Monday 19 May 2025

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?'
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:30 - Opening of the Exhibition: ‘Breathing' with 'Breaths–Air Bladders’ - 19 May-26 June
  Exhibition
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 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
• 09:30 - GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
  Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 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
• 13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
  Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
  Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 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

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 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
• 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
• 14:00 - 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 - Bringing Digital Image Collections Together
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
• 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
• 14:15 - "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
• 17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Blueprints: how mathematics shapes creativity - Marcus du Sautoy
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 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
• 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
• 12:00 - International and Interdisciplinary Workshop: 'The Worlds of Work: Crossed Perspectives from France and England'
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 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
• 12:45 - 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
• 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 - Uncovering Marion Scott: Exploring Musical Networks through Archival Research
  Dr Antonina Puchkovskaia (King's College London)
  Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
• 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

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 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 - 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
• 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
• 17:00 - Rethinking conservation: inclusion and participation in the Pacific Islands
  Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai (Talanoa Consulting, Fiji)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 14:15 - 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

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 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
• 14:00 - iSkills: Sources for US history
  Bethan Davies (Vere Harmsworth Library)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 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 - 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
• 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

Friday 30 May 2025

• 14:00 - Sex and Politics
  Reading and Discussion Group
  Body in History Reading & Discussion Group

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
• 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

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)
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
  Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 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
• 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

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 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)
• 11:00 - 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)
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 11:10 - Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
  Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 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
• 17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
  Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 15:00 - The Securitisation of AI Safety Institutes
  Renan Araujo (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Saturday 7 June 2025

• 10:30 - HAPP 1-Day Conference - Measure for Measure: A History of Measurement
  Various Speakers
  HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics

Monday 9 June 2025

• 13:00 - Malaria serology for epidemiology and control
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Chris Drakeley (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  Jenner Seminars
• 16:00 - Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
  Laure Miolo (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 09:30 - Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
  Various Speakers
  Psychiatry Seminar Series
• 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
• 10:30 - Ethox Seminar - Values Frameworks as Ideal Types: Navigating Ethics Conflicts with Normative Minorities
  Autumn Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)
  Ethox Centre Seminars
• 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
• 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

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 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
• 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
• 14:15 - 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

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 17:15 - Book Launch: Richard Reid’s The African Revolution
  Richard Reid (Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

• 14:00 - Speaker Event - Learning from the History of the Body
  Professor Lyndal Roper
  Body in History Reading & Discussion Group

Monday 16 June 2025

• 12:15 - End of term social event
  Social event
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 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
• 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

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 17:00 - Narratives from European-African Encounters
  Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 11:10 - The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
  Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 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

Friday 20 June 2025

• 10:00 - Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities: Work in Progress Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Monday 23 June 2025

• 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

• 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

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 11:00 - Day 1: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Friday 27 June 2025

• 09:00 - Day 2: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Friday 4 July 2025

• 11:00 - Scenario Planning and the Medical Humanities: A Workshop for Uncertain Times
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 9 July 2025

• 12:00 - Malaria serology for epidemiology and control
  Prof Chris Drakeley (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
  Jenner Seminars

Thursday 10 July 2025

• 16:00 - OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
  Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
  OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)

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

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

• 10:00 - New Vaccine Designs to Induce HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
  Prof Barton Haynes (Duke University School of Medicine)
  Jenner Seminars