• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Natalia Nowakowska , Giora Sternberg , Giuseppe Marcocci , Filippo de Vivo , Howard Hotson
• Timing: Tuesdays 14:00-15:30, unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 14:00 - Towards a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
  Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 14:00 - The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris
  Tom Hamilton (Durham), Chair: Giora Sternberg

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 14:00 - Survivors: The Converted Jews of Lisbon after the Massacre of 1506
  Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:00 - German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
  Gabriele Marcon (Vienna), Chair: Howard Hotson

Tuesday 27 January 2025

• 14:00 - Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics
  Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Chair: Filippo de Vivo

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 14:00 - The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
  Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 17:15 - Joint session with the History of War seminar. Title TBC
  Please note the change in regular time and place. This seminar will take place at All Souls College at 17:15 on Wednesday 25 February.
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 14:00 - Postgraduate presentations - title TBC
  Various Speakers