Saturday 25 October 2025

• 12:30 - International Academic Conference (hybrid): Memory and Responsibility in History, and the Role of the International Community
  Various Speakers

Monday 27 October 2025

• 10:00 - What about Exclusion? – Censorship and Self-censorship
  Professor Richard McCabe (Oxford), Dr Yewande Okuleye (Medical Humanities Specialist), Rawz (Multimedia Artist), Professor Mark Harrison (Oxford)
  ANTITHESES Seminars and Events
• 14:00 - Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
  Please not that this week we will be in Seminar Room 7, as opposed to our usual Seminar Room 10.
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - Regulation of Anglo-American medical education and its effects on educational cultures
  Susan Lamb (Ottawa)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Book Launch ‘Otherwhere Ethnography. An Introduction to Outer Space Studies’ (OUP, 2025)
  Perig Pitrou (CNRS/Collège de France), Istvan Praet (Durham University)
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 16:30 - A Princess of House d’Este at the English Court: Mary of Modena Between Religious-Political Alienation and Cultural Transfer
  Elena Taddei (University of Innsbruck)
  Court Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Ex urbe et ab Hierosolomis: The Materiality and Portability of Place in Pre-Reformation Europe
  Lucy Donkin (University of Bristol)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Problem with Human Rights
  Sir Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford), Daniel Hannan
  Oakeshott Lectures
• 17:15 - Compassion at the Crossroads: Ethics, Emotion & Human Care
  Professor Daniel Sperling (University of Haifa)
  Massada Public Seminars

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 09:00 - Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2025
  Writing Group
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 10:00 - Preparing for your literature review in the social sciences
  Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:15 - On the Life and Work of Vincent Gillespie
  Prof. Mishtooni Bose (University of Oxford), Denis Renevey (Lausanne), Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford), Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Nicholas Watson (Harvard U)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:30 - Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
  Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:30 - TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
  TBA
  TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
• 13:30 - Military strategy and complex uncertainty
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:00 - Digital scapes beyond capture? How resistance movements in Africa are shaping the way we think
  Hybrid event. For webinar registration, please use the link below.
  Prince Guma (Cambridge)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 16:15 - The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade
  Jake Richards (LSE)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 16:30 - On and Off the Canvas: Street Life in Early Modern Rome
  Elizabeth Currie (Central St Martins and V&A)
  Early Modern Italian World Seminar
• 17:00 - Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021
  Ignacio Arana Araya (Carnegie Mellon University)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Thinking and Sensing with the Small: A Material History of Ideas in the Indian Ocean
  Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
  Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
• 17:00 - Value and Worthlessness: Why Blurring Anthropology and History is still essential
  Don Kalb (Bergen)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Economy, the Ghost in your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality
  Dora Costa (UCLA)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 1: English in the (post) Colonial Archive
  Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
  Clarendon Lectures in English - English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 11:00 - Foundations of copyright for teaching
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:10 - The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
  Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 12:15 - The Cult of Shmuni In and Out of Church: Liturgy, Domestic Piety, and Memoryscapes
  Yael Nu'emah-Kremer
  Syriac Lunch Seminar
• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:15 - Symposium: Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed
  Joshua Travis Brown (John Hopkins)
• 17:00 - 'Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution' (Oxford, 2025)
  Professor Catriona Kennedy (York), Maria Luddy (Warwick), Ian McBride (Oxford)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - What makes Qumm special in the architecture of 14th-century Iran?
  Professor Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Palais Stoclet
  Deborah Silverman
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Will mechanisation change research mathematics?
  Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)
  History of Mathematics Seminar
• 17:00 - The Synaxarion of Constantinople as Historiography
  Stratis Papaioannou (Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - The English Revolutionary Tradition
  Professor John Gray (Cambridge), Prof Robert Tombs (Cambridge)
  Oakeshott Lectures
• 17:00 - Public Lecture: Two swords or one? On the Byzantine theology of power
  Dr György Geréby (Central European University)
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 17:15 - Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain
  Dr Nicholas Wright (Georgetown University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 17:15 - "Listen. Time Passes": Literature and Radio, a conversation with Geoff Bird
  Geoff Bird, Chair: Lucy Powell (Trinity College, Oxford)
• 17:30 - Kellogg College Black History Month Annual Lecture: Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century, 147 years Before the British Slavery Act 1833
  This event may be filmed and/or photographed. If you do not wish to be included in the film/photographs, please inform the photographer at the event.
  Dr José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol)
  2025 Black History Month events

