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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 2 March 2026

Searching for patents and standards
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 2 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alessandra Vetrugno (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

Rank-Dependent Branching Selection Particle Systems and the F-KPP Equation
Date: 2 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Jacob Mercer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L5
Organisers: Matthias Winkel (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford), Christina Goldschmidt (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 2 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
Date: 2 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2026

Excitation-inhibition balance in psychosis - what does it really mean, and can we really measure it?
Date: 3 March 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Rick Adams (University College London)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 3 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Between Sovereignty and Interdependence: India and South Africa’s AI development strategies
Date: 3 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Ayantola Alayande (Oxford Department of International Development)
Venue Details: Online Only
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

NO SEMINAR
Date: 3 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : No seminar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The cognitive model of PTSD in children and adolescents: the maths, the myths, and the market
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Richard Meiser-Stedman (King’s College London)
Venue Details: Online & Lecture theatre 2, Life and Mind Building (LaMB) Ground floor
Organiser: Nora Skjerdingstad (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Societal Resilience: Our communities know their strengths, do you?
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Rowena Hill (Nottingham Trent University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Book presentation ‘Cultural expertise. Theories, Laws and Practices’ (Routledge, 2025)
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Livia Holden (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS)), Dina Hadad (Université Paris Nanterre)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alessandro Nuvolari (School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail with author Hélène Giannecchini
Date: 3 March 2026, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker s: Hélène Giannecchini (Author), Discussant: Katie Burke (Oxford), Discussant: Eszter D Kovács (Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Old Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special Film Screening 'Le dernier Canadien français'
Date: 3 March 2026, 19:00 - 22:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2026

Code the Collection: Two-day open cultural data hackathon
Date: 4 March 2026, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: In-person event: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Oxford
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to Zotero for medicine
Date: 4 March 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iPSC models of Tauopathy
Date: 4 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Kathryn Bowles (UK DRI, University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Phase 1 Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-026). 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)

Koch History Centre Lecture: Church, State and Hierarchy
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : David d'Avray
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Putting nature on a path to recovery: how are we doing?
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr David Cooper (Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2026

EndNote for referencing
Date: 5 March 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
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

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Community
Date: 5 March 2026, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Correcting the Climate: Jules Verne’s Planetary Apocalypse
Date: 5 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Sebastian Egholm Lund (University of Oxford), Claire Qu (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Market humanism: towards a new paradigm for the economy and economics'
Date: 5 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:15
Speaker s: Prof Eric Beinhocker (INET Oxford Executive Director), Nick Hanauer (Founder, Civic Ventures)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Keeping up to date with research
Date: 5 March 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker s: Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Louise Wetherill (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Burning Issues: Fire Management in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1892-1938
Date: 5 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jessica Chirboga (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Memory and oblivion of financial crisis’
Date: 5 March 2026, 15:15 - 17:15
Speaker s: Youssef Cassis (European University Institute), Pierre Chabrol (Minister Counsellor for Economic Affairs), Jean-Jacques Van Helten (European University Institute), Patrice Baubeau (Maison Française d'Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book talk - 'The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)'
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2026

Working with sensitive research data
Date: 6 March 2026, 11:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Date: 6 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Neal Thurley (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

ICHM: Celebration of honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination
Date: 6 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Elena Conis (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination
Date: 6 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Elena Conis (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Theatre
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Host: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)

'From Utopia to Politics: Brutalist Architecture in France’s Working-Class Neighbourhoods'
Date: 6 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Robin Wilson (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL), Nigel Green, Ulysse Rabaté (Paris 8 University Vincennes Saint-Denis)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 7 March 2026

British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress Meeting
Date: 7 March 2026, 10:30 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2026

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Childhood Studies
Date: 9 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Kiera Vaclavik (QMUL), Sophie Ratcliffe (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Between isolation and connectedness: understanding energy islands through the island-ness lens
Date: 9 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Yael Parag (Reichman University)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 9 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Renan Gross (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L5
Organisers: Matthias Winkel (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), Julien Berestycki (University of Oxford), Christina Goldschmidt (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford), James Martin (Department of Statistics, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Children’s Week - A week exploring new frontiers, infant cognition, emotions, and care, including the history of children’s health, while rethinking classic themes such as work, children’s art and literature, and naturalist approaches to learning.
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Didier Lett (Université Paris Cité), Maya Gratier (Babylab Nanterre), Helen Sunderland (Oxford), Natacha Collomb (CNRS)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2026

Digital Innovation in Metabolic Psychiatry: AI-enabled Ketogenic and GLP-1-Supported Lifestyle Interventions
Date: 10 March 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Megan Kirk Chang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 10 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Designing a conference poster in medicine: Getting started
Date: 10 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Advancing Data Science to Examine the Causal Relationship Between Social Media Content and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours’
Date: 10 March 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Amrit Kaur Purba (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Tanya Manchanda (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts: TBA

Popes, Ambassadors and Falcons: Trade and Diplomacy between Latin Europe and the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fourteenth Century
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Mike Carr (Edinburgh)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How to End a Nuclear War: Deterrence and Provocation in War Termination
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Lauren Sukin (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Spinning at Home for the Market: Individual Productivity and Income in 18th Century Sweden
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Kathryn Gary (Lund University)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2026

Postgraduate Presentations
Date: 11 March 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Date: 11 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

PSI seminar: 'What makes evidence credible in policymaking?’ presented by Kathryn Oliver
Date: 11 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Kathryn Oliver (Professor of Evidence and Policy, LSHTM)
Venue Details: Hybrid event. MS Teams or LG 1 Seminar room, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus Oxford OX3 7LF.
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Date: 11 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Date: 11 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“What Differences Does Solidarity Make?" Emerging Insights from a Global Qualitative Study.
Date: 11 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Organisers: Prof. Caesar Atuire (Global Health Solidarity Project, University of Oxford & University of Ghana), Dr. Julian Natukunda (Global Health Solidarity Project, University of Oxford), Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Sacrifice to Creation: Two Paradigms of Indian Political Thought
Date: 11 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Salmoli Choudhuri
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

HAPP Lecture: Godfrey Stafford: Physicist, Director, Master
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Norman McCubbin (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, and livestreamed online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Computers, Geometry and Einstein - Jason Lotay
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jason Lotay (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 March 2026

21st Annual Oxford Vaccine Group Immunisation Seminar
Date: 12 March 2026, 9:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard (Oxford Vaccine Group), Dr Dominic Kelly (Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford), Dr Robert Shaw (Oxford Vaccine Group), Professor George Warimwe (Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, University of Oxford), Professor Malick Gibani (Imperial College London), Dr James Gilchrist (University of Oxford), Professor Chrissie Jones (University of Southampton), Professor Simon Drysdale (Oxford Vaccine Group), Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam (UK Health Security Agency), Dr Kat Pollock (Oxford Vaccine Group), Charlie Firth (xford Vaccine Group), Professor Stefan Flasche (CharitéCenter for Global Health, Berlin)
Venue Details: University Suite
Organiser: Clara Lloyd (Conference Organiser, Oxford Vaccine Group)
Host: Karen Ford (Oxford Vaccine Group)

Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses in medicine
Date: 12 March 2026, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care 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

A Dogmatic Understanding of the Human Body in Early Modern Catholicism
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Christoph Sander (Ruhr University, Bochum)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Let's Talk About: Surveillance How should we track disease?
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History of Science Museum, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: No level access
Organiser: Ruth Holliday (History of Science Museum)
Host: Dr Silke Ackermann (History of Science Museum, Oxford)

Friday 13 March 2026

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 13 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
Date: 13 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 March 2026

Harnessing the power of AI to predict evolution & design superior prospective vaccines, a priori
Date: 16 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Harry Kleanthous, CSO (Apriori Bio)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lisbeth Soederberg (University of Oxford, Jenner Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Poster clinic for medicine
Date: 16 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Knowledge Centre, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Group Study Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 March 2026

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 17 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 March 2026

‘The Renaissance on Board, Really? Revisiting Jean and Raoul Parmentier’s Mythified Voyage to Sumatra in 1529’
Date: 20 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Romain Bertrand (Sciences Po/CERi)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 March 2026

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 23 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 March 2026

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 25 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
Date: 25 March 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Generalists and specialists: strategies for recognition by diversified immune molecules
Date: 25 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Jim Kaufmann
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: The Raymond Dwek Seminar room , 20-026
Organiser: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 March 2026

Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 26 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Date: 26 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 31 March 2026

Current state of biological research in psychiatry: Where are we and where are we going?
Date: 31 March 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Dost Öngür (McLean Hospital)
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)

Tuesday 7 April 2026

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 7 April 2026, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 April 2026

‘Michel Serres, historian of science despite himself’
Date: 9 April 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 April 2026

SHAC Spring meeting - Remembering Bill Brock: Chemistry and Culture
Date: 10 April 2026, 9:30 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 April 2026

OPTN: Sharing Best Practices for Online Student Discussions and Engagement
Date: 15 April 2026, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Vichithranie Madurasinghe (University of Oxford), Richard Bulbulia (Nuffield Department of Population Health), Anna Furmanski (University of Oxford), Sofia Pereira (University of Oxford), Prof. Sarah Wordsworth (HERC, University of Oxford), Sevasti Zervou (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online Via Teams- Book to register and receive an invite.
Organisers: Damion Young (Learning Technologies Team, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford), Hubert Lam (University of Oxford), Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford), Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
Hosts: TBA

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Date: 15 April 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 April 2026

Conference: War and Citizenship
Date: 16 April 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 April 2026

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 22 April 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 April 2026

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 23 April 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 April 2026

Designing a conference poster in medicine: getting started
Date: 27 April 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 April 2026

What is data cosmopolitanism?
Date: 28 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jon Rueda (President’s Cabinet and the Ethics in Research Department, Spanish National Research Council)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 OR Zoom
Organiser: Olivia Lush (University of Oxford)
Host: The Ethox Centre

Friday 1 May 2026

Choosing and using software for referencing
Date: 1 May 2026, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Evenlode room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 May 2026

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 5 May 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Date: 5 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 5 May 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Craig Finlay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 5 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Undergraduate critical thinking with academic sources
Date: 6 May 2026, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Rhodes (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Cultures of violence compared: France, Austria, Britain, Russia during the Napoleonic Wars
Date: 6 May 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Gundula Gahlen (FU Berlin)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 May 2026

Introduction to online resources for historians: show and tell
Date: 7 May 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 May 2026

Introduction to Zotero for medicine
Date: 8 May 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Getting started in Oxford libraries
Date: 8 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Wanne Mendonck (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Keynote Lecture: Professor Cora Gilroy Ware
Date: 8 May 2026, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Cora Gilroy Ware (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.056, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 11 May 2026

Designing a conference poster in medicine: getting started
Date: 11 May 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 May 2026

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 12 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
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

Preparing for your literature review in the social sciences
Date: 12 May 2026, 13:30 - 15:15
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

Mitigating Dimensionality and Uncertainty in Systems: A Transition from Classical Control to AI
Date: 12 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Christophe Prieur (CNRS)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 13 May 2026

Foundations of copyright for researchers
Date: 13 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ami Pendergrass (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 14 May 2026

Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
Date: 14 May 2026, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker s: Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jeremy McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 14 May 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sources for US history
Date: 14 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Bethan Davies (Vere Harmsworth Library), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Date: 14 May 2026, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Beating Heart: The Art & Science of Our Most Vital Organ
Date: 14 May 2026, 18:30 - 19:30
Speaker : Professor Robin Choudhury (University of Oxford)
Venue: History of Science Museum, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: No level access
Organiser: Ruth Holliday (History of Science Museum)
Host: Ruth Holliday (History of Science Museum)

Friday 15 May 2026

Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses in medicine
Date: 15 May 2026, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Eli Harriss (Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health care 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

Undergraduate critical thinking with newspaper and social media sources
Date: 15 May 2026, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Elizabeth McIntosh (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 18 May 2026

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 18 May 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Searching for patents and standards
Date: 18 May 2026, 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

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 18 May 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Knowledge Centre, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Group Study Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 May 2026

Introduction to Zotero for medicine
Date: 19 May 2026, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 19 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
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

Sources for modern global history
Date: 19 May 2026, 14:30 - 16:15
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

Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 19 May 2026, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Poster clinic for medicine
Date: 19 May 2026, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 20 May 2026

Foundations of copyright for teaching
Date: 20 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ami Pendergrass (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

One success and one failure: The Battle of Schladming and the Siege of Radstadt during the Great German Peasants' War 1524-6
Date: 20 May 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Robert Rebitsch (Innsbruck)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 21 May 2026

Your thesis, copyright & ORA
Date: 21 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries), Ami Pendergrass (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Using Scopus for your research
Date: 21 May 2026, 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

Friday 22 May 2026

Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses in medicine
Date: 22 May 2026, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care 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

Tuesday 26 May 2026

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 26 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
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

Wednesday 27 May 2026

Keeping up to date with research
Date: 27 May 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Louise Wetherill (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 May 2026

Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Date: 28 May 2026, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker s: Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 28 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 June 2026

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 2 June 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Date: 2 June 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Designing a conference poster in medicine: getting started
Date: 2 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Group Study Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Introduction to Zotero for medicine
Date: 3 June 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A Precedent for Nuremberg (1945-6): The Trial of Peter von Hagenbach (1474), history's first "War Criminal"?
Date: 3 June 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Michael Depreter (Leuven)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 June 2026

Copyright the card game
Date: 4 June 2026, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ami Pendergrass (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

Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses in medicine
Date: 4 June 2026, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 4 June 2026, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 June 2026

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 8 June 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 June 2026

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 11 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 June 2026

Poster clinic for medicine
Date: 15 June 2026, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 June 2026

Designing a conference poster in medicine: getting started
Date: 16 June 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 June 2026

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 17 June 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 June 2026

Introduction to Zotero for medicine
Date: 18 June 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 18 June 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 22 June 2026

Poster clinic for medicine
Date: 22 June 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Group Study Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 23 June 2026

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 23 June 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 June 2026

Termly update on open scholarship
Date: 29 June 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 July 2026

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 2 July 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 July 2026

Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 7 July 2026, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 July 2026

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 23 July 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
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
2025 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'
ANTITHESES Seminars and Events
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 Network
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
Environmental Humanities Research Hub
Ethox Centre Seminars
Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars
Future of Food seminar series
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 & MedHum DPhil and ECR online writing group
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
International 2-Day Workshop: Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th–21st Century)
Jenner Seminars
Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
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 Life-Writing
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 Health Histories
Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
Oxford History of Science turns 50
Oxford Interdisciplinary Conference on Embodiment, Materiality, and Religion
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 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
Public Health Humanities at St Cross
Richard Doll Seminars (2015 - 2024)
'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
Thomas Harriot Lectures
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
TORCH: Critical Food Studies Network
TORCH: Divination, Oracles, and Omens Network
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: Immunity and the Humanities Programme
TORCH Network: Writing Technologies
TORCH: Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network
Translating Illness
Translating Illness
Transnational & Global History Seminar
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