Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Towards a Temple Society in the post-Roman West
  Ian Wood (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity Special Lecture Series
• 15:00 - Discussing Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
  N/A
  Oxford Pilgrimage Studies Network: Pilgrimage Book Club
• 16:00 - Self-help and psychology
  Dr Michael Finn (Leeds)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - Religion and Enlightenment
  Maria Florutau, Henrique Laitenberger, Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Long-term Lease on Waqf Lands in Khorezm: Legal and Socio-Economic Implications
  Qahramon Yaqubov (Institute of History, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:00 - “Where's all the bloody stuff?” Carmelite Preaching in the Late Middle Ages
  Ralf Lützelschwab (Berlin)
  Medieval History Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘We Are Not Good at Translating Lab Science into New Medicines for Patients’
  Prof Chas Bountra (SGC, University of Oxford)
  Translating Illness
• 17:15 - INAUGURAL LECTURE: We are not good at translating lab science into new medicines for patients
  Chas Bountra (Professor of Translational Medicine; Pro-Vice Chancellor for Innovation, Oxford)
  Translating Illness
• 20:00 - DANSOX presents: Making “The Cellist”
  N/A
  Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX)
• 20:00 - DANSOX presents: Making "The Cellist"
  Cathy Marston

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Curating (in) a Crisis: Looking at Contemporary Art in an Era of Ecological Breakdown
  Anna Souter (Art History)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - ‘“One of the greatest events in the history of our constituency”: Schoolgirls’ mock elections in Edwardian England’
  (Please note different time and location)
  Helen Sunderland (Cambridge)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Events
• 13:00 - "One of the greatest events in the history of our constituency": Schoolgirls’ mock elections in Edwardian England
  Helen Sunderland (Cambridge)
  Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Libya and Challenges for International conflict resolution
  Christopher Thornton (Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:15 - Flat, Round, Hidden: Character and Type in the Middle English Popular Romances AND Tomb Raiders: Christianising Ovid in the Middle Ages
  Please note the new day and time!
  Rebecca Menmuir, Lucy Brookes
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Opening discussion on animals in medieval history
  Lesley McGregor (Oxford)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 14:00 - EU Democracy Promotion and the Authoritarian Challenge
  Natasha Wunsch (Sciences Po), Heidi Maurer (University of Oxford)
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
• 16:15 - "What Dukes, what Drapers, what Barbers, and Peers": The Politics of late Georgian election balls
  Hillary Burlock (Queen Mary)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Financing Nascent Industry: Leverage, Politics, and Performance in Imperial Russia
  Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘When was cosmology? The curious history of a disciplinary category, c.1600–c.1730’
  Adam Mosley (Swansea University)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - The Politics of the Visionary Present: J.G. Ballard’s Surrealist Liberalism
  Duncan Bell (Cambridge)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:15 - Pagans, Pilgrims and the Past: doing Church History with the detectorists
  Mark Philpott (St Stephen’s House & Keble College)
  Medieval Church and Culture
• 17:30 - DANSOX presents: Sir Richard Alston and Professor Stephanie Jordan
  N/A
  Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX)

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Empires of the Mind
  Professor Robert Gildea (Oxford)
  TORCH Book at Lunchtime
• 17:00 - History and the Art of Painting
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
• 17:00 - Researching ‘religion’ in indigenous cultures
  Dr Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:15 - Children Writing War in the Nineteenth
  Joint session with the Centre for the History of Childhood
  Emma Butcher (Leicester)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Spinoza: True Religion and the Narratives of Universal Faith
  Only Week 1 is on Wednesday, remaining seminars are on Tuesdays
  Professor Mogens Laerke (Maison Francaise d'Oxford)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Children Writing War in the Nineteenth Century’
  (Please note different day, time and location)
  Emma Butcher (Leicester)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Events

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Other `68ers: Students of the Centre-Right in West Germany’s Age of Protest
  Anna v der Goltz (Georgetown)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Popular politics in an age of mass democracy: Home Rule, ‘the caucus’ and public opinion
  Naomi Lloyd-Jones (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:00 - Macrobius’ Virgils
  Katherine Krauss
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - Animate Ivory: Animality, Materiality, and Pygmalion’s Statue
  This seminar is at the Faculty of English at 17:00
  Peggy McCracken (Michigan)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 17:00 - Animate Ivory: Animality, Materiality, and Pygmalion’s Statue
  Peggy McCracken
  TORCH Oxford Medieval Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Women’s Work in early modern England: Approaches and Issues
  Professor Jane Whittle (University of Exeter)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Electoral Practices in Post-Independent Chile, 1820-1830
  Joint Seminar with the Adolfo Ibáñez University
  Juan Luis Ossa (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Hilary Term Workshop: New Critical Approaches to Byzantine Gender
  Various Speakers
  TORCH New Critical Approaches to the Byzantine World
• 16:00 - International treaties as imperial social contracts
  Professor Saliha Belmessous (University of South Wales)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - The Greening of Roman Architecture
  Maureen Carroll (University of Sheffield)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Family, State & Empire
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - Justice & Islamic Law: Mazalim Courts and Legal Reform
  Professor Jonathan Brown, ((Georgetown University))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:30 - What's in a name? Contrasting visions of the purpose of educating women at Oxford pre-1940
  Professor Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen College)
  Women and Power? A Magdalen Story - Special Lecture Series 2020
• 17:30 - ”That a sinister suspicion cannot in all likelihood light upon her”: the domestic work of women at Magdalen College
  Kathryne Crossley (Kellogg College)
  Women and Power? A Magdalen Story - Special Lecture Series 2020

Saturday 25 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Alice in Typhoidland activity day
  Various Speakers

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:10 - Harbin – Berlin – Geneva – Shanghai – New York. Shaping new global spaces through Jewish Relief Networks during World War II
  Sarah Hagmann (Basel)
  Seminar in Modern Jewish History
• 14:00 - Humanities Research Fair for postgraduates
  N/A
• 14:00 - Communal possession and personal poverty
  Ian Wood (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity Special Lecture Series
• 16:00 - Proving violence: forensics and war crimes during the First World War
  Dr Taline Garibian (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - Forms of federalism: Edward Gibbon’s Great Republic of Europe vs. Johannes von Müller’s Bundesrepublik
  Béla Kapossy (EPFL/Université de Lausanne)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Rethinking the rise of genealogical diagrams in the medieval west
  Sarah Greer (St John's)
  Medieval History Seminar
• 17:00 - Moving Bodies: Post-War Dance, Women, and Protest in Japan
  Alice Baldock (Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - How the National Ballet of China’s 2017 Tour of Australia Forged an Interracial Far Right Alliance
  Ellan Lincoln-Hyde (SOAS)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Latitudinal Landscapes: Art and Environment in the Circumpolar North
  Dr Isabelle Gapp (Art History)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
  Dr Oscar Jonsson (Stockholm Free World Forum)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:15 - The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Life Drawing and the Body Politic: Rethinking Matthew Paris’s Elephants
  Robert Mills (UCL)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 16:15 - "No more victories! No more conquests!": The French and British East India Companies’ search for an entente, 1752–1788
  Joint-seminar with Maison Française d'Oxford
  John Shovlin (New York)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Republic of Clients: Patronage and Power Concentration in Poland-Lithuania, 1468-1795
  Mikolaj Malinowski (Lund University)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Unity and diversity of practical geometry in sixteenth-century France’
  Angela Axworthy (MPIWG Berlin)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - Moving Out and Staying Connected. The Jews of Central Asia between Bukhara and Jerusalem
  Thomas Loy (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:15 - Ancient Equalities? Constructing Hebrew, Classical, and "Northern" Cultural Origins to Legitimise a New Modern Culture
  Professor Maike Oergel (University of Nottingham)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Who Went to Church in Medieval England?
  Nicholas Orme (University of Exeter)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - History, Memory and the Making of the European Aristocracy
  Hamish Scott (Jesus College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Lost and Found. Some Reflections on 18th-Century Foundling Archives
  Catriona Seth (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Sharing Space between Lutherans and Catholics in Early Modern Württemberg
  Róisín Watson (Mansfield/Oriel)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:00 - France Insoumise and Left-Wing Populism in France
  Philippe Marlière (UCL), Sudhir Hasareesingh (University of Oxford)
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
• 14:30 - Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
  TBA
  Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
• 17:00 - Troubled Beauty
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
• 17:00 - Conceptualising ‘religion’ in a globalising world: Muhammad ‘Abduh and his interlocutors
  Dr Ammeke Kateman (Amsterdam)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Parnell and His Island: Irish Modernism, Sexual Health, and the Parnell Myth
  Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Seminar in Irish History
• 17:00 - Identidad Nacional Y paisajes Peruanos (1955) de José de la Riva Aguero
  Joint seminar with the Universidad del Pacífico on Wednesday Week 2
  Jorge Wiesse (Universidad del Pacífico, Perú)
  Latin American History Seminar

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune
  Julia Nicholls (KCL)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 11:15 - Piezas de Indias and asientos: Imperial regulation, commercial practices, and the pan-European genesis of the trade in enslaved Africans to Spanish America
  Regina Grafe (European University Institute, Florence)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 14:00 - Intimacy at a Distance: Emotional Labour and the “Psychological Turn” in British Problem Pages, c. 1960-1990
  Tracey Loughran (Essex)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 15:00 - Authenticity in Chinese Heritage: Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage
  Dr Anke Hein (Peter Moores Associate Professor in Chinese Archaeology, Oxford), Dr Christopher Foster (Stanley Ho Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Heritage Pathway Training Sessions
• 15:00 - Authenticity in Chinese Heritage: Preventative Conservation in North-West China
  Jennifer Richards (Landscape Dynamics Research Cluster)
  Heritage Pathway Training Sessions
• 16:00 - Building the Metropolitan Church: Informal Networks and Formal Institutions in Ambrose of Milan
  David Natal (Royal Holloway)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - Hans Holbein the Younger and the Court of Henry VIII
  Dr Elizabeth Goldring (University of Warwick)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Sexual Subjectivity
  Martin Alcoff (CUNY)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - Brexit, Populism, and Empires of the Mind
  Followed by wine & cheese
  Robert Gildea (University of Oxford), Michael Drolet (University of Oxford)
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
• 17:00 - Four Moments in the History of Dutch Historiography
  Herman Paul (Leiden)
  Historiography Research Seminar

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - Stories of Survival: The Lives and Afterlives of Eastern Christian Manuscripts in the Early Modern World
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 16:00 - "A Pack of Knaves": The Royal African Company, large plantations and the rise of the planter class and imperial commitment to the support of slavery in British America 1672-1708
  Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Southwark, Londinium's Spiritual Southern Suburb
  Dougie Killock (Pre-Construct Archaeology)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Demography and Marriage
  Followed by a Drinks Reception in North School directly following the lecture
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - The struggle for Iraq’s political field after the assassination of Qasim Sulimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis; the protest movement, Iraq’s militias and the ruling elite
  Professor Toby Dodge (LSE)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The chronology and the causes of the acquisition of Church property
  Ian Wood (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity Special Lecture Series
• 16:00 - Some aspects of patient-doctor relationships in the Middle Ages: Consilia and Regimina sanitatis, a kind of individualised medicine
  Professor Marilyn Nicoud (Avignon)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - Countering Islamophobia in the early 18th century
  Ann Thomson (European University Institute, Florence)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Ecclesiastical Taxation and Episcopal Leadership in the Reigns of the Three Edwards, 1272-1377
  Sam Lane (Christ Church)
  Medieval History Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - ‘Children and the Catholic Mission in late 16th and early 17th century Japan’
  Pia Jolliffe
  Centre for the History of Childhood Events
• 12:30 - 'A thousand wild flowers shone there without order or symmetry - restoring Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s vision of Elysium
  Timothy Walker (Biology, Somerville)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - "Messengers of peace": Kawai Michi, the Eiwa girls’ schools, and education in 1930s Japan
  Alexandria Dugal (University of Oxford)
  Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series
• 13:00 - China's Good War: How Memory of the World War II past is shaping a nationalist future
  Professor Rana Mitter
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:15 - Water, Wetlands and Hagiographic Culture in Medieval East Anglia
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Rebecca Pinner (University of East Anglia)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Renaissance Abstinence: Pre-Cartesian Debates on (not) Eating Animals
  Cecilia Muratori (Warwick)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 17:00 - The Economic Origins of Modern Science
  Jeremiah Dittmar (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘To G or not to G: J H Poynting and the gravitational constant in the nineteenth century’
  Isobel Falconer (University of St Andrews)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - Taqlīd: Authority and the Intellectual Elite in the Islamic World
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - Sasanians in Southern Turkmenistan: The Archaeological Evidence
  Aydogdy Kurbanov (University of Lyon)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:15 - The English Universal History's Treatment of the Arab World
  Professor Ann Thomson (European University Institute)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - How to chastize a Comes Africae: Augustine and Boniface
  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Fable
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
• 17:00 - Jewish tradition in a European straitjacket: some thoughts on the ‘nationalisation’ of Jewish identity
  Prof Yaacov Yadgar (St Anne’s, Oxford)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Dimensions of the ‘forensic turn’: The New Nexus of Human Rights and International Criminal Law in the 1990s
  Alexa Stiller (Zurich/Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Painting the Landcape of Winter
  Victoria Crowe (Artist)
• 14:00 - Mobility, Nostalgia, and the Crisis of Social Democracy: The Viewers of When the Boat Comes In in Britain and Abroad
  David Cowan (Cambridge)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:00 - The Northwestern Provinces in Crisis: Julian's Campaigns on the Rhine and the Reorientation of the Northwestern Economy
  James Harland (Tuebingen)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - “Our scene is London”: Dramaturgical and Jurisdictional Space in A Warning for Fair Women
  Lucy Clarke (Jesus College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Fractures and Fractals: Piecing together the Suffering Christ
  Ryan Asquez (Keble College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Earthly Arts: Decolonising Ecology, Tracing Affect
  TBA
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - The Theatrics of Reform: Politics and Cultural Sphere in Buenos Aires, 1816-1837
  Klaus Gallo (Universidad di Tella, Argentina)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - ‘Vade, liber’: Textual Mobility and the History of Books
  Dr Stephanie Ann Frampton (MIT)
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 16:00 - Materials, design and revolution in the making of modern China
  Dr Jennifer Altehenger (Merton College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - The Sebasteion and Theater of Aphrodisias in a Web of Urban Aesthetics
  Philip Stinson (University of Kansas)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Race and Belonging
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - MEC X Refugee Studies Centre: Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law
  Lex Takkenberg ((Former chief of the Ethics Office at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)), Francesca Albanese ((The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM),Georgetown University))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - AfOx insaka
  Kate O’Regan (University of Oxford), Shadreck Chirikure (University of Oxford )
  AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research

Saturday 8 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Conference: The Oxford Forum for International Development (OxFID), 2020 - ‘BEYOND PLEDGES: Delivering Change in an Inclusive World'
  Various Speakers

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Rabelais and Social Hierarchy
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - An Epic Poet and his Audience: Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, and the Early Stuart Literary System
  Andrew McRae (University of Exeter)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - The Temple Society and the State
  Ian Wood (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity Special Lecture Series
• 15:00 - Discussing Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
  N/A
  Oxford Pilgrimage Studies Network: Pilgrimage Book Club
• 15:00 - The Canons of Nablus and Sexuality in Medieval Western Europe
  History Faculty Special Lecture, 15:00 at the Examination Schools
  Ruth Karras (Trinity College Dublin)
  Medieval History Seminar
• 16:00 - Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850
  Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - "Beyond too much": Shakespearean excesses in 18th-century Germany
  Claudia Olk (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich/Exeter College)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Doubting Thomas Becket: Scepticism and Hostility in the Canterbury Miracle Collections
  Michael Staunton (University College, Dublin)
  Medieval History Seminar
• 17:00 - Across, Between and Beyond Nation States: Overseas Chinese Private Remittance Networks, 1850s-1930s
  Ania Gricuk (LSE)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Another War: China’s Struggle for Financial Aid during WWII
  Lin Ma (Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
  Dr Sara Polo (University of Essex)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:15 - Medieval English: Representation and Reality
  Please note the new day and time!
  Professor Tim William Machan (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - The Medieval Urban Dog: Trusty Servant or Idle Vagrant?
  Carole Rawcliffe (UEA)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 16:15 - Balancing Power: Strategy, Law, and British Maintenance of Dutch and Spanish Neutrality during the Seven Years War
  Anna Brinkman (Warwick)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Slavery and Capitalism in the American Cotton Fields
  Paul Rhode (University of Michigan)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Proposals to move the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1836–1945’
  Lee Macdonald (History of Science Museum, Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - Too High a Standard: Knowledge and Skepticism in Medieval Philosophy
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - Borders and border-making in the Russian conquest of Central Asia - from Persia to the Pamirs
  Alexander Morrison (New College)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:15 - A Universal History of Ancient Art: Winckelmann's History of the Art of Antiquity
  Professor Elisabeth Decultot (Universitat Halle)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Offshore thinking: thirteenth century English visitors to Rome
  Julian Gardner (Warwick)
  Medieval Church and Culture
• 17:30 - THE OXFORDSHIRE RECORD SOCIETY CENTENARY LECTURE: Manorial Records as a Source for English (and Oxfordshire) History
  Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
  Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Ritual Magic, Spellbooks and Mining
  Johannes Dillinger (Oxford Brookes)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:30 - Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
  N/A
  Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
• 17:00 - Locating the Image
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
• 17:00 - Coloniality of ‘religion’ and ‘(secular) politics’: A Japanese case
  Prof Mitsutoshii Horii (Shumei)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - “Fidel Castro in a mini-skirt” or “St Joan of the Barricades”? Versions of Bernadette Devlin and the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland
  Dr Sarah Campbell (Newcastle)
  Seminar in Irish History
• 17:00 - Sons of the Sun King: Royalist Propaganda and Political Leadership in the French Third Republic
  Professor Jessica Wardhaugh (Warwick University)
  TORCH Conversations on Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood Network
• 17:15 - All the Tsar's Virile Men: Sexuality and Masculinity in the Late Imperial Russian Military
  Siobhán Hearne (Durham)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Climate change and water: There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable engineering
  Dr Katrina Charles (University of Oxford)
  Alice in Typhoidland Speaker Programme

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Contested Closet: Reading Transgender Experience in Twentieth century History
  Jack Doyle (Oxford), Samson Dittrich (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 11:15 - The Trastamara crises: Political pacts and conflict in Castile (1368-1518)
  José Manuel Nieto Soria (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 14:00 - Defending the Good Life: London’s Suburbia and Householder Toryism, 1960-1980
  John Davis (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 14:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Access
• 15:00 - Authenticity in South Asian Heritage: South Asian Collections at Powis Castle
  Dr Kieran Hazzard (Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Ashmolean Museum)
  Heritage Pathway Training Sessions
• 15:00 - Authenticity in South Asian Heritage: Co-curating South Asian Collections at Derby Museums
  Jonathan Wallis (Curator, National Trust)
  Heritage Pathway Training Sessions
• 16:00 - Macarius and his Mission: Charity and Coercion in Donatist Africa
  Neil McLynn
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - “Freily” telling “my mynde”: Truth-telling, the Female Voice, and Contested Histories in Covenanted Scotland
  Professor Laura Stewart (University of York)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Making of Migration: Undoing the Migrant Activist/Victimhood Quandary
  Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - The Biography of President Virgilio Barco: Reflections on the Study of Colombian Politics
  Malcolm Deas (Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - BBC Documentary: ‘Storyville, Brexit: Behind Closed Doors’
  Followed by wine & cheese
  Various Speakers
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
• 17:00 - How to Become a Master-Historian in Late-Imperial Russia
  Frances Nethercott (St Andrews)
  Historiography Research Seminar

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:15 - The price of books in early modern Europe
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 16:00 - Slavery in the Nigerien Sahel: A Resilient Institution
  Dr Benedetta Rossi (Birmingham)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Sam Holzman (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Property and Pensions
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - The hundred years' war on Palestine
  Professor Rashid Khalidi ( (Columbia University director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:10 - A Blood-Dark Sea? Greek Antisemitism Across the Eastern Mediterranean, 1830-1912
  Dr Paris Chronakis (Royal Holloway)
  Seminar in Modern Jewish History
• 16:00 - Astronomical instrumentation as a medium for the transmission of knowledge in the Islamic world
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - What does the new history of distributed cognition do for Enlightenment Studies?
  George Rousseau (Oxford/Bergen)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - The Curious Case of Hospitals in Canon Law
  Sethina Watson (York)
  Medieval History Seminar
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Trish Greenhalgh (Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Bernhard Schirg (University of Erfurt, Freigeist Fellow, Bodleian Visiting Fellow)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Uncertainty and Mutual Recognition in Colombia - the Study of the Nature of Armed Non-State Actors in the Colombian Conflict
  Dr Jan Boesten (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:15 - Inside and Outside The Battle of Maldon
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Mark Atherton (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Mary's animal skin: Weaving the signification of the Sevillan Virgen de los Reyes in the times of Alfonso X
  Aleksandra Rutkowski (Oxford)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 16:15 - "Gentlemen of the China Trade": The China Club and Cultures of Porcelain Retailing in Eighteenth-Century London
  Sam Cheney (New College)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - In Thrall to Coal: Community and Coal
  Jane Humphries (University of Oxford), Ryah Thomas (University of Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Mastering the Mint: Isaac Newton’s economic and numismatic work’
  Alice Marples (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - Testing the Prophets: Reason and the Choice of Faiths
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - Oleg the Wise as Saint Demetrios or the problem of the middle link in the oldest Rus'ian chronicle-writing
  Professor Constantin Zuckerman (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
  Early Slavonic Seminar
• 17:15 - Gibbon and Universal History
  Professor David Womersley (University of Oxford)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Uniformity and Diversity—the Franciscan Order under Bonaventure
  Jens Röhrkasten (Birmingham)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Little Theatre of Philip Guston
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
• 17:00 - Managing ‘faith’ in a modern (devolved) State: ‘Time for Reflection’ in the Scottish parliament
  Dr Steven Sutcliffe (Edinburgh)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Vincenzo Ferrone, The Enlightenment and the Rights of Man
  Vincenzo Ferrone, Karma Nabulsi, Kevin Hilliard, Caroline Warman

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 11:30 - Vernacular discourses of gender equality in the postwar British working class
  Joint session with the Modern History and Modern British History Seminar
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series
• 11:30 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  Note: joint with the Modern History Seminar at 11:30 in the History Faculty, Rees Davies Room
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:00 - Accentual prose rhythm and the text and language of Ammianus Marcellinus
  Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - Restoration Clerics and the Religious Diversity of the Ottoman World: The Life and Times of Dr John Covel, 1670-77
  Charles Beirouti (New College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Hayley Ross (St John's College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - Mexican Banks and Foreign Finance: From Internationalization to Financial Crisis, 1973-82
  Sebastián Alvarez (Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Napoleon III, the invasion of Mexico, and mid-Victorian liberalism
  Dr Alex Middleton (Christchurch College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Forum Baths of Pompeii. Water management and phases of their construction
  Thomas Heide (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Material Cultures and Homes
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:00 - The Lobby USA: a five-month undercover investigation inside America’s pro-Israel Lobby
  James Klein, James Klein ((investigative journalist at Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science?
  Georgina Ferry (Author)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - L’Hospitalité dans les romans d’émigration / Hospitality in novels of emigration
  Michèle Bokobza Kahan (Tel Aviv University)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Joan of Arc and the miraculous
  Jonathan Sumption (All Souls)
  Medieval History Seminar
• 17:00 - A Chinese in the Dark: Infrastructure and Illumination in German Qingdao, 1898-1914
  Mimi Cheng (University of Rochester)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - Write Well, Work Well: Script Reform, Efficiency Movements, and Nation Identity in Japan and Germany, 1919-1945
  Toshiki Kawashima (University of Pennsylvania)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:15 - Reading and Writing Early English Environments: Texts, Minds, and Material Matter
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Mike Bintley (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - What Edward Topsell Saw: An Unthinkable Thought
  Erica Fudge (Strathclyde)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 16:15 - Marketing strategies in eighteenth-century France and England: the example of the perfumer
  Kirsten James (Leicester)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Institutional Economics Beyond the Nation State? Perspectives from the Ancient Imperial World
  Sitta von Reden (University of Freiburg)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘How general relativity resonated with differential geometers’
  Tilman Sauer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - Using the Pagans: Reason in Interreligious Debate
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - New Light on the Gift Exchange between China and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century
  Yusen Yu (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:15 - Universalising European history? Arab Literati and Enlightenment Histories, 1800-1870
  This seminar is held in the Magrath Room
  Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - The Platonic world soul as vita generalis in the ninth-century reception of Augustine’s De musica
  Nicholas Ball (Clare College, Cambridge)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Learning Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Spanish Ethnic Villancicos
  Diana Berruezo-Sanchez (Balliol College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Quinquina in Favour at the Court of Louis XIV
  Emma Spary (University of Cambridge)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Contested Mobilities: Gender and Banishment in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
  Jeannette Kamp (History Faculty)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:30 - Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
  N/A
  Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
• 17:00 - Wandering into the Night
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
• 17:00 - Passion and Cunning: Conor Cruise O’Brien and the Question of Intellectuals
  Hugh Hanley (Robinson College, Cambridge)
  Seminar in Irish History
• 17:15 - Foreign war and civil war: France in 1652 and the costs of early-modern conflict
  David Parrott (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Problem with the ‘Home Front’: Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Sue Grayzel (Utah State)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 11:15 - Claiming nobility in the Monarquía Hispánica: Local families and the search for status during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  Karoline P. Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 11:30 - The Problem with the "Home Front": Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires?
  Joint session with the Modern History and Modern British History Seminar
  Sue Grayzel (Utah State)
  Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series
• 11:30 - The Problem with the “Home Front”: Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires?
  Note: joint with the Modern History Seminar at 11:30am in the History Faculty, Rees Davies Room
  Susan Grayzel (Utah State)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 15:00 - Authenticity in African Cultural Heritage: Ethiopian and Eritrean Heritage in the Bodleian Library
  Dr Mai Musie, Dr Jacopo Gnisci
  Heritage Pathway Training Sessions
• 15:00 - Authenticity in African Cultural Heritage: Rail development and public heritage in Nigeria: Connecting past and future
  Dr Olly Owens
  Heritage Pathway Training Sessions
• 16:00 - Migrant Husbands in Lombard Italy
  Annamaria Pazienza (Venice)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - The Reconstruction of the Church of England after 1660
  Dr Andrew Foster (University of Kent)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - On the Dangers of an Anthropocene Epoch: Geological Time, and Post-Human Politics
  Madeleine Fagan (Warwick)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - The Latin American Boom: A Publishing History
  Consuelo Saizar (Cambridge University)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond the Facts: Life and Narrative in the Making of Thomas Nipperdey’s Nineteenth-Century Germany
  Paul Nolte (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Historiography Research Seminar

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Digging into Data for Provenance Research
  NOTE: begins at earlier time of 14:00 and runs to 16:30 (with a tea break, refreshments provided)
  Dr Toby Burrows (Oxford, Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project)
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 14:00 - Recycling in action: the many lives of a medieval prayerbook
  NOTE: begins at earlier time of 2.00 and runs to 4.30 (with a tea break, refreshments provided)
  Professor Henrike Laehnemann (Oxford), Carolin Gluchowski (Freiburg)
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 16:00 - Revolution, Empire and Entangled History in the Southern Caribbean
  Dr Dexnell Peters (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Natascha Sojc (University of Augsburg)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Dynasty and Violence
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
• 17:30 - Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa
  Dr Ferdinand Eibl ((Kings College London))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Historical and anthropological reflections on collapse and seizures among KhoeSan of southern Africa
  Dr Chris Low (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - Violence and the Enlightenment
  Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle, Australia/All Souls College)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - The Power of Marvelous Objects: Charles IV of Luxembourg and his gems
  Ingrid Ciulisová (Corpus/Slovak Academy of Sciences)
  Medieval History Seminar

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - 'Progressivism-mania: Egyptian experimentations with modern education between 1920-1952’
  Farida Makar
  Centre for the History of Childhood Events
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Investigating women readers: genre and gender in seventeenth-century reading practices
  Hannah Jeans (York)
  Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series
• 13:00 - New Insights into the Psychology of Individuals and Large Groups in Changing Conflicts
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:15 - Pain, Emotion and Embodiment in Old Norse Literature
  Please note the new day and time!
  Professor Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (University of Iceland)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Peasants and their animals in late medieval England
  David Stone (Exeter)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 16:15 - Discussion on 'Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850'
  Margot Finn (UCL)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920
  Ariell Zimran (Vanderbilt University)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The “Galilean Sect”: Talented mathematicians, devoted disciples’
  Lucia Bucciarelli (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - Some Pagans are Better than Others: the Merits of Plato and Aristotle
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - A Case of Cultural transfer from the Hungarian Gesta Ladislai regis to the Russian tale of the evil Tsar Batu
  Professor Pierre Gonneau (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
  Early Slavonic Seminar
• 17:15 - Philosophy of History: How Religious Is It? Transcendence and Immanence in Herder and Bossuet
  Professor Daniel Fulda (Universitat Halle)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Geometrical Education and Twelfth-Century Architecture
  Karl Kinsella (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Medieval Church and Culture

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Brexit, Identity and Party Polarization
  Geoff Evans (University of Oxford), Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford)
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
• 17:00 - Painting, Allegory and the History of Art
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
• 17:00 - ‘Religions’ and their boundaries: How to study them?
  Dr Teemu Taira (Helsinki)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Constructing Gendered Leadership Roles in Francoist Spain: The Case of Pilar Primo de Rivera
  Professor Inbal Ofer (Open University of Israel)
  TORCH Conversations on Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood Network

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Writing the history of slavery in the twenty-first century
  Olivette Otele (Bristol)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - State of Emergency: The General Strike of 1926
  Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:00 - Roman Satire and the Fall of Rome: Gibbon and Juvenal
  Ian Fielding (Michigan)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Slow Learners? On Moral Progress, Social Struggle, and Whig History
  Robin Celikates (FU Berlin)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - Historia del libro en América Latina (siglo XVI-al XIX): Panorama de una disciplina en evolución
  Joint Seminar with the Iberian History Seminar
  Marina Garone (UNAM, Mexico)
  Latin American History Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global & Imperial History graduate student research presentations
  These presentations will be from 10:00-17:00
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:15 - The Travels of Sir Thomas Phillipps's Swiss Manuscripts across Europe and North America
  Angeline Rais (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 16:00 - The discovery of two lost Greek theatres: Pella and Chalcis
  Paolo Storchi (Italian School of Archaeology at Athens – Onassis Foundation)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Book Launch “Deep States and Deep Troubles in the MENA,” Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism
  Professor Robert Springborg ((Kings College London))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:30 - How to make your next steps into giant leaps! Following in the footsteps of successful Magdalen alumnae
  Various Speakers
  Women and Power? A Magdalen Story - Special Lecture Series 2020

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Discussing Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
  N/A
  Oxford Pilgrimage Studies Network: Pilgrimage Book Club
• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)
  Seminars in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• 17:00 - The orang-utan and the limits of humanity in Enlightenment debates
  Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Gender and Peasant Experiences in Later Medieval England
  Bronach Kane (Cardiff)
  Medieval History Seminar
• 17:00 - Visions of Profit: American Commerce on the Yangtze River during the Taiping and American Civil Wars
  Thomas Larkin (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - The Cadiz Affair, Zhenjiang (1874-1878): Jurisdictional Competition and Foreign Influence in Late Qing China
  Georges Moraitis (Queen's University, Belfast)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Henry Weikel (English, University College)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:15 - Deor on the Dark Side
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Discussion and viewing of medieval bestiaries
  This seminar is held in the Mark Bedingham Seminar Room
  N/A
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar - Hilary 2020: ANIMALS
• 16:15 - Great Expectations: Heritage, Communication and the Museum
  Steven Parissien (Palace House Museum, Newmarket)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Standard Errors of Persistence
  Morgan Kelly (University College Dublin)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The puzzle of Brahmagupta’s quadrilaterals: Hankel’s reading of Colebrooke’
  Ivahn Smadja (University of Nantes)
  Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
• 17:00 - Finding Their Voice: Women in Byzantine and Latin Christian Philosophy
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:00 - Turks, Texts and Territory: Imperial Ideology and Cultural Production in Central Eurasia
  Gabrielle van den Berg (Leiden University)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:15 - "I have begun this Philosophy of Man with his History": Lord Monboddo's Universal History of the Human Species
  Dr Silvia Sebastiani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  Universal Histories Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Problem of Publics between Latin and Vernacular
  David Lines (University of Warwick)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Erasmus, Citizen of the—or of a—World?
  Dorine Rouiller (Swiss National Science Foundation/Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Luther, Müntzer and the GDR's "Historical Turn" in the 1970s
  Marcus Colla (Christ Church)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:00 - The Making of the GDR Woman Artist Past and Present
  Tina Mendelsohn (Lincoln)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:00 - Baroque to the Future: The SED’s Teleological Argument for the Socialist Project and the Influence of Bach and Handel on East German Musical Culture
  Bethan Winter (St Peter's)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:30 - Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
  N/A
  Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
• 17:00 - 'In Praise of Hands'
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
• 17:00 - There’s no original in this business
  Prof Russell McCutcheon (Alabama)
  Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Material Memory, “Lost” Archives, Oral Histories and Ruin: Alternative Sources for Understanding Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries
  Dr Laura McAtackney (Aarhus University)
  Seminar in Irish History
• 17:15 - PGT and PGR workshop
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - A celebration for International Women’s Day with special guest speaker
  Joint session with Mansfield College and the Bonanavero Institute for Human Rights - time and details TBC
  TBA
  Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Speculation and Gambling in Germany and Britain around 1900
  Cornelius Torp (Bremen)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 11:15 - Philip II, the Habsburg dynasty and the Dutch revolt
  Violet Soen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 14:00 - Britain's Socialist Internationalists and the End of the Ottoman Empire
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar
• 16:00 - The Consulship in the 4th Century: Political Communication and Integration
  Rebecca Usherwood (Dublin)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The Commons and Counterhegemonic Politics in Our Times
  Alexandros Kioupkiolis (AUTh)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - Puerto Rican Nationalism, Latin American Solidarity, and the 1930s: How Good Was the Good Neighbor Policy?
  Margaret Power (Illinois Institute of Technology)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Henry Neville’s Booklist: the Uses of Historiography in the Exclusion Crisis
  David Womersley (St. Catherine’s)
  Historiography Research Seminar

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate students research presentations
  These presentations will be from 10:00-17:00
  Various Speakers
  Global & Imperial History Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Open Access: Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Access
• 14:15 - John Clement (d. 1572) and his books
  Dr Grantley McDonald (Oxford, Music and Late Medieval European Courtly Cultures Project)
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 16:00 - Thracian Brick-Built Tombs of the Kazanluk Valley
  Blagovesta Atanassova (University of Oxford)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture - Iran and the Arab Region: Binds of a Securitised Relationship
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 27 April 2020 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Virgin’s republican turn: personification of the body politic in Britain and Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries
  Thomas Maissen (German Historical Institute, Paris)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 4 May 2020 (16th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - D’Holbach: the many faces of an invisible author
  Ruggero Sciuto (Voltaire Foundation)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Banafshe Larijani (Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Innovation, Bath)
  Translating Illness

Monday 11 May 2020 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The George Rousseau Lecture: The immense space of the future in 18th-century France
  Note change of venue for this lecture: Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College
  Emma Rothschild (Harvard University)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool)
  Translating Illness

Monday 18 May 2020 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - John Locke, treaties, and the Two Treatises of Government
  David Armitage (Harvard/King’s College London)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 1 June 2020 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Radical translations and the transfer of Revolutionary culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
  Sanja Perovic (King’s College London)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Jean-Marc Dewaele (Professor in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, Birbeck)
  Translating Illness

Monday 8 June 2020 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Matthew Reynolds (Professor of English and Comparative Criticism, and AHRC Co-Investigator of the ‘Prismatic Translation’ Strand, Oxford)
  Translating Illness

Monday 15 June 2020 (22nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Ross White (Reader in Clinical Psychology and Leader of ‘Mental Health in Context’ Research Group, Liverpool)
  Translating Illness