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 at 23:30 on Tuesday 13 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 - On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
  Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Oxford Centre for European History
• 17:00 - Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
  Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

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
• 17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
  History of War
• 17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 12:45 - Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
  Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
  History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment Work in Progress Group
• 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 - Astor 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
• 17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
  Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
  Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
  History of War

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

Monday 23 June 2025

• 09:15 - Colloquium 2025: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences
  Various Speakers
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 11:00 - Day 1: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Friday 27 June 2025

• 09:00 - Day 2: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events