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Thursday 15 May 2025

09:30 - iSkills: Keeping up to date with research
Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Morwenna Broughton (Bodleian Libraries)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
10:00 - Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies: Tohoku and Transnational Solidarities
Various Speakers
10:00 - Telling stories that matter: communicating your research through story
Discover more about how to craft and apply storytelling skills to communicate your research.
Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
10:00 - Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2025: Tohoku and Transnational Solidarities
Various Speakers
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
10:30 - Interested in AI? This Is Your Chance to Build With Qualcomm – Meet the Team. Learn the Tools. Build What Matters.
Various Speakers
11:00 - Data Engineers Meeting
Adam Huffman (University of Oxford), Isaac Wade (University of Oxford)
11:00 - From Doctorate to Trade Book: A Workshop in Experimental Biography with Harriet Baker
Harriet Baker
12:00 - Roundtable: Geotrauma, Emergency Histories, and Sacrifice Zones: Medieval Historians in the Anthropocene
Registration is required for those who would like the complimentary lunch
Ling Zhang (Cambridge), John Sabapathy (UCL), Amanda Power (Oxford)
TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
12:00 - Geotrauma, Emergency Histories, and Sacrifice Zones: Medieval Historians in the Anthropocene
Registration is required for those who would like a complimentary lunch
TBA
Environmental Humanities Research Hub
12:00 - Immune regulation of hyaluronan in the lung during challenge
In-person only.
Dr Rebecca Dodd (University of Manchester)
Kennedy Institute Seminars
12:00 - Integrating lab experiments into fluid dynamics models
To join this seminar online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2QyNzVlMDAtN2MyMi00MjFkLTk3NTgtZWI2MTcyNDVlOTEw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e6ced614-5673-458c-832d-5d4ada66f593%22%7d
Ashleigh Hutchinson (University of Manchester)
Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
12:00 - Long-term single live cell quantification: New tools for old questions
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Timm Schroeder (ETH Zurich)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
12:30 - The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
Environmental History Working Group
12:30 - OUCAGS Forum - in-person event
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Professor Richard Cornall (University of Oxford)
OUCAGS Forum
12:45 - Maridebart Cafraglutide (Maritide) from bench to clinic
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Murielle Veniant (Cardiometabolic VP, Amgen)
OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
12:50 - Qualitative systematic reviews: An overview
Dr Stephanie Tierney (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
Qualitative Methods Hub Seminars
13:00 - Utilising multi-omics to better understand painful and painless peripheral neuropathy
Hybrid Seminar
Associate Professor Georgios Baskozos (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford)
NDCN Departmental Seminars
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism - 'What's in a name?'
Dr Aparna Pal, Dr Amina Al-Qaysi, Dr Christine May
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
13:00 - Introduction to public involvement in research
This training is online and you will be sent the Teams joining link after registering
Polly Kerr (University of Oxford), Angeli Vaid (Oxford BRC), Una Rennard (Applied Research Collaboration Oxford & TV)
13:00 - ‘Maridebart Cafraglutide (Maritide) -an investigational drug for the treatment of obesity - from bench to clinic’
Murielle Véniant, (Amgen)
Industry Insight Seminar Series
13:00 - Offer Holders Panel: Civil Service and Public Sector
Various Speakers
14:00 - A Trip to India: Cultural Indophilia, British Hippiedom, and Post-Imperial Memory
Robert Taylor (Oxford)
Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
14:00 - Developing Biomolecular Simulation Databases: MDDB and MemProtMD
If you are attending from a different building, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
Dr Charlotte Lynch (University of Oxford)
SBCB Seminar Series
14:00 - Nick Broomfield's Behind the Rent Strike
Dr Kerrie McGiveron (Liverpool)
TORCH Rent Cultures Network
14:00 - Edward A. Freeman, History, and "Public Affairs", 1884-1892
Gabriel Smith (Oxford)
Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
14:00 - Dynamics of sovereign debt: credit risk and sustainability analysis
This seminar will be in hybrid format. It will be livestreamed but not recorded.
Karolina Bassa (Mathematics Institute, University of Oxford)
INET Oxford Seminars
14:00 - Walking Lahore’s Orange Line
Dr Chris Moffat (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Ammara Maqsood (UCL), Fizzah Sajjad (The London School of Economics and Poltical Science)
15:00 - AI Safety in Practice: Safeguarding Against Real-World Misuse and Near-Term Harms
Broderick McDonald (Kings College London)
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
15:15 - Title TBC
Professor Heather Sharkey
15:30 - Studying online 'adoption advocacy': The digital representation, monetisation and transfer of children in the USA
Dr Isabelle Higgins (University of Cambridge)
15:45 - Our Refugee, Your Refugee: A Story across Three Nations
Eun Hye Son (TV Reporter & Journalist, KBS)
The Art of Migration: artists, film & arts-based approaches to migration studies
16:00 - From Care to Carewashing…and Back Again?
Hybrid event. This is a re-scheduled event from the DSPI Hilary Term Seminar Series.
Professor Jo Littler (Goldsmiths, University of London)
DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2025
16:00 - Christian Encounter with Other Faiths and R.C. Zaehner
Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald
Mysticism, Comparative Religion, and Christian Relations with Other Faiths
16:00 - Biases in Electrochemical and Surface Analytical Measurements in Potassium-ion Cell Set-ups
Dr Fabian Jeschull (KIT, Germany)
Materials Departmental Colloquia
16:00 - Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
Arwa Mokdad (University of Oxford), Victoria Devars (University of Oxford)
Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID)
16:30 - Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
16:45 - The Novel And/As/Of Information
Ryan Ruby
American Literature Research Seminar
17:00 - Regius Valedictory Lecture: Telling Stories: History, Narrative, and the German Peasants’ War, 1525
Places are limited to attend in person - book now
Professor Lyndal Roper
17:00 - Competing Internationalisms in the Cold War Caribbean
Emily Snyder (Cambridge)
Latin American History Seminar
17:00 - Unlocking Art’s Wonders: Science as a Bridge to Public Engagement
Prof Katrien Keune (University of Amsterdam)
Linacre Lecture Series 2025: Communicating Culture - New Horizons for Museums
17:00 - John Bale and Polydore Vergil: an encounter in Church history
Tim Wade (Warwick)
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
17:00 - The Time of our Lives: The TORCH PUP Lecture Series 2025
Homi K Bhabha (Harvard), Homi K Bhabha (Harvard)
TORCH Princeton University Press Lecture Series 2025
17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 2: Population as a Planetary Force
Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis
17:00 - Public Service, Party-State: Teaching, Gender, Power, and Memory in China, 1940s-1980s
Dr Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University)
China Studies Seminar series
17:00 - "The Role of Fungi in Solving Planetary Crises"
Dr Andrea Hinwood (Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme)
17:15 - Oliver Smithies Lecture: 'Taking Wikipedia Seriously: Scholarship for and about the Seventh Most-Visited Website in the World'
Professor Heather Sharkey
17:15 - 'Jean-Baptiste Carrier in a Slave-Trading City: Atlantic World Violence and the French Revolution’
Laura Mason (Johns Hopkins University)
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
17:15 - 'Powering Progress: Unlocking Renewable Energy Potential in Nigeria and Africa'.
Ernest Akinlola (MD/CEO of Bboxx Nigeria)
17:15 - Lethal Violence Under the Auspices of Medicine: Criminolegal Insights Regarding Medical Experimentations on Humans
This talk has been cancelled due to illness. We hope to be able to reschedule Hava Dayan's visit to Oxford in the future.
Dr Hava Dayan (Haifa University)
Massada Public Seminars
17:30 - Living with leaks: Can warm, safe homes be a reality when maintenance is a luxury?
Dr Nikita Simpson (University of London)
Disobedient Buildings Rountable Discussion Series
18:00 - Fireside Chat with Kateryna Yushchenko, First Lady of Ukraine (2005-2010)
Registration is required
Kateryna Yushchenko (First Lady of Ukraine (2005-2010))
Europeanist Society Oxford
18:00 - Annual Disability Lecture: Building an Environment for All
Professor Sam Howison (University of Oxford)
18:00 - Build the Raft While the Ship Sinks: Survival. Storytelling. Self-reliance. And possibly snacks.
Stephen Robert Morse (Green Templeton College)
18:00 - How Have Discoveries Over the Last Two Centuries Transformed Our Understanding of Genesis 1-11?
John Day (Lady Margaret Hall)
Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Friday 16 May 2025

Saturday 17 May 2025

09:30 - OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: ‘Social and Economic Challenges and Opportunities’ Roundtable
Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford), Dr Gregory Thaler (University of Oxford)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Sunday 18 May 2025

16:30 - Trump and the Future of Soft Power
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Joseph Nye

Monday 19 May 2025

09:00 - Beyond the Plate: Sustainable Approaches to Food and Food Systems
Various Speakers
11:00 - Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
This event has limited capacity - registration closes at 23:30 on Tuesday 13 May
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
11:00 - Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
11:00 - YAP Activation Causes Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Disrupting Bile Acid Metabolism
Prof Yingzi Yang (Harvard School of Dental Medicine)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
11:30 - The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from Elite Civil Service
Shaheen Naseer (University of Oxford)
Political Economy Seminar
12:00 - "Measuring success in nature and sport: how animals perform and why it matters".
Professor Robbie Wilson (University of Queensland)
12:00 - Reimagining Chinese Diasporas in a Transnational World: Hypermobility, Hyperdiversity and Hyperconnectivity
Professor Shibao Guo (University of Calgary)
China Studies Seminar series
12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
TBA
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
12:45 - The Early Impacts of T Levels: A New Set of Hybrid Upper Secondary Vocational Qualifications
Robbie Maris (University College London)
Quantitative Methods Hub Seminars
12:45 - Discussion Group: On Multiplicity: The Book Launch of Translation Multiples
Dr Kasia Szymanska (University of Manchester)
12:45 - Mutual Knowledge of Social Norms and Political Behaviour
Anselm Hager (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
13:00 - Violence Against Jews and Jewish Violence
Reading Group
Reading Jews in Late Antiquity
13:00 - Insight into Academia: Roles, CVs & Applications
Various Speakers
13:00 - iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
13:00 - Decoding and Modelling the Programming of Life: from Epigenetics to Metabolism
Dr. Veronique Azuara (Reader in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College)
Biochemistry Department Seminar
13:00 - From Meningococcus to Gonococcus: The Journey of Vaccine Development and Cross-Protection
Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
13:30 - The Inconsistencies of AI Futures
This talk is both in person and online although in person spaces are limited. Be sure to book your place on either at https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/the-inconsistencies-of-ai-futures
Prof Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki)
14:00 - Theme: Using genetic data in biobanks to gain insights into genome-disease associations
Professor Peter Visscher (Oxford Population Health), Dr Siqi Wang (Oxford Population Health)
HDRUK Oxford Monthly Meetup
14:00 - From Stillness to Motion… Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Lung Injury and Repair
This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
Assistant Professor Maurizio Chioccioli (Yale University)
Cardiac Sciences Theme Guest Speakers
14:00 - The cardiovascular sequelae of preterm pre-eclampsia – rethinking the postnatal period
Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
Dr Laura Ormesher (University of Manchester / St. Mary’s Hospital (ORC))
CDPRC Seminar Series
14:15 - The Economic Costs of Lopsided Power Contracts: Evidence from Pakistan
Sugandha Srivastav (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
14:30 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for researchers
Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Scholarship
14:30 - Bringing the Contractor Back In: A New Model of State Formation
Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford)
Political Economy Workshop
16:00 - Consociationalism: from democracy to ethnoi-cracy?
Nenad Stojanovic (Geneva)
T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
16:00 - Workshop on Pitching your First Book in Comparative Literature and Translation
Dr Kasia Szymanska (University of Manchester)
16:00 - Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
16:00 - Constituent Power versus Constitutionalism in Hindu and Muslim Political Thought
Registration required for Zoom
Moiz Tundawala (University of Oxford)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
16:00 - [CorTalk] Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep
Helen Barron (University of Oxford)
16:30 - Newton-Abraham Lecture 2025. Immunophysiology: Studying the Integration of Immune Cells into Organ Physiology
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception at 17:30-18:30 in the Main Court of the Museum. Booking is not required, but spaces are limited.
Professor Paul Kubes (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary)
17:00 - Explaining Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine
Dr Elias Götz (Royal Danish Defence College)
RESC Monday Seminar
17:00 - Narsai’s Memra 49, on Adam and Eve: O Instructive Fault!
Professor Andrew Younan (ohn Paul the Great Catholic University in Escondido, California), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
17:00 - Political risk in an age of populism: How does business view politics and how do boardrooms find reliable ways of understanding political movements/risk?
Malcolm Gooderham (Founder of Elgin Advisory, former Conservative Party Adviser), Sir John Sawer (former Head of MI6 and Founder and Executive Chairman of Newbridge Advisory), László Varró (Vice President Strategy Insights & Scenarios, Shell International)
St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
17:00 - Sanskrit Buddhist Chant and Song: Medieval Traditions in Modern Transmission
Stephen Ithel Duran (University of Oxford)
Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies
17:00 - Active Playful Learning: Where the science of learning meets education
Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Professor of Psychology, Temple University; Visiting Professor, University of Oxford)
Department of Education Public Seminars
17:00 - Panel Discussion: 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?'
Various Speakers
Oxford Martin School Events
17:00 - Surviving in the archives: how to make sense of early medieval relic labels
Julia Smith (All Souls College, Oxford), Ana Dias (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Medieval History Research Seminar
17:30 - Opening of the Exhibition: ‘Breathing' with 'Breaths–Air Bladders’ - 19 May-26 June
Exhibition
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
17:30 - Public Lecture: Edmund de Waal in Conversation with Hermione Lee
Edmund de Waal, Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)
18:45 - Managing conflict with colleagues
Oscar Mathew (Qualified barrister and mediator, Director of The Medical Mediation Foundation)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

08:00 - The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025: Benedict Spinoza, Politics & the International
Sandra Leonie Field (Monash University), Pierre-François Moreau (ENS Lyon)
The Oxford Spinoza Conference
09:00 - 2025 Multidisciplinary Mill(s) Conference
Various Speakers
09:30 - GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
Psychiatry Seminar Series
09:30 - iSkills for Medicine: Introduction to Zotero
Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
09:30 - iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
10:00 - Leading and Managing People in Research (formerly EPMR) - online
Various Speakers
10:30 - Digital Scholarship coffee morning
Puyu Wang (University of Oxford)
Digital Scholarship Coffee Mornings
10:30 - Ethox Seminar: The Meaning and Dying of Death for Children: Addressing Pediatric Palliative Care Gaps
Dr Christina Lamb (Athabasca University and University of Toronto)
Ethox Centre Seminars
11:00 - Universal access to infertility care: dream or reality?
This seminar is at 11:00 AM.
Dr Willem Ombelet (University of Hasselt)
Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group
12:00 - GROW: Creating Compelling Narratives that Persuade and Succeed
This session is ideal for researchers and academics wishing to communicate the impact of their ideas to different audiences. Deliver with impact to inspire and persuade your audience and promote the benefits of your research — whether for funding, collaboration or venture creation.
Roger Frosh (ARC Accelerator)
12:00 - Obesity and immunometabolic health – mechanistic insights from adipose tissue
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
TBA
12:00 - Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will
Professor George Mangun (University of California, Davis. (USA))
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
12:15 - "Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
Medieval English Research Seminar
12:15 - Suicidal behaviour in transgender individuals
Prof. Annette Erlangsen (Danish Research Institute for Suicide Prevention)
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: Trinity Term
12:30 - Minority Candidates and the Electability Curse: Exploring Causes and Remedies through the Lens of LGBTQ+ Candidates
Gabriele Magni, (Loyola Marymount University)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
12:30 - Research Data Management (in-person)
Research data is often at the heart of scientific projects, it’s what you spend hours in the lab generating or in the field collecting. It forms the basis of your analysis and underpins your arguments in papers and theses.
Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford)
12:30 - Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) at Oxford University
Various Speakers
12:45 - Procedural Choice under Risk
En Hua Hu (University of Oxford)
Economic Theory Workshop
13:00 - Global Health Theme seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 4
Samyuktha Kannan (Wageningen University)
CSAE Research Workshops
13:00 - The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
TBA
The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
13:00 - How to stop women developing hypertension after a hypertensive pregnancy
Professor Paul Leeson (University of Oxford)
Richard Doll Seminars
13:15 - In the Fed we Trust? Measuring Trust in Central Banking and its Effects on the Macroeconomy
Francesca Monti (Universite' Catholique de Louvain)
Macroeconomics Seminar
13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
13:30 - iSkills for Medicine: Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses
Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Nia Roberts (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
14:00 - Decentralization in Science & AI
Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
Global Priorities Institute (GPI) - Seminar Series
14:00 - In Conversation with Prof Joseph Nye: Donald Trump and the Fate of the American Century
This event has been cancelled as Prof Joseph Nye passed away on 6 May 2025.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Professor Joseph Nye
Oxford International Relations Society
14:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
14:00 - Jewish Women's Voices Seminar: Daisy Abboudi, ‘Tales of Jewish Sudan’
Daisy Abboudi (Tales of Jewish Sudan), Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies)
Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
14:00 - Searching for the individual: Unravelling the heterogeneity of psychosis
Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)
Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
14:00 - OPEN Conversation: Connecting Research, Citizens, and Policy: The Citizen Assembly Approach
Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford ), Dr Alison Chisholm (NDPCHS, University of Oxford), Carole Stow (Oxfordshire County Council)
14:00 - Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
14:00 - Exploring inequalities in science through a multi-method study of forest research
Nelius Boshoff, Susanne Koch
14:15 - "A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
Rakefet Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025
14:30 - The Antichrist, the Prince of Persia and the Al-Aqsa Flood: Popular US uses of Daniel 9:24-27 and 10:13 to explain the Israel-Gaza War
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person.
Dr Ida Glaser (International Academic Coordinator and Founding Fellow, CMCS Oxford)
CMCS Oxford Summer Term Series
14:30 - How Do You Solve a (Diplomatic) Problem like Poland? Polish-Lithuanian Political Culture and Diplomacy in the late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Please note the time of this seminar has moved to 14:30
Dr Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Chair: Dr Tracey Sowerby
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
14:30 - The Knowledge Quartet 2002-25: the application of teacher knowledge to classroom practice
Dr Tim Rowland (University of Cambridge)
14:30 - Generative AI-powered Causal and Predictive Inference
Professor Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
Oxford Computational Political Science Group Event Series
15:00 - iSkills for Medicine: Poster clinic
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
15:00 - Sodium channel dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders
Professor Kevin Bender (Center for Intergrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco)
15:00 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
China Centre talks
15:00 - Seminar on Cavani’s I Cannibali
Various Speakers
The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation
16:00 - Obfuscation in Competitive Markets
Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)
Applied Microeconomics Seminar
16:00 - ONE Annual Lecture and briefing event
Danny Sriskandarajah (Chief Executive at New Economics Foundation)
16:00 - BURDON SANDERSON PRIZE LECTURE: Targeting calcium leak to treat disorders of heart, muscle and brain
Professor Andrew R. Marks (Columbia University)
DPAG Prize Lectures
16:00 - The Tourism Geopolitics of China’s Arctic Interventions
Dr Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto (Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong)
16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Decentralization in Science & AI
Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
17:00 - Informal Learning Explored: Insights from Daily Activity Diaries
Professor Johnny Sung (Honorary Fellow, The Centre for Skills, Knowledge, and Organisational Performance, University of Oxford)
17:00 - The Time of our Lives: The TORCH PUP Lecture Series 2025
Homi K Bhabha (Harvard)
TORCH Princeton University Press Lecture Series 2025
17:00 - Online Lecture: 'Apples, Black Holes, and Holograms: A Brief History of Gravity'
Dr Romain Ruzziconi (Balliol College)
17:00 - Searching for the magic of conversation in these feral times
Hakan Altinay (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
17:00 - Changes in the concept of Autism
This is a hybrid event
Prof Francesca Happe (Kings College London), Professor Alan Stein (University of Oxford)
17:00 - On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Oxford Centre for European History
17:00 - Striking with hunger: the politics of the belly in Kyrgyzstan, 1989-1991
Madeleine Reeves (Oxford)
The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
17:00 - Title TBC
Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
17:00 - Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Regina Grafe (University of Cambridge)
Economic and Social History Seminar
17:00 - Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
17:00 - A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity
Different venue than normal - New Space at Gradel Quad
Dr Peter Gordon (Harvard)
Critical Theory Seminar
17:00 - Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
17:00 - The European challenge: defending human rights in the digital age
Dr Carlos Espaliu Berdud (Associate Member, Las Casas Institute), Claes Granmar (Stockholm University), Sonia Boulos (Antonio de Nebrija University), Felix Martín Moreno (Lancaster University), Carlos Fernández Liesa (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Susana Sanz Caballero (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera)
17:00 - The properties of Christianity: from ritual to law
Dr Clayton Goodgame (Yale University)
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025
17:00 - The World After Gaza
Pankaj Mishra
Book Talks
17:15 - Caesarean Section and the Moral Discourse of Obstetric Surgery: 1830-1870
There will be a drinks reception following the talk.
Sally Frampton (TORCH, University of Oxford), Dr Imogen Goold (University of Oxford)
Public Health Humanities at St Cross
17:15 - ‘Racial Capitalism in Early Modern England’
Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
Early Modern English Literature Seminar
17:30 - Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
17:30 - The 2025 John Stuart Mill Lecture: Mill on the Complementarity of Permanence and Change
Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia University)
John Stuart Mill Annual Lecture

Wednesday 21 May 2025

09:30 - Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
This session is for people who have experience of presentations and want to hone their skills.
Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
09:30 - Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Various Speakers
09:30 - Trusted Research Briefing for MSD
**This will be an in-person talk only, pre-registration is a must
Professor Patrick Grant (Chair) (University of Oxford (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research)), Dr Jenny Gladstone (University of Oxford)
09:30 - Referencing: EndNote
Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
11:10 - Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
11:30 - iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
12:00 - Your Next Career Step: How to Get Ready and Find Support
This session is aimed at research staff and is designed to help you position yourself for the next stages of your career—at Oxford, within academia, or beyond.
Various Speakers
12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: CELS Group & CPM
There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
Various Speakers
CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
12:30 - De Novo Mutations and Human Disease: the impact of Sex, Age and Selfishness
Professor Anne Goriely (Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)
12:30 - Innovation in Prostate Surgery: Improving Patient Outcomes Through Advances in Surgical Techniques, Diagnostics, and AI-Powered Decision Support
Professor Freddie Hamdy (University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences), Associate Professor Richard Bryant (University of Oxford), Mr Aaron Leiblich (Oxford University Hospitals), Dr Sandy Figiel (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford), Mr Tom Leslie (Oxford University Hospitals)
12:30 - TBD
TBA
CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
12:45 - Adipose tissue expandability, lipotoxicity and the metabolic syndrome
In person event
Professor Antonio Vidal-Puig (University of Cambridge)
OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
14:00 - Gender and intersectional analysis in health systems research: Lessons for studies in African hospitals - Webinar
Virtual attendance via Zoom
Dr Bintu Mansaray (University of Bristol), Prof. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (University of Ottawa), Evelyn Kabia (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust)
Tropical Medicine Seminars
14:00 - SDS Introduction & Demonstration (Online)
Various Speakers
14:00 - Session 4: Planetary motions and horoscope
Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts
14:00 - Bringing Digital Image Collections Together
Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
TBA
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
14:00 - Referencing: RefWorks
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:15 - "An astrologus praedicere possit futura contingentia? Nego": Astrology in Student Disputations at Oxford and Cambridge
Dr Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
14:30 - Macro-financial dynamics in energy transitions: a stock-flow consistent, input-output approach
This seminar will take place in hybrid format. It will be livestreamed but not recorded.
Andrew Jackson (University of Surrey)
INET Complexity Economics Seminars
15:30 - AI and Equality by Design
TBA
Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group 2024/25
16:00 - Uncertainty estimation with prediction-error circuits
Claudia Clopath (UCL)
16:00 - Flooding and drought in early modern central Europe - Health, bodies, emotions
Please note this seminar is on a Wednesday
Anna Parker (Institute for Historical Research, University of London)
Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
16:00 - [CorTalk] Uncertainty estimation with prediction-error circuits
Claudia Clopath (UCL)
16:00 - Fixing our food system is central to tackling the world's climate, biodiversity, water and human health crisis
Prof Pete Smith (Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen)
Future of Food seminar series
16:30 - Islamic Spain and English Romanesque Architecture: The Fortunes of a Theory and the Construction of "the West"
Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Iberian History Seminar
17:00 - Building State Capacity in Fragile States
Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
17:00 - To Be Confirmed
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series
17:00 - Performing the Wild West: Staging Indigeneity in Photography and Theatre
Professor Erin Pauwels
2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: Unsettled Ground: Western Landscapes, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Spaces of US Photography
17:00 - Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)
Enlightenment Workshop
17:00 - Reframing Modern China: Deaf Education and the Sensory Politics of Race and Empire
Shu Wan (University of Buffalo), Gemma McLean-Carr (University of Edinburgh)
International History of East Asia Seminar
17:00 - Rhetoric and Reality in the Imperial Orations of Niketas Choniates
Alicia Simpson (American College of Greece)
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
History of War
17:15 - On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
Professor Emanuele Castano (University of Florence)
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
17:15 - "'It's not what you know, it's who you know': Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby"
John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
History of War Seminar Series
17:30 - In Conversation with Prof Vladislav Zubok: How the Kremlin's Past Shapes its Present
Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
Oxford International Relations Society
17:30 - Blueprints: how mathematics shapes creativity - Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
17:30 - 20th Annual Roger Moorey lecture: Bacchylides' Journey: The afterlife of a lyric poet in Egypt and London
Dr Susan Walker (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 May 2025

09:30 - Scientific writing: core skills
This one day course provides a sound grounding in the core skills needed to produce accurate and effective scientific writing.
Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
10:00 - iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
John Guillory
American Literature Research Seminar
11:00 - Modeling tumor heterogeneity in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Dr Damien Grégoire (IGMM Montpellier)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
12:00 - International and Interdisciplinary Workshop: 'The Worlds of Work: Crossed Perspectives from France and England'
Various Speakers
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
12:00 - Accelerating Predictions of Turbulent Combustion and Nonequilibrium Flows Using Solver-Embedded Deep Learning
To join this seminar online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2QyNzVlMDAtN2MyMi00MjFkLTk3NTgtZWI2MTcyNDVlOTEw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e6ced614-5673-458c-832d-5d4ada66f593%22%7d
Jonathan F. MacArt (University of Notre Dame)
Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
12:00 - iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
12:30 - ORNN Seminar Series: Tracking neurodegenerative tau species in the brain: which species to target, and where? Dr Steph Fowler, University of Oxford
Please join us at the Centre for Human Genetics, Meeting Room A or online: Meeting ID: 359 366 566 502 7 Passcode: 625eH9Gv https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjUwMWRlNjEtMWY3Mi00OWZlLTliYTEtZDk3ZDg2YjgxZjA5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22bc1835e3-a9f1-4890-b3e0-6158041fe7e8%22%7d
Dr Steph Fowler (University of Oxford)
ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
12:45 - Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
Oxford Medical Humanities
12:45 - Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment Work in Progress Group
12:50 - Fieldnotes: Notes from the field
Abismrita Chakravarty (University of Oxford), Alice Tawell (University of Oxford), Jiayi Li (University of Oxford), Zaiba Patel (University of Oxford), Rachel Robinson (University of Oxford)
Qualitative Methods Hub Seminars
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Psychological Medicine - 'Bench to bedside: Implementation of SMaRT Oncology RCT into everyday practice in the cancer centre and beyond'
Dr Luke Solomons, Dr Lindsay Carpenter
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
14:00 - Has Liberalism Failed? With Matt Sleat
Dr Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield)
14:00 - The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
Aled Davies (Oxford)
Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
14:00 - Mechanism of DNA binding by the ALT-essential factor FANCM
Dr Lara Abbouche (St Vincents Institute, Melbourne)
Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
15:00 - Title TBC
Dr Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
Oxford Neurotheory Forum
15:00 - Strategic Instability: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Narratives Fueling the Conventional and Emerging Tech
Karuna Nandkumar (Oxford China Policy Lab)
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
15:00 - Making the Most of Supervisory Meetings: Practical Strategies for Doctoral Students
Frederick Morgan (University of Oxford), Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford), Clara Fortes Brandao (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
15:00 - Improving education through a multi-level analysis of conceptual change research and developmental education research
Dr Thomas Gennen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
15:00 - Uncovering Marion Scott: Exploring Musical Networks through Archival Research
Dr Antonina Puchkovskaia (King's College London)
Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
15:00 - Title TBC
If you are attending from a different building, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
Dr Jeffrey Pang (University of Oxford)
SBCB Seminar Series
15:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Trade Reading Group
15:30 - Title TBC
TBA
Novel Ideas: MPhil Seminar Series
16:00 - SHERRINGTON PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE PRIZE LECTURE: The Art of Choosing
Professor Sheena S. Iyengar (Columbia Business School)
DPAG Prize Lectures
16:00 - The Homecoming - BBC Africa Eye
Filmscreening
16:00 - MIDD’s Growing Role in Global Health: A Case Study of Primaquine Exposures in Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants
Dr Karen Rowland-Yeo (Certara), Prof Joel Tarning (MORU), Dr Mellie Gilder (MORU), Dr Nada Abla Geiser (Medicines for Malaria Venture)
Tropical Medicine Seminars
16:00 - Discussion with the Planetary Portals collective of their website and Photographers’ Gallery exhibition I am in your dreams but you are not in mine: Hallucinations of empire and the AI archive
Planetary Portals
16:00 - An Introduction to the MAIHDA Approach for Estimating Intersectional Inequalities and its Statistical Advantages
Hybrid event. Please note that the speaker will be presenting remotely.
Professor George Leckie (University of Bristol)
DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2025
16:30 - Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis public information event: What’s new in inflammatory bowel disease?
Various Speakers
TGLU Seminars
16:30 - Winant-Mellon Symposium: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania)
17:00 - TANGO IN JAPAN: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West
Dr Yuiko Asaba (SOAS)
17:00 - The Crisis of Climate and Development Finance
Charles Kenny (Center for Global Development), Charles Kenny (Oxford Martin School Visiting Fellow)
17:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Latin American History Seminar
17:00 - A room with a view: Can communities survive gentrification?
Prof Simone Abram (Durham University)
Disobedient Buildings Rountable Discussion Series
17:00 - Radhakrishnan Lecture 3: The Freedom to Breathe
Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
Radhakrishnan Lecture Series 2025: The Developmental State in Climate Crisis
17:00 - The Time of our Lives: The TORCH PUP Lecture Series 2025 3 Lectures. 15 May, 20 May, 22 May. 5pm
Homi K Bhabha (Harvard)
17:00 - Curating Colonialism: The Future of Ethnographic Collections
Prof. Wayne Modest (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Dr Laura Van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
Linacre Lecture Series 2025: Communicating Culture - New Horizons for Museums
17:00 - What makes effective conservation? Overcoming barriers to conservation success in the 21st century
Amy Dickman (University of Oxford), Sophus zu Ermgassen (University of Oxford), Dr Alexandra Zimmerman (Senior Research Fellow, WildCRU), Sahil Nijhawan (University College London and ZSL), Dave Stone (Chief scientist, JNCC)
Grand Challenges Seminar Series
17:00 - A Caroline Catholic conversion: Francis Slingsby (1611-42)
Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall, Oxford)
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
17:15 - Emergency as Genre
Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
17:30 - Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies 2025
Gary Younge (Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester)
17:30 - Quality Assurance and National Assessment – Denmark’s 10-Year Experiment with Adaptive Online Assessment in Public Education
Professor Christian Ydesen (Chair of History of Education and Education Policy Analysis at the University of Zürich, Switzerland)
17:30 - Rights in Crisis: The Theatre of Death
Prof. Jon Yorke (Birmingham City University), Prof. Anup Surendranath (NALSAR University of Law Hyderabad)
Rights in Crisis: Conversations on Human Rights in India (OICSD and OxHRH)
18:00 - Democracy in Distress (Wolfson College Isaiah Berlin Lecture 2025)
Dr Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania)
18:00 - Book Talk: SIKH: Two Centuries of Western Women’s Art & Writing
Professor Eleanor Nesbitt (University of Warwick), Professor Simran Jeet Singh (Union Theological Seminary)
Womanhood in Interfaith Contexts

Friday 23 May 2025

Saturday 24 May 2025

09:00 - Symposium Day 2: The Komnenian Restoration of Byzantium & its Legacy
Booking deadline Monday 14 April
Various Speakers
09:30 - Engaged Activism in Healthcare
Meera Joshi

Monday 26 May 2025

Tuesday 27 May 2025

09:00 - AI & Global Health
Dr Chris Paton (University of Oxford), Dr Pratap Kumar (UCL & Strathmore)
HIGH-Q Exchange Webinar Series
09:30 - Introduction to Presentation Skills (in-person)
The course will cover the key principles of planning and delivering a successful talk, and help to build your confidence. Each subject area in the MPLS Division has its own specific requirements for research presentations: please note that this course does not seek to address these.
Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
09:30 - Get that fellowship (in-person)
This session will help you to understand the do's and don'ts of application. It will guide you through the process and explain the support that is available. A holder of a research fellowship will discuss their application experience.
Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division), Zoe Lee (University of Oxford)
09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
10:00 - Title TBC
Michael Eldar (University of Oxford), Petra Oreskovic (University of Oxford)
Political Economy Workshop
12:00 - Immunosenescence: opportunities to reduce macrophage functional decline in ageing
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
Dr Heather Wilson (School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:15 - Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
Medieval English Research Seminar
12:30 - Beyond ‘toxic bodies’: Political rationalities and women’s reproductive health concerns in a high-environmental risk area (Taranto, Italy)
Maaret Jokela-Pansini (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group
12:30 - Title TBC
Joan Timoneda (Purdue University)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Econometrics Lunch
13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 5
Hannah Timmis (University of Oxford), Anvita Ramachandran (University of Oxford)
CSAE Research Workshops
13:00 - The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
TBA
The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
13:00 - Contemporary Trends in Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity: Insights from Whole-Population Electronic Health Records in England.
Professor Angela Wood (University of Cambridge)
Richard Doll Seminars
13:00 - Journal club: Risk factors for stroke
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote meeting access
Dr Oluwaseemo Osomo (University of Oxford)
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
13:00 - "Wicked" problems in public health: epidemics, climate change, and migration
Caroline Buckee (Harvard University)
13:15 - Capital, Ideas, and the Costs of Financial Frictions
Pablo Ottenello (University of Maryland)
Macroeconomics Seminar
13:30 - African Military Thought
Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
14:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
14:00 - Unequal Opportunity Regimes: Policies, Contexts and the Everyday Experience of Disabled Students in the Nigerian HE
Abass B. Isiaka (University of East Anglia)
14:00 - Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
14:00 - iSkills: Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:30 - Two Christian Commentators on the Qur'an: The hermeneutics of Patriarch Timothy I (d.823) and Paul of Antioch (ca.1200)
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person.
Isaac Wills (M.Phil student, Balliol College Oxford and CMCS Oxford Postgraduate Scholarship Holder)
CMCS Oxford Summer Term Series
15:00 - iSkills for Medicine: Searching systematically
Kat Steiner (Outreach Librarian for NDORMS, Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Collective Intelligence
Ivan Vendrov (Midjourney)
Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
16:00 - African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
Brenna Greer (Wellesley College)
16:00 - Gender Inequality in Expenditure
Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser University)
Applied Microeconomics Seminar
16:15 - English Criminal Law and Practice, 12th–19th centuries
Deborah Oxley (All Souls College, Oxford)
Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
16:30 - In Conversation with Prof Abiodun Williams: Lessons in Leadership from the United Nations
Prof Abiodun Williams (The Fletcher School at Tufts University)
Oxford International Relations Society
17:00 - Approaching the Energy Impact Reduction of the National Trust’s Conservation Area Holiday Cottages
TBA
Oxford Energy Network Seminar Series 2024-25
17:00 - Rethinking conservation: inclusion and participation in the Pacific Islands
Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai (Talanoa Consulting, Fiji)
Oxford Martin School Events
17:00 - Rescuing the Basmachi from Ideology
Adeeb Khalid (Carleton)
The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
17:00 - Genealogy as time travel
Dr Clayton Goodgame (Yale University)
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2025
17:00 - Female Servants in early modern England: a new history in global, long-run perspective?
Charmian Mansell (University of Sheffield)
Economic and Social History Seminar
17:00 - Designing Sound, Sculpting Gesture
Dr Evis Sammoutis (UGA Visiting Fellow, St Cross College)
17:00 - Spanish transition to democracy revisited
Ramón Areces Foundation Fellowship Seminar
Ainhoa Campos Posada (Ramón Areces Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Alba Nueda Lozano (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha), Sophie Baby (Université Bourgogne Europe), Magda Fitili (Autonomous University of Madrid)
17:00 - Indigenous Justice In Bolivia And The Travails Of Plurinational Constitutionalism
René Provost (McGuill University)
LAC Main Seminar Series
17:00 - Balliol College Bingham Lecture - 'Resetting relationships in the Family of Nations: A New Era in Intergovernmental Relations?'
Professor Nicola McEwen (University of Glasgow)
17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
Book Talks
17:00 - 1st Annual Halsey Lecture: What is a student? Perspectives from across Europe
Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Oxford)
17:00 - The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
17:00 - Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
17:15 - Work-in-Progress Colloquium
Laure Miolo (Lincoln College, Oxford), Shazia Jagot (University of York)
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College
17:15 - ‘“That Follows Not”: The Non Sequitur in Hamlet’
Prof. Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
Early Modern English Literature Seminar
17:15 - 'The Greatest American Rock Band'
Professor Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University)
Graduate Research Colloquium
17:30 - Antisemitism Today - a lecture by Anthony Julius
TBA
17:30 - Byron and Consciousness
Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
Romantic Research Seminar
19:30 - Screening of Visconti’s Vaghe Stelle dell ’Orsa
Film screening
The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation

Wednesday 28 May 2025

09:00 - Plastic surgery: rebuilding faces and restoring lives
Dr Milap Rughani (University of Oxford alumnus)
09:30 - Fourth Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Various Speakers
09:30 - Referencing: Zotero
Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
09:30 - Project management: the essentials
The focus of this course is to provide a practical ‘project management toolbox’ that you can use in your daily work.
Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
10:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Scholarship
11:00 - Immuno-metabolic dysfunction in Psychosis and the use of Imaging
Please note the seminar this week starts at 11:00!
Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)
OxCIN Seminar Series
11:00 - Ising model on a Galton-Watson tree with a random external field
TBA
Probability seminar
11:30 - The Molecular Basis of RNA Virus Antigenic Shift
Dr David Bauer (the Francis Crick Institute)
Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
12:00 - The Art of the Protest Novel
Sarah Cole
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
12:30 - Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration
Joint with Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University)
CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
13:00 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
TBA
Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
13:30 - Coaching Skills for Leaders
This workshop will provide an introduction to key coaching concepts, approaches and skills. We will explore when and how coaching skills can be used to support effective leadership and management practice. Participants will take part in a practice coaching conversation using real-life examples, topics and challenges.
Marc Adams (People and Organisational Development)
14:00 - Labour History Today: A National Workshop
TBA
14:00 - Session 5: Conjunctions and eclipses
Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts
14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
TBA
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
14:00 - AI for Humanists - online
TBA
14:15 - Relations of Religious Experience and Scientific Practices in Albert the Great
Professor Katja Krause (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
14:30 - Synthesizing Complexity: Build-to-Understand Strategies for Biomolecular Motor Systems
Prof Ken'ya Furuta (Advanced ICT Research Institute & Osaka University)
Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
14:30 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Scholarship
15:30 - Synthetic Agents for Social Science Workshop
Emma Madden (University of Oxford)
Oxford Computational Political Science Group Event Series
16:00 - An evaluation of mandatory calorie labelling in the out-of-home sector - what it tells us about mandatory calorie labelling and what it tells us about dietary public health policy making
Professor Jean Adams (University of Cambridge)
Future of Food seminar series
16:00 - [CorTalk] Ultraslow oscillations and sequences in the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit
Soledad Gonzalo Cogno (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience)
17:00 - Abhidhamma as Oral Text, the Mind as Oral Text
Eviatar Shulman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Pali Week: Texts and Research
17:00 - The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
17:00 - The Popular Classes and Royal Justice in Medieval England, 1330-31
Dr Chris Briggs (Cambridge)
Medieval Society and Landscape
17:00 - The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
17:00 - NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
This will be a hybrid event with attendance in person and online. To attend online, please complete the booking form to receive the Zoom link.
Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Soheir Asaad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
17:00 - Indigenous Pictorialism: Richard Throssel’s Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation
Professor Erin Pauwels
2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: Unsettled Ground: Western Landscapes, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Spaces of US Photography
17:15 - Title TBC
TBA
Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
TBA
Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
17:30 - St Cross Uehiro Lecture - The Tyranny of Merit: Why are we so polarized, and what can be done about it?
Professor Michael Sandel (Harvard University)
17:30 - Principal's Conversation with The Guardian reporter, Amelia Gentleman
Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose
17:30 - "Unbiased: Challenges and contradictions in defining a fair society." - The Annual Hicks Lecture 2025
Matthew Gentzkow (Stanford University)

Thursday 29 May 2025

09:30 - Python: Kick-off (Extended)
This is a paid for course and not a talk.
TBA
10:00 - Putting stories to work
This builds on the introductory workshop (Telling Stories that Matter) and introduces new elements of great storytelling including clarity, summary and message.
Robert Holtom (Narrative Coach)
11:00 - Transposons as genome regulators and immune triggers in acute myeloid leukaemia
Dr Ozgen Deniz (Queen Mary University of London)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
12:00 - Pressure-driven fracture in elastic continuum materials
To join this seminar online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2QyNzVlMDAtN2MyMi00MjFkLTk3NTgtZWI2MTcyNDVlOTEw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e6ced614-5673-458c-832d-5d4ada66f593%22%7d
Peter Stewart (University of Glasgow)
Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
12:30 - Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
Environmental History Working Group
12:50 - Using a corpus analysis to explore the importance of historical consciousness in history teachers’ published discourse
Dr Katharine Burn (University of Oxford)
Qualitative Methods Hub Seminars
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Geriatrics
TBA
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
14:00 - Artificial intelligence for electronic health records
Dr Shishir Rao (University of Oxford)
Machine Learning@BDI Seminar Series
14:00 - iSkills for Medicine: Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews – getting started
Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
14:00 - iSkills: Sources for US history
Bethan Davies (Vere Harmsworth Library)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Title TBC
If you are attending from a different building, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
Eden Gage (University of Oxford)
SBCB Seminar Series
14:00 - New thinking on climate change policy and endogenous preferences
This seminar will be in hybrid format. It will be livestreamed but not recorded.
Linus Mattauch (University of Oxford)
INET Oxford Seminars
14:30 - Masterclass by Patrick Boucheron 'Pourquoi des médiévistes? Penser le contemporain depuis le Moyen Âge'
Please note that the masterclass will be given in French
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
15:00 - The role of the gut environment in shaping the intestinal microbiota and disease outcomes
Dr Carolina Tropini (University of British Colombia)
Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
15:00 - Security Profile of Network Infrastructure in the High North and the Baltic Sea – Prospects for continued NATO-EU collaboration
Anniki Mikelsaar (Oxford Internet Institute)
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
15:15 - Differentially private M-estimation via noisy optimization
Professor Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge)
16:00 - Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
Jeffrie Quarsie (University of Oxford), Ines Fernandes (University of Oxford)
Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID)
16:30 - Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
17:00 - The College de France in Oxford: 'The Birth of the Black Death : New Approaches in World History' by Patrick Boucheron
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
17:00 - Bridging the gap between research and policy in international affairs: A practitioner’s perspective
Giulio Venneri (Luiss School of Government)
European Studies Seminar
17:00 - Pombal’s reforms in Brazil
Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University)
Latin American History Seminar
17:00 - Beyond four walls: how do we nurture care, connection and belonging?
Dr Andrew Byerley (Stockholm University)
Disobedient Buildings Rountable Discussion Series
17:00 - A Confucian Academy in 21st Century Hebei: Rethinking 'truth' in Chinese Religion
Dr Gareth Breen (LSE)
China Studies Seminar series
17:00 - Students’ Emotional Landscape in English-Medium Higher Education: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods study in China (Research Talk)
Dr Sihan Zhou (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
17:00 - Framing the Word: presenting religious texts as "comely" ornament in post-Reformation England
Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham)
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
17:15 - Oliver Smithies Lecture
Professor Christine Sypnowich
17:30 - The impact of digital technologies on the future of healthcare
Professor Lionel Tarassenko (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 May 2025

Monday 2 June 2025

09:00 - Symposium ‘Energy Transitions and Marine Environments: Conflicts, Cooperation, and International Regulation’
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
09:30 - iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
10:00 - iSkills for Medicine: Searching systematically
Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
10:00 - iSkills for Medicine: An introduction to designing a conference poster
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
11:00 - Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
11:30 - Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions
Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
Political Economy Seminar
12:00 - CBT Research Seminar: Katharina Schmidt, University of Mannheim
CBT seminars are open to Oxford University students, faculty and staff. Registration will close at Midday on Friday 30 May. You can register to attend by contacting cbt@sbs.ox.ac.uk. A calendar invite confirming your registration will be sent by 4pm on Friday 30 May.
Katharina Schmidt (University of Mannheim)
CBT Seminar Series
12:45 - A One-with-Many Approach to Understanding Reciprocity in the Student-Teacher Relationship
Mirna Sumatic (University of Oxford)
Quantitative Methods Hub Seminars
12:45 - Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools
Chana Teeger (London School of Economics)
Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
13:00 - Avian and human influenza
This seminar will be held in the Richard Doll Building lecture theatre
Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
13:00 - Combining cryo-electron tomography and single particle analysis to reveal sperm molecular diversity and evolution
Dr. Z. (Tzviya) Zeev Ben Mordehai (Associate Professor, Utrecht University)
Biochemistry Department Seminar
13:30 - iSkills for Medicine: Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses
Nia Roberts (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Eli Harriss (Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
14:00 - Anne Treisman Lecture: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on LLMs: Does the Turing Test Really Test Intelligence?
Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
14:00 - Tilted Gazing: American Women Writers and the Tenuousness of Classics
Dr Katerina Stergiopoulou (University of Edinburgh)
14:00 - Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
Oxford International Relations Society
14:15 - Title TBC
TBA
Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
14:30 - Title TBC
TBA
Political Economy Workshop
15:00 - Spatial interaction models for the spread of species and diseases
This is a cross-section event in the Department of Biology.
John M Drake (University of Georgia/USA)
15:00 - "Spatial interaction models for the spread of species and diseases".
Professor John Drake (University of Georgia)
15:15 - What the Body Knows – a Guide to our Immune System (John Trowsdale)
TBA
16:00 - Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
Alette Smeulers (Amsterdam)
T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
16:00 - Sacred Geographies, Political Communities: Burma’s South Asian History
Registration required for Zoom
Sana Aiyar (MIT)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
17:00 - Sarvamedha, Pañcavārṣika, and Nirargaḍamedha: Ritual Transmission from India to China
Zhen Liu (Dali University and Harvard-Yenching Institute)
Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies
17:00 - Russia and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific
Dr Paradorn Rangsimaporn (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand)
RESC Monday Seminar
17:00 - Diu nocteque: Investigating Liturgical Programs of Prayer for Tenth-Century Ruling Women
Megan Welton (UCD)
Medieval History Research Seminar
17:45 - "Courageous or Coerced?" Europe´s role in a changing geopolitical order
Lukas Mandl (European Parliament)
Europeanist Society Oxford
18:30 - Leaders of Tomorrow: Where do students fit into the climate discussion?
TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

09:00 - Oxford Parkinson's Research Day (this event is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only & is not aimed at members of the public)
This meeting is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only and is not aimed at members of the public
Various Speakers
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
09:30 - Targeting the glutamate system to treat schizophrenia
Dr Katherine Beck (King's College London)
09:30 - Scientific Writing: Getting Your Paper Published (in-person)
This course will look at the aspects you need to consider when constructing your paper; demystify peer reviewed journals by giving insider insights from science journal editors and show you what they really want.
Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
10:00 - HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Various Speakers
10:30 - Digital Scholarship coffee morning
TBA
Digital Scholarship Coffee Mornings
10:30 - Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Ethox Centre Seminars
12:00 - Title tbc
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk
Professor Zhengming Chen (CTSU, University Of Oxford)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:15 - The potential of the school setting for supporting adolescents impacted by suicide: from prevention to postvention
Dr Eibhlín Walsh (National Suicide Research Foundation, Ireland)
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: Trinity Term
12:15 - Messy Chaucer
Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Medieval English Research Seminar
12:30 - Cultural beliefs in northern rural Mozambique and their effect on maternal and neonatal health.
This seminar is on Microsoft Teams. Please contact avi.mikhaylov@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link.
Dr Anita Makins (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group
12:45 - Coalitions and Recurrent Negotiation in Multilateral Relational Contracts (with David Miller)
Joel Watson (UCSD)
Economic Theory Workshop
13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 6
Priya Manwaring (University of Oxford)
CSAE Research Workshops
13:00 - Political Romanticism
TBA
The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
13:00 - TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Dr Sonia Muliyil (Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women’s Health)
13:00 - Rehabilitation Review
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for access authorisation and meeting link
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
13:15 - Risky Business Cycles
Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University)
Macroeconomics Seminar
14:00 - Touching Photographs/Prompting Postmemories: A Conversation with Scholar Marianne Hirsch and Artist Sara Davidmann
Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
14:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
14:00 - Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
14:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Network Estimation via Source Separation (NESS): Novel Perspectives on Linear Decomposition for Functional Brain Mapping
Prof Leonardo Bonetti (Aarhus University and University of Oxford), Dr Mattia Rosso (Aarhus University)
Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
14:30 - The Greco-Arabic Translation Movement: The intertwined worlds of Muslims, Christians and Jews in 8th-10th century Baghdad
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person.
Dr Peter Starr (University of Warwick)
CMCS Oxford Summer Term Series
15:00 - Oxford Immunology Network termly seminar: Immunology and Metabolism
Dr Barbara Kronsteiner-Dobramysl (University of Oxford), Prof Hal Drakesmith (WIMM HIU)
15:00 - Unbiased identification of cell identity in dense mixed neural cultures
This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
Professor Winnok De Vos (University of Antwerp)
Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
15:00 - Seminar on Visconti’s Vague Stelle dell ‘Orsa
Various Speakers
The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation
15:00 - Launch of Forced Migration Review 75 - Dangerous journeys: Saving lives and responding to missing migrants and refugees
Various Speakers
15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
Open Scholarship
15:00 - iSkills for Medicine: Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews – getting started
Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Neal Thurley (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
16:00 - Beyond a Lutheran Plague: Exploring Motivation and Intent in Early Modern Suicide by Proxy
Andreas Berger-Gehringer (Universität Bern)
Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
16:00 - Title TBC
David Deming (Harvard University)
Applied Microeconomics Seminar
16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Habermas Machine
Professor Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Michael Henry Tessler (Google Deepmind)
Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
16:00 - Khushwant Singh Literary Festival - Oxford Edition
Keshava Guha (Journalist and writer of fiction), Matt Ridley (House of Lords), Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford), Francesca Kay (Somerville College)
16:00 - The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
Stuart Delery (Former White House Counsel)
16:00 - Role of subplate neurons in the development and evolution of the mammalian neocortex
Professor Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Developmental Neuroscience Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan)
Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
16:15 - Italian Renaissance Cryptography
Please note the speaker will be presenting online
Professor Marcello Simonetta (Medici Archive Project/NYU Florence), Chair: Antonio Pattori
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
16:30 - Writing Workshop: Professor Tonya Hegamin, ‘Writing the Taboo’
Professor Tonya Hegamin (City University of New York)
Global Majority and Underrepresented Writers Programme
17:00 - EnSpired Founders: Live
Various Speakers
17:00 - In Conversation with Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House): Making Sense of Trump's First 100 Days in Power
Please note that this event has been rescheduled from 14 May to 3 June.
Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House)
Oxford International Relations Society
17:00 - Challenging Honesty in Net Zero Claims
Baroness Natalie Bennett (House of Lords, Green Party), Josh Gabbatiss (Carbon Brief), Sebastien Cross (BeZero Carbon)
17:00 - Scenes from Childhood: Music Theory and Analysis, Education and Play
Timothy Coombes, Marinu Leccia, Elizabeth MacGregor, Javier Rivas (King's College London)
The Oxford Seminar in Music Theory and Analysis
17:00 - Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
17:00 - Beyond Our Current Boundaries: Peace Studies from Africa and the Global South. Book Launch and talk.
Followed by drinks reception. Copies of the book will be available at launch price tba
Various Speakers
OxPeace Events
17:00 - Public attitudes towards energy infrastructure and technologies: Why it matters what people think and feel about the energy transition
Christina Demski (CAST ISCC)
Oxford Energy Network Seminar Series 2024-25
17:00 - The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Tom Raster (LSE)
Economic and Social History Seminar
17:00 - The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
Women’s Rights Research Seminars
17:00 - From anti-Americanism to Americanofilia: The US in the kaleidoscope of Greek society
Eirini Karamouzi (University of Sheffield), Lamprini Rori (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
17:00 - Oriental Despotism Reconsidered: The Georgian Monarchy in the 18th Century
Alex Mikaberidze (Louisiana State)
The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
17:30 - Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
Tom Jones (St Andrews)
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
17:30 - How to Begin?
Venue: The Story Museum, 42 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP
Various Speakers
Fuelling Change: Values and Ethics in Cultural Production

Wednesday 4 June 2025

10:00 - Three Minute Thesis - The Oxford Final
3MT is a competition which challenges doctoral students to explain their research in just 180 seconds.
Various Speakers
11:00 - Rethinking Methodologies: A Workshop in the Medical Humanities
Dr Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford), Dr Paola Esposito (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology ), Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)
11:10 - Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
12:00 - Why and how to publish with Nature Communications, and editorial careers
Hayleah Pickford (Nature Communications)
12:00 - How to network effectively
Various Speakers
12:00 - “The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
Marina McKay, Adam Guy
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
12:00 - What next, if we lose 'the right to have rights'? A Roundtable Discussion
Registration is required only for those who would like a boxed lunch. In order to prevent food waste, PLEASE cancel your registration at least 72 hours in advance if you are unable to attend.
Pablo Mukherjee (English), Venus Bivar (Oxford), Bernhard Malkmus (Languages), Nayanika Mathur (Anthropology), Amanda Power (University of Oxford)
Environmental Humanities Research Hub
12:30 - Unconditional Cash Transfers and Child Mortality: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)
CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
12:30 - Lunch & Learn: The Funding Landscape
This is a hybrid Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
Peter Barber
DPAG Lunch & Learns
12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: IMCM
There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
Dr Ludo van Hillegondsberg (University of Oxford)
12:30 - GROW: How AI is changing industry futures
AI is disrupting every aspect and re-shaping all areas of business, from start-ups driving innovation to global companies revolutionising their operations. Join us to hear industry experts in our online panel discussion looking at real-world AI applications, trends, and safety considerations.
Various Speakers
14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
TBA
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
14:15 - Agricultural Knowledge, the Pursuit of Public Utility, and Collaborative Epistemology in the Early Royal Society
Please not this seminar will be in the Wharton Room not the Old Library
Dr Niall Dilucia (CNRS, Maison Française d'Oxford/IHRIM)
Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
14:30 - The trouble with rational expectations in heterogeneous agent models: A challenge for macroeconomics
This seminar will be held in hybrid format. It will be livestreamed but not recorded.
Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics)
INET Complexity Economics Seminars
14:30 - Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Scholarship
16:00 - [CorTalk] David Bennett
Prof David Bennett (University of Oxford)
16:00 - Title TBC
Prof David Bennett (University of Oxford)
16:30 - CMTC Social 'Tea'
N/A
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College
16:30 - There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century
Please note this seminar will take place in the Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad
Cécile Fromont (Harvard University)
Iberian History Seminar
17:00 - Open Justice: Fit for Purpose
The Honourable Mr Justice Nicklin
17:00 - Understanding climate-related disruption of global financial governance: Vertical and horizontal models of change
Jeff Colgan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
The ESC Annual Lecture
17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
17:00 - Frustration and Failure: Medieval Images of Christ's Transfiguration (12th-13th c.)
Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
Professor Vincent Debiais (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
17:00 - Title TBC
Different venue from normal - New Space at Gradel Quad
Dr Kai Heron (Lancaster University)
Critical Theory Seminar
17:00 - Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Villanova University)
Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
17:00 - John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
17:00 - The Ties that Bind: Military and Revolutionary Networks Across Asia
Zachary Clark (Pennsylvania State University), Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
International History of East Asia Seminar
17:00 - Blavatnik Book Talk: Constitutional Intolerance
This is a hybrid event
Marietta van der Tol (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Jo Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Maya Tudor (BSG, Oxford), Tarun Khaitan (University of Oxford), Dr Nazila Ghanea ((Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford))
17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
History of War Seminar Series
17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
History of War
19:00 - Medieval and Byzantine art around the Mediterranean
Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 June 2025

09:00 - Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Dr Giorgia Nicosia (Ghent University), Dr Lucy Parker (University of Nottingham), Prof. S Peter Cowe (UCLA), Prof. Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam), Erica Feild-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Prof. Mark Janse (University of Cambridge), Dr Samet Budak (ANAMED Koç University)
09:00 - International Macroeconomics Workshop
Yan Bai (University of Rochester), Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University), Carlo Galli (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Rohan Kekre (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business), Federica Romei (University of Oxford)
Macroeconomics Seminar
09:00 - Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
Various Speakers
09:30 - Interviewing for podcasts
You are behind the mic, ready to record your first podcast ... but wait! What do you ask? This hands-on training session helps you navigate the world of podcast interviews.
Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
11:00 - iSkills for Medicine: Introduction to EndNote
Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
11:00 - Long reads and organoid co-culture models: changing the way we treat cancer
Prof Andrew Beggs (University of Birmingham)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
12:00 - The Source of Rivers: Writing Waterways in the Humanities
Register via Eventbrite. Registration is required only for those who would like a boxed lunch. In order to prevent food waste, PLEASE cancel your registration at least 72 hours in advance if you are unable to attend.
TBA
Environmental Humanities Research Hub
12:00 - Genome Stability in Aging: New perspectives from C. elegans
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Björn Schumacher (Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
12:00 - Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford) Decoding the molecular role of TDP-43 condensation in neurodegeneration using transcriptomics and biophysics
Martina Hallegger (University of Oxford)
ORNN Seminar Series (Old Road Neuroscience Network)
12:00 - OCIAM TBC
To join this seminar online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2QyNzVlMDAtN2MyMi00MjFkLTk3NTgtZWI2MTcyNDVlOTEw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e6ced614-5673-458c-832d-5d4ada66f593%22%7d
Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel (Graz University of Technology)
12:00 - 50 years with David Smith on location: from chromaffin granules to neurodegeneration via synapses
Join us in person or remotely via Zoom - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Peter Somogyi (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
12:30 - Narrative CVs for Funding Applications
Dr Tanita Casci (University of Oxford), Dr Mary Muers (Research Culture Facilitator, Medical Sciences Division), Kanza Basit (Senior Research Facilitator, Social Sciences Division), Gavin Bird (Research Facilitator, Earth Sciences), Dr Susan Black (Oxford University Careers Service)
12:50 - Collectives in/of Solidarity: Student Activism by Women of Colour at the University of Oxford
Georgia Lin (University of Oxford)
Qualitative Methods Hub Seminars
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Obstetric Medicine
TBA
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
14:00 - Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A lens for Policy Analysis
This seminar will be in hybrid format. It will be live streamed and recorded.
William Ferguson (Grinnell College, USA)
INET Oxford Seminars
14:00 - Title TBC
If you are attending from a different building, please, email aleksandr.kovalenko@st-annes.ox.ac.uk to arrange access.
Dr Astrid Brandner (University of Oxford)
SBCB Seminar Series
14:00 - Making Data Work: Practical Strategies for Managing Research Data
Guanlin Wu (University of Oxford), Russell Kapumha (School of Archaeology), Lena Easton-Calabria (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
15:00 - The Securitisation of AI Safety Institutes
Renan Araujo (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy)
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
15:30 - iSkills for Medicine: Introduction to Zotero
Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
15:30 - Title TBC
TBA
Novel Ideas: MPhil Seminar Series
16:00 - Recent Advances in Difference-in-Differences Methods for Policy Research
Hybrid event
Dr Guangyi Wang (University of California, San Francisco)
DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2025
16:00 - Digital technologies: Enhancers or disrupters of good social care?
Dr Caroline Potter (Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford), DeeDee Wallace (Innovate Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire County Council), Tommy Wise (Policy Lead for Care Technology, Department of Health and Social Care)
16:00 - The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin University), Joel Suarez (Harvard University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)
16:30 - Handle with Care: The Oldest Translations of the Bible in English
Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
16:45 - The National Poetry Crisis
Kamran Javadizadeh
American Literature Research Seminar
17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in China and Taiwan?
Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Reader in Entrepreneurship & Sustainability | Associate Dean, Global Engagement King’s Business School | King’s College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
China Studies Seminar series
17:00 - Updates from the Museum of West Africa, Nigeria
Dr Ore Disu (Museum of West Africa)
Linacre Lecture Series 2025: Communicating Culture - New Horizons for Museums
17:00 - Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
There will be no seminar this week due to the Sir John Elliott Memorial lecture, for which the registration deadline is midday on 30 April 2025
Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
Latin American History Seminar
17:00 - Annual McDonald Public Lecture (part of Christian Humanism and the Black Atlantic conference)
Professor Paul Gilroy (Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London)
17:00 - The Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government: The Second Republic: Remaking Egypt Under Sisi
Yezid Sayigh (Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center)
17:00 - English Reformers in German print, 1547-1603
Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London)
Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
17:15 - Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture - Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
Registration deadline is midday on 30 April 2025
Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
The J H Elliott History Forum
17:15 - Oliver Smithies Lecture: The Ecology of a Pandemic: Interpreting the Ongoing Epizootic of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Professor John Drake (Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow)
17:15 - ‘What is a Spiritual Education?’
Prof. Graham Ward (University of Oxford)
17:30 - In conversation with The Crown Prince of Selangor, Malaysia
David Isaac CBE, Tengku Amir Shah (Transformational Leadership Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government)
18:00 - The Remarkable Interfaith Initiatives from the Arabian Peninsula: KAICIID and the Abrahamic Family House as Paradigms
Rabbi David Rosen, KSG, CBE (Special Advisor, Interfaith and Jewish Affairs, Abrahamic Family House, Abu Dhabi, UAE), Mr Zeshan Zafar (Executive Director of the Abu Dhabi Forum For Peace)
Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Friday 6 June 2025

08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds
TBA
Surgical Grand Rounds
09:00 - Christian Humanism and the Black Atlantic
We recognise that budgets are being tightened and we live in turbulent times. We don’t want expense to prohibit participation in the conference, so please do register at the lowest rate you can afford (i.e., the student rate) or be in touch with us and we can give you a discount code. Further, there is a further discount on the student rate for Oxford students. Enquiries can be directed to Katie, mcdonaldcentre@theology.ox.ac.uk. Streaming and in-person options are available.
Professor Anthony G. Reddie (University of Oxford), Professor Jennifer A. Herdt (Yale University), Professor Jonathan Tran (Baylor University), Professor Jens Zimmermann (Regent College), Professor Tracey Rowland (University of Notre Dame Australia), Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Chine McDonald (Theos), Anne Snyder Brooks (Cardus/Comment Magazine), Michael Wear (The Center for Christianity and Public Life)
09:15 - Title TBC
in person only
Knight Group (University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
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
10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: Riley Faulds, ‘Bio, Ego, Eco: Life-Writing the Environment’
Riley Faulds (University of Oxford)
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops
10:30 - Southern Encounters: Nanyang and New Cultural Regionalities in Chinese Studies
Various Speakers
Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
11:00 - Mathematical modeling of some aspects of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
Dr Luca Alasio (INRIA Paris)
Mathematical Biology and Ecology
11:00 - Postdoc Power Hour Anniversary Careers Special
Various Speakers
Postdoc Power Hour (PoPoH)
12:00 - Water in a changing environment: too much, too little, too hot
Prof David Hannah (University of Birmingham)
12:00 - 19th ANNUAL DAVID SMITH LECTURE: Opening windows for cognition through precise timing of cortical neurons
Join us in person or remotely via Zoom - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Thomas Klausberger (Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:30 - Discussion group on Roman architecture
Janet DeLaine (University of Oxford)
Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
12:45 - Searching for Expertise
Guru Ganeson (University of Oxford)
Student Research Workshop in Micro Theory
13:00 - Bravery in Academia? A discussion led by Cerise Jackson
Cerise Jackson (University of Oxford)
Race & Resistance
13:00 - Control of mitochondrial shape & function through lipid transport at organelle contact sites
Associate Professor Robin Klemm (DPAG, University of Oxford)
OxON - Oxford Organelle Network talks
13:00 - Oxygen Homeostasis – new insights into an ancient problem
Dr Tom Keeley (DPAG, University of Oxford)
DPAG Head of Department Seminar Series
13:00 - Does Fairness Matter? Opportunity, Inequality and Redistribution (joint with David Rueda)
Verena Fetscher (DPIR Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium
13:00 - Imaging Immunity within the peritoneal cavity
PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE TO 1PM
Prof Paul Kubes (Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary)
Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars
13:05 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
Macroeconomics Working Group
14:00 - Return of the Female Voice: The Role of Women in Myanmar's Ongoing Resistance
Nilanjana Sengupta
14:00 - Tolle Lege. Discovering Carolingian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library
Martina Carandino (Worcester College, Oxford), Matthew Holford (Bodleian Library)
Researching Charlemagne
14:15 - Econometric Analysis of Macroeconomic Functional Data
Won-Ki Seo (University of Sydney)
Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
14:15 - No Prices No Games
Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv & NYU)
Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
15:00 - Title TBC
Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Jowett Society
15:00 - New paradigms of regeneration and ageing
Dr Maximina Yun (TU Dresden)
15:00 - Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable
Michael Michael (University of Glasgow), Emily Guerry (St Peter's College, Oxford), Peter Kidd (Independent Researcher)
Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group
16:00 - Title TBC
Vatsal Khandelwal (University of Oxford)
Behavioural Lab
16:00 - [CorTalk] The neural code for semantics during language comprehension
Melissa Franch (Baylor)
16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
TBA
Utopia Reading Group
16:30 - In Between Climate Chaos and War (In association with the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit)
Dr Ammar Azzouz, Dr Omnia El Omrani (COP27 Presidency), Zodiac Maslin-Hahn (AfghanAid)
17:00 - Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow)
Tolkien seminars

Saturday 7 June 2025

Monday 9 June 2025

Tuesday 10 June 2025

09:30 - Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Psychiatry Seminar Series
09:30 - Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Various Speakers
Psychiatry Seminar Series
09:30 - A Postcard from my Journey with the T cell Receptor: Nerding out on the TCR
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Prof. Chris Garcia (Stanford)
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
10:00 - Viva practice and preparation
Tailored for third and fourth-year doctoral students, gain insights into viva rules, proactive preparation, and the examiner's perspective. Sharpen your skills through practical exercises for a confident viva experience.
Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
10:00 - Time Management
Being able to manage time effectively will help you to be more successful in all aspects of your life.
Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford), James Cunning (University of Oxford)
10:00 - Technologies in Medicines Quality
Paul Newton (University of Oxford), Dr Celine Caillet (IDDO, University of Oxford)
HIGH-Q Exchange Webinar Series
10:30 - Ethox Seminar - Values Frameworks as Ideal Types: Navigating Ethics Conflicts with Normative Minorities
Autumn Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)
Ethox Centre Seminars
12:00 - Title tbc
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Professor Karen McCloskey (Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:00 - Neural Mechanisms of Volitional Problem Solving
Dr Silvia Seghezzi (Birbeck, University of London)
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
12:15 - Risk and protective factors for self-harm and suicide in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A global systematic review
Dr Arul Velusamy (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: Trinity Term
12:15 - Parental Self-Harm and Offspring Psychosocial Outcomes: Systematic Literature Review
Dr Irem Yanardoner (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: Trinity Term
12:30 - Limitations and possibilities of emerging reproductive mobilities in Central Asia
Dr Shahnoza Nozimova (University of Oxford)
Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group
12:30 - Symposium: More-Than-Human Story-Making
Various Speakers
13:00 - Trials and tribulations: streamlining large randomized trials to answer important cardiometabolic questions
Emeritus Professor Jane Armitage (University of Oxford)
Richard Doll Seminars
13:00 - 70 years of carotid surgery: have we perfected a soon to be obsolete surgery?
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk to grant remote access
Mr Dominic PJ Howard (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
13:00 - CSAE Workshop Week 7
Jordan Imahori (University of Oxford)
CSAE Research Workshops
13:00 - The Nomos of the Earth
TBA
The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
13:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Econometrics Lunch
13:15 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
Macroeconomics Seminar
14:00 - You and your Supervisor
This course provides information and introduces strategies to enable DPhil students to develop an effective working relationship with their supervisor.
Dr Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd.)
14:00 - Widening participation in Australian higher education: reforming the school to university pipeline
Andrew Harvey (Griffith University)
14:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
14:00 - iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Rangoonwala Fellows: Development and Displacement in Pakistan
Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Azeema Cheema (Verso Consulting), Arslan Waheed (Institute of Business Administration, Karachi)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
14:30 - Seeking Truth and Peace? Theological assumptions and developing constructive Muslim-Christian conversations
This is an online-only event. Registration required.
Joy Hadden (M.A. Belfast Theological School)
CMCS Oxford Summer Term Series
14:30 - Integrative Multi-Omics Analysis Identifies ERBB2 as a Key Driver in Brain Metastases of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
This seminar will take place in person only
Dr Kadir Akdemir (MD Anderson)
15:00 - Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism
This is a virtual seminar. For a Zoom link, please see "Venue". Please consider subscribing to mailing list: web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/subscribe/ai4mch
Professor Danilo Bzdok (McGill University & Mila Quebec AI Institute, Montreal)
Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
16:00 - Financial Aid and Upward Mobility: Evidence from Colombia's Ser Pilo Paga
Juliana Londono-Velez (University of California, Los Angele)
Applied Microeconomics Seminar
16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
16:00 - Conceptualising 'compounded suffering' in the post-war context
Followed by drinks reception
Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
OxPeace Events
16:15 - Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850
Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès)
Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
17:00 - Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford)
Economic and Social History Seminar
17:00 - Echoes of the Amu-Darya: Information Management in Peter the Great’s Central Asian Ventures
Ulfat Abdurasulov (Vienna)
The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
17:00 - Online Lecture: 'Sound and fury signifying nothing? Business alliances and climate'
Peter Tufano (Peter Moores Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
17:00 - Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
17:00 - Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)
17:00 - The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
17:15 - Papers by Dr Felicity Brown, Dr Sean Geddes and Dr Leah Veronese
Felicity Brown, Sean Geddes, Leah Veronese
Early Modern English Literature Seminar
17:15 - 2025 Massada Annual Lecture: Professor Mouna Maroun
Professor Mouna Maroun (University of Haifa)
Massada Public Seminars
17:15 - ‘It’s like you’re an activist’: Sustainable teaching practices in a music outreach project in London
Dr Esther Cavett (University of Oxford), Javier Rivas (King's College London)
Graduate Research Colloquium
17:30 - National Service: Leading Institutions Today
Venue: Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ
Various Speakers
Fuelling Change: Values and Ethics in Cultural Production
17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
Romantic Research Seminar
20:00 - Screening of Pasolini’s Teorema
Film screening
The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation

Wednesday 11 June 2025

10:00 - Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Involuntary Movements
Prof. Aysegul Gunduz (University of Florida)
Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series
10:00 - Getting started in policy engagement (in-person)
In this session, you will benefit from a combination of presentations, short exercises, and opportunities to discuss with peer researchers your motivations, plans, and challenges when it comes to engaging with policymakers and the public policy world.
Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division), Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
11:30 - An indirect way of detecting viruses: MDA5 guards against infection by surveying cellular RNA homeostasis
Professor Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit)
Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
12:30 - Artificial intelligence bottlenecks - how we can achieve a brighter economic future?
Professor Georgios Petropoulos (USC Marshall School of Business)
Oxford Martin School Events
12:30 - Lunch & Learn: Elements of a Good Research Grant Application
This is a hybrid Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
Peter Barber
DPAG Lunch & Learns
12:30 - Title TBC
Rohini Pande (Yale University)
CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
12:45 - Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: The Role of Calcium and Phosphorylation in Sleep
Professor Hiroki R. Ueda (University of Tokyo)
OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
13:30 - Translating optical probes for imaging immune cell function
This is an in-person event only
Professor Marc Vendrell (Chair of Translational Chemistry and Biomedical Imaging, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh)
WIMM Occasional Seminars
14:00 - Session 6: Horoscope : dating and interpretating medieval horoscopes
Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts
14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
TBA
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
14:00 - Completing Your DPhil (in-person)
If you are nearing the end of your DPhil, this workshop will help you develop a plan for completing your DPhil and prepare for the viva.
Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
14:00 - Examining the causal role of circadian rhythms and sleep in physical and psychological health
Dr Rebecca Richmond (University of Bristol)
Digital Phenotying
14:15 - Traces of Maghribī Astronomy in Sources from Latin Europe (13th-14th Centuries)
Dr Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College, Oxford)
Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
15:30 - Law and Custom in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Kate Kirkpatrick
Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group 2024/25
17:00 - Vera Mensura: Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts
Professor Aden Kumler (University of Basel)
June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art
17:00 - “The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
17:00 - Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations
Pia Jolliffe (Research Scholar of Blackfriars Hall), Alessandro Bianchi (Cambridge University Libraries), Yoshimi Orii (Keio University (Tokyo)), Katja Triplett (University of Leipzig)
17:00 - Everything Everywhere All at Once: Exploring Medieval Place and Society through Local History
Dr Simon Townley (Victoria County History of Oxfordshire)
Medieval Society and Landscape
17:00 - Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
17:00 - Making China Policy in an Era of Great Power Competition: Panel Discussion feat. Prof Todd Hall, Prof Kerry Brown, and Ruby Osman (OxIRSoc)
Todd Hall (Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford), Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London), Ruby Osman (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)
Oxford International Relations Society
17:15 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
Professor Diana Allan (McGill University)
Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
17:30 - Public Lecture: Professor Ava Chin, ‘The Elastic Heart: Writing an Epic Family Memoir’
Professor Ava Chin (CUNY)

Thursday 12 June 2025

09:30 - Podcast your science (in-person)
From inception to publication this practical session delivered by Emily Elias, journalist and producer of the Oxford Sparks podcast series, is a whirlwind tour through the basics of how to share your research in an engaging manner through podcasting.
Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
10:30 - University Welcome Induction for Researchers (in-person)
Dr Rachel Bray (University of Oxford ), Dr Claudio Cortes Rodriguez (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Anne Wolfes (University of Oxford)
12:00 - Microfluidic model of haemodynamics in complex media
To join this seminar online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2QyNzVlMDAtN2MyMi00MjFkLTk3NTgtZWI2MTcyNDVlOTEw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e6ced614-5673-458c-832d-5d4ada66f593%22%7d
Prof Anne Juel (University of Manchester)
Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
12:00 - Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
12:00 - Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis - Targeting the WRN helicase in MSI cancers
Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
Industry Insight Seminar Series
12:30 - Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
Bill Smith (DPhil History)
Environmental History Working Group
12:50 - Navigating Digital Literacy: Exploring First-Year Students' Challenges and Support Needs in South African Higher Education
Dr Vuyo Mntuyedwa (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, AfOx fellow), Dr Danica Sims (University of Oxford)
Qualitative Methods Hub Seminars
13:00 - Postgraduate Panel
Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
American Literature Research Seminar
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation Medicine
TBA
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
13:00 - Ideas to Action: Effective Public Engagement with Research (online)
This 3-hour session is tailored to those looking to explore evidence-based strategies for designing activities/events, apply for Public Engagement with Research (PER) funding, or get practical tips for organising an activity.
Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
13:00 - Guest Lecture: "And Rested the Seventh Day": Sabbath’s Rest in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Exegesis and Polemics
Dr Shlomi Efrati
Reading Jews in Late Antiquity
14:00 - Insights into Scientific Publishing (Oxford Virology and Immunology Networks joint seminar)
Booking required via email to sally.pelling-deeves@medsci.ox.ac.uk
Dr Duc Le (Med journal), Dr Zoltan Fehervari (Springer Nature)
14:00 - War in the Ukraine and global inflationary pressures: How fiscal and monetary policy should cooperate in the face of temporary supply side shocks
This seminar will be in hybrid format. It will be live streamed and recorded.
David Vines (Balliol College, University of Oxford)
INET Oxford Seminars
14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Open Scholarship
15:00 - Budgeting for AI: Towards a Systematic Understanding of the Impact of Public Budgeting on Public Sector AI Adoption
Chloe Chadwick (Oxford Internet Institute)
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
15:00 - Title TBC
Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
Oxford Neurotheory Forum
16:00 - The Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2025: Dead Important: Addressing the Archaeological Curation Crisis.
The talk will take place in the HB Allen Lecture Theatre at Keble College, starting at 4pm on Thursday 12 June 2025. It will be followed by a Q& A and then a drinks reception until 7pm.
Professor Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter)
16:00 - Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
Dr Jasmine Gani (London School of Economics)
Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID)
16:30 - Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
17:00 - Decolonising Environmental Research: Rethinking Knowledge and Power
Dr Carol Ibe (JR Biotek Foundation), Dr Ricardo Roche, Dr Catherine Souch (Royal Geographical Society), Dr Monique Mulder
17:00 - The Peshitta and the Making of the Antioch Bible
Dr George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)
17:00 - Time to reset : ending the self-deception in Africa-Europe relations
Professor Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town), Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)
Oxford Martin School Events
17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
Please note this seminar will be on Thursday at 17:00 at the Rothermere American Institute
Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
Iberian History Seminar
17:00 - ‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
China Studies Seminar series
17:00 - Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian style
David Scott (History of Parliament)
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
17:15 - Intentions are Good but Instrumental Variables is Better (in Real-World Randomised Trials)
Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Political Economy Seminar
17:15 - Book Launch: Richard Reid’s The African Revolution
Richard Reid (Oxford)
18:00 - Resistance is futile? Resolving radical disagreements about medical treatment between patients and doctors?
Prof Thaddeus Mason Pope (Mitchell Hamline School of Law)

Friday 13 June 2025

08:00 - Surgical Grand Rounds
TBA
Surgical Grand Rounds
08:30 - Oxford Cancer Immuno-Oncology Network 2025 Annual Symposium
TBA
09:15 - Title TBC
in person only
Cornall Group (University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
11:00 - Cell-bulk compartmental reaction-diffusion systems: symmetry-breaking patterns with equal diffusivities and diffusion-Induced synchrony.
Professor Michael Ward (Professor Michael Ward Dept)
Mathematical Biology and Ecology
12:00 - Terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks in a warmer world – new insights from ancient climates
Dr Gordon Inglis (Southampton)
Earth Sciences departmental seminars
12:30 - 3D Modelling Workshop
Dr John Hanson (Departmental Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford), Matthew Nicholls (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford)
Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
12:45 - Regulating Information
Pedro Gonzalez Fernandez (Maastricht University)
Student Research Workshop in Micro Theory
13:00 - Adjusted Expectations: Citizens' Willingness to Compromise Post-Election
Ida Hjermitslev (University of Aalborg)
Politics Research Colloquium
13:00 - Preparing for the academic interview process (for Researchers)
Various Speakers
13:00 - Black Academic Futures (BAF) Research Panel
Amunet Boafo (University of Oxford), Michelle Codrington-Rogers (University of Oxford)
Race & Resistance
13:05 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
Macroeconomics Working Group
14:00 - Speaker Event - Learning from the History of the Body
Professor Lyndal Roper
Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
14:00 - Legal Perspectives on the Tangible (and Decentralized) Manifestations of Charlemagne’s Empire
Paolo Costa (Department of Law, University of Genoa)
Researching Charlemagne
14:00 - Sustaining Continuity: Conservation Approaches to Placemaking for Chinese Voluntary Associations
TBA
Oxford China Reading Group
14:15 - Competition, Persuasion, and Search
Teddy Mekonnen (Brown University)
Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
14:15 - Title TBC
Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
15:00 - Title TBC
Jake Nebel (Princeton)
Jowett Society
15:30 - Building Resilient Communities: Place-Based Impact & Global Challenges
Santi Furnari (Bayes Business School), Alex Betts (Local and Global Officer, Oxford), Dianne Regisford (Evoking Belonging and Oxford City Council), Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
Insights for Action
16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
TBA
Utopia Reading Group
16:00 - Tracking Relative Bias: Attention and Fairness Judgments in Hiring Decisions
Xiaojie Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)
Behavioural Lab
16:00 - [CorTalk] Reactivations in the human brain build and regenerate narratives
Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 384 695 774 574 Passcode: FU2Le6gh
Avital Hahamy (UCL)
17:00 - Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
Tolkien seminars
17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
Joint Seminar RAI/Iberian History Seminar/ Latin American History Seminar
Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
Latin American History Seminar
17:30 - "Women and the Sikh Diaspora: Music and Mobility Across the Seven Seas" Dr Nicole Ranganath in conversation with Dr Priya Atwal
Dr Priya Atwal (Oxford), Dr Nicole Ranganath (University of California Davis)
OICSD Book Talks
17:30 - Archaeology Seminar
TBA

Saturday 14 June 2025

14:00 - A being of wonder: why religious freedom preserves all human freedoms (an Indonesian perspective)
Clarins Shieryl (Blackfriars Hall), Ignatius Bambang Sugiharto (Universitas Katolik Parahyangan)

Monday 16 June 2025

08:45 - Poetry, Power, Literacy, and the Emergence of Vernacular Literatures
Imre Bangha (University of Oxford), Prof. Wiebke Denecke (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Prof. Thibaut D'Hubert (University of Chicago), Prof. Jane Gilbert (University College London), Prof. Martin Orwin (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”), Dr Alberto Ravani (Princeton University), Prof. Elizabeth Tyler (University of York)
Talks on Medieval Poetry
10:30 - Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors
Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Oxford), Professor Agnès van Zanten (Science Po/CNRS)
11:30 - Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Environment and Resource Economics Seminar
11:30 - Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Political Economy Seminar
12:00 - Translating SNPs to disease biology in IBD
This is an Ad-Hoc seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr James Lee (The Francis Crick Institute)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
12:00 - CBT Research Seminar: Ségal Le Guern Herry, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
CBT seminars are open to Oxford University students, faculty and staff. Registration will close at Midday on Friday 13 June. You can register to attend by contacting cbt@sbs.ox.ac.uk. A calendar invite confirming your registration will be sent by 4pm on Friday 13 June.
Ségal Le Guern Herry (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
CBT Seminar Series
12:15 - End of term social event
Social event
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
12:45 - Ethnicity, Care Experience and Criminalisation: Using Admin Data to Interrogate Youth (In)Justice in England
Katie Hunter (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Quantitative Methods Hub Seminars
13:00 - Structural glycobiology in the era of AI: Restoring protein glycosylation with GlycoShape
Dr. Elisa Fadden (Associate Professor in Pharmacology, University of Southampton)
Biochemistry Department Seminar
13:00 - The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
14:00 - Interdisciplinary Research: Overcoming Barriers and Unlocking Potential
Dr Ana Valdivia (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Marilou Polymeropoulou (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography), Dr William Kelly (OxfoDigital Ethnography Group), Professor Andrew Gosler (University of Oxford), Dr William Finnegan (University of Oxford), Lena Easton-Calabria (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
14:00 - iSkills for Medicine: An introduction to designing a conference poster
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
14:00 - Can a wearable a day keep the questionnaire away?
Professor Aiden Doherty (Oxford Population Health), Mr. Charilaos Zisou (Oxford Population Health)
HDRUK Oxford Monthly Meetup
14:00 - Looking for meaning
Professor Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humoldt-Universitat zu berlin)
Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
14:30 - Title TBC
Zhao Dong (University of Oxford)
Political Economy Workshop
15:00 - The transcriptional architecture of developing schistosomes
Matt Berriman (University of Glasgow)
16:00 - The Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Internment of Bengalis in (West) Pakistan, 1971-1974
Registration required for zoom
Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
16:00 - From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Iris Clever (Chicago)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
16:00 - Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
Lamprini Rori (Athens)
T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
16:30 - Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
Please note this seminar is on Monday
Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Iberian History Seminar
17:00 - Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm
Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
Medieval History Research Seminar
17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
China Studies Seminar series
17:00 - Book talk - 'How To Think About AI: A Guide For The Perplexed'
Professor Richard Susskind (Society for Computers and Law)
Oxford Martin School Events
17:00 - Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women's Political Representation?
Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
17:00 - The Śyāma Jātaka in the Dazu Rock Carvings
Li Ling (Sichuan University)
Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies
17:00 - Life on Ukraine's front line: the story of Avdiivka
Abdujalil Abdurasulov (BBC News)
17:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
TBA
Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
TBA
Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
18:15 - Steering Change - Reflections on the Political Challenges of Advancing Active Transport
Prof Rob Stokes

Tuesday 17 June 2025

09:30 - Harnessing neuroscience to translate genomic discoveries in psychiatry
Professor Jeremy Hall (Director, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute & Theme Lead for Mind, Brain & Neuroscience, Cardiff University)
10:30 - Digital Scholarship coffee morning
TBA
Digital Scholarship Coffee Mornings
11:00 - Spatial-temporal dependency & interventions for radiation-induced cardiac toxicity
This seminar will take place in person only
Professor Karl Butterworth (Queen's University Belfast)
11:00 - Trusted Research Briefing at MPLS
**This will be an in-person talk only, pre-registration is a must
Professor Patrick Grant (Chair) (University of Oxford (Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research)), Dr Jenny Gladstone (University of Oxford)
12:00 - RyR2 in the spotlight: how mutations and phosphorylation shape cardiac rhythm and arrhythmia susceptibility
Join us in person or remotely via Teams - e-mail carolyn.thackrah@pharm.ox.ac.uk for joining instructions
Dr Ana Maria Gomez (Faculty of Pharmacy, INSERM, University of Paris-Saclay)
Pharmacology, Anatomical Neuropharmacology and Drug Discovery Seminars
12:15 - The CaTS-App: A new collaborative assessment tool for adolescent self-harm
Prof. Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham)
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: Trinity Term
12:30 - Demographic hysteria, rebellious wombs: The paradox of Iran's family planning project
Dr Saba Mirhoissein (Bielefeld University)
Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group
12:45 - Is Equal Opportunity Different from Welfarism?
Gabriel Carroll (University of Toronto)
Economic Theory Workshop
13:00 - Title TBC
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
Dr Lukas Sveikata (University of Geneva)
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
13:00 - State, Movement, People
TBA
The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
13:00 - Title TBC
Professor Sergio Quezada (University College London Cancer Institute)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
13:00 - Large scale genetic consortia
Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
Richard Doll Seminars
13:00 - No CSAE Workshop this week
TBA
CSAE Research Workshops
13:15 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
Macroeconomics Seminar
14:00 - Project Clinic
Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
14:00 - Co-research into higher education – theory and practice
Krystian Szadkowski (Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland)), Magdalena Radomska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Adam Ochwat (University of Warsaw)
14:00 - Title TBC
Rohini Pande (Yale University)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
14:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
14:00 - Advanced meditation and the third wave of meditation research
Prof Matthew Sacchet (Harvard University)
Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
14:00 - Skill Up with Immersive: The Future of Hands-On Learning
James Pallister (Metaverse Learning)
14:30 - A Muslim Scholar Studies a New Testament Gospel: Challenges and opportunities
Registration only required for online attendance. Just turn up in person.
Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (Research Fellow, CMCS Oxford)
CMCS Oxford Summer Term Series
15:00 - Seminar on Pasolini’s Teorema
Various Speakers
The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation
15:00 - Celebrating Early Career Immunology at Oxford
Adrien Sprumont (Bannard Group, University of Oxford), Veronika Pfannenstill (Fritzsche Group, University of Oxford), Yavuz Yazicioglu (Clarke Group, University of Oxford), Sooraj Achar (Dustin Group, University of Oxford)
16:00 - Cows and Commons: An Environmental Approach to Witchcraft Belief in Switzerland
Aaron Larsen (St Hilda's College, Oxford), Noé Vonlanthen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
16:00 - Sequential College Admission Mechanisms and Off-Platform Options
Arnaud Maurel (Duke University)
Applied Microeconomics Seminar
16:15 - Reconstructing the Lost Paper Trail of Habsburg First Councillor Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle
Please note this talk is online only
Dr Maxim Hoffman (Ghent University)
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
17:00 - Narratives from European-African Encounters
Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
17:00 - The Revolution of 1905 in Turkestan
Alexander Morrison (Oxford)
The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
17:00 - Narratives from European-African Encounters
Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Economic and Social History Seminar
17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
Matilda Houston-Brown, Akrivi Ventouras
Early Modern Graduate Forum
17:30 - Leading Beyond Authority: Independent Leaders
Venue: Oxford Playhouse, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LW
Various Speakers
Fuelling Change: Values and Ethics in Cultural Production
18:00 - How children, scientists, and AI systems learn
Professor Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

09:30 - Networking: A strategic approach (in-person)
Do you feel shy and uncomfortable at conferences? Do you feel networking is self-seeking and smacks of using people? On the contrary: “The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.” Keith Ferrazzi
Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
10:30 - iSkills for Medicine: Introduction to EndNote
Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
11:10 - The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
12:00 - , “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
Julian Murphet
Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
12:00 - Structures and Stability: Battling Beams, Kirigami Computing, and Eye Morphogenesis
To join this seminar online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTJkYTYyZGYtYmIwYy00ODM0LTk0ZTMtZDU0ZDczYWE5ZWVl%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e6ced614-5673-458c-832d-5d4ada66f593%22%7d
TBA
Industrial & Applied Mathematics Seminar
12:30 - No seminar this week
TBA
CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
12:30 - Remembering and Forgetting: a cross-disciplinary perspective
Dr Ammar Azzouz, Professor Johannes Zachhuber, Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Alexander Stavrou
12:30 - 'Pandemic Therapeutics – bringing coals to Newcastle' presented by Saye Khoo
This talk is for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand to let us know (events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk).
Professor Saye Khoo (University of Liverpool)
12:30 - CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks: iPSC & Cellular Imaging Facilities
There is no need to register. If you are not a member of the Centre for Human Genetics and are attending in person, you will need to show your University card at reception, and sign in and out of the building.
Various Speakers
CHG Lunchtime Lab Talks
12:30 - Lunch & Learn: Time Management
This is an online Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
DPAG Lunch & Learns
12:45 - Shedding new light on GPCR signalling: why space and time matter
Professor Davide Calebiro (University of Birmingham)
OCDEM Wednesday Seminar Series
13:00 - Colonial intersections and global connections: China, Japan, and Manchuria in the early 20th century
Zhenyan Lu (King's College London), Dr. Gloria Yu Yang (Kyushu University)
International History of East Asia Seminar
13:30 - iSkills for Medicine: Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses
Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Eli Harriss (Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
14:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
TBA
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
15:30 - Atkinson Memorial Lecture 2025: "Natural Selection of Artificial Intelligence"
Organised in collaboration with the Global Priorities Institute
Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University)
16:00 - Addressing equity challenges in the environmental governance of food supply chains: the case of deforestation-risk commodities in the tropics
Professor Rachael Garrett (University of Cambridge)
Future of Food seminar series
16:00 - [CorTalk] TBC
Christof Koch, PhD (Chief Scientist, MindScope Program, Allen Institute, Seattle, Chief Scientist, Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, Santa Monica)
17:00 - The Authoritarian Personality and Political Culture Today
Prof Benjamin Morgan (University of Oxford)
Critical Theory Seminar
17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
17:00 - Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
18:00 - #StartedinOxford Showcase
Professor Irene Tracey (University of Oxford), Dr Olga Kozlova (Research Services, University of Oxford)
18:00 - Poetry Reading: Breaking a Mare
Christina Thatcher (Cardiff University)

Thursday 19 June 2025

10:00 - Leading and Managing People in Research (formerly EPMR) - in-person
Jarlath Brine (University of Oxford)
10:30 - Extractivism Viewed from the South: Comparative Perspectives in Film and Literature
Various Speakers
11:00 - Getting Started with Public Engagement with Research (online)
Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
12:00 - Spatially mapping immune mediated kidney disease
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Dr Katherine Bull (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
12:50 - Addressing the Knowledge Divide: A Capability Approach to Digital Access Inequities in Graduate Education
Priyanka Soni (University of Oxford)
Qualitative Methods Hub Seminars
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Respiratory
TBA
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
14:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Opportunities and Challenges of Navigating Fieldwork as Insider and Outsider Fieldworkers
Dr Dolores Martinez (SAME), Jingsi Wang (SAME), Susan MacDougall (ISCA, Oxford), Professor Agnieszka Kubal (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
14:00 - How to Build Lasting Career Resilience
Various Speakers
15:30 - Title TBC
TBA
Novel Ideas: MPhil Seminar Series
16:00 - Dissecting the synaptic basis of learning in vivo
This is a virtual event; please contact events@dpag.ox.ac.uk for Teams Link
Dr William (Jake) Wright (University of California, San Diego)
Neuroscience Theme Guest Speakers (DPAG)
17:00 - London public sermons and early modern emotional communities
Mary Morrissey (Reading University)
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
17:00 - Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)

Friday 20 June 2025

08:00 - RESPOND Conference
Various Speakers
09:15 - Title TBC
in person only
Uhlig Group (University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings
10:00 - Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities: Work in Progress Workshop
Various Speakers
Oxford Medical Humanities
11:00 - Nonlinear dynamics of passive and active particles in channel flows
Dr Rahil Valani (University of Oxford)
Mathematical Biology and Ecology
12:00 - Resolving the Boundary Layer Paradox: Seismic Clues to the Origin of Lithosphere Discontinuities
Dr Totulope Olugboji (University of Rochester)
Earth Sciences departmental seminars
12:00 - Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan University)
China Centre talks
12:00 - Mitochondria-lysosome crosstalk in health and disease
Assoc Prof Nuno Raimundo (Penn State College of Medicine)
OxON - Oxford Organelle Network talks
12:30 - Title TBC
Hannah Platts (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
12:45 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
Student Research Workshop in Micro Theory
13:00 - End of Year Celebration
TBA
Race & Resistance
13:00 - How Electoral Fraud Facilitates Elite Rent-Sharing (joint with Liam Rose)
Aliz Tóth (LSE)
Politics Research Colloquium
13:05 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
Macroeconomics Working Group
14:00 - Rethinking Hong Kong’s Laissez-Faire Myth
TBA
Oxford China Reading Group
14:15 - Title TBC
Meena Jagadeesan (UC Berkeley (Computer Science))
Nuffield Econometrics Seminar
14:15 - Screening With Tests
Jeff Ely (Northwestern University)
Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
15:00 - Title TBC
Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
Jowett Society
16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
TBA
Utopia Reading Group
16:00 - p-Hacking Instrument Selection
Patrick Vu (The University of New South Wales (UNSW))
Behavioural Lab
17:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Latin American History Seminar
17:00 - The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
Tolkien seminars

Monday 23 June 2025

09:00 - Research Jamboree 2025: Malaria and Vaccine Take-Up (CSAE/ Jenner Centre)
Please check the web link for updated information about the workshop programme.
Various Speakers
09:15 - Colloquium 2025: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences
Various Speakers
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
12:00 - OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

09:00 - Research Jamboree 2025: IO/Trade Session on Industrial Policy (joint with CMA Microeconomics Unit)
Please check the web link for updated information about the workshop programme.
Various Speakers
09:00 - One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
Registration closes 31 May
Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)
09:00 - Leadership in Action
An in-person leadership programme for research staff. Leadership in Action is a 3-day participative leadership course that provides the opportunity to explore and develop your own leadership style. You will also be able to meet, work, and network with others. The course culminates in a celebratory dinner on the final evening.
Various Speakers
Leadership in Action
09:00 - iSkills for Medicine: An introduction to science communication: Translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences
09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Professor David Withers (NDM-Centre for Immuno-Oncology, University of Oxford)
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
10:00 - Clinical decision support: Examples from Viet Nam in dengue management and the South and Southeast Asian Community-based Trials Network (SEACTN) in Thailand
Dr Chanh Ho Quang (OUCRU)
HIGH-Q Exchange Webinar Series
10:30 - Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Ethox Centre Seminars
13:00 - Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk for remote meeting access
Miss Samantha Foster (University of Oxford)
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
13:00 - Research Jamboree 2025: Centre for Research on Outreach and Access
Please check the web link for updated information about the workshop programme.
Various Speakers
13:00 - Title TBC
TBA
Econometrics Lunch
16:00 - DPAG KAVLI SIR HANS KREBS PRIZE LECTURE 2025: Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering: Towards Oral Insulin and Artificial Pancreas
Professor Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
DPAG Prize Lectures

Wednesday 25 June 2025

09:00 - Research Jamboree 2025: Economics of Modern Slavery
Please check the web link for updated information about the workshop programme.
Various Speakers
13:00 - Choosing open access for books: An author journey
Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University, Open Book Collective)
Open Scholarship
14:00 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Scholarship
18:00 - Preparation and pandemics: confronting new threats
TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

Friday 27 June 2025

09:15 - Title TBC
in person only
Dushek Group (University of Oxford)
MRC TIDU Friday Morning Lab Meetings

Monday 30 June 2025

14:00 - iSkills for Medicine: Poster clinic
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills for Medical Sciences and OUH Trust - workshops in information discovery and reference management for the Medical Sciences

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Wednesday 2 July 2025

12:30 - Lunch & Learn: Transitioning to Group Leader
This is an online Lunch & Learn session, please visit the booking url to register.
Various Speakers
DPAG Lunch & Learns
13:00 - TBC
Dr Sooraj Achar (University of Oxford)
Dunn School of Pathology Research Seminars
13:00 - Oxford Chinese Language Teaching Research Forum
Ticketed Forum for practitioners and educators at primary and secondary level engaged in, or interested in Chinese language teaching.
TBC
15:00 - ’Zero-burden’ home assessment of cognition and behaviour: new approaches and implications for clinical trials
Prof. David Sharp (Imperial College London)
Brain Network Dynamics Seminar Series

Thursday 3 July 2025

Friday 4 July 2025

Monday 7 July 2025

Tuesday 8 July 2025

09:30 - Unsupervised Approaches to Decode the Functional Impact of Genetic Variation
Professor Nathan Palpant (The University of Queensland)
BDI/CHG Genomics Seminar Series
10:00 - Innovations in epilepsy diagnosis in Kenya
Professor Arjune Sen (Head of the Oxford Epilepsy Research Group), Dr Symon Kariuki (Africa Population and Health Research Centre,)
HIGH-Q Exchange Webinar Series
13:00 - Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk to provide access link to the meeting
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme
13:00 - Positive Experience Shifts Fear Memories Away from Basolateral Amygdala
Dr Melissa Sharpe (University of Sydney (Australia))
Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)

Wednesday 9 July 2025

09:30 - AI in teaching and learning at Oxford: Knowledge exchange forum
Presented by the Centre for Teaching and Learning and AI and Machine Learning Competency Centre
Various Speakers
09:30 - Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Various Speakers
12:00 - Title TBC
TBA
OxCIN Seminar Series
14:00 - Enhancing Health Behaviors: Leveraging Smartphone Data and Electronic Medical Records for Optimized Health Outcomes
Dr Samah Hayek (University of Tel Aviv)
Digital Phenotying

Thursday 10 July 2025

09:00 - Full-Day Workshop: English as an Additional Language - Understanding Evidence for Policy and Practice
Ticketed workshop designed for EAL leads, classroom educators or practitioners
Professor Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford), Dr Hamish Chalmers (University of Oxford), Dr Faidra Faitaki (University of Oxford)
13:00 - Aspirational Transport Infrastructure and Emerging Narratives of City-making in India
Join via teams using https://shorturl.at/Djdus Meeting ID: 397 146 516 736 1 Passcode: RA6v5dZ3
Dr Rutul Joshi (CEPT University)
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Renal Medicine
TBA
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
16:00 - OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

Friday 11 July 2025

14:00 - TBC
Prof Sarah McClelland (Queen Mary, University of London)
Dunn School of Pathology Departmental Seminars

Tuesday 15 July 2025

10:30 - Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Ethox Centre Seminars
12:00 - Call for Papers : Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
TBA
Health Economics
13:00 - Title TBC
Professor Bertie Gottgens (Cambridge Stem Cell Institute)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM
13:00 - Journal club: The use of the Edinburgh Criteria to diagnose Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and its ability to predict ICH recurrence
Please contact maxine.florey-hill@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
Various Speakers
NDCN Stroke Seminar Programme

Wednesday 16 July 2025

13:00 - GCP for Laboratory Staff
In-person only for staff who work in University of Oxford laboratories handling samples from CTIMPs. Must register in advance.
Various Speakers

Thursday 17 July 2025

Monday 21 July 2025

09:00 - Fundamentals of Graduate Economics and Finance (In-Person)
Inés Moreno De Barreda, James Duffy
Fundamentals of Graduate Economics and Finance

Thursday 24 July 2025

09:00 - Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium 24-25 July 2025
Various Speakers
13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Stroke Medicine
TBA
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Scholarship

Monday 28 July 2025

14:00 - Preeclamptic placental extracellular vesicles; a cause of the long-term cardiovascular consequences of preeclampsia
Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
Professor Larry Chamley (University of Auckland)
CDPRC Seminar Series

Thursday 31 July 2025

13:00 - Medical Grand Rounds - Dermatology
Dr Rubeta Matin
MSD Medical Grand Rounds

Tuesday 5 August 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Tuesday 19 August 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Monday 1 September 2025

11:00 - Systems biological assessment of human immunity to vaccination and infection
Prof Bali Pulendran (Stanford School of Medicine)
Jenner Seminars

Tuesday 2 September 2025

Thursday 4 September 2025

12:00 - TBC
This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Julian Downward (Francis Crick Institute)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 8 September 2025

09:00 - September Summer School 2025
Steve Bond, Sergio De Ferra, Andrea Ferrero, Maximilian Kasy, Alexandre Kohlhas, Michael McMahon, Federica Romei, Romuald Méango, Alexei Parakhonyak, Greg Taylor, Petr Sedlacek
Oxford University Economics September Summer School

Tuesday 9 September 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Prof Christopher Buckley (University of Oxford)
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
10:00 - HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Various Speakers

Monday 15 September 2025

09:00 - Global Surgery Course 2025
TBA

Wednesday 17 September 2025

09:30 - Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Various Speakers

Thursday 18 September 2025

11:00 - Biomechanical contributions to cancer progression
Prof Maddy Parsons (King's College London)

Tuesday 23 September 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Dr Marco Fritzsche (University of Oxford)
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Thursday 25 September 2025

11:00 - Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis - title TBA
Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis (University of Cambridge)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 29 September 2025

11:00 - Dr Hao Wu - title TBA
Dr Hao Wu (Harvard Medical School)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
14:00 - Title TBC
Please email either yvonne.kenworthy@cardiov.ox.ac.uk or laura.bourne@cardiov.ox.ac.uk at least 24hrs before, if you would like a link to the talk.
Rema Ramakrishnan (University of Oxford), Claire Carson (University of Oxford)
CDPRC Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 September 2025

13:00 - Title TBC
Professor Marketa Tomkova (Ludwig Cancer Research)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Wednesday 1 October 2025

16:00 - Title TBC
Professor Hao Wu (Asa and Patricia Springer Professor of Structural Biology; Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Lectures

Thursday 2 October 2025

11:00 - Dr Elizabeth Patton - title TBA
TBA
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 6 October 2025

13:00 - IDEU Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 October 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
10:00 - HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Various Speakers

Thursday 9 October 2025

11:00 - Dr Mekayla Storer - title TBA
Dr Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 13 October 2025

12:00 - TBC
This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Siddharth Balachandran (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
13:00 - IDEU Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
13:00 - Title TBC
Dr. Giacomo Cavalli (Institute of Human Genetics, France)
Biochemistry Department Seminar

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Wednesday 15 October 2025

13:00 - GCP for Laboratory Staff
In-person only for staff who work in University of Oxford laboratories handling samples from CTIMPs. Must register in advance.
Various Speakers

Thursday 16 October 2025

11:00 - Medical Statistics Drop in session
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Dr Lei Clifton (University of Oxford)
12:00 - TBC
This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Pierre Buffet (University of Paris)
WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS

Monday 20 October 2025

13:00 - IDEU Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 October 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Thursday 23 October 2025

09:00 - IX Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
Ian Preston (University College London), Hyejin Ku (University College London), Tamara Smith (Gov London)
Health Economics Seminar
11:00 - Dr Manel Esteller - title TBA
Dr Manel Esteller (Leukaemia Research Institute, Barcelona)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series
12:00 - TBC
This is an Ad-Hoc Seminar. This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
Professor Filipe Pereira (Lund University)

Thursday 30 October 2025

11:00 - Dr Elisa Vilardo - Title TBA
Dr Elisa Vilardo (University of Vienna)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 31 October 2025

17:30 - AfOx Insaka at St Cross College
TBA

Monday 3 November 2025

09:30 - Oxford Stem Cell Institute Annual Symposium 2025 "Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy”
Please note registration is available only until 24th October or as soon as the venue capacity has been reached.
Jamie Hackett (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Rome, Italy), Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge), Phil Jones (University of Cambridge), Manuel Serrano (Altos Labs, Cambridge), Peter Rugg-Gunn (Babraham Institute, Cambridge), Abdenour Soufi (University of Edinburgh), Ian Chambers (University of Edinburgh), Alberto Elosegui-Artola (The Francis Crick Institute, London), Eugenia Piddini (University of Bristol), Paul Riley (University of Oxford), Professor Dame Molly Stevens (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch), Francis Szele (DPAG, University of Oxford), Prof Richard White (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research), Sarah DeVal (DPAG, University of Oxford), Carlos Rinaldi (Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford), Pakavarin Louphrasitthiphol (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford), Oliver Stone (DPAG, University of Oxford)
2018 Annual Oxford Stem Cell Institute Symposium "Stem Cells: From Mechanism to Therapy”
13:00 - IDEU Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 November 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars
10:00 - HRA and Ethics Submissions Training
Various Speakers

Thursday 6 November 2025

11:00 - Dr Jose Adrover - title TBA
Dr Jose Adrover (The Francis Crick Institute)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Friday 7 November 2025

15:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Michael Potter (Cambridge)
Jowett Society

Monday 10 November 2025

13:00 - IDEU Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 November 2025

09:30 - Introduction to Good Clinical Research Practice (GCRP)
Various Speakers

Monday 17 November 2025

13:00 - IDEU Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 November 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Friday 21 November 2025

15:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Gideon Rosen (Princeton)

Monday 24 November 2025

13:00 - IDEU Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 November 2025

13:00 - Title TBC
Professor Tim Somervaille (Cancer Research UK, Manchester Institute)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Thursday 27 November 2025

11:00 - Prof Kim Midwood - title TBA
Prof Kim Midwood (The Kennedy Institute)
Ludwig Institute Seminar Series

Monday 1 December 2025

13:00 - IDEU Seminar - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 December 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Friday 5 December 2025

15:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
Jowett Society

Tuesday 16 December 2025

09:30 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
CAMS Oxford Institute Seminars

Monday 19 January 2025

13:00 - TBC
Dr Simon Boulton (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Biochemistry Department Seminar

Monday 2 February 2025

13:00 - TBC
Prof Julie Welburn (Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, The University of Edinburgh)
Biochemistry Department Seminar

Friday 20 February 2025

15:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Graham Priest (CUNY)
Jowett Society

Tuesday 31 March 2025

13:00 - Title TBC
Professor Andreas Trumpp (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg)
Molecular Haematology Unit, WIMM

Friday 15 May 2025

15:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
Jowett Society

Friday 29 May 2025

15:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Selim Berker (Harvard)
Jowett Society

Friday 12 June 2025

15:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
Jowett Society

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