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 11:45 - Solitude, Female Labour and the Lifecycle in Early Modern Britain
  Naomi Pullin (Warwick)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951
  Rebecca Goldsmith (Cambridge)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 12:30 - More than Kindling: Algarrobo Posts and Social Memory on the Peruvian North Coast
  Madeleine Fyles (PhD Anthropology, University of Toronto)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:15 - "Schön ist die Welt!": Amateur Photography on the Front Lines and Documenting Female Impersonation
  Paola Medina-Gonzalez (Warwick)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 16:00 - Experiences of food provision in UK 'asylum hotels' and the implications for health
  Dr Claire Thompson (University of Hertfordshire)
  Future of Food seminar series
• 16:30 - Nepal’s Gen-Z ‘Revolution’: What Happened and What Lies Ahead?
  Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford), Dr Krishna Adhikari (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 17:00 - Book talk - 'Roadkill : Unveiling The True Cost Of Our Toxic Relationship With Cars'
  Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore (Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL), Arthur Kay (Director, Innovo), Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford ), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Sailing upon Storied Seas: The Maritime Environment in Seafarers’ Writings, 1650-1750
  Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Seeing Double: Visualising La Cité des dames and La Cité de Dieu
  Hannele Hellerstedt (Oxford)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Mathematics and Meaning in the Art of Dürer and Holbein
  Jeanne Nuechterlein (York)
  Early Modern Art and Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - División de poderes, diseño institucional y actores políticos. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX
  Laura Cucchi (Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and LAC), Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:15 - Clothing the Caliphate: dress cultures of the early Islamic period
  Jochen Sokoly (VCUarts Qatar)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:30 - Lecture 2: Translating English: On Shakespeare and Bunyan in Africa
  Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
  Clarendon Lectures in English - English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline
• 18:00 - Music in Theresienstadt Concert
  Please note there is no Lecture today. Instead, a concert will take place at the Maison Française d’Oxford
  Concert
  David Patterson Lectures

Friday 31 October 2025

• 09:30 - Nuffield College’s Black History Month event: Trust, Performance and the Future of Public Service with Dr Alison Heydari
  RSVP by midday Wednesday 29 October.
  Dr Alison Heydari (Metropolitan Police Service)
  2025 Black History Month events
• 11:30 - ‘A Harlem Library Life: The beginning of the story’ (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
  Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop
• 13:30 - Body in History Talks + Troubleshooting
  Deadline for signing up to present is 28 October
  Various Speakers
  Body in History Network
• 14:00 - Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism
  Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:30 - Feminist Thinking Seminar Series: Dr Geraldine Fela, ‘Blood Politics: Nurses and Australia’s AIDS crisis’
  Dr Geraldine Fela (Macquarie University)
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Three: Construction
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:30 - AfOx Insaka with Tolulope Osayomi and Caesar Atuire
  Dr Tolulope Osayomi (AfOx-TORCH Visiting Fellow, Oxford; University of Ibadan), Professor Caesar Atuire (Oxford Global Health/University of Ghana)

Monday 3 November 2025

• 09:30 - Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Miguel Arana-Catania (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 09:30 - Workshop ‘Re-discovering Natural History'
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 11:00 - Children on the streets. Conceptual thoughts on a history of modernity and empirical explorations on the example of the late German Empire
  Joey Rauschenberger (University of Heidelberg)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 15:00 - Isolated Barrows in Early Medieval England: A Spatial Analysis
  Wyatt Wilcox
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 15:00 - A Decade of Digitizing Democracy: Exhibition
  Various (See programme)
• 16:00 - From Teatime to TV: 200 Years of Science Communication at the Royal Institution
  Katy Duncan (Royal Institution)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Non-Binary Gender in Abbasid Baghdad: Reality vs. Fiction
  Anna Chrysostomides (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 12:15 - The Darker Side of the Middle Ages
  Kathy Lavezzo (U of Iowa)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:30 - Russia's Hybrid War
  Bob Seely MBE
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Working with sensitive research data
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris
  Tom Hamilton (Durham), Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:15 - The Transformation of the Corn Milling Trade in Early Modern England, 1540-1800
  Mike Braddick (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 16:15 - Discussion session on sub-ambassadorial diplomatic actors
  Discussion session
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
  Professor Nicolas Standaert (KU Leuven)
  Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
• 17:00 - The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
  Ulrike Linder (Cologne)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - The BBC in Latin America: Aligning Journalism and Academia to Make Sense of Today's World
  TBA
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH, 1892- 1939
  Tim Guinnane (Yale)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Emii Alrai: The Scourging of Memory
  Emii Alrai
  Contemporary Art Lectures
• 17:15 - Exploring the Moral and Therapeutic Significance of Indifference: Examples from Community Mental Health
  Dr Yuxin Peng (Oxford)
  Public Health Humanities at St Cross
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  The reading group is open to students at all levels of study (including medical students), as well as faculty.
  Reading Group
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 17:30 - Lecture 3: The Other Victorians: What If Jane Eyre was a Missionary?
  Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
  Clarendon Lectures in English - English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 11:00 - The House Always Wins: Arms Trafficking, Settler Capitalism, and the Making of Ottoman Jolan, 1878-1918
  Dr Ayşe Polat (Oxford)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 11:10 - Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
  David Hopkin (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 12:15 - Methodological Inquiry into Syriac Social History: The Case Study of Syriac Legal Literature
  Carlo Emilio Biuzzi
  Syriac Lunch Seminar
• 13:00 - Getting started in Oxford libraries
  Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Wanne Mendonck (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - The Oxford Ministry for the Future Presents: The Arctic at the Crossroads
  Bathseba Demuth (of Floating Coast), Joanna Kavenna (of The Ice Museum), Laline Paull (of The Ice)
  TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
• 14:00 - Translation, Religion, and Law
  Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (Australian National University), Itamar Toussia Cohen (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Crowdsourced Digital Collections in the Age of AI: Keywords, Maps and Memories
  Catherine Conisbee (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
• 16:15 - Difference at the Margin: Religion and Race in the History of the Middle East
  Henry Clements
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
  Adolfo Polo y La Borda (University of Nottingham)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel: Coming-of-Age 1990-2020
  Angelica de Vido (New York Historical Society)
• 17:00 - Early-modern orientalism and the recreation of the Islamic canon: from collections to catalogues
  Professor Claire Gallien (Tubingen)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
  Iris Moon
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - The energy transition: too little/too late or a new hope?
  Alan Haywood (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin School)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Why Did the Byzantine Empire Forbid Slave-Owners from Making Eunuchs of their Slaves? Castration, Masculinity, and Identity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  Erin Thomas Dailey (Leicester)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - A minor power in a total war: Sweden’s system of military procurement during the campaigns against Napoleon, 1805-1807 and 1813-1814
  Patrik Winton (Örebro)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 09:00 - The Challenge of Historical Distance: Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art International Conference
  Armin Bergmeier (University of Leipzig), Saida Bondini (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz), Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge), Heiko Droste (Stockholm University), Jas Elsner (University of Oxford), Michael Ann Holly (Clark Institute), Maria Loh (Princeton), Keith Moxey (Barnard College), Susie Nash (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Caspar Pearson (The Warburg Institute), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Nancy Thebaut (University of Oxford), Ben Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
• 09:30 - Undergraduate critical thinking with academic sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Rhodes (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 09:30 - Copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:00 - Workshop ‘Idols, Methods and the Organisation of knowledge: A Seminar on the De augmentis scientiarum’
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 11:45 - Queering the Très Riches Heures: Sexual Ethics, Service, Ganymede, and Dogs
  Bob Mills (UCL)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - FLAGSHIP LECTURE. "Are the Dogs Running Today?" by Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
  No need to register, but do arrive early to secure a spot
  Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
  Environmental Humanities Research Hub
• 12:00 - “Foreign agitators” in Britain: overseas students and the British student movement in the 1960s
  Olana Peters (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 12:00 - Remote Eldercare: Digital Labour Extraction and Life-making in the Philippines
  Stehanie Dimatulac Santos (UCLA)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 14:30 - Fundamentals of open access
  David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:45 - The Peter Tatchell Archive: an in-conversation with Matt Cook
  Peter Tatchell, Matt Cook (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - “The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain
  Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Banned Histories: Indigenous Life In Death Records C. 1815 Mexico
  Please note this seminar is in-person only
  Miriam Melton-Villanueva (University of Nevada, USA)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:15 - From Bosphorus to Nile: mapping, depicting, and portraying the Ottoman imperial world in the late eighteenth century
  Ayşe Hilal Uğurlu (MEF University, Istanbul)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:30 - Lecture 4: Decolonizing English: An Incomplete Project
  Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
  Clarendon Lectures in English - English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline
• 18:00 - A Bleeding Corpse, A Grim Grimm Fairy Tale with Early Modern Shivers: The Dubious Margaret of Pforzheim (1267), A Singular Female Blood Libel
  Dr Emily Rose (Academic Visitor, OCHJS)
  David Patterson Lectures

Friday 7 November 2025

• 14:00 - Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
  Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Four: Time
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:00 - Discussion of Lars Behrisch, Democracy's Double Helix. Participation, equality and revolution in early modern Europe (CUP 2025)
  Places are limited so it is essential to book.
  Lars Behrisch, Martin Ingram (Oxford), Joanna Innes (Oxford)

Monday 10 November 2025

• 16:00 - Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
  Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Her Material World: Queens’ Stuff in the Global Seventeenth-Century
  Susannah Lyon-Whaley (University of York)
  Court Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The Inscriptive Economy in Fifteenth-Century England
  Tom Johnson (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Roundtable: The Nature of Post-Western Order with Amitav Acharya
  This is a joint event organised by the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders and the Oxford Martin School.
  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)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 10:00 - Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
  Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jeremy McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 10:00 - Bodleian Student Editions
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
• 11:00 - Open monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:15 - Hosted jointly with the Medieval French Seminar
  Julia Mattison (U of Georgia)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:30 - OPEN Workshop: From Research to Policy Writing
  Rosaleen Cunningham (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 13:30 - Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi
  Shashank Joshi (The Economist)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 13:30 - TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
  TBA
  TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
• 14:00 - Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
  Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: Susan Kahn, 'Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel'
  Please note the change in venue. This event will now be held in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College
  Prof Susan Kahn (Harvard)
  Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:30 - Panel on the 2026 Elections in Brazil
  Please note this session will have an early start
  Timothy Power (University of Oxford, OSGA), Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto (University College London), Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Fear and Fortune: Gypsy Women between Image, Devotion, and Control in Early Modern Italy
  Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge)
  Early Modern Italian World Seminar
• 17:00 - 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)
  Professor Sinem Casale (University of Minnesota)
  Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
• 17:00 - Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?
  Maria Loh
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - NO MEETING
  There is no seminar in order to allow attendance at the Harmsworth Lecture at 17:00 at the Examination Schools, given by Professor Eliga Gould: The Declaration of Independence and the Difficult Birth of American International Relations
  Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Harmsworth Lecture 2025: The Declaration of Independence and the Difficult Birth of American International Relations
  Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
• 17:00 - Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War
  Doina Anca Cretu (Warwick)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas
  Venue to be confirmed
  David de la Croix (UCLouvain)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 11:10 - Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
  Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 12:15 - Lived Spaces: The Natural Environment in the Syriac Tradition (ca. 4th-13th c. CE)
  Nidanu O'Shea
  Syriac Lunch Seminar
• 12:30 - 'Women and the magic of silence in the Roman Gaul'
  Soazick Kerneis (Maison Française d'Oxford)
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 17:00 - Revolts as rituals of political communication in ‘Abbāsid Baghdad (908-991)
  Fanny Bessard (Trinity)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Art History and Projective Tests (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
  Whitney Davis
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - James Martin Memorial Lecture: 'Environment, health, society and economics in the new era of geopolitics'
  Lord Hague (Chancellor, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Hodology, Wayfinding, and Geographic Knowledge in Late Antique Pilgrimage Accounts
  Marlena Whiting (Groningen)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Forgotten Currents and Kitchen Tables: The Tales of the Subaltern
  Samuel Ramapuram (Goethe University), Ying Yue (Tsinghua University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Composing a Defence Review on Tech by Richard Barrons
  General Sir Richard Barrons
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 17:30 - Lester B. Pearson Inaugural Lecture: Passions, Preferences, and the Politics of Self-Binding
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 10:00 - Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division: Stakeholder Mapping for Academic-Policy Engagement
  Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 11:30 - Women’s and Gender History: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Form - An Event with Professor Lyndal Roper
  Lyndal Roper (Oxford), Hannah Skoda (Oxford), Daniel Pick (Birkbeck), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - Feminism and the genderquake: “new” feminism in 1990s Britain
  Sarah Crook (Swansea)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 12:30 - What are White Storks (Ciconia ciconica) Doing in High and Late Medieval Calendars?
  Ryan Mealiffe (DPhil History, Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Using Scopus for your research
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:15 - The Holocaust in the North African literary imaginary
  Rebecca Glasberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 16:00 - Alternative proteins: progress, pitfalls and possibilities
  Cleo Verkuijl (Stockholm Environment Institute)
  Future of Food seminar series
• 17:00 - Rethinking the 1650s
  Professor Michael Braddick (All Souls College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The 2025 Besterman Lecture of the Voltaire Foundation - The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment
  Antoine Lilti (Collège de France)
  The Annual Besterman Lecture of the Voltaire Foundation
• 17:00 - Abstract Figures and Bodily Change: Giving Form to Unseen Things in Late Medieval England
  Carly Boxer (Bucknell University)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Framing in Museums
  Peter Schade (The National Gallery, London)
  Early Modern Art and Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:15 - Translating the image: art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi)
  Sinem Arcak Casale (Minnesota)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 18:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  David Patterson Lectures

Friday 14 November 2025

• 08:30 - 14-16 November - CHASE MEMRN Winter Conference 2025: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories
  Various Speakers
• 13:30 - Zotero for referencing
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - 'The Body as Data' reading group
  Reading Group
  Body in History Network
• 14:00 - The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
  Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Five: Revolution
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:00 - Keith Griffin Lecture
  Dr Gillian Tett (Cambridge, FT)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events

Saturday 15 November 2025

• 14:00 - Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture 2025: Atrocity, justice and reconciliation in the English Civil War
  Dr Ismini Pells (Oxford)

Monday 17 November 2025

• 11:00 - Crossing Borders, Reshaping Lives: Jewish Orphan Migrations and Humanitarian Relief Before the Holocaust (late nineteenth - early twentieth century)
  Charlotte Canizo (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 15:00 - Medieval Ritual Landscapes (title tbc)
  Roberta Gilchrist
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 16:00 - Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
  Daniel Garber (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Book Launch)
  Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
• 17:00 - Between truth and justice: towards an intellectual history of post-Mongol Rus
  Angus Russell (King's College, Cambridge)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 10:00 - Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:15 - Vulnerable Bodies: The Old English Verse Charms, Again
  Caroline Batten (New College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:30 - Cyber Security
  Jen Easterly (former Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Survivors: The Converted Jews of Lisbon after the Massacre of 1506
  Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:00 - Scholarly literature for your research
  Craig Finlay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:15 - Three scholars will join Bob Harris to discuss his work ahead of his retirement in 2026
  TBA
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 16:15 - A French Resident at the Nawab's Court: Indo-French Diplomacy in Early Colonial India
  Aditi Gupta (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - Women’s organizations and social rights in France and its empire (1946-1958)
  Anna Nasser (Deakin, St Antony's)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Round table on Brazilian elections
  Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Albrecht Ritschl (LSE)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 11:00 - “My Copyist Pretends to Have Misunderstood Me”: Writing émigré Arabic journals in 1880s Paris
  Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 11:10 - Book Talk: 'Nationalism: A World History'
  Please note this seminar is in the Ruskin Room not the Kloppenburg Room
  Eric Storm (University of Leiden), Discussant: Faisal Devji (Balliol College, Oxford), Discussant: Abigail Green (Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 12:15 - Heavenly Powers and Agency in Late Antique Thought: Narsai and Eznik
  Amin Royatvand
  Syriac Lunch Seminar
• 13:30 - Undergraduate critical thinking with newspaper and social media sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Elizabeth McIntosh (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - Symposium ‘Exercises in Early Modern Thought: Philosophy, Arts, Science, Theology, Politics’
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 14:00 - Keeping up to date with research
  Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Louise Wetherill (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - War, Empire, and Displacement
  Megan Hamilton (King's College London), James Hua (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - Coca-Cola – a Religious History?
  Uta Balbier
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - New Christian Materiality: Reflections on a New Project
  Francisco Bethencourt (King's College London)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Natural History of Style: Specimens, Albums, and the History of Art in Early Modern Japan (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
  Kris Kersy
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: A Discussion
  Peter Frankopan (Oxford), Jonathan Shepard (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Revolutionary Aesthetics and Affective Politics in Maoist East Asia
  Harry Chi Hang CHO (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sijie Ren (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Representations of Origins in Enlightenment Thought: the Voltairean Exception
  James Hanrahan (Trinity College Dublin)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:15 - Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
  Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Burgess Brock Lecture 2025 - The factory on the couch: psychoanalysing work in mid twentieth-century Britain
  Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 11:00 - Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:45 - Lightening Round: We gather for flash discussions of research
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - 'Liberal worlds: James Bryce and the democratic intellect’ [New book talk]
  Stuart Jones (Manchester)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:00 - Opportunities offered by a new food strategy
  Anna Taylor (The Food Foundation)
  Future of Food seminar series
• 17:00 - Writing an Intellectual History from below: Methodological and theoretical reflections from "Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge, 2025)”
  Dr Chloe Ireton (UCL)
  Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
• 17:00 - Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
  Dr Sonia Tycko (University of Edinburgh), In discussion with Professor Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: A talk and handling session
  Co-sponsored with the Khalili Research Center & exceptionally held at the Khalili Research Center
  Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A (London)), Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers Museum)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet
  Juan Cristóbal Peña (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:15 - New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: a talk and handling session
  Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 18:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Dr Patrick Koch (University of Hamburg)
  David Patterson Lectures

