau (ENS Lyon)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Harold H.W. Lee Room
Organisers: James Read (University of Oxford), Olivier Yasar de France (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Decentralization in Science & AI
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Decentralization in Science & AI
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, 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 Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Taylorian Main Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Racial Capitalism in Early Modern England’
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
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 Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Aled Davies (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Winant-Mellon Symposium Keynote Address: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR
Organisers: Professor Kimberley Johnson (Winant Professor, RAI), Professor Des King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Emergency as Genre
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
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

Friday 23 May 2025

Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Nazrin Shah Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
Date: 26 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
Date: 26 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker s: Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Collective Intelligence
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ivan Vendrov (Midjourney)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Brenna Greer (Wellesley College)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

‘“That Follows Not”: The Non Sequitur in Hamlet’
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof. Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Byron and Consciousness
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Messy Chaucer
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Habermas Machine
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Professor Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Michael Henry Tessler (Google Deepmind)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Dr Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)

The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Stuart Delery (Former White House Counsel)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Tom Jones (St Andrews)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
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 Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
Organisers: Laura del Alisal (Reuben College), Ivi Fung (Exeter College), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College), Sam Miller (Jesus College), Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Cameron Bowman (Keble College)
Hosts: TBA

The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin University), Joel Suarez (Harvard University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Friday 6 June 2025

Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
Date: 6 June 2025, 10:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Cohen Quad, Walton Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Ryle Room (first floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

In conversation with Prof Adam Smyth and Prof Lloyd Pratt on Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2025)
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Prof. Kirsten McFarlane (University of Chicago)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Bill Smith (DPhil History)
Venue Details: ONLINE via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jake Nebel (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

End of term social event
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:15 - 14:15
Speaker : Social event
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Old Kitchen Bar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Iris Clever (Chicago)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Project Clinic
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 November 2025

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

Friday 5 December 2025

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

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)

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

Friday 12 June 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 June 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA