Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 09:00 - 2025 Multidisciplinary Mill(s) Conference
  Various Speakers
• 09:30 - iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:15 - St. Erkenwald - Orthodoxy on the Edge?
  Professor Christophe Grellard (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris))
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
  Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
  Please note the change of time and venue from other talks and as advertised on posters
  Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 14:30 - How Do You Solve a (Diplomatic) Problem like Poland? Polish-Lithuanian Political Culture and Diplomacy in the late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  Please note the time of this seminar has moved to 14:30
  Dr Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Chair: Dr Tracey Sowerby
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 15:00 - Seminar on Cavani’s I Cannibali
  Various Speakers
  The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation
• 17:00 - On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
  Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Oxford Centre for European History
• 17:00 - Striking with hunger: the politics of the belly in Kyrgyzstan, 1989-1991
  Madeleine Reeves (Oxford)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
• 17:00 - Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
  Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
  Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Jewish Country Houses
  This event is fully booked
  Hélène Binet (Architectural Photographer), Juliet Carey (Waddesdon Manor), Abigail Green (Basenose College, Oxford), Ruth Ur (Founder of urKultur GmbH), Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton), William Whyte (St John's College, Oxford)
• 20:30 - How Wars End
  Professor Thomas Otte (University of East Anglia)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 09:30 - Referencing: EndNote
  Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:10 - Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
  Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 11:30 - iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
  Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Referencing: RefWorks
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Bringing Digital Image Collections Together
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
• 14:00 - Session 4: Planetary motions and horoscope
  Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
  Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts
• 14:15 - "An astrologus praedicere possit futura contingentia? Nego": Astrology in Student Disputations at Oxford and Cambridge
  Dr Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
• 16:00 - Central European Perspectives on Climate and Environment in 18th-Century North America
  Please note this seminar is on a Wednesday
  Oliver Kruk (Oriel College, Oxford and University of Bamberg)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 16:30 - Islamic Spain and English Romanesque Architecture: The Fortunes of a Theory and the Construction of "the West"
  Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
  Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Building State Capacity in Fragile States
  Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Rhetoric and Reality in the Imperial Orations of Niketas Choniates
  Alicia Simpson (American College of Greece)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Performing the Wild West: Staging Indigeneity in Photography and Theatre
  Professor Erin Pauwels
  2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: Unsettled Ground: Western Landscapes, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Spaces of US Photography
• 17:00 - Reframing Modern China: Deaf Education and the Sensory Politics of Race and Empire
  Shu Wan (University of Buffalo), Gemma McLean-Carr (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
  Professor Emanuele Castano (University of Florence)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - 20th Annual Roger Moorey lecture: Bacchylides' Journey: The afterlife of a lyric poet in Egypt and London
  Dr Susan Walker (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:00 - iSkills: 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
• 12:00 - International and Interdisciplinary Workshop: 'The Worlds of Work: Crossed Perspectives from France and England'
  Various Speakers
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 12:45 - Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
  Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
  History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment Work in Progress Group
• 12:45 - Filmic Humanities and Film-Making-As-Research: A Medical Humanities and HSMTE Workshop
  Dr Paul Craddock (Co-Founder, Common and UCL), Cal Murphy Barton (Co-Founder, Common)
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
  Aled Davies (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - Strategic Instability: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Narratives Fueling the Conventional and Emerging Tech
  Karuna Nandkumar (Oxford China Policy Lab)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Uncovering Marion Scott: Exploring Musical Networks through Archival Research
  Dr Antonina Puchkovskaia (King's College London)
  Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
• 16:30 - Winant-Mellon Symposium: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
  Karen Tani (University of Pennsylvania)
• 17:00 - A Caroline Catholic conversion: Francis Slingsby (1611-42)
  Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall, Oxford)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar
• 18:00 - Democracy in Distress (Wolfson College Isaiah Berlin Lecture 2025)
  Dr Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania)

Friday 23 May 2025

• 09:00 - Symposium Day 1: The Komnenian Restoration of Byzantium & its Legacy
  Booking deadline Monday 14 April
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Context of Carolingian Commerce: Trade and Coinage on the fringes of the Ninth Century
  Nathan Websdale (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Researching Charlemagne
• 15:00 - Tongues Untied: Black Love Without Limit
  Che Gossett (Pennsylvania)
  Feminist Thinking Seminar Series
• 15:15 - Winant-Mellon Symposium: Race(ing) the Administrative State
  Megan Ming Francis (University of Washington, Seattle)
• 16:00 - Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:00 - Reading Group: Connoisseurship - ONLINE
  Reading Group
  Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group

Saturday 24 May 2025

• 09:00 - Symposium Day 2: The Komnenian Restoration of Byzantium & its Legacy
  Booking deadline Monday 14 April
  Various Speakers

Monday 26 May 2025

• 10:00 - Astor Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events
• 16:30 - The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century
  Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - People as property? Captives and slaves in medieval Iberia
  Teresa Witcombe (St John's College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Second-Empire Paris: Architectural History and the Invisible Empire - Astor Lectureship 2025
  Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton)
• 17:15 - Trapped By Experience, Freed By Imagination: Post-Capitalist Literature
  Shimon Adaf (Ben Gurion University in the Negev)
  Massada Public Seminars

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 12:15 - Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
  Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:30 - African Military Thought
  Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - iSkills: Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
  John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:00 - African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
  Brenna Greer (Wellesley College)
• 16:15 - English Criminal Law and Practice, 12th–19th centuries
  Deborah Oxley (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
  Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Rescuing the Basmachi from Ideology
  Adeeb Khalid (Carleton)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
• 17:00 - Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
  Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Rethinking conservation: inclusion and participation in the Pacific Islands
  Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai (Talanoa Consulting, Fiji)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - Work-in-Progress Colloquium
  Laure Miolo (Lincoln College, Oxford), Shazia Jagot (University of York)
  Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College
• 19:30 - Screening of Visconti’s Vaghe Stelle dell ’Orsa
  Film screening
  The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 09:30 - Referencing: Zotero
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 09:30 - Fourth Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Session 5: Conjunctions and eclipses
  Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
  Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts
• 14:15 - Relations of Religious Experience and Scientific Practices in Albert the Great
  Professor Katja Krause (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
  Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
  Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
  Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Indigenous Pictorialism: Richard Throssel’s Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation
  Professor Erin Pauwels
  2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: Unsettled Ground: Western Landscapes, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Spaces of US Photography
• 17:00 - The Popular Classes and Royal Justice in Medieval England, 1330-31
  Dr Chris Briggs (Cambridge)
  Medieval Society and Landscape
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 12:30 - Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
  Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - iSkills: Sources for US history
  Bethan Davies (Vere Harmsworth Library)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:30 - Masterclass by Patrick Boucheron 'Pourquoi des médiévistes? Penser le contemporain depuis le Moyen Âge'
  Please note that the masterclass will be given in French
  TBA
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 15:00 - Security Profile of Network Infrastructure in the High North and the Baltic Sea – Prospects for continued NATO-EU collaboration
  Anniki Mikelsaar (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:30 - Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
  Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
• 17:00 - Framing the Word: presenting religious texts as "comely" ornament in post-Reformation England
  Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Pombal’s reforms in Brazil
  Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - The College de France in Oxford: 'The Birth of the Black Death : New Approaches in World History' by Patrick Boucheron
  TBA
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events

Friday 30 May 2025

• 14:00 - Carolingian imperial expansion and religious minorities. Christian-Jewish relations under Charlemagne and Luisthe Pious
  Pilar Rivett (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Researching Charlemagne
• 14:00 - Sex and Politics
  Reading and Discussion Group
  Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:00 - Work-in-Progress Session
  Irene Van Eldere (Leiden University), Elvira Miceli (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group

Monday 2 June 2025

• 09:00 - Symposium ‘Energy Transitions and Marine Environments: Conflicts, Cooperation, and International Regulation’
  TBA
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 09:30 - iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:00 - Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
  Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Diu nocteque: Investigating Liturgical Programs of Prayer for Tenth-Century Ruling Women
  Megan Welton (UCD)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 12:15 - Messy Chaucer
  Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Seminar on Visconti’s Vague Stelle dell ‘Orsa
  Various Speakers
  The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation
• 16:00 - The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
  Stuart Delery (Former White House Counsel)
• 16:00 - Beyond a Lutheran Plague: Exploring Motivation and Intent in Early Modern Suicide by Proxy
  Andreas Berger-Gehringer (Universität Bern)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 16:15 - Italian Renaissance Cryptography
  Please note the speaker will be presenting online
  Professor Marcello Simonetta (Medici Archive Project/NYU Florence), Chair: Antonio Pattori
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Oriental Despotism Reconsidered: The Georgian Monarchy in the 18th Century
  Alex Mikaberidze (Louisiana State)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
• 17:00 - The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
  Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 11:00 - Rethinking Methodologies: A Workshop in the Medical Humanities
  Dr Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford), Dr Paola Esposito (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology ), Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 11:10 - Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
  Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 14:15 - Agricultural Knowledge, the Pursuit of Public Utility, and Collaborative Epistemology in the Early Royal Society
  Please not this seminar will be in the Wharton Room not the Old Library
  Dr Niall Dilucia (CNRS, Maison Française d'Oxford/IHRIM)
  Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - CMTC Social 'Tea'
  N/A
  Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College
• 16:30 - There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century
  Please note this seminar will take place in the Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad
  Cécile Fromont (Harvard University)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
  Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Villanova University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
  Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Frustration and Failure: Medieval Images of Christ's Transfiguration (12th-13th c.)
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Professor Vincent Debiais (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ties that Bind: Military and Revolutionary Networks Across Asia
  Zachary Clark (Pennsylvania State University), Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
  Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 15:00 - The Securitisation of AI Safety Institutes
  Renan Araujo (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
  Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin University), Joel Suarez (Harvard University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)
• 17:00 - The Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government: The Second Republic: Remaking Egypt Under Sisi
  Yezid Sayigh (Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center)
• 17:00 - English Reformers in German print, 1547-1603
  Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
  There will be no seminar this week due to the Sir John Elliott Memorial lecture, for which the registration deadline is midday on 30 April 2025
  Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:15 - Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture - Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
  Registration deadline is midday on 30 April 2025
  Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
  The J H Elliott History Forum

Friday 6 June 2025

• 10:00 - Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
  Registration deadline is midday on 31 April 2025
  Various Speakers
  The J H Elliott History Forum
• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: Riley Faulds, ‘Bio, Ego, Eco: Life-Writing the Environment’
  Riley Faulds (University of Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops
• 14:00 - Tolle Lege. Discovering Carolingian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library
  Martina Carandino (Worcester College, Oxford), Matthew Holford (Bodleian Library)
  Researching Charlemagne
• 15:00 - Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable
  Michael Michael (University of Glasgow), Emily Guerry (St Peter's College, Oxford), Peter Kidd (Independent Researcher)
  Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Saturday 7 June 2025

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

Monday 9 June 2025

• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
  Laure Miolo (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg (Co-convened with the Oxford Early Modern Central European Seminar Series)
  Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Court Factions and Crown Authority: Contesting the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the Court of Emperor Friedrich III of Habsburg (Co-convened with the Oxford Court Studies Seminar)
  Please note: This talk will be held on Monday at 16:30 in the Memorial Room, Jesus College
  Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 17:00 - The Cult of Saint Frideswide in Medieval Oxford
  Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 13:30 - Winning the Peace Through Adaptation: The Importance of Innovation and Partnerships in the 21st Century Warfare
  Admiral Stuart Munsch
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:15 - Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850
  Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès)
  Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
• 17:00 - The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
  Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Echoes of the Amu-Darya: Information Management in Peter the Great’s Central Asian Ventures
  Ulfat Abdurasulov (Vienna)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
• 17:00 - Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
  Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:15 - 2025 Massada Annual Lecture: Professor Mouna Maroun
  Professor Mouna Maroun (University of Haifa)
  Massada Public Seminars
• 20:00 - Screening of Pasolini’s Teorema
  Film screening
  The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 12:30 - Artificial intelligence bottlenecks - how we can achieve a brighter economic future?
  Professor Georgios Petropoulos (USC Marshall School of Business)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 14:00 - Session 6: Horoscope : dating and interpretating medieval horoscopes
  Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
  Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts
• 14:15 - Traces of Maghribī Astronomy in Sources from Latin Europe (13th-14th Centuries)
  Dr Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
• 17:00 - Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
  Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - “The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
  John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Vera Mensura: Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts
  Professor Aden Kumler (University of Basel)
  June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art
• 17:00 - Everything Everywhere All at Once: Exploring Medieval Place and Society through Local History
  Dr Simon Townley (Victoria County History of Oxfordshire)
  Medieval Society and Landscape
• 17:15 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
  Professor Diana Allan (McGill University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 12:30 - Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
  Bill Smith (DPhil History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Guest Lecture: "And Rested the Seventh Day": Sabbath’s Rest in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Exegesis and Polemics
  Dr Shlomi Efrati
  Reading Jews in Late Antiquity
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Budgeting for AI: Towards a Systematic Understanding of the Impact of Public Budgeting on Public Sector AI Adoption
  Chloe Chadwick (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:30 - Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
  Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
• 17:00 - Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian style
  David Scott (History of Parliament)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
  Please note this seminar will be on Thursday at 17:00 at the Rothermere American Institute
  Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Time to reset : ending the self-deception in Africa-Europe relations
  Professor Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town), Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - Book Launch: Richard Reid’s The African Revolution
  Richard Reid (Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

• 14:00 - Legal Perspectives on the Tangible (and Decentralized) Manifestations of Charlemagne’s Empire
  Paolo Costa (Department of Law, University of Genoa)
  Researching Charlemagne
• 14:00 - Speaker Event - Learning from the History of the Body
  Professor Lyndal Roper
  Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:00 - Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
  Joint Seminar RAI/Iberian History Seminar/ Latin American History Seminar
  Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 16 June 2025

• 12:15 - End of term social event
  Social event
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
  Iris Clever (Chicago)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
  Please note this seminar is on Monday
  Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm
  Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Book talk - 'How To Think About AI: A Guide For The Perplexed'
  Professor Richard Susskind (Society for Computers and Law)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 13:30 - The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
  John Kegel (Netherlands Defence Academy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Seminar on Pasolini’s Teorema
  Various Speakers
  The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation
• 16:00 - Cows and Commons: An Environmental Approach to Witchcraft Belief in Switzerland
  Aaron Larsen (St Hilda's College, Oxford), Noé Vonlanthen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
• 16:15 - Reconstructing the Lost Paper Trail of Habsburg First Councillor Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle
  Please note this talk is online only
  Dr Maxim Hoffman (Ghent University)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - The Revolution of 1905 in Turkestan
  Alexander Morrison (Oxford)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
• 17:00 - Narratives from European-African Encounters
  Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
  Economic and Social History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reports of a Lesser Sign: The Intertwining of Strange Trees with Political and Religious Authority in Early Imperial China
  Dr Oliver Hargrave (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 11:10 - The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
  Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 13:00 - Colonial intersections and global connections: China, Japan, and Manchuria in the early 20th century
  Zhenyan Lu (King's College London), Dr. Gloria Yu Yang (Kyushu University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
  Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
  Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 14:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 17:00 - London public sermons and early modern emotional communities
  Mary Morrissey (Reading University)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
  Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)

Friday 20 June 2025

• 10:00 - Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities: Work in Progress Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 23 June 2025

• 09:15 - Colloquium 2025: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences
  Various Speakers
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 09:00 - One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
  Registration closes 31 May
  Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)

Wednesday 25 June 2025

• 13:00 - Choosing open access for books: An author journey
  Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University, Open Book Collective)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 11:00 - Day 1: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 14:00 - History of Art study day - Image & Object: Reproduction
  Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Professor Geraldine Johnson, Dr Brigid von Preussen, Dr Vibe Nielson (Copenhagen), Dr Paul Taylor (The Warburg Institute)
  History of Art Events

Friday 27 June 2025

• 09:00 - Day 2: Oxford Transnational and Global History Conference 2025 - Global Empires: Transitions, Imaginations, and Contestations
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Tuesday 1 July 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 4 July 2025

• 11:00 - Scenario Planning and the Medical Humanities: A Workshop for Uncertain Times
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Monday 7 July 2025

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 24 July 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship