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:

Wednesday 23 April 2025

The Knotty Problem of Neurofibrillary Tangles
Date: 23 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Kenneth S. Kosik (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

'Rare typicals and non-classical pathotypes: Insights from the genomes of enteric bacteria isolated in Nigeria' presented by Professor Iruka Okeke
Date: 23 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Professor Iruka Okeke (Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre Richard Doll Building
Organisers: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Monday 28 April 2025

Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
Date: 28 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ann Kelly (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr David Popovic (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

Engineering the Environment and Imagining Nature in the Early Modern World
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Thomas Murphy (New College), Dr Elly Dezateux (Christ Church)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Third Floor Seminar Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Getting started in Oxford libraries
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: Choosing and using software for referencing
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organiser: Andrew Moeller (Kellogg)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Back to the future? The promise and peril of historical analogies in AI governance
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Julia Morse (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: gordon.barrett@history.ox.ac.uk, Professor Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

Galileo’s Letters: Seeing Presence, Absence, and Shadows in a Scientific Legacy
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Hannah Marcus (Harvard)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Natural tilings: from hard rock to soft cells - Gábor Domokos
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Gábor Domokos (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 May 2025

iSkills: Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
Date: 1 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jeremy McIlwaine (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

Writing the Environmental History of the Medieval Islamic East
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Thomas Laskowski (MPhil Islamic Studies)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

The changing mental health research funding landscape
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Andy Ratcliffe (MQ Mental Health)
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)

Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Book Talk: 'Pro-vax: Supporting Vaccines through Activism, Petitions, and Trials' with Samantha Vanderslott
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Samantha Vanderslott (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Clara Lloyd (Oxford Vaccine Group)
Host: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard (Oxford Vaccine Group)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Anatomical practice and the rise of post-mortems in the 16th- and early 17th-centuries
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Stolberg (Universität Würzburg)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch and Panel Discussion - Every Monument Will Fall: A story of remembering and forgetting
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dan Hicks (Oxford), Chair: John Schofield (York)
Venue Details: Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ
Organiser: Blackwell's Bookshop (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 May 2025

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Introduction to online resources for historians: show and tell
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

Referencing: Zotero
Date: 9 May 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

Monday 12 May 2025

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

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

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

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

Tuesday 13 May 2025

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 14 May 2025

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

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

Thursday 15 May 2025

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

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

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

Monday 19 May 2025

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

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

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

Tuesday 20 May 2025

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

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

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

Wednesday 21 May 2025

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

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

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

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

Thursday 22 May 2025

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

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

Tuesday 27 May 2025

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

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

Wednesday 28 May 2025

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

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

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

Thursday 29 May 2025

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

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

Monday 2 June 2025

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

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Oxford Parkinson's Research Day
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Organiser: Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Wednesday 4 June 2025

What next, if we lose 'the right to have rights'? A Roundtable Discussion
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Pablo Mukherjee (English), Venus Bivar (Oxford), Bernhard Malkmus (Languages), Nayanika Mathur (Anthropology), Amanda Power (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Thursday 5 June 2025

The Source of Rivers: Writing Waterways in the Humanities
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Host: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 June 2025

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

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

Tuesday 10 June 2025

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

Wednesday 11 June 2025

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

Thursday 12 June 2025

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

Monday 16 June 2025

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

Monday 23 June 2025

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

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 10 July 2025

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

Tuesday 15 July 2025

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

Monday 1 September 2025

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

Tuesday 2 September 2025

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

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