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:

Thursday 6 November 2025

Undergraduate critical thinking with academic sources
Date: 6 November 2025, 9:30 - 11:30
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

Workshop ‘Idols, Methods and the Organisation of knowledge: A Seminar on the De augmentis scientiarum’
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: Alan Stewart (Columbia University), Dana Jalobeanu (Technische Universität Nürnberg), Daniel Garber (Princeton), Mogens Laerke (CNRS)
Hosts: TBA

FLAGSHIP LECTURE. "Are the Dogs Running Today?" by Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
Date: 6 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
Venue Details: Seminar room 63
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Book talk - 'Portals to a New Reality'
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Vlatko Vedral (Department of Physics)
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 7 November 2025

Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
Date: 7 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 November 2025

HSMT & MedHum DPhil and ECR online writing group
Date: 10 November 2025, 13:00 - 15:40
Speaker : Writing Group
Venue Details: Online, via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Minimum cost matching with random edge-costs
Date: 10 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Johan Wästlund (Chalmers University, Gothenburg)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L5
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable: The Nature of Post-Western Order with Amitav Acharya
Date: 10 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University), Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford), Professor Andrew Hurrell (University of Oxford), Chair: Professor Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: and online via Crowdcast and YouTube
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
Date: 11 November 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jeremy McIlwaine (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

Bodleian Student Editions
Date: 11 November 2025, 10:00 - 16:00
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

Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi
Date: 11 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Shashank Joshi (The Economist)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
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

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 11 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
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

Translating the Image: Art, Science and Global Imagination in the first Islamic Description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbī / History of the West Indies)
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sinem Casale (University of Minnesota)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : David de la Croix (UCLouvain)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Date: 12 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 12 November 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Peijun Zhang (Strubi, University of Oxford)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar room 1, 20-026
Organiser: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Women and the magic of silence in the Roman Gaul'
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Soazick Kerneis (Maison Française d'Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Did Lord Macartney see a Spouting Whale or Dragon-Carp in 1793? Digitising and Unlocking Early Modern Chinese Court Drama
Date: 12 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Hybrid Event: Weston Library, Oxford, and Online
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

James Martin Memorial Lecture: 'Environment, health, society and economics in the new era of geopolitics'
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Lord Hague (Chancellor, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

What are White Storks (Ciconia ciconica) Doing in High and Late Medieval Calendars?
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Ryan Mealiffe (DPhil History, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using Scopus for your research
Date: 13 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, 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

Alternative proteins: progress, pitfalls and possibilities
Date: 13 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Cleo Verkuijl (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 November 2025

Zotero for referencing
Date: 14 November 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'The Body as Data' reading group
Date: 14 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
Date: 14 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Keith Griffin Lecture
Date: 14 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gillian Tett (Cambridge, FT)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 15 November 2025

Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture 2025: Atrocity, justice and reconciliation in the English Civil War
Date: 15 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Ismini Pells (Oxford)
Venue Details: National Army Museum, London SW3 4HT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 November 2025

Crossing Borders, Reshaping Lives: Jewish Orphan Migrations and Humanitarian Relief Before the Holocaust (late nineteenth - early twentieth century)
Date: 17 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Charlotte Canizo (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

HSMT & MedHum DPhil and ECR online writing group
Date: 17 November 2025, 13:00 - 15:40
Speaker : Writing Group
Venue Details: Online, via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 17 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Book Launch)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Ante-chapel, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford)

Contexts and Confounders in Clinical Practice, in parables, and as a Path to novel drug discovery
Date: 18 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Professor Stephen Friend (University of Oxford / 4YouandMe.org)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)

The End of Cybersecurity: An Optimist’s Guide to Fixing the Global Software Quality Problem
Date: 18 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jen Easterly (former Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA))
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 18 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
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

PSI seminar: 'Globalization, global change and emerging infectious diseases' presented by Professor John Drake
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor John Drake (Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow)
Venue Details: Hybrid event. Online or Oxford Martin School - lecture theatre Address: Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford 34 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BD
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Title TBC
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Albrecht Ritschl (LSE)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 19 November 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Dr Vasee Moorthy (WHO)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Lisbeth Soederberg (University of Oxford, Jenner Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Book Talk: 'Nationalism: A World History'
Date: 19 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker s: Eric Storm (University of Leiden), Discussant: Faisal Devji (Balliol College, Oxford), Discussant: Abigail Green (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Undergraduate critical thinking with newspaper and social media sources
Date: 19 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
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

Symposium ‘Exercises in Early Modern Thought: Philosophy, Arts, Science, Theology, Politics’
Date: 19 November 2025, 13:30 - 12:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford & All Souls College
Organisers: Dr Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford), Mogens Laerke (CNRS)
Hosts: TBA

Keeping up to date with research
Date: 19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
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

Coca-Cola – a Religious History?
Date: 19 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Uta Balbier
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Burgess Brock Lecture 2025 - The factory on the couch: psychoanalysing work in mid twentieth-century Britain
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Auditorium, and livestreamed
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Opportunities offered by a new food strategy
Date: 20 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anna Taylor (The Food Foundation)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Writing an Intellectual History from below: Methodological and theoretical reflections from "Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge, 2025)”
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Chloe Ireton (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 November 2025

EndNote for referencing
Date: 21 November 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
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

Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (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

Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 22 November 2025

HAPP 1-Day Conference: A Physical History of Navigation
Date: 22 November 2025, 10:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 November 2025

Roundtable: The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute
Date: 24 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:45
Speaker s: Professor Justin Garcia (Director), Rebecca Fasman (Curator), Liana Zhou (Librarian), Professor Matt Cook (History, Oxford), Professor Sarah Knott (History, Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

HSMT & MedHum DPhil and ECR online writing group
Date: 24 November 2025, 13:00 - 15:40
Speaker : Writing Group
Venue Details: Online, via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Persistence of the maximum degree in preferential attachment trees with vertex death
Date: 24 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Bas Lodewijks (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Marie Curie and public histories of science
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Sarah Dry (Oxford), Stéphane van Damme (CNRS/MFO)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Professor Sarah Knott's Inaugural Lecture: Why a History of Care?
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)

Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 25 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ethox Seminar - The Significance of Human Interaction in Consent to Research: ASCEND PLUS and Beyond
Date: 25 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Mark Sheehan (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 and on Zoom
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Environmental Impact of Digital
Date: 25 November 2025, 11:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Adapting food systems to climate change: lessons from aquaculture in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Date: 25 November 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Dao Minh Hai (College of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Can Tho University)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How the global operating system is a sea-based phenomenon, ocean anarchy and why the sea matters to everyone
Date: 25 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Sean Andrews (CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Workshop ‘The Spinoza Clan: An Afternoon with Spinoza’s Friends and Followers’
Date: 25 November 2025, 14:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Mogens Laerke (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

Decoding the Hand: A History of Magic, Medicine and Science
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Professor Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
Organisers: Professor David Zeitlyn (Faculty of Anthropology), Dr Parsa Daneshmand (Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies), Dr Michelle Pfeffer (Faculty of History)
Hosts: TBA

Barbarism, religion, and the tsars: Eighteenth-century Europe imagines the Treaty of Nerchinsk
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Shiru Lim (Leiden University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The success of the informal state in England
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 November 2025

EndNote for referencing
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, 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

Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Date: 26 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 26 November 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Daniel Goldhill (Royal Veterinary College)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: 20-026 seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Navigating the chaos: Trump, Putin, the rise of populism and the end of the rules-based international order
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker s: Lord Darroch of Kew (House of Lords), Kathy Harvey (Associate Dean, MBA and Executive Degrees, Saïd Business School)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Religious Diversity and the early modern English State: views from the parishes
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Emeritus Ann Hughes (Keele University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

Zotero for referencing
Date: 27 November 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

RefWorks for referencing
Date: 27 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: 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

King Faisal Lecture: The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Muhsin Jassim al-Musawi (Columbia University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 November 2025

Keynote Lecture: Professor Helen King on Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Date: 28 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Helen King
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861
Date: 1 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Aisha Djelid (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

HSMT & MedHum DPhil and ECR online writing group
Date: 1 December 2025, 13:00 - 15:40
Speaker : Writing Group
Venue Details: Online, via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 1 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Luisa Andreis (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L5
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Cashing in on Network Psychiatry
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Giovanni Briganti (University of Mons, Belgium)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)

NATO - Deterrence and peace in Europe through design or luck
Date: 2 December 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Angus MacIntyre (CCW & RAF)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Gabriele Marcon (Vienna), Chair: Howard Hotson
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What Did the Romans Ever do for Them? Aqueducts and the Administration of the Empire
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Andrea Papadia (York)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Teresa Thurston (Dunn School)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: 20-026 seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Antoni Wrobel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

PSI seminar: Bassam Hallis
Date: 3 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Bassam Hallis (UK Health Security Agency)
Venue Details: Hybrid event. MS Teams or IDRM, Old Road Campus
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

People as property? Captivity and conflict in medieval Iberia
Date: 3 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Teresa Witcombe
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Marc Howard (Independent Scholar)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book presentation ‘Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie/Reflections on the Imperial Despotism of Russia’ (Payot, 2025)
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Sabine Dullin (SciencesPo, Paris)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Maison Française d'Oxford
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

Reclaiming Land for the Future: Coal, Environmentalism, and Population in Post-1945 Britain
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Dr Andrew Seaton (History, University College London), Professor Danny Dorling (Geography, Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar room 56
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Reflections on COVID-19: Public Health, State Fragility and Failure in Nigeria
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan), Commentator: Utsa Bose (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 December 2025

Searching for patents and standards
Date: 9 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, 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

Monday 15 December 2025

2-Day International conference - 15-16 December: Island and Empire: Revolts, Repressions, Memories From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean (18th–21st Centuries)
Date: 15 December 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 2-10 Norham Road, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford
Organisers: Christine Chivallon, Marcandria Peraut
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Karl Marlowe (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

Tuesday 20 January 2025

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 20 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 February 2025

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 3 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
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

Tuesday 10 February 2025

The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
Date: 10 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 10 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
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

Tuesday 17 February 2025

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 17 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
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

Monday 23 March 2025

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

Tuesday 12 May 2025

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

Tuesday 19 May 2025

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

Tuesday 26 May 2025

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

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
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
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 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
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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 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