Collection - Oxford Talks

Collection: Seminars and Events of interest to the Faculty of History

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:00 - Hysterical Women: Hysterical Negation, Psychologising of Women’s Pain and Endometriosis
Danielle Perro (Oxford)
History of the Gendered Body
12:45 - Politics, Time and East German Identity in the Era of Late Socialism
Marcus Colla (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
13:00 - New crossings and combinations
Philippa Levine (George Eastman Visiting Professor, Faculty of History)
Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations
13:30 - Inaugural Seminar: Hispanism and Hispanists: Past, Present and Future
NB 13:30 start time
Dr Julius Ruiz (Edinburgh)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars
16:00 - Ordering the East- publishers’ series and the invention of the oriental classic, 1878-1950
Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
16:00 - The Theology of Scale: Monumental and Miniature Cult Buildings in Archaic Central Italy
Charlotte Potts (Oxford)
Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
17:00 - Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
Dr Lina Khatib ((Chatham)), Jeremy Bowen ((BBC News))
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
18:30 - Hidden in plain sight: The unexplored histories of the medieval north at the time of the Black Death
Professor Sarah Rees Jones (University of York)
University of York Open Lectures

Monday 30 November 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Forgotten Leader of a Forgotten Alliance: Abdurresid Ibrahim and his Vision of Japan as the Leader of Muslims
Time may change as yet to be confirmed
Muhammed Cihad Kubat (Bilkent University and Inonu University)
International History of East Asia Seminar
13:30 - Music in the homes of the Parisian Jewish Elites (1870-1940)
Please email briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk no later than Wednesday 25th November to register your interest
Myriam Chimènes
Jewish Country Houses at the Modern Jewish History Remote Seminar
15:00 - Under pasture or plough? Exploring post-Roman and medieval land use in England through pollen data
Emily Forster
Medieval Archaeology Seminar
16:00 - Sonic emblems & magic squares: Atalanta fugiens and Ludic humanism in the 21st century
Donna Bilak (Independent Scholar), Loren Ludwig (Scholar Performer)
Centre for the History of Science Medicine and Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars online
17:00 - Object History: Global and Gendered Perspectives on a Parisian alms purse, c. 1340
This seminar relies on signing up to receive an online invitation to access papers and join the seminar itself. Click for details.
Sharon Farmer (UC Santa Barbara)
Medieval History Seminar

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Access
13:00 - Repeating past mistakes? The British withdrawal and return ‘East of Suez’
Dr William James (CCW)
Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
14:00 - Presentation of Work and Discussion
Ed Jones (BA History, Lincoln), Jade Burroughes (MSt History, Kellogg)
Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group
16:00 - Magic and Empathy: Animals in Muscovite Spells
*This talk begins at 16:00*
Valerie Kivelson (University of Michigan)
Early Slavonic Webinar
16:00 - ‘Le Juif et la France’: Reforming the Parisian Literary Landscape from the Second to the 20th Arrondissements during the Nazi Occupation
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Kyra Schulman (University of Chicago)
Urban History Seminar
16:00 - Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
Michaelmas Term 2020 The Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850 will be holding weekly online seminars on Tuesdays, weeks 1-8, at 16:00. Interested students should contact either Perry Gauci (perry.gauci@lincoln.ox.ac.uk), or Oliver Cox (oliver.cox@humanities.ox.ac.uk) for further details.
Various Speakers
Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
16:00 - Augustine Reading Group: The Augustine-Jerome Correspondence
N/A
Latin Reading Group
17:00 - The Economic Motives for Foot-Binding in China
If you wish to attend, and are not on the Economic and Social History Seminar circulation list, please email Sheilagh.Ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
Lingwei Wu (Bonn)
Economic and Social History Departmental Research Seminar
17:00 - The Economic Motives of Foot-binding (with Xinyu Fan)
Lingwei Wu (Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Germany)
Economic and Social History Seminar
17:00 - Coinage and the Trading Worlds of the Indian Ocean – An Overview
Dr Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean Museum/St Cross College, Oxford)
Oxford Numismatic Society

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Hunger Re-Draws the Map, 1914-1923
Mary Cox (Oxford), Claire Morelon (Oxford)
The Long Nineteenth Century Seminar - Michaelmas Term 2020
11:00 - Session 3: Careers in Arts and Heritage (held in partnership with University of Oxford Careers Service)
Vanessa Moore (Re-Building Heritage Team)
Heritage Pathway Training Sessions (Webinars)
12:45 - Within-Group Heterogeneity in a Multi-Ethnic Society
Miriam Artiles (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
15:30 - From interviews to history: turning your transcripts into a thesis
Orlando Figes (Birkbeck)
Oral History seminar
16:00 - Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Became Modern (Oxford University Press, 2020)
Tim Wilson (St Andrew’s), Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford)
Seminar in Irish History
16:30 - Langland’s Manuscript Lives
Dr Sarah Wood (University of Warwick)
Medieval English Research Seminar
16:30 - OxEARS: Oxford Early American Republic Seminar. Writing Home: Dispatches from the Mississippi Frontier.
Jennifer McGillan (Mississippi State University Libraries)
OxEARS
17:00 - Conversation: The Religious Politics of Military Recruitment in Early Modern Europe
All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
Various Speakers
History of War Seminar Series
17:00 - Alchemical interpretations of the Qur’an in the Shudhūr al-dhahab (Shards of Gold) and its commentaries
Dr Richard Todd (Birmingham)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
17:00 - Special Seminar: Book talk: Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment
Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
Professor Ahmet Kuru (San Diego State)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
Jerri Dodds
History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Title TBC
Lyndsey Jenkins (Queen Mary University of London)
Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity - Michaelmas Term online
14:00 - Roundtable discussion with Helen McCarthy (Cambridge) of her new book 'Double Lives: a history of working motherhood' (2020)
Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
Helen McCarthy (Cambridge), Aleena Din (Oxford), Jane Humphries (Oxford), Eve Worth (Oxford)
Modern British History Seminar
15:00 - Open discussion: Is it enough to write history?
Various Speakers
Historians in the Public Sphere - Discussion Group
17:00 - A Twentieth-Century Crusade. The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
If you wish to attend, and are not on the Modern European History Seminar circulation list, please email martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
Giuliana Chamedes (Wisconsin)
Modern European History Seminar
17:00 - ‘Disabling Lord Purbeck: Adultery, Witchcraft and the State’
If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
Professor Thomas Cogswell (University of California, Riverside)
Early Modern Britain Seminar
17:00 - Tertulia at the Latin American History Seminar - Popol Vuh: A Retelling
Online event. Please check: https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home to register
Ilan Stavans (Armhest College), Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (University of Texas, Austin)
Latin American History Seminar

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 7 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:50 - Day 1 - Oxford Graduate Workshop: Ideas of Community in the Early Modern World, 1500-1700
Various Speakers

Tuesday 8 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Open Access
14:00 - Day 2 - Oxford Graduate Workshop: Ideas of Community in the Early Modern World, 1500-1700
Various Speakers

Wednesday 9 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 10 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 11 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

09:00 - CALL FOR PAPERS - EUROPAEUM CLASSICS COLLOQUIUM Slavery: Antiquity and Modernity in Dialogue
Deadline for submission of applications and abstracts: 11 December 2020 Deadline for final papers: 22 January 2021
Professor Nino Luraghi (University of Oxford), Prof Edith Hall (King's College, London), Dr Myles Lavan (University of St Andrews)
Europaeum events

Monday 4 January 2021 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - "Kin Beyond Sea": W E Gladstone on Liberalism, Empire, and America, 1846-1898
Dr Graeme Thompson (Harvard)
Global & Imperial History Research Seminar

Thursday 7 January 2021 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

18:00 - Is ‘Science’ Always Exact?
Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul)
Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures

Wednesday 13 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Conference - Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity: History and Archaeology between the 6th and the 8th centuries
This event has been postponed until January 2021
Various Speakers

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

13:45 - Selling ‘The World’s Favourite Airline’: British Airways’ privatization and the motives behind it
Adrian Cozmuta (University of Glasgow & University of Kyoto)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - “Becoming "Modern?”: Sexual Dissidence and Social Punishment under Developmentalist Francoism
Sonia Cuesta Maniar (Oxford)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:45 - Demographic Change and Development from Crowdsourced Genealogies in Early Modern Europe
Guillaume Blanc (Brown University, Providence)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - '“Emphatically Not Cricket”: Britons in Revolutionary Barcelona, 1936’
Adrian Pole (Edinburgh University)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:45 - Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945-1971
Maylis Avaro (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - ‘Out in the Cold: Anarchism and Mutual Aid inside Franco's Prisons, 1950-1960’
Jessica Thorne (Royal Holloway)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars

Wednesday 10 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

12:45 - Compressing Inequality? Labour Power, Regulation, and Microinnovations in American Transport, c.1860-1910
Benjamin Schneider (University of Oxford)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - “Our Elemental Soldier”: Representations of Republican Soldiers during The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Henry Brown (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

12:45 - The global economy and local institutions: inequality across India’s provinces, 1880-1910
Jordi Caum Julio (Jordi Caum Julio)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - The Evolution of Masculinities in Spain during the First Third of the Twentieth Century
Daniel Raya (Barcelona)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:45 - When ‘the state made war’, what happened to economic inequality? Evidence from Pre-Industrial Germany (c.1400-1800)
Felix Schaff (The London School of Economics)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Anarchist Counterculture in Spain and Argentina
Nathanial Andrews (Leeds)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

12:45 - Gatsby meets The Leopard. Surnames and the history of intergenerational mobility in Modern Italy
Giacomo Gabbuti (University of Oxford)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Spanish Anarchism in Global Context
Joshua Newmark (Leeds)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:45 - The conduct of monetary policy in interwar Italy: experimenting on the three sides of the macroeconomic policy trilemma, 1919-1939
Luigi Dante Gaviano (University of Oxford)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Amnesty International, Human Rights Activism and Spain, 1945-1977
Professor Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars

Wednesday 28 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

12:45 - Understanding Determinants and Common Factors in Railway and Sovereign Securities during the First Era of Globalisation
Tehreem Husain (The Bartlett School, UCL)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Wednesday 5 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

12:45 - Statistical Cooperation and the Interwar Networks of Central Banks, 1920-1939
Robert Yee (Princeton University)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

12:45 - Understanding the Gender Wage Gap in Mexico, 1880-1980
Enrique de la Rosa-Ramos (King's College, London)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:45 - Taxation in the Long-Run, Evidence from the Holy Roman Empire 1350-1806
Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

12:45 - Italian Banking Regulation
Marco Molteni (University of Oxford)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

12:45 - Can land inequality hamper rural credit access? Can land reforms improve access to credit? Evidence form Mexican state-level data, 1940-1960
Barbara Tundidor (University Carlos III de Madrid)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Wednesday 9 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

12:45 - EU Competition Law and Economic Schools of Thought: A Text Mining Perspective
Anselm Küsters (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

12:45 - The Gloucestershire Handloom Weavers: family division of labour, gender, and wages
Faheem Rokadiya (University of Utrecht)
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar

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