Name: John Watts
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

In Search of the Phoenicians
Date: 25 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker s: Dr Josephine Quinn (University of Oxford), Hindy Najman (Oriel College ), Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford), John Watts (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Toward a History of Obliteration in the Age of Paper
Date: 18 January 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : John Gagné (University of Sydney)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s), John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Divine Impressions: Aldus Manutius and Catherine of Siena
Date: 25 January 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Oren Margolis (Somerville College)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s), John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

The Economic Dimension of Early Printing: Book Prices in Venice (1484-88), from the Zornale of Francesco de Madiis
Date: 1 February 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Cristina Dondi (Lincoln College)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s), John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

The Manuscript/Print Age in Jewish Book History: The Different Audiences of the Illustrated Passover Haggadah
Date: 8 February 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Katrin Kogman Appel (University of Münster / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s), John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Painting on Parchment
Date: 15 February 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Stella Panayotova (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s), John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Book Cultures: Forensic Science and Textual Hermeneutics
Date: 22 February 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Stephen Milner (University of Manchester)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s), John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Coats of Arms in Books and Beyond: The Objectivation of Heraldry and Its Materiality
Date: 1 March 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker : Torsten Hiltmann (University of Münster)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s), John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Final discussion and display of early books
Date: 8 March 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2017)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College Library, St. Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s), John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Byzantine Camp Aesthetics: A Queer Reading of Nikephoros Basilakes’s Bagoas
Date: 1 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker : Roland Betancourt (University of California, Irvine)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: John Watts (University of Oxford), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford), Oren Margolis (University of Oxford), Natalia Nowakowska (Somerville), Hannah Skoda (St John’s)
Hosts: TBA