Saturday 23 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - "A HISTORY OF THE SMALL" ONE-DAY CONFERENCE
  Various Speakers

Sunday 24 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Seminar in Jewish Studies - Yom Limmud: 'The Talmud & Jewish Law: Celebrating 500 Years since the printing of the Bomberg Talmud'
  Participants may attend all or any part of the seminar
  Various Speakers

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Trans awareness workshop
  Dr Clara Barker (Department of Materials), Ellie Macdonald (Oxford Student Union representative), Katt Walton (Oxford Student Union representative)
• 16:00 - Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment
  Dr Simon Werrett (UCL)
  History of Science, Medicine and Technology Seminars
• 16:15 - Approaches to a Gendered Construction of Space in Late Antiquity
  Seminar starts at 16:15
  Miriam Steinborn (RGZM, Mainz)
  Gender in Classical Archaeology Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Aesop’s Fables in the 15th-century Veneto, in manuscript (BL 10389) and print’
  Matilde Malaspina (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Italian Renaissance Seminar
• 17:00 - Editing Charles Burney’s letters from Paris to Montreal, 1814-2019
  Peter Sabor (McGill)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Making Matches: Towards a Social History of Medieval Jewish Marriage in Northern Europe 1200-1350
  Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Medieval History Seminar

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Beacons of Freedom: Runaway Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America
  Damian Pargas (Leiden University)
  American History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Myth in the modern landscape
  Felix Taylor (English, St Hugh’s)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The Changing Character of the Mexican War on Drugs: State Building Process, Bureaucracy and U.S. Policy (1940-1980)
  Carlos Pérez-Ricart (St. Antony’s College)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:00 - The Changing Character of the Mexican War on Drugs: State Building Process, Bureaucracy and U.S. Policy (1940-1980)
  Dr Carlos Perez Ricart (Faculty of History, Oxford)
  The Changing Character of War Centre Seminar
• 14:00 - Converting the Cross: Monuments, Memory and Time in Early Modern England
  Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge)
  Later Medieval Seminar - Commemoration
• 15:30 - Deviance & Power - Knighton’s Chronicle, Heresy Records
  Various Speakers
  Medieval Book Club
• 16:15 - Trinidad and Demerara: The Southern Caribbean in the Revolutionary Era
  Dexnell Peters (Exeter)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:30 - Public news: an ambassador’s secret weapon. Diego Guzman de Silva’s interventions in the Low Countries from the embassy in Venice, 1568-1573
  Professor Emerita Mía J. Rodríguez-Salgado (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
  TORCH Network on Diplomacy in the Early Modern Period (1400-1800)
• 17:00 - Jewish Martyrdom in the First Crusade
  Anna Sapir Abulafia
  Medieval Church and Culture
• 17:00 - ‘Inventing accuracy in Giovanni Domenico Cassini’s Paris Observatory: an analysis of a sample of letters (1667–1712)’
  Dalia Deias (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - Towards the Anthropocene: State-formation and Environment in the Global Middle Ages
  Amanda Power (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - 'Histories of a plague year: Population, health and government in the colonial Andes'
  Gabriela Ramos (Cambridge)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 12:00 - A Nation of Orphans, Children in Republican Turkey
  Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminar
• 12:45 - Substitutes to Small-change: Exploring how Different Regions of 18th Century Britain Dealt with the Small Change Shortage
  Beth Bloomer (Nuffield College)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 17:00 - Statue Histories: Iconoclasm as Anti-Colonialism
  Finbarr Barry Flood (Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)
  The Slade Lectures: Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm
• 17:00 - The making of Ottoman kingship at the dawn of empire
  Dr Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
• 17:00 - “Women, Children. They don’t care who they kill”: Disaggregating the Provisional IRA Bombing Campaign, 1969-1998
  Rachel Kowalski (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Seminar in Irish History
• 17:00 - Byzantine Imitation Coins and the Emergence of Rus
  Alexandra Vukovich (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - 'Pan nationalism: The case of Pan latinism
  Amotz Giladi (Affiliate of Research network on the History of Europe)
  The Long History of Ethnicity & Nationhood Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sacred and Secular compared – How did the treatment of relics and ordinary bodies differ in the Middle Ages?
  Professor Visa Immonen (University of Turku (Finland))
  Oxford Relics Cluster Seminar
• 17:30 - "A Monkey into a Man": Thomas Henry Huxley, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and the Making of an Evolutionary Icon
  Professor Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Bodleian Student Editions - Manuscript Editing Workshop
  Mike Webb (Curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, Bodleian Libraries), Miranda Lewis (Digital Editor, Early Modern Letters Online), Andrew Cusworth (Bodleian Libraries)
• 11:00 - ‘Basilica B’ at Philippi: The phases of construction of an incomplete Church
  Nikos Karydis
  Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar
• 11:00 - Global Britain and the Security of Europe, 1919-59
  Patricia Clavin
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Print, Patronage and Propaganda: The Poligrafi and the Circulation of Disinformation in Sixteenth-Century Italy
  Tom Goodwin
  Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
• 12:30 - "There is nothing so holy or proper that it cannot be distorted by ill report": Rumours and Sedition in Late Medieval England ca. 1461-1537)
  Wesley Correa
  Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
• 14:00 - Double Amnesia: Human Rights and Zionism, 1918-2018
  **Joint Seminar with Modern British History**
  James Loeffler (University of Virginia)
  Seminar in Modern Jewish History
• 14:00 - Double Amnesia: Human Rights and Zionism, 1918-2018
  Joint session with Jewish History seminar
  Jim Loeffler (Virginia)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:30 - Quantitative Methods Surgery Hilary Term Week 7
  Valeria Rueda (University of Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Quantitative Method Surgeries
• 16:30 - “The new rich Athenian Lady: excavation meets archival research”
  Dr. Tatiana Poulou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens, Acropolis Department)
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Origins of Legal Rule in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
  Timo Schaefer (PhD Indiana)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Knowledge and War: Paper Technologies in Early Modern Empires
  Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Lincoln Leads in History: ‘Should Historians be More Political?'
  Dr Perry Gauci, James Barr, Philip Decker
• 18:30 - It's The Wrong Way to Tickle Mary
  Various Speakers

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 11:00 - Oxford and Empire: Public History Training Workshop
  For DPhils and ECRs
  Various Speakers
• 12:00 - Natural right theory in Kant’s legal metaphors
  Sofie Møller (Frankfurt)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 12:45 - Colourism, Gender and Respectability: Activism and Academia Discussion Panel
  Special Event with the Race and Resistance Network
  Dr Michell Chresfield, Dr Janine Bradbury
• 13:10 - An historic wood-pasture environment: the changing face of Wychwood Forest 1000-2000
  Simon Townley (Oxon VCH)
  Wytham Woods Seminar
• 14:15 - 15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 16:00 - Urban Vision for the Ancient City: a Fresh Look at Domitian's Architecture
  Daira Nocera (University of Pennsylvania)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Conference - Biographies of Materials at the crossroads between natural sciences and humanities
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 14:00 - The Convergence of Open: Open Access, Education, Data & Culture
  Martin Poulter (Wikimedia UK)
  Open Access Oxford
• 14:15 - Recycling paper and parchment in late medieval English manuscripts
  Hannah Ryley
  Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
• 15:00 - Remnants of a Roman Past: Reuse of Roman objects in early Anglo-Saxon graves
  Jessica Dunham
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 16:00 - Transnational history of automata: Europe and Japan
  Dr Mateja Kovacic (University of Oxford)
  History of Science, Medicine and Technology Seminars
• 16:00 - Performing Gender in Palmyra’s Tombs
  Dr Lucy Audley-Miller (University of Oxford)
  Gender in Classical Archaeology Seminar Series
• 17:00 - 'The Sense of Touch in Italian Renaissance anatomy’
  Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research, F.R.S.-FNRS / University of Liège)
  Italian Renaissance Seminar
• 17:00 - Locusts of love: Imagi(ni)ng insect reproduction in the 18th century
  Dominik Hünniger (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - 'Anglo-Saxons in the landscape: identity, conflict, and communication
  Andrew Holland (Queen's)
  Medieval History Seminar
• 17:00 - Sino-Indian Connections: New Perspectives on 20th century Conflicts - Disputes over the China-Tibet-India Road: The Other Side of the Anglo-Chinese Alliance during the Second World War
  Zhaodong Wang (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Sino-Indian Connections: New Perspectives on 20th century Conflicts - Building a Feminine Self in Wars: A Postcolonial Account of the State’s Gender Identity Through the Case of the 1962 Sino-Indian Border War
  Yang Han (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Robert Gildea in Conversation with Catherine Hall - "Empires of the Mind"
  Robert Gildea (Worcester)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - "The Painters Are In": Visual Culture and Menstruation 1950-2020
  Dr Camilla Røstvik
  Gender, Women and Culture Seminar
• 12:30 - Maritime and Riverine Borders and the Problem of Settler Colonialism
  Rachel Herrmann (Cardiff)
  American History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - A Westphalia for the Middle East?
  Dr Patrick Milton (University of Cambridge)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:00 - A Westphalia for the Middle East?
  Dr Patrick Milton (University of Cambridge)
  The Changing Character of War Centre Seminar
• 14:00 - Open Access and Monographs: publishers, policies, practicalities
  Various Speakers
  Open Access Oxford
• 15:30 - Deviance in the Margins - a medieval manuscript session
  Various Speakers
  Medieval Book Club
• 16:15 - Clandon Park
  Sophie Chessum (National Trust)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - ‘The Second Quantification of physics’
  Daniel Mitchell (RWTH Aachen University)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - BABEL AND THE LANGUAGE(S) OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
  Simon Gaunt

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - Spectres of Hispanic science: traces of an invisible past
  Juan Pimentel (CSIC, Madrid)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 12:45 - A Tale of Two Banks: The Development of the West Bank Labour Force after 1967
  Matti Israel (Jesus College)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 14:00 - Christopher Beeston: His Plays and Place in the Social Hierarchy of Early Stuart London AND Une petite Venise: The Seventeenth-Century Beaver
  EVA GRIFFITH (Independent Scholar), KATHERINE IBBETT (Trinity College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Graduate students’ presentations and workshop
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Paywall: the movie
  Various Speakers
  Open Access Oxford
• 17:00 - Beyond Enlightenment? Towards a Conclusion
  Finbarr Barry Flood (Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)
  The Slade Lectures: Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm
• 17:00 - Science, the War of 1812, and the hidden transformation of America’s central state, 1812-1820
  Sveinn Jóhannesson (IHR)
  Oxford Early American Republic Seminar
• 17:00 - The Qur’an in English: challenges and choices for Surat an-Nisa
  Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University), Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
• 17:00 - Drinks
  TBA
  Early Medieval Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Festschrift Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys – book launch
  Teresa Shawcross (Princeton), Ida Toth (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Science, the War of 1812, and the hidden transformation of America's central state, 1812-1820
  Sveinn Johannesson (IHR)
  The Oxford Early American Republic Seminar

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Trier ivory conundrum: New remarks on old theories
  Efthymios Rizos
  Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar
• 11:00 - Engaging with the West, humanizing science: Grassroots geographers’ quest for a natural order in Meiji and Taisho Japan
  Nadine Willems
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - First session of the new Digital Humanities Graduate seminar group
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Music in a Divided City: The Introduction of Polyphony at St Katherine's, Augsburg
  Barbara Eichner (Oxford Brookes)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Matthew Laube (Birkbeck)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:00 - Becoming European internationalists, becoming social democrats? The debate on the European Community in Marxism Today in the long 1980s
  Max Shock (Univ)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 14:00 - Methods of Research in Literature and the Visual Arts
  Various Speakers
  PERLEGO
• 15:30 - Learned Societies and the transition to Open Access
  Various Speakers
  Open Access Oxford
• 16:30 - Qantitative Methods Surgery Hilary Term Week 8
  Valeria Rueda (University of Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Quantitative Method Surgeries
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Education, Citizenship and Democracy in Latin America, 1800-1860
  Nicola Miller (University College London)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - From ‘The End of Ideology’ to ‘The End of History’: The Strange Revival of a Discredited Idea
  Dr Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale University)
  Rethinking the Contemporary. The World Since the Cold War

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 11:00 - Commemorating civil war in the Low Countries 1566-1648
  NOTE DIFFERENT DAY AND TIME
  Judith Pollman (Leiden)
  Later Medieval Seminar - Commemoration
• 12:00 - The Origins of the End of Ideology Debate: An Alternative History
  Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Yale)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 13:10 - Holocene expansion of beech (Fagus sylvatica): from the Mediterranean Sea to Wytham
  Hansjörg Küster (University of Hanover)
  Wytham Woods Seminar
• 14:00 - Play the 'Publishing Trap' board game
  Jane Secker (UK Copyright Literacy), Chris Morrison (UK Copyright Literacy)
  Open Access Oxford
• 14:15 - A very special book launch: Manuale Tipografico IV. A triumph of hand-printing aesthetics, paper and watermarks
  Enrico Tallone (Tallone Editore, Turin), Carlo Ossola (Collège de France, Prof. of Modern Literatures of Neo-Latin Europe), Stefano Salis (Il Sole 24 Ore)
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 16:00 - A question of scale? What makes a fountain monumental? The case of nymphaea in the Roman East
  Julian Richard (University of Namur)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Historiography and intellectual history
  Richard Whatmore (St. Andrews)
  Historiography Research Seminar

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Study day - Writing Technology/Technology of Writing
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Tuesday 19 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - 2019 Interdisciplinary History of War Conference
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History

Wednesday 20 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:45 - 2-DAY CONFERENCE: Song Beyond the Nation: Translation, Transnationalism and Performance
  Various Speakers

Friday 22 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Session 3
  Ragip Ege (Université de Strasbourg), Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford), Michel Bellet (Université de St-Etienne)
  Encyclopédie Nouvelle Seminar
• 16:00 - Seminar - ‘Encyclopédie Nouvelle’
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism
  PLEASE NOTE: The session will be held at Magdalen College, preceded by an afternoon colloquium (1:30-4:30) on human rights and the Enlightenment, featuring Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht), Mark Philp (Warwick), Céline Spector (Paris) and Dan Edelstein.
  Dan Edelstein (Stanford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - CFP - Sensing Colonial Ports and Global History: Agency, Affect, Temporality
  Various Speakers
• 16:30 - Quantitative Methods Surgery Trinity Term Week 1
  Valeria Rueda (University of Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Quantitative Method Surgeries

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Session 4
  Anna Plassart (Open University), Marisa Forcina (Université de Salento), Thibault Debail (EHESS, Paris)
  Encyclopédie Nouvelle Seminar

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Quantitative Methods Surgery Trinity Term Week 2
  Valeria Rueda (University of Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Quantitative Method Surgeries

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Enlightenment and the northwest Pacific coast: Alexander Walker and José Mariano Moziño at Nootka Sound, 1785-1792
  Maxine Berg (Warwick)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Quantitative Methods Surgery Trinity Term Week 3
  Valeria Rueda (University of Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Quantitative Method Surgeries

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Enlightenment and migration politics
  Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile (Potsdam)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Quantitative Methods Surgery Trinity Term Week 4
  Valeria Rueda (University of Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Quantitative Method Surgeries

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Session 5
  Andrea Lanza (University of Toronto), Michael Drolet (Worcester College, Oxford), Vincent Bourdeau (Université de Franche-Comté)
  Encyclopédie Nouvelle Seminar