• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Audrey Borowski , Professor Nicholas Halmi (University College)
• Timing: Tuesdays 17:15 (except Week 1 which is on Wednesday)

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 17:15 - Spinoza: True Religion and the Narratives of Universal Faith
  Only Week 1 is on Wednesday, remaining seminars are on Tuesdays
  Professor Mogens Laerke (Maison Francaise d'Oxford)

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 17:15 - Ancient Equalities? Constructing Hebrew, Classical, and "Northern" Cultural Origins to Legitimise a New Modern Culture
  Professor Maike Oergel (University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 17:15 - The English Universal History's Treatment of the Arab World
  Professor Ann Thomson (European University Institute)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 17:15 - A Universal History of Ancient Art: Winckelmann's History of the Art of Antiquity
  Professor Elisabeth Decultot (Universitat Halle)

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 17:15 - Edward Gibbon and Universal History
  Professor David Womersley (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 17:15 - Universalising European history? Arab Literati and Enlightenment Histories, 1800-1870
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 17:15 - Philosophy of History: How Religious Is It? Transcendence and Immanence in Herder and Bossuet
  Professor Daniel Fulda (Universitat Halle)

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 17:15 - "I have begun this Philosophy of Man with his History": Lord Monboddo's Universal History of the Human Species
  Dr Silvia Sebastiani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)