Department: Faculty of History
Talks:

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Was Serfdom Good for the Economy? Peasants, Lords, and Markets in Early Modern Bohemia
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Subsectoral Analysis of Historical Occupational Data and Their Relation to Economic Growth, New Data and Methods
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexis Litvine (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England
Date: 7 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Objects and Empire on the Portuguese India Run: Surviving Shipwreck
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Elsje van Kessel (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies: A Trans-imperial History of Military Labour, 1848–1914
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Philipp Krauer (Cantonal Archives Schwyz)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 May 2025

Where Are We At? - PGR and ECR Symposium
Date: 8 May 2025, 9:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Old Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pensions, Poverty, and Policy: Gendered Inequalities in Old Age, 1975–2005
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Janina Bechtold (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prelates as Political Appointees: Ecclesiastical patronage and its consequences for modern Britain, 1977-2009
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Kyle Siwek (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

A Panel Discussion: Museum Careers for Historians
Date: 9 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: Hohee Cho, Alex Aylward, Sloan Mahone, Catherine Jackson, Rob Iliffe, Mark Harrison, Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen (Co-convened with the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network)
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Ship Street Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoe Screti (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Queen’s Court: Materiality and Colour at Early Modern Scandinavian Courts
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Dustin Neighbors (University of Helsinki)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lessons for Late Medieval Literary History from Strasbourg
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stephen Mossman (University of Manchester)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

The "Care" Series: Reading: Anastasia Kavada, ‘Project Democracy in Protest Camps: Caring, the Commons and Feminist Democratic Theory'
Date: 13 May 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker : Jasmine Baten (Local Expert)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

British espionage in 18th-century Italy: the case of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757)
Date: 13 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Riccardo Neri (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wage Differentials in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

"Eager the Orient Spoils Itself": Sublimity and the Indies in Luis de Góngora’s Panegírico al duque de Lerma (1617)
Date: 14 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Felipe Valencia (Utah State University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Edward A. Freeman, History, and "Public Affairs", 1884-1892
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Gabriel Smith (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Trip to India: Cultural Indophilia, British Hippiedom, and Post-Imperial Memory
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Robert Taylor (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

What is a “Trans Woman”?: Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis (Hybrid)
Date: 16 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jamey Jesperson (Victoria)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Surviving in the archives: how to make sense of early medieval relic labels
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Julia Smith (All Souls College, Oxford), Ana Dias (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Taylorian Main Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
Date: 21 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Flooding and drought in early modern central Europe - Health, bodies, emotions
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anna Parker (Institute for Historical Research, University of London)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Islamic Spain and English Romanesque Architecture: The Fortunes of a Theory and the Construction of "the West"
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:30
Speaker s: Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Aled Davies (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Nazrin Shah Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Astor Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
Date: 26 May 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

People as property? Captives and slaves in medieval Iberia
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Teresa Witcombe (St John's College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

English Criminal Law and Practice, 12th–19th centuries
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Deborah Oxley (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Diu nocteque: Investigating Liturgical Programs of Prayer for Tenth-Century Ruling Women
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Megan Welton (UCD)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Beyond a Lutheran Plague: Exploring Motivation and Intent in Early Modern Suicide by Proxy
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Andreas Berger-Gehringer (Universität Bern)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
Date: 4 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century
Date: 4 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Cécile Fromont (Harvard University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
Date: 5 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Venue Details: HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
Organisers: Laura del Alisal (Reuben College), Ivi Fung (Exeter College), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College), Sam Miller (Jesus College), Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Cameron Bowman (Keble College)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 June 2025

Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
Date: 6 June 2025, 10:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Cohen Quad, Walton Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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)
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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)
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Cult of Saint Frideswide in Medieval Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Bill Smith (DPhil History)
Venue Details: ONLINE via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

End of term social event
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:15 - 14:15
Speaker : Social event
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Old Kitchen Bar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Iris Clever (Chicago)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Cows and Commons: An Environmental Approach to Witchcraft Belief in Switzerland
Date: 17 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Aaron Larsen (St Hilda's College, Oxford), Noé Vonlanthen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
Date: 18 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA