Sunday 5 April 2015

• 17:15 - The Church Sleeping: Physiological and Eschatological Sleep Imagery in the Lanterne of Lizt
  TBA
  Medieval Church and Culture

Tuesday 28 April 2015

• 16:30 - Ancient Greece: Property records and the development of market relations
  Edward Harris (Durham/Edinburgh)
  Legalism
• 17:15 - The Vulgate Cycle and the Vernacular in High Medieval England
  Charles Roe (Mansfield)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 29 April 2015

• 17:00 - Credit, debt and the evolution of rural society from Justinian to the Abbasids in Egypt and Southern Palestine
  Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading)
  Medieval Economic & Social History

Thursday 30 April 2015

• 11:00 - The inner city wall of Palmyra in late antiquity
  Emanuele Intagliata (Edinburgh)
  Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar

Tuesday 5 May 2015

• 12:45 - Researching childhood: Workshop 1
  TBA
  Researching childhood: 1700 to the present
• 16:30 - Play as property
  Alain Pottage (LSE)
  Legalism
• 17:15 - The Church Sleeping: Physiological and Eschatological Sleep Imagery in the Lanterne of Lizt
  Patrick Outhwaite (St Catherine's)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 6 May 2015

• 17:00 - Farms and farming on the Yorkshire Pennine slopes: perspectives from the earlier and later Middle Ages
  David Johnson (Ingleborough Archaeology Group), David Hey (Sheffield)
  Medieval Economic & Social History

Thursday 7 May 2015

• 11:00 - Christian rulers at the Palatine: The earliest image of Maria Regina in S. Maria Antiqua
  Maria Lidova (Oxford)
  Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar

Monday 11 May 2015

• 11:15 - The Geosemantics of Everyday Life: Legends as Historical Sources
  Tim Tangherlini (UCLA)
  The Long Nineteenth Century
• 17:00 - How can there be a history of emotions?
  Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago)
  Writing the History of Emotions (Humanitas Visiting Professor Seminars)
• 17:00 - Immigration Enforcement, Parent-child Separations and Intent to Remigrate by Central American Deportees
  Susan Pozo (Western Michigan University)
  North American Studies
• 17:00 - Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth her Hands unto God: American faith-healing and African claims making in early colonial South Africa
  Joel Cabrita (Cambridge)
  Themes in the Modern History of Religion

Tuesday 12 May 2015

• 09:30 - Writing the history of emotions
  Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago), Ute Frevert (Max-Planck Institute)
  Writing the History of Emotions (Humanitas Visiting Professor Seminars)
• 13:00 - Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etude: Illustrating cosmological compilations in Central Europe
  Arthur Henaff
  Medieval Visual Culture
• 13:00 - Arrangements of Convenience Among Violent Non-State Actors
  Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Changing Character of War
• 16:30 - Property in land of Roman provinces: problems of interpretation
  Georgy Kantor (Oxford)
  Legalism
• 17:00 - Palestinians in Israeli Prisons: Profiling and Treatment
  Sagit Yehoshua (Kings College London)
  Modern Israel Studies
• 17:00 - The Rise of Anthropology: An Economic History
  Marc Flandreau (Graduate Institute)
• 17:00 - Rationality versus emotionality in the century of extremes
  Ute Frevert (Max-Planck Institute)
  Writing the History of Emotions (Humanitas Visiting Professor Seminars)
• 17:15 - The Dominican Processionarium: Religious Observance and Lay Piety in 13th Century Italy
  John Schnakenberg (Blackfriar's)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 13 May 2015

• 14:00 - Pentecostalism in Indonesia: Stories about conversion, experience, prosperity and belonging
  Juliette Koning (Oxford Brookes)
  Southeast Asia
• 17:00 - Adornments and currencies of trade in early medieval north Caucasian funerary contexts
  Nicholas Evans (Wadham)
  Medieval Economic & Social History
• 17:00 - Enthusiasm, Madness and the Medical World: Views of Popular Evangelicalism in British and American medical Publications
  Mark Lee (Lady Margaret Hall)
  History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Generations of feeling
  Barbara Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago)
  Writing the History of Emotions (Humanitas Visiting Professor Seminars)
• 17:00 - Gibbon and the Falls of the Roman Empire
  Mark Whittow (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
• 17:30 - The magnificent services whih it has rendered to science: Astronomy and Meteorology at Kew Observatory
  Lee Macdonald (Leeds)
  Science, Medecine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Thursday 14 May 2015

• 11:00 - The City as a church: litanies, troparia and the experience of the sacred in Constantinople
  Vicky Manolopoulou (Newcastle)
  Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar
• 14:00 - Citizens and scholars: public history and the historians vocation in Britain, 1860-1930 & The menace of remoteness: Britain's imperial communications networks and the greater British community during the First World War
  Rory Allan (Christ Church), Greg Hynes (Pembroke)
  Modern British History
• 17:00 - After the Last Great War of Antiquity
  James Howard Johnson (Corpus Christi College)
  History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
• 17:00 - After the Last Great War of Antiquity
  James Howard Johnson (Corpus Christi College)
• 17:00 - Countering the Catholic Threat: Anglo-French Competition for Spanish America, 1688-1700
  Leslie Theibert (University College)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400-1700
• 17:00 - From Mock Republics to Rising New Nations: James Bryce's Thoughts on Latin America (1895-1921)
  Hector Dominguez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and the Latin American Centre)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 15 May 2015

• 11:00 - A Tale of Two Cities and the History of Modern Revenge
  Catherine Gallagher (Berkeley)
  Victorian Research Seminar

Monday 18 May 2015

• 11:15 - Wonders of the Primeval World: Evolutionary Epics and Prehistoric Beasts in Late-ninteenth Century Germany
  Chris Manias (Manchester)
  The Long Nineteenth Century
• 14:15 - Permanent make-up: Body modification and wartime disguise, 1939-45'
  Roderick Bailey (Oxford)
  Medicine and Modern Warfare
• 17:00 - Bringing Energy into NAFTA
  Pamela Starr (University of Southern California )
  North American Studies
• 17:00 - I should not be true to my own faith if I did not venerate yours: relationships and interactions between the Catholic and Jewish religious leaderships in turn-of-the-century London
  Daniel Renshaw (Reading)
  Themes in the Modern History of Religion
• 17:15 - Green Grace: Christina Rossetti's Ecological Vision
  Emma Mason (Warwick)
  Victorian Research Seminar

Tuesday 19 May 2015

• 12:00 - Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenneys and the Suffragettes & Imaginary Friends: Female Alliances in the Eighteenth-Century Quaker Community
  Lyndsey Jenkins (Oxford), Naomi Pullin (Oxford/Warwick)
  Gender, Women and Culture
• 13:00 - Tvrpini Domini gratia archiepiscopus: Notes on the Codex Calixtinus
  TBA
  Medieval Visual Culture
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Paul Schulte, Alexander Leveringhaus
  Changing Character of War
• 16:30 - Late Medieval theology and legalistic thinking
  Monica Garcia-Salmones (Helsinki)
  Legalism
• 17:00 - From Famine to Feast? Anthropometric Living Standards in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
  Christopher Colvin (Queen's)
• 17:00 - Zionism, the Talmud and the PLO Research Centre
  Jonathan Gribetz (Princeton)
  Modern Israel Studies
• 17:15 - Hagiography or History: Situating a Hebrew Crusade Chronicle in its Christian Cultural Context
  Conner Noteboom (Harris Manchester)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 20 May 2015

• 11:15 - Failed miracles and dubious cures: missionary medicine in two royal courts in seventeenth-century Asia
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Belief and Belonging in the Early Modern World
• 14:00 - Transforming the Islamic Finance Landscape in Malaysia: Contribution of Policymakers
  Adam Ng (Malaysia-Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Southeast Asia
• 17:00 - Finders keepers? Treasure trove in medieval England
  Tom Johnson (Birkbeck)
  Medieval Economic & Social History
• 17:00 - The Banishment of Beverland (1650-1716): The Radical Ideas of a Humanist Scholar on Sex, the Bible, and the Classics
  Karen Hollewand (St. Anne's)
  History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Sweetmans: an elite Irish Catholic Family, 1730-1980
  Sophie Sweetman McConnell (Notre Dame)
  Irish History
• 17:00 - The Christianization of ancient Greek literature and rhetoric in 11th-12th century Byzantium
  Panagiotos Roilos (Harvard)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

Thursday 21 May 2015

• 11:00 - Gifting Jerusalem: Monza and Bobbio reconsidered
  Jane Chick (Norwich)
  Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar
• 12:00 - Habitus Clive and the Emotional Imprint of Social Mobility
  Sam Friedman (LSE)
  Rags to Riches: Experiences of Social Mobility since 1800
• 14:00 - Policy-making in the professional party: the Conservative and Labour research departments, 1970-1979 & The betrayal of the slums? : the politics of the housing programme in Britain after the First World War
  Mikko Lievonen (St Edmund Hall), Callum White (Balliol)
  Modern British History
• 17:00 - International Relations, history and the Global: a Latin American Perspective
  Andrew Hurrell (Balliol College)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - "Before Our Very Eyes": Visionary Poets and Poetic Visionaries in Later Medieval England
  Vincent Gillespie FBA (Lady Margaret Hall)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Constantine and the conversion of the aristocracy
  Bella Image (Harris Manchester College)
• 17:00 - Constantine and the conversion of the aristocracy
  Bella Image (Harris Manchester College)
  History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries

Monday 25 May 2015

• 11:15 - A Certain Purple Hue was Suffusing his Nose: Wine Connoisseurship in Nineteenth-century England & Building Houses, Making Homes: the Working Class Home in Provincial Charity and Philanthropy
  Graham Harding (Oxford), Will Clement (Oxford)
  The Long Nineteenth Century
• 17:00 - The Real Terrorism Threat Facing the West and What to do About It
  Sara kamali (St Antony's )
  North American Studies
• 17:00 - Seven years in kabul: journeys and jihad of an Indian Muslim scholar, 1915-1922
  Justin Jones (Pembroke)
  Themes in the Modern History of Religion

Tuesday 26 May 2015

• 12:30 - Children's Engagement with Heritage
  Matthew Grenby (Newcastle)
  History of Childhood Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Researching childhood: Workshop 2
  TBA
  Researching childhood: 1700 to the present
• 13:00 - The Friars in the East: Byzantine Icons and Franciscan Saints from Venetian Crete
  TBA
  Medieval Visual Culture
• 13:00 - The Evolution of Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice
  Lukas Milevski (CCW)
  Changing Character of War
• 16:00 - The 2015 Sir John Elliot Lecture in Atlantic History: The British Empire and the Outbreak of the American Revolution
  Andrew O'Shaughnessy (University of Virginia)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 16:30 - The rage of the sea: The remaking of property during environmental change in Late Medieval Engalnd
  Tom Johnson
  Legalism
• 17:00 - Lives in Common: Arabs and Hews in Jaffa, Jerusalem and Hebron
  Menachim Klein (Bar Ilan University )
  Modern Israel Studies
• 17:00 - Before the pin factory: Division of labour and mass production in the Roman economy
  Andrew Wilson (Oxford)
• 17:15 - The Dialogue Between Late-Medieval English Biblical Drama and Stained Glass Windows
  Sian Witherden (Merton)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 27 May 2015

• 11:15 - The Fire and the Rose are One: Early Modern Spanish Catholicism
  TBA
  Belief and Belonging in the Early Modern World
• 14:00 - Revisiting Women's Politics and the Rule of Law in Timor-Leste
  Phyllis Ferguson (Oxford Transitional Justice Research)
  Southeast Asia
• 15:00 - 17th Century Alchemy
  Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford), Judith Mawer (Goldsmiths London)
  History of Alchemy and Chemistry
• 17:00 - The development of litigation in debt in English manorial court in the later 13th and early 14th centuries
  Phillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth)
  Medieval Economic & Social History
• 17:00 - The Employment of London Foundling House Children
  Helen Berry (Newcastle)
  History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The principal of pairing. A cognitive approach to Byzantine versification
  Mark Janse (Ghent)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
• 17:30 - For the Sake of a Dibbling Stick: The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and inventive communities, 1800-1830
  Matthew Paskins (Leeds and Open University )
  Science, Medecine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Thursday 28 May 2015

• 11:00 - Forts on frontiers (Dara / Mindouos and Can Blai) in the 4th - 6th Centuries
  Christopher Lillington-Martin (Oxford)
  Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar
• 17:00 - Archbishop James Ussher and Kingship in the Three Stuart Kingdoms
  Ian Campbell (Queen's University Belfast)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400-1700
• 17:00 - The Psalms in debate: Cassiodorus as an exegete between Italy and Constantinople
  Gerda Heydemann (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
• 17:00 - Nicodemites between Tudor England and Italy
  Anne Overell (Durham)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400-1700

Friday 29 May 2015

• 02:00 - Exploring Scandinavia
  Lene Ostermark-Johansen, Stephen Leonard, Leah Broad

Monday 1 June 2015

• 11:15 - Dictorial Narratives in Transnational Perspectives
  Moises Prieto (Oxford)
  The Long Nineteenth Century
• 14:15 - Murdering Mothers and Diabolical Influences: Early Modern Prosecution of Infanticide and Witchcraft
  TBA
  Belief and Belonging in the Early Modern World
• 14:15 - Secret Science: A century of poison warfare and human experiments
  Ulf Schmidt (Kent)
  Medicine and Modern Warfare
• 17:00 - The Church of England and early Socialism
  TBA
  Themes in the Modern History of Religion
• 17:15 - A Dark Angel for a Tragic Generation: W.B Yeats, Lionel Johnson and the Use of 1890's Biography & Representations of Female Scientific Speakers in the Nineteenth-Century Press
  Sarah Green (Oxford), Sarah Hanks (Oxford)
  Victorian Research Seminar

Tuesday 2 June 2015

• 12:00 - Druisilla's Inheritance: Possessing and Transmitting Power in Caligula's Rome
  Sarah Cohen (Oxford)
  Gender, Women and Culture
• 13:00 - British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghan Wars: Why was Success so Elusive?
  Christopher Elliott (CCW)
  Changing Character of War
• 13:00 - The Dynamic of Design: Source buildings and contract making in England in the later Middle Ages
  Gabriel Byng
  Medieval Visual Culture
• 16:00 - Safe harbour? Securing Freedom in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution: Kingston, Baracoa, New Orleans
  Rebecca Scott (University of Michigan )
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:15 - Forging History in Twelfth Century England
  Laura Cleaver (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 3 June 2015

• 15:00 - 17th - 18th Century Chemistry
  Anna Marie Roos (Lincoln), Michael Bycroft (Warwick)
  History of Alchemy and Chemistry
• 17:00 - On Charlemagne's Muslim Elephant: animals, Kingship, and Monotheism
  Paul Cobb (Pennsylvania)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
• 17:00 - On Charlemagne's Muslim Elephant: animals, Kingship, and Monotheism
  Kirsty Stewart (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
• 17:00 - Lordship and locality in the Midlands in the long 12th Century
  Hannah Boston (Trinity)
  Medieval Economic & Social History
• 17:00 - Gender and the Body in Early Nineteenth-Century British Protest
  Katharine Mutlow (St Hilda's)
  History 1680-1850

Thursday 4 June 2015

• 11:00 - The long lives of Roman statues: public monuments in late antique Aphrodisias
  Bert Smith (Oxford)
  Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar
• 12:00 - Social Mobility: From Uneasy Hybrids to Class Mongrels
  Diane Reay (Cambridge)
  Rags to Riches: Experiences of Social Mobility since 1800
• 17:00 - The last saint of the Roman West
  Graham Barrett (St John's College)
  History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
• 17:00 - A new model of intellectual and religious change in seventeenth-century England
  Dmitri Levitin (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400-1700

Friday 5 June 2015

• 17:00 - Research Brief Encounters
  Lyndal Roper (Oxford)

Monday 8 June 2015

• 11:15 - The Colonial Roots of German Folklore Studies, 1850s-1930's
  Christof Dejung (Cambridge)
  The Long Nineteenth Century
• 14:15 - It would frighten you to see the people sent to this place: Why did the emotional and nervous states of women factory workers provoke such concern in Britain in the Second World War?
  Hazel Croft (Birbeck, University of London)
  Medicine and Modern Warfare
• 17:00 - What was Late-Medieval English Poetry
  Seth Lerer (University of California at San Diego)
  Medieval History
• 17:00 - The Nicaragua Canal Project
  Maya Collombon (Sciences Po Lyon)
  North American Studies

Tuesday 9 June 2015

• 12:30 - Recalling our own childhoods: evidence from diaries etc.
  Puerilia, Juvenalia
  History of Childhood Seminar Series
• 12:45 - Researching childhood: Workshop 3
  TBA
  Researching childhood: 1700 to the present
• 13:00 - Civilians in War
  Neta Crawford
  Changing Character of War
• 16:00 - Humanities and Business
  Donald Drakeman
  Humanities and Business

Wednesday 10 June 2015

• 14:00 - The Alchemist of Exile: Writing the life of Vietnamese Political Deportee
  Lorraine Paterson (Wolfson College)
  Southeast Asia
• 15:00 - 20th Century Chemistry
  Linda Richards (Oregon), Juan Andres Leon (CHF)
  History of Alchemy and Chemistry
• 17:00 - Notions of property in Anglosaxon England: do the same words really mean both ownership and possession?
  Paul Hyams (Pembroke)
  Medieval Economic & Social History
• 17:00 - Undergraduate Thesis Session
  TBA
  History 1680-1850
• 17:30 - Commuters: From the Nineteenth Century to Now
  Rachel Bowlby (Princeton)
  Science, Medecine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Thursday 11 June 2015

• 09:00 - POMP Graduate Student's Conferece
  Panel
  History Faculty Conferences
• 09:30 - Views on Science and Medecine
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  History Faculty Conferences
• 11:00 - Persons, practices and things in circulation between Byzantium and the British Isles in the Viking Age: a role for slave trading?
  Jonathan Shepherd (Oxford)
  Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar
• 17:00 - The healing shrines of St Phoibammon: Evidence of cult activity in Coptic legal documents
  Gesa Schenke (Oriental Institute and 'Cult of Saints' project)
  History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries

Monday 15 June 2015

• 14:15 - Drawing bodies: British medical art in the early-twentieth century
  Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons, London)
  Medicine and Modern Warfare
• 17:00 - Henry V: a Personal Portrait Revisited
  Malcolm Vale (St John's)
  Medieval History
• 17:15 - Oscar Wilde: The Philadelphia Story
  Margaret Stetz (University of Delware)
  Victorian Research Seminar

Tuesday 16 June 2015

• 12:45 - Researching childhood: Workshop 4
  TBA
  Researching childhood: 1700 to the present
• 17:15 - Baptism, Conversion and Apostasy in Normandy in the Early 10th Century: The Archbishop of Reims and the Vikings on the Seine
  Lesley Abrams (Balliol)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 17 June 2015

• 09:00 - Day One
  Followed by a reception at the Maughan Library
  Sophie Amber (UEA), Martin Aurell (Universite de Poitiers), Janet Burton (University of Wales: Trinity St David), Melvyn Bragg, Anne Duggan (KCL), George Garnett (Oxford), John Hudson (St Andrews), Jinty Nelson (KCL), Levi Roach (Exeter), Nicholas Vincent (UEA), Bjorn Weiler (Aberysthwyth University)
• 15:00 - 18th and 19th Century Chemistry
  Carolyn Cobbald (Cambridge), Julie Carr-Trebelhorn (Oxford)
  History of Alchemy and Chemistry
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Irina Shingiray (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
• 17:00 - Freemasonry in English Society 1717-1751
  Paul Monod (Middlebury)
  History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Places of power and the making of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: new archaeological perspectives from Lyminge, Kent
  Gabor Thomas (Reading)
  Medieval Economic & Social History

Thursday 18 June 2015

• 09:00 - Day Two
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 09:30 - Bonds and Boundaries - UCL Postgraduate Conference
  Katherine Ibett (UCL), Andrew van der Vlies (Queen Mary )
• 09:30 - Bonds and Boundaries - UCL Postgraduate Conference
  Katherine Ibett (UCL), Andrew van der Vlies (Queen Mary )
  History Faculty Conferences
• 11:00 - Crusader palace decoration in the Levant between Byzantium and Islam in the 12th - 13th Centuries
  Lucy-Anne Hunt (Manchester)
  Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar
• 17:00 - A late antique relic from the Ethiopian highlands: The Ethiopic version of the History of the Episcopate of Alexandria
  Alessandro Bausi (Hamburg University )
  History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
• 17:00 - Divided by a Common faith? Protestantism and Union in 17th century Britain
  Roger Mason (St Andrews)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400-1700

Monday 22 June 2015

• 09:00 - 'There and back again' : An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel
  Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University)
  History Faculty Conferences

Friday 17 July 2015

• 09:15 - SCOLMA Annual Conference: "There came a darkness": Africa, Africans and World War I
  Panel
  History Faculty Conferences

Thursday 10 September 2015

• 09:00 - Samuel Daniel, Poet and HIstorian: A Two Day Conference
  TBA
  History Faculty Conferences

Monday 12 October 2015

• 14:15 - 'Decolonising medicine: The Indonesian medical profession, 1900-1950'
  Hans Pol (University of Sydney)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 13 October 2015

• 17:00 - A Flemish Abbot meets Innocent II, 1141
  Chris Wickham (Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 11:15 - “Her story” & Hagiography: Writing female lives in seventeenth-century France
  Jenny Hillman (Chester)
  Early Modern World Seminar

Monday 19 October 2015

• 14:15 - Using modern WHO and FAO health standards to understand the health of women and children from the past: Leipzig, 1917-1921
  Mary Cox (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:30 - Last Futures: Establishment Attitudes to Architectural Radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s
  Douglas Murphy
  Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 20 October 2015

• 17:15 - Lateran IV and Languedoc: reforming Church and society in the shadow of heresy
  John Arnold (Birkbeck)
  Medieval Church and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 11:15 - Quintilian's dilemma: editing sexually loaded classical texts in Britain and the Dutch Republic in the eighteenth century AND Beverland's banishment: sex and the Classics in the works of a late 17th century Dutch scholar
  Floris Verhaart (Oxford), Karen Hollewand (Oxford)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:15 - The Battle of Agincourt: An Abnormal Battle?
  Anne Curry (Southampton)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 26 October 2015

• 14:15 - The place of the imagination in accounts of scientific creativity, 1620-1820
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 12:00 - Body Biographies
  Jennifer Wallis

Wednesday 28 October 2015

• 13:00 - Biblical Ishmael as Imagined in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  Elliot Horowitz (Oxford)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:30 - A 'heart hard as a nether millstone': The relational dynamics of Victorian 'addiction'
  Dr Madeleine Wood (Queen Mary University)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 18:00 - The role of emotion in disease: historical perspectives
  Professor Mark Jackson (Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter)
  General Talks

Monday 2 November 2015

• 14:15 - Mentality or circumstance? The dilemmas of science-based industry in France, 1870-1920
  Robert Fox (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:30 - 'he gives her 1200 pounds towards of the building of Loughton: Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1653) as an Early Adopter of the New Classicism?
  Susie West (Open University)
  Architectural History Seminar

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 11:15 - A Persian Émigré at the Ottoman Court: Belief and Belonging in the Political Thought of Idris Bidlisi (1457-1520)
  Christopher Markiewicz (Oxford)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:15 - Armies and Communities in England, 1660-1714
  Hannah Smith (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 9 November 2015

• 14:15 - Pyrrhic progress: Antibiotics and Western food production, 1949-2015
  Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 11 November 2015

• 11:15 - Temples of memory. The culture of remembrance in early modern Protestantism
  Marion Deschamp (Paris)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:30 - Septic Subjects: Infection and Occupational Risk in British Hospitals, 1870-1970
  TBA
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar

Monday 16 November 2015

• 14:15 - Healthy, respectable boys: Physical fitness in the Royal Navy, 1850-1905
  Elise Smith (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:30 - The Expressive Index of the Soul: C.R. Cockerell's Lecture on Sculpture at the Architectural Museum, 1854
  TBA
  Architectural History Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 11:15 - Dürer's frantzosen, or: the Illness is in the Detail
  Birgit Münch (Trier)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:15 - The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River and Beyond
  Micah Muscolino (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 23 November 2015

• 14:15 - Negotiating expertise at sea: The Board of Longitude in the age of reform
  Sophie Waring (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 17:00 - Dynasties: choices and chances of writing a global social history of rulership' 5pm Round table discussion and launch of Dynasties. A g
  Jeroen Duindam (Leiden), Natalia Nowakowska (Oxford), Craig Clunas (Oxford), John Elliott (Oxford)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:30 - Radical Requiems: the return of the past in British agriculture, 1850-1950
  Professor Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar

Monday 30 November 2015

• 14:15 - Malthus and smallpox
  Alison Bashford (Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:30 - Value and Agency in Medieval Architecture
  Paul Binski (Cambridge)
  Architectural History Seminar

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 11:15 - The Anglican Church Militant and Catholic Europe, 1605-1620
  Noah Millstone (Bristol)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:15 - The Distance of Death: The history of a Strategic Delusion
  Patrick Porter (Exeter)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 18 January 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Reading the plague in seventeenth-century London’
  Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - “Discipline and Dissolution in Rebellion: How internal governance explains insurgent violence in Sierra Leone”
  Zoe Marks (Edinburgh)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - “Monks, aristocrats and justice: twelfth-century monastic advocacy in a European perspective.”
  Charles West (University of Sheffield)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• 17:00 - “Revisiting Meiji Japan's Economic Miracle: The Structural and Regional Dimensions of Productivity Growth (1874-1909)”
  Jean-Pascal Bassino (Lyon)
  Seminar in Economic and Social History
• 17:00 - ‘Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954-62’
  Natalya Vince (Portsmouth)
  Modern European Social and Cultural History Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 January 2016

• 17:00 - Were the Jagiellonians a Dynasty?
  Natalia Nowakowska (Oxford)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar: The Jagiellonian World
• 17:00 - Bewilderment, Gratitude and Contempt: Hosting Foreign Volunteers during the Napoleonic Wars
  Graciela Iglesias Rogers (Winchester)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - “Book Epigrams, Metrical Paratexts, and ‘Inscriptional’ Verses in Byzantine Manuscripts”
  Andreas Rhoby (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - The Great War in the Middle East: A Strategic Perspective
  Robert Johnson (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 January 2016

• 14:00 - Suffragettes at Home: Representations of Domestic Labour in the Edwardian Feminist Press
  Laura Schwartz (Warwick)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Word of God and the problem of society
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800
• 17:00 - ‘Aristocratic Patronage and the Settlement of New England’
  Dr Christopher Thompson (Univ. of Buckingham)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 22 January 2016

• 17:00 - ‘”Dead men naked”: Livingstone, memorialisation and British colonial rule in central Africa’
  Joanna Lewis (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 25 January 2016

• 11:15 - In search of Holocaust commemoration: the transfer of ashes, 1945-1955
  Jean-Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester)
  Seminar in Modern Jewish History
• 14:15 - ‘Can we do a history of medicine for ancient Mesopotamia? A critical overview of cuneiform sources from the 1st millennium BCE’
  Moudhy Al-Rashid (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - “Angolanidade: race and class in postwar Luanda”
  Jon Schubert (Leipzig)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - The beginnings of the German ‘Royal Society’ (the Academia Naturae Curiosorum) 1652-1687, and the character of German intellectual life AND 'Johann Christoph Sturm’s Collegium Experimentale’
  Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh), Ian Maclean (Oxford)
  Early Modern German Culture
• 17:00 - “Apostolic economics: heresy and theories of property in the high middle ages.”
  Claire Taylor (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - From the Shadows. The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor
  Owen Hopkins (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
  Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 26 January 2016

• 12:00 - ‘What is “work”? A perspective from studying rural women in early modern England’
  Professor Jane Whittle (University of Exeter)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar: Women and Working Lives
• 17:00 - ‘Activism and Admiration: Mapping Working-Class Cinema Culture in 1920s Paris’
  Annie Fee (UCL)
  Modern European Social and Cultural History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Global Banking and the International Transmission of the 1931 Financial Crisis”
  Olivier Accominotti (LSE)
  Seminar in Economic and Social History

Wednesday 27 January 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Open House at Hell’? Honour and Corruption within the House of Lords c.1689-1700
  Robin Eagles (History of Parliament)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - “Publishing Byzantine historiography in early modern Europe: a historical and bibliographical survey.”
  Geri della Rocca de Candal (ERC Research Fellow, Bodleian Library)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Jagiellonians, Saints, Dynastic Legitimacy
  Stanislava Kuzmova (Oxford)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar: The Jagiellonian World

Thursday 28 January 2016

• 14:00 - ‘A Device of Dictators and Demagogues’: The 1975 Britain and Europe Referendum
  Robert Saunders (Queen Mary University of London)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Sir Robert Cotton at Work: Scissors, Paste, and the Early Stuart Production of Tudor History’
  Dr Noah Millstone (Univ. of Bristol)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The interpretation of sacred history: Hobbes and Spinoza
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800

Friday 29 January 2016

• 17:00 - The Problem and a Solution
  Professor Christine Carpenter (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History:'The Problem of the Fourteenth Century: Politics, State and Society in England, 1307-1399'
• 17:00 - 'The 'Lonrho Affair' and the Late Colonial World'
  Andrew Cohen (Kent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 1 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Knowing animal health in the environment: UK government research on bovine TB, 1970-1995’
  Angela Cassidy (King’s College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - “Cultivating the City: Urbanism and Gardening in Early Medieval Italy.”
  Caroline Goodson (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Democracy versus Diversity: Ethnic representation in a devolved Kenya”
  Dominic Burbidge (Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 2 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Europe beyond the Cold War: An international organizations perspective (1947-1975)’
  Sandrine Kott (Geneva)
  Modern European Social and Cultural History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Agriculture in the European Little Divergence: The Case of Spain”
  Leandro Prados de la Escosura (UC3 Madrid)
  Seminar in Economic and Social History

Wednesday 3 February 2016

• 17:00 - Governing Eighteenth-century Scotland: Litigation, Legal Pluralism and the Role of the House of Lords as ‘High Court’
  Philip Loft (UCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - "De institutione regii pueri" as an example the humanist model of education in the light of courtly culture of the kingdoms in Central Europe ca. 1500
  Prof. Piotr Oliński (University of Toruń), Dr. Christian Gastgeber (Vienna)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar: The Jagiellonian World
• 17:00 - “Divine-theurgic Unions of Individuals with their Personal Daimons and Internalised Gods in the Greek Magical Papyri”
  Eleni Pachoumi (North-West University, South Africa)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 4 February 2016

• 14:00 - "I'm Not Political But...": Women's Political Subjectivity in Postwar Britain
  Eve Worth (Queen's)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Neapolitan moment: the Earthly Kingdom of Pietro Giannone
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800
• 17:00 - ‘Conformity and Communion in the Elizabethan Parish’
  Dr Lucy Kaufman (Keble College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 5 February 2016

• 17:00 - War, State and Society
  Professor Christine Carpenter (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History:'The Problem of the Fourteenth Century: Politics, State and Society in England, 1307-1399'
• 17:00 - ‘Snapshots of Empire: Imperial governance everywhere and all at once’
  Alan Lester (Sussex)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Historiography: what it does, why it matters”.
  Professor Michael Bentley (University of St. Andrews)
  Historiography Research Seminar

Monday 8 February 2016

• 11:15 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: the Jewish Question in Romania and the 1907 Peasant Uprising
  Irina Marin (University of Leicester)
  Seminar in Modern Jewish History
• 13:00 - The Astor Lecture - 'Professor Merze Tate: Diplomatic Historian, Cosmopolitan Woman'
  Professor Barbara Savage (Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Professor Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
• 14:15 - ‘Weights and measures: Some early-modern English tracts on ancient and modern mensuration'
  Will Poole (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - “Africa after the Commodity Super-Cycle”
  Ian Taylor (St Andrews)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - “Lordship, Violence, and Very Small Churches: Local Religion in southern France, c. 1000-c .1150.”
  John Arnold (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - The Greek Spirit: Current Architecture and Sculpture in England
  David Watkin (Peterhouse College, Cambridge)
  Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 9 February 2016

• 12:00 - ‘Women's wages in the very long run: England 1260-1850’
  Professor Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar: Women and Working Lives
• 14:00 - Astor Visiting Lecturer: Roundtable Event - 'Creating a New Field: Black Women's Intellectual History'
  Ben Jackson (University College, intellectual history), Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney and All Souls College, international history), Senia Paseta (St Hugh's College, women's history), Professor Barbara Savage (University of Pennsylvania)
• 17:00 - “Markets, Slavery and States in West African History”
  Gareth Austin (Cambridge)
  Seminar in Economic and Social History
• 17:00 - ‘The white horse: Amnesty International and the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain’
  Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
  Modern European Social and Cultural History Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2016

• 17:00 - Household and dynasty. The households and court ordinances of Anne Jagiellon and Mary Habsburg (Mary of Hungary) as a frontier for cultural transfer and dynastic diplomacy
  Dr. Orsolya Réthelyi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar: The Jagiellonian World
• 17:00 - "Continuity and Tradition in Greek Orthodox Monasteries in the Crusader States”
  Andrew Jotischky (Lancaster University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - The South Sea Bubble: After the Scandal Abated
  Helen Paul (Southampton)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:15 - Imperial Identities at War: the Battle of Solferino
  Frederick C. Schneid (High Point University, NC)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2016

• 14:00 - ‘Hands on Session: Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Silver ware from the Wellby Bequest'
  Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean)
  Early Modern German Culture
• 14:00 - Remembering youth in ‘the so called swinging sixties’
  Helena Mills (University)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Neapolitan moment: Vico’s idolatrous Gentiles
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800
• 17:00 - ‘Defending the Spanish Match in Early Stuart England’
  Emma Turnbull (Balliol College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 12 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Patrolling and Controlling: Surveillance, Violence and State Security in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Colonies’
  Richard Hill (Victoria University Wellington; OCGH Visiting Scholar)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Law, State and Society
  Professor Christine Carpenter (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History:'The Problem of the Fourteenth Century: Politics, State and Society in England, 1307-1399'

Monday 15 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Mind, body and soul in medieval discussions of nocturnal emissions’
  William MacLehose (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - “The Environmental Impact of the Baltic Crusades: New Understandings of Conquest, Colonisation and Religious Conversion in Medieval NE Europe.”
  Aleks Pluskowski (University of Reading)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Darfur: Colonial violence, local politics and state formation, 1916-1956”
  Chris Vaughan (John Moores)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 16 February 2016

• 14:00 - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History Event
  Elise Chenier (Professor of History, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver;Director, Archive of Lesbian Oral Testimon), Leslie Green (Professor of the Philosophy of Law, Balliol College, Oxford), Howard Chiang (Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Warwick), Richard Parkinson (Professor of Egyptology, The Queen’s College, Oxford), Laura Doan (Professor of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies, University of Manchester)
• 17:00 - ‘The Weapons of the Spirit: Catholic Theology and the Resistance to Nazism in France’
  Sarah Shortall (Oxford)
  Modern European Social and Cultural History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “The Global Economic System in the Central Middle Ages: Some Problems”
  Chris Wickham (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Seminar in Economic and Social History

Wednesday 17 February 2016

• 14:30 - The American Way of War
  Brian McAllister Linn (Texas A&M University)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Maniera greca in Europe's Catholic East: Images and Confession in 15th C. Poland and Lithuania
  Dr. Giedre Mickunaite (Oxford / Vilnius)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar: The Jagiellonian World
• 17:00 - Breeding a Little Stranger: Perceptions of Pregnancy, c. 1760-1830
  Joanne Begiato (Oxford Brookes)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - “The chimaera of the grammarians: middle voice in the Byzantine grammatical tradition, some insights.”
  Juan Signes Codoñer (University of Valladolid)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 18 February 2016

• 14:00 - Life beyond Burke: towards an intellectual history of Conservatism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain
  Emily Jones (Cambridge)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Why Everyone in Early Modern England was an Atheist’
  Prof Alec Ryrie (Univ. of Durham)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Enlightenment: Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger on religions and society after the Flood
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800

Friday 19 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Legal culture, trade and inter-imperial circulation : a mid 18th century Atlantic case’
  Marie Houllemare (Amiens / Institut Universitaire de France / OCGH Visiting Scholar)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Crown and Political Community
  Professor Christine Carpenter (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History:'The Problem of the Fourteenth Century: Politics, State and Society in England, 1307-1399'

Monday 22 February 2016

• 11:15 - The Home as Self-Portraiture: Théodore Reinach's Villa Kérylos, Material Self-Fashioning, and Franco-Jewish Identity After Dreyfus
  James McCauley (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in Modern Jewish History
• 14:15 - 'Old age, sickness and poor relief in 17th century England’
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Jonathan Healey (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - “Constructing Space for Tourism: the role and impacts of trans-frontier conservation areas in Southern and Eastern Africa”
  Christine Noe (Dar es Salaam)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - “The Kentish window: a new reading of Canterbury Cathedral’s stained glass and the miracles of Thomas Becket.”
  Rachel Koopmans (York University, Ontario)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - From Castle Howard to Blenheim: New light on the Vanbrugh-Hawsmoor collaboration
  James Legard (National Gallery, London)
  Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 23 February 2016

• 12:00 - 'Gender, Class, and Family: Selfhood in working-class women's narratives of work, c. 1945-1980'
  Dr Laura Paterson (Women in the Humanities Fellow, TORCH, Oxford)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar: Women and Working Lives
• 17:00 - “Related Investing: Corporate Ownership and the Dynamics of Capital Mobilization During Early Industrialization”
  Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College)
  Seminar in Economic and Social History

Wednesday 24 February 2016

• 14:00 - Mining as Subterranean Kunstkammer AND "The Wrong Trousers? Vernacular audiences and the 'striped layman' in Hieronymus Brunschwig's medical works"
  Lisa Skogh (V&A), Tillmann Taape (Cambridge)
  Early Modern German Culture
• 17:00 - The Luxembourgs: the making and unmaking of a great European dynasty
  Dr. Zoe Opacic (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar: The Jagiellonian World
• 17:00 - “Reliques of Old Rhetoric: Artistic Elements in the Homilies of Sophronius of Jerusalem”
  John Duffy (Harvard University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘To be Liberally Brought up and Educated in the Study and Practice of the Laws of England’: Atlantic Exchange and the English Education of the South Carolina Elite
  Peter Finnerty (St. Cross)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:15 - The Raj at War: India 1939-45
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2016

• 14:00 - A Kirk Queen: Queen Victoria and the Church of Scotland
  Michael Ledger-Lomas (King’s College London)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Reading his Way to Royalism? The Library, Politics, and Religion of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1639-1666’
  Sarah Ward (St Catherine’s College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The late Enlightenment: F.M. Pagano on earthly catastrophe and the first societies
  John Robertson (University of Cambridge)
  The Carlyle Lectures: The Sacred and the Social - History and Political Thought, 1650-1800

Friday 26 February 2016

• 17:00 - The Corridors of Power
  Professor Christine Carpenter (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History:'The Problem of the Fourteenth Century: Politics, State and Society in England, 1307-1399'
• 17:00 - ‘The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Politics and Technology’
  Giacomo Macola (Kent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Young Gibbon and Universal History”.
  Professor David Womersley (St. Catherine’s)
  Historiography Research Seminar

Monday 29 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Lenin's Gulag hospitals: Caring for political prisoners in early Soviet concentration camps, 1921-1929’
  Dan Healey (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - “Making Sense of Israeli-African Relations”
  Yossi Melman (Jerusalem Post writer on intelligence and strategic affairs formerly with Haaretz), Naomi Chazan (Professor emerita at Hebrew University and former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 1 March 2016

• 17:00 - “Clerks and Social Mobility in Britain, c.1900-c.1939”
  Selina Todd (St Hilda’s College, Oxford)
  Seminar in Economic and Social History
• 17:00 - ‘“Solidarity is the tenderness of people”: a history of the first French anti-apartheid movement (1960-74)’
  Anna Konieczna (Science Po/Oxford)
  Modern European Social and Cultural History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Mud, mills, and money: pre-Reformation Peterhouse and its parishes.”
  Robert Swanson (University of Birmingham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Wednesday 2 March 2016

• 17:00 - The Jagiellonians and their Muslim Neighbours: the Golden Horde, the Crimean Khanate, and the Ottoman Empire
  Prof. Dariusz Kołodziejczyk (Warsaw University)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar: The Jagiellonian World
• 17:00 - “Between Roman latifundia and the Late Medieval Black Sea: was slavery widespread in middle Byzantium?”
  Marek Jankowiak (Wolfson)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Archdeacon Francis Blackburne and the Evolution of Latitudinarianism in Later Eighteenth-century Britain
  Grayson Ditchfield (Kent)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 3 March 2016

• 14:00 - Privacy, place and "Community" in Bermondsey and Bethnal Green, 1947-1955
  Jon Lawrence (Cambridge)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student presentations
  TBA
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 4 March 2016

• 10:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Kingship and Kings
  Professor Christine Carpenter (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History:'The Problem of the Fourteenth Century: Politics, State and Society in England, 1307-1399'

Monday 7 March 2016

• 11:15 - Thatcher, Philosemitism and Israel in 1980s Britain
  Tom Cordiner (University of Cambridge)
  Seminar in Modern Jewish History
• 14:15 - ‘Circulating knowledge and colonial modernity: the symbolic function of laboratory research in the British empire after 1945’
  Sabine Clarke (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - "Capturing the White Ant: After the ICC in Africa"
  Adam Branch (Cambridge)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 17:30 - What made the LCC so different, so appealing? Small stories from the world's largest architects department
  Ruth Lang (Newcastle University)
  Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• 12:00 - Researching working-class women's life-writing @www.writinglives.org
  Dr Helen Rogers (Liverpool John Moores University), Catriona Parkinson (Liverpool John Moores University), Soraya Nas (Liverpool John Moores University)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar: Women and Working Lives
• 17:00 - “Human Capital Investment in a Late-Developing Economy: Evidence from Württemberg, c. 1600 – c. 1900”
  Sheilagh Ogilvie (Cambridge)
  Seminar in Economic and Social History
• 17:00 - ‘Victory and Penance in National-Catholic Spain, 1937-1945’
  Mary Vincent (Sheffield)
  Modern European Social and Cultural History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Helen Gittos (University of Kent)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Wednesday 9 March 2016

• 14:00 - ‘A deed pleasing to God’: Church Donations in early modern Württemberg'
  Roisin Watson (Society for Renaissance Studies)
  Early Modern German Culture
• 17:00 - Discussion: The Jagiellonian World
  TBA
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar: The Jagiellonian World
• 17:00 - From PhD to BBC: How to Make the Transition from Academic History to Popular History, including Tours, Publishing, Journalism, Events, Radio and TV
  Matthew Green (Unreal City Audio)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - “Glimpses of Shared Sacred Sites in the Levant”
  Miranda Williams (Faculty of Classics), Judith McKenzie (St. Hugh’s)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - The Perils of Patriotism: What were Germans fighting for in World War II?
  Nick Stargardt (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2016

• 14:00 - "She was full of evil spirits": Occult Influence and Free Will in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, c.1860-1900
  Karl Bell (Portsmouth)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student presentations
  TBA
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 11 March 2016

• 10:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 25 April 2016

• 14:15 - A pharmacopeia for India: Nationalist narratives in Colonial India?
  Nandini Bhattacharya (University of Dundee)
  Medicine in the non-European World

Tuesday 26 April 2016

• 10:00 - War, kingship, state and people in the England of Henry VIII
  Professor Steve Gunn (Merton College)
  EVROPAEVM 2016 MA in European History. States, Nations and Sovereignity seminar series
• 12:00 - Re-thinking slavery and freedom: Or what is a man?
  Professor Catherine Hull (UCL)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar
• 15:00 - Early Career and Graduate Workshop on Gender and Race
  Catherine Hull (UCL)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2016

• 17:00 - The Gardens of Army Officers in Early Eighteenth-Century England: The Duke of Marlborough, Earl Cadogan, and Colonel Williamson
  Dominic Ingram (Magdalen)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Tuesday 3 May 2016

• 10:00 - The end of European nation-states: the case of Belgium 1930-80
  Professor Martin Conway (Balliol College)
  EVROPAEVM 2016 MA in European History. States, Nations and Sovereignity seminar series
• 13:00 - Undergraduate workshop: Writing an undergraduate thesis on Women's History and/or Gender History
  TBA
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 17:00 - Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters at the Dublin MedicoPhilosophical Society, 1756-1784
  Rachael Scally (Christ Church)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Monday 9 May 2016

• 14:15 - Elephants and anthrax: Burma's forests, imperial networks and the history of a vaccine
  Jonathan Saha (University of Leeds)
  Medicine in the non-European World

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 10:00 - Composite Monarchies
  Professor Sir John Elliott (Oriel College)
  EVROPAEVM 2016 MA in European History. States, Nations and Sovereignity seminar series

Wednesday 11 May 2016

• 17:00 - “This unseasonable starting of the affairs of Religion”: The Godolphin Ministry and Confessional Intervention in the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy, 1707-9
  Philip Hitchings (Cambridge)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Monday 16 May 2016

• 10:00 - Reassessing the Spanish Civil War in the light of the 80th anniversary
  Professor Tom Buchanan (Kellogg College)
  EVROPAEVM 2016 MA in European History. States, Nations and Sovereignity seminar series
• 14:15 - Anatomy of African pathos: How a cholera outbreak became a national disaster in Zimbabwe
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  Medicine in the non-European World

Tuesday 17 May 2016

• 12:00 - Becoming Global Race Women: Travel, and Networks in the long 20th Century
  Dr Imaobong Umoren (University of Oxford)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 14:00 - A Messiah in Texas: a psychological perspective on the Branch Davidians and the Siege in Waco
  Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - Workhouse Ecologies: Hampshire Case-Studies, 1776-1840
  Myungsu Kang (Kellogg)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Monday 23 May 2016

• 14:15 - Administering vaccination in interwar Algeria
  Hannah-Louise Clark (University of Oxford)
  Medicine in the non-European World

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 10:00 - Seeing the land, making the state: Sweden in her seventeenth century Age of Greatness
  Dr Elizabeth Baigent (Wycliffe Hall)
  EVROPAEVM 2016 MA in European History. States, Nations and Sovereignity seminar series
• 12:00 - DPhil workshop: First-year students working in Women's History and Gender History present their work
  TBA
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2016

• 14:00 - Apotheosis redux: Were European Travellers ever taken to be gods in moments of first contact? (1480-1980)
  Alan Strathern (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - Natural history knowledge and global exchange networks in the early eighteenth century
  Victoria Pickering (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Tuesday 31 May 2016

• 10:00 - The norman Yoke and the Frankish Conquest; mythical pasts and national identity in France and England?
  Mr Robin Briggs (All Souls College)
  EVROPAEVM 2016 MA in European History. States, Nations and Sovereignity seminar series
• 12:00 - Indian "Suffragettes" and the Imperial Hierarchies of Race
  Dr Sumita Mukherejee (Kings College, London)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 14:00 - Writing a history of the Counter-Reformation for a global age
  Simon Ditchfield (York University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 14:15 - From lunatic asylums to mental hospitals: Professionalization and medicalization of colonial psychiatry, 1895-1947
  Shilpi Rajpal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali)
  Medicine in the non-European World
• 17:00 - Every Little Helps: Feeding Britain during the Napoleonic Wars
  Edward Hicks (St. Anne’s)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Monday 6 June 2016

• 14:15 - Obstetrics as a model for Buddhist meditation in pre-modern Southeast Asia
  Kate Crosby (King's College London)
  Medicine in the non-European World

Tuesday 7 June 2016

• 12:45 - Research Forum: "Thinking about Impact"
  Jessica Berenbeim, Abigail Green, Steven Gunn, Jane Humphries

Wednesday 8 June 2016

• 14:00 - Religion and "the secular": Modern (mis)understanding of an ancient concept
  Kate Cooper (Manchester University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - Undergraduate Thesis Session: Two current undergraduates will discuss the experience and findings of their recently-completed theses.
  TBA
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Friday 10 June 2016

• 10:00 - History of Science, medicine and technology Postgraduate Conference 2016: Modern Bodies/ Modern Minds
  TBA

Monday 13 June 2016

• 14:15 - ‘The machine in the garden: The compressed-air bath and therapeutic landscapes in the 19th century’
  Jennifer Wallis (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 14:15 - Policy Innovation and policy pathways; Tuberculosis control in Sri Lanka, 1948-1990
  Margaret Jones (University of York)
  Medicine in the non-European World
• 14:15 - The machine in the garden: the compressed-air batch and therapeutic landscapes in the 19th century
  Jennifer Wallis (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 June 2016

• 09:30 - Oxford and Colonialism: Then and Now
  If you wish to attend this event, please email board.admin@history.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible, and let us know if you are an Undergrad, Masters or Doctoral student, a member of staff or otherwise a member of the Faculty.
  TBA
• 12:00 - Rethinking the politics of race and gender in England after 1968
  Dr Natalie Thomlinson (University of Wolverhampton)
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar

Wednesday 15 June 2016

• 14:00 - Pious dichotomies and obfuscations in the historiography of the medieval church
  Amanda Power (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - Free Speech in Eighteenth-Century England
  Faramerz Dabhoiwala (Exeter)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Monday 10 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Immunocapital: yellow fever, citizenship, and power in New Orleans, 1803 to 1860’
  Kathryn Olivarius (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 12 October 2016

• 17:00 - Introductory party
  Various Speakers
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 11:15 - ‘Troubled Minds: Madness, Fear and Exclusion in Saint-Domingue (late 18th century)’
  Marie Houllemare (Amiens)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture, ‘Thatcherism in the archives.’
  Richard Vinen (KCL)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘How Modern are early modern Historians?’
  Peter Ghosh (St Anne’s College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 14 October 2016

• 17:00 - 'Anti-Colonial Rebellion during the First World War: The French Empire in Indo-China’
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 17 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Sex, health and state-supported treatment for venereal diseases in England, 1918–39’
  Anne Hanley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 11:15 - New Perspectives on Early Modern Religion ‘Travelling to the Bathhouse and Jerusalem: Imagined and Contested Spaces in South West German Convents’ ‘Toleration, Co-existence or Pragmatism? The Case of Early Modern Upper Lusatia’
  Edmund Wareham (Oxford), Martin Christ (Oxford)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Deciphering a Mercantile Portrait: Thomas Gainsborough and the Crokatt-Muilman Commission’
  Huw David (RAI), John Chu (Courtauld), Peter Moore (Gainsborough’s House), Hannah French (Royal Academy of Music)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 20 October 2016

• 14:00 - ‘Dreamers of the Third Empire: Imperial Federation and the Jewish question’
  Arie Dubnov (Haifa)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Time and the Revolution of 1688-9’
  Prof. Tony Claydon (Bangor University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Research Brief Encounters
  All staff, students, and early career researchers from any discipline are encouraged to attend this informal, fun and sociable event to meet and chat about research. Undergraduates who are developing/considering dissertations on gender, identity and subjectivity are also warmly invited to join us.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Friday 21 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Military Revolution and European Global Expansion’
  Dr Peter Wilson (All Souls College)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘“Upon my word, I do not see the use of having medical evidence here”: medical expertise, professional authority and homicide in nineteenth-century Edinburgh’
  Kelly-Ann Couzens (University of Western Australia)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 11:15 - ‘Locating Paradise in China: Joseph Stoecklein’s Chronology (1729) in context’
  Renate Dürr (Tübingen)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Fair Trade: Buying and Selling at the English Provincial Fair, 1750-1830
  Jessica Davidson (St Edmund Hall)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 27 October 2016

• 14:00 - ‘Rebuilding parliament: politics and space in the temporary House of Commons, 1834-1852’
  Becki Moore (IHR)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Defending English Ground: the Crisis of Lordship in early Tudor Northumberland’
  Prof. Steven Ellis (NUI Galway and Merton College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 28 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Eighteenth-century Empires at War: Managing Knowledge in Franco-British Imperial Wars’
  Erica Charters (Wolfson, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 31 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘The myth of the spotted sun and the blemished moon: a biosocial ethnohistory of syphilis and related diseases’
  Cesar Giraldo Herrera (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 17:00 - The Opportunities and Limits of Political Participation in the Industrial Revolution: William Hutton (1723-1815) and Birmingham
  Susan Whyman (Princeton)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 3 November 2016

• 14:00 - ‘The “Power House” Revisited: Duleep Singh and the “English” Country House Tradition’
  Margot Finn (UCL)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘“Painful Seamen”: Seafaring, Skill, and Craft in early modern England.’
  Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 4 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Impact of World War One on British Imperial Relations’
  Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 7 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Traditional medicine and primary health care in Sri Lanka: policy, perceptions, and practice’ Week 6 14 November Kathleen Vongsathorn, University
  Margaret Jones (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 11:15 - ‘The Invention of Purity in the Early Modern Period’
  Peter Burschel (Berlin)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Britannia's Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans and the British Empire, c.1740-1800
  Stephen Conway (UCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 10 November 2016

• 14:00 - 'Reinventing the Labour Party? The politics of nostalgia during the Kinnock-era, 1983-92'
  Richard Jobson (Queens)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Text, Truth and Tonality in Mid-Tudor Ballads’
  Dr Jenni Hyde (University of Lancaster)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 11 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Voices from the 1915 Chilembwe Rising in Nyasaland’
  John McCracken (Stirling)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 14 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘“A midwife should be welcoming”: personality, midwives, and shifting perceptions of healthcare in Uganda, 1918-1979’
  Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 11:15 - ‘Emotions, Selfhood and the Supernatural in German Criminal Trials’
  Laura Kounine (Sussex)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Olaudah Equiano: Celebrity Abolitionist
  The convenors of the 1680-1850 Graduate History Seminar are sorry to report the cancellation of this seminar. We hope to be able to rearrange a new date for this paper later in the year.
  Ryan Hanley (New)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 17 November 2016

• 14:00 - ‘Communist spies and the making of modern Britain’
  Richard Davenport-Hines (All Souls)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘A Prosopographical Study of English Schoolmasters c. 1500- c.1650’.
  Dr Emily Hansen (University of York)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 18 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘‘A Band of Mothers’. The Mothers Union and Global Solidarities amongst Anglican Women during the First World War’
  Adrian Gregory (Pembroke, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 21 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Antibiotics as infrastructure: rehearsing a counterfactual of convalescence’
  Clare Chandler (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• 11:15 - ‘Governing Hatred: Enmity, Politics and Community in the Kingdom of Naples, 1600-1700’
  Stephen Cummins (Berlin)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Building school systems 1783-1826: Reynold Gideon Bouyer's experiments in education
  Joanna Innes (Somerville)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 24 November 2016

• 14:00 - 5pm Drinks party and informal discussion on ‘British History after Brexit’
  TBA
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘“A Dog, a Butcher and a Puritan”: The Politics of Lent in Early Modern England’
  Prof. Chris Kyle (Syracuse University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 25 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Postwar China and the Making of Modern World Order, 1945-50’
  Rana Mitter (St Cross, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 28 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘William James and “the laws of health” in nineteenth-century America’
  Emma Sutton (Queen Mary University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 11:15 - New Perspectives on Early Modern Legal Culture ‘Honours as Property? Debating the Sale of Offices in 16th Century France’ ‘Property: More Important than Honour in Early Modern Life and Law?’
  Samuel Pollack (Oxford), John Jordan (Bern)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:15 - Imagining Revolution in 1790s Ireland: Wolfe Tone’s Political Ideas
  Ultan Gillen (Teesside)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 1 December 2016

• 17:00 - Reviews of recent work
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 2 December 2016

• 17:00 - Book Launch: ‘The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa, 1960-1999’
  Miles Larmer (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 January 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Prophets of progress? Predicting the future of science and technology from H G Wells to Isaac Asimov’
  Peter Bowler (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 11:30 - CGIS Reading Group: On the theme of ‘Gendered mobilities’
  Please read in advance: • Thomas Faist, ‘The Mobility Turn: A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences?’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36:11 (2013), pp. 1637-1646. • Ceri-Anne Fidler, ‘The Impact of Migration upon Family Life and Gender Relations: the case of South Asian Sea-Farers, c. 1900-1950’, Women’s History Review, 24:3 (2015), pp. 410-428. • Nancy L. Green, ‘Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender’, Gender & History, 24:3 (2012), pp. 782-789.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 18 January 2017

• 17:00 - Pride and Partridges: Peel and Guns
  Simon Skinner (Balliol College)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 11:30 - 'I, Juljan-Eljasz Siergiewicz, citizen of the Polish Republic of the Belarusian nationality': Autobiography and the nation-state in Poland, 1922-1939
  
  Kate Lebow (University of Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Ned Ward and Laughter at the end of the Seventeenth Century
  Preparatory reading: Quentin Skinner, 'Why laughing mattered in the Renaissance', History of Political Thought, 22/3 (2001); Jan Bremner and Herman Roodenburg (eds), A Cultural History of Humour (1997), introduction.
  Dr Kate Davison (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 20 January 2017

• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Whig history and the mind of England
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - ‘Mobilizing Free China: mass lines, new deals, and the problem of legitimacy on early Cold War Taiwan’
  Tehyun Ma (University of Sheffield)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 23 January 2017

• 16:00 - ‘UK premature baby care 1947-1965, the Dr Isaac “Harry” Gosset collection at Northampton General Hospital – a case study’
  Andrew Williams/Fred O’Dell (Northampton General Hospital)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - SPECIAL LECTURE:‘The Scorpion’s Lash: Gender and the Making of an Imperial Anthropocene in Victorian Afghanistan’
  Antoinette Burton (Illinois University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Tuesday 24 January 2017

• 11:00 - WORKSHOP: ‘Global and Comparative Feminisms in the long 19th century’
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 17:00 - Early Anti-Methodism as a Disguise for Heterodoxy
  Simon Lewis (University College)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 11:30 - The Panama Affair: Financial Scandal, Political Corruption, and the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
  Lisa Leff (American University)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Country conquers it self” - The Idea of Conquest and the English Civil War
  Preparatory reading: John Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: a reissue with a retrospect, (1987); Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics, (2002), Vol. 3, Ch. 8 (‘History and Ideology in the English Revolution’); Johann Sommerville, ‘History and Theory: the Norman Conquest in Early Stuart Political Thought’, Political Studies, 34 (1986), 249‐261.
  Jonas Pollex (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 27 January 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Reform-oriented Sufi orders in South Asia: local and global connections’
  Moin Nizami (OxCIS)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Scrutinizing the present phase of human history
  There will be a drinks reception in the North School of Examinations Schools following this lecture. Everyone is welcome to attend.
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 30 January 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Fears, phobias and obsessions in the late-nineteenth century’
  Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Little Mogadishu: Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub
  Neil Carrier (University of Oxford)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Wednesday 1 February 2017

• 17:00 - What did Oxford sound like in 1784? A Musical Snapshot based on the Tune Collections of J. B. Malchair
  Alice Little (Music Faculty)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 11:30 - Writing the History of Financial Scandals and Capitalism in the Interwar Period
  
  Martin Geyer (Maximilians-Universität München)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - My Authority is Absolute”: Mapping the Political Landscape of Later Stuart Cornwall and South-West Wales
  Preparatory reading: D.W. Hayton, The House of Commons, 1690-1715: Introductory Survey (2002), pp. 124-31, 137-40; A.H. Dodd, Studies in Stuart Wales (1952), ch. 5.
  James Harris (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: A Perpetuall Possession to Posterity
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Friday 3 February 2017

• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Science and capitalism as background
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - ‘Bringing a girl from the village: domestic service and gender relations in post-colonial Africa’
  Sacha Hepburn (IHR, University of London)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 6 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Stuck in the middle with you: scientist, state, and network in Chinese engagement with the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1957-1985’
  Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• 11:30 - ‘“Something to Declare”: Travel and the Postcolonial Queer’
  Churnjeet Mahn (Strathclyde University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 16:30 - A Plague of Rats: The Material and Visual Emergence of Interspecies Urban Epidemic Control
  Christos Lynteris (Visual Plague project, CRASSH, University of Cambridge).)
  Future of Cities Programme
• 17:00 - Place and Power: the Landed Gentry of the West Solent Region in the Eighteenth Century
  Emma Page (Kellogg College)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 11:30 - The Murrays of the Border: the Story of an Irish Small House
  Peter Leary (University of Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Charles I's most loyal subject: Thomas Harrison and the Sin of Uzzah
  Preparatory reading: ‘The trial of Thomas Harrison,’ in Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials, vol. 3 (1809), 1369-82; Noel Malcolm, ‘Thomas Harrison and his “Ark of Studies”: An Episode in the History of the Organization of Knowledge’, Seventeenth Century, 19 (2004), 196-232; .David Cressy, Charles I and the People of England (Oxford, 2015), pp. 177-209 (‘Importunate Petitioners’); 2 Samuel 6: 1-7 or 1 Chronicles 13: 7-11.
  Prof David Cressy (Claremont Graduate University and Christ Church)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: Obscure on Purpose: Thucydides as Ancient Authority
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Friday 10 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Rethinking American Empire’
  Tony Hopkins (University of Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Christianity, rationalism, and ambiguity
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 13 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Precession or trepidation? The motion of the sphere of fixed stars as a problem in medieval Latin astronomy’
  Philipp Nothaft (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 12:30 - CGIS reading group: On the theme of ‘LGBTQ studies’.
  This session is kindly being chaired by Professor Dan Healey, Professor of Modern Russian History, St Antony's College. • Ann Cvetkovich, 'In the Archive of Lesbian Feelings’, in An archive of feelings : trauma, sexuality, and lesbian public cultures, (London, 2003), Chapter 7. • David M. Halperin, ‘Introduction: In Defense of Historicism’ in How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Chicago & London, 2002). • Charles E. Morris, ‘The Mourning After’, in Remembering the AIDS Quilt, edited by Charles E. Morris, (East Lansing, 2011), pp. xxxvi-lxix.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 17:00 - Policing and the Identification of Offenders in Metropolitan London, 1780-1850
  Eleanor Bland (University of Sheffield)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 11:30 - Towards a history of European Terrorism; Towards a history of European Terrorism; c.1880-2016
  Tim Wilson (St Andrew’s)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Loyalist Catholicism Reconsidered: Sir Thomas Tresham and the Elizabethan regime in the 1580s
  Preparatory reading:S. Kaushik, 'Resistance, loyalty and recusant politics: Sir Thomas Tresham and the Elizabethan state’ , Midland History 21 (1996), 37-72; E. Rose, Cases of Conscience: alternatives open to recusants and Puritans under Elizabeth I and James I (1975) esp. ch. 4; G. Kilroy, Edmund Campion: a scholarly Life (2015), esp. chs. 6, 9, & 11.
  Katie McKeogh (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: Profitable Instruction for Noblemen: Thucydides Reborn
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Friday 17 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘At the edge of empires: the modern nation, ex-colonial milieu and transnationalism of the Chinese in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from the 1930s to the 1960s’
  Setsuko Sonoda (University of Hyogo)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: The long Industrial Revolution
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 20 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media’
  James Sumner (University of Manchester)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Ideology and Strategy: Understanding the Relationship Between Politics and Economy in Sudan
  Laura Mann (LSE)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 11:30 - ‘Mothers on the Move: Gender, Slavery, Law, and Space in Nineteenth-Century Cuba’
  Camillia Cowling (University of Warwick)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 16:30 - The deceit of “flourishing for all”: facing up to the necessity of exclusion in environmental planning
  TBA
  Future of Cities Programme
• 17:00 - Producing the City: Festival Design and 'Middlemen' in London and Paris, 1660-1715
  Elaine Tierney (Victoria and Albert Museum)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 11:30 - A twentieth-century European Peasant War?: The ‘Green Cadres’ in Austria-Hungary and its successors, 1917-1945
  Jakub Beneš (University of Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Sir John Holt: Courts, Corporations and the Crafting of the Constitutional Landscape after 1688
  Preparatory reading: P. Halliday, Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns 1650-1730 (1998), esp. ch. 8; H. Nenner, By Colour of Law, Legal Culture and Constitutional Politics in England, 1660-1689 (1977); P. Hamburger, ‘Revolution and Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion in City of London v. Wood’, Columbia Law Review, 94 (1994), 2091-2153.
  George Artley (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: The Ruine of Wicked Men: Thucydides Reformed
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Friday 24 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘From the periphery to oblivion’
  John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - History in English Criticism 1919-1961: Literary history as cultural history
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 27 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Biology as technology: an unexpected history of innovation in living things’
  Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• 11:30 - The Limits of “White slavery”: Migration, anti-alienism, and the dominant discourses of trafficking in turn-of-the-century England’
  Rachael Atwood (Westminster University)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 11:30 - The Limits of “White slavery”: Migration, anti-alienism, and the dominant discourses of trafficking in turn-of-the-century England
  Rachael Atwood (Westminster University)
  Gender and mobilities: women, travel and migration

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 17:00 - The Gifts of Athena Revisited: Protectionism, Regulation and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700-1800
  William Ashworth (University of Liverpool)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 11:30 - A Radicalisation of 'Islam de France' or an Islamisation of French Radicals: a Scholarly Debate Over a New Social Phenomenon
  Aurelie Daher (University of Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: A Trumpet of Warre: Thucydides' Reason of State
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Friday 3 March 2017

• 10:30 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations (D.Phil.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 6 March 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Peer support, mental health activism, and changing doctor-patient relationships in Uganda’
  Yolana Pringle (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 7 March 2017

• 11:30 - Special reading group for International Women’s Day 2017
  • Professor Lyndal Roper will be discussing: Natalie Zemon Davis ‘Women on Top’ in Society and Culture in Early Modern France (Stanford, 1975), pp. 124-51. • Professor Ruth Harris will be discussing: Judith Walkowitz, ‘Jack the Ripper and the myth of male violence’, Feminist Studies, vol 8 , 1982, pp. 542-78. • Dr Rachel Moss will be discussing: Judith M. Bennett ‘Medievalism and Feminism’ Speculum, vol. 68, no. 2, 1993, pp. 309–331.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 16:30 - Be-­longing. Humanimal crowding in the city
  Tora Holmberg (Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden)
  Future of Cities Programme
• 17:00 - Mount Stuart: Scotland's Treasure House Past, Present and Future
  Alice Martin (Mount Stuart Trust)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 9 March 2017

• 11:30 - ‘Domestic drudgery will be a thing of the past’ Feminist Dreams of Collectivised Housework and What Happened to the Servants
  Laura Schwartz (Warwick University)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Thucydidean Renaissance: A Most Politique: Hobbes's Thucydides
  Kinch Hoekstra (University of California, Berkeley)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - Graduate student presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 10 March 2017

• 11:30 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations (M.St.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 April 2017

• 11:15 - ‘Tracking a transnational family in the sixteenth-century Mediterranean world: the Brunis and the Brutis’
  Sir Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, Oxford)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History
• 16:00 - ‘Django’s phrenologist: science, slavery and material culture, 1791– 1861’
  James Poskett (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 1 May 2017

• 11:15 - ‘Plato’s throne and Solomon’s temple: Graeco-Islamic historical imagination in Ottoman Athens’
  Dr Elizabeth Key Fowden (University of Cambridge)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 11:30 - ‘Keeping House: Women and the Culture of Domestic Service in Post-Colonial Africa’
  Sacha Hepburn
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Monday 8 May 2017

• 11:15 - ‘'Tis Pity She’s a Whore: An attempt at a microhistorical reading of an early 16th-century Ottoman petition’
  Mr Nenad Filipović (Oriental Institute, Sarajevo)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History
• 16:00 - ‘A Corner in Wheat: large technological systems and the history of genetics, 1900-1930’
  Berris Charnley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Book launch for “After rape: violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda”
  Holly Porter (LSE)
  African History & Politics Seminars

Friday 12 May 2017

• 17:00 - DACRE Lecture 2017: The Beginning of a Misunderstanding? Hugh Trevor-Roper and the making of Post-war Europe
  Martin Conway (Balliol College)

Monday 15 May 2017

• 11:15 - ‘ “His master’s chattel in matters superadded to nature, though in nature things all are equal” (Aquinas). Towards a legal anthropology of late medieval slavery’
  Dr Hannah Skoda (St John's College, Oxford)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History
• 16:00 - ‘Health, military service, and economic mobility of US Civil War soldiers’
  Chulhee Lee (Seoul National University/University of Oxford )
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 11:30 - DPhil Event: To celebrate and discuss in-progress DPhils in gender and women’s history
  Please register now for this event to support students in the field and share your ideas and insights - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-women-and-culture-dphil-event-tickets-34405686334
  Maurice Casey, Fanny Louvier, Ashley Garber
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Monday 22 May 2017

• 11:15 - Girlhood translated? Reading Fénelon’s Traité de l’éducation des filles (1687) in twentieth-century Egypt’
  Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Christina De Bellaigue (Exeter College, Oxford)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History
• 16:00 - ‘Medical reform in Jamaica, 1826-43: imperial and colonial contexts’
  Aaron Graham (University College, London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 May 2017

• 11:15 - ‘Beyond exclusion: Migrations from the Islamic world to the Spanish Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries’
  Dr Cecilia Tarruell (History Faculty/ TORCH, Oxford)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Monday 5 June 2017

• 11:15 - ‘Forbidden contacts: Catholic and Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire (17th-18th centuries)’
  Dr Cesare Santus (L’école française de Rome)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History
• 16:00 - ‘Challenges to teaching the history of global health’
  Margaret Humphreys (Duke University, USA )
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 10:00 - History of Science, Medicine and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2017: A Cabinet of Curiosities
  Admission and lunch are free but numbers are restricted so please register.
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 June 2017

• 11:15 - 'At the periphery of texts, at the center of textual heritage: A study of Christian Arabic manuscripts at the Monastery of the Syrians in Egypt’
  Professor Stephen Davis (Yale University)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History
• 16:00 - ‘Leviathan and the air rifle: the sclopetus pneumaticus in early modern
  Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 11:30 - on ‘Through Curtains and Lattice Screens: Female Scholars and Poets in Mughal India’
  Richard Williams
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Thursday 15 June 2017

• 11:15 - 'Partners of the Empire and the Formation of a State-Society: Rethinking the Ottoman Order in the 18th and 19th centuries’
  This seminar will take place in the New Powell Room at Somerville College, and it is convened by Prof J Innes and Dr J-P Ghobrial
  Professor Ali Yaycioğlu (Stanford University), Professor Marc Baer (LSE, London)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Monday 9 October 2017

• 16:00 - Presenting futures past: why historians of science should be reading (and talking about) science fiction
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Presenting futures past: why historians of science should be reading (and talking about) science fiction
  Amanda Rees (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 11:15 - Roi de guerre ou Roi de paix?: Louis XV, Europe and the French Monarchy, 1736-1748
  Julian Swann
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The Curious Case of the Cross-Dressing Catholic: Revelry and Resistance in Jacobean Lancashire’
  Dr Jonathan Healey (OUDCE)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 13 October 2017

• 16:00 - 'The British World and the Arid World'
  Robert Fletcher (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 October 2017

• 16:00 - The okapi, the wolf, the fellow, and the baboons: thalidomide in South Africa, 1956-1976
  Julie Parle (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 11:15 - From Göttingen to Sri Lanka: The 18th-Century Debate on Elephant Copulation and the Limits of Evidential Credibility
  Avi Lifschitz
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Archbishop Laud and the Corporation of Wimborne Minster, 1636-1639’
  Charles Cornish-Dale (Lincoln College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 20 October 2017

• 16:00 - 'The Adamsons, Born Free and the late colonial era: images that changed the animal world'
  William Beinart (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 23 October 2017

• 16:00 - Sciences and cults of the mind: hypnosis, psychiatry and modernity in Austro-Hungary
  Emese Lafferton (Central European University, Budapest)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 11:15 - The Court as the World: Refocussing a Nobility on Court Life
  Fabian Persson
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The Scribal Legacies of Katherine Gell 1645-1730’
  Prof. Ann Hughes (Keele University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 27 October 2017

• 16:00 - 'Empire Forestry, famines and communities; Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century'
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 30 October 2017

• 16:00 - Alchemy and scribal publication: the legacy of a Leiden Rosicrucian
  Mike A Zuber (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 11:30 - ‘The Women's Liberation movement’
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 11:15 - Visual Dissent in the Iberian Empires, 1500-1700
  Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘“Holy Harmony”: Puritans and Popular Song in seventeenth-century England’
  Dr Angela McShane (Wellcome Collection)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 3 November 2017

• 14:00 - Mining and Environmental Change in African History
  Gavin Bridge (Durham), Deborah Bryceson (Edinburgh), Iva Peša (Oxford), Corey Ross (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 6 November 2017

• 16:00 - Science, reputation and controversy: Joseph Priestley through the crises of the Ancien Regime
  John Christie (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 11:15 - 1. Religion in the Armies of the Thirty Years War/ 2. Early Modern Amsterdam: The European Market for War-Making
  Ryan Crimmins, Marianne Klerk
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Work and Social Relations in England, 1500-1640’
  Prof. Andy Wood (Durham University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 10 November 2017

• 16:00 - 'The Amerikan Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s'
  David Moon (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 13 November 2017

• 16:00 - (Re)configuring disease: computer as agent of disease definition
  Andrew Lea (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 12:30 - Why use subjective sources? Collaborative workshop on what historians can learn from sources for the self
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 11:15 - New Materials, Old Conflicts: The Craft of Dyeing in 16th- Century Spain
  Adrianna Catena
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Sir Thomas Roe: Memory, Transculturality, and the Incorporated Self’
  Prof. Nandini Das (University of Liverpool)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 17 November 2017

• 16:00 - 'A Thirsty Empire: Water Scarcity in the British Indian Ocean World 1850-1945'
  Ruth Morgan (Monash)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 20 November 2017

• 16:00 - Medicos, bandage wallahs and knights of the Red Cross: masculinity and military medicine in Britain in the era of the First World War
  Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 11:15 - António Vieira, SJ, and the "Clavis Prophetarum": A Portuguese Fifth Imperialistic Project
  Ana Valdez
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Space, Place, and Experiences of Service: evidence from the church court depositions of early modern England’
  Dr Charmian Mansell (University of Exeter and TORCH)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 24 November 2017

• 16:00 - Waiting for the barbarians: what archaeology has to say about southern hemisphere equestrians
  Peter Mitchell (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 27 November 2017

• 16:00 - CANCELLED: James Dinwiddie, empire and the transit of science, 1760-1815
  Please note that, unfortunately, this lecture has been cancelled.
  Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 11:30 - 'What does it mean to be a feminist historian?'
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 17:15 - Rebuilding Landscapes, Reconstructing Lives: Brandenburg after the Thirty Years War
  Please note that this lecture will take place at 5.15 in the Old Library, All Souls College
  Mary Lindemann
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 17:00 - The False Scots Urchin and his Dearest Sister: James, Elizabeth and Factional Politics in Scotland, 1583-1584’
  Dr Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 1 December 2017

• 16:00 - 'The Imperial Zoo. The commodification of wildlife, colonial propaganda, and transimperial conservationism (London, Paris, and Antwerp zoos, nineteenth century-ca. 1960)'
  Violette Pouillard (Ghent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 15 January 2018

• 16:00 - James Bradley and Oxford science in the 18th century
  John Fisher (Independent Scholar)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 16 January 2018

• 17:00 - The Carlyle Lectures - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule (Lecture One)
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)
• 17:00 - Office and Anarchy
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 11:00 - Our Bodies, Ourselves: Feminist Healthcare from the Local to the Transnational in 1970s Britain, France and the U.S.
  Tess Little (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Remembering and Forgetting Recantation in the English Reformation
  Dr Ceri Law (Univ. of Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 19 January 2018

• 16:00 - ‘An unnavigable valley: trade and sovereignty in the forest of Borneo, c. 1878-1938’
  Shinobu Majima (Gakushuin)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture One: Youth and Age
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 22 January 2018

• 16:00 - Typologies of fatness: constitutional medicine in early- to mid-twentieth-century Europe
  Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 17:00 - Lecture Two: Office and Accountability
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - The Carlyle Lectures - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule (Lecture Two)
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 11:00 - New Directions in Suffrage Historiography (joint session with Women and Gender History)
  Naomi Paxton (Houses of Parliament and University of Lincoln), Zoe Thomas (Birmingham), Lyndsey Jenkins (University of Oxford )
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘“To Move the First Day of Term”: Strategies, Practices and a Seventeenth-Century Microhistory’
  Prof. Jason Peacey (UCL)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 26 January 2018

• 16:00 - 'Duncan Sandys and Decolonisation'
  Please note change in programme due to speaker illness.
  Dr Peter Brooke (Wolfson, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Two: Kith and Kin (This Lecture will be followed by a drinks reception from 18:00-19:00)
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 29 January 2018

• 16:00 - A research enclave in 1940s Nigeria: the Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Research Institute at Yaba, Lagos, 1943-1949
  Megan Vaughan (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 17:00 - Lecture Three: Ruling and Being Ruled
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - The Carlyle Lectures - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule (Lecture Three)
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 11:00 - The ‘Third World’ as an Effect of the Social Sciences
  Daniel Speich Chassé (Lucerne)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Long Reformation in the Far North: Kirk and Culture in Early Modern Orkney’
  Prof. Peter Marshall (Warwick Univ.)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 2 February 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Land and the origins of British India’
  John Marriott (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Three: Blood and Trees
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 5 February 2018

• 16:00 - Inventive practices in 18th-century Europe: the public theater of technology and the mastery of the elements of nature
  Marie Thebaud-Sorger (CNRS)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 17:00 - Lecture Four: Rule, Law, and Liberty
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - The Carlyle Lectures - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule (Lecture Four)
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 11:00 - 'Eastern Gurus and Western Followers: the Spirituality of Nationalism in the 'Global Idealist Moment'.
  Ruth Harris
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Procuring “Local Knowledge”. The Library of the First Count of Gondomar in the context of his Diplomacy’
  Ernesto Oyarbide Magana (Wolfson College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 9 February 2018

• 16:00 - ‘“Among these incongruous battalia, are represented the hopes of the world”: gold rushes and global history’
  Benjamin Mountford (La Trobe), Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Four: Generations and Seed
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 12 February 2018

• 16:00 - Ibn al-Haytham (965-ca.1040; Latin: Alhazen): a Report
  Robert Hall (Academic Visitor, Faculty of History, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 15:00 - 'Domestic Service, mobility, and otherness’ led by Fanny Louvier and Olivia Robinson
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
• 17:00 - The Carlyle Lectures - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule (Lecture Five)
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)
• 17:00 - Lecture Five: Office and Rule in Constitutional Change
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 11:00 - Children of the Rising: A Traumatic History of Easter 1916
  Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid (Sheffield)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Political Dialogue, Exchange and Propaganda, c. 1461-1537’
  Wesley Correa (Corpus Christi College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 16 February 2018

• 15:00 - Africa and Decolonisation workshop
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Five: History and Time
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 19 February 2018

• 16:00 - The making of a Pastorian Empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics
  Aro Velmet (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 17:00 - The Carlyle Lectures - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule (Lecture Six)
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)
• 17:00 - Lecture Six: The Purposes of Office and Rule
  Melissa Lane (Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Princeton University)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 11:00 - The Rise of the Mystic Romantic in Colonial Bengal: Poetry, Power and the Politics of Imagination
  Alex Wolfers (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The Reformation of the Generations: Age, Ancestry, and Memory in England c. 1500-1700’: Discussion of the James Ford Lectures in British History
  Prof. Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 23 February 2018

• 16:00 - ‘The politics of the public sphere: print culture in colonial Lagos, 1880s-1940s’
  Katharina Oke (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Six: Memory and Archive
  Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 26 February 2018

• 16:00 - Ada Lovelace: an eminent Victorian in her mathematical context
  Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 11:00 - The Orientalism of Others: Asian intellectuals and the battle for difference, 1890 to 1930
  Mark Frost (Essex)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 2 March 2018

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations (D.Phil.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 11:00 - Researching your Bibliography
  Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 March 2018

• 16:00 - UK premature baby care 1947-1965: the Dr Isaac ‘Harry’ Gosset Collection at Northampton General Hospital - a case study
  Andrew Williams & Fred O’Dell (Northampton General Hospital)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 11:00 - Civic Materialism and Banal Nationalism: The Politics of Everyday Life in Paris and Berlin, 1880-1930
  Leora Ausländer (Chicago)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 9 March 2018

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations (M.St.)
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 23 April 2018

• 16:00 - How Darwin learned to theorize
  Professor Alistair Sponsel (Vanderbilt University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 11:15 - ‘The apostle of the Orient: Martin Crusius (1526-1607) and the Greek Mediterranean’
  Richard Calis (Princeton)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History
• 17:00 - The Annual Hicks Lecture 2018: Rising Inequality and Globalization
  Thomas Pikkety (Paris School of Economics)

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 11:15 - ‘Other Christians: Latin ethnography and comparatism at the Holy Sepulchre (1400-1600)’
  Dr Sundar Henny (Bern)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 11:30 - Approaches to Gender in Political Theory with Amelie Bescont
  Amelie Bescont (Sciences Po)
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 11:15 - ‘Making Crete Ottoman in the seventeenth century: Sacred landscapes, empires, and chronologies of desire’
  Lucia Nixon (Wolfson and Faculty of Classics)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 11:15 - ‘The archimandrite and the astronomer: the visit of Chrysanthos Notaras to Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1700), a new approach’
  Professor Vassa Kontouma (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 11:30 - Psychoanalysis and History
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 11:15 - ‘Candlelight politics: Illumination and its shades in eighteenth-century Istanbul’
  Dr Avner Wishnitzer (St Antony’s and Tel Aviv University), Dr Aslı Niyazioğlu (Oriental Institute)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 11:15 - 'A polyphony of voices: Graffiti and trials of the Inquisition of Palermo’
  Professor Mercedes García-Arenal (Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterraneao, CCHS, CSIC, Madrid), Dr Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 11:15 - ‘Lepanto in the Americas: Global dimensions of Mediterranean history’
  Dr Stefan Hanss (Cambridge)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 09:45 - History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2018: Sex, drugs and death: new perspectives on science, medicine and technology
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 11:15 - The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment’
  Dr Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams)
  New Perspectives in Mediterranean History

Monday 8 October 2018

• 16:00 - “The few cubic centimetres inside your skull”: electro-convulsive therapy in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Dr Lisa Mullen (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 10 October 2018

• 11:15 - The paradoxes of an early modern object: an experiment in material history
  Dror Wahrman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 16:00 - The Historian's Task in the Anthropocene
  Julia Adeney Thomas (Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame)
• 17:00 - ‘Inventing the English Bible in the reign of Henry VIII’
  Dr Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 12 October 2018

• 16:00 - ‘War/Time: Global Histories of a Local Conflict in the Horn of Africa’
  Richard Reid (St Cross, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 15 October 2018

• 16:00 - “Strange things may be accomplished:” Gurus between Science and Miracles
  Professor Ruth Harris
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 11:15 - Kinship and the cultural dynamics of seventeenth-century France: the Perrault family
  Oded Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University)
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Three Coronations and a Union: 1567, 1590 and 1603’
  Prof Jane Dawson (Univ. of Edinburgh)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 19 October 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Celebrating Religious Diversity: Early Modern Russia and the Power of Typological Thinking’
  Valerie Kivelson (Michigan)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 22 October 2018

• 16:00 - Archival ethics from below: the case of an African Cancer Hospital
  Dr Marissa Mika (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 11:15 - Heroes or villains? Runaway Christian captives and slaves in the early modern Mediterranean
  Cecilia Tarruell (Oriel College)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 11:30 - ‘Gendered Sensations: the intersection of gender and sensory histories in the early 20th century’
  Sasha Rasmussen
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The Face of Tyranny: Richard III after Shakespeare’
  Dr Jitka Stollova (Jesus College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 26 October 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Locating the Silk Road(s) in History and Today’
  Valerie Hansen (Yale)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 29 October 2018

• 16:00 - Smallpox eradication in China and emerging narratives of global health, 1949-79
  Dr Mary Brazelton (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 11:15 - Reading the Bible in sixteenth‐century France
  Mack P. Holt (George Mason University)
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Antiquarian Curiosities or Priceless Treasures? The Uses of Carved Stones in Early Modern History’
  Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams (Univ. of Stirling)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 2 November 2018

• 14:00 - Knowledge Production in Colonial and Post-colonial History
  In association with the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ ERC funded project.
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 5 November 2018

• 16:00 - Catholicism, reproduction, and eugenics in interwar Hungary
  Dr Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 11:15 - Looking at Ottoman Istanbul from its outskirts: sixteenth‐century poets and their gardens
  Asli Niyazioglu (Exeter College)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 11:30 - Finding Rape in the Archives: Methodologies for Hearing Survivor Voices from the Past
  Lucia Akard
  Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Sheriffs at the Exchequer: The Reform of Shrieval Revenue Collection from 1530-1550’
  Jonathan McGovern (Univ. of York)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 9 November 2018

• 16:00 - ‘The First World War and the Reimagination of Empire in the British and French Caribbean’
  Michael Joseph (Pembroke, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 12 November 2018

• 16:00 - The intemperate brain: debates over habit and heredity in the 19th century
  Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 11:15 - Liquid empire: writing water in the early modern French Americas
  Katherine Ibbett (Trinity College)
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Charity, Debt and Social Control in England’s Early Modern Prisons’
  Dr Richard Bell (Keble College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 16 November 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Comparing Russian Settler Colonialism’
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 19 November 2018

• 16:00 - Venereal disease in the British Empire
  Professor Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 11:15 - The Palatine family and the Peace of Westphalia, 1645-1647
  Thomas Pert (Lincoln College)
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 17:00 - ) ‘Preaching in the Early Jacobean Chapel Royal: Critiquing a New Regime’ & ‘“But nowe adayes I see fewe hunt the harte as he ought to be hunted”: The Social and Economic Contexts to Changes in Hunting in Seventeenth-Century England’
  Christopher Gausden (Jesus College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 23 November 2018

• 16:00 - ‘Debating the Great Divergence from the Demise of the Ming (1618-44) to the Industrialization of Western Europe (1756-1846)’
  Patrick O’Brien (St Antony’s, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 26 November 2018

• 16:00 - The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and mathematical practice in early modern London
  Dr Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 11:15 - Untraceable ideas? Black thought in the early Iberian Atlantic (1500-1640) and the transformation of Iberian empires and epistemologies
  Chloe Ireton (University College London)
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Sadler Saddled: Reconciliation and Recrimination in a Restoration Parish’
  Dr Edward Legon (Historic Royal Palaces)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 30 November 2018

• 16:00 - Empire of Accumulation: Consumer Value and the Labor Question in British and American Nineteenth Century Expansion
  Bronwen Everill (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 14 January 2019

• 16:00 - Radical artisans, divine design, and evolution in Britain, 1819-36
  Dr Jonathan Topham (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 17:00 - Unnatural histories and political thought: Pufendorf to Bentham
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 11:00 - Paris-London 1948-1995: Rai, Reggae and the Making of an Exhibition on Multi-Cultural Protest Music at the French Museum of the History of Immigration
  Martin Evans
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The Human Costs of the Civil Wars’
  Prof. Andrew Hopper (Univ. of Leicester)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 18 January 2019

• 16:00 - ‘Global science, national horizons: paleontology, astronomy and Antarctic research in South Africa’
  Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: Old problems, new approaches
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 21 January 2019

• 16:00 - The history of poisons: toxic matters, scientific actors and socio-political processes, 19th-20th c.
  Professor Judith Rainhorn (Universite Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne/Maison Française d'Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 17:00 - Natural histories: the crisis of the republics
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 13:00 - Translating the Medieval World for Young Readers
  Dr Janina Ramirez (Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford)
  Early Medieval Britain Network

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 11:00 - Trophy-Selfies, Military Masculinities, and the Epistemological Challenges of Photographs of Rape
  Elissa Mailänder
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘“The Prince Elector is going from hence to London, I imagine for no good”: The Elector Palatine, Parliament, and the Civil War c.1638-1644’
  Thomas Pert (Lincoln College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 25 January 2019

• 16:00 - ‘Redefining the Caliphate: Indian Pan-Islamism in the early twentieth century’
  Faridah Zaman (Somerville, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: Reaction and regulation
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 28 January 2019

• 16:00 - Murder in Palestine? Revisiting the causes of the Acre/Akka typhoid outbreak of 1948
  Dr Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 17:00 - Death and the philosophers
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 11:00 - Electric News in Colonial Algeria
  Arthur Asseraf
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Two Interesting Episodes from the Embassy of William Harborne to the Ottoman Empire’ AND ‘A principle of “Natural Justice”: Sir William Petty and the “Royal Absolutist” Case for Excise’
  Joel Butler (Wadham College), Matthew Ward (Kellogg College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 1 February 2019

• 16:00 - ‘Cash Rules: Money and the British Empire in the Age of Revolutions’
  Andrew Edwards (Brasenose, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: A mystery within an enigma: the economy, 1355-75
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 4 February 2019

• 16:00 - “Whipping Boy” to “Envy of the World”: Promoting the NHS at Home and Abroad, 1948-1998
  Professor Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 17:00 - The collapse of the commonwealth tradition
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 11:00 - Celia Johnson’s Grief: mourning and remembrance in post-Second World War Britain
  Lucy Noakes
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The Carmen of London and Stereotypes of the Labouring Poor’
  Dr Ian Archer (Keble College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 8 February 2019

• 16:00 - ‘The Colonization of Elephants in the Making of Modern Malaya, c.1500-1900’
  Faizah Zakaria (Nanyang Technological University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: Injustice and revolt
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 18:00 - Public Lecture: Ruskin's Trees
  Professor Fiona Stafford
  Ruskin Events

Monday 11 February 2019

• 16:00 - German science, French translations, and the global market of books (1810-1850)
  Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 17:00 - Patriots, Cosmopolitans and Terrorists
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 11:00 - The Lives and Loves of Muriel St. Clare Byrne: Perspectives on Queer Identity
  Mo Moulton
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘“As you know the storie of Storie”: Loyalty & Religion at Common Law, 1571-1608’ AND ‘Preaching, Royalism, and Episcopalian “Conformity” in Interregnum England’
  Michael Heimos (St Cross College), William White (St Anne’s College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 15 February 2019

• 14:00 - Broadcasting Decolonisation: The Radio Boom and the End of Empire
  Dr Peter Brooke (Wolfson, Oxford), Professor Simon Potter (Bristol), Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL), Stephen Hocking (Department for Continuing Education, Oxford), Dr Massoumeh Torfeh (School of Oriental and African Studies)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: A new equilibrium, c.1375-1400
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 18 February 2019

• 16:00 - Charlatan epistemology (provisionally)
  Dr Koen Vermeir (CNRS Paris/Maison Française d'Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 17:00 - Caesars, Scots and Utilitarians
  Professor Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 11:00 - The Invention of the “ethical consumer”: Consumer products and political activism in Britain and West Germany in the 1960s – 1990s
  Benjamin Moeckel
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “'For their owne singuler lucre”: Perceptions of Strangers as an Economic Threat in London and at the English Court, c. 1450-1558’ AND ‘Conflict and Collaboration: The Spanish Ambassadors in the Elizabethan Court’
  Emily Glassford (Lincoln College), Heather McTaggart (Lincoln College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 22 February 2019

• 16:00 - Physicians, agents and collectors: the importation and study of natural specimens from the Middle East in seventeenth-century Europe
  Federica Gigante (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ford Lectures - After the Black Death: The end of serfdom and the Rise of the West
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Monday 25 February 2019

• 16:00 - Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment
  Dr Simon Werrett (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 11:00 - Global Britain and the Security of Europe, 1919-59
  Patricia Clavin
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 1 March 2019

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 4 March 2019

• 16:00 - Transnational History of Clockwork Automata: Karakuri Ningyō and the Art of Artificial Life
  Dr Mateja Kovacic (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 11:00 - Engaging with the West, humanizing science: Grassroots geographers’ quest for a natural order in Meiji and Taisho Japan
  Nadine Willems
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 8 March 2019

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 19 March 2019

• 09:30 - 2019 Interdisciplinary History of War Conference
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 29 April 2019

• 16:00 - Signals from other worlds: the technological imagination in British wireless cultures, circa 1900-1940
  There will be no seminar next week, 6 May (Bank Holiday)
  Dr Richard Noakes (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 May 2019

• 16:00 - Women’s Labour and British Naval Hospitals and Hospital Ships 1775-1815
  Dr Erin Spinney (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 May 2019

• 16:00 - “Dead souls”: mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds from GULAG, 1930-1955
  There will be no seminar next week, 27 May (Bank Holiday)
  Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 3 June 2019

• 16:00 - Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, Germany c. 1900
  Christina Benninghaus (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 10 June 2019

• 16:00 - How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies
  Dr John Waller (Michigan State University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 14 June 2019

• 09:15 - Iberian History Workshop: Violent Encounters: Conflict, Resistance and Memory in the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
  Please book your place by emailing giuseppe.marcocci@history.ox.ac.uk by the evening of 11 June
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - "History, Empire, Brexit: A Roundtable"
  Various Speakers

Monday 17 June 2019

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the Papal bull Coeli et terrae
  Dr Neil Tarrant (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 20 June 2019

• 09:30 - 2019 HSMT Postraduate Conference: Ch-Ch-Changes in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 June 2019

• 15:30 - By counting rods or by abacus? The practices of Chinese mathematicians’ computations of multiplication and division in the 13th-15th century
  GUO Shirong (Institute for the History of Science and Technology，Inner Mongolia Normal University)

Thursday 25 July 2019

• 10:00 - Workshop 2: Applying for a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
  Various Speakers
  History Faculty Research Office Workshops

Monday 14 October 2019

• 16:00 - Seeing trauma: from invisible reality to emotional imagery
  Dr Harry Wu (University of Hong Kong)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 11:15 - A Witch Hunting King? Christian IV and his Early Encounters with Witchcraft
  Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 17:00 - Self-censorship in Early Modern Britain
  Dr Jon Parkin (St Hugh's College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 18 October 2019

• 16:00 - Global Struggles and Africa’s Cold War
  Professor David Anderson (University of Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 11:15 - Their excellencies must not be erudite. Titles, letter protocol and the language of inequality in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1640-1822
  Leonhard Horowski
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 17:00 - Locating Freedom in the Urban British Atlantic, 1660-1760
  Dr Andrew Wells (Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 25 October 2019

• 16:00 - “You taught me language and my profit on it is I know how to curse”: Shakespeare’s The Tempest in postcolonial criticism and performance
  Dr Cheryl Birdseye (Oxford Brookes)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 11:15 - Toussaint Louverture, the Black Spartacus of Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
  Sudhir Hazareesingh
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 17:00 - 1603: a Jagged Succession
  Professor Susan Doran (Jesus College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 1 November 2019

• 16:00 - The “federal moment” in East Africa: regionalism and the nation-state, 1958-1963
  Dr Chris Vaughan (Liverpool John Moores)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 11:15 - The "Waning of the Renaissance" or "Surviving the Counter Reformation"? Perspectives on Sixteenth-Century Bologna
  Nicole Reinhardt
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 17:00 - Global Trade and the Shaping of the English Constitution
  Dr Will Pettigrew (University of Lancaster)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 8 November 2019

• 16:00 - 'The view from Ikoyi: negotiating late colonialism in Nigeria
  Dr Tim Livsey (Northumbria)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 11:15 - Moriscos, Conversion, and Negotiating Identities in Early Modern Spain
  Stephanie Cavanaugh
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 17:00 - Officers and Authority in early modern England
  Jonah Miller (King's College, London)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 15 November 2019

• 16:00 - Droughts, Pastoralists and Identities in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Kenya: an Archaeological Perspective
  Professor Paul Lane (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 11:15 - Polemic and Political Thought in the later French Wars of Religion: Pierre de Belloy
  Matthew Innes
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 17:00 - The Birth of an Idea: Oliver Cromwell and the Theory of Checks and Balances
  Professor Blair Worden (St Edmund Hall)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 22 November 2019

• 09:00 - Disability History Month Workshop 2019
  Vicky Hope-Walker (National Paralympic Heritage Trust), Richard Calver (Optometrist and former UG student), Claire O’Mahony (Continuing Education), Vicky Drew (DAS), Jane Taylor (CTL), Jude Barrett (Ashmolean)
• 16:00 - Global(izing) Africa: the case of economic history
  Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 11:15 - Sharing Church Space between Lutherans and Catholics in Early Modern Württemberg
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Róisín Watson
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 17:00 - Was Henry VII a Strategist?
  Dr John Currin (Independent Researcher)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 29 November 2019

• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  This seminar has been cancelled due to the industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 11:15 - Foetid Odours and Heavenly Scents: Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and the Sense of Smell in the Early Modern World
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Tara Alberts
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 17:00 - Female Credit and Office-Holding in the Early Modern English Parish
  Alice Blackwood (Linacre College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 6 December 2019

• 16:00 - 'The Condition of Exile: Ghanaian Political Exile Networks in the Post-Independence Period
  Harriet Aldrich (St Hugh's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 December 2019

• 10:30 - Fishing and the Global History of Conservation: Preliminary Comparisons of Past and Present
  Professor Sarah S Elkind (San Diego State University)
  Environmental History Working Group

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 11:00 - Other `68ers: Students of the Centre-Right in West Germany’s Age of Protest
  Anna v der Goltz (Georgetown)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Women’s Work in early modern England: Approaches and Issues
  Professor Jane Whittle (University of Exeter)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 24 January 2020

• 16:00 - International treaties as imperial social contracts
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (University of South Wales)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Family, State & Empire
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 11:00 - Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune
  Julia Nicholls (KCL)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Hans Holbein the Younger and the Court of Henry VIII
  Dr Elizabeth Goldring (University of Warwick)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 31 January 2020

• 16:00 - "A Pack of Knaves": The Royal African Company, large plantations and the rise of the planter class and imperial commitment to the support of slavery in British America 1672-1708
  Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Demography and Marriage
  Followed by a Drinks Reception in North School directly following the lecture
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 17:00 - Taqlīd: Authority and the Intellectual Elite in the Islamic World
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 11:00 - Dimensions of the ‘forensic turn’: The New Nexus of Human Rights and International Criminal Law in the 1990s
  Alexa Stiller (Zurich/Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Our scene is London”: Dramaturgical and Jurisdictional Space in A Warning for Fair Women
  Lucy Clarke (Jesus College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Fractures and Fractals: Piecing together the Suffering Christ
  Ryan Asquez (Keble College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 7 February 2020

• 16:00 - Materials, design and revolution in the making of modern China
  Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Merton College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Race and Belonging
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 17:00 - Too High a Standard: Knowledge and Skepticism in Medieval Philosophy
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 15:30 - Identity and ethics in the Oral History interview
  Grace Heaton (University of Oxford), Heather Mann (University of Oxford), Aleena Din (Balliol)
  Oral History Seminar

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 11:00 - Contested Closet: Reading Transgender Experience in Twentieth century History
  Jack Doyle (Oxford), Samson Dittrich (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Freily” telling “my mynde”: Truth-telling, the Female Voice, and Contested Histories in Covenanted Scotland
  Professor Laura Stewart (University of York)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 14 February 2020

• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Property and Pensions
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 17:00 - Testing the Prophets: Reason and the Choice of Faiths
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Wednesday 19 February 2020

• 15:30 - Translating oral history
  Shabna Begum (QMUL), Aleena Din (Balliol)
  Oral History Seminar

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 11:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Restoration Clerics and the Religious Diversity of the Ottoman World: The Life and Times of Dr John Covel, 1670-77
  Charles Beirouti (New College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Hayley Ross (St John's College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 21 February 2020

• 16:00 - Napoleon III, the invasion of Mexico, and mid-Victorian liberalism
  Dr Alex Middleton (Christchurch College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Material Cultures and Homes
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 17:00 - Using the Pagans: Reason in Interreligious Debate
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 11:00 - The Problem with the ‘Home Front’: Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Sue Grayzel (Utah State)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 15:30 - Oral history and data privacy: GDPR, CUREC and archiving
  Rearranged to 27th Feb (3.30-5 pm) in respect of the UCU strike
  Various Speakers
  Oral History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Reconstruction of the Church of England after 1660
  Dr Andrew Foster (University of Kent)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 28 February 2020

• 16:00 - Revolution, Empire and Entangled History in the Southern Caribbean
  Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Dynasty and Violence
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 17:00 - Some Pagans are Better than Others: the Merits of Plato and Aristotle
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 11:00 - Writing the history of slavery in the twenty-first century
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Olivette Otele (Bristol)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  These presentations will be from 10:00-17:00
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 9 March 2020

• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 17:00 - Finding Their Voice: Women in Byzantine and Latin Christian Philosophy
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 11:00 - Speculation and Gambling in Germany and Britain around 1900
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Cornelius Torp (Bremen)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 13 March 2020

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate students research presentations
  Postponed to Trinity Term
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Saturday 14 March 2020

• 09:30 - *POSTPONED* Experiences of Adult Education in Britain since 1919
  Followed by a wine reception
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 12 May 2020

• 12:30 - “The Slave Book”: The education of enslaved children in the British West Indies before and after slavery
  Email sian.pooley@magd.ox.ac.uk for the link to join the seminar via Teams
  Inge Dornan (Brunel and visiting fellow Mansfield College Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Monday 18 May 2020

• 16:00 - Hands-on Theory in a Sailing School: Dieppe, 1675
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Margaret Schotte (York University, Canada)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 20 May 2020

• 15:30 - Young People Talk About Age and Ageing in Twenty-First Century Northampton
  Joint seminar with the Oral History Seminar - email oralhistory@history.ox.ac.uk for the link to join the seminar via Teams
  Laura Tisdall (Newcastle)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Wednesday 27 May 2020

• 15:30 - Oral History close reading: workshop
  This talk has been postponed until MT 2020
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tess Little (Oxford)
  Oral History Seminar

Monday 1 June 2020

• 16:00 - The First Egyptian Society (1741-3): The Royal Society, natural philosophy, and antiquarianism
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 5 June 2020

• 14:00 - Going Viral - Day 1
  Please register by emailing hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk by 12-noon Thursday 4 June to receive the Zoom link
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2020 - online

Monday 8 June 2020

• 16:00 - William Playfair's cross-channel transfers in the 1780s (title TBC)
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Jean-François Dunyach (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 10 June 2020

• 11:00 - Reading group – details to be confirmed
  Joint seminar with the Long Nineteenth Century Seminar – email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk for the link to join the seminar via Teams
  N/A
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Friday 12 June 2020

• 14:00 - Going Viral - Day 2
  Please register by emailing hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk by 12-noon Thursday 11 June to receive the Zoom link
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2020 - online

Monday 15 June 2020

• 16:00 - History of Chemistry: Who cares?
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 12 October 2020

• 16:00 - “The Moslems want to see everything from close by”: seeing in pre-modern Eurasia
  Yusen Yu (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 14 October 2020

• 15:30 - Exploring Subjectivity and Emotion in Oral History Interviews
  Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester)
  Oral History Seminar

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 17:00 - ‘The “Oath of Association” of 1569: Protestants and the State in early Elizabethan England’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College, Oxford University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Child Holocaust Survivors: Stories and Silence
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Rebecca Clifford (Swansea)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch of Ben Jackson’s The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland
  Ben Jackson (Oxford), Scott Hames (Stirling University), Naomi Lloyd-Jones (Oxford), Rory Scothorne (Edinburgh University), Lise Butler (City University)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 16 October 2020

• 16:00 - The Human Rights of Political Detainees — Nelson Mandela, Robben Island and the International Committee of the Red Cross
  Professor Andrew Thompson (Nuffield, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 19 October 2020

• 16:00 - Writing the rules of reason: inscriptive practice and the rise of mathematical logic
  David Dunning (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 14:00 - Social Groups and Experiences of the Holocaust
  TBA
  Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 11:15 - Contemplating shells and contemplating Christ: A devotional grotto at a seventeenth-century German court
  Róisín Watson (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:30 - Moving from in-person to digital interviews
  Dr Stephanie Snow (University of Manchester), Osnat Katz (UCL), Dr Sarah Dunstan (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Oral History Seminar

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 14:00 - Gender Trouble in Interwar Student Life
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Emily Rutherford (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - From tragedy to triumph: the Greek Colonels' regime and the Human Rights (Revolution)
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Konstantina Maragkou (LSE)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘“I cannot go on, yea, but I must never go back”: Zachary Crofton, the Restoration Church of England and the Dilemmas of Early Nonconformity, 1662–1665’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Dr Elliot Vernon (Lincoln's Inn)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 23 October 2020

• 13:00 - New crossings and combinations
  Philippa Levine (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Faculty of History)
  Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations
• 16:00 - Escaping the Global Event: India, Islam and the Great War
  Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 26 October 2020

• 16:00 - The science of money: Isaac Newton’s mastering of the mint
  Alice Marples (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 11:15 - Experiments in managing an epidemic in seventeenth-century Siam
  Tara Alberts (University of York)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:30 - Discourse analysis in Oral History
  Professor Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford)
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:30 - Women’s agency from medieval Catalonia to the Antilles in the Age of Revolution
  Alexandra Guerson (University of Toronto), Dana Wessel Lightfoot (University of Northern British Columbia)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 17:00 - The Neoliberalization of Nordic Democracy
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Johan Strang (Helsinki)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture ‘Love in the Time of Welfare’
  Registration is required by emailing alumni.office@magd.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Jordanna Bailkin (University of Washington)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - ‘Restoring Stonehenge to the Danes: Walter Charleton, Charles II and the Politics of Ritual Inauguration’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Alastair Bellany (Rutgers University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 30 October 2020

• 16:00 - Chinese Partition: Islamophobic Inheritances in the Legacies of the Great Northwestern Rebellion, 1860-1874
  Dr Hannah Theaker (St Anne's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 2 November 2020

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology; case studies on ceramics
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Moujan Matin (Toronto)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 14:00 - An Environmental History of the Holocaust
  TBA
  Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 11:15 - The bare and open truth: The poligrafi's subversions of humanism, rhetoric, and court culture in Venice, ca. 1527-1556
  Thomas Goodwin (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:30 - Troubleshooting workshop
  Various Speakers
  Oral History Seminar

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 14:00 - Empire, Free Trade, and Caribbean Freedom
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Michael Joseph (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Metamorphoses of Violence. A History of the Prison in West Germany
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Annelie Ramsbrock (ZZF Potsdam)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Imagined Islands, Ghost Rivers, and Unknown Continents: Richard Hakluyt and the limits of Elizabethan geographical discourse’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Dr Anders Ingram (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 6 November 2020

• 16:00 - Eric Williams Revisited: The State, Protectionism, Slavery, and Industrialisation, 1700-1800
  Dr William Ashworth (Liverpool)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 15:00 - The Maghreb in 18th century Spain: Islamic institutions and slaves’ collective action
  Daniel Hershenzon (University of Connecticut)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:30 - Dealing with trauma in oral history interviews
  Dr Julia Viebach (African Studies Centre, Oxford)
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:30 - The trial of a Morisco from early seventeenth-century Castile: A conversation with Mercedes García-Arenal
  Mercedes García-Arenal (CSIC, Madrid)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 17:00 - The Strange Afterlife of Prussia in the German Democratic Republic
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Marcus Colla (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Accidental Death in Sixteenth-Century England: Landscape and Industry’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Steven Gunn (Merton College, University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 13 November 2020

• 16:00 - Toussaint Louverture, the Black Spartacus of Saint-Domingue
  Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh (Balliol, Oxforfd)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 16 November 2020

• 16:00 - Imperial and empirical: crafting medicine in the 19th century
  Martin Robert (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 14:00 - Gender, Sexual Relations and Intimacy During the Holocaust
  TBA
  Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 11:15 - Bodies and self-tracking in early modern diaries
  Vitus Huber (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 14:00 - Death and Mortality in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Postgraduate Conference Day 1
  Various Speakers
  Death and Mortality in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Postgraduate Conference
• 14:00 - The Imperialism of International Government: Leonard Woolf, Henry Brailsford, and socialist thought in wartime Britain
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Defining and embedding "Country Houses"
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Ewald Frie (Tübingen)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Dueling Parliaments in the Marian Civil Wars’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Catherine Chou (Grinnell College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 20 November 2020

• 16:00 - Revenge of the Commons: property, debt and collateral in the history of African financial capitalism
  Professor Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 23 November 2020

• 16:00 - “Never so at Home:” Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham
  Georgina Montgomery (Michigan State University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 11:15 - Religious conversion and the policing of sexuality in Renaissance Italy
  Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University)
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:30 - Oral history: a close reading workshop
  Tess Little (Oxford)
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:30 - Ideas that have changed my research: Thinking Iberian history with Sir John Elliott
  Various Speakers
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 14:00 - Death and Mortality in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Postgraduate Conference Day 2
  Various Speakers
  Death and Mortality in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Postgraduate Conference
• 17:00 - The Algerian War as a European War
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Selim Nadi (Avignon)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Edward Sherburne Builds a Career in Early Stuart England, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Ned’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Rupali Mishra (Auburn University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 27 November 2020

• 13:00 - New crossings and combinations
  Philippa Levine (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Faculty of History)
  Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations
• 16:00 - Ordering the East- publishers’ series and the invention of the oriental classic, 1878-1950
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 30 November 2020

• 16:00 - Sonic emblems & magic squares: Atalanta fugiens and Ludic humanism in the 21st century
  Donna Bilak (Independent Scholar), Loren Ludwig (Scholar Performer)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 14:00 - Presentation of Work and Discussion
  Jade Burroughes (MSt History, Kellogg), Ed Jones (BA History, Lincoln)
  Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 15:30 - From interviews to history: turning your transcripts into a thesis
  Orlando Figes (Birkbeck)
  Oral History Seminar

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 14:00 - Roundtable discussion with Helen McCarthy (Cambridge) of her new book 'Double Lives: a history of working motherhood' (2020)
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Helen McCarthy (Cambridge), Aleena Din (Oxford), Jane Humphries (Oxford), Eve Worth (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - A Twentieth-Century Crusade. The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
  If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Giuliana Chamedes (Wisconsin)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Disabling Lord Purbeck: Adultery, Witchcraft and the State’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Thomas Cogswell (University of California, Riverside)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 4 December 2020

• 16:00 - "Kin Beyond Sea": W E Gladstone on Liberalism, Empire, and America, 1846-1898
  Dr Graeme Thompson (Harvard)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 9 December 2020

• 15:30 - Stella Dadzie in Conversation with Jade Bentil: 'The Past, Present and Future of Black (oral) History'
  Stella Dadzie, Jade Bentil (Merton)
  Oral History Seminar

Monday 18 January 2021

• 16:00 - “Think of the position I have been put in since first grade, just because I passed a silly test of describing pictures”: gifted children, intellect, and expertise in modern Britain and America
  Dr Jennifer Crane (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Radical thought and political practice: Rethinking ideas of accountability in the English revolution
  Jason Peacey (UCL)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 13:30 - OxHMD21: Survivor Oral and Video Histories Workshop
  William Jones (Oriental Studies, Oxford), Nicolas Garraud (Exeter), Grace Heaton (University of Oxford), Aleena Din (Balliol)
  Oral History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture One: Empire, Property, and the New York Land Question
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire

Thursday 21 January 2021

• 15:00 - Representing current events: reflections from a historian
  Robert Lacey (Historian and author)
  Historians in the Public Sphere
• 17:00 - Anxious Patriarchs? Male Complaints of Spousal Abuse in Tudor England
  Dr Martin Ingram (Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The 1984-5 Miners' Strike: An Oral History (joint meeting with Modern History Seminar)
  Robert Gildea (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The 1984-5 Miners’ Strike: an oral history
  Robert Gildea (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 22 January 2021

• 16:00 - The Bonds of Family
  Dr Katie Donington (London South Bank University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture One: Making History
  Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2021: Ireland, empire, and the early modern world

Monday 25 January 2021

• 16:00 - Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
  Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Compound words, synthetic world: an information history of modern chemistry
  Dr Evan Hepler-Smith (Duke University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 16:00 - "A moderate price when compared with … the Kentish Coast": South Devon's seaside resorts, c. 1760-1840
  Richard Manning (Merton)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture Two: Darien, the Scottish Empire, and Colonial Anthropology
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 16:30 - Old and new in the Iberian world (and elsewhere)
  Tamar Herzog (Harvard University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 14:00 - Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire
  Caroline Ritter (Texas State)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - Tracing the future of research: managing a public funding body
  Professor Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  Historians in the Public Sphere
• 17:00 - The Backlash against Global Health: Brazil, Aids, and Bolsonaro, 2007-2020
  Note this week's seminar will be held on Zoom
  Marcus Cueto (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Consent in Apprenticeship Indentures
  Dr Sonia Tycko (St Peter's College and RAI, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 29 January 2021

• 13:00 - New crossings and combinations
  Philippa Levine (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Faculty of History)
  Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations
• 16:00 - Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives
  Dr Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers University)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Two: Anglicisation
  Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2021: Ireland, empire, and the early modern world

Monday 1 February 2021

• 16:00 - New under the sun: Jews and climate in Palestine 1897-1948
  Dr Netta Cohen (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
  Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Episcopalians and the Interregnum Church: Remembering Conformity after 1660
  William White (University of York)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 16:00 - "Employed by many of the Nobility and first Architects in the Kingdom": Eleanor Coade, a study in eighteenth-century business practice
  Caroline Stanford (Kellogg College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture Three: The Grievances of Virginia: Land, People, and Arbitrary Government
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 14:00 - “What Remains of What We Still Call, Sentimentally, our Communities”: Narrating the Crisis of Working-Class Community in 1980s Britain
  Nicholas Garland (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - Public history in China: history, memory, and politics
  Professor Na Li (Zhejiang University)
  Historians in the Public Sphere
• 17:00 - John Mill’s Chapel Lectures in Early Enlightenment Oxford: Between Textual Criticism and Apologetics
  Natasha Bailey (New College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Erasmus and the Religious Orders of England: the case of Merton Priory
  Tim Wade (New College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - A Human Garden. French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
  Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po, Paris)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 5 February 2021

• 16:00 - Colonial public spheres, liberal thought and indirect rule in interwar Africa
  Professor Emma Hunter (Edinburgh)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Three: Assimilation
  Professor Jane Ohlymeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2021: Ireland, empire, and the early modern world

Monday 8 February 2021

• 16:00 - The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
  Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - How Joseph Banks made climate move
  Harriet Mercer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 16:00 - "Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name": Russian provincial towns and the People’s Militia in the early nineteenth century
  Mikhail Belan (St Antony's)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture Four: Captain Kidd, Piracy, and the Sovereignty of the Seas
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 16:30 - Hot on the trail: Pilgrimage and crime in northern Spain
  Amanda L Scott (Penn State University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 14:00 - “Tactics are Dictated by the Existing Conditions”: The Design and Outcome of Provisional IRA Violence 1969-1979
  Rachel Kowalski (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - Historians and gaming: consulting for video and board games
  Daniel Burt (Oxford), Perrine Poiron (Sorbonne Université and UQAM)
  Historians in the Public Sphere
• 17:00 - The King's Justice: Local Issues in the Royal Council Courts of Tudor England
  Dr Laura Flannigan (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Bringing Order to Global Migration, 1920-1960
  Madeleine Dungy (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 12 February 2021

• 16:00 - “Stop the World”: The end of empire and the “break-up of Britain”
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Four: Agents of Empire
  Professor Jane Ohlymeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2021: Ireland, empire, and the early modern world

Monday 15 February 2021

• 16:00 - Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
  Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773-1779)
  Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Putting the king in his place: reflections on the ‘royal monopolies’ in Hellenistic Egypt
  Nico Dogaer (Leuven)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Before the Coffee House: The Political Tavern in Revolutionary England
  David Como (University of Stanford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 16:00 - Magistrates, Local Government and the Police from the 1820s to the 1850s
  Yoko Onodera (UCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture Five: William Molyneux, Improvement, and the Case of Ireland
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 14:00 - “They’re Trying to Make Everyone Equal, and That Can’t Happen”: Gifted Education, Equality, and Difference in Britain, 1945-1990
  Jennifer Crane (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - Medical museums: handling specimens from the past
  Professor Richard Fraser (McGill University), Éloïse Quétel (Sorbonne Université), Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
  Historians in the Public Sphere
• 17:00 - Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “[A]n exempler to the rest”: The Marian Church in Counter-Reformation Europe
  Dr Fred Smith (Clare College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 19 February 2021

• 16:00 - Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization
  Professor Philip Murphy (School of Advanced Study)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Five: Laboratory
  Professor Jane Ohlymeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2021: Ireland, empire, and the early modern world

Monday 22 February 2021

• 16:00 - On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
  Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology: case studies on ceramics
  Dr Moujan Matin (University of Toronto)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 16:00 - The Spy who never came in from the Cold: Father James Carnegy’s personal war Against the British State 1697-1735
  Daniel Szechi (Manchester)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture Six: Africans, Native Americans, Slavery, and Christian Evangelism
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 15:30 - The Methodology of Queer Oral History: A conversation between Victoria Golding and Fleur MacInnes
  Various Speakers
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:30 - Margins of liberation on the Tejo: Positioning mariners of color in sixteenth-century Lisbon
  Gariel de Avilez Rocha (Brown University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 14:00 - Selina Todd in conversation with Mike Savage to launch her new book Snakes and Ladders: The Great Social Mobility Myth (2021)
  Selina Todd (Oxford), Mike Savage (LSE)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - Connected historians: YouTube and new media
  Ugo Bimar (‘Confessions d’histoire’ channel), Matus Lazar (University of Oxford and ‘M. Laser History’ channel)
  Historians in the Public Sphere
• 17:00 - Ireland, Empire, and the Early Modern World: Discussion of the James Ford Lectures in British History
  Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - What Happened to Women’s Skills in the Industrial Age? Perspectives from Near and South Asia in the late 19th century
  Hatice Yildiz (University of Edinburgh)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 26 February 2021

• 16:00 - Empire and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
  Professor Krishan Kumar (Virginia)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture Six: Empires
  Professor Jane Ohlymeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2021: Ireland, empire, and the early modern world

Monday 1 March 2021

• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Hermetic tradition and scientific revolution revisited: the case of Francesco Patrizi
  Dr Vojtěch Hladky (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Royal Income: The Legalities of the Dutch Royal Finances in the 20th and 21st Centuries
  Paul P T Bovend’ Eert (Radboud)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - God's Vigilant Watchmen: The Oppositional Words of Episcopalian Clergy in Wales, 1646-1660
  Sarah Ward (UWE, Bristol)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 16:00 - Enclosure as a colonial act: The Common as terra nullius
  Carl Griffin (Sussex)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 14:00 - Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain
  Sam Wetherell (York)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - Appreciating and preserving: archives and special collections
  Dr Mary Hague-Yearl (McGill University), Dr Florent Palluault, (Médiathèque François-Mitterrand, Poitiers)
  Historians in the Public Sphere
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Perceptions of Interpersonal Violence. A History of the Present
  Svenja Goltermann (Zürich)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 5 March 2021

• 09:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Book discussion: Passing: An Alternative History of Identity (2021)
  Lipika Pelham (Author and filmmaker)
  MSt in Women's Studies cohort - Feminist Thinking Seminars
• 17:00 - Oxford Centre for European History Special Annual Lecture 2020-2021 - Ahasverus, the Wandering Jew: An Early Modern Story
  Professor Yair Mintzker (Princeton University)
  Oxford Centre for European History

Monday 8 March 2021

• 16:00 - Astrological forecasting of epidemic disease in early modern England: a forgotten chapter in the history of public health?
  Dr Michelle Pfeffer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 16:00 - Saved from the British: Layered Stories from a Philadelphia Historic House
  Laura Keim (Stenton Museum, University of Pennsylvania)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 16:30 - Cervantine blackness
  Nichaolas R Jones (Bucknell University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 15:00 - Local historians and the historical profession
  Mark Davies (Oxford local historian, author), Liz Woolley (Oxford local historian, author)
  Historians in the Public Sphere
• 17:00 - Slavery and the Art of Race
  Philippa Levine (Texas/Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Slavery and the Art of Race (joint meeting with Modern History Seminar)
  Philippa Levine (Texas/Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 12 March 2021

• 09:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - New crossings and combinations
  Philippa Levine (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Faculty of History)
  Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations

Monday 26 April 2021

• 12:30 - Rereading the "Canon" in Latin Late Antiquity: Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius’ Saturnalia
  Katherine Krauss (Somerville College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism: historical and historiographical considerations
  Dr Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
  Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - "They made a desert and they called it peace": Cromwell's War in Ireland
  John Morrill (University of Cambridge)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 16:00 - Piety and Protest: Popular Belief in the Scottish Lowlands, c. 1730-1800
  **Myles Smith (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Under the Protection of Alien Wings. Russian Emigrant Mathematicians in Interwar France: A General Picture and Two Case Studies of Ervand Kogbetliantz and Vladimir Kosticyn
  Laurent Mazliak (Sorbonne)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 28 April 2021

• 15:30 - Working Motherhood & Organisational Labour in Late Twentieth Century Britain: Reflections on a Collaborative Methodology
  Eve Worth (Oxford)
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:00 - BOOK LAUNCH: Aaron Graham, 'Bills of Union: money, empire and ambition in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic'
  Aaron Graham, Peter Wilson (Oxford), Stephen Conway (UCL), Erica Charters (Oxford)

Monday 3 May 2021

• 12:30 - Defining the "Byzantine Variable" in Early Byzantine Italy: The Case of Liguria (500-700 CE)
  Alessandro Carabia (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
  Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 10:00 - What can Conversion Teach us about Belonging in Early Modern Spain?
  Dr Stephanie Cavanaugh
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 16:00 - Solitude and Sociability in the Late German Enlightenment, 1756-1807
  **Ingrid Schreiber (Wadham College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Systematizing intuition: methods for integrating the exact and inexact sciences at RAND, MIT and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
  Sarah Dry (Independent)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 14:00 - John Stuart Mill and the East India Company
  Andrew Dalkin (New College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Moral personality, emotional experiences, and the intellectual history of ethical socialism, 1880-1930
  Oliver Gough (University College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Monday 10 May 2021

• 12:30 - Feeling Repentance in Byzantium: A Study on the Literary Sources of Katanyktic Poetry
  Cristina Cocola (Universiteit Gent & Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - "Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
  Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Viruses in the making: the notion of emergence seen from the history of influenza
  Dr Frédéric Vagneron (University of Strasbourg)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Henry Marten and the "Original of all Just Power"
  Sarah Mortimer (University of Oxford), David Scott (History of Parliament)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Royal Inc. in Morocco
  Dr Ferdinand Eibl ((Kings College London))
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 10:00 - Concepts of the Baltic Region: On Geography, Territories, Networks, and Trans-Territorial Connections in Historical Research
  Dr Cathleen Sarti
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 16:00 - The Court of George III and Country Houses: hosting the "Royal Excursioners" at Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire
  **Amanda Westcott (Keble College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - A Hungarian Logician in China: At the Intersection of Soviet, Chinese and Hungarian Computing History
  Máté Szabo (Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 14:00 - The Victorian regiment as a social institution: studying a soldier’s identity and belongingness
  Hannah Searle (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - “Not since the Wars of the Roses had so many patricians died so suddenly and so violently”: a closer look at aristocratic casualties in the Great War
  John Howard (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Conflict in print: British soldiers and satirists on the Eastern Question, 1853-56
  Andrew Walsh (Keble College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 14 May 2021

• 13:00 - New Crossings and Combinations
  Philippa Levine (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Faculty of History)
  Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations

Monday 17 May 2021

• 12:30 - Themistius and the Muses: Religion, Rhetoric, and Classical Statuary in Fourth-Century Constantinople
  Ben Kybett (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Food, Farming and Trade in Medieval Croatia: an archaeological perspective
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Kelly Reed (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Colonies, Companies, Counts, and King: Money and Nobility Between the King and his Colonies
  Christina Petterson (Australian National University)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 10:00 - The First World War and the Russian Revolution
  Professor Robert Service
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 16:00 - William Playfair vs France: a case-study in British Popular conservatism and the London Press during the French Revolution
  Jean-Francois Dunyach (Sorbonne)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The “De sex inconvenientibus”, an example of a fourteenth-century treatise on natural philosophy
  Sabine Rommevaux (CNRS)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 15:30 - The History of Parliament's Oral History Project: Memories from Women MPs
  Priscila Pivatto (Houses of Parliament), Emma Peplow (Houses of Parliament)
  Oral History Seminar
• 15:30 - Happy families and well-behaved aristocrats? Elite society in seventeenth-century Madrid
  Alistair Malcolm (University of Limerick)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 14:00 - Margaret Thatcher and the Trade Union "problem": the execution of an ideological blueprint or tactical opportunism?
  Christopher Birks (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - "Keep the Party Labour": The Grassroots Alliance and the changing strategies of opposition to Tony Blair and New Labour, 1994-2007
  Alfie Steer (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Monday 24 May 2021

• 12:30 - Between the Living and the Dead: Use, Reuse, and Imitation of Painted Portraits in Late Antiquity
  Grace Stafford (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Jyotirmaya Sharma (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Tarzan The Man Ape: chimpanzees, science and colonial memory at the Pasteur Institute in Kindia
  Dr Marion Thomas (University of Strasbourg & Maison Française d’Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Ordeal of William Sancroft: A conservative endures Britain in revolution
  Grant Tapsell (University of Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 09:45 - Graduate Student Workshop: Labour and Precarity Across Time and Space
  Various Speakers
• 12:30 - On London’s Black Education Movement: schooling, representation, and geography in the age of Black Power
  Jacob Fairless Nicholson (UCL)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Europe's "Blue Water" empires and its hinterlands: the Pan-European dimension of early modern globalization
  Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Making a “Young Man’s Game”: Youth, gender, play, and the real and imagined personae of modern global mathematics
  Michael Barany (Edinburgh)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 14:00 - Queer oral history and transfeminine experiences of Britain, 1970-1989
  Fleur MacInnes (Christ Church College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Exposing the female neck and shoulders: beauty, prestige, and violence in England, c. 1838-1953
  Elena Tucker (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Monday 31 May 2021

• 12:30 - Ageing, Rejuvenation and Patronage in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
  Josh Hitt (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
  Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 1 June 2021

• 10:00 - Human Rights Activism in Post-War Britain
  Professor Tom Buchanan
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 10:00 - Conference: States, local jurisdictions and borderlands in Europe and the Americas
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Enclosure as a Colonial Act: the Common as terra nullius
  Carl Griffin (Sussex)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - From one Academy to the other: Mersenne, Roberval, and a few others
  Sébastien Maronne (Toulouse)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 17:00 - Indigenous slavery, the disappearance of the past, and the archive
  Nancy E van Deusen (Queen's University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Monday 7 June 2021

• 12:30 - Monastic Presence and Book Circulation in the Lands North of the Danube (15th-16th Centuries)
  Constanța Burlacu (Merton College, Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
  Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Bearing Witness. Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000)
  Dr Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Pledging and Politics. The Example of the Late Medieval Duchy of Luxembourg
  Christa Birkel (Munich)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Further reformation? Episcopalian royalist rethinking in the 1650s
  Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 8 June 2021

• 10:00 - The Soldier’s Tale: Military Storytelling in Revolutionary Europe
  Professor David Hopkin
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 12:30 - Migration, mobility and making money: emigrant children and their outcomes 1835 -1950
  Gillian Lamb (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Visualising Protestant Monarchy: Ceremony, Art and Politics after the Glorious Revolution, 1689-1714
  Julie Farguson (St Hilda's, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Erudition and Empiricism in Algebraic Practice at the End of the Sixteenth Century
  Abram Kaplan (Harvard)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 15:30 - Homelessness in women’s life-stories: oral history and collaborative history
  Freya Marshall Payne (University of Oxford, Wolfson College)
  Oral History Seminar

Friday 11 June 2021

• 10:00 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2021 - Picture This: Charting Themes Across HSMT
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - New Crossings and Combinations
  Philippa Levine (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Faculty of History)
  Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations

Monday 14 June 2021

• 12:30 - (Re)contextualising a Late Antique City through the Ceramic Record: The Case of Dion in Macedonia (Pieria, Greece)
  Kyriakos Fragkoulis (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Socialist medicine: rethinking the history of global health
  Dr Dora Vargha (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Roundtable on Economic History of Monarchy
  Luc Duerloo, George Tridimas, Ellie Woodacre
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 10:00 - The “Americanisation” of European Culture: General Questions and the Specifics of Pre-WWII Italy
  Professor Guido Bonsaver
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 16:00 - Undergraduate Thesis Session
  Various Speakers
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - “The triumphant vindication of the American observations”? The Spanish eclipse expedition of 1870
  Deborah Kent (St Andrews)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 15:30 - Living, Learning and Equality: Women’s experiences at the first coeducational colleges at Oxford University.
  Florence Smith (University of Oxford)
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:30 - Sacramental politics and place in eighteenth-century New Granada
  Bethan Fisk (University of Edinburgh)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 17 June 2021

• 17:00 - African body markings and racialisation in eighteenth-century Brazil
  Joint Seminar with the Latin American History Seminar - please register in advance at the link below
  Aldair Carlos Rodrigues (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Waterloo Sunrise: London Life, 1960-79: an event to mark the retirement of John Davis from the Oxford History Faculty
  John Davis (Oxford), Anna Minton (East London), Otto Saumarez-Smith (Warwick), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Thursday 9 September 2021

• 16:00 - Locating the Jewish Art Dealer in London: cultural and spatial geographies
  Mark Westgarth (Leeds)
  Jewish Country Houses' Project Workshop: Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, 1850-1930

Tuesday 14 September 2021

• 16:45 - Trading Places: North African and Middle Eastern Jews as Arts and Antiquities Dealers in Belle Époque Paris
  Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt), Devi Mays (Michigan)
  Jewish Country Houses' Project Workshop: Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, 1850-1930

Monday 11 October 2021

• 16:00 - Burn: an incendiary history of lockdown Britain
  Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
  Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - "O nos miseros!" George Stradling and Royalism in Interregnum Oxford
  Alex Beeton (University of Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 16:00 - Introductory party
  N/A
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 16:30 - Hybrid Dermal Practices and the Origins of Race in the Early Modern Age
  Craig Koslofsky
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: 'An English Field'
  N.B. this even takes place at 5pm, in the Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/ewen-green-memorial-lecture/
  James Rebanks
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Martial Culture and Martial Practice in early modern London
  Dr Ian Archer (Keble College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Performing Putin
  Elizabeth Wood (MIT)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 15 October 2021

• 16:00 - Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
  Dr Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 18 October 2021

• 16:00 - Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - The British Cotton Belt: carrying Mendel to the edge of empire, 1900-1914
  Dr Matthew Holmes (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 12:30 - Welcome Session
  Helen Sunderland, Barnabas Balint, Samantha McCormack
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Our Practice Seems to have a Superiority': Commercial Credit in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow
  Hunter Harris (Nuffield)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 11:15 - European Engagement with British Catholics (joint session with two papers)
  Heather McTaggart, Kate Shore
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - On the Perception of Difference in Colonial Latin America: A Conversation with Stuart Schwartz
  Stuart B Schwartz (Yale University), Karoline J Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London), Max S Hering Torres (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 14:00 - Start of term reception for all graduate students, early career researchers, and History Faculty members in Modern British History
  N/A
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Harmony and Quiet in the Parish: Legal Pluralism and Early Modern England
  Dr Dom Birch (King's College London)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Time orders in the Prague Spring
  Martin Schulze Wessel (Munich)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 22 October 2021

• 16:00 - Colombo as Idea and Artefact
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 25 October 2021

• 12:30 - Holy Fools in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Rus
  Sofia Simões Coelho (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Prestige asymmetry in the popular image of physics
  Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
  Professor Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Regicide or Revolution: Political Ideas in the Petitions of September 1648-February 1649
  Norah Carlin
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - History’s Masters: The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance
  Sebastian Ottinger (UCLA), Nico Voigtländer (UCLA)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 12:30 - Social Picnic
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  N/A
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 13:00 - 'Age of Insensibility’: Emotions and the Politics of Reputation in Britain around 1800
  Dr. Kerstin Maria Pahl (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
  Oxford History of Emotions Seminar
• 16:00 - The taxing unions of 1707 and 1801
  **Julian Hoppit (UCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 11:15 - Travelling Brides, Travelling Grooms: Festival, Gender, and Memory in Late Medieval and Early Modern Habsburg Wedding Journeys
  Patrik Pastrnak
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 14:00 - Anthropology, secularism, and the evolution of marriage in Britain, 1889-1969
  Joshua Bennett (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Death in the Rubble: The Elizabeth Kusian Murders in 1949 Berlin
  Richard Bodek (College of Charleston)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Venice and the Polemical Works of James VI & I
  Dr Eloise Davies (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 29 October 2021

• 16:00 - The 1972 Ugandan Asian Expulsion: Making a Transnational Diaspora fit a World of Nation-States
  Dr Ria Kapoor (Manchester)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 1 November 2021

• 12:30 - Julian, Constantinople, and the Role of Civic Patriotism in the Fourth Century
  Thomas R Langley (Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - A hospital of her own: interwar colonial nurses and the mobility of power
  Dr Hagit Krik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
  Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Fiscal-Commercial Complex: Taxation and Capital in Fatimid Egypt
  Lorenzo Bodioli (Columbia)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 16:00 - Bernard Mandeville's critique of Epicurus and the 'easie divines' of the Church of England, 1705-1732
  Jacob Chatterjee (Balliol)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 11:15 - The Porcelain Merchant’s Handbook: The Eighteenth-Century Trade Networks that Supplied the Canton trade
  Anne Gerritsen
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:30 - Soul Mining: Memory, Class, and Culture in the British Coal Industry 1947-1994
  Professor Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton)
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:30 - 1619: The Iberian and Global Origins of Anglo-American Slavery
  Stuart McManus (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 14:00 - "Tell the boys from me, as one of their old fellows, that they must all strive for Emigration, it is the making of thousands”: Boys, Empire and opportunity in the nineteenth-century
  Gillian Lamb (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Early Stuart Sociability after Colonialism
  Dr Lauren Working (English Faculty, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Children of the revolution? Child refugees in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
  Suan Sheridan Breakwell (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 5 November 2021

• 16:00 - Intimate Solidarities: Mobility and Hospitality in the Women’s International Socialist Movement 1955-1970
  Dr Su Lin Lewis (Bristol)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 8 November 2021

• 12:30 - Michael VIII Palaiologos and the southern shore of Constantinople
  Jessica Varsallona (Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - The origins of medicine in the prehistoric and archaic Greece
  Dr Tomáš Alušík (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
  Professor Rohit De (Yale University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Catholic Sequestrations during the English Revolution
  Eilish Gregory (New College of the Humanities & Anglia Ruskin)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 13:30 - Histories of the Transgender Child
  Please note this talk starts at 13:30
  Jules Gill-Peterson (University of Pittsburgh)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 15:30 - Panel on the methodological challenges of working with oral history interviews conducted by other people
  Lauren Cantillon (King's College London), Jessica White (University of Manchester), Amber Ward (University of St Andrews), Dr James Greenhalgh (University of Lincoln)
  Oral History Seminar
• 17:15 - Spreading Sedition: Radical Breasts in Revolutionary Prints
  Online-Zoom joint-seminar with the British History in the Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar (based at the IHR, London)
  **Katie Snow (University of Exeter)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 14:00 - "Riders of Tomorrow”: Horse-riding in Britain, c.1920-1960
  Hannah Smith (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The Quest for a New World Order: International politics between visions of global governance and catastrophic failures in the 1990s
  Change of venue; this seminar will now be via Microsoft Teams
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Speaking in Hands: Deafness, Sign Language and Preaching in Early Modern England
  Dr Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 12 November 2021

• 16:00 - Russian Turkestan and the First World War
  Dr Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 15 November 2021

• 12:30 - The Athanasian Emperors: Reconsidering Orthodox and Heretical Emperors in the 340s
  Nicola Ernst (Exeter)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Manuscript cultures of mathematics: east-west networks of knowledge
  Dr Alessandra Petrocchi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
  Dr Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 16:00 - Tree-rings, Coral-skeletons, and British History in the South Pacific, c. 1760s-1840s
  **Harriet Mercer (Cambridge)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 11:15 - A State of Undress: Health and Morality in the Early Modern Swedish Sauna
  Charlotta Forss
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - Trans-imperial mobilities and Black Catholic Knowledge in the Early Eighteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean
  Bethan Fisk (University of Bristol)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 14:00 - "The moral rearmament of imperialism”: the Revolutionary Communist Party, Irish republicanism, and the new world order, c.1981-1998
  Jack Hepworth (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - A New Edition of Cromwell: Why? How? What?
  Professor John Morrill (Selwyn College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Performing American Blackness on German stages, 1847-1914
  Jeff Bowerox (UCL)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 19 November 2021

• 16:00 - From Bohemia to Balintawak, Baku to Bandung, Antananarivo and Guangzhou to Điện Biên Phủ: Cosmopolitan Circuitries of Revolution in Southeast Asia
  Professor John T Sidel (London School of Economics)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 22 November 2021

• 12:30 - Roman? Greek? Byzantine? Some thoughts on the trial of Maximus the Confessor and Roman identity
  Callan Meynell (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
  Dr Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Sacred histories of public health: leper asylums and the medical-evangelical state in twentieth-century British India
  Please note this talk is online, registration for which is required at the link below.
  Dr Shinjini Das (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Church of England in 1660: Annus Mirabilis (for some)
  Ken Fincham (University of Kent)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 16:00 - "No time [should] be lost in procuring the performers": The Recruitment and Training of Military Musicians, 1793-1815
  Eamonn O’Keeffe (Merton)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - ADDITIONAL SEMINAR: Global-European Civil Wars
  Places are limited and registration is essential: contact global@history.ox.ac.uk
  Robert Gerwarth (Leverhulme Visiting Professor Oxford 2021-22; UCD), Rana Mitter (Oxford), Discussant: Martin Conway, Chair: Professor Patricia Clavin
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 15:30 - Oral History, Family and Generational Change: A dialogue between Grace Huxford and Aleena Din
  Dr Grace Huxford (University of Bristol), Aleena Din (Oxford)
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:30 - Race and Royalty
  Alexander Bevilacqua
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 17:00 - Peace in the City: War, Peace, Commerce and the Treaty of London
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College, Oxford University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Disarming bodies and souls: gun control and state monopoly on violence in Europe, 1919-1948
  Marco Aterrano (Messina)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 26 November 2021

• 16:00 - The Law of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics
  Professor Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 29 November 2021

• 12:30 - Byzantine Catholics (exact title TBC)
  John-Francis Martin (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - The Option of Nonviolence
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Rodents and the balance of nature: wildlife protection as public health in the interwar Union of South Africa
  Dr Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 18:00 - Roundtable to Political Economy in Monarchies
  Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews), Laura Clancy (Lancaster), Aaron Graham (Oxford, London), Ilya Afanasyev (Stanford in Oxford)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 11:00 - 2021 Disability History Month Workshop
  This is a hybrid event
  Samantha McCormack, Nadia Bon, Irem Yildiz, Shristi Kochar, Shelley Castle
• 12:30 - Freedom, Society, and Childrearing in the Arab World, 1880-1939
  Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Paris Opéra: administrative turmoil and stylistic reshuffling 1687-1715
  Lola Salem (St John's)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 15:30 - Title TBC
  Dr George Severs (Birkbeck)
  Oral History Seminar
• 16:30 - Intimate Histories: Sex in an Old Regime City, and Rethinking Our Categories for Economic History
  Julie Hardwick
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 17:00 - The Performance of Sanctity: Religious Symbolism and Tudor Royal Pageantry
  Dr Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Elitist philosophy and the nature of Italian Fascism
  Carlo Moll (Cambridge)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 3 December 2021

• 16:00 - Empire of the Sand? Persian Gulf “Piracy”, the French threat to India, and British imperial responses
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 6 December 2021

• 12:30 - The Case Romane del Celio: Living in Rome in Late Antiquity
  Kelly E McClinton (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Wednesday 8 December 2021

• 15:30 - Oral History and Education
  Dr April Gallwey (University of Bristol)
  Oral History Seminar

Monday 13 December 2021

• 12:30 - The Many Byzantine Chrysostoms: A Look at Competing Sanctification Narratives at the Heart of Byzantine Spirituality
  Mark Huggins (Edinburgh)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Thursday 13 January 2022

• 18:00 - Oxford Re-Formed
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various Speakers

Monday 17 January 2022

• 16:00 - Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan
  Dr Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Isaac Newton as theologian, artisan, and roommate: some new documents
  Dr Dmitri Levitin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Despiteful names, disreputable churches, and denominational formation in the "puritan" revolution
  Dr Joel Halcomb (University of East Anglia)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 16:15 - Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions Part Three: Latin America and the Caribbean
  Joanna Innes (Somerville)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 14:00 - Online book launch of Aled Davies, Ben Jackson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds), The Neoliberal Age? Britain Since the 1970s (2020)
  Note: This event will take place on Zoom; registration required
  Aled Davies (Oxford), Colm Murphy (QMUL), Emily Robinson (Sussex), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Parliaments in Early Modern Europe’s Political Culture
  Dr Paul Seward (History of Parliament)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Parliaments in Early Modern Europe’s Political Imagination
  Professor Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - ROUNDTABLE - Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial war, 1931-1945
  NOTE: This seminar has had to move entirely online - please email patricia.clavin@history.ox.ac.uk to receive the link
  Richard Overy (Exeter), Discussant: John Darwin (Oxford), Discussant: Rana Mitter (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 21 January 2022

• 16:00 - Urban Colonialism in Global History. From Ancient Athens to Modern New York via Early Modern Istanbul
  Professor Jamie Belich (Balliol College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Why Roman Britain? Why Material Culture? Why Dogs?
  Professor Robin Fleming (Boston College)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2022, Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain's Dogs and People

Monday 24 January 2022

• 16:00 - How 'Dynasty' Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property
  Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Adaptive environmental design and the landscape architecture of the British agricultural revolution: a case study of Brassica napus in England and Scotland, 1700-1850
  Note this seminar will be held online via Zoom - registration required
  Dr Amy R Coombs (University of Chicago)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Financing a Newborn State under Precarious Conditions: King Otto I of Greece (1832-1862) and his Sources of Revenue and Credit
  Korinna Schönhärl (Paderborn, Germany)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 16:15 - The Foods of Love? Food Gifts, Courtship, and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century England
  Sally Holloway (Oxford Brookes)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Against the Enlightenment (Judith Shklar)
  Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
  The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 16:30 - Verdant Worlds: Art and Sustainability across the Cosmos
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA and Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 17:00 - “Learning the arte of piracy”: The Welsh Gentry and early modern British Expansionism
  Dr Sadie Jarrett (Queen's College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  Note: This event is jointly held with the Modern History Seminar and will take place in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 28 January 2022

• 16:00 - The Problem of Legal Pluralism in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
  Dr Hunter Harris (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Real Dogs Under Rome
  Professor Robin Fleming (Boston College)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2022, Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain's Dogs and People

Monday 31 January 2022

• 16:00 - Relaying Station for Empires’ Outcasts’: Managing ‘Lunatics’ in Pre-World War II Hong Kong
  Dr Harry Yi-Jui Wu (National Cheng Kung University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - "Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims
  Professor Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Nehemiah Wallington reads the news, 1645-7
  Professor Ann Hughes (Keele University)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Pharaohs and Finance: Considerations for the Introduction of a Monetized Sector to the Customary Economy in Ptolemaic Egypt
  Andrew Hogan (Berkeley)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 12:30 - Gendering Juvenilia: Writing by Early Modern Girls
  Edel Lamb (Queens University Belfast)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:15 - Policing Suspicion: Proactive Policing in London, 1780-1850
  Eleanor Bland (Oxford Brookes)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Romantic Revolution (Isaiah Berlin)
  Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
  The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 16:30 - Session 1: Jenny Bangham's Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (Chicago, 2020)
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:00 - "Tempora mutantur": Royalists in Places of Education during the Rump Parliament
  Alex Beeton (New College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Replacing Europe? The Importance of India, Violence and Global Political Thought
  Please note this seminar has moved online - please register at the link below
  Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Readmission of the Jews and the Power of the Civil Magistrate in the 1650s
  Hannah Lee (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 4 February 2022

• 16:00 - The most illuminating thing I have ever seen’: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906
  Dr Kim Wagner (QMUL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Dogs as Metaphorical Agents: Hierarchy, Inequality, Enslavement
  Professor Robin Fleming (Boston College)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2022, Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain's Dogs and People

Monday 7 February 2022

• 12:30 - Avitus of Vienne and Roman Approaches to Burgundian Royal Women: Ascetics, Virgins and Heretics
  Becca Grose (Royal Holloway)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - A Debatable Empire
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Computerized folk music in 1960s Hungary
  Dr Máté Szabo (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 16:15 - Forest Surveys and the State in the English Atlantic, c.1600-1800
  James Lees (Trinity)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Terrors of Historical Progress (Karl Popper)
  Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
  The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 16:30 - Imagining Rome from Quito: The Global Vision of an Eighteenth-Century Jesuit in South America
  Emily Floyd (UCL)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 14:00 - Rethinking the punitive turn: Discipline in London prisons, c.1810-1850
  Kiran Mehta (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Paper States: Life Between Empire and International Order, 1815-1937
  Anna Ross (Warwick)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “A late and sad example”: Issues of Peace and War, and the Political Life, on the Caroline Stage
  Professor Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 11 February 2022

• 16:00 - The Deaths of Dogs and the Lives of Dedicated Ritual Spaces
  Professor Robin Fleming (Boston College)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2022, Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain's Dogs and People
• 16:00 - International Law and War in the White British Empire: Ireland and South Africa 1899-1921
  Dr Lia Brazil (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 14 February 2022

• 12:30 - Manzikert 1071: The Arabic and Persian Poetry
  Marc Czarnuszewicz (St Andrews)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
  Dr Nazmul Sultan (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Origins of the “reproducibility crisis”: evidence-based medicine, drug development, and contemporary preclinical reform
  Note this seminar will be held online via Zoom - registration required
  Dr Nicole C Nelson (University of Winsconsin-Madison)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Compensating the King: Royal Property and Finance after the German Revolution, 1918-1930
  Jonathan Triffitt (St Andrews)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Leviathan and the Defence of the King
  Dr Jon Parkin (University of Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 12:30 - Youth and Minority Language Movements: A Case Study of the Irish Language Summer College (1904-2021)
  Ríona Nic Congáil (University College Dublin), Máire McCafferty (University College Dublin)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:15 - "By a Mistake it was published in the last Gazette": Printing Errors in the London Gazette
  **PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  **Natasha Glaisyer (York)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Jewish Christianity (Gertrude Himmelfarb)
  Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
  The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 17:00 - Agents of which state? Danish journalists in British Exile, 1940-1945
  Note: This event is jointly held with the Modern History Seminar and will take place in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00
  Emil Seidenfaden (Copenhagen and Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Agents of which state? Danish Journalists in British Exile, 1940-1945
  Emil Seidenfaden (Copenhagen and Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - New Heuristic Approaches to the Liturgy: Changing Worship Practices in the reign of Henry VIII
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Aude de Mézerac-Zanetti (Université de Lille)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 18 February 2022

• 16:00 - Dogs in Everyday Religion
  Professor Robin Fleming (Boston College)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2022, Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain's Dogs and People
• 16:00 - A Zambian not at Bandung and the uses of global biography
  **THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED**
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Ismay Milford (Edinburgh)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 21 February 2022

• 12:30 - The Minority Experience of a Central Asian Christian Community, Explored Through Syriac Gravestone Inscriptions (c. 1201-1345) from the Chu Valley, Kyrgyzstan
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
  Professor Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Amherst College)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Prevention and control of the influenza pandemic in imperial Japan: focusing on the colonial Korea’s preventive measures
  This seminar will now be held via Zoom - please register below
  Dr Young-Soo Kim (Yonsei University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 16:15 - The Long S-shaped Shadow of the Long Eighteenth Century
  Stephen Hague (Rowan, NJ)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - White Freedom (Hannah Arendt)
  Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
  The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 16:30 - Leonhard Thurneysser von Thurn’s Natural History of Portugal: a Sixteenth Century Construction of Race
  Joseph da Costa (Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 16:30 - Session 2: Jenny Bangham's Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (Chicago, 2020)
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 14:00 - Mahogany, afterlives of slavery and a Black Gaze
  Note: This event will be held in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at the usual time of 14:00
  Hannah Cusworth (Hull and English Heritage)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - “A commonwealth is not fit for us, because we are not fit for a commonwealth”: Trimming and Republicanism in the Restoration Crisis
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Christopher Barbour-Mercer (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Micro-histories of violence and fear. The rise of Italian Fascism
  John Foot (Bristol)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - "Justifying the Gospel Ministry" – Lord Robartes on Preaching, Ordination, and the Restoration Settlement
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Sophie Aldred (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 25 February 2022

• 16:00 - Modes of Historical Analysis: Digital Approaches to Global and Imperial History
  Professor James Smithies (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 28 February 2022

• 12:30 - Christianising Elites and the Religious Topography of Late Roman and Visigothic Iberia
  Carolyn Tyler La Rocco (St Andrews)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
  Professor J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Latin race science in a Mestizo State: racialized biopolitics in post-revolutionary Mexico
  Dr Carlos López Beltrán (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Kings of Paradise oder Splendid Loosers? The Case of Count Friedrich Casimimir von Hanau-Münzenberg, the Colonial Project of "Hanauisch-Indien" in 1669, and its Contexts
  Alexander Jendorff (Gießen)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - John Milton, Oliver Cromwell and Virtue Politics
  Professor Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 16:15 - The Commercial Gentleman’s House in the English Lakes Counties, c.1750-1830
  Gordon Fairclough (Lincoln)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Garrisoned Self (Lionel Trilling)
  Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
  The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Sites of Resistance: Rastafari and the Black Power movement in Britain 1967-1973
  Aleema Gray (Warwick and Museum of London)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Prisoners and Religion in the Tower of London, 1547-1625
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Catherine Jenkinson (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Leveraging Authority via the Principle of Publicness: the Advocacy of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at the League of Nations on the Minorities Question
  Molly Cochran (Oxford Brookes)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - A Land So Distressed Without War’: Economic Crisis, the Commission for Trade, and Anti-Monopoly Petitioning c. 1622-1624
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Ellen Paterson (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 4 March 2022

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 7 March 2022

• 12:30 - Inventing the Tyrant and the Dissident: Procopius and the Limits on Acceptable Speech
  Matthew Hassall (Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Fragments of Insanity, Shattered Lives after the Armenian Genocide
  Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism
  Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 12:30 - Reflecting on an emotional experience of researching children’s bodily encounters with asylum medicine and education in the archives of the Royal Albert Institution, 1870-1920
  Samir Hamdoud (University of Warwick)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:15 - Heralds and Heraldry at the College of Arms
  Dominic Ingram (College of Arms)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 14:00 - Session 3: Jenny Bangham's Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (Chicago, 2020)
  Dr Jenny Bangham (Queen Mary University of London)
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology
• 16:30 - Blanche of Castile: An Iberian Queen in France
  Lucy Pick (Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 09:15 - Day 1: Medical Identities in Global History Conference
  Various Speakers
  2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History
• 14:00 - Middle life in the British Civil Service: Treasury promotions, marriages, and honours, c. 1847-1914
  Luis Galan-Guerrero (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The invention of Marxism, 1878-1905
  Christina Morina (Bielefeld)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - DPhil student transfer of status presentations
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Eric Beach (Wolfson), Oscar Patton (Merton), Helena Rutkowska (St Hugh's)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 11 March 2022

• 09:30 - Day 2: Medical Identities in Global History Conference
  Various Speakers
  2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History
• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 14 March 2022

• 12:30 - Churches at a Crossroads: Archaeological and Landscape Assessment of a Rural Sacred Landmark in Central Sicily
  Margherita Riso (Leicester)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Monday 21 March 2022

• 12:30 - Clerics and Building in Early Byzantine Inscriptions
  Canan Arıkan (Vienna)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Monday 28 March 2022

• 12:30 - The Epigraphy of the Dome of the Rock in Relation to the Sacred Landscape of Jerusalem
  Blake Lorenz (KU Leuven)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Monday 25 April 2022

• 12:30 - Byzantium and the Black Sea, c.1000-1204
  Jack Sheard (Royal Holloway)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Justice Beyond Rights
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - On reading a book of two halves: a long history of R A Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
  Alex Aylward (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The limits of the Danelaw
  Richard Purkiss (Lincoln/RAI)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 15:00 - Rewriting the Bazaar: Vernacular Histories of Capitalism in the Indian Ocean World
  Fahad Ahmad Bishara (University of Virginia)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Popular Political Songs in Eighteenth-Century French Provinces
  **Aoife Miralles (Christ Church)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Hicks Lecture in Economic and Social History - Serfdom and State Formation: Institutional Change in Prussia and Russia, 1650-1870
  Please email sheilagh.ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk for the Zoom link if you would like to attend online
  Professor Tracy Dennison (Caltech)

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 16:00 - Session 1: Elise K Burton's Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford, 2021)
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Thursday 28 April 2022

• 14:00 - 'Anti-Suffrage Women and the British Empire, c. 1890-1920' & ‘Reinventing the “City Banker”: Women’s Work in London’s Banking Sector, c. 1870-1930’
  Hollie Eaton (Oxford), Kirsty Peacock (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar

Monday 2 May 2022

• 12:30 - Literary Imitation (mimesis) in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: The Case of Theodore Prodromos
  Yan Zaripov (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Seeing the People in Mughal India
  Professor Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - When is a Pope an Anti-Pope? The Medieval Papacy and the Concept of Schism
  Rebecca Rist (Reading)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 10:00 - The Royal Court as an Institution
  Dr Fabian Persson
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 16:15 - Personal borrowing from London banks, 1672-1780
  Philip Winterbottom (IHR, London)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 16:30 - "The Things to Come": Making the Most of Irremediable Humanity (Lima, 1605) [Joint Seminar with the Latin American History Seminar]
  Kenneth Mills (University of Michigan)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘Presenting a Liberal Defence of Empire: Imperialism and the British Left, 1918-1959’ & ‘The Church of England and the Italo-Abyssinian War, 1935-38’
  Amita Mistry (Oxford), Max Jones (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar

Monday 9 May 2022

• 09:15 - Workshop - From Research to Engagement: Social Sciences and Infectious Disease
  Margaret Pelling (Oxford), Roderick Bailey (Oxford), Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin), Emily Webster (University College Dublin), Atsuko Naono (Oxford), Javier Lezaun (Oxford), Jeong-Ran Kim (Oxford), Ethan Friederich (Oxford), Sam Martin (Oxford), Samantha Vanderslott (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 12:30 - Justin II and the Miaphysites
  Silvio Roggo (Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - The women's plague; or, narratives of survival during New York's yellow fever epidemics in the founding era
  Carolyn Eastman (Virginia Commonwealth University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
  Anish Gawande (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - When Anglo-Saxon Pots Aren't Anglo-Saxon Pots and Why Historians Should Care?
  Robin Fleming (Boston College)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Portuguese Crown’s Struggle to Provide for Early Sixteenth-Century Royal Women
  Inês Olaia (Lisbon), Comment by Chloë McKenzie (London)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 12:30 - Democracy’s children: education and citizenship in the late British empire
  Lynton Lees (Columbia University, New York)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:15 - A Bittersweet Heritage: Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape 1740-1840
  Victoria Perry (Insall Architects)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 16:30 - Session 2: Elise K Burton's Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford, 2021)
  Please note new start time of 16:30
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘Knowledge Production and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ & ‘Children having Children? Representations of Teenage Pregnancy in the Daily Mail, 1950-1999’
  Sascha-Lauryn Dacosta-Hinds (Oxford), Zara Christmas (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 14:30 - Special Medieval History Lecture: Disciplined Dissent in Western Europe, 1200-1600
  Fabrizio Titone (Universidad of País Vasco, Vitoria/Oxford)

Monday 16 May 2022

• 12:30 - Creating the Female Martyr in Late Antiquity
  Alice van den Bosch (Exeter)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - The Death Awareness Movement, taboo, and the “right to know” in twentieth-century Britain and the US
  Andrew Seaton (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Feminising Migration in the Viking North
  Please note this seminar will be via MS Teams only
  Pragya Vohra (York)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Royal Inheritance and Dower Negotiations in a Parliamentary Monarchy: The Case of Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland-Lithuania
  Katarzyna Kosior (Newcastle), Comment by Charlotte Backerra (Göttingen)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 10:00 - The East India Company and the British Empire’ (final title tbc)
  Dr Lia Brazil
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 16:15 - Living in Extraordinary times: citizens’ diaries from revolutionary France
  **Michaela Kalcher (Exeter)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 16:30 - Anachronic Empire: The Fifteenth-Century Heraldic Columns of Diogo Cão and their Colonial Legacies
  Jessica Barker (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘Sites of Resistance: Rastafari and the Black Power Movement in Britain, 1967-1973’
  Aleema Gray (Warwick)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 17:00 - Special Annual Lecture 2022 - Fascism’s Global Trajectory, 1920-1945: A Grimmer View?
  Professor Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)
  Oxford Centre for European History

Monday 23 May 2022

• 12:30 - Blueprints of Power: Roman Statecraft and Politics in Konstantinos VII’s "Book of Ceremonies"
  Tiffany VanWinkoop (Wisconsin-Madison)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Houses of Nature: cabinets and laboratories in late 16th-century Medici Florence
  Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Ma'na and War
  Dr James Caron (SOAS University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Comets, Elements, and Pastoral Care: Framing Medieval Science in Collaborative Working
  Giles Gasper (Durham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 10:00 - The British East India Company and the Crisis of Imperial Sovereignty in the Late Eighteenth Century
  Dr Ben Gilding
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 12:30 - Performing the law: school mock trials and civics education in England, 1890-1914
  Helen Sunderland (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Annual John Wesley Lecture 2022 - "The Needles of the Friends": The Wesleys and Shorthand
  Please note this event is in hybrid format: in-person in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, and online. Registration is required for all attendees, whether in person or online; please use the registration link for more information and to book.
  Tim Underhill (Cambridge)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Astor Lecture 2022: Surviving Illicit Pregnancy in Late Medieval France
  Professor Sara McDougall (University of New York)

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 16:30 - Session 3: Elise K Burton's Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford, 2021)
  Please note new start time of 16:30
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Thursday 26 May 2022

• 14:00 - ‘Victorians and Numbers: Nineteenth Century Britain and the History of Statistics’
  Lawrence Goldman (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar

Monday 30 May 2022

• 12:30 - Arabo-Greek Astrological Manuscripts: The Vind. Phil. Gr. 115 and Its Anonymous Chapters
  Luca Farina (Tübingen)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Mary Somerville: being and becoming a mathematician in 19th-century Britain
  Brigitte Stenhouse (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - POSTPONED - The Poetics of Hindutva
  Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Riches and Respect. Baghdad’s robber barons (892-945)
  The Teams session can be accessed by logging in to Teams with your Oxford (ox.ac.uk) account and joining the group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs). If you have any difficulties please email: medhistsem@history.ox.ac.uk
  Fanny Bessard (Trinity)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reconstructing the Queen’s Personnel in the Thirteenth Century: Possibilities and Challenges
  Paula Del Val Vales (Lincoln), Comment by Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 16:15 - Freedom and Politeness at England’s first seaside resorts
  Rachael Johnson (IHR, London)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 16:30 - No Time for Niceties: Engineers in the Spanish Empire [Joint Seminar in Spanish History with the Instituto Cervantes]
  
  Manuel Lucena Giraldo (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 2 June 2022

• 16:00 - History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Launch: 'Bad Gays' with Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
  Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller

Monday 6 June 2022

• 12:30 - Sanctity in Late Antiquity (exact title TBC)
  Natacha Puglisi (KCL)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
  Professor Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - The “American model” and the (re)foundation of French military transfusion medicine after the Second World War
  Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - How to do medieval papal (and perhaps most) history
  Please note change of speaker and title
  David d'Avray (UCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 10:00 - Recovering Europe’s Parliamentary Culture, c.1500-1700
  Professor Paulina Kewes, Dr Jim van der Meulen
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 12:30 - “Adolescence supplants maturity”: young people and belonging in north-western Europe, c. 1050-c. 1250
  Emily Joan Ward (University College London)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:15 - Undergraduate Thesis Session for Research in the Long Eighteenth Century
  Various Speakers
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 16:30 - Session 4: Elise K Burton's Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford, 2021)
  Please note new start time of 16:30
  N/A
  Reading Group: History of Modern Biology

Thursday 9 June 2022

• 14:00 - ‘British-Pakistani Women’s Experiences of Inter-generational Learning and Formal Education, 1962-2002’
  Aleena Din (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar

Monday 13 June 2022

• 12:30 - Byzantine-Armenian Doctrinal Discourse in the Period of the Early Islamic Conquests, c. 630-720 (exact title TBC)
  Stephanie Forrest (Cambridge)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Sermons in stones: John Muir, American environmentalism, & Swedenborgian ecology
  Devin Zuber (Berkeley, California)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - ‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South
  Professor Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Problem of Politics in C12 Europe
  Alice Taylor (KCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Roundtable on Economic Resources of Royal Men - The King’s Money: Contrasts, Comparisons, and Challenges of a Comparative Approach
  José Eloy Hortal Muñoz (URJC Madrid), James Ross (Winchester), Jan Vojtíšek (Prague)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 14 June 2022

• 10:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 16:15 - “By a mistake it was published in the last Gazette”: Printing Errors in the London Gazette
  Natasha Glaisyer (York)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 16:30 - Tracing the Medieval Genealogies of Limpieza de Sangre
  Rosa Vidal Doval (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 16 June 2022

• 09:30 - Day 1: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
  Please note one talk in Act 3 will be online - the link to join will be sent the day before to all that register.
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
• 14:00 - ‘Public Service, Private Contracts: NHS “Privatisation” After the 1980s’
  Andrew Seaton (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar

Friday 17 June 2022

• 09:30 - Day 2: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge

Friday 24 June 2022

• 14:00 - Day 1: Past, Present, and Future of the History of Medicine: Oxford HoM turns 50
  Various Speakers
  HoM@50

Saturday 25 June 2022

• 10:00 - Day 2: Past, Present, and Future of the History of Medicine: Oxford HoM turns 50
  Various Speakers
  HoM@50

Thursday 30 June 2022

• 13:45 - Day 1: 2-Day Colloquium - Children & Heritage
  Register now and no later than 25 June
  Professor Susan A Miller (Rutgers University)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Friday 1 July 2022

• 09:45 - Day 2: 2-Day Colloquium - Children & Heritage
  Register now and no later than 25 June
  Caro Howell (Director of the Foundling Museum)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Monday 10 October 2022

• 16:00 - A risky business: hydroxychloroquine, global health politics, and the bureaucratization of clinical trials
  Janelle Winters (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Political Economy and the Wars of the Roses
  John Watts (Corpus Christi)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Westminster Assembly (1643-52): Time for a New Paradigm?
  Kirsten Macfarlane (Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 16:00 - Asia’s Self-Discovery: Intercultural Understanding and the Infrastructure of Empire
  Nile Green (University of California, Berkeley)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Introductory Party
  N/A
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire after 1945
  Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's, Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - The English Witchcraft Statute of 1563 Revisited (This paper is dedicated to the memory of Clive Holmes)
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College), Dr George Southcombe (Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Why Schools Matter to Histories of Interwar Britain
  Please note this lecture is at 17:00 at Magdalen College
  Hestor Barron (Sussex)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 14 October 2022

• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural Annual Lecture: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
  Please note this seminar is at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College, 25 Banbury Road, but all other seminars will be in the Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty, George Street.
  James Belich (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History Inaugural Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death and the rise of Europe
  Professor James Belich (Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 17 October 2022

• 12:00 - Welcome Seminar
  Jennifer Crane, Gillian Lamb, Zara Christmas
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Correcting readers in seventeenth-century natural philosophy
  Alice Leonard (University of Coventry)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The city and the household: Towards a social history of politics in the late medieval town
  Christian Liddy (Durham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Kings of Paradise or Splendid Loosers? The Case of Count Friedrich Casimir von Hanau-Münzenberg, the Colonial Project of “Hanauisch-Indien” in 1669, and its Contexts
  Alexander Jendorff (Gießen)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 16:15 - The Refinement of Children: Engagements with Food Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  Please note this seminar will take place in the N B Oakeshott Room at Lincoln College - ask for directions at the lodge
  Ailsa Maxwell (Keble)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 11:15 - Discovering Self-Identity in Travel: Russian Travellers in Ukraine of the Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century
  Kateryna Dysa, Chair: Natalia Nowakowska
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - Imagining Freedom: Enslaved Black People in Sevilla and Their Personal Cartographies of the Atlantic World
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Morris Room, Exeter College
  Chloe Ireton (University College London)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 17:00 - Start of term welcome party for all graduate students, early career researchers, and History Faculty members in Modern British History
  Please note this event starts at 17:00
  N/A
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - “At my humble sute bestowed”: Agents and Agency in the Representation of Women in sixteenth-century University Portraiture
  Anna Clark (St John's College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Decentring the human in humanitarian aid: nutrition research and cross-species practices
  Alma Igra (Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 21 October 2022

• 16:00 - Men of their time? The afterlife of the Indian Raj in Oxford
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 October 2022

• 12:30 - The reliquary-cross of Saint Constantine and the military use of holy relics
  Joaquin Serrano (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - “We cannot help laughing”: reflex, discomfort, and the comic in late-Victorian mental science
  Cora Salkovskis (Birkbeck University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Fiery Spirits and the coming of the English Revolution
  John Rees (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Early Medieval Minuscule Texts: What, where, and why?
  Ildar Garipzanov (Oslo)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 14:30 - Research Tools
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
  Peter E Hamilton (Lingnan University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Labour, 1793-1815
  Sara Caputo (Cambridge)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 17:00 - Raw materials, the timber crisis, and fears of deforestation during the interwar period
  Omer Aloni (Peres Academic Centre, Rehovot)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Catholic Activity, Anti-Popery, and the Parliament of 1624
  Please note that this seminar will be in the Habakkuk Room at Jesus College
  Katie Marshalek (Vanderbilt University (speaking online))
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 28 October 2022

• 16:00 - “Disorders of Bestial Origin”: Race and Venereal Disease in the Atlantic World
  Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 31 October 2022

• 12:30 - Saint Thekla’s popularity in Rough Cilicia
  Nuna Terri (Université libre de Bruxelles)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Images, tags and identities in ‘science’
  Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - ‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
  Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Staffing the Conquest: Mobility, Stasis, and Scribal Work in England, 1066-1100
  Julia Crick (KCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Treasury of the Queen: The Queen Consorts’ Management of Resources in the Crown of Aragón (14th-15th Century)
  Lledó Ruiz Domingo (Valencia)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 14:30 - Diaspora & Music
  John Pfumojena (University of Oxford), Pete Yelding (University of Bath Spa, University of Exeter)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - George IV's State Visits and Perceptions of National Identities
  Paige Emerick (Leicester)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 11:15 - Owning Bodies, Owning Land: Property Formation in the Early Plantation Colonies
  Allan Greer, Chair: Alan Strathern
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - Noble, Bureaucrat and Encomendero Indios: Rethinking Race and Difference in the Spanish Philippines
  Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer (University of Bristol)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 14:00 - Playing Parliament: Schoolgirls and Politics in England, 1870-1914
  Helen Sunderland (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Assessing the Middling Sort: Material Culture and Early Modern Urban Cultural Activity
  Dr Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham), Professor Catherine Richardson (University of Kent)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Rise and Fall of the People’s Party. A New History of Democracy since 1918 through the perspective of Christian and Social Democracy
  Pepijn Corduwener (Utrecht University)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 4 November 2022

• 16:00 - Ideology and Economic Change: the Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th century China and Japan
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Debin Ma (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 7 November 2022

• 12:00 - “It was, given my age, an exciting experience”: Youth Perspectives of Ghetto Life During the Holocaust in Hungary
  Barnabas Balint (Magdalen)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:30 - Representations of Jews in Middle-Byzantine hagiographical apocalypses
  Niels De Ridder (KU Leuven / Universität zu Köln)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Quantification, measurement and the rise of physics in Victorian Britain
  This seminar is online via Zoom for which registration is essential at the link below. You can also watch at the MFO.
  Daniel Jon Mitchell (IEEE History Center)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
  Professor Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University - London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Whatever you do, don't mention the revolution: Samuel Clarke and the making of the puritan tradition
  Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Rape and Survival in Late Medieval France and Burgundy
  Lucia Akard (Oxford SU)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 15:00 - Bound by Property in Death
  Nurfadzilah Yahaya (Yale University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - "Where Streets continually change Fashion, you should make Haste to chain up the City; for ’tis certainly mad": Changing Townscapes in the English Press, 1690–1750
  Matt Roberts (Cambridge)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Diaspora & Indigeneity
  Tyler Tully (University of Oxford), Amber Starks
  Transnational & Global History Seminar

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 14:00 - Winston Churchill, Race, and Transnational History
  Guy Ortolano (NYU)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The Economy of Intoxicants in Early Modern England
  Please note that this seminar will be in the Habakkuk Room at Jesus College
  Professor Phil Withington (University of Sheffield)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Students and state-building in 1960s Algeria
  Natalya Vince (University College, Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 11 November 2022

• 12:00 - Research Forum: Digital History in Oxford
  Professor Howard Hotson, Dr Emanuela Vai, Dr Nicholas Cole, Dr Cathleen Sarti
• 16:00 - Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
  Jennifer Morgan (NYU)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 14 November 2022

• 12:30 - The Byzantine Heritage of the Liber ad honorem Augusti
  Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Unveiling the invisible belt: the shareholders of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 1897-1901
  Please note this seminar is at the Weston Library
  Anna Guagnini (Independent Scholar)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - A new look at silver in the Golden Age of Islam
  Jane Kershaw (School of Archaeology)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Louis XIV, Colbert and the Ordonnance du commerce of 1673
  To be rescheduled in 2023
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Luisa Brunori (Lille)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 16:15 - The Surprising Case of the High Church Lockeans at Christ Church, Oxford, 1689-1725
  Please note change of speaker and title. The original speaker, Leif Hammer, plans to speak next term.
  Jacob Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 11:15 - "To govern many other kingdoms": Ignacio de las Casas on Arabic as a Tool for the Spanish Empire
  Erica Feild-Marchello, Chair: Natasha Bailey
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 14:00 - Hunting with Dogs, a Jewish Pastime (Joint meeting with the Long Nineteenth Century Seminar)
  Abigail Green (Oxford), Tom Stammers (Durham)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The Janus-faced identities of Asia Minor refugee descendants: empathisers, antagonists, or rivals?
  Maria Anastasopoulou (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - “The Churches Cordiall in her fainting fitts”: the Scribal Practices and Public Activism of Walter Boothby, London Merchant, in the English Revolution
  Professor Ann Hughes (Keele University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 18 November 2022

• 16:00 - Empire and the eighteenth-century origins of global temperature
  Harriet Mercer (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 21 November 2022

• 12:00 - Beyond the Spectacular: Preliminary Thoughts on Age as a Category of Analysis in Black Power Studies
  Please note this seminar is online only via Microsoft Teams
  Dara Walker (Pennsylvania State University)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:30 - Barbarians of Eusebius
  Bahattin Bayram (İstanbul Medeniyet University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Medicine in Ancient Assur: outlining the career of a healer from the 7th century BCE
  Please note this seminar is now online, which you can watch at the MFO
  Troels Arboll (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - "The Wall and Glory of Jerusalem": The message of sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and City of London in the Commonweath and Protectorate, 1649-1660
  Elliot Vernon (Lincoln's Inn)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Lost in translation: diplomacy and the use of languages at the papal curia in Avignon
  Barbara Bombi (Kent)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 14:30 - Diaspora & Radicals
  Tionne Parris (University of Hertfordshire)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Southern Arabian Revolutions: Challenging Colonial Capitalism in the Indian Ocean
  Abdel Razzak Takriti (University of Houston)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch-Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Dublin
  Joint-meeting with the Irish History Seminar
  Martyn Powell (Bristol)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:30 - The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance - Joint session with the Early Modern Italian Seminar
  Please note this seminar will be held on Tuesday 22 November (Week 7) at St Edmund Hall
  Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
  Iberian History Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Mapping the Global Entanglements of Central European Albums in Sixteenth-Century Constantinople
  Please note this seminar is online via Zoom
  Robyn Radway, Chair: John Condren
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 14:00 - 25 Years After the 1997 Election: Roundtable on New Labour in Historical Perspective
  This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lise Butler (City), Eunice Goes (Richmond), Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes), Gavin Kelly (Resolution Foundation)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Paris, October 1961. A Postcolonial Perspective on (In-)Securitization
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Gabriele Metzler (Humboldt, Berlin)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - What’s in a Name? The Naming of English Merchant Ships from the Thirteenth to Nineteenth Century
  Professor Peter Solar (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 25 November 2022

• 16:00 - "Fellow Travelling" in the age of decolonisation: Basil Davidson and the independence struggles in Lusophone Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Pedro Aires Oliveira (Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 28 November 2022

• 12:30 - Emotions in Late Antiquity
  İrem Kısacık (İstanbul Medeniyet University)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Material culture and mathematical practice in astrology’s long 16th century
  Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  To be rescheduled in 2023
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Priya Atwal (Oxford)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Avoid undue leaps. Clerical career paths in Late Antiquity
  Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 16:15 - A Bottled History of Champagne, with tasting
  Graham Harding (St Cross)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 16:30 - Crossing Over: Early Modern Iberia and Public History
  Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 17:00 - Istanbul Remembered: An Essay on Women, Memory and War in 20th century Turkey
  Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Writing Tudor England
  Dr Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 2 December 2022

• 14:00 - Disability History Hackathon
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - BOOK LAUNCH: China's Cold War Science Diplomacy by Gordon Barrett
  N/A
• 16:00 - The De-Imperialization of Colonialism: Revisiting Colonial Reforms and Anti-Colonial Movements in the 1920s
  Geert Castryck (Leipzig)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 5 December 2022

• 12:30 - Translating Chivalry: The Aesthetics of Warfare in the Age of the Komnenoi
  Carlo Berardi (University of Michigan)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar

Monday 12 December 2022

• 12:30 - The Duchy of Naples under Byzantine rule
  Nila Namesechi (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 15:00 - Pirates of the Gulf of Kachchh: Capital, Power, and Violence
  This seminar has been postponed due to illness
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Chhaya Goswami (University of Mumbai)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire

Monday 16 January 2023

• 16:00 - The edge of the self and the limits of the world: Nathaniel Fairfax's thought experiments
  Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi
  Professor Uday Singh Mehta (The City University of New York)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:30 - The Dignity of the Crown and Public Oeconomy: the Royal Household under George III and Burke's Economical Reform of 1782
  Amanda Westcott (Keble College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Three Hail Marys: complexity within the character and representation of Queen Mary II of England
  Stuart Parks (St Cross College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Magic Saracen treasures, credulous merchants, and other stories: itinerant notaries and their "judicial novellas" in fourteenth-century Italy
  Lorenzo Caravaggi (University of East Anglia)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 15:00 - Historicizing Human Capital: Rickshaws, Narcotics, and a Global History of Labor
  Johan Mathew (Rutgers University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Samuel Forsaith's 'commonplace book': Dissent and the Middling Sorts in the reign of George III
  Peter Forsaith (Oxford Brookes)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Maitland, Common Law and Civil Law
  Professor John Hudson (University of St Andrews/Michigan Law)
  The Carlyle lectures in the History of Political Thought 2023

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 14:00 - Governing twelfth-century city communes
  Chris Wickham (Oxford)
  Medieval Italian Seminar

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 17:00 - The Prosecution of Heresy in the Henrician Reformation
  Dr Paul Cavill (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 1: Peculiarities
  Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts
• 17:00 - Writing against Hitler. Herman Budzislawski – A Jewish Life in the Twentieth Century
  Daniel Siemens (Newcastle)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 20 January 2023

• 16:00 - Abolitionism and the Global Suppression of "Piracy" in the Nineteenth Century
  Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Anarchist Technologies and Stateless Sovereignty: Tactical art for the Rojava Revolution
  Dani Ploeger (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
  Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures

Monday 23 January 2023

• 12:00 - Reading Group and Discussion with Laura Tisdall
  Laura Tisdall (Newcastle)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:30 - Manuscripts in Motion: The Parma Gospel Book (Ms. Pal. 5) and Its Journey to Italy
  Rebecca Amendola (La Sapienza Università di Roma)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Will I have to mortgage my house? Reflections on gene therapy, innovation, and inequality in the USA
  Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Memory of the Martyrs: The topography of sanctity in Visigothic Toledo
  Jamie Wood (Lincoln)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 16:15 - "Decline" and the Cultural History of the Eighteenth-century University
  Leif Hammer (Magdalen)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Legal development in Europe: a view from the 1190s
  Professor John Hudson (University of St Andrews/Michigan Law)
  The Carlyle lectures in the History of Political Thought 2023

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 14:00 - Inquest and History in Thirteenth-Century Puglia
  Paul Oldfield (Manchester)
  Medieval Italian Seminar
• 16:30 - The Archive as Historical Subject: A Conversation with Nancy van Deusen
  Nancy E van Deusen (Queens University, Canada)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 14:00 - The Great War and the Church of England in Oxfordshire
  Mark Smith (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Diplomatic Culture and Diplomatic Communication in the Tudor Period
  Dr Tracey Sowerby (The Europaeum)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Envisaging Germany from afar: female foreign correspondents and émigrés in the 1930s and 1940s
  Kat Friege (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 2: Ancients and Moderns: a Contrapuntal Enlightenment?
  Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts

Friday 27 January 2023

• 16:00 - From Anti-Slavery to East India Reform: Trans-Atlantic Abolitionism, British Colonial Philanthropy, and Empire in India, 1838-43
  Andrea Major (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The question of Indigenous Sovereignties
  Knut Rio (University of Bergen)
  Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures

Monday 30 January 2023

• 12:00 - “Because really and truly my body didn't belong to me”: Medical interventions in the lives of disabled children in England, 1930-1970
  Samantha McCormack (Magdalen)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:30 - Stephanites and Ichnelates: recovering the Eugenian recension?
  Emma Huig (Universiteit Gent)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Absolute beginner? A relativistic take on Halford Mackinder’s geography, education and the popularization of knowledge
  Emily Hayes (Oxford Brookes University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Royal Courts Behind Convent Bars
  Luc Duerloo (University of Antwerp)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rogue emporium and universal empire: Rethinking Mamluk-Venetian relations (mid 13th to end of 14th c.)
  Georg Christ (Manchester)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Charles I and the French Connection, 1636-1639
  Fraser Dickinson
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 15:00 - "The Fire Under the Sea": Arbitrage and Smuggling in the Western Indian Ocean
  Nidhi Mahajan (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - The Kings’ Dinners: Food, Identity and Patriotism in the Household of George III
  Sarah Fox (Birmingham)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Legal learning and learning law in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  Professor John Hudson (University of St Andrews/Michigan Law)
  The Carlyle lectures in the History of Political Thought 2023

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 13:15 - The Baroque across the Atlantic
  N/A
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 14:00 - Trade, traders, and institutions in late medieval Venice
  Nicola Carotenuto (St Hugh's, Oxford)
  Medieval Italian Seminar

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 14:00 - 25 Years After the 1997 Election: Roundtable on New Labour in Historical Perspective
  Lise Butler (City), Eunice Goes (Richmond), Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Higher Education, Feminism, and National Efficiency: The Case of “Domestic Science”
  Emily Rutherford (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 3: Modern Paganism Revisited
  Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts
• 17:00 - Williamite Land Grants, Court Patronage and the Law, 1689-1702
  Stuart Parks (St Cross College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - England's Second Reformation, Royalist Moral Theology, and the Rise of Christian Epicureanism, 1642-1660
  Jacob Chatterjee (Balliol College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 3 February 2023

• 16:00 - Enforcing Abolition and the Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention in the Nineteenth Century
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 6 February 2023

• 12:30 - Adults, Children and Other Animals: The Construction of the Zoroastrian Household
  Daniel Alford (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Framing medical knowledge on mineral waters - France, 1770s-1830s
  François Zanetti (Université Paris Cité)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Books and the Late Medieval Landscape of Heresy and Inquisition
  Justine Trombley (Durham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 16:15 - "Gentlemen of the first respectability, character, and connexions": Intermediation in an Eighteenth-century Credit Market
  Please note this seminar will be in the Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College
  Diane Clements (IHR, London)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Genius or juristic accident? Policy, legal change and the early Common Law
  Professor John Hudson (University of St Andrews/Michigan Law)
  The Carlyle lectures in the History of Political Thought 2023

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 14:00 - Calabrian Hagiography and Mediterranean Connectivity in the Long Tenth Century
  Adele Curness (St John's, Oxford)
  Medieval Italian Seminar
• 16:30 - Crossing Over: Early Modern Iberia and Public History
  Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Civilians and non-combatants during war and conflict in modern East Asia
  This talk will occur in-person and also be available online - If you would like to attend online, please register here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/G96VzPWXk0-0uv5ouFLPkQ,mGpyTF6qF0KqX_vIaXUDJA,CQdGCXSjFUKM4Hng2DOiiQ,oAzvs5OpnkKn_Q2s9wA5fg,7DeXDCVKBkCwS-a4UBIjUg,Ww6rLjhisEy2NLVQ5-swHg?mode=read&tenantId=cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
  Federica Cicci (Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University), Dr. Danny Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:30 - “Against realities on the ground”: Untethered Sovereignty and Absentee statecraft among Cypriot Refugees
  Please note change of date and time
  Theodoros Rakopoulos (University of Oslo)
  Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 14:00 - Counter Memories: Photographs of Empire in National Trust Country Houses
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Rebekah Hodgkinson (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Transfeminine lives and love in Weimar and Nazi Germany
  Zavier Nunn (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Release of Lord Darnley: a new perspective
  Victoria Smith (Worcester College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Women, Family, and Memories of the Marian Exile
  Please note the speaker will be online only
  Laura Roberts (Magdalen College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 4: The Warburtonian Moment
  Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts

Friday 10 February 2023

• 16:00 - The Local and the Coastal: How Slave-Ship Outfitters Understood Atlantic Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Anne Ruderman (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 13 February 2023

• 12:00 - Military Childhoods, Turbulence and the Cold War
  Grace Huxford (Bristol)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:30 - The Humbled Generation: Racial Otherization and Ethnic Contraction in Byzantium in the Witnesses of the Fourth Crusade
  Nathan D C Websdale (Oxford)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 14:00 - The Arafura Zone: Indigenous Globalisation in the Asian Pacific
  Manimporok Dotulong (Brown University)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - The place of premodern public health
  Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - A Court from Below: The Courtiers and the Court of Louis XIII, 1610-1643
  Marc Jaffré (University of Durham)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Women and Warfare in 1640s Ireland
  Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Law in the late seventh century: the case of Theodore, Hlothhere, Wihtræd and Ine
  Ingrid Ivarsen (Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 15:00 - The Seasonality of Ottoman Imperial Power: Mecca, Medina, and the Sultan’s Purse
  Tyler Kynn (University of Memphis)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - "Sour Saints and Bad Subjects": Scottish Presbyterian Dissent and the British State, 1775-1820
  Myles Smith (St Edmund Hall)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - "Secreted in the interstices of procedure": actions, ideas, and legal change
  Professor John Hudson (University of St Andrews/Michigan Law)
  The Carlyle lectures in the History of Political Thought 2023

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 13:15 - Baroque in the Andes
  This event is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  N/A
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 17:00 - Food in Motion in East Asia
  Xie Zhentian (University of St Andrews), Aaron Molnar (University of British Columbia)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 17:00 - Episcopal Conservatism and the Implementation of the Henrician Reformation
  Yicen Liu (St Cross)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Do Holocaust perpetrators have a history?
  Mark Roseman (Indiana)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Mediocrity and Magnificence in King Charles II’s Representation in Colonial Contexts (1660-85)
  Joanna Smith (Lincoln)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 5: Platonists and deplatonizers
  Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts

Friday 17 February 2023

• 15:30 - Economic patronage or diplomatic strategy ? Italian merchants at the Ilkhanid court and the case of Isol the Pisan
  Riccardo Liberati (LMH, Oxford)
  Medieval Italian Seminar
• 16:00 - New World Royalists: Slavery and Inheritance in Plantation Jamaica
  Matthew Smith (UCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 20 February 2023

• 12:30 - Mechanical Dragons and Underground Cults: Quodvultdeus’s Hidden Pagans
  James Duncan (Liverpool)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Evaluation in the Age of Production: The Origins of Gemmology in France, c. 1770-1830
  Michael Bycroft (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Domestic Slavery, Sexual Exploitation, and the Transformation of the Late Roman World, AD 300–900
  Erin Dailey (Leicester)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 16:15 - "A Great War for the Empire"? The French Colonial Empire and the Seven Years War
  Francois-Joseph Ruggiu (Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Maison française d’Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - "Nolumus mutare...": further reflections
  Professor John Hudson (University of St Andrews/Michigan Law)
  The Carlyle lectures in the History of Political Thought 2023

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 16:30 - The Mandinga Experience: Illusion and Proof in the Inquisition Case of Patrício de Andrade, Lisbon 1690
  Alexandra Cook (University of Durham)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Translating Modernity: Construction and Imagination of the West in 20th China
  Qi Cheng (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Yunxia Li (University of Cologne)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 14:00 - The Chesterfield Conference and the Development of Socialist Ideas and Strategy in the 1980s and 90s
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alfie Steer (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Charles II: Conformity, Toleration and the Supremacy
  Professor Ken Fincham (University of Kent at Canterbury)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 6: Words and Things
  Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts
• 17:00 - Constructions of Caste in Nazi Germany (title tbc)
  Luna Sabastian (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 24 February 2023

• 11:30 - Female killers in late medieval Bologna
  Trevor Dean (Roehampton)
  Medieval Italian Seminar
• 16:00 - Manifesting Colonial Collectivities: Black Women and Trauma in Mid-Colonial Mexico
  Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Power of Death and Sovereignty: A revisit from a sacrificial perspective (Nepal)
  Marie Lecomte-Tilouine (College de France)
  Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures

Monday 27 February 2023

• 12:00 - “Out of the Lake, Into the Sunshine”: Early 20th Century Histories of Black Girls’ Summer Camping
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Samantha White (Manhattanville College)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Drawing as a pragmatist visual epistemology
  This seminar is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Chiara Ambrosio (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Royal Blood and the Un-doing of a Maharajah: Duleep Singh, Queen Victoria and Courtly Colonialism
  This seminar is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Priya Atwal (Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Storm in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, 1638 (or the Global and Environmental Context of the English Civil War)
  George Southcombe (Sarah Lawrence College, New York and Wadham College, Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Towards a new biography of Empress Matilda: what can be known about the women of her acquaintance?
  This seminar is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Liesbeth van Houts (Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 15:00 - Southern Arabian Revolutions: Challenging Colonial Capitalism in the Indian Ocean
  Abdel Razzaq Takriti (University of Houston)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Money and Power: The Political Worlds of the Late Georgian London Banker
  Perry Gauci (Lincoln)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 13:15 - Return to Maravall
  This event is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  N/A
  Iberian History Reading Group

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 14:00 - Male juvenile delinquency in Britain, ca 1918-1970: working-class, sub-working class or no particular class?
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ross McKibbin (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - A Pre-History of the Bank of England, 1553-1694
  Raphael Ades (Christ Church College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Spirit of the Martyrs Revived’: Quaker Uses of History in the Later Seventeenth Century
  Matthew Leech-Gerrard (New College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 3 March 2023

• 09:30 - GIH DPhil Presentations
  Please note change of date from 2 to 3 March
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 15:30 - The Entangled Nature of the University and Family Spheres in Medieval Bologna
  Elena Rossi (Magdalen, Oxford)
  Medieval Italian Seminar
• 17:00 - A Nation without Secrets: Prophetic Revelation and (In)perfect Statelessness in Libya
  Igor Cherstich (UCL)
  Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures

Monday 6 March 2023

• 12:30 - Hagiography and miracle performance in seventh-century Gaul
  Juliana Santos Dinoá Medeiros (Uniwersytet Warszawski)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - Competition of Lifestyles during the Cold War
  Will Sack (Harvard University), Karina Khasnulina (University of Leipzig)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 14:00 - Diaspora, Religion & Identity
  Yasmin Dualeh (University of Cambridge)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Visualising Bloodletting Knowledge in Early Modern England
  Elaine Leong (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Aporetic States: Or, What Non-Recognition Tells us About Sovereignty
  Please note change of date
  Rebecca Bryant (University of Utrecht)
  Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures
• 17:00 - Book Launch and Roundtable Discussion: The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
  IN PERSON ONLY AT WORCESTER COLLEGE
  John Morrill, Ann Hughes, George Southcombe, Grant Tapsell
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Ethiopia and Byzantium: Reframing the Evidence
  Jacopo Gnisci (UCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 16:00 - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:15 - The Dignity of the Crown: The Court and Royal Household under George III
  Please note change of speaker
  Amanda Westcott (Keble College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 14:00 - Fathers, sons and property transfer in tenth-century north-west Italy
  Ross Balzaretti (Nottingham)
  Medieval Italian Seminar
• 15:00 - Reading Histories of the Indies in the Sixteenth Century and Today: The Problem of Perspective
  Please note this seminar is now at 15:00, not 16:30
  Joan Pau Rubiés (ICREA & Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 14:00 - “I loved the danger, loved the feeling of his hands on my throat”: culture, gender and strangulation c.1890-1950
  Elena Tucker (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - “The Understanding of a Man”: Reason and Religious Politics in Nathaniel Culverwell, George Rust and Henry Hallywell’s writings (c.1641-1671)
  Please note this last session is in the Ship Street Centre
  Samuel Head (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Queer Love and Secret Same-Sex Marriage in the Polish countryside during the interwar period
  Kamil Karczewski (EUI, Florence)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Firearms Accidents in Sixteenth-Century England
  Steven Gunn (Merton College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 10 March 2023

• 09:30 - GIH MSt Presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - After the Act: 20 Since 28
  Jack Doyle (Oxford), Emily Rutherford (Oxford)
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 15:30 - Trade, traders, and institutions in late medieval Venice
  Nicola Carotenuto (St Hugh's, Oxford)
  Medieval Italian Seminar
• 17:00 - Anarchist Imperium: Postcolonial Gods and Masters
  Zaheer Kazmi (Cambridge University)
  Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures

Monday 13 March 2023

• 12:30 - War Discourse in Times of Crisis: Authorial Strategies in Byzantine Historical Literature of the 14th century
  Maria Rukavichnikova (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
  Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
  Professor Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Thursday 23 March 2023

• 08:30 - Day 1: Conference: The Evolution of the Global Payments System
  Various Speakers
  Global Correspondent Banking events

Friday 24 March 2023

• 09:00 - Day 2: Conference: The Evolution of the Global Payments System
  Various Speakers
  Global Correspondent Banking events

Tuesday 18 April 2023

• 14:30 - Private and state-owned banks in times of high instability: Mexico 1977-1990
  Professor Gustavo A Del Ángel (CIDE, Mexico)
  Global Correspondent Banking events

Monday 24 April 2023

• 12:00 - New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students
  Sophia Benko, George Goodhart, Sumayyah Ibrahim, Imogen Walsh
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Fantasy or experiment? Reading alchemical imagery in early modern England
  Dr Jennifer M Rampling (Princeton/Oxford Universities)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Queens as Co-rulers: Examining Power Sharing and Ruling Partnerships in the Early Modern World
  Ellie Woodacre (University of Winchester)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Hell's Army: Heretics and Usurers in Medieval Arras
  Brianne Dolce (Merton)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 15:00 - Mapping Gulf Infrastructure and Territory
  Stephen J Ramos (University of Georgia)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - The Soldier, the Priest, the Spy & the Secretary: Four Men in Search of a Revolution, 1766-1773
  David Hancock (Michigan)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:30 - Found and Lost: Race and Demography in Early Modern Foundling Care (part of the Early Modern Italian Seminar)
  Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto)
  Professor Nicholas Terpstra, Visiting Fellow, events - 20 April-20 May 2023

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 14:00 - The Chesterfield conference and the development of socialist ideas and strategy in the 1980s and 90s
  Alfie Steer (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The Parliament of England and the Protestant Reformation: 1547-1571
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  Alexandra Gajda
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Goldsmith of Golden Ages: Masked Innovation by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Immolated in AH 139–140/757–758 CE)
  István Kristo-Nagy (Exeter)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 1 May 2023

• 17:00 - Reckoning and Economic Life in Late-Medieval England
  Tom Johnson (York)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 11:30 - Graduate Workshop: How Might We Do Microhistory After the Digital Turn?
  Book your place by 25 April
  Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto), Roisin Cossar (University of Manitoba)
  Professor Nicholas Terpstra, Visiting Fellow, events - 20 April-20 May 2023
• 16:15 - Liverpool’s Catholic Business Community, 1760-1829
  **Joe McDermott (Lincoln)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 16:30 - Republics of Difference: Religious Self-Governance in the Spanish Atlantic World
  Karen Graubart (University of Notre Dame)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 14:00 - Comprehending the conjuncture: black anarchism and the “anarcho-turn” of black British protest and politics, 1967-1987
  Caine Lewin-Turner (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Black identity during the Black Power movement in the Black Atlantic
  Alisha Odoi-Smith (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - A Greek commemorative Inscription from Tafah (Lower Nubia): A Contribution to the History of Nubia in the Sixth/Seventh Centuries
  Adam Łajtar (Warsaw)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 5 May 2023

• 16:00 - "We will have this cut out": The Making and Unmaking of Queer Zoology
  This is a joint event with the LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network on Friday 5 May
  Dr Ross Brooks (Oxford Brookes University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 8 May 2023

• 17:00 - Bees in the medieval Mediterranean: Wax, honey and cross-cultural trade in the later Middle Ages
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alexandra Sapoznik (King's College London)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 15:00 - Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
  Andrew B Liu (Villanova University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - What was politics? The conceptualisation of extra-parliamentary campaigns, 1775-1832
  Mary O'Connor (Somerville)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:30 - Alternatives to Royal Patronage: The Court Culture of the “Spare” in the Monarchy of France, 1575-1792
  Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  Court Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 May 2023

• 17:00 - Oxford Centre for European History Special Annual Lecture 2023 - Tracing Paths: Finding Young People in the Early Modern World
  Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto)
  Professor Nicholas Terpstra, Visiting Fellow, events - 20 April-20 May 2023
• 17:00 - The Astor Lecture in Global History: Why Is China So Big? Rethinking the Realm and its Subjects Under the Qing
  Professor Ken Pomeranz (Chicago)
  2023 Astor Lecture in Global History

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 14:00 - Networking populism: the neoliberal schism and the transnational origins of the Eurosceptic thought collective
  Christopher Lowe (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Astor Roundtable follow-up discussion: Why Is China So Big? Rethinking the Realm and its Subjects Under the Qing
  Professor Ken Pomeranz (Chicago), Jennifer Altehenger, Todd Hall, Henrietta Harrison, Rana Mitter, Hannah Theaker
  2023 Astor Lecture in Global History
• 14:00 - “Foreign Agitators” in Britain: overseas students and the British student movement in the 1960s
  Olana Peters (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Flattery and Conflict in al-Buḥturī’s Poems for Ṣāliḥ ibn Waṣīf
  Gabrielle Russo (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 12 May 2023

• 12:30 - Astor Graduate Student Workshop: The Great Divergence, twenty years on
  Professor Kenneth Pomeranz (Chicago)
  2023 Astor Lecture in Global History

Monday 15 May 2023

• 16:00 - Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution
  This seminar is online via Zoom but can be watched at the Maison Française
  Dr Nathan Crowe (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Graduate Workshop - Finding Florentines on the Street: Space, Sense, and Digital Mapping in Renaissance Italian Cities
  Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto)
  Professor Nicholas Terpstra, Visiting Fellow, events - 20 April-20 May 2023
• 17:00 - Fashioning connectivity: Political communication and history-writing in late thirteenth-century Italy
  Susannah Bain (Jesus)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Patronage or Kinship Networks?: The Personnel, Financial Accounts and Logistics of Hunting for Elizabeth I of England
  Please note this talk is at 18:00 not 17:00
  Dustin M Neighbors (Aalto and Helsinki)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 16:15 - Palaces, Plants and Politics: Reconsidering the Global Garden
  Joanna Marschner (Royal Palaces)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 16:30 - Italian Renaissance and Iberian Diaspora (1492-1630)
  Joint session with the Early Modern Italian Seminar
  Stefania Pastore (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Sino-Western Trade during the early Cold War
  Yi Liu (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Ka-shing So (Binghamton University, SUNY)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 14:00 - “As much protection as can be safely given”: Jewish representation before the Porter Committee on the Law of Defamation, 1939-1952
  Shera Avi-Yonah (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Lauren Spohn (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Entangled urban history beyond Rome post-AD 500. Narratives from Gerasa on the Gold River
  Rubina Raja (Aarhus University/All Souls College, Oxford)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:00 - New Archival Evidence about the Latin American Background to the 1619 Slave Voyage to Virginia
  Joint session with the Latin American History Seminar - please note change of day, time, and venue
  Stuart M McManus (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Iberian History Seminar

Monday 22 May 2023

• 15:00 - Day 1: 3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
  Please note change of venue from Maison Francaise d'Oxford to Ertegun House.
  Various Speakers
  3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
• 16:00 - “Chains of invincible reasoning”? New approaches to the Newton manuscripts at New College
  Dr Jack Avery (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Pledging Fealty in Seventeenth-Century Italy: an ambasciata d’obbedienza from the duke of Parma to Pope Clement X in 1671
  John Condren (St Hugh's College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Monks, martyrs, and masculinity: authority and gender in early Islamic Palestine
  Lucy Parker (Wadham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 09:30 - Day 2: 3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
  Various Speakers
  3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
• 15:00 - Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between Indian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919-1926
  Roy Bar Sadeh (Yale University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Partisanship and the Structure of Imperial Political Culture
  Steve Pincus (Chicago)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 09:30 - Day 3: 3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
  Various Speakers
  3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
• 12:00 - “Out of the Lake, Into the Sunshine”: Early 20th Century Histories of Black Girls’ Summer Camping
  Note this talk is on Wednesday
  Samantha White (Manhattanville College)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 09:00 - Day 1: WORKSHOP: New Frontiers for Data Analytics in Economic and Business History Research
  Various Speakers
  Global Correspondent Banking events
• 14:00 - Gay News: representation of political ideas and campaigns prior to the 1979 election
  Filippos Toskas (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - “Here to live”: black experience in the English inner-outer city, 1954-1995
  Holly Cooper (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The History of Theology and the Social and Political History of the Church in Early Islam
  in collaboration with the MFO
  Bastien Dumont (Lorraine)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 26 May 2023

• 09:30 - Day 2: WORKSHOP: New Frontiers for Data Analytics in Economic and Business History Research
  Various Speakers
  Global Correspondent Banking events

Monday 29 May 2023

• 17:00 - Violence, Blood, and Vendetta: A Girardian Interpretation
  José Maria Andres Porras (St Hugh's)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 15:00 - Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization
  Peter E Hamilton (Lingnan University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - West Indian Estate-ownership in England and Wales 1700-1830
  Elisabeth Grass (St Peter's)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:30 - Current Graduate Research in Iberian History at Oxford
  Please note the change of day and venue: Tuesday 30 May at Exeter College
  Various Speakers
  Iberian History Seminar

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 16:00 - Roundtable discussion - Seeing is Believing: stories of forced migration through the lens of creative technologies
  Professor Navtej Purewal, Dr Sonja Wolf, Dr Benjamin Worku-Dix, Chair: Bidisha Mamata
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Exhibiting China and de-Colonization: Archaeology and Museology across East Asia and the World
  Shing-Kwang Chan (Princeton University), Reynold K. W. Tsang (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 14:00 - Counter Memories: Photographs of Empire in National Trust Country Houses
  Rebekah Hodgkinson (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The First Mourners of Zion: From Iran to Jerusalem in the Ninth Century
  Eve Krakowski (Princeton)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 2 June 2023

• 10:00 - Part 1 - Conference: Pasts and Futures of Sovereignty in Kurdistan
  Various Speakers
  Conference: Pasts and Futures of Sovereignty in Kurdistan

Monday 5 June 2023

• 09:00 - TGHS Annual Graduate Conference: Diaspora: Identity & Belonging (Day 1)
  TBA
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 12:00 - Imperial materialities: Djaara girls and young women in nineteenth-century Victoria
  In collaboration with DJAARA (Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation)
  Catherine Gay (University of Melbourne)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Territorial soils: Egyptology, agriculture, and the colonial politics of field sites
  This seminar is online via Zoom but can be watched at the Maison Française
  Dr Meira Gold (New York University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Dignity of the Crown and Public Oeconomy: the Royal Household under George III and Burke's Economical Reform of 1782
  Amanda Westcott (Oxford)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Iconography Against the Grain: Looking at and Learning from Art in the High Middle Ages
  Sara Lipton (Stony Brook/All Souls)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 09:00 - TGHS Annual Graduate Conference: Diaspora: Identity & Belonging (Day 2)
  For details, please see https://www.oxfordtghs.com/
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Evolving Traditions: Networks of Empire and the Changing Economies of Islamic Intellectual Production in East Africa (c. 1800-1945)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Scott Reese (University of Hamburg)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Undergraduate Thesis Session
  Various Speakers
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 14:00 - Personal Experiences and Connections within the Japanese Empire
  Agnese Dionisio (Waseda University), Merle Kartscher (Harvard University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 16:00 - Book Launch: Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best Loved Institution
  Please note this event is on Wednesday at 16:00, at St Anne's College
  Andrew Seaton (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 09:40 - Day 1: HSMT Postgraduate Conference: The Ox-cars
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2023: The Ox-cars
• 17:00 - The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road
  Xin Wen (Princeton)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 9 June 2023

• 10:00 - Day 2: HSMT Postgraduate Conference: The Ox-cars
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2023: The Ox-cars

Monday 12 June 2023

• 12:00 - End of term social event
  N/A
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The international scientific conference: a social, cultural and political history
  Dr Charlotte Bigg (CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Professor Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck College, London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Understanding the cult of saints in the late medieval Cistercian order
  Emilia Jamroziak (Leeds)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 16:15 - Reimagining Imperium: James II and William III, by the Grace of God?
  Joshua Whiteman Gardner (Durham)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 16:30 - The White Ethiopian Girl: Genealogy of the Western Aversion to Miscegenation
  Jean-Frédéric Schaub (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Borderlands and Soviets: PRC Nationalities Policy and Nuclear Deterrence
  Duanyi Yi (University of Glasgow), Chendong Pi (University of California, Davis)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 17:00 - Power and Science in Late Antique Iran: Zoroastrian Apologetic Discourse on Access to Universal Knowledge
  Samra Azarnouche (EPHE, Paris)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 16 June 2023

• 10:00 - Part II - Conference: Pasts and Futures of Sovereignty in Kurdistan
  Various Speakers
  Conference: Pasts and Futures of Sovereignty in Kurdistan

Thursday 6 July 2023

• 13:30 - Day 1 - Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations
  Benoit Pouget (Sciences Po Aix), Atsuko Naono (Oxford), Mark Harrison (Oxford), John DiMoia (Seoul National University), Insok Yeo (Yonsei University), Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Dongkue Lee (Kyung Hee University), Martin Bricknell (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 14:30 - Seminar - "Wall Street Loves a Comback": the Genre of Financial True Crime
  Susie J Pak (St John's University, New York)
  Global Correspondent Banking events

Friday 7 July 2023

• 09:30 - Day 2 - Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations
  Insok Yeo (Yonsei University), Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Dongkue Lee (Kyung Hee University), Martin Bricknell (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 25 September 2023

• 14:00 - Day 1: Oxford History of Science turns 50
  Registration is now closed
  Various Speakers
  Oxford History of Science turns 50

Tuesday 26 September 2023

• 11:00 - Day 2, Morning: Oxford History of Science turns 50
  Registration is now closed. Please note there will be sessions at Harris Manchester College and the History of Science Museum
  Various Speakers
  Oxford History of Science turns 50
• 12:00 - Day 2, Afternoon: Oxford History of Science turns 50
  Registration is now closed
  Various Speakers
  Oxford History of Science turns 50

Monday 9 October 2023

• 16:00 - “Deliver us from doctors”: The New Zealand model of midwifery and the politics of maternity from 1970
  Professor Linda Bryder (Auckland)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - “In good marital confidence”: A German Consort’s Apologia Against Her Husband
  Charlotte Backerrra (University of Göttingen)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Graze, Forage, Cook: authenticity and authority in medieval monastic reform
  Andrew Jotischky (RHUL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 15:00 - From Empires of Coal and Steam to the Petro-States and Saltwater Kingdoms: The Indian Ocean Roots of Fossil-Fueled Water in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, 1850-2100
  MIichael Christopher Low ((University of Utah))
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Introductory Party (in-person event only)
  N/A
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - War as a Catalyst for Financial Innovation and Speculation in the Early Modern Period: Examples from Marseille’s Marine Insurance Market, 1754-1783
  Mallory Hope (Harvard)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 11:15 - The Well-Tempered Chase: Hunting, Emotions and Health in Early Modern Europe
  Valerio Zanetti (Oxford), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 13:00 - Barbara Savage in conversation with Lyndal Roper on 'Merze Tate: Theorising Modern Black Womanhood'
  Barbara Savage, Lyndal Roper
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - Barbara Savage in conversation with Lyndal Roper on 'Merze Tate: Theorising Modern Black Womanhood'
  Barbara Savage, Lyndal Roper
  2023 Black History Month events
• 17:00 - Masters and Servants: Divinity and Masculinity in Early Modern England
  Dr Leif Dixon (Regent's Park College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Politics of Voice and the Making of Mass Politics in Spain
  Matt Kerry (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture - Duelling in the Archive: Labour Quotas for Disabled Britons, 1944-1995
  Please note this talk is at 17:00 in the Auditorium at Magdalen College
  Lucy Delap (Cambridge)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 13 October 2023

• 13:00 - Methods and Approaches
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - Writing a Global History of the End of Britain (Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture)
  Please note this session will take place at the H B Allen Centre, Keble College
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History 2nd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture: Writing a Global History of the End of Britain
  Registration has closed
  Professor Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 16 October 2023

• 11:30 - Welcome Seminar and 20th Birthday Celebration
  Jennifer Crane (Bristol), Nicole King (Oxford), Helen Sunderland (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - How the Treasury Saved Britain: nationalism, liberalism and “high technology” in the post-war era
  Dr Thomas Kelsey (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Court Business: Finance and Financiers at Louis XIII’s Court
  Marc Jaffré (Durham)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - A Measure of Monastic Reform? New saints, ancient saints, and the re-forming of monastic communities in late 10th-century England
  Sumner Braund (History of Science Museum, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 16:15 - The Scottish Wonder’: David Wilkie, London, and British Culture
  Bob Harris (Worcester)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Research 'Speed Dating'
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Research 'Speed Dating'
  Various Speakers
  2023 Black History Month events
• 17:00 - Dissecting the sinews of power: International trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823
  Noam Yuchtman (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 14:00 - Empire & Exile
  Amita Mistry (Oxford), Julie Partsch (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 14:00 - Didn’t You Promise Us A River? Looking For The 17th-Century Mississippi
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Katherine Ibbett (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - The "Private" Side of Empire: Letters from the Portuguese Estado da Índia
  Postponed to Week 5, Wednesday 8 November
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 13:00 - Reading Group: Saidiya Hartman, Venus in Two Acts
  Saidiya Hartman
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Roundtable on Stuart Ward’s Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (2022)
  Ian McBride (Oxford), Vivian Kong (Bristol), Faridah Zaman (Oxford), Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - A study in failure: the Bishops’ Bible and the Elizabethan Church
  Dr Harry Spillane (Peterhouse, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Giving Migrants the Needle: Violent Restraint at European Air Borders, 1980-2001
  Fabrice Langrognet (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 20 October 2023

• 16:00 - Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
  Professor Jane Burbank and Professor Fred Cooper (NYU)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 23 October 2023

• 15:00 - Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism
  Mircea Raianu (The University of Maryland)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing (Joint with Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Professor John Henderson (Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - The Power of Courts, 1814-1918: Dynasties, Armies and Culture
  Philip Mansel (IHR/Versailles, Co-founder of the Society for Court Studies)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Colonial Administration and Modern China
  Please contact us if you would like a Teams link for our sessions streamed online - https://en-gb.facebook.com/OxIHEAS/
  Yimeng Cheng (University of Macao), Qingrou Zhao (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Dante’s Political Theology
  Matthew Kempshall (Wadham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 16:15 - West Indian Estate-ownership in England and Wales 1700-1830
  Elisabeth Grass (St Peter's)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Economic Shocks and Religious Conflict in Medieval India
  Sriya Iyer (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 11:15 - Unconventional Currents of Reform in Early Modern Italy
  Querciolo Mazzonis (Teramo), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 13:00 - Doing History With Things: Visit to the Ashmolean
  Meet at the Information Desk of the Ashmolean
  Jim Harris, Ellie Birch, Steven Yeo
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - New Histories of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike: Discussion of Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation (2023) & Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson, Women and the Miners’ Strike 1984-85 (2023)
  Robert Gildea (Oxford), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading), Freya Marshall Payne (Oxford), Andrew Seaton (UCL)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Subjects concealed within wives: statute and crime in the Star Chamber, 1558-1603’
  Chloe Ingersent (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘‘Firstly printed under the name of the reformed English Church": Reformation writings between England and the Holy Roman Empire, 1547-1603
  Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The invention of terrorism in France, 1904-1939
  Chris Millington (MMU)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 27 October 2023

• 13:00 - Indigenous Identities in Transition
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Moritz Mihatsch (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 30 October 2023

• 11:30 - “Are these the same children?”: Categorising Indian Childhood in the (De)legitimisation Debates on Child Labour in the Factories, 1870s-1940s
  Shreya Kundu (Ashoka University)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Framing epidemic geographies and displacement after the Great East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Dr Baihui Duan (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Networked Diplomacy: the Bahmani Sultanate in the Islamic world (ca. 1475)
  Meia Walravens (Trinity College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Dutch Gold and Charles I's Turn from Spain, 1634-1637
  Elizabeth Hines (Chicago)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 16:15 - "Twelve Jamaicamen and South Sea Stock": Insurance and the Economy of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century London
  Hunter Harris (Nuffield)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Exploring Women's Work in Early Modern Rural Italy: Insights from the Republic of Venice
  Andrea Caracausi (Padua)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 11:15 - Rethinking the Renaissance, A Mediterranean Perspective
  Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - International Law, Humanitarianism, and Colonial Violence
  Boyd van Dijk (University of Oxford), Ian Caistor-Parker (Warwick University)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Business Interests, Global Networks, and the Trade in Enslaved Africans to Peru, 1580-1640: The Case of Manuel Bautista Pérez
  Linda Newson (School of Advanced Study, University of London)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Intersection across the Pacific: Race, Migration, and the Environment in Modern East Asia
  Zelin Pei (University of Arizona), Rory Qianqing Huang (Texas A&M University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 14:00 - Birth Strikes, Women's Suffrage and Political Thought in Britain, 1907-1918
  Tania Shew (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Being English in Rome: national identity and global Catholicism
  Dr Lucy Underwood (Warwick University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - From a ‘Sea of Peace’ to a ‘NATO lake’? Security imaginaries of the Baltic Sea from the Second World War to the Present
  Juhana Aunesluoma (Helsinki)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Brenda Stevenson Lecture
  Brenda Stevenson
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - The Enslaved Family: Reflections on Resistance
  Brenda Stevenson (Oxford)
  2023 Black History Month events

Friday 3 November 2023

• 16:00 - The British Gunpowder Industry and the Making of the Global Firearm Frontier, 1600-1900
  Dr Nicholas Radburn (Lancaster)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 6 November 2023

• 13:00 - Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology
  N/A
  History of Biology Reading Group
• 15:00 - Malabar's Golden Trail: From the Indian Ocean to the Global Economy
  Nisha Mathew ((Mahindra University))
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Abraham Bäck and Linnean racial science
  Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Financing Festivals, Music and Theatre in 16th and 17th century Italy and France
  This seminar has been cancelled as the speaker is no longer able to attend.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Francesca Fantappiè (Université de Tours)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Pecia System and the Medieval Oxford Book Trade
  Alison Ray (St Peter's College and Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 16:15 - William III, Mary II, and Naval Patronage, 1689-1702
  Stuart Parks (St Cross)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - "Contours of Death" Revisited: the Geography of Health and Mortality in Early Modern England
  Romola Davenport (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 11:15 - ONLINE: Invisible Threads of Tradition: Refiguring Kinship and Knowledge in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1500
  Please note this seminar is online
  Gadi Algazi (Tel Aviv), Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:15 - The "Private" Side of Empire: Letters from the Portuguese Estado da Índia
  Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 14:00 - Drag: A British History
  Joint meeting with LGBTQ+ History Network
  Jacob Bloomfield (Konstanz)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Reading Group: What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast? A History of the Enslaved Black Family
  Brenda Stevenson (Oxford)
  2023 Black History Month events
• 17:00 - "He carried, secretly a knotted string": Catholic sailors on English Protestant ships fighting Spain (1568–1595)
  Dr Andrii Pastushenko (Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Little cities: Experiencing and imagining the early modern military camp
  Dr Emily Rowe (KCL and Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Reading Group: What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast? A History of the Enslaved Black Family
  Brenda Stevenson
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 10 November 2023

• 13:00 - Forms of Expression and Communication
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - Libya’s Transition to Independence: Challenging the Paradigm of Competition between Italians and Tripolitanians
  Professor Antonio Morone (Pavia)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 13 November 2023

• 16:00 - How students created their own curriculum: Oxbridge student clubs in the age of the research university
  Professor Arne Schirrmacher (Berlin)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Maharajah’s Money: Duleep Singh and the Royal Finances of the Sikh Empire, 1843-1893
  Priya Atwal (Oxford)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Towards a New Biography of Empress Matilda: what can be known about the women around her?
  Liesbeth van Houts (Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 16:15 - "The entire performance gave universal satisfaction, and the audience went away delighted": Irish Protestant Audiences for Catholic Sacred Music in the Eighteenth Century
  Maura Valenti (Hertford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Patent Litigation in the Nineteenth-Century German Empire: An Empirical Analysis of Nullity Proceedings
  Jochen Streb (Mannheim)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 11:15 - Globalizing East-Central Europe from the Ground Up: Minerals, Metals, and Mountains
  Suzanna Ivanic (Kent), Chair: Natalia Nowakowska
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - Histories of Science and Technology
  Alice Naisbitt (University of Manchester), Gabriella Rago (University of Turin)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Sexuality, Endogamy, and Caste in Colonial India
  Dr Durba Mitra (Harvard University), Moderator: Nikita Arora (DPhil candidate in History, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:30 - 1614, the World on the Thames: A Tentative Exercise in Global History and the History of Early Modern Empires
  Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS-LARHRA, Lyon)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Western Imports, Asian Agency: Encounters between Nationalism and Transnationalism in East Asia
  Kyrie Vermette (University of British Columbia), Andrew Ka Pok Tam (University of Glasgow)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 13:00 - Gendering nostalgia: fourteenth-century longing for the good old days
  Hannah Skoda
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Who Were They? The Social Origins of British Juvenile Delinquents (Male) ca.1918-1970
  Ross McKibbin (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - An alternative conception of democracy. Franco's Spain and conservative political groups in France and Italy from 1945 to the 1960s
  Carlos Domper Lasús (Zaragoza)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Conflict, Welfare and Memory: Outcomes of the Civil War Petitions Project
  Professor Andrew Hopper and Dr Ismini Pells (Kellogg College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 17 November 2023

• 16:00 - Slavery and Industrialization
  Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Professor Patricia Hudson FBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 20 November 2023

• 11:30 - Managing the mayhem: pupil-teacher relations in English and Welsh comprehensive schools, 1960s–1980s
  Laura Carter (Université Paris Cité)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 15:00 - Where is Asia in the History of Early Modern Capitalism?
  Georgio Reillo & Mike O'Sullivan (European University Institute)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Cave Remedies: Ancient Wisdom in Stalactites
  Dr Jue Jin (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Fireworks at the Court of Louis XIII
  Please note this seminar will start at 17:00
  Marie-Claude Canova-Green (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Translating Holiness: Relics and the Dynamics of Empire in the Late Antique Mediterranean
  Nadine Viermann (Durham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 16:15 - English Prison Reform from Below
  Kiran Mehta (Max Planck Institute/Leicester)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Does Cultural Assimilation Matter? (joint work with J S Bentzen, P Sharp, C V Skovsgaard, and C Vedel)
  Nina Boberg-Fazlic (TU Dortmund)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 11:15 - The German Peasants’ War (1524–1526): Facts, Reception History and New Approaches
  Thomas Müller (Wittenberg), Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - Histories of Student Movements, Women's Resistance & Transnational Solidarities
  Dolf Neuhaus (Independent), Réka Krizmanics (Bielefeld University)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - The Holodomor: Moscow’s Menacing of Ukraine in Historical Context
  Online - please register
  Dr Kristina Hook (Kennesaw State University)

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 13:00 - My Halide Edib
  Meryem Kalayci
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Being Parented: Disabled Children's Experiences in England, 1940-1970
  Please note this talk has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Samantha McCormack (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Beyond the Wall: Rethinking East Germany
  Katja Hoyer (KCL)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Intertextual Whiggism: Political Aphorisms, Textual Appropriation, and Political Thought, 1570-1800
  Professor Mark Goldie (Churchill College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 24 November 2023

• 13:00 - Contemporary Indigenous Perspectives
  Reading Group
  Iberian History Reading Group
• 16:00 - Capitalism and Empire: Europe's Hinterlands and its Oceanic Empires
  Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 27 November 2023

• 13:00 - Gregory Radick, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology
  N/A
  History of Biology Reading Group
• 16:00 - Historical activism, autobiographies and life story work with people with learning disabilities - using history and stories for social change (Joint with Disability History Month Seminar)
  Professor Elizabeth Tilley and Nathaniel Lawford (The Open University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Coined Money in the Early Middle Ages: did it matter?
  Rory Naismith (Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Louis XIV, Colbert and the Ordonnance du commerce of 1673
  Luisa Brunori (Paris)
  Economic History of Monarchy

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 16:15 - “An army marches on its stomach,” yet it is hungry: Surgeons, Soldiers, and Supply in Napoleon’s Grande Armée, 1806-1807
  Calum Johnson (Durham)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Centuries of the Elderly: Old Age, Pensions, and Retirement in Premodern Europe (c. 1000-1800)
  Jaco Zuijderduijn (Lund)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 11:15 - Colliding Empires: Material Trajectories Across the Early Modern Western Mediterranean
  Ana Struillou (London), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:30 - Accountability: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Negotiation of Power in Early Colonial Peru
  Laura León Llerena (University of Durham)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Transcending the "Bamboo Curtain": Cultural diplomacy and tourism across the Taiwan Strait
  Po-Hsun Chen (University of Manchester), Cho-kiu Li (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 13:00 - Writing Queer History (or trying to)
  Matt Cook
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Commerce and Colonialism in the First World War
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - William Perkins and the constraints of reform in late Elizabethan England
  Eric Beach (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - "A Byrd flew over the cuckoo’s nest": the problem of the Chapel Royal in post-Reformation England
  Oscar Patton (Merton College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 1 December 2023

• 16:00 - The Offstage Storm? Decolonization and the Politics of Democracy in Post-war Western Europe
  Professor Martin Conway (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 15 January 2024

• 15:00 - An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean
  Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Pure, white, and uncontaminated: infectious diseases and microbiology in Antarctica
  Dr Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - 'State bankruptcy and salon sociability: Women at the Danish court in a time of turmoil 1784-1815
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Kristine Dyrmann (Linacre College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Rise of Christian Kingship and the De-Secularization of the Latin West
  Conor O'Brien (Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 16:15 - Meitheal, Morrowing and the Wake: Reciprocal Labour and Collective Action in the pre-Famine Irish Peasantry, 1780-1845
  Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 17:00 - Royal Justice and the Court of Requests: from Thesis to Book
  Dr Laura Flanagan (St John's College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 14:00 - Some ends of liberalism: law, morality, and governmentality in the long 1950s
  Ben Griffin (Cambridge)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 1: Propagation
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - Hindutva and the Problem of Hinduism
  Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 19 January 2024

• 14:00 - Free-Form: Unpacking the Taiwan Election
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 16:00 - Indigenous Rights in Settler Colonies
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 22 January 2024

• 11:30 - Reading Group – Children and Power
  Charlotte Canizo (Oxford), Amy Wells (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Mathematics: Contrasting the Aims and Approaches of Mathematicians, Egyptologists, and Others
  Dr Chris Hollings (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Did Charlemagne Worry about his Body?
  John Merrington (Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 16:15 - The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706: "Favour'd With the Lord's Wonders"
  Daniel Reed (Oxford Brookes)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 15:30 - Histories of Immigration, Emigration & Belonging
  Joshua Lourence (University of Hawai'i), Luke Spyropoulos (University of London, Birkbeck)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Transforming the Atlantic World from the Mediterranean: Genoese Entrepreneurship and the Asiento Slave Trade, 1650-1700 (Joint Session with the Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Alejandro García Montón (Universidad de Granada)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lollards, Londoners, and Lutherans, in the Shaping of William Tyndale
  Dr Andrew Hope (Independent)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Story of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 11:15 - ‘A Syrian diasporic private archive: the Mishaqa family collection’
  Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 12:30 - The Accounts of a Genoese Aqueduct: Tapping into the Social History of Water in Medieval Cities
  Susannah Bain
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - "A man who has fought cannot be anything but a brave man": First World War veterans, domestic violence, and the British courts
  Chloe Pieters (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Hotel Lux: Writing an Intimate History of the Comintern’s Moscow Dormitory, 1924-1929
  Maurice Casey (Queens, Belfast)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 2: Apocalypse
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Friday 26 January 2024

• 14:00 - People’s Revolution? Coercive Revolution?
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 16:00 - Post-War Economic Asianism? China, India and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, c. 1947-1950
  Dr Yui Chim Lo (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 29 January 2024

• 15:00 - "A Sea of Wealth": Sayyid Sa'id bin Sultan, the Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
  Nicholas P. Roberts (Norwich University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Medical Knowledge and Sanitation Measures in China in the Time of Cholera, 1820-1925
  Joint event with TORCH Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop, held at the China Centre, Dickson Poon Building
  Dr Xianbing Du (Tianjin Normal University, China)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Western Medical Missionaries in China, 1840s-1950s
  Joint event with TORCH Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop, held at the China Centre, Dickson Poon Building
  Dr Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University and Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - The Rediscovery of Artemisia Gentileschi’s long-lost Susanna and the Elders - part of a Digital Project Reconstructing Charles I and Henrietta Maria’s Art Collection
  Niko Munz (Christ Church College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Philippe de Vitry in Clement VI’s Avignon
  Andrew Wathey (TNA/All Souls College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 16:15 - Forgotten Children: Black Lives and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital
  Hannah Dennett (Warwick)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:30 - Disasters That Made the World Shudder: How Extreme Events Redefined Communication and Politics in the Spanish Monarchy (Joint session with the Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Please note the different day and venue
  Domenico Cecere (Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’)
  Iberian History Seminar

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:00 - Healing, (Re)settling, and Empire in Interregnum England
  Dr William White (University of Hertfordshire)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 11:15 - ‘Calendars, hats and buttons: Marking authority, identity and time among Eastern Catholics at the end of the Ottoman Empire’
  Dr Anaïs Massot (Leiden and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 17:00 - Unsafe Harbour: A Political Ecology of Postwar Marseille
  Venus Bivar (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 3: Allurement
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Friday 2 February 2024

• 14:00 - Mao and Mao’s Legacy
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 16:00 - Lever Brothers' Plantations in the Pacific Islands, 1895-1942
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 5 February 2024

• 11:30 - "Who are these children?": Classification and Experiences of Liberated African Children in the British Colony of Sierra Leone, 1808-1864
  Érika Melek Delgado (KCL)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Bloodletting under the ankle, post-mortem caesarean section, and the role of female expertise in medieval medicine
  Professor Maaike van der Lugt (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin - Paris Saclay)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Thinking about Grief and Loss in the High Middle Ages
  Emily Winkler (Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 16:15 - Company connections: Oxford’s du Bois Herbarium and the Role of East India Company Networks in sustaining Eighteenth-century Collecting Culture
  Madeline White (Lincoln, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Special Event: Roundtable Discussion of Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions, in conversation with Professor Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)
  Professor Maurizio Isabella (QMUL), John-Paul Ghobrial, Abigail Green, Giuseppe Marcocci, Eduardo Posada-Carbó
  Oxford Centre for European History

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 14:00 - Race, Radicalism & Transoceanic Solidarities
  Maha Al-Haddad (University of Cambridge), Liza Hong (ANU)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Translation as Object and Method for Historical Inquiry: A Case Study on Sixteenth-Century Letters in Maya Yucatec Language
  Caroline Cunill (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Cranmer’s Homilies, and the Production of the Book of Common Prayer
  PLEASE NOTE, THIS SEMINAR IS ONLINE ONLY
  Professor Micheline White (Carleton University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 11:15 - ‘Bridging and branding the Holy Lands: Arabs from Greater Syria and Palestine in Europe (1900s-1950s)’
  Professor Karène Sanchez Summerer (Groningen)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 12:30 - Environmental History of the Wildlife of Yellowstone National Park
  Bethan Wallace
  Environmental History Working Group
• 17:00 - Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
  Anne Deighton (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 4: Language
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
  Please note this seminar is at 17:00 in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History - joint with the Modern History Research Seminar
  Anne Deighton (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Friday 9 February 2024

• 14:00 - Sino-Japanese relations in the 21st century
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 16:00 - Unravelling the Enigma of Penis Captivus in Zimbabwe: A historical Odyssey of a Medical Mystery and Urban legend
  Dr Kudakwashe Chitofiri (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 12 February 2024

• 15:00 - Fishing for the Past: Histories of Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean
  Tamara Fernando (Stoney Brook University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Gold and Mercury: unearthing a toxic partnership (1847-2023)
  Dr Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - The Besieged Court. Ruling Women as Military Defenders in Scandinavia and Beyond
  Cathleen Sarti (Balliol College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Medicine in the margins: Exploring the unexpected environments of early medieval medical knowledge
  Claire Burridge (University of Oslo)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 11:30 - Materiality as Method: In Conversation with Dr Peter Oakley
  Dr Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art), Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:15 - The Telescope and the Rise of Polite Science in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  Han Zhao (Wuhan University)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 11:30 - The Reformation and the Image: Picturing Popery in Stephen Batman’s 'A Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation' (1569)
  Dr Adam Morton (Newcastle University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 13:00 - Penises in Captivity: Myth and Folklore
  Kudakwashe Chitofiri
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - J S Mill before liberalism
  Peter Ghosh (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - A Quest for Purity: vegetarianism between Europe, South Asia, and the United States (c. 1850–1957)
  Julia Hauser (Kassel)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 5: Enslavement
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Friday 16 February 2024

• 16:00 - A Prophet Disarmed: Islam, Insult, and Injury
  Professor Faisal Devji (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 19 February 2024

• 11:30 - Making Revolutionary Youth: An Intellectual and Social History of Youth during Mozambique’s "Socialist Experiment" (1975-1986)
  Johanna Wetzel (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Tracing the Legacies of Empires of Extinction
  Joint event with the Bodleian Library: We Are Our History Conversations, held at the Weston Library. Booking is required for this event.
  Professor Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Re-examining the role of inter-faith rivalry as the main driver of conflict in the Middle East at the time of the Crusades
  Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 16:15 - The Space and Senses of "Open Justice" in English Courts of Law, ca. 1700-1800
  Estella Chen (The Queen's College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Special Lecture - 1848 in the Rear-View Mirror: Resonances of 19th Century Revolution
  Please note this lecture is on Tuesday 20 February at Worcester College
  Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Oxford Centre for European History Special Lecture - 1848 in the Rear-View Mirror: Resonances of 19th Century Revolution
  Christopher Clark (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for European History

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 14:00 - War, Anti-Fascism and Transnational Justice
  Adrian Pole (University of Chester), Lena Christophe (University of Vienna)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Dying Forms: Martyrdom Narratives on the Margins of Iberian Empire
  Nicole T Hughes (Stanford)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Discussion of Professor Alec Ryrie’s Ford Lectures – ‘The World’s Reformation’
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 11:15 - ‘Daheshism, a religious movement for golden-age Beirut’
  Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 12:30 - Hills of Eternity?: Cemeteries and Urban Growth in 19th century San Francisco
  Baruch Gilinsky
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Queering the Middle Ages and Student Life in 19th to 20th Century Oxford
  Dominic Janes (Keele)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Feeling Politics and Collective Feminist Solidarity in Women’s Networks since 1970
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Bec Wonders (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - France on Trial: the case of Marshall Petain
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Julian Jackson (QMUL)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 6: A new phase
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Friday 23 February 2024

• 14:00 - Chinese Christian Miracles and Exorcisms
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 26 February 2024

• 15:00 - Persianate Luxury: The Tangible and Intangible Legacy of the Indian Ocean Wine Trade
  Peter Good (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Ancient Mesopotamian Plant Knowledge
  Dr Barbara Boeck (CSIC, Madrid)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Heralds as Courtiers
  Patric Dickinson (Secretary of the Order of the Garter, fomer Clarenceux King of Arms)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - James Campbell, William Stubbs, and German Idealism
  George Garnett (Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 16:00 - Undergraduate Thesis Session for Research in the Long Eighteenth Century
  Various Speakers
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 17:00 - Marginalised or Mobilised: Two Differing Examples of Veteran Disability in Seventeenth-Century Britain
  Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - In Defence of Astrology: the Importance of Astrology in Early Tudor Society (1485-1558)
  Anna Simms (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 11:15 - ‘The moving business: people smugglers, agents, and the work of Ottoman migration, c.1890-1914’
  Professor Andrew Arsan (Cambridge)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 14:00 - The Crimean War in Victorian Religious Thought and Intellectual Culture
  Petros Spanou (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What are hate pictures against Jews? Understanding the visual history of Antisemitism
  Uffa Jensen (Technical University, Berlin)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Journeys into Community History (... and what's next for the field?)
  Sadiya Ahmed (Director, Everyday Muslim), Professor Tim Cole (Bristol University), Euton Daley (Director, Unlock the Chains Collective), Professor Alison Twells (Sheffield Hallam University), Chair: Priya Atwal (Community History Fellow, Oxford)
  Who Makes History series

Friday 1 March 2024

• 14:00 - Historical Anthropology and the South China School
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 4 March 2024

• 11:30 - Constructing the "Vicky Pollard Generation": Representations of teenage pregnancy in popular culture, 1979-2010
  Zara Christmas (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Presentism and the Historian of Science: Reflections from the Coalface
  Professor Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - State Bankruptcy and Salon Sociability: Women at the Danish Court in a Time of Turmoil, 1784-1815
  Kristine Dyrmann (Linacre College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From Text to Teeth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work
  Alison Beach (St Andrews)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 16:15 - Rethinking the Eighteenth Century: from the 1960s to the Future
  Jeremy Black (Exeter)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 16:30 - Slavery and Theology in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Conversation with Daniel Schwartz
  Daniel Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Voices from the Miners’ Strike Forty Years On: Historians Robert Gildea and Jim Phillips in conversation with Patricia Clavin
  Please note this discussion is on Wednesday 6 March at Worcester College
  Robert Gildea, Jim Phillips, In conversation with Patricia Clavin
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Making Sense of Sir Humphrey Gilbert: Glory, Notoriety and the History of Elizabethan Expansionism
  Professor Rory Rapple (University of Notre Dame)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 10:45 - Dreams and History Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - Roundtable Discussion of Mooring the Global Archive, in conversation with Professor Martin Dusinberre, Zurich
  Jennifer Altehenger, John-Paul Ghobrial, Catherine Holmes, Giuseppe Marcocci, Jessica Fernandez Lara de Harada
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 17:00 - The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
  Please note this seminar is in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00 - joint with the Modern History Research Seminar
  Martin Conway (Oxford), Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
  Martin Conway (Oxford), Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 8 March 2024

• 16:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 15 April 2024

• 11:00 - Childhood and the Meanings of Emancipation in the American Civil War
  Ben Davidson (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Monday 22 April 2024

• 10:00 - The Cult of Gay Relics and Political Activism
  Dr Miles Pattenden
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 16:00 - Inaugural Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - “Archives of Loss and Wonder”: Writing a History of Fossil Heritage in South Asia
  Please note change of venue for this seminar - Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History
  Dr Amelia Bonea (Manchester)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Courtly Encounters/Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects as Diplomatic Gifts at the Court of Naples
  Leah Clark (Kellogg College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Eleanor of Aquitaine: the power of a queen and duchess
  Lindy Grant (Reading)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 15:00 - Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
  Jatin Dua (University of Michigan)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:15 - Critiquing Roman Law: Oroonoko, Two Treatises, and the Shifting Justifications of Slavery
  Cameron Bowman (Keble College)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 13:00 - The Challenges of Memorializing HIV/AIDS
  Pippa Catterall
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - Making History Here: Community History in Oxfordshire
  PLEASE NOTE: There are only 20 spaces available on the 'Forgotten Stories of Oxford' walking tour so book asap at the link below.
  Rawz (Urban Music Foundation), Professor Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes University), Marta Lomza (Museum of Oxford), Chair: Dr Jonathan Healey (Department of Continuing Education, Oxford)
  Who Makes History series
• 17:00 - Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
  Garth Fowden (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 26 April 2024

• 10:00 - Workshop - “Domicide”: State violence and the destruction of home in the Middle East and China
  Ammar Azzouz, Alex Vasudevan, Jennifer Altehenger, Margaret Hillenbrand, Salwa Ismail, Farida Makar
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 29 April 2024

• 10:00 - Studying Early Modern Europe’s Parliamentary Culture: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  Professor Paulina Kewes
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 11:00 - New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students
  Georgina Close-Smith, Shereece Linton-Ramsay, Kerry Stapleton, Daniel Surrey
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Intercolonial Health Cooperation in the Pacific Islands and the British Empire
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Hire Slow, Fire Fast: Human Resources Management in the Early Modern Princely Household
  Dries Raeymaekers (Radboud University)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The transformation of the monastic enclosure at Marmoutier (Tours, France) between the 11th and the early 13th century
  Elisabeth Lorans (Tours/All Souls, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 17:00 - Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850-1920
  Katherine Eriksson (University of California, Davis)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 13:30 - Policy Engagement for DPhil and Early Career Historians
  Tom Kelsey (Oxford Policy Engagement Network)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 12:30 - The Nature of Utopia: The ecological foundations of Joseph Déjacque’s anarchist utopianism (c. 1850s)
  Ben Stemper
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - How Significant Is the Other: Anglophone Couples of Scholars and the Making of a Transatlantic Social Science (1890-1940)
  Marie Linos (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Kenneth Wong, Natalie Martz
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:30 - The History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Workshop
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - Re-Framing the Umayyad Empire: Pastoralists, Plague, and Peripheries
  Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 3 May 2024

• 14:00 - Rabinder Singh: Human Rights Law in its Historical Context
  Lord Justice Rabinder Singh, Respondent: Professor Ben Ansell, Respondent: Dr Emma Mackinnon, Respondent: Professor Jan Eckel
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 6 May 2024

• 10:00 - How Democracy Became Modern: Europe 1770-1870
  Dr Joanna Innes
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 15:00 - Cosmopolitan Graves: Thamboosamy Pillai and Legacy Making and Unmaking in British Malaya
  Julia Stephens (Rutgers University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - Reading the Arabic Documents of Medieval Toledo: Local Practice and Community Formation on the Iberian Frontier
  Helen Flatley (Somerville College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 16:15 - Policing the "British" in Paris during the French Revolutionary Terror
  Simon Macdonald (UCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Is this Time Different? Financial Follies across Centuries (with Jeremy Fouliard and Vania Stavrakeva)
  Helene Rey (London Business School)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - Historical research in the time of the Anthropocene: can climate data help us read the past (and, if so, how)?
  Professor Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  Environmental History Working Group

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 09:15 - Day 1: Oxford History Graduate Network Conference 2024
  Various Speakers
  Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
• 12:30 - I am constantly shocked by cases of blatant and unquestioned discrimination against women in every sphere of life’: the struggle to outlaw sex discrimination in Britain, 1966-1975
  Lyndsey Jenkins
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Gabrielle Davies, Thomas Wang, Carys Howell
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:30 - The History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Workshop
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 16:00 - Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday instead of Monday, which is a Bank Holiday, and will be held in the Lecture Theatre at the History Faculty, George Street
  Professor Erika L Milam (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - The Fêting Court: Festivals as Tools for Diplomacy at the French Court
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday 9 May
  Bram van Leuveren (Utrecht University)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Medieval Arabic Literature: What Do You Know, and What Can You Do with It?
  Julia Bray (Oxford)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 10 May 2024

• 10:00 - Publishing in the History of Science: a Conversation
  Limited places so register soon.
  Professor Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton), Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 11:20 - Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 May 2024

• 11:00 - “They do not discipline me without reason”: The relationship between foster child and foster parent and the experience of growing up in Danish private foster care 1900-1922
  Amalie Olga Lyngsted (University of Copenhagen)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
  Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Intertextuality in medieval Spain: liturgy, iconography, architecture and music at San Miguel de Escalada in the tenth century
  Emma Hornby (Bristol)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 09:30 - Periodizing Global History: What is Early Modernity? What is Modernity?
  Craig Clunas (Oxford; China), Faisal Devji (Oxford; Modern Islamic World), Azfar Moin (Texas; Mughals), Kiri Paramore (Cork; Japan/Confucianism), David Priestland (Oxford; Communist World), Joan-Pau Rubiés (Barcelona; Global Renaissance), Sadia Saeed (San Francisco; Historical Sociology), Alan Strathern (Oxford; Organiser)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Imperial Bonding: The Growth, Demise, and Reformulation of Financial Networks in the Interwar Atlantic
  Sean Vanatta (University of Glasgow)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Workshop for Manuscripts and Text Cultures: lunchtime colloquium

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 12:30 - Ecological Automatism: Photography and Non-Human Creativity in Minotaure (1933-1939)
  Mim Pomerantz
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Materiality and Memorialisation in Queer Heritage
  This seminar has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alison Oram
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Eleri Hedley Carter, Freya Willis
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:30 - The History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Workshop
  Please note this session is cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - Making a Difference: Community History and Social Change
  Shabnam Sabir (Oxford City Council), Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire), Alex Betts (Local and Global Officer, Oxford), Chair: Meleisa Ono-George (History Faculty, Oxford)
  Who Makes History series
• 17:00 - “Behold! Quraysh is praying behind Bakr!” Kharijite Rebellion and Bakri Tribalism from al-Jazira to Iran 7th-9th c.
  Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 17 May 2024

• 10:00 - Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
  This session has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Monday 20 May 2024

• 10:00 - Seeing the Land, Drawing the Map, Making the Empire: Cartography in the Service of the State
  Dr Elizabeth Baigent
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 15:00 - Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
  Ketaki Pant (University of Southern California)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century
  Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - (Re)Présentez vos armes au roi. A Socio-Cultural History of the Militarization of the Courts of Versailles and Vienna in the 18th Century
  Unfortunately this talk has been postponed and we hope to reschedule for Monday 3 June (7th Week) - TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Maximilian Diemer (New College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Charles West, Helen Gittos, and Mirela Ivanova, in discussion: Inventing Slavonic Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople
  Please note this seminar is in the OLD LIBRARY, All Souls College
  Charles West (Edinburgh), Helen Gittos (Balliol College, Oxford), Mirela Ivanova (Sheffield)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 16:15 - What might Ship Names tell us about eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Port Elites?
  Peter Solar (CEREC, UCLouvain - Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Safety Net: central bank balance sheets and financial crisis 1587-2020 (with Martin Kornejew, Paul Schmelzing, Moritz Schularick)
  Niall Ferguson (Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 15:30 - 'A Muslim History of Oxford' Open Day
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Community History Hub

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 11:00 - The Sultan of New York: An Ottoman Armenian in Nineteenth-Century America
  Nora Lessersohn (Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 12:30 - Earthsongs: reimagining material experiences of soil and gardening
  Bill Kroeger
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Married lesbians and notions of love and selfhood in post-war Britain
  Rebecca Jennings
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour
  Alfie Steer (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence
  Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 24 May 2024

• 10:00 - Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Monday 27 May 2024

• 10:00 - Politics and Power relations: the Case of Medieval Women
  Dr Rowena Archer
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 17:00 - Establishing a school of astronomy and astrology in the fourteenth century? The case of the universities of Paris and Oxford
  Laure Miolo (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets (with Asaf Bernstein, Carola Frydman)
  Eric Hilt (Wellesley College)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Workshop for Manuscripts and Text Cultures: lunchtime colloquium
• 15:30 - Echoes of Exile : Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Crimean Tatars' Deportation
  Professor Rory Finnin (University of Cambridge), Dr Tamar Koplatadze (Moderator) (University of Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 12:30 - Science, Ecology and Romanticism in George Catlin’s travelling "Indian Gallery"
  This meeting has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ruka Hussain
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Long Live Queer Nightlife
  Amin Ghaziani
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - "God is an Equal Opportunities Employer - Pity about the Church": Humour and the Campaign for Women's Ordination in the Church of England, 1978-1994
  Grace Heaton (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:30 - The History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Workshop
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period
  Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 31 May 2024

• 13:00 - Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Monday 3 June 2024

• 10:00 - Napoleon, the famous delinquent
  Professor Mike Broers
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 11:00 - Children’s perspective on social movements in Finland, 1959-1989
  Heidi Kurvinen (University of Turku)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 15:00 - A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
  Phillip Gooding (McGill University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
  Professor Kat Lecky (LUC)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Safeguarding in times of crisis. The compensation of the former Bavarian royal family after 1918
  Nina Kreibig (Berlin)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - A room with a view: Chichele’s college
  Peregrine Horden (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Roundtable: "Whose World Order?" with Evelyn Goh, Andrew Hurrell, and John Ikenberry
  Please note this is an IN-PERSON ONLY event.
  Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), John Ikenberry (Princeton University), Andrew Hurrell (Oxford), Louise Fawcett (Oxford)
  Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 16:15 - Reckoning with Race in Early Modern London
  Jamie Gemmell (KCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Recombinant novelty in early-modern English caselaw (with Peter Grajzl)
  Peter Murrell (University of Maryland)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 09:45 - Day 1 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
  Registration is now closed for catering purposes. If you would still like to attend (without lunch) please see booking email below.
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
• 13:00 - Female Homosociality and Homosexuality in the Classical World (Joint meeting with the History Faculty LGBTQ Network Reading Group)
  Mara Gold
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - Undergraduate LGBTQ+ History Workshop
  Various Speakers
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”
  Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 7 June 2024

• 09:45 - Day 2 - HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
  Various Speakers
  HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
• 13:00 - Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Monday 10 June 2024

• 16:00 - Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
  Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse/CAK/MFO)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Late-Ming "Mine Tax" Reconsidered
  Gabriel Groz (Chicago)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - The Relics of Rome
  Katherine Jansen (Catholic University of America)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 17:00 - How many jobs? Division of labour in early modern England and Wales (with David Chilosi, Giampaolo Lecce)
  Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 13:30 - Early Theories of the Child-Mind with Global Connections in the Child-Study Movement 1870-1920
  Julia Gustavsson (Oxford)
  Workshop for Manuscripts and Text Cultures: lunchtime colloquium

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 13:00 - Reproducing the Cloister: Hroswitha of Gandersheim, Margery Kempe of Lynn, and 20th-Century Networks of Female Medievalists
  Stacie Vos
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:30 - The History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network Workshop with Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - Justinian Between East and West
  Peter Sarris (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 14 June 2024

• 09:00 - Religion, Race, and Concepts of Difference in the Modern Middle East
  The deadline for all proposals is 7 March 2024
  TBA
• 13:00 - Writing Group co-organised by WGIQ and the History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Tuesday 18 June 2024

• 09:00 - Day 1: Queer and Trans History Now Postgraduate Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Queer and Trans History Now: 2-Day Postgraduate Symposium
• 18:15 - Queer Scandinavia
  Professor Tone Hellesund (Bergen), Dr Peter Edelberg (Copenhagen), Runar Jordaen (Norwegian Queer [Skeivt] Archive), Dr Helene Nilse (Bergen)
  Queer and Trans History Now: 2-Day Postgraduate Symposium

Wednesday 19 June 2024

• 09:00 - Day 2: Queer and Trans History Now Postgraduate Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Queer and Trans History Now: 2-Day Postgraduate Symposium
• 18:00 - Queer Public History
  Silje Gaupseth (Polar Museum, Tomso), J P Der Boghossian (Queer Armenian Library), Professor Pippa Catterall (Chair of the AIDS Memorial Trust), Professor Glyn Davis (Perverse Collections), Professor Jennifer Evan (Carleton University, Canada)
  Queer and Trans History Now: 2-Day Postgraduate Symposium

Thursday 20 June 2024

• 10:00 - TGHS Conference: Articulating Anti-Colonialism
  TBA
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 11:30 - TGHS Conference: Creations and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 13:30 - TGHS Conference: Ecology and Colonialism
  TBA
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 14:30 - TGHS Conference: Media and Memorialisation
  TBA
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - TGHS Conference: Pedagogy, Reconciliation and Commemoration
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar

Friday 21 June 2024

• 10:00 - TGHS Conference: Colony and Metropole
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 11:30 - TGHS Conference: Cultures of Settler Colonialism
  Register here for online participation: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMuf-GgrDwqGtd0SJGTFjT6elWr8kuOPGXq
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - TGHS Conference: Memory and Transnational Justice
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar

Monday 24 June 2024

• 09:30 - Colloquium 2024: Children and politics
  Various Speakers
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Tuesday 9 July 2024

• 11:00 - Oral History Training Workshop
  Dr Aleena Din, Sadiya Ahmed, Dr Sally Frampton
  Oxford Community History Hub

Friday 11 October 2024

• 10:00 - Environmental History Social
  N/A
  Environmental History Working Group

Monday 14 October 2024

• 16:00 - Book Launch: New Under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine by Netta Cohen
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Dr Netta Cohen (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Oriental Christ: What India did with Jesus and Why it is Important
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Writing the Conquest of Egypt: A case study in the Formation of Islamic Historical Writing
  Edward Zychowicz-Coghill (KCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 16:15 - Introductory Party (in-person event only)
  N/A
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Appointment in Geneva: European refugees and their encounters with UNHCR, 1951-1975
  Peter Gatrell (Manchester)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 11:15 - Rome Branded: The Politics of Heraldic Devices in the Early Modern Papal Capital
  Toby Osborne, Chair: Natalia Nowakowska
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Rethinking the Irish Settler Colonial Diaspora
  Dr Ciaran O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 12:30 - Women-Centric or Feminist? Gender Politics in Tagore’s Texts
  Sanjukta Dasgupta (Calcutta University)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Inside London’s Bridewell: Setting the Poor to Work, 1550-1700
  Dr Ian Archer (Keble College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Histories of Maternal Labour
  Please note this lecture is at Magdalen College at 17:00
  Professor Sarah Knott
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:15 - Dante and the Art of Divine Light
  Martin Kemp (History of Art, Oxford)
  Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar

Friday 18 October 2024

• 16:00 - Oxford Centre for Global History 3rd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture - Mapping Civilizations: The World from the West
  Professor Josephine Quinn (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 16:00 - Start of Term Social in Collaboration with Queer Intersections Oxford
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Monday 21 October 2024

• 11:00 - Welcome seminar and discussion of sources and approaches to histories of childhood
  Barnabas Balint (Oxford, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum), Catherine Sloane (Oxford), Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - “There is a Fatal Facility in the Use of Technical Terms”: a Media History Perspective on First Aid in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  Dr Sally Frampton (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Inaugural Lecture of the Professor of Modern History: European Security in Modern Times
  Professor Patricia Clavin (Worcester College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Making moral judgements: theory and practice in the thought of Johannes Nider
  Genevieve Caulfield (UCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 15:00 - ‘Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental Orthodox Christians in Europe, 1970-2020’: Before and After
  Coffee will be available from 2.45pm.
  Professor Heleen Murre-van den Berg (Radboud Universiteit)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 16:00 - “Mansions of the Dead”: Newcastle and Sheffield General Cemeteries in Urban and Social Context
  James Richardson (Keble College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Mussolini's Places: Dissonant Heritage and Political Memory in Postwar Italy
  Stephen Grundle (Warwick)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 11:15 - "As If They Were Man and Wife": Sex Work as Gendered Labour in Early Modern Seville and Mexico City
  Clare Burgess, Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 13:00 - Queer History Reading Group
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 14:00 - Military Medicine and Imperial Ecology
  Ben Rymer (Oxford), Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - "The escaped slaves stated that they could not return": Maroons, Jesuits, and the Risk of Free Will
  Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - “Connecting the Clouds”: Port City Lianyungang and Dutch Economic Interests in China, 1899-1937
  Cao Mingran (Leiden University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 11:15 - Peasants, migrant workers, survivors and perpetual exiles: Ottoman Armenians
  Coffee available from 11am.
  Dr Talin Suciyan (Ludwig Maximilian)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 12:30 - West African Women’s Movements in Global Feminist History
  Aincre Evans (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Induction session for graduate students in modern British history
  Various Speakers
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Forging the Royal Signature in Early Modern England
  Dr Arnold Hunt (University of Durham)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 25 October 2024

• 16:00 - Writing the Indian Army and the Second World War
  David Omissi (Hull)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 28 October 2024

• 11:15 - The Jews in Poland: A History of Minorities Diplomacy (1918-1939)
  Joshua Leung (Sciences Po)
  Modern Jewish History Seminar
• 16:00 - Can opium addiction be cured? Early cellular-level research in 1930s-China and its international impact
  Dr Meng Zhang (CHSTM, Manchester)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Writing history in the tenth century
  Sarah Hamilton (University of Exeter)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 09:30 - Day 1: Global Interpolity Relations, c. 1400-1800
  Various Speakers
  2-Day Workshop: Global Interpolity Relations, c. 1400-1800
• 11:00 - Pre-Modern Queer History in the Making
  Professor Giuseppe Marcocci
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 16:00 - In the Margins: Writing the Story of Non-elite Readers in Eighteenth-century England
  Abigail Williams (St Peter's)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - “Let the Record Show”: Correcting Official Narratives About a Dublin Magdalene Laundry - Hosted in conjunction with the Irish History Seminar
  Mark Coen (UCD)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 09:00 - Day 2: Workshop: Global Interpolity Relations, c. 1400-1800
  Various Speakers
  2-Day Workshop: Global Interpolity Relations, c. 1400-1800
• 11:15 - The French Court as a Military Institution, 1610-43
  Marc Jaffré, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:15 - International Workshop: The Multilingual Iberian Archive, 1500-1700
  Note this event is from 14:15-18:00 - registration closes at 12-noon on Friday 25 October
  Various Speakers
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - The “Neithers” in Northern Irish Politics: The Alliance Party and life beyond Unionism and Nationalism
  Postponed until Hilary Term 2025
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Jonathan Tonge (Liverpool)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 12:30 - Writing the Environmental History of an Early Modern City – Questions, Sources, Problems
  Niklas Groschinski (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Camping up the organisation man: sexuality and psychoanalysis in the mid-century British workplace
  Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The Tower of London as Torture Site and Tourist Attraction
  Dr Catherine Jenkinson (Pembroke College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Uncovering History in the Drafts of William Camden's Annals
  Helena Rutkowksa (St Hugh's College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:15 - Iconography and Investment. Private Art Collections in Seventeenth-Century Holland
  Paul Taylor (The Warburg Institute, London)
  Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar

Friday 1 November 2024

• 16:00 - How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
  Caroline Dodds Pennock (Sheffield)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 4 November 2024

• 11:00 - Pride, Power, and Secrecy: Writing Care Experienced Histories
  Kate Gibson (University of Manchester)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 14:00 - Book launch of Thomas Earle’s critical edition of Rui de Pina’s Crónica de D. Afonso V (Coimbra University Press, 2024)
  Please note this will be on MONDAY 4 NOVEMBER at 14:00-15:30
  Thomas Earle (St Peter's College, Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Ria Kapoor (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Royal finance and constitutional monarchy: the introduction of the Prussian pseudo-civil list, c. 1818
  Annelie Große (Berlin)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Identity and geographical origin at the late medieval University of Paris: an analysis of manuscript decoration
  Teresa Barucci (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 16:00 - "We might even in time perhaps have a black President!!": The American Journal of Edward Stanley-Smith, the Future Prime Minster and Later 14th Earl of Derby, 1824-25
  Andrew O'Shaughnessy (University of Virginia)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Politics of Sacrifice: Youth, Martyrs and Remembrance in Meloni's Italy
  Amy King (Bristol)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 11:15 - The Damel Who Spoke like François Ier: Essay on a Dynamic of the French Colonial Empire, 16th-17th Centuries
  François-Joseph Ruggiu, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - Wartime Captivity and Colonial Counterinsurgency
  Dr Kevin Noles (Independent), Hendrik Willem Nelis (Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:15 - Aztec Latin: Simon Ditchfield in Conversation with Andrew Laird
  Please note this will be at 17:15-18:45
  Simon Ditchfield (University of York), Andrew Laird (Brown University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 10:00 - Workshop in HSMTE: François-Auguste Biard's mural at the Museum: between art, science and politics
  Léo Becka (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 11:15 - Changing subjects: Ottoman belonging in Armenian refugee print culture
  Coffee will be served from 11am.
  Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 12:30 - Ceramics and Resistance: Artistic Assertions of Black Caribbean Identity
  Olivia Holder (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - “Democracy has come!” The Third Reform Act and the making of British democracy
  Rob Saunders (QMUL)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:30 - Infectious Ecologies: Exploring Biological Histories of Epidemics in Colonized Spaces
  Please note this seminar will be at 16:30 on THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER, in the Lecture Theatre, Weston Library
  Dr Emily Webster (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - “The Case of Thomas Coo Truly Stated”: Legal Practice, Petitioning and Prisons in Jacobean England
  Dr Felicity Heal (Jesus College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Research Speed Dating Workshop hosted by WGIQ
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].

Friday 8 November 2024

• 16:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Erin O'Halloran (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 11 November 2024

• 16:00 - Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
  Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - The Prediction Machine: science, technology, and futurology in British Government, c. 1970-2010
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - 'Bogomils or Bogeymen?: Heresy between East and West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  Please note this seminar is in the Hovenden Room, not the Wharton Room
  Gregory Lippiatt (University of Exeter)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 16:00 - The Reception of Confucianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Deists, Dissenters, and the Dao
  Ross Moncrieff (All Souls)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Building Barrios and Seeking Sexual Justice: Women’s Activism during and in the Aftermath of Franco’s Spain
  Roseanna Webster (Cambridge)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 11:15 - Letters, Archives, Precedent? Early Modern Rabbinic Responsa and Their Afterlives
  This seminar will now be held via Microsoft Teams
  Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - Reading, Writing, and Teaching Global History Now
  Professor Erica Charters (Oxford), Professor Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds), Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Fixers: Women and Housing Corruption in 1950s Belfast
  Professor Marianne Elliott (Professor emerita, Liverpool)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 12:30 - Plant Life from the Pre-Socratics to Theophrastus
  David Lepidi (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - “The age has passed, when nations can be SUNG into liberty”: the changing sounds of working-class radicalism, 1838-67
  David Kennerley (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - The Fragility and Friability of “legality” in early modern England: a Practice-based Approach to Law-mindedness
  Dr Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:15 - From Cologne to Lisbon: Translating the Cult of St Ursula
  Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar

Friday 15 November 2024

• 16:00 - Picturing War: Art and Empire in the Late-Victorian Period
  Sean Willcock (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 18 November 2024

• 11:00 - Children of South Asian Heritage in Interwar Britain: Race, Religion, Class and Belonging
  Sumita Mukherjee (Unversity of Bristol)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Physical Pain in Early Modern Europe: Texts, Signs, and Emotions (Joint session with HSMT/NOTCOM ERC Project based at the Maison Francaise)
  Dr Raphaële Andrault (IHRIM-ENS de Lyon), Professor Ariane Bayle (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3; IHRIM)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Kitchen Servants as Economic Actors at the court of the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia
  Molly Taylor-Poleskey (Harvard)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - New perspectives on Gerald of Wales
  Moreed Arbabzedah (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 16:00 - Explaining Famine and Grinding Poverty: Agricultural Experimentation (and Failure) in Feeding Britain, 1770-1800
  John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Exeter)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - "The most Common and Fatal of all Diseases". Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
  Stefanie Gaenger (Heidelberg)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 11:15 - Living with Accusation: Families Navigating the Fallout of Sodomy Charges in Early Modern Spain
  Maayan Aner, Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - Networks of Refuge and Transnational Citizenship
  Pragya Kaul (Michigan), Vidura Jang Bahadur (Northwestern)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - The Invention of the Sangley in the Early Modern Spanish Philippines
  Christina H Lee (Princeton University)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 10:00 - Workshop in HSMTE: Madeline White
  Madeline White (Oxford)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 12:30 - Family Stories and Secrets in memories of the UK 1984/85 Miners' strike
  Carly Guest (Northumbria University)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - Day 1: International Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
  Various Speakers
  International 2-Day Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
• 14:00 - Sopon Bezirdjian and Theodore Birch (Iskender Bezirdjian): a father and son story of creative and political action in the Ottoman Empire, England, and France
  Coffee will be served from 2pm.
  Dr Alyson Wharton (Lincoln)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 14:00 - Joint meeting with the English Faculty’s Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: “The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge’s lifelong involvement in parochial education
  Susan Walton (Hull)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Francis Bacon and Stuart Foreign Policy, 1621-1626
  Dr Samuel Zeitlin (University College London)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Latin America in Catholicism's Global Cold War (Latin American History Seminar)
  Daniel McDonald (Oxford), Simon Unger (Roma), Jaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame)
  International 2-Day Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America

Friday 22 November 2024

• 08:30 - Day 2: International Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
  Various Speakers
  International 2-Day Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
• 16:00 - Empires and everyday cultural coexistence: the Nineteenth century Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective
  Nicholas Doumanis (Illinois Chicago)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 25 November 2024

• 16:00 - What’s in a table? Managing astronomical data in early modern Europe
  Professor Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Gender Ventriloquism in Medieval India: the Writings of Amir Khusro
  Fouzia Farooq AhmedAzam (Oxford/Quaid-i- University, Islamabad)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 16:00 - Unbecoming the British Empire: Reconstituting Intergovernmental Relations in the American Revolutionary Era
  Grace Mallon (Lady Margaret Hall)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Joint meeting with the Modern History Research seminar: Writing history after Brexit
  Please note this meeting is on TUESDAY 3 December at 17:00
  Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Robert Gildea (Oxford), Rob Saunders (QMUL)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - ‘Writing History After Brexit’, hosted in conjunction with the Modern British History Seminar
  Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Anne Deighton (Oxford), Robert Gildea (Oxford), Chair: Senia Paseta, Rob Saunders (QMUL)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 11:15 - A Woman Doing Her Accounts: Some Lessons from a Peripatetic Early Modern Image
  Dror Wahrman, Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Out of Time: Ireland and Modernity
  Professor Enda Delaney (Edinburgh)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - Queer History Reading Group
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 12:30 - Science, Ecology and Romanticism in George Catlin’s travelling "Indian Gallery"
  Ruka Hussain (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 12:30 - Conceiving the Past at the GLBT Historical Society: Inside San Francisco’s Queer Museum & Archives
  Gerard Koskovich
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 14:00 - Harold Macmillan and his grand designs
  Pippa Catterall (Westminster)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - “An oare in every paper boat”: Thomas Lodge, Professional Writing and Rivalries in Elizabethan London
  Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:15 - Looting, Confiscation, and Concealed Treasure in Dutch Guardroom Scenes of the 1640s
  Allison Stielau (UCL)
  Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar

Friday 29 November 2024

• 16:00 - Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
  Berny Sèbe (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 2 December 2024

• 11:00 - "At this point in my inquiry I myself took a paper trumpet": Play, privacy, and intrusion in the domestic spaces of child study research
  Julia Gustavsson (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Singapore pineapples: catch-cropping, Chinese capitalists, and the colonial state, 1900s-1930s
  Dr Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Food, Clothing, Shelter. Representing the King as Economical in Frederick William I’s Prussia (1713-1740)
  Benjamin Marschke (Humboldt)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Harlot/saint: tracking the figure of Thais meretrix in medieval manuscript compilations
  Alicia Smith (Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 16:00 - From Québec to India: Constitutional Pluralism in British Imperial Ideology, 1773-1793
  Damien Bérubé (Lincoln)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - “The Scientific Worldview”: Understandings of Science and their Geopolitical Implications
  Geert Somsen (Maastricht)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 11:15 - The Future in the Archives: Catholic Minorities Preserving their Past in the Dutch Republic
  Liesbeth Corens, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 14:00 - Indentured Urbanity and Constitutional Law
  Dr Purba Hossain (York), Sahith Mandapalli (JNU)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Reimagining the Black Iberian Atlantic: A Roundtable Discussion of Chloe Ireton’s Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (CUP, 2024)
  Chloe Ireton (UCL), Erica Field-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford), Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College, Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 11:15 - The Constantinople realists and late nineteenth-century representations of the migrant worker from Ottoman Armenia
  Coffee will be served from 11am.
  Dr Vazken Davidian
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 12:30 - Materiality and Memorialisation in Queer Heritage
  Alison Oram (Institute of Historical Research)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:45 - Workshop in HSMTE: More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
  Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (centre de recherches historiques)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 16:30 - From SARS to COVID: What has changed in the Chinese healthcare system?
  Wenmin Li (Hubei University/Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Writing An Accidental History of Tudor England
  Professor Steven Gunn (Merton College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 6 December 2024

• 16:00 - The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 20 January 2025

• 16:00 - Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
  Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Shipwreck and Survival: Louis XVI, Ferdinand VII and Revolution
  Munro Price (University of Bradford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - A History of Mountains in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: North Africa, Syria, and Iran
  Christian Sahner (New College/AMES, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 11:30 - The "Care" Series: Reading: ‘Reclaiming Care: Refusal, Nullification, and Decolonial Politics’
  Lucile Richard (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:15 - The Prince’s Passion: George IV, Mary Hamilton, and the Burning of Letters in the Eighteenth-Century
  Zoe Screti (Voltaire Foundation)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - The SDLP and the Northern Ireland Peace Process
  Graham Spencer (Emeritus Professor, University of Portsmouth)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - Forgotten Revolutions: The Endtimes of Women’s Liberation in Twentieth-Century Central Europe
  Celia Donert (Cambridge)
  Modern European History Seminar

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 11:45 - Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium
  Hannah Zeavin (UC Berkeley)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - Recordkeepers and the Early Modern Information State: The John Poyntz Case
  Dr Alex Beeton (History of Parliament)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - “Alle mine thegenas … frencisce & englisce”: The Languages of 1066 – And All That
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500

Friday 24 January 2025

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 27 January 2025

• 11:00 - Reading Group – Childhood and Agency
  Hannah Stovin (Oxford), Shereece Linton-Ramsay (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
  Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Documentary Screening: Blue (1993)
  Discussion
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - Stephen I of Hungary: medieval myths and modern nationalism
  Nora Berend (Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 12:30 - Workshop: The James Lind Library: Illustrating the development of fair tests of treatments in health care
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:15 - The Endurance of Entail: Feudal Law, Political Economy, and Land Reform in Late Eighteenth-century Britain
  Tom Pye (UCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 14:00 - Global Flows
  Xu Duo (University of Hamburg), Sara Zanotta (Università degli Studi di Pavia)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Looters in the Capital: Antiquities and Colonial Law after Mexican Independence
  Andrés Bustamante (Merton College, Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Corporate Social Responsibility, Workers Participation, and the Critique of State-led Capitalism’ (Held in conjunction with the seminar on Modern British History)
  Tehila Sasson (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Corporate social responsibility, workers’ participation, and the critique of state-led capitalism (Joint meeting with the Modern European History Seminar)
  Please note this meeting is on Wednesday at 17:00
  Tehila Sasson (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 10:00 - Start of Term Coffee and Cake
  N/A
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 11:45 - Materialities of Care: Agency and the Asylum in nineteenth-century England
  Anna Jamieson (Birmingham)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Exploring the Evolutionary History of Domestic Ferrets
  Alice Dobinson (DPhil Archaeological Science)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 17:00 - Langue des reines: The Importance of Women to French and French to Women
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:30 - Enfranchisement and the Rights of Freeborn Englishmen, c.1500-1800
  This meeting will start at 17:30 and will be held online only
  Professor Steve Hindle (Washington University St Louis)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics (Hybrid)
  Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Four Weddings and a Funeral: The Savoy Marriage of July 1559
  Richard Cooper (Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Twelve migrant women and the history of early medieval Europe
  Alice Rio (KCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 11:30 - The "Care" Series: 'Rethinking Care Work: (Dis)affection and the Politics of Caring’
  Sarah Knott (St John's College, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:15 - Antislavery before Abolition: Decoding Resistance in British Labouring-Class Verse, 1660-1800
  Adam Bridgen (Durham)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 1: The Conservative Dilemma
  Please note only this inaugural lecture will be held at Magdalen College and requires registration
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 09:30 - 1-Day Workshop: Disease and International Relations
  This event is in-person only and requires registration, which closes on Sunday 2 February
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Chaos and Coexistence: managing "fascist" fallen soldiers in the German Democratic Republic
  Laura Tradii (Kent)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Death of an Informer, London 1974
  Professor Rob Savage (Boston College)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 11:45 - The Future of Queer History
  Justin Bengry
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - EHWG x HSMTE Workshop Roundtable: History of Science and Environmental History at Oxford, Student Perspectives (Organised in association with the Environmental History Working Group)
  Various Speakers
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 12:30 - EHWG & HSMTE Workshop Roundtable: History of Science and Environmental History at Oxford, Student Perspectives (Organized in association with the HSMTE Workshop)
  Various Speakers
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Quakerism, morality, and the politics of peace in Victorian Britain: the case of John Bright
  Petros Spanou (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Expansions: ‘Everyone knows that French is better understood and more widely used than Latin’: Matthew Paris (in French, 1253x59)
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:00 - “Looke from Adam”: Genesis, History, and Religious Community in early modern England, 1590-1660
  Samuel Head (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - “Honor and deceit”: The Warres of Cyrus, Classical Persia, and Elizabethan Politics
  Ebrahim Hanifehpour (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 7 February 2025

• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 10 February 2025

• 11:00 - “Can They Ever Become Like Us?”: Conversion Narratives Featuring Romani in the Children’s Missionary Periodical Maaltrosten (1903-42)
  Idunn Victoria Rostøl (Oslo)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
  Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Visualising the Lateran Patriarchium: Recent research by the Rome Transformed Project
  Ian Haynes (Newcastle/All Souls, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 16:15 - No Common Man: Searching for Shadrack Byfield, a Disabled Veteran of the War of 1812
  Eamonn O'Keeffe (Cambridge)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 2: Conservatism and Theodicy
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 14:00 - Global Diplomatic History
  Sujato Datta (Freie Universität Berlin), Jonathan Jackson (University of Cologne)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - A Sea of Lists: Materialising Travel Across the Mediterranean
  Ana Struillou (IHR, London)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ottoman roots of interwar youth politics in Lebanon
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Joe Leidy (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:30 - Queer History Reading Group
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 12:30 - Applying for History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment: An Early Career Panel (Organised in association with the Environmental History Working Group)
  Please register by midnight on Monday 10 February
  Alex Aylward (Oxford), Hohee Cho (Oxford), Netta Cohen (Oxford), John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter/Oxford), Tom Kelsey (Oxford)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 12:30 - Applying for History of Science, Medicine, Technology, & Environment: An Early Career Panel (Organized in association with the HSMTE Workshop)
  Please register by midnight on Monday 10 February
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Dr Alex Aylward (Oxford), Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter/Oxford), Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church College, Oxford), Dr Tom Kelsey (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Impressions of Disraeli: myths and the making of One Nation Conservatism
  Emily Jones (Manchester)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:30 - Relational Ethics and Shared Authority in the Making of But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
  Charlotte Schallié (Victoria), Meryem Kalayci (Oxford/Birkbeck)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - "That each may in his own tongue … know his God" (Grosseteste, in French, 1230s): Bible Translation in Medieval England
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:00 - Regulatory Failure and the Moral Antecedents of Public Banking in England, 1559-1642
  Raphael Adès (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Seventeenth-Century Foxe? Samuel Clarke and Presbyterian Historiography
  Matthew Leech-Gerrard (New College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 14 February 2025

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  This seminar has been cancelled, due to unforeseen circumstances
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 17 February 2025

• 16:00 - Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
  Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Aristocrats without Borders: The Emergence of a Cosmopolitan Elite in the 17th-Century Habsburg Monarchy
  Bianca Lindorfer (University of Vienna)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Re- and mis-gendering St Marina*us in high medieval Italy
  Michael Eber (Oxford/Cologne)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 11:30 - The "Care" Series - ‘Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship’
  Rossella Ciccia
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:15 - The Informal Beginnings of the Partisan Expert Witness in English Common Law: Patent Specification, Natural Philosophy, and Courtroom Theatrics, 1763-1785
  Alex Aizenman (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 3: Relational Conservatism
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism
• 17:00 - Hilary Term Lecture 2025: Historical Justice under State Socialism
  Professor Daniel Leese (University of Freiburg)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 14:00 - Transnational and Global History Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Elections as Surveillance: 'Soviet Democracy' and State-Building in the 1920s Russian Countryside
  Due to unforeseen circumstances, this seminar is cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Thomas Stevens (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 11:45 - The Peter Tatchell Archive: Peter Tatchell in Conversation about his Bodleian Collection
  This talk will be rescheduled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Tatchell
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Back Where We Began: Cyclical conceptions of human-environment relationships
  Andrew McNey (DPhil, History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Friendship and youth culture in post-war Britain
  Hannah Charnock (Bristol)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - “Lette Frenchmen in their Frenche endyten” (Thomas Usk, c.1384-87): French in the Multilingual Fourteenth Century
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:00 - Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Cranmer’s Homilies, and the Production of the Book of Common Prayer
  Professor Micheline White (Carleton University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 21 February 2025

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 February 2025

• 11:00 - Elementary education, disabled children and families c. 1890-1914
  Rachel O'Driscoll (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
  Becky Martin (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems
  Alexandra Sapoznik (KCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 16:15 - “In me you see the Almighty's wondrous Power”: Black Women’s Intellectual History in Georgian Britain
  Meleisa Ono-George (Queen's College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 4: The Paradox of Conservative Justice
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 14:00 - Transnational Left Solidarity
  Vladimir Bortun (University of Oxford), Mariana Steiner Farias (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Father Tomás de León: A Spanish Orientalist in Seventeenth Century Granada
  Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (CHSS-CSIC, Madrid)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Gender-Based Violence in 20th century Central and Eastern Europe: A hidden history
  Maren Röger (Leipzig)
  Modern European History Seminar

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 11:45 - Queer Scholarship on Shakespeare and its Public: Will Tosh and Emma Smith in Conversation
  Please note the change of venue
  Will Tosh (Globe Theatre), Emma Smith (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Reimagining Arctic Environmentalism: From Legal Rights for Glaciers to Geoengineering for Justice
  Cody Skahan (St Hugh's College, Oxford)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 14:00 - Roads to economization: valuing life, limb, and leisure in the social democratic state
  Charles Troup (Yale)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - English Politics and the Colonial Revolutions of 1689
  Dr Gabriel Glickman (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - What are we doing with Shakespeare? New approaches, new interpretations
  Please note the change of venue
  Ceola Daly, Laura Seymour, Caroline Taylor, Will Tosh, Elizabeth Sandis
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - “Et lors que parlerez anglois /Que vous n’oubliez pas le François” (manuscript dedication, c. 1445): Off-shoring French?
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:15 - Oliver Smithies Lecture: The Sudanese Giraffe Who Went to France: The Life and Afterlife of Zarafa, 1824-2024
  Professor Heather Sharkey
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East

Friday 28 February 2025

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
  Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Staging Power, Seeing Power, Hearing Power: European Festivals and their Audiences
  Please note change of speaker
  Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (Professor Emeritas, MML, Exeter College)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Listing royal lands in the Carolingian Empire
  Simon MacLean (St Andrews)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 11:00 - The Migrant as Human: Making the emotional turn in Middle East migration history
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Akram Khater (North Carolina State University)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 11:30 - The "Care" Series - Reading: '“They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous’
  Please note change of venue
  Sneha Krishnan
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:15 - Undergraduate Thesis session
  Please note this session will be in-person only
  TBA
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 5: Conservatism and The Way Things Are
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - Law versus Practice: Women and Property Ownership in Early Modern Ireland
  Dr Frances Nolan (UCD)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - Military justice, soldierly endurance and the "brutalising" effects of the First World War on France's North African combatants
  Claire Eldridge (Leeds)
  Modern European History Seminar

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 11:45 - Queer history and art history: making and curating; a conversation with Leah DeVun, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, & Nancy Thebaut
  Leah deVun (Rutgers), Gemma Rolls-Bentley (Oxford), Nancy Thebaut (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Readers, workers, beetles: the impact of Karel Klostermann’s literary canonization of the forest of Šumava/Böhmerwald on local landscape and communities in the late 19th and early 20th century
  Emma Nabi-Bourgois (DPhil, History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Labour women and the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s
  Lyndsey Jenkins (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Library Access in Early-Modern Europe: English and Scottish Scholars Abroad and the Limits of Knowledge Exchange
  Dr John-Mark Philo (University of East Anglia and Bodleian Library)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History c. 1100-c. 1500: Discussion seminar with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Monday 10 March 2025

• 11:00 - Cultivating Youth in Bourgeois Beirut, 1860-1880
  Joseph Leidy (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
  Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - How to qualify as a notary in the early-16th century Mamluk Sultanate
  Daisy Livingston (Durham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 16:15 - Hawksmooring and Townsending is All Out for this Century: Building for Oxford from the Sheldonian to the Schwarzman Centre
  William Whyte (St John’s College)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Lecture 6: The Legitimacy of Expectations
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 14:00 - Inclusive Teaching and Disability Workshop
  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL TRINITY TERM
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
  Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Who Built the ‘Spanish’ Empire? Legislation, Toleration, and the Co-Creation of a Global Superpower
  Adrian Masters (University of Trier)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Notions of emergency under democratic and dictatorial rule. Experiences from the 20th century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)
  Modern European History Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 11:45 - Forced reproduction and the ‘value’ of enslaved women and girls in the antebellum US South, 1812-1865
  Aisha Djelid (RAI, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Inventing Wartime Invention: The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors and Criteria for “Merit” in WWI Technology
  Aristotle Vainikos (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 17:00 - First year graduate presentations
  TBA
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Wednesday 26 March 2025

• 12:30 - Early Career/Doctoral Workshop: Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective
  Various Speakers
  Global Correspondent Banking events

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 10:00 - 2-Day International Conference: Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective
  Various Speakers
  Global Correspondent Banking events

Friday 28 March 2025

• 12:00 - Keynote Lecture: Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) The Risk Sensitivity of Global Liquidity Flows: Heterogeneity, Recent Evolution and Drivers
  Linda S Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
  Global Correspondent Banking events

Monday 28 April 2025

• 16:00 - Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
  Ann Kelly (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 2 May 2025

• 14:00 - Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
  Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 19 May 2025

• 11:00 - Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
  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

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

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 - 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

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