Friday 21 November 2025

• 09:30 - EndNote for referencing
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 10:30 - Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)
  Jointly organized with the Latin American History Center (CRALMI-Mondes Américains), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Research Center on American Worlds (CERMA-Mondes Américains), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
  Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada (Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 11:30 - ‘Life-writing and the far south: rhythm, disruption, and sensory extremes’ (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop
• 14:00 - Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
  Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Six: The University
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Saturday 22 November 2025

• 10:30 - HAPP 1-Day Conference: A Physical History of Navigation
  Various Speakers
  HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics

Monday 24 November 2025

• 10:30 - Roundtable: The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute
  Professor Justin Garcia (Director), Rebecca Fasman (Curator), Liana Zhou (Librarian), Professor Matt Cook (History, Oxford), Professor Sarah Knott (History, Oxford)
• 10:30 - Roundtable - The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute
  Rebecca Fasman (Curator), Professor Justin Garcia (Director), Liana Zhou (Librarian), Professor Matt Cook (Oxford), Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - Marie Curie and public histories of science
  Please note this seminar will be held at the Maison Française d'Oxford, and will be followed by a drinks reception hosted by the MFO
  Sarah Dry (Oxford), Stéphane van Damme (CNRS/MFO)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Male Marriage Gaps, Dynastic Centralisation and Habsburg Trust Fund Babies: Analysing Early Modern Dynasties from a Long(er)-Term Perspective
  Liesbeth Geevers (Lund University)
  Court Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - NO SEMINAR
  Please note there is no seminar today to avoid a clash with Sarah Knott's inaugural lecture
  No seminar
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Professor Sarah Knott's Inaugural Lecture: Why a History of Care?
  Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 10:30 - Roundtable: The Politics of Care
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 11:00 - Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:00 - The Environmental Impact of Digital
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
• 13:30 - TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
  TBA
  TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
• 13:30 - How the global operating system is a sea-based phenomenon, ocean anarchy and why the sea matters to everyone
  Sean Andrews (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: 'The Third Reich of Dreams': Amanda Rubin-Lewis and Devorah Baum in Conversation
  Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton), Amanda Rubin-Lewis (Director)
  Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
• 14:00 - Workshop ‘The Spinoza Clan: An Afternoon with Spinoza’s Friends and Followers’
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 16:00 - Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752) – Jacobitism, Philosophy and Knowledge of the World
  Please note: this seminar will be held jointly with the Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850, in Lincoln College at 16:00. Please ask at the lodge for directions.
  Professor Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 16:15 - Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752): Jacobitism, Philosophy, and Knowledge of the World
  Joint-Session with the Irish History Seminar
  Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 16:30 - Who did Renaissance people think they were? Class consciousness, sense of belonging, and social categories in Venice 1400-1600
  Claire Judde de Larivière (Toulouse)
  Early Modern Italian World Seminar
• 17:00 - Scholars' Library: Robert McGill on 'Simple Creatures'
  Robert McGill (Rhodes Trust)
  Scholars' Library
• 17:00 - Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
  Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Barbarism, religion, and the tsars: Eighteenth-century Europe imagines the Treaty of Nerchinsk
  Dr Shiru Lim (Leiden University)
  Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
• 17:00 - The End of Europe: A Global History of European Integration
  Marlène Rosano-Grange (Sciences Po)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - The success of the informal state in England
  Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  The reading group is open to students at all levels of study (including medical students), as well as faculty.
  Reading Group
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 09:30 - EndNote for referencing
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 10:00 - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning from Policy Engagement - Part 1
  Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 10:30 - Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
  Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:10 - Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
  Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 12:15 - The Revelation of Ezra Prognostic in Syriac: a Translation From Three Newly Identified Fragments
  Abigail Pearson
  Syriac Lunch Seminar
• 17:00 - John Williams: A Composer's Life
  Tim Grieving (University of Southern California)
• 17:00 - Waning crescent: The rise and fall of global Islam
  Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Everywhen: Photography and Indigeneity
  Geoffrey Batchen
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Estates, Economy, and 'Holy Men' in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries
  Thomas Laver (Cambridge)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Embodied Objects: Vaginal Technologies and Missionary Collections in East Asia
  Ruoyu Jia (Durham University), Yoo Jin Choi (University of Delaware)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Liberty and its Limits in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch-Spanish-Mapuche Triangle
  Lisa Kattenberg (University of Amsterdam)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:15 - Strategic Leadership Seminar
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 09:30 - Zotero for referencing
  Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:45 - ‘Songs of Seven Dials’ [New book talk]
  Joint meeting with the Women’s, Gender, and Queer History Seminar
  Matt Houlbrook (Birmingham)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 11:45 - Songs of Seven Dials, *Shared Seminar with Modern British History*
  Matt Houlbrook (Birmingham)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - RefWorks for referencing
  Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:00 - Sensory memoryscapes: a framework to disrupt truisms of sexual violence in Holocaust Studies
  Please note this seminar will be at 16:00 not 14:15
  Lauren Cantillon (King's College London)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 16:00 - What was modern Islamic art?
  William Gallois (Exeter)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 16:30 - Mapping sense of place: Travels and Maps of May Morris
  Pragya Agarwal (Newnham College, Cambridge)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
• 17:00 - William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?
  Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Royal Attitudes to Raphael and Renaissance Art from Henry VIII to Victoria and Albert
  Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures)
  Early Modern Art and Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:15 - Documenting Multiculturalism: The Arabic Documents of Sicily
  Jeremy Johns (Khalili Research Centre), Dan Burt (Khalili Research Centre)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 18:00 - Zamość – an Experiment in Geopolitical Engineering. The Sephardic Community in Late-Sixteenth-Century Poland and the Interplay between Geography, Diasporic Agency, and Trade
  Professor Susanne Marten-Finnis (University of Portsmouth)
  David Patterson Lectures

Friday 28 November 2025

• 13:30 - Keynote Lecture: Professor Helen King on Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
  Professor Helen King
  Body in History Network
• 14:00 - Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Seven: Unbuilding Walls
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:00 - The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America
  Niall Geraghty (UCL), Pablo Bradbury (Greenwich)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 1 December 2025

• 11:00 - Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861
  Aisha Djelid (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 14:00 - Termly update on open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Re-thinking the “Green Revolution” in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th-16th centuries)
  Aleks Pluskowski
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 16:00 - Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
  Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Margins, marginality, and marginalisation: drawing lines within and around late medieval Catholicism
  Robert Swanson (University of Birmingham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:00 - German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
  Gabriele Marcon (Vienna), Chair: Howard Hotson
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:00 - OPEN Conversation: What Can Researchers Learn from Science Advice at the European Union Level?
  Prof Nicole Grobert (Chief Scientific Advisor to the EU), Professor Dimitra Simeonidou (Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission, University of Bristol), Karen Fabbri (Deputy Head of Unit, Science for Policy, Advice & Ethics at the European Commission)
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 16:15 - “Of myself alone”: Inventing the Written Proposal of Marriage in Long Eighteenth-Century England
  Sally Holloway (Warwick)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 16:15 - Macartney and the Manchus: The Impact of British understandings of Qing Ethnic Tensions on Sino-British Relations
  Ross Moncrieff (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - Writing the History of an Invisible Group: Old Women in Germany, 1950-2010
  Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL/QMUL)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - US and Latin America
  Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
  LAC Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - What Did the Romans Ever do for Them? Aqueducts and the Administration of the Empire
  Andrea Papadia (York)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 10:00 - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning from Policy Engagement - Part 2
  Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 11:00 - Modern Transimperial History: An Introduction
  Prof Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)
  Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
• 11:10 - Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
  Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 14:00 - Knowledge, Science, and Development across Global Contexts
  Madeline White (Oxford), Koyna Tomar (University of Pennsylvania)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:15 - People as property? Captivity and conflict in medieval Iberia
  Teresa Witcombe
  Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - The role of media in a changing world
  Mr Nic Robertson (CNN International)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Byzantium in Correspondence: 171 Letters of Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus to Non-Greek Byzantinists (1875–1911)
  Olivier Delouis (Paris)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Peripheral Voices: Local Identity Formation and Alternative Politics in Imperial Japan
  Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (University of Oxford), DONG Zi’ang (Hokkaido University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Robert Sharrock and the Transformation of Christian Epicureanism in England and Western Europe, 1642–1732
  Jacob Donald Chatterjee (New College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:15 - The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
  Marc Howard (Independent Scholar)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Book presentation ‘Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie/Reflections on the Imperial Despotism of Russia’ (Payot, 2025)
  Sabine Dullin (SciencesPo, Paris)
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 10:00 - Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:45 - The Madwoman in the Factory: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Imagination
  Marybeth Hamilton (History Workshop)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:00 - Reclaiming Land for the Future: Coal, Environmentalism, and Population in Post-1945 Britain
  Dr Andrew Seaton (History, University College London), Professor Danny Dorling (Geography, Oxford)
  Environmental Humanities Research Hub
• 12:00 - Religion as a liberating force? Black British feminist movements, localised activism, and faith communities in London, 1970-1990
  Hannah Elias (Goldsmiths)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Writing James VI and I
  Professor Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Seeing Anew: Digital Methods and the Return to the Medieval Object
  Kristine Tanton (University of Montreal)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)
  Jointly organized with the Latin American History Center (CRALMI-Mondes Américains), Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Research Center on American Worlds (CERMA-Mondes Américains), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
  Ana Laura Fraga (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:15 - Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)
  Fuchsia Hart (Victoria and Albert Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 18:00 - Beyond Ornament: The Shifting Role of Melitsah in Hebrew Thought from the Middle Ages to the Haskalah
  Dr Amir Banbaji (Ben Gurion University)
  David Patterson Lectures

Friday 5 December 2025

• 14:00 - The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
  Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Eight: Resistance
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Tuesday 9 December 2025

• 10:00 - REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Searching for patents and standards
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Monday 15 December 2025

• 09:00 - 2-Day International conference - 15-16 December: Island and Empire: Revolts, Repressions, Memories From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean (18th–21st Centuries)
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Wednesday 14 January 2025

• 16:30 - TOSCA Field Trip – Mapping the North
  Booking essential
  Charlotta Forss (Stockholm)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

Tuesday 20 January 2025

• 14:00 - REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 27 January 2025

• 14:00 - Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics
  Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar

Wednesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - Making the space to think about society – more than an Enlightenment story
  John Robertson (Universities of Oxford and Cambridge)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - Wild Forms: Hermits, Saints and Rock Art in Medieval England
  Robert Mills (UCL)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 14:00 - The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
  Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 09:30 - Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 12 February 2025

• 16:30 - Map Readings – Lies of the Land: Painted maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France
  Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University), In conversation with: Elizabeth Baigent (Oxford)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

Tuesday 17 February 2025

• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 18 February 2025

• 11:00 - Museums in Revolutionary France as Sites of Encouragement and Emulation
  This is the annual ONLINE session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University, at 11:00
  Hangyul Kim (Chonnam National University)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 17:00 - "The Kingdom of Liberty": the Dutch Remonstrants on Christianity and Natural Law
  Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:15 - Joint session with the History of War seminar. Title TBC
  Please note the change in regular time and place. This seminar will take place at All Souls College at 17:15 on Wednesday 25 February.
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson
  Early Modern World Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 14:00 - Postgraduate presentations - title TBC
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern World Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 17:00 - לְ†רבּי†: John Locke, Christ Church, and the Herbarium Exercises, 1660-1665
  Felix Waldmann (Cambridge)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 12 March 2025

• 16:30 - The unique large-format print of the General Map of the Qing Empire by Li Mingche李明徹 (1751–1832) in Göttingen: tracing its cartographical origins and journey to a German university
  Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
• 17:00 - Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum
  Emily Guerry
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Monday 23 March 2025

• 11:00 - REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Thursday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Cécile Voyer (Université de Poitiers)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Tuesday 12 May 2025

• 11:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 13 May 2025

• 17:00 - Book Talk: Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror (2025)
  Keith Michael Baker (Stanford University)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 19 May 2025

• 11:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought
  Jessica Patterson (Cambridge)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 26 May 2025

• 11:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Thursday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Many Lives of the Asante Ewers
  Lloyd Debeer (British Museum)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Wednesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - Dancing with the Stars: Adam Smith and Lucian on Philosophical, Moral, and Pantomime Spectatorship
  Maksymilian Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 4 June 2025

• 16:30 - Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth century
  Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
• 17:00 - Contemporary Art Meets the Medieval Monastery
  Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Meg Bernstein (University of East Anglia)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 18 June 2025

• 16:30 - Ordnance Survey: twenty-first-century National Mapping Agency
  Nick Bolton (CEO, Ordnance Survey)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)