Department: Faculty of History
Talks:

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

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

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

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

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

Revolutionary Worlds: Fascism, Anti-Imperialism, and Transnational Political Imaginaries
Date: 28 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Daiki Kaba (Hitotsubashi University), Ashkan Hashemipour (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

America’s Jews of Islam: Middle Eastern Jews and American Jewish Politics
Date: 28 January 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Geoffrey Levin (Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
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

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

Dearth
Date: 29 January 2026, 12:30 - 13:45
Speaker s: Meleisa Ono-George (Oxford), Alice Rio (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

(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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Koch History Centre Lecture: Theocracy Now!
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Bethany Moreton
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Subjectivity
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

Environing from Below — Supplications, Denunciations, and Other Sources for Rewriting Early Modern Environmental History
Date: 5 February 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Niklas Groschinski (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
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

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

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

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

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

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

Remnants (in collaboration with the Rothermere American Institute)
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Regina Kunzel (Yale)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large Seminar Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
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

Imperial Circulations: Climate Knowledge, Port Labor, and Material Worlds
Date: 11 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Cherry Briggs (Independent Researcher), Alison Bennett (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.513, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Messianism and History: A View from Nineteenth-Century Sudan
Date: 11 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Hengameh Ziai
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
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

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

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

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

Thursday 19 February 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

Monday 2 March 2025

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

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

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

Wednesday 4 March 2025

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

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

Thursday 5 March 2025

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

Burning Issues: Fire Management in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1892-1938
Date: 5 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Jessica Chirboga (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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