Department: Humanities Division
Talks:

Monday 19 January 2025

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 19 January 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The History of Civilization in the Race Science of Man, from Carl Linnaeus to Frederick Douglass
Date: 19 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jacob Brandler (RAI, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.018 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

History and Memory in Seventeenth Century Chinese Drama
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Wai-yee Li (Harvard 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 Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford)

Humanism and bestiality in the land of Cockagne
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : John Sabapathy (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch: A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford), Gaye Kynoch
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 8
Organisers: Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford), Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)
Host: Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 January 2025

Norfolk Broads, or Discovering medieval women with twentieth-century collectives
Date: 20 January 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Stacie Vos (U of California, San Diego)
Venue Details: room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Reimagining Race in the US Military: Culture, Communication, and the Making of the Miami Experiment
Date: 20 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Beth Bailey (University of Kansas)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

An Undiscovered Letter by Mary Wollstonecraft and its Significance
Date: 20 January 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Jacob Chatterjee (New College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Grey Escape: Britons Retiring Overseas, c. 1980-2010 (Joint meeting with the Modern European History seminar)
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Helen McCarthy (Cambridge)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Tobacco in Arcadia: Early Stuart Patronesses & Colonial Knowledge'
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Lauren Working (Lauren Working)
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

Keats's Broken Urn
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Kelvin Everest (University of Liverpool)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organiser: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 January 2025

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: AI Skills Wanted: Why the Future of Work Needs Great Skills
Date: 21 January 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Fabian Stephany (Oxford Internet Institute)
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 1: Nineteenth-Century Paris: Memories and Counter-Memories
Date: 21 January 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

Thursday 22 January 2025

Liberty and Slavery in Restoration England
Date: 22 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Tim Harris (Brown University)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Timekeeping between art and science: integrated approaches to the history of Mamluk astronomy
Date: 22 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Yusuf Tayara (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 January 2025

Week 1, Charles Taylor and Hermeneutics
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 23 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Renewal of Islam
Date: 23 January 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Fitzroy Morrissey (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Welcome Social & LGBTQ+ History Library Guide Celebration
Date: 23 January 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cooperating, Challenging, Communicating: Reflections on Five Years of Diplomacy in Beijing
Date: 23 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dame Caroline Wilson
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 January 2025

Childhood and Bookhood in the Nineteenth-Century Country House: Texts, Materiality, and Histories of Book Use
Date: 26 January 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Amy Wells (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tifa as Discursive Infrastructure: Silkroadism and the Commercialisation of Authoritarian Governance
Date: 26 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Giulia Sciorati (LSE)
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)

OCCT Discussion Group: Laurence Sterne and Early Soviet Translators: Drafts, Notes, and Digressions
Date: 26 January 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Peter Budrin (QMUL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Debunking three myths concerning Albert Einstein
Date: 26 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Estate Management and the Beginnings of Specialised Production in Early Medieval Iberia
Date: 26 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Rob Portass (Robinson College, Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 January 2025

The Logic of Provocative Propaganda in the Shadow of Democratic Uprisings: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement
Date: 27 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Eddy S. F. Yeung (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘Chivalry is a code for men willing to fight’: medievalism, masculinity and the modern far-right
Date: 27 January 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rachel Moss (Northampton)
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

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

Frauds We Are Yet But in Sight Of': Fighting Civil War Pension Fraud in Gilded Age America, 1884-1897
Date: 27 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Rob Bates (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

Religion, History and the Idea of an Indian Constitution in the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings
Date: 27 January 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Jessica Patterson (Cambridge)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 1: Crafting Order
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Novel’s Lost Causes
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Lynn Festa (Rutgers University)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI (Rothermere American Institute)
Date: 28 January 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

Constitutionalism and Democracy: Reappraising the Political Thought of W. E. H. Lecky
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Adam Coleman (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 2: Shanghai
Date: 28 January 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

The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Steven Sarson (Université Jean Moulin - Lyon), Professor Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Discussion Group
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Room 10.302, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Clémence Smith, Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts: TBA

A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

(Un)bordering "old" Commonwealth migration after 1962
Date: 29 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Freddy Foks (Manchester)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 2: Media
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Latin motets and literary networks in the late Middle Ages: Intertextuality, rhetoric, and digital reading'
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Kévin Roger (University of Lorraine)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Early Tudor Nobility to 1529: some reflections on a problem
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr James Ross (University of Winchester)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Miriam Driessen (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 Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)

The hidden life of Kūfī scripts: practice-based insights and theories
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Joumana Medlej (Independent Scholar)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 January 2025

Towards a Supernatural History of the British Empire
Date: 30 January 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : John Slight (Open University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Chinese Buddhist Ethics of Belief: An Introduction to Sanlun Philosophy
Date: 2 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Rafal K. Stepien (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor, turn left at top of stairs/coming out of lift)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Jessica Frazier (University of Oxford)

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 2 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

