Department: Humanities Division
Talks:

Monday 16 February 2026

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 16 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Chronic Constitutions: Experts, Disease Risks and Remaking Indian Bodies in Post Colonial India (1940-70s)
Date: 16 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Queen Melisende of Jerusalem and the Wages of Sin
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2026

The Death of Dragons: Faith and Fairy Tales in early eighteenth-century Taxonomy c.1665-1750
Date: 17 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Thomas Wood (Independent)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Winant Lecture in American Government: States and American Constitutional Development
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Emily Zackin (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 4: Making Equality
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking Max Weber’s Politics
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Ghosh (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Black Death as a structural labour market transformation (with Vincent Delabastita, Spike Gibbs and Greg Salter)
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Jordan Claridge (LSE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trans studies and medieval literatures
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: François.e Charmaille (University of Cambridge), Prof. Gareth Evans (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: THE MAISON FRANÇAISE
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘The Wolves of Toleration in Early Modern Religious Controversy’
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Karen Edwards (University of Exeter)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T.S. Eliot lecture theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Hosts: TBA

‘... this brilliant assemblage ... ’: The Sociability of Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1821)
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Kevosi (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof. Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Prof. Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 February 2026

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: What should we make of the role of AI in elections?
Date: 18 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Felix Simon (University of Oxford)
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)
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 5: Brasilia: Planned Exclusion
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'John Ashbery's Boredom' and ‘Serially Late: the Long Poems of Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Mackey’
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker s: Ben Philipps, Lochie Springett
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Shaping the future of AI and Human Rights
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Yuval Shany (King's College, London)
Venue Details: Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens, Oxford
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 February 2026

The Problem of the Christian Master | Book Symposium
Date: 19 February 2026, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Organiser: McDonald Centre (Faculty of Theology and Religion)
Hosts: TBA

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Materiality
Date: 19 February 2026, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Timely Courts and Immediate Responses: Waste Management as a Temporal Issue in Late Medieval England
Date: 19 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Louis James Henry (University of Stavanger/KCL)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable on the methodologies and historiographies of ‘The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life’
Date: 19 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Peter Mandler (Cambridge), Various Discussants
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground Floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Heather Professor of Music Inaugural Lecture
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Laura Tunbridge (Professor of Music, Faculty of Music)
Venue: Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 5: Self and Society
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Family Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Imogen Peck (Birmingham)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

REGNAT POPULUS IN ARKANSAS: The partnership to lead on state constitutional history
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Politics in the Peripheries: The Spatial and Relational Dimensions of China’s ‘Democratic Parties and Groups'
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen)
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 Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Wall painting in the Islamic West and the aesthetic of naqsh
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Umberto Bongianino (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 February 2026

Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Date: 20 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : David Lambert (Warwick)
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: 20 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Graham Priest (CUNY)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Host: Joshua Loo (Oxford)

Beyond Average Wages: Wage Inequality in Medieval England, 1300–1514
Date: 20 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Leonardo Ridolfi (University of Siena)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2026

Setting the Children to Work in Early Modern London: Some Methodological Challenges
Date: 23 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Ian Archer (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The End of Ends: Elsa Morante and Eschatology
Date: 23 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Walker (University of Oxford)
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Room 2
Organisers: Victoria White, Kate McKee
Hosts: TBA

Religious Encounters
Date: 23 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:45
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Room 8.5
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OCCT Discussion Group: On the Trail of the Detective: Testing a New Comparative Methodology in World Literature
Date: 23 February 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Oliver Eccles (UCL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Mental After-Care Association, Recovery and Psychotherapy
Date: 23 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Hannah Blythe (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Bible and the Earth: A Proposal for Ecotheological Hermeneutics
Date: 23 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Bethany Sollereder (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079 (Ground Floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

International commerce and regional development: pepper in the Indian Ocean
Date: 23 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Chris Wickham (Birmingham/Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Emotions in the Politics of Water: China–India Tensions over Tibetan Rivers
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis (Jagiellonian 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)

‘Motes of gold’: early English poetry and its modern recollection
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Elaine Treharne (Stanford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Writerly Hate
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Thomas Leonard-Roy (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
Venue Details: Room 00.056, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Josh Hollands (UCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Josh Hollands (UCL), Chair: Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large Seminar Room (SR 2.3)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Will someone please think of the children!”: Child Custody and Mediation in the Court for Matrimonial Causes, 1800-1923
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Jennifer Aston (Northumbria)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dissociative Realism
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Abbas Zahedi
Venue: 128 Bullingdon Road, 128 Bullingdon Road OX4 1QP
Venue Details: Ruskin School of Art (East Oxford site) Accessibility info: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beauty and Peril and Sorrow: A Web in Tolkien's Thinking
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Anders Stenström
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Steel is the most romantic thing in the world': Industrial party time-travel novels and the digital fantasy fiction boom
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jessica Imbach (University of Freiburg)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford)

The Negus and the monks: Monasteries, state formation and long-run development in Ethiopia, 1270-2020 (with Andrés Martignano)
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mattia Bertazzini (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Free Public Transport: The View From 1976
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Daniel Gordon (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 5: The Sense of Beauty
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2026

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Date: 25 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Trade & Labour History
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Christians, Jews, and Muslims' resistance to the Spanish Monarchs in 15th c. Malaga
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Celine Dauverd
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Old Customs and the Contest for Jurisdiction over Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Iberia
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco (UCL)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 6: Permanently Temporary Cities: Refugee Camps
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

One History or Many? Transitional Justice Theory and the Politics of Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Louise Mallinder (QUB)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture Series: The Bestseller of Failed Ottomanism: Muslim-Christian Coexistence, Istanbul’s Urban Life, and Ottoman Imperial Collapse in Konstantinos Makridis’ Popular Satire
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Kutay Onaylı (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room 2 Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 1, Pusey Lane Oxford, OX1 2 LE
Organiser: Professor Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Room 10.302, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male Bodies for the Fatherland: Invalidity and Self-Mutilation in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
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: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘James Schuyler's Romanticism: “A little trick I picked up from Bill Coleridge”’
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Eric Lindstrom
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2026

Glut
Date: 26 February 2026, 11:45 - 13:00
Speaker s: Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Koch History Centre), Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

The Worst Bird in Britain? Gamekeepers, bird protection, and the Little Owl controversy in England, c.1900-1954
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Max Long (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Fictions of Legal Hearing'
Date: 26 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Nomi Dave (University of Oxford)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Made to measure or prêt à chanter? The court of Wilhelm IV and the later Alamire manuscripts'
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Andrew Kirkman (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Film Screening: Victim (1961)
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Film screening and discussion
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 20.421 (second floor), History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 6: Self vs. Society
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Commerce has taught us more humanitie”? Enslaved Black people, Jewish people, and the conditional rightslessness of ‘infidels’ in seventeenth-century England
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Kathleen Commons (Sheffield)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Debt in stone: architectures of finance in late Ottoman Istanbul
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Eva Schreiner (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 February 2026

Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
Date: 27 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions
Date: 27 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2026

Seeking Wonder in the Long Nineteenth Century: Women, Folklore and Fairy Tales from a Transnational Perspective
Date: 2 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Room 2
Organisers: Victoria White, Kate McKee
Hosts: TBA

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 2 March 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
Date: 2 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Insular manuscripts: why membrane matters
Date: 2 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jo Story (Leicester)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2026

Revoicing Classical Poetry
Date: 3 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Josephine Balmer, Ulrike Draesner, Inconversation with Professor Karen Leeder
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: APGRD (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Department of German (University of Oxford), APGRD (University of Oxford)

Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Undergraduate Thesis session (in-person only)
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 6: Democratic Form
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reflections on writing the history of Europe under German occupation during World War II
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alessandro Nuvolari (School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Modes of Remembering in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fictional World
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mina Lukić Gunner (University of Belgrade)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'"As if the dead the living should exceed": Unfeeling in Venus and Adonis'
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T.S. Eliot lecture theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Hosts: TBA

Poetic Fascination and the Metaphysics of Metre
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gregory Leadbetter (Birmingham City University)
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

Book Launch: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail with author Hélène Giannecchini
Date: 3 March 2026, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker s: Hélène Giannecchini (Author), Discussant: Katie Burke (Oxford), Discussant: Eszter D Kovács (Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Old Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2026

By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : TBC
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)
Hosts: TBA

By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Anatomy of a Conversion: Nicolaus Steno and the Search for Religious Certainty in the “Scientific Revolution”
Date: 4 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 10.30, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Expert Insights Seminar - AI and human agency
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens, Oxford
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)

Koch History Centre Lecture: Church, State and Hierarchy
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : David d'Avray
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"A learner, rather": Did Joyce Really "Teach Us How to Read Ulysses?" and '"Gilding What’s Eyesore": Visual Poetics and Hallucinatory Worlds in Sylvia Plath’s Flower Poems'
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker s: Henry Barlow, Alice Sholto-Douglas
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2026

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Community
Date: 5 March 2026, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign: Race, Healthcare and Citizenship in late Twentieth Century Britain
Date: 5 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Saima Nasar (Bristol)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Burning Issues: Fire Management in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1892-1938
Date: 5 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jessica Chirboga (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Billie Eilish, Princess Nokia, and the Musical Vernacular of Depression'
Date: 5 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jessica Holmes (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Vinzent Wesselmann, Emma Arthur (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Control an Idea
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : George Lewis (University of Leicester)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

First year graduate presentations
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ma mère as Journal intime and Sheng Cheng’s Journey of Self-Realization in France
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Vivienne Xiangwei Guo (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Picturing marvels, magic and monsters at the Ottoman court, 1574–1603
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Günseli Gürel (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2026

Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
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: 6 March 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor James Ladyman (Bristol)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2026

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Childhood Studies
Date: 9 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Kiera Vaclavik (QMUL), Sophie Ratcliffe (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Order of Knowledge
Date: 9 March 2026, 12:15 - 13:45
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OCCT Discussion Group: Teaching the Coloniality of the Climate Crisis in Translation: Indonesian and Dutch Flood Narratives
Date: 9 March 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucelle Pardoe (UCL)
Venue Details: Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Quantum Worldviews - Believing and Belonging
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Shaun Henson (Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079 (Ground Floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cowries, Cloth and Coins: Currency in Medieval Economic Anthropology
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Nick Evans (Birkbeck)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Theatre and cultural politics in the Academies of the Venetian Republic
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker : Lisa Sampson (UCL)
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Room 2
Organisers: Victoria White, Kate McKee
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2026

Investigations of Women’s Suicides in the County of Henneberg: 1590-1612
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Louisa Bergold, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special Contemporary History Seminar: The Rise and Demise of Italy’s Christian Democracy
Date: 10 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Rosario Forlenza (LUISS Rome)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre, OX2 6GG
Organiser: Martin Conway (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Making of Marie Antoinette Style at The V&A
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker s: Sarah Grant (The V&A), Oliver Cox (The V&A)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Habitatio est omen - or: like land, like people
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Thomas Honegger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Spinning at Home for the Market: Individual Productivity and Income in 18th Century Sweden
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Kathryn Gary (Lund University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Artistic Exchanges during the Global Cold War: Algeria and the Eastern Bloc
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Katarzyna Falęcka (Newcastle)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"The Universal Vibration of Life": William Bartram's Swarm Ecology
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Sheila Byers (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2026

Postgraduate Presentations
Date: 11 March 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Date: 11 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Date: 11 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Sacrifice to Creation: Two Paradigms of Indian Political Thought
Date: 11 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Salmoli Choudhuri
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 11 March 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile (Sorbonne)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Making Ireland Catholic: Morality and Modernity in the Free State
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Fearghal McGarry (QUB)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Moments of unselfing: Rachel Cusk, Amit Chaudhuri, and the new impersonal'
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Agota Marton
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2026

Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
Date: 12 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
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), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Mattie Armstrong-Price (Fordham University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Archival Fragments, Experimental Modes in Oxford
Date: 12 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker s: Sara Johnson (UC San Diego), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

'No two books are the same: Interactions with early printed music and the people behind them'
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Elisabeth Giselbrecht (King’s College, London), Louisa Hunter-Bradley (King’s College, London), Katie McKeogh (King’s College, London)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Propaganda and Ethnic Polarization: Experimental Evidence from Malaysia
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
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 Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

First year graduate presentations
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ancient Stones, Living Meanings: Local Turkish Interpreters' Encounters with Antiquities, 1608–1864
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Hüsamettin Şimşir (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 March 2026

Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
Date: 13 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 March 2026

America 250: What Makes A Revolution?
Date: 19 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Mancall (University of Southern California)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 March 2026

America 250: The Declaration of Independence and American Identity at 250
Date: 20 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 May 2026

Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
Date: 5 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 15 May 2026

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 2026

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

Thursday 11 June 2026

Day 1 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
Date: 11 June 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reimagining Humanism | McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026
Date: 11 June 2026, 17:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Slavica Jakelić (Richard P. Baepler Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Valparaiso University), Randi Rashkover (Nathan and Sofia Gumenick Chair of Judaic Studies, William & Mary), Eric Gregory (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Religion, Princeton University), Ufuk Topkara (Professor of Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin), Professor Joshua Hordern, Aaron Stalnaker (Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University), Chammah Kaunda (Academic Dean at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS))
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford)

Friday 12 June 2026

Day 2 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
Date: 12 June 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA