Monday 28 April 2025

• 11:00 - New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students
  Shreya Ganguli (Oxford), Kate Harrison (Oxford), Camille Lund (Oxford), Rawdah Uddin (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained (Hybrid)
  Please note registration is required for online attendance only
  Ann Kelly (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - The Court of Tunis: Negotiating Kingship in the Sixteenth-Century Maghreb
  Rubén González Cuerva (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Biography, Textual Authority, and the Transformation of the Carolingian World
  Graeme Ward (Tübingen)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 11:30 - The "Care" Series: Reading: Anne Antoni, Juliane Reinecke, and Marianna Fotaki, 'Making Time to Care, and Caring for Time'
  Reading Group
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:15 - Literary and Philosophical Societies as knowledge-making Communities in early nineteenth-century England
  Martha Vandrei (Exeter University)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Technological and Organizational Sophistication in North American Indigenous Economies, 1000-1500 - The Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History
  Please note this seminar will be held at St Hilda's College
  Ann M Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 17:00 - Special Reading Group - Hungarian LGBTQ+ History
  Reading Group
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 12:30 - Writing the Environmental History of the Medieval Islamic East
  Thomas Laskowski (MPhil Islamic Studies)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - A Life Between "Enigma" and "Influence": Dona Torr Interprets Marx
  Sam Miller (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Temperance Women and the Franchise: The New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union, The British Woman’s Temperance Association, and Women’s Suffrage, 1876-1914
  Danielle Van Dalen (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Growing Up Queer: 1837-1918
  Hannah Stovin (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 2 May 2025

• 14:00 - Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
  Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Saturday 3 May 2025

• 12:00 - Everyday Muslim: Telling Our Stories - Oxford
  Karim Khan
  Oxford Community History Hub

Monday 5 May 2025

• 17:00 - Salvation, alienation and sacrifice zones from medieval to modern thought
  Amanda Power (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 16:00 - Was Serfdom Good for the Economy? Peasants, Lords, and Markets in Early Modern Bohemia
  Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls, Oxford)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 17:00 - A Subsectoral Analysis of Historical Occupational Data and Their Relation to Economic Growth, New Data and Methods
  Alexis Litvine (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 11:10 - Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England
  Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 16:30 - Objects and Empire on the Portuguese India Run: Surviving Shipwreck
  Elsje van Kessel (University of St Andrews)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 09:30 - Where Are We At? - PGR and ECR Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Prelates as Political Appointees: Ecclesiastical patronage and its consequences for modern Britain, 1977-2009
  Kyle Siwek (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Pensions, Poverty, and Policy: Gendered Inequalities in Old Age, 1975–2005
  Janina Bechtold (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 9 May 2025

• 11:00 - A Panel Discussion: Museum Careers for Historians
  Please note there is limited capacity for this event so register early to avoid disappointment, and by 7 May at the latest
  Danielle Czerkaszyn (Oxford University Museum of Natural History), Sydney Robinson (MSc HSMT, formerly Ralph Appelbaum Associates), JC Niala (History of Science Museum), Chair: Catherine M Jackson (Oxford Centre for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen (Co-convened with the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network)
  Please note this seminar will be in the Ship Street Centre, Jesus College
  Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen)
  Court Studies Seminar Series

Monday 12 May 2025

• 16:00 - Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
  Zoe Screti (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - The Queen’s Court: Materiality and Colour at Early Modern Scandinavian Courts
  Dustin Neighbors (University of Helsinki)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Lessons for Late Medieval Literary History from Strasbourg
  Stephen Mossman (University of Manchester)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 16:15 - British espionage in 18th-century Italy: the case of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757)
  Riccardo Neri (Mansfield College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Wage Differentials in Seventeenth-Century Venice
  Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 16:30 - "Eager the Orient Spoils Itself": Sublimity and the Indies in Luis de Góngora’s Panegírico al duque de Lerma (1617)
  Felipe Valencia (Utah State University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 12:30 - The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
  Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - A Trip to India: Cultural Indophilia, British Hippiedom, and Post-Imperial Memory
  Robert Taylor (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Edward A. Freeman, History, and "Public Affairs", 1884-1892
  Gabriel Smith (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 15:00 - What is a “Trans Woman”?: Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis (Hybrid)
  Jamey Jesperson (Victoria)
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Monday 19 May 2025

• 11:00 - Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
  Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 11:00 - Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
  This event has limited capacity - registration closes on Sunday 11 May
  Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
  Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Surviving in the archives: how to make sense of early medieval relic labels
  Julia Smith (All Souls College, Oxford), Ana Dias (Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
  Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
  Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Oxford Centre for European History

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 11:10 - Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
  Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 16:00 - Flooding and drought in early modern central Europe - Health, bodies, emotions
  Please note this seminar is on a Wednesday
  Anna Parker (Institute for Historical Research, University of London)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 16:30 - Islamic Spain and English Romanesque Architecture: The Fortunes of a Theory and the Construction of "the West"
  Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 14:00 - The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
  Aled Davies (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 23 May 2025

• 16:00 - Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events

Monday 26 May 2025

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events
• 16:30 - The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century
  Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - People as property? Captives and slaves in medieval Iberia
  Teresa Witcombe (St John's College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 16:15 - English Criminal Law and Practice, 12th–19th centuries
  Deborah Oxley (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
  Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 12:30 - Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
  Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
  Environmental History Working Group

Monday 2 June 2025

• 11:00 - Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
  Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Diu nocteque: Investigating Liturgical Programs of Prayer for Tenth-Century Ruling Women
  Megan Welton (UCD)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 16:00 - Beyond a Lutheran Plague: Exploring Motivation and Intent in Early Modern Suicide by Proxy
  Andreas Berger-Gehringer (Universität Bern)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 17:00 - The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
  Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 11:10 - Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
  Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 16:30 - There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century
  Please note this seminar will take place in the Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad
  Cécile Fromont (Harvard University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
  Various Speakers

Friday 6 June 2025

• 10:00 - Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
  Registration deadline is midday on 31 April 2025
  Various Speakers
  The J H Elliott History Forum

Monday 9 June 2025

• 16:00 - Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
  Laure Miolo (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg (Co-convened with the Oxford Court Studies Seminar)
  Please note: This talk will be held on Monday at 16:30 in the Memorial Room, Jesus College
  Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 16:30 - Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg (Co-convened with the Oxford Early Modern Central European Seminar Series)
  Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Cult of Saint Frideswide in Medieval Oxford
  Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 16:15 - Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850
  Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
  Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 12:30 - Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
  Bill Smith (DPhil History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
  Please note this seminar will be on Thursday at 17:00 at the Rothermere American Institute
  Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Monday 16 June 2025

• 12:15 - End of term social event
  Social event
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
  Iris Clever (Chicago)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
  Please note this seminar is on Monday
  Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm
  Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 16:00 - Cows and Commons: An Environmental Approach to Witchcraft Belief in Switzerland
  Aaron Larsen (St Hilda's College, Oxford), Noé Vonlanthen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 17:00 - Narratives from European-African Encounters
  Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 11:10 - The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
  Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar