Department: Faculty of History
Talks:

Tuesday 4 November 2025

The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Tom Hamilton (Durham), Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Transformation of the Corn Milling Trade in Early Modern England, 1540-1800
Date: 4 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Mike Braddick (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ulrike Linder (Cologne)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH, 1892- 1939
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Tim Guinnane (Yale)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 November 2025

The House Always Wins: Arms Trafficking, Settler Capitalism, and the Making of Ottoman Jolan, 1878-1918
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ayşe Polat (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : David Hopkin (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Translation, Religion, and Law
Date: 5 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (Australian National University), Itamar Toussia Cohen (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Difference at the Margin: Religion and Race in the History of the Middle East
Date: 5 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Henry Clements
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Date: 5 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Adolfo Polo y La Borda (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A minor power in a total war: Sweden’s system of military procurement during the campaigns against Napoleon, 1805-1807 and 1813-1814
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Patrik Winton (Örebro)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

Queering the Très Riches Heures: Sexual Ethics, Service, Ganymede, and Dogs
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Bob Mills (UCL)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Foreign agitators” in Britain: overseas students and the British student movement in the 1960s
Date: 6 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Olana Peters (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

“The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 November 2025

Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
Date: 7 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 November 2025

Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Her Material World: Queens’ Stuff in the Global Seventeenth-Century
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Susannah Lyon-Whaley (University of York)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Inscriptive Economy in Fifteenth-Century England
Date: 10 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom Johnson (Oriel College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : David de la Croix (UCLouvain)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Doina Anca Cretu (Warwick)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

NO MEETING
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Date: 12 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

Women’s and Gender History: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Form - An Event with Professor Lyndal Roper
Date: 13 November 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Lyndal Roper (Oxford), Hannah Skoda (Oxford), Daniel Pick (Birkbeck), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Feminism and the genderquake: “new” feminism in 1990s Britain
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Sarah Crook (Swansea)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

What are White Storks (Ciconia ciconica) Doing in High and Late Medieval Calendars?
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Ryan Mealiffe (DPhil History, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Framing in Museums
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Schade (The National Gallery, London)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Lecture Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking the 1650s
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Braddick (All Souls College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 November 2025

The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
Date: 14 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 November 2025

Crossing Borders, Reshaping Lives: Jewish Orphan Migrations and Humanitarian Relief Before the Holocaust (late nineteenth - early twentieth century)
Date: 17 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Charlotte Canizo (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Between truth and justice: towards an intellectual history of post-Mongol Rus
Date: 17 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Angus Russell (King's College, Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

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

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

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

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

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: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
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

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

Friday 21 November 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday 28 November 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday 5 December 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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