Department: Humanities Division
Talks:

Tuesday 18 November 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 19 November 2025

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

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

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

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

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

The Natural History of Style: Specimens, Albums, and the History of Art in Early Modern Japan (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kris Kersy
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Making Sense of the Fourth Plenum & China’s New Five-Year Plan
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Yu Jie (Chatham House)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

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

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

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

Thursday 20 November 2025

Lightening Round: We gather for flash discussions of research
Date: 20 November 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.501, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

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

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

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

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

‘Gothic Slavery: Slave Revolt and the Gothic Imagination in British Caribbean Literature, 1789–1834’
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Stephanie Volder (Carlsberg Fellow, Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Film Screening & Director Q&A: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:30 - 20:30
Speaker : Xiaoxuan Jiang (Film Director)
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 November 2025

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

Beyond Rivalry: How Americans and Chinese View Global Justice
Date: 21 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Xiaojun Li (The University of British Columbia)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

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

Neo-Latin Play: Performance of Piccolomini’s Chrysis and Book Launch
Date: 21 November 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organiser: APGRD (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 November 2025

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

Is China Building a Rival International Order and How Would We Know?
Date: 24 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Matthew D. Stephen (Helmut Schmidt University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday 25 November 2025

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

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

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

Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Gregory Jusdanis
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Main Hall
Organiser: APGRD (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

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

Old English Graduate Reading Group
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Location is tbc so please email: Hattie (harriet.carter@lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Organisers: James Titterington, Hattie Carter
Hosts: TBA

Oxford CEMS in the Schwarzman: Early Modern Conversations in Ecology: ‘True Fire: Saint Augustine, the Climate Crisis, and Creative Non-Fiction’ / ‘Affective Ecologies in Petrarch’s Lyric Poems’
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Francesca Southerden (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre L1, (with reception in 10.302), Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for Humanities
Organisers: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Wednesday 26 November 2025

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

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: AI Skills Wanted: Why the Future of Work Needs Great Skills
Date: 26 November 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Fabian Stephany (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre, room 00.308 ground floor seminar room
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)

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

Everywhen: Photography and Indigeneity
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geoffrey Batchen
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Williams: A Composer's Life
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Tim Greiving (University of Southern California), Daniel Pemberton (Composer)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Religious Diversity and the early modern English State: views from the parishes
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Emeritus Ann Hughes (Keele University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

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

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

Navigating Welfare Boundary: Experiences of Migrant Families across Chinese Metropolises
Date: 27 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Qiaobing Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)

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

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

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

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

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

The Soul-loosing Grid (mihun zhen 迷魂陣) and Other Novelese Battle Arrays (zhen 陣): A Tentative Exploration of a 'Fictional' Reconstruction of Military Arts, Taoist Rituals, Performing Arts and Black Magic
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Vincent Durand-Dastès (INALCO, Paris)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

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

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

Friday 28 November 2025

Phenomenology and disenchantment [ Week 7, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 28 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre 30.301A (Seminar Room A)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

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

Between Yin and Yang: The Art of Femininity and Masculinity
Date: 28 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Dr Manhua Li (Royal Holloway College)
Host: Prof Nicholas Bunnin (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 December 2025

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

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

OCCT Discussion Group: Original Persian and (selective) Russian translations of Ahmad Dānish’s works: How Does the Process of Translation Become Political?
Date: 1 December 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

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

Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

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

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

Tuesday 2 December 2025

German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Gabriele Marcon (Vienna), Chair: Howard Hotson
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Of myself alone”: Inventing the Written Proposal of Marriage in Long Eighteenth-Century England
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Sally Holloway (Warwick)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing the History of an Invisible Group: Old Women in Germany, 1950-2010
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL/QMUL)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What Did the Romans Ever do for Them? Aqueducts and the Administration of the Empire
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Andrea Papadia (York)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Ceola Daly
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Modern Transimperial History: An Introduction
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: John-Paul Ghobrial

Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lunchtime Seminar for competition winners: Bernard Williams Essay Prize
Date: 3 December 2025, 12:30 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre room 00:308/Remote
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Edward Harcourt (University of Oxford)

Knowledge, Science, and Development across Global Contexts
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Madeline White (Oxford), Koyna Tomar (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

People as property? Captivity and conflict in medieval Iberia
Date: 3 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Teresa Witcombe
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World
Date: 3 December 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Worcester College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Created in Canton: The Past and Present of Pith Paper Watercolours
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Liu Zhiwei (Zhongshan University), Professor May Bo Ching (City University Hong Kong), Lyu Ziyuan
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : M T Howard (Independent Scholar)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Graduate Workshop
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.302, Humanities Building
Organisers: Clemence Smith, Kathryn Hempstead (Merton)
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 3 December 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.402, Schwarzman Centre for Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

The Madwoman in the Factory: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Imagination
Date: 4 December 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Marybeth Hamilton (History Workshop)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Religion as a liberating force? Black British feminist movements, localised activism, and faith communities in London, 1970-1990
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Hannah Elias (Goldsmiths)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

DPhil student talks
Date: 4 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Jim Hickson (University of Oxford), Juan Carlos Méndez Álvarez (University of Oxford), Lorane Prévost (University of Oxford)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Voice-parts and voice-types in Tudor England'
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Kerry McCarthy
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Writing James VI and I
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Making of a Neglected Disease: Trachoma Research and Control in Twentieth-century China
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mary Augusta Brazelton (Cambridge)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Wuyutong Yao (University of Oxford)

'Irony, Agency and African Global Imaginaries: Book Discussion'
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Penny Cartwright (Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof Elleke Boehmer (English, Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beowulf Reading Group
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.304, Humanities Building
Organiser: Prof. Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Fuchsia Hart (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Resear Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lexical prescription in Breton: what does it involve and who is taking notice?
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Oxford (hybrid) - Seminar Room 30.022 of the Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road.
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

Phenomenology and reenchantment [ Week 8, Charles Taylor and Phenomenology ]
Date: 5 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Stevan Veljkovic (Theology and Religion, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre 30.301A (Seminar Room A)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Baillie Gifford Distinguished Lecture (China Centre)
Date: 5 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dame Caroline Wilson
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Songs of Solidarity Writers' Room
Date: 17 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Organiser: APGRD (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 January 2025

Week 1, Charles Taylor and Hermeneutics
Date: 23 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 January 2025

Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics
Date: 27 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Wednesday 28 January 2025

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

Thursday 29 January 2025

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

Tuesday 3 February 2025

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

Thursday 5 February 2025

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

Tuesday 10 February 2025

The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
Date: 10 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Wednesday 11 February 2025

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

Thursday 12 February 2025

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

Tuesday 17 February 2025

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

Thursday 19 February 2025

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

Friday 20 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Graham Priest (CUNY)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Host: Joshua Loo (Oxford)

Tuesday 24 February 2025

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

Wednesday 25 February 2025

Joint session with the History of War seminar. Title TBC
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Thursday 26 February 2025

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

Tuesday 3 March 2025

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

Friday 6 March 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 March 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor James Ladyman (Bristol)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2025

Postgraduate presentations - title TBC
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2025

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

Tuesday 5 May 2025

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

Friday 15 May 2025

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

Friday 29 May 2025

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