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Seminars and Events of interest to OCHSMT
Description: Collection of seminars and events that may be of interest to the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Talks:

Monday 12 May 2025

iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
Date: 12 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Searching for patents and standards
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: EndNote
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Proton beam de-energisation and the Bragg peak for cancer therapy via jump diffusion stochastic differential equations
Date: 12 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Andreas Kyprianou (University of Warwick)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoe Screti (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Rethinking nosology, diagnosis, and prognosis
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Paris Lalousis (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Preparing for your literature review in the Social Sciences
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:45
Speaker s: Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Infection dynamics in a changing world: from climate drivers to immunity and vaccination’ presented by Jess Metcalf
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Jessica Metcalf (Princeton University)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0+1, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
Organiser: Pandemic Sciences Institute
Hosts: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wage Differentials in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Sex differences in immunity: do they matter for vaccination?
Date: 14 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Katie Flanagan (University of Tasmania)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lisbeth Soederberg (University of Oxford, Jenner Institute)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

AI and the future of work in developing countries
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Pablo Egaña-delSol (UAI Business School)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Sources for modern global history
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:45
Speaker s: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Session 3: The daily rotation: understanding the stereographic projection of the celestial sphere [2/2]
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

iSkills: Keeping up to date with research
Date: 15 May 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Morwenna Broughton (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable: Geotrauma, Emergency Histories, and Sacrifice Zones: Medieval Historians in the Anthropocene
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Ling Zhang (Cambridge), John Sabapathy (UCL), Amanda Power (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

AI Safety in Practice: Safeguarding Against Real-World Misuse and Near-Term Harms
Date: 15 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Broderick McDonald (Kings College London)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Jean-Baptiste Carrier in a Slave-Trading City: Atlantic World Violence and the French Revolution’
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker : Laura Mason (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications
Date: 16 May 2025, 9:30 - 19:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing Illness
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Reading and Discussion Group
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What is a “Trans Woman”?: Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis (Hybrid)
Date: 16 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jamey Jesperson (Victoria)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Panel Discussion: 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?'
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Opening of the Exhibition: ‘Breathing' with 'Breaths–Air Bladders’ - 19 May-26 June
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Exhibition
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar: The Meaning and Dying of Death for Children: Addressing Pediatric Palliative Care Gaps
Date: 20 May 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Christina Lamb (Athabasca University and University of Toronto)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 and on Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hybrid Warfare
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Caesarean Section and the Moral Discourse of Obstetric Surgery: 1830-1870
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker s: Sally Frampton (TORCH, University of Oxford), Dr Imogen Goold (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini
Host: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Referencing: EndNote
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
Date: 21 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Date: 21 May 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker s: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: RefWorks
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Gender and intersectional analysis in health systems research: Lessons for studies in African hospitals - Webinar
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Bintu Mansaray (University of Bristol), Prof. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault (University of Ottawa), Evelyn Kabia (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust)
Organisers: Yingxi Zhao (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford), Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Host: Yingxi Zhao (Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford)

Bringing Digital Image Collections Together
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: In-person event: Centre for Digital Scholarship
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Session 4: Planetary motions and horoscope
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"An astrologus praedicere possit futura contingentia? Nego": Astrology in Student Disputations at Oxford and Cambridge
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Blueprints: how mathematics shapes creativity - Marcus du Sautoy
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 May 2025

iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 22 May 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

International and Interdisciplinary Workshop: 'The Worlds of Work: Crossed Perspectives from France and England'
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:00 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Delphine Mercier (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:30
Speaker s: Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:30
Speaker s: Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Strategic Instability: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Narratives Fueling the Conventional and Emerging Tech
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Karuna Nandkumar (Oxford China Policy Lab)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Uncovering Marion Scott: Exploring Musical Networks through Archival Research
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Antonina Puchkovskaia (King's College London)
Venue Details: Online Event
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

MIDD’s Growing Role in Global Health: A Case Study of Primaquine Exposures in Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Dr Karen Rowland-Yeo (Certara), Prof Joel Tarning (MORU), Dr Mellie Gilder (MORU), Dr Nada Abla Geiser (Medicines for Malaria Venture)
Organiser: Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

African Military Thought
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking conservation: inclusion and participation in the Pacific Islands
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai (Talanoa Consulting, Fiji)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Referencing: Zotero
Date: 28 May 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Molecular Basis of RNA Virus Antigenic Shift
Date: 28 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Bauer (the Francis Crick Institute)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-026 Seminar Room 1, Department of Biochemistry.
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Session 5: Conjunctions and eclipses
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Relations of Religious Experience and Scientific Practices in Albert the Great
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Katja Krause (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Sources for US history
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Bethan Davies (Vere Harmsworth Library)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Masterclass by Patrick Boucheron 'Pourquoi des médiévistes? Penser le contemporain depuis le Moyen Âge'
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Security Profile of Network Infrastructure in the High North and the Baltic Sea – Prospects for continued NATO-EU collaboration
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Anniki Mikelsaar (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The College de France in Oxford: 'The Birth of the Black Death : New Approaches in World History' by Patrick Boucheron
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Pichette Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Sex and Politics
Date: 30 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Reading and Discussion Group
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Symposium ‘Energy Transitions and Marine Environments: Conflicts, Cooperation, and International Regulation’
Date: 2 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
Date: 2 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Oxford Parkinson's Research Day (this event is for Oxford Parkinson's Researchers only & is not aimed at members of the public)
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar: Subgroups and equity in cost-effectiveness analysis
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
Date: 4 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Agricultural Knowledge, the Pursuit of Public Utility, and Collaborative Epistemology in the Early Royal Society
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Niall Dilucia (CNRS, Maison Française d'Oxford/IHRIM)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

The Securitisation of AI Safety Institutes
Date: 5 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Renan Araujo (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 7 June 2025

HAPP 1-Day Conference - Measure for Measure: A History of Measurement
Date: 7 June 2025, 10:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and livestreamed online via YouTube
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Malaria serology for epidemiology and control
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Chris Drakeley (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lisbeth Soederberg (University of Oxford, Jenner Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar - Values Frameworks as Ideal Types: Navigating Ethics Conflicts with Normative Minorities
Date: 10 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Autumn Fiester (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 1 and on Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

An indirect way of detecting viruses: MDA5 guards against infection by surveying cellular RNA homeostasis
Date: 11 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Jan Rehwinkel (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: DCHB 20-138 Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Konstantina Foteinou (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)

Session 6: Horoscope : dating and interpretating medieval horoscopes
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Traces of Maghribī Astronomy in Sources from Latin Europe (13th-14th Centuries)
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Bill Smith (DPhil History)
Venue Details: ONLINE via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Budgeting for AI: Towards a Systematic Understanding of the Impact of Public Budgeting on Public Sector AI Adoption
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Chloe Chadwick (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch: Richard Reid’s The African Revolution
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Richard Reid (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Speaker Event - Learning from the History of the Body
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Lyndal Roper
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

End of term social event
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:15 - 14:15
Speaker : Social event
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Old Kitchen Bar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Iris Clever (Chicago)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
Date: 18 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities: Work in Progress Workshop
Date: 20 June 2025, 10:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: Hande Altinay (University of Oxford), Yuxin Peng (University of Oxford), Professor Erica Charters, Eleanor Kerfoot (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 June 2025

Colloquium 2025: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences
Date: 23 June 2025, 9:15 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: and Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 23 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Antony Cooper (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 July 2025

Scenario Planning and the Medical Humanities: A Workshop for Uncertain Times
Date: 4 July 2025, 11:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 July 2025

OPDC Seminar - talk title tbc
Date: 10 July 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Assistant Prof. Briana R. De Miranda (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Venue Details: This seminar will be held online. Please email opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 September 2025

Systems biological assessment of human immunity to vaccination and infection
Date: 1 September 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Bali Pulendran (Stanford School of Medicine)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lisbeth Soederberg (University of Oxford, Jenner Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 September 2025

New Vaccine Designs to Induce HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
Date: 2 September 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Prof Barton Haynes (Duke University School of Medicine)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lisbeth Soederberg (University of Oxford, Jenner Institute)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2022 Astor Lecture in Medical Humanities events
2022 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
2023 Black History Month events
2023 International Symposium: Newton Geneva Edition
2024 Black History Month events
24-25 March - 2-Day Conference: Alliances in the history of armed conflict, 1642-present
2-Day Conference: Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History
3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
A Conflict of Allegiance? Lectures marking the Tercentenary of the death of Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724)
African Studies Centre events
Alice in Typhoidland Speaker Programme
Ancient Medicine Seminar
Annual LGBT+ History Month Lecture
Anthropocene Histories
'Antidemocratic Politics vs. Democratising Democracy: New Political Imaginaries in the 21st Century'
ArgO-EMR Seminar
BDI seminars
Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities
Blavatnik School of Government Events
Bodleian Events
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Bodleian iSkills workshops: State Papers Online, Referencing, Open Scholarship, Literature searches
Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminars and events
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
Cooling for COP26
Early Modern Intellectual History
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
Environmental History Working Group
Ethox Centre Seminars
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Globalising and Localising the Great War
Governance of AI Seminar Series
GTC Medical Anthropology Film & Discussion Group
HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics
Historians in the Public Sphere
History of Biology Reading Group
History of Mathematics Seminar
History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment Work in Progress Group
History of Science Museum Events
History of the Gendered Body
History of War Seminar Series
HoM@50
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2020 - online
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2023: The Ox-cars
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Humanities Cultural Programme
Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
Jenner Seminars
Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020
Literature and Mental Health
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Mansfield Public Talks
McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2023 - Conditions for Corrosion: How Are Good Healthcare Practitioners Made and Lost?
Medical Anthropology
Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Oxford Climate Research Network seminars
Oxford Climate Society Online Events
Oxford Ethics and Humanities Events
Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
Oxford History of Science turns 50
Oxford Martin School Events
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Postgraduate Teaching Network (OPTN)
Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures, Seminars & Events
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University History Society
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
Population Health Seminars
Postdoc Power Hour (PoPoH)
Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
Probability seminar
Psychiatry Seminar Series
Richard Doll Seminars
'Science and the Public Sphere' Seminar
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Events (SHAC)
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
TDI Seminar Series
The Changing Character of War Centre Seminar
The Construction of Ageing
The George Institute for Global Health UK Seminars
The McGovern Lecture
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Philosophical Café
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
TORCH Doctoral Network: Oxford Technology in Society Forum (OTIS)
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
TORCH Network: Writing Technologies
TORCH: Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network
Translating Illness
Translating Illness
Tropical Medicine Seminars
Uncomfortable Oxford Project
University of York Open Lectures
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
What about Exclusion?
Women’s Equality and Inequality Research Programme (WEIR)
Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts