Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Life course metabolomics: new insights into body composition and diabetes
  Dr Joshua Bell (University of Bristol)
  BDI seminars
• 16:00 - Self-help and psychology
  Dr Michael Finn (Leeds)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:15 - INAUGURAL LECTURE: We are not good at translating lab science into new medicines for patients
  Chas Bountra (Professor of Translational Medicine; Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Antidepressant effectiveness and clinical importance
  Professor Glyn Lewis (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Twenty-five year risks of breast cancer mortality in 500,000 women
  TBA
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Libya and Challenges for International conflict resolution
  Christopher Thornton (Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 16:00 - Bearing the burdens we (don’t) bare: A theological reflection on carrying the weight of ageing
  Dr Ashley Moyse (McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, University of Oxford)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 17:00 - ‘When was cosmology? The curious history of a disciplinary category, c.1600–c.1730’
  Adam Mosley (Swansea University)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - A world without work: technology, automation and how we should respond
  Dr Daniel Susskind (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Children Writing War in the Nineteenth
  Joint session with the Centre for the History of Childhood
  Emma Butcher (Leicester)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 18:00 - McGovern Lecture on the History of Medicine: A Medical Commander In Rwanda 1994
  Major General Professor Alan Hawley CBE

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Efficacy of ChAdOx1-vectored vaccines against Nipah virus and MERS-CoV in animal challenge models
  Dr Neeltje van Doremalen (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda (NIAID))
  Jenner Seminars
• 17:15 - Lincoln Leads 2020: Should Antivaxxing be Illegal?
  Professor Jordan Raff (University of Oxford), Dr Sabine Jaccaud (Director of Cambridge Communications, AstraZeneca), Flurin Caviezel (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - High-throughput mass spectrometry for drug discovery
  Professor Matthias Trost (Newcastle University)
  TDI Seminar Series
• 16:00 - International treaties as imperial social contracts
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (University of South Wales)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Saturday 25 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Alice in Typhoidland activity day
  Various Speakers

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Proving violence: forensics and war crimes during the First World War
  Dr Taline Garibian (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 20:15 - The perils of writing a book about the clitoris, 2 years on
  Anne Zachary (British Psychoanalytical Society)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Multi-omics studies in depression
  Dr Najaf Amin (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 11:00 - Becoming a skilled reader: Evidence from eye movement research
  Sara Milledge (University of Southampton)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Language & Development Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Trans fatty acid biomarkers and incident type 2 diabetes: pooled analysis from 11 prospective cohort studies
  Dr Heidi Lai (Imperial College London)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
  Dr Oscar Jonsson (Stockholm Free World Forum)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 16:00 - Yes Yes No: Sculpture, Dance, Choreography and What Age Brings
  Melissa Pierce Murray, sculptor (UCL)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 17:00 - ‘Unity and diversity of practical geometry in sixteenth-century France’
  Angela Axworthy (MPIWG Berlin)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Scutt (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:00 - Inhibition of ER alpha-glucosidase I and the role of the unfolded protein response in dengue virus infection
  Juliane Brun (University of Oxford)
  Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Henry Segerman (Oklahoma State University)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
• 17:15 - Lincoln Leads 2020: Are We Entitled to Choose How We Die?
  Dr. Maria Stamatopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Amy Proffitt (Medical Director in Palliative Medecine at St Christopher's), Selina Abächerli (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020
• 18:00 - An Oxford Conversation: the impact of fake news on our lives
  Simon Stevens (NHS England), Damian Collins MP, Sarah Montague (BBC Radio 4)
  Population Health Seminars

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "A Pack of Knaves": The Royal African Company, large plantations and the rise of the planter class and imperial commitment to the support of slavery in British America 1672-1708
  Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - RNA Vaccines
  Prof Robin Shattock (Head of Mucosal Infection and Immunity, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London)
  Jenner Seminars
• 12:00 - Critical scaling limit of the random intersection graph
  Lorenzo Federico (University of Warwick)
  Probability seminar
• 15:00 - Phenome@BDI Seminar - Opportunities and challenges in using administrative data linkage to create electronic birth cohorts
  Dr Katie Harron (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
  BDI seminars
• 16:00 - Some aspects of patient-doctor relationships in the Middle Ages: Consilia and Regimina sanitatis, a kind of individualised medicine
  Professor Marilyn Nicoud (Avignon)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Overcoming the Black Dog: Ketamine and esketamine for resistant depression
  Professor Phil Cowen (University of Oxford), Dr Rupert McShane (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The genetics of stroke
  Associate Professor Jemma Hopewell (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - China's Good War: How Memory of the World War II past is shaping a nationalist future
  Professor Rana Mitter
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Fake news? Epistemic and ethical challenges for synthetic datasets
  Ben Cairns (University of Oxford), Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)
  Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
• 16:00 - Memory, Meaning and Human Identity: The place of theology in constructing the purpose of age in the light of dementia?
  Professor James Woodward (Sarum College)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 17:00 - ‘To G or not to G: J H Poynting and the gravitational constant in the nineteenth century’
  Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Lincoln Leads 2020: What is Worth Conserving?
  Dr Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College), Henry Kim (Director & CEO of the Aga Khan Museum), Branwen Phillips (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Materials, design and revolution in the making of modern China
  Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Merton College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850
  Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 20:15 - Reconstructing Socrates: Platonic projections and realities
  Armond d'Angour (University of Oxford)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - The application of mindfulness based interventions in healthcare: their possible value for patients and doctors
  Professor Anne Speckens (Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 09:30 - TropMed webinar: Vaccine evaluation and transfer to policy
  The seminar will be shared via Zoom. Contact Claire-Lise Kessler if you want to join
  Conall Watson (University of Oxford), Ifedayo Adetifa (KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya)
  Tropical Medicine Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Movement posology for a digitally-enabled world
  Professor Dylan Thompson (University of Bath)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
  Dr Sara Polo (University of Essex)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 16:00 - The body as an ageing thing
  Dr Chris Gilleard (University College London)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 17:00 - ‘Proposals to move the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1836–1945’
  Lee Macdonald (History of Science Museum, Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:15 - Pyrrhic progress: the history of antibiotics in Anglo-American food production
  Dr Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Teaching computers to understand clinical language: tapping into untapped opportunities of UK-CRIS'' & ''Predicting Outcomes in Prodromal and Manifest Parkinson’s Disease''
  Dr Andrey Kormilitzin (University of Oxford), Johannes Klein (University of Oxford), Professor Clare Mackay (Professor of Imaging Neuroscience, Oxford Department of Psychiatry)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 17:15 - All the Tsar's Virile Men: Sexuality and Masculinity in the Late Imperial Russian Military
  Siobhán Hearne (Durham)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Climate change and water: There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable engineering
  Dr Katrina Charles (University of Oxford)
  Alice in Typhoidland Speaker Programme

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Ian Griffiths - Cheerios, iPhones and Dysons: going backwards in time with fluid mechanics
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Ian Griffiths (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
• 17:15 - Who needs space?
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (University of Oxford), Dr Adam Camilletti (Engineering Manager, Exomars Rover Vehicle), Baptiste Vasey (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Scaling limits of finitely specified permutation classes
  Mickaël Maazoun (ENS Lyon)
  Probability seminar
• 16:00 - Astronomical instrumentation as a medium for the transmission of knowledge in the Islamic world
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Trish Greenhalgh (Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Using evidence to transform policy and practice – can it be done?
  Professor Mary Renfrew (University of Dundee)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Uncertainty and Mutual Recognition in Colombia - the Study of the Nature of Armed Non-State Actors in the Colombian Conflict
  Dr Jan Boesten (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 16:00 - Monkey Glands and Moisturisers: Anti-ageing in Modern Britain
  Dr James Stark (University of Leeds)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 17:00 - ‘Mastering the Mint: Isaac Newton’s economic and numismatic work’
  Alice Marples (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Better doctors, better patients, better decisions: Risk literacy in health
  Prof Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Can Diplomacy Ignore the Past?
  Dr. Jody LaPorte (University of Oxford), David Goodban (Head of CYPP, Mental Health Foundation), Heather McTaggart (Lincoln College)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Napoleon III, the invasion of Mexico, and mid-Victorian liberalism
  Dr Alex Middleton (Christchurch College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Raphaël Forien (INRA, Avignon)
  Probability seminar
• 16:00 - No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science?
  Georgina Ferry (Author)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 20:15 - Psychoanalytic thoughts on the psychodynamics of Casino Culture and Politics
  Candida Yates (Bournemouth University)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Towards prevention of dementia: opportunities and challenges
  Professor Cornelia van Duijn (University of Oxford)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 16:00 - What can knowledge of History contribute to current understandings of ageing and old age?
  Professor Patricia M. Thane (King's College London)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 17:00 - ‘How general relativity resonated with differential geometers’
  Tilman Sauer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Early Career Researcher Workshop:Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Workshop for Researchers (Why even successful researchers feel like frauds and what you can do about it)”
  Dr Rebecca Murphy (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 17:15 - Foreign war and civil war: France in 1652 and the costs of early-modern conflict
  David Parrott (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Can Editing Influence a Play’s Legacy?
  Henry Woudhuysen (Rector of Lincoln College), Lukas Erne (University of Geneva), Eirian Yem (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Revolution, Empire and Entangled History in the Southern Caribbean
  Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Historical and anthropological reflections on collapse and seizures among KhoeSan of southern Africa
  Dr Chris Low (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - What is Life? (James Martin Memorial Lecture)
  Sir Paul Nurse, FRS (Director, The Francis Crick Institute)
  Oxford Martin School Public Lectures

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Transitional care for young adults with ADHD – results from the CATChuS study
  Professor Tamsin Ford (University of Cambridge)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: The Risk of Everything – using linked electronic health records to develop and validate risk prediction tools for use in clinical care
  Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - New Insights into the Psychology of Individuals and Large Groups in Changing Conflicts
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 16:00 - Art, ageing and policy
  Stephen Bennett (Cabinet Office’s Policy Lab)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 17:00 - ‘The “Galilean Sect”: Talented mathematicians, devoted disciples’
  Lucia Bucciarelli (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - “A Medical Carousel”: The Transnational Migration of Doctors in the post-WWII era
  David Wright (McGill University, Montréal, Canada)
• 17:15 - Can a Person be Engineered?
  Prof George Brownlee (University of Oxford), Dr James Flewellen (Biophysicist, The Franck Circk Institute and Imperial College), Jasper E. Hunt (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  These presentations will be from 10:00-17:00
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 20:15 - Lessons from the Anthropological Field: reflecting on where culture and psychotherapy meet
  James Davies (Roehampton University)
  Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Neurocognitive predictors of depression relapse
  Dr Quentin Huys (University College London)
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 13:00 - Richard Doll Seminar: Trials to assess potential preventive, neuroprotective or symptom-alleviating treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
  Professor Richard Gray (University of Oxford)
  Population Health Seminars
• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 16:00 - On the Need to Stay Human: Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Age
  Dr Kate Kirkpatrick (Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Culture, KCL)
  The Construction of Ageing
• 17:00 - ‘The puzzle of Brahmagupta’s quadrilaterals: Hankel’s reading of Colebrooke’
  Ivahn Smadja (University of Nantes)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "The impact of childhood adversity on adult outcomes and public policy''
  Dr Sarah Bauermeister (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars
• 17:15 - PGT and PGR workshop
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Alan Champneys: Why pedestrian bridges wobble - synchronisation and the wisdom of the crowd
  Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register
  Alan Champneys (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Who Deserves Access to Aid?
  Professor Margaret Steven (University of Oxford), Dr Shawn Landres (Chair, LA County Quality & Productive Commission), Imogen Dobie (University of Oxford)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate students research presentations
  These presentations will be from 10:00-17:00
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Research Meeting - "Disordered affective learning in depression -TBC''
  Wanjun Lin (University of Oxford ), Joost Haarsma (University of Oxford )
  Psychiatry Seminars

Friday 27 March 2020 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Nicolas Collin (University of Lausanne, Department of Biochemistry)
  Jenner Seminars

Tuesday 31 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Oxford Workshop: Ageing without living longer
  Various Speakers
  Population Health Seminars

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Mathematics and Justice in ancient Egypt
  A joint History of Mathematics/Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar
  Annette Imhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
  History of Mathematics Seminar

Monday 4 May 2020 (16th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Banafshe Larijani (Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, Bath)
  Translating Illness

Monday 11 May 2020 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool)
  Translating Illness

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Discussing the ethical considerations around public, policy and research partner engagement in the formation of global pathogen molecular surveillance systems
  Dr George Busby (Nuffield Department of Medicine)
  Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities

Monday 1 June 2020 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Jean-Marc Dewaele (Professor in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, Birbeck)
  Translating Illness

Monday 8 June 2020 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Matthew Reynolds (Professor of English and Comparative Criticism, and AHRC Co-Investigator of the ‘Prismatic Translation’ Strand, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

Monday 15 June 2020 (22nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Ross White (Reader in Clinical Psychology and Leader of ‘Mental Health in Context’ Research Group, Liverpool)
  Translating Illness