Lithic New York: Scientific Groundings of the Metropolis in the Age of Revolutions (Soils, Surfaces, Depths)
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Stéphane van Damme (MFO)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Aquaculture: A Moral, Theological, and Scientific Assessment
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Clair Linzey (Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: The Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Nuns’ Financial Literacy and the Private Banking Activities of Female Religious Organisations in the Later Middle Ages
Date: 2 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Anna Molnár (Reading)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 February 2025

Bad books in medieval Bristol: alchemy, liturgy and Thomas Norton’s ordinals
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Joe Stadolnik (U of Chicago)
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

How to Disagree: Books, Authors, and Early Modern Debates
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:45
Speaker s: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre, Room 10.019
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

Event with Taiwanese Poet Yen Ai-Lin
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:45
Speaker s: Yen Ai-Lin 顏艾琳, Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford), Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford), Samir Ng Sum Leung
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 8
Organiser: Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Metaphors of Reception, Reception as a Metaphor Project: An Overview
Date: 3 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Ben Folit-Weinberg (Ohio State University), Harriet Fertik (Ohio State University)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: APGRD (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Americanism to Maga: redefining the bounds of citizenship
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford's Koch Centre)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“Of myself alone”: Inventing the Written Proposal of Marriage in Long Eighteenth-Century England
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Sally Holloway (Warwick)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 2: Coming to Terms
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Austen in Volumes
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof. Seamus Perry (University of Oxford), Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Trump 2.0 and Threats to American Democracy
Date: 4 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: The ‘Public’, Disrupted: The Transformative Effects of Technology on Democracy
Date: 4 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Neli Frost (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
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), Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 3: Colonial Algiers: Architecture and Segregation
Date: 4 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

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Lily Middleton-Mansell, Lucie Richter-Mahr
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop
Date: 5 February 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

Falling families: downward social mobility in the middle class, 1840-1930
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Christina de Bellaigue (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Farmyard Medicine and Agricultural Expertise in early modern Britain
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Leah Astbury (University of Bristol)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 3: Self
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This is What we Must Transform First: Translation and Imperialism in Taiwan (1935-1947)
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Aoife Cantrill (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: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

The silk core, or lessons from medieval Iberian textile studies
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Maria Judith Feliciano (CSIC, Madrid)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 February 2025

Bureaucracies of Violence: Asians leaving Uganda in 1972
Date: 6 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ria Kapoor (QMUL)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

“Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers”: Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century Convent School
Date: 9 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Emma Arthur (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OCCT Discussion Group: Hallucination, Contemplation, and ‘Ideal Realism’: British Romanticism in Dialogue with Daoism
Date: 9 February 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Serena Qihui Pei (UCL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 9 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

Palliating Uncertainty: Tools from the Pragmatism of William James
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Ariel Dempsey (Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: TBC, Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Disease and the Dead Body in Britain in the Long-Eighteenth Century
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Eleanor Kerfoot (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medieval Racism? Social Practices in Colonial Contact Zones in Greenland and Sápmi (900-1500)
Date: 9 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Cordelia Heß (Aarhus)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Fellows’ Forum - Citizenship and Conquest: Hawaiʻi and the Architecture of U.S. Expansion
Date: 10 February 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Maye Henning (Suffolk University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Power and conversion in middle English romance
Date: 10 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Kirsty Bolton (University of Oxford)
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: 10 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Thomas Leonard-Roy (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
Venue Details: Room 10.303, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Industrial Revolution as a dramatic event: a review of the evidence
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 3: The Capacity of Power
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Date: 11 February 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

Civil Servants and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: “Keep People Talking”
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Giada Lagana (Cardiff)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 4: Accra and Kumasi: Architecture and Decolonization
Date: 11 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

Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Margot Tudor (City)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Methodology Workshop
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Room 10.302, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 February 2025

Love’s labour: a history of childcare
Date: 12 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Emily Baughan (Sheffield)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Last words: migration, death, and languages in early modern London
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr John Gallagher (Leeds)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 4: State and Economy
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch - Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Federica Gigante (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 February 2025

Italian Fascism, the Holy See and the Nationalist Government During the First Apostolic Delegation to China (1922-1933)
Date: 13 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Chiara D'Auria (UNISA)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 February 2025

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 2025

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

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

Winant Lecture ni 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

‘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

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

‘... 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 2025

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
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

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker
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 2025

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop
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

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

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

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

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 2025

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)

Monday 23 February 2025

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

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 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

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

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 2025

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

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

“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

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

Wednesday 25 February 2025

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

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: Wharton Room
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: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

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

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

'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

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 2025

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 Szczgieł 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 2025

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 2025

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

'"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)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2025

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)
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)

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2025

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop
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

Ma mère as Journal intime and Sheng Cheng’s Journey of Self-Realization in France
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
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)

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

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 2025

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 2025

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

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

Tuesday 10 March 2025

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

"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

"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 2025

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

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

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

Thursday 12 March 2025

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

'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

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

A Greek-Orthodox monastery in the desert: Mount Sinai and the material culture of its Arabic (and Islamic) manuscripts
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 March 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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

Friday 15 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 May 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Selim Berker (Harvard)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA