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

Friday 6 February 2026

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 - Zotero for referencing
Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
10:30 - Lives under the microscope: scientific obituaries dissected (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
Please note that this event is exclusively open to current members of the University of Oxford. Workshop places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to members of the English Faculty. This is an in-person event and will not be recorded.
Georgina Ferry (Author)
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
11:00 - Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Bureaucracies of Violence: Asians leaving Uganda in 1972
Ria Kapoor (QMUL)
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
TBA
Utopia Reading Group
17:15 - Book Presentation: 'Venice Requiem' by Khalid Lyamlahy, translated by Ros Schwartz
Khalid Lyamlahy (Chicago), Ros Schwarz (Translator), Chair: Jane Hiddleston (Exeter)
Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Saturday 7 February 2026

Monday 9 February 2026

Tuesday 10 February 2026

Wednesday 11 February 2026

Thursday 12 February 2026

Friday 13 February 2026

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
14:00 - Italian Fascism, the Holy See and the Nationalist Government During the First Apostolic Delegation to China (1922-1933)
Chiara D'Auria (UNISA)
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
15:00 - Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
TBA
Utopia Reading Group
17:30 - A B Emden Lecture 2026 - Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World
Please note: this lecture will be recorded and published on St Edmund Hall’s digital and print communication platforms where appropriate.
Professor Jeremy Adelman (Cambridge)
A B Emden Lectures

Monday 16 February 2026

12:30 - Graduate Seminar: A chance to hear short papers from graduate students working on the study of the body
Hannah Stovin, Anna Braddick
Body in History Network
15:30 - Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
16:00 - Chronic Constitutions: Experts, Disease Risks and Remaking Indian Bodies in Post Colonial India (1940-70s)
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
16:00 - Right-wing decoloniality and civilizational discourses
Online only - registration required https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/12de44d9-d51e-4557-a6df-a43e99419a83@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
17:00 - Queen Melisende of Jerusalem and the Wages of Sin
Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California)
Medieval History Research Seminar
17:15 - The Cultural Impact of Visits to the Roman Metropolis: Jews and the Big City
Professor Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (University of Haifa)
Massada Public Seminars
17:15 - 'Legal humanism across nationalisms and transnational history' Presentation of the ISTHisFrench project (ERC-2024-COG 101170233)
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Tuesday 17 February 2026

Wednesday 18 February 2026

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
11:00 - Open monographs
Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
11:30 - 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
12:15 - Interreligious Polemic and the Virgin Mary: Two Late Medieval East Syrian Treatises
Shane Patrick
Syriac Lunch Seminar
17:00 - Lecture 5: Brasilia: Planned Exclusion
Please note that all six lectures will take place in-person only, and the lectures will not be recorded.
Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
Slade Lectures 2026: Urban Change and Representation
17:00 - Dependent Labour in the Late Antique Near East
Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille)
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
17:00 - Transnational Japan in War and Fashion (Hybrid)
Fanny Cornu (Edinburgh), Lian Huiqi (Korea)
International History of East Asia Seminar
17:00 - ‘Is medieval biblical exegesis a form of totemism? An examination of analogical-social thinking in Moralised Bibles’
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
17:15 - Defence and military ecosystem in Turkiye
Colonel Dr Cagri Sagiroglu (CCW), Dr Seyithan Ahmet Ates (Ankara University of Social Sciences)
Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
17:30 - Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 February 2026

Friday 20 February 2026

Saturday 21 February 2026

10:30 - HAPP 1-Day Conference: Heritage Physics: Illuminating the Past - in person and livestreamed online
Various Speakers
HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics

Monday 23 February 2026

09:30 - Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
09:30 - Workshop ‘Beyond the Body of the Church: Formalisations of Social Ideas in Medieval Christianity’
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
11:00 - Setting the Children to Work in Early Modern London: Some Methodological Challenges
Ian Archer (Oxford)
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
12:15 - Religious Encounters
Reading Group
Iberian History Reading Group
12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: On the Trail of the Detective: Testing a New Comparative Methodology in World Literature
Oliver Eccles (UCL)
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
14:00 - Designing a conference poster in medicine: Getting started
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Termly update on open scholarship
Various Speakers
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Scholarly mobility and Sufi authority: Imdadullah's intellectual world between South Asia and the Hijaz
Registration required for Teams - https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cef38bec-a47b-4aa9-8801-e9b66ec1bed8@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
16:00 - The Mental After-Care Association, Recovery and Psychotherapy
Hannah Blythe (Leeds)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
17:00 - International commerce and regional development: pepper in the Indian Ocean
Chris Wickham (Birmingham/Oxford)
Medieval History Research Seminar
18:15 - 'Shepherding away from Home': The Role of the Prison Chaplain (Faith in Public Life Lecture)
Rosalind Lane, Paul Cowley
Pusey House Lectures and Events

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Wednesday 25 February 2026

11:00 - Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Reading Group
LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
12:15 - The Political Cultures of Christian Slavery in the Early Medieval East Syriac Legal Tradition
Seth Stadel
Syriac Lunch Seminar
14:00 - Transnational Trade & Labour History
Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
Transnational & Global History Seminar
14:00 - Transnational Trade & Labour History
Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
14:30 - Day 1: Conference - Confession - The Church's Gift to the World?
Various Speakers
Pusey House Lectures and Events
15:00 - Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
16:00 - Dr. Pusey on the Effects of Absolution: Catholic but not Roman (Recollection Lecture)
Ben Jefferies (Trinity Anglican Seminary)
Pusey House Lectures and Events
16:15 - Christians, Jews, and Muslims' resistance to the Spanish Monarchs in 15th c. Malaga
Celine Dauverd
Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
16:30 - Old Customs and the Contest for Jurisdiction over Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Iberia
Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco (UCL)
Iberian History Seminar
17:00 - "The Kingdom of Liberty": the Dutch Remonstrants on Christianity and Natural Law
Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
Enlightenment Workshop
17:00 - Lecture 6: Permanently Temporary Cities: Refugee Camps
Please note that all six lectures will take place in-person only, and the lectures will not be recorded.
Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
Slade Lectures 2026: Urban Change and Representation
17:00 - From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
17:00 - One History or Many? Transitional Justice Theory and the Politics of Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Professor Louise Mallinder (QUB)
Oxford Irish History Seminar
17:00 - Mapping Unholy Places in Late Antiquity
Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw)
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
17:00 - ‘What’s on a Vase? When French Feminism Meets Chinese Art’
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
17:00 - Reading Power in Chosŏn Korea's Laws and Gardens (online)
Wing Shan Chan (Esme) (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Zexing Zheng (Seoul National University)
International History of East Asia Seminar
17:15 - Male Bodies for the Fatherland: Invalidity and Self-Mutilation in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Joint session with the History of War seminar. 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
17:15 - Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Please note this session is in the Old Library, All Souls College
Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 26 February 2026

09:15 - Sunderland Collection Symposium: MAPS Digital/Analogue
Various Speakers
Bodleian Events
09:30 - Day 2: Conference - Confession - The Church's Gift to the World?
Various Speakers
Pusey House Lectures and Events
11:45 - Glut
Content awareness: This session engages methodologically and theoretically with archival materials that may involve sexual violence, reproductive politics, racialised power, gendered harm, and coercion, particularly in contexts where such materials appear in uneven, repetitive, or overwhelming abundance (“archival glut”). While the focus of the session is analytical and methodological rather than descriptive, some themes may nevertheless be challenging. For those who may find it helpful, we also recommend the excellent resources produced by the Challenging Research group, which offer guidance on working with emotionally demanding archives and topics: https://challengingresearch.org/resources/
Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Koch History Centre), Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
WGQ Centre
14:00 - The Worst Bird in Britain? Gamekeepers, bird protection, and the Little Owl controversy in England, c.1900-1954
Max Long (Oxford)
Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
14:00 - The “Continuation” of Aristotle’s Problemata in the English Seventeenth Century
Professor Kathryn Murphy (Oxford)
Early Modern Intellectual History
14:00 - Book Talk: Order without Hegemony
Manjeet S. Pardesi (Victoria University of Wellington), Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College), Faisal Devji
Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
17:00 - Lecture 6: Self vs. Society
Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
The James Ford Lectures 2026: The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life
17:00 - Film Screening: Victim (1961)
Film screening and discussion
LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
17:00 - “Commerce has taught us more humanitie”? Enslaved Black people, Jewish people, and the conditional rightslessness of ‘infidels’ in seventeenth-century England
Dr Kathleen Commons (Sheffield)
Early Modern Britain Seminar
17:00 - Morale on the home front, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction
Annual OCEH Lecture, co-sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Global History
Sheldon Garon (Princeton) (Princeton University)
European Studies Seminar
17:00 - Chile’s Neoliberal Nationalization: How a Dictator Spooked Copper Investors, 1974-1989
Margarita Fajardo (LAC/OSGA, Oxford, and Lawrence College, USA)
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
17:15 - Debt in stone: architectures of finance in late Ottoman Istanbul
Eva Schreiner (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)
Khalili Research Centre Seminars
17:30 - Feeling Safe but Not Ready: Disaster Risk Perception and Urban Resilience in Baltic Capitals
Please wait to be admitted between 17:20 and 17:25 via the entrance on Jowett Walk.
Dr. Didzis Kļaviņš (University of Latvia)
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
19:15 - An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
TBA
Oxford Medical Humanities

Friday 27 February 2026

10:00 - Searching systematically in medicine
Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
10:30 - Writing the Oxford lives of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
Please note that this event is *exclusively open to current members of the University of Oxford*. Workshop places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to members of the English Faculty. This is an in-person event and will not be recorded.
Simon Horobin (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
13:30 - 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 - Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
15:00 - Music and the Medical Humanities
TBA
Oxford Medical Humanities
16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
TBA
Utopia Reading Group
17:00 - Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions
Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 2 March 2026

13:00 - Searching for patents and standards
Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
TBA
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
14:00 - OxFOS26: AI versus open research: Exploring the evolving tensions
Various Speakers
Open Scholarship
15:00 - Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
16:00 - Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
16:00 - Family, Historical Memory and Cultural Capital in Late Colonial India
Registration required for Teams - https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3abd42ea-5eca-48ee-a24b-ab46a667cc3d@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Polly O'Hanlon (University of Oxford)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
17:00 - Insular manuscripts: why membrane matters
Please note: this session will be in-person only, not hybrid - this is due to restrictions governing the sharing of unpublished results by grant partners
Jo Story (Leicester)
Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 March 2026

10:00 - Fundamentals of open access
Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
11:00 - OxFOS26: The future of Rights Retention to protect researchers' copyright
Please note: This session is intended for colleagues working in UK higher education libraries and research support roles, including scholarly communications, open research, copyright, and library policy. To enable open discussion, the session will be run as a closed meeting.
Various Speakers
Open Scholarship
11:00 - Between Sovereignty and Interdependence: India and South Africa’s AI development strategies
Ayantola Alayande (Oxford Department of International Development)
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
14:00 - NO SEMINAR
Please note there is no seminar this week
No seminar
Europe in the Later Middle Ages
15:00 - OxFOS26: Future of open research in humanities and social sciences
Various Speakers
Open Scholarship
16:00 - Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
American History Research Seminar
16:00 - National Resilience and Preparedness
Dr Rowena Hill (Nottingham Trent University)
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - Book presentation ‘Cultural expertise. Theories, Laws and Practices’ (Routledge, 2025)
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
16:00 - Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty
*Hybrid event* For webinar registration please use the link below.
Dr Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
16:15 - Undergraduate Thesis session (in-person only)
Please note this session is in-person only.
Various Speakers
Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
16:30 - Polyphony or Cacophony? Tumult and Order in the Political Culture of Venice’s Empire during the Italian Wars
Monique O'Connell (Wake Forest)
Early Modern Italian World Seminar
17:00 - Lecture 6: Democratic Form
Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy
17:00 - Songs of Life and Death: Musical Communications Between the Dead and the Living in Early China
Dr Avital Rom (University of Cambridge)
Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
17:00 - Mistakes were made: The EU’s relations with Russia and Turkey in the 1990s
Ayşe Zarakol (Emmanual College, Cambridge), Roy Allison (St Antony’s)
European Studies Seminar
17:00 - Reflections on writing the history of Europe under German occupation during World War II
Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal)
Modern European History Seminar
17:00 - Title TBC
Alessandro Nuvolari (School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
18:00 - Book Launch: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail with author Hélène Giannecchini
Hélène Giannecchini (Author), Discussant: Katie Burke (Oxford), Discussant: Eszter D Kovács (Oxford)
LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
19:00 - Special Film Screening 'Le dernier Canadien français'
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Wednesday 4 March 2026

Thursday 5 March 2026

Friday 6 March 2026

Saturday 7 March 2026

10:30 - British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress Meeting
Various Speakers

Monday 9 March 2026

11:00 - Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Childhood Studies
Kiera Vaclavik (QMUL), Sophie Ratcliffe (Oxford)
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
12:15 - Order of Knowledge
Reading Group
Iberian History Reading Group
12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Teaching the Coloniality of the Climate Crisis in Translation: Indonesian and Dutch Flood Narratives
Lucelle Pardoe (UCL)
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
16:00 - The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
16:00 - Prostitution and the Politics of Presence in Colonial India
Online only - registration required https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e43d7a33-d500-4e99-af4a-adcd236eced3@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Zoya Sameen (Aga Khan University)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
17:00 - Cowries, Cloth and Coins: Currency in Medieval Economic Anthropology
Nick Evans (Birkbeck)
Medieval History Research Seminar
17:00 - Children’s Week - A week exploring new frontiers, infant cognition, emotions, and care, including the history of children’s health, while rethinking classic themes such as work, children’s art and literature, and naturalist approaches to learning.
TBA
Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Tuesday 10 March 2026

10:00 - Searching systematically in medicine
Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
11:00 - Designing a conference poster in medicine: Getting started
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
14:00 - Investigations of Women’s Suicides in the County of Henneberg: 1590-1612
This presentation examines historical sources that address suicide in the early modern period. Although the analysis is academic and contextualised, the subject matter may be upsetting or triggering for some listeners. Audience members are encouraged to prioritise their well-being and step away if needed.
Louisa Bergold, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Early Modern World Seminar
14:00 - Popes, Ambassadors and Falcons: Trade and Diplomacy between Latin Europe and the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fourteenth Century
Mike Carr (Edinburgh)
Europe in the Later Middle Ages
15:00 - Special Contemporary History Seminar: The Rise and Demise of Italy’s Christian Democracy
Rosario Forlenza (LUISS Rome)
16:00 - "A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
American History Research Seminar
16:00 - How to End a Nuclear War: Deterrence and Provocation in War Termination
Lauren Sukin (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
16:15 - The Making of Marie Antoinette Style at The V&A
Sarah Grant (The V&A), Oliver Cox (The V&A)
Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
16:15 - Personal correspondence and early modern diplomacy
Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute, Paris), Vladimir Somov (Independent Researcher)
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
17:00 - Reading the Qur ʾān across the Mediterranean: Toward a Maghribī School of Tafsīr in Early Islam
Dr Conor Dube (UCL)
Maghrib History Seminar
17:00 - Artistic Exchanges during the Global Cold War: Algeria and the Eastern Bloc
Katarzyna Falęcka (Newcastle)
Modern European History Seminar
17:00 - Spinning at Home for the Market: Individual Productivity and Income in 18th Century Sweden
Kathryn Gary (Lund University)
Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2026

10:00 - Postgraduate Presentations
Please note these presentations will take place in the Schwarzman Centre, from 10:00-14:30
Various Speakers
History of War Seminar Series
11:00 - Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Reading Group
LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
12:30 - PSI seminar: 'What makes evidence credible in policymaking?’ presented by Kathryn Oliver
This seminar is primarily for PSI staff and students. Members of the University who are not at the PSI are welcome to join, but please contact us beforehand events.psi@ndm.ox.ac.uk.
Professor Kathryn Oliver (Professor of Evidence and Policy, LSHTM)
Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
14:00 - Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Transnational & Global History Seminar
14:00 - Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
16:15 - From Sacrifice to Creation: Two Paradigms of Indian Political Thought
Salmoli Choudhuri
Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
16:30 - Title TBC
Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile (Sorbonne)
Iberian History Seminar
17:00 - לְ†רבּי†: John Locke, Christ Church, and the Herbarium Exercises, 1660-1665
Felix Waldmann (Cambridge)
Enlightenment Workshop
17:00 - Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
17:00 - HAPP Lecture: Godfrey Stafford: Physicist, Director, Master
Dr Norman McCubbin (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics
17:00 - Making Ireland Catholic: Morality and Modernity in the Free State
Fearghal McGarry (QUB)
Oxford Irish History Seminar
17:00 - Unbecoming Roman: Performative Ethnicity and Panspermía in the Byzantine World c.1190-1235
Nathan Websdale (Oxford)
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
17:00 - Late Qing China and the Negotiation of Global Knowledge and Order (Hybrid)
Leo Shen (Cambridge), Yuxuan Zhou (Geneva)
International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 12 March 2026

Friday 13 March 2026

Monday 16 March 2026

15:00 - Poster clinic for medicine
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 17 March 2026

11:00 - Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Thursday 19 March 2026

17:00 - America 250: What Makes A Revolution?
Peter Mancall (University of Southern California)

Friday 20 March 2026

Monday 23 March 2026

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

Wednesday 25 March 2026

Thursday 26 March 2026

Tuesday 7 April 2026

14:30 - Fundamentals of open access
Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Thursday 9 April 2026

17:00 - ‘Michel Serres, historian of science despite himself’
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Friday 10 April 2026

09:30 - SHAC Spring meeting - Remembering Bill Brock: Chemistry and Culture
Various Speakers
Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Wednesday 15 April 2026

15:00 - Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Friday 17 April 2026

10:00 - When there are no sources: an English Historical Review symposium
John Arnold (Cambridge), Hannah Murphy (KCL), Jonathan Saha (Durham), Miranda Spieler (American University of Paris), Tess Wingard (York)

Wednesday 22 April 2026

15:00 - Searching systematically in medicine
Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Monday 27 April 2026

16:30 - TOSCA Field Trip – The Queen’s Atlas
This event is in-person only - booking essential
David Fletcher (Independent Researcher)
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

Wednesday 29 April 2026

17:00 - The Long Making of the Anthropocene: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modernity
Professor Amanda Power (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Medieval Society and Landscape

Tuesday 5 May 2026

14:00 - Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
This talk has been rescheduled from Michaelmas Term. Please note the change of venue
Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Early Modern World Seminar

Thursday 7 May 2026

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

Tuesday 12 May 2026

Wednesday 13 May 2026

Thursday 14 May 2026

Tuesday 19 May 2026

Wednesday 20 May 2026

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

Tuesday 26 May 2026

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 2026

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

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Thursday 4 June 2026

Thursday 11 June 2026

Friday 12 June 2026

09:00 - Day 2 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
Various Speakers
McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026: Reimagining Humanism

Saturday 13 June 2026

09:00 - Day 3 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
Various Speakers
McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026: Reimagining Humanism

Wednesday 17 June 2026

17:00 - Can Anyone Survive the Landscape of Sicily? A Twelfth-Century Political Experiment
Dr Philippa Byrne (Oxford Lifelong Learning)
Medieval Society and Landscape

Thursday 18 June 2026

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

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