Department: Faculty of History
Talks:

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 : M T 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

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

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

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

Tuesday 3 February 2025

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

Thursday 5 February 2025

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday 17 February 2025

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

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

Tuesday 24 February 2025

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

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

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

Thursday 26 February 2025

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

Tuesday 3 March 2025

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

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

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

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