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Seminars and Events of interest to the Faculty of History
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Tuesday 29 April 2025

The "Care" Series: Reading: Anne Antoni, Juliane Reinecke, and Marianna Fotaki, 'Making Time to Care, and Caring for Time'
Date: 29 April 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: Lucile Richard (Political Theory, Nuffield College, Oxford), Sarah Knott (History, St John's College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Engineering the Environment and Imagining Nature in the Early Modern World
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Thomas Murphy (New College), Dr Elly Dezateux (Christ Church)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Third Floor Seminar Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Helen Appleton (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Getting started in Oxford libraries
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: Choosing and using software for referencing
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Literary and Philosophical Societies as knowledge-making Communities in early nineteenth-century England
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Martha Vandrei (Exeter University)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Intercultural “Morality Books” (善書) of Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Converts
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Valentina Yang (KU Leuven)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History - Defending Dignity: Black Women, Family, and Crafting Testimonials in Colonial Mexico
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Technological and Organizational Sophistication in North American Indigenous Economies, 1000-1500
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Ann Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: Pavillion
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mapping and analysing the Kazakh famine of 1930-33 in regional and chronological detail
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stephen Wheatcroft (Melbourne)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Technological and Organizational Sophistication in North American Indigenous Economies, 1000-1500 - The Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture in Economic History
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ann M Carlos (University of Colorado Boulder)
Venue: St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Venue Details: The Pavilion
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

5th Alfred Lehmann Memorial Lecture: Wealth and Learning in the Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora (Hybrid)
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Yaacob Dweck (Princeton)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Catherine Lewis Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book launch: Matt Myers, The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968–1989 (OUP, 2025)
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Matt Myers (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organiser: Andrew Moeller (Kellogg)
Hosts: TBA

Screening of Pasolini’s Medea
Date: 29 April 2025, 19:30 - 20:30
Speaker : Film screening
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Back to the future? The promise and peril of historical analogies in AI governance
Date: 30 April 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Julia Morse (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: gordon.barrett@history.ox.ac.uk, Professor Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

Session 1: Introduction to the relationship between astronomy and astrology from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Galileo’s Letters: Seeing Presence, Absence, and Shadows in a Scientific Legacy
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Hannah Marcus (Harvard)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Scholars' Library: Sara Bronin on 'Key to the City'
Date: 30 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Sara Bronin (Rhodes Trust), Jennifer Bradley (Rhodes Trust)
Organiser: Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)
Host: Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)

2025 George Rousseau Lecture: On the logic of autocracy and the plasticity of history: the case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger ((Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute of Advanced Study))
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Economy of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective, 1500-1800
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Selecting, Arranging, Dressing and Aging the Saints in Ravenna’s S. Apollinare Nuovo
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Backdrops as Middle Ground: Photographic Portraiture as a Site of Indigenous Resistance
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 'New Realism? On the Reality of Appearances' by Jocelyn Benoist
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jocelyn Benoist (Paris 1)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Perig Pitrou (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

Special Reading Group - Hungarian LGBTQ+ History
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue Details: The Jolly Farmers, Downstairs Area
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Conventional and Unconventional Deterrence from Ukraine to Taiwan: The Strategic Interactions of NATO, Russia, China, and the United States
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 May 2025

iSkills: Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
Date: 1 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jeremy McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Writing the Environmental History of the Medieval Islamic East
Date: 1 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Thomas Laskowski (MPhil Islamic Studies)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Growing Up Queer: 1837-1918
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Hannah Stovin (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Life Between "Enigma" and "Influence": Dona Torr Interprets Marx
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Sam Miller (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Temperance Women and the Franchise: The New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union, The British Woman’s Temperance Association, and Women’s Suffrage, 1876-1914
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Danielle Van Dalen (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sensing the Air: On an Aesthesis of Climate
Date: 1 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Eva Horn (Universität Wien)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 6
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The two swords: spiritual and temporal jurisdiction in henrician England
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Paul Cavill (Cambridge)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China' by J P Park
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : J P Park (Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Regius Special Lection: A History of Christ's Sex
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Dr Anselm Schubert (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Koji Hirata (Monash University)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Hawkins Room (Fellows Quad)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mexico and Beyond: The Art of José María Velasco
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Daniel Sobrino Ralston (National Gallery, London)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

Translating Trees, Becoming Birds: A discussion on Folk Tales from Meghalaya
Date: 2 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Utsa Bose (History, Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Hosts: TBA

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The World of Charlemagne
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Martina Carandino (Worcester College, Oxford)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Shame and the Gendered Body
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Reading and Discussion Group
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week One: Beginnings
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

2025 Astor Lecture: Beyond Mere Inconvenience: United States and Civilian Harm
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Helen M. Kinsella (University of Minnesota)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Merton College Library Visit
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : N/A
Venue: Merton College Library, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special Event: 'Survivor' with Zoom Rockman
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Zoom Rockman
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 3 May 2025

Everyday Muslim: Telling Our Stories - Oxford
Date: 3 May 2025, 12:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Karim Khan
Venue Details: Old Fire Station, 40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 May 2025

Bannister Community Mile
Date: 5 May 2025, 9:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Run with your colleagues, club-mates, friends, and family
Venue Details: Start: St Aldates / Finish: Iffley Road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Salvation, alienation and sacrifice zones from medieval to modern thought
Date: 5 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Amanda Power (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 6 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
Date: 6 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Carolingian Augustinianism: Politics after Augustine in Alcuin of York and Hincmar of Reims
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Alberto Garzoni (Keble College, Oxford)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Seminar on Pasolini’s Medea
Date: 6 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Was Serfdom Good for the Economy? Peasants, Lords, and Markets in Early Modern Bohemia
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern Ciphers Roundtable
Date: 6 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Dr Ioanna Iordanou (Oxford Brookes), Giovanni M Pala, Antonio Pattori, Dr Tracey Sowerby, Chair: Professor Filippo de Vivo
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A subsectoral analysis of historical occupational data and their relation to economic growth, new data and methods
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Alexis Litvine (University of Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Experience of the Nations of the Caucasus 1917-1921, and Implications for Today
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Sarah Slye (Cambridge)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Subsectoral Analysis of Historical Occupational Data and Their Relation to Economic Growth, New Data and Methods
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexis Litvine (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England
Date: 7 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Session 2: The daily rotation of the celestial sphere (primum mobile) [1/2]
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Anatomical practice and the rise of post-mortems in the 16th- and early 17th-centuries
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Stolberg (Universität Würzburg)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Objects and Empire on the Portuguese India Run: Surviving Shipwreck
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Elsje van Kessel (University of St Andrews)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bit-making and artisanal Enlightenment: the codification of practical knowledge from the pictorial rhetoric of bit-books to riding manuals and encyclopaedic knowledge
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Castes and Regions: The Socio-Economic Decline of Muslims in Contemporary India
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christophe Jaffrelot (Kings College, London)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Localization in the Rohingya refugee response
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Miriam Bradley (University of Manchester)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tepekozis: A Medieval Cyclops Story in Pharasiot (Asia Minor Greek)
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mark Janse (Ghent)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 'Rethinking the inequality of lives' by Didier Fassin (Collège de France, Paris and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Didier Fassin (Collège de France, Paris)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Perig Pitrou (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch and Panel Discussion - Every Monument Will Fall: A story of remembering and forgetting
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dan Hicks (Oxford), Chair: John Schofield (York)
Venue Details: Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ
Organiser: Blackwell's Bookshop (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 May 2025

Where Are We At? - PGR and ECR Symposium
Date: 8 May 2025, 9:30 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room West
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Introduction to online resources for historians: show and tell
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Pensions, Poverty, and Policy: Gendered Inequalities in Old Age, 1975–2005
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Janina Bechtold (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prelates as Political Appointees: Ecclesiastical patronage and its consequences for modern Britain, 1977-2009
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Kyle Siwek (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for teaching
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Changing Global Politics and its impact on Singapore and ASEAN
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Mr Ng Teck Hean (Singapore's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Emily Usherwood (Oxford Department of International Development)
Host: Dr Joerg Friedrichs (Associate Professor of Politics, Oxford Department of International Development, and St Cross College, Oxford)

Emergent Prestige and Status-Seeking Dynamics in International AI Competition
Date: 8 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In times of ferment and flourishing: the livelihoods of Chapel Royal musicians, 1640s-80s
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Sam Teague (Oxford)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

On Painting Everything: Japanese Art in the Early Modern Information Age
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Chelsea Foxwell (University of Chicago)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Clément Thibaud (Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains - CERMA, Mondes Américains, France)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

A Panel Discussion: Museum Careers for Historians
Date: 9 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Danielle Czerkaszyn (Oxford University Museum of Natural History), Sydney Robinson (MSc HSMT, formerly Ralph Appelbaum Associates), JC Niala (History of Science Museum), Chair: Catherine M Jackson (Oxford Centre for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: Hohee Cho, Alex Aylward, Sloan Mahone, Catherine Jackson, Rob Iliffe, Mark Harrison, Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: Zotero
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Two: Child Liberation
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Troubled Life Stories: Complaint Culture, Life Writing, and Urban Experiences in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen (Co-convened with the Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network)
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Ulrik Langen (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Ship Street Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
Date: 12 May 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Searching for patents and standards
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: EndNote
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoe Screti (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Queen’s Court: Materiality and Colour at Early Modern Scandinavian Courts
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Dustin Neighbors (University of Helsinki)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lessons for Late Medieval Literary History from Strasbourg
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stephen Mossman (University of Manchester)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Hacking History workshop
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Digital Hub
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Preparing for your literature review in the Social Sciences
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:45
Speaker s: Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

British espionage in 18th-century Italy: the case of Philipp von Stosch (1691-1757)
Date: 13 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Riccardo Neri (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wage Differentials in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Professor Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Karakul trade in 19th-century Bukhara
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jeanine Dagyeli (Vienna)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wage Differentials in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Screening of Cavani’s I Cannibali
Date: 13 May 2025, 19:30 - 20:30
Speaker : Film screening
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Trump’s First 100 Days: What Comes Next Economically and Geopolitically?
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Robert Westcott (Former White House Special Assistant for Economic Policy)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

AI and the future of work in developing countries
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Pablo Egaña-delSol (UAI Business School)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Sources for modern global history
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:45
Speaker s: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Session 3: The daily rotation: understanding the stereographic projection of the celestial sphere [2/2]
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"Eager the Orient Spoils Itself": Sublimity and the Indies in Luis de Góngora’s Panegírico al duque de Lerma (1617)
Date: 14 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Felipe Valencia (Utah State University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty in Muslim Societies
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Ali Allawi (Former Minister of Finance, Defense, and Trade of Iraq)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Governing Migration and Mobility: Military-Humanitarianism at Brazil’s Northern Frontier
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Bronte Alexander (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pro Meliori et pro Utilitate Terre: Venetian Crete and the Exploitation of the post-Byzantine Aegean
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Lorenzo Saccon (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book launch: Rethinking Socialist Spaces in the Twentieth Century
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Paul Betts, Marcus Colla
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: European Studies Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Mary Lou Williams and the Re-Imagining of Jazz’s History
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tammy L. Kernodle (Miami University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Settler Realism and the Diorama Aesthetic: John K. Hillers’ Puebloan Survey Photographs
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Blythe Crawford (RAF & CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

WMTC Termly Lecture: On Fragments
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Tamara Atkin (English Faculty/The Queen's College, Oxford)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

iSkills: Keeping up to date with research
Date: 15 May 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Morwenna Broughton (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Geotrauma, Emergency Histories, and Sacrifice Zones: Medieval Historians in the Anthropocene
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Edward A. Freeman, History, and "Public Affairs", 1884-1892
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Gabriel Smith (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Trip to India: Cultural Indophilia, British Hippiedom, and Post-Imperial Memory
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Robert Taylor (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

AI Safety in Practice: Safeguarding Against Real-World Misuse and Near-Term Harms
Date: 15 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Broderick McDonald (Kings College London)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Bale and Polydore Vergil: an encounter in Church history
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tim Wade (Warwick)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Regius Valedictory Lecture: Telling Stories: History, Narrative, and the German Peasants’ War, 1525
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Lyndal Roper
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Competing Internationalisms in the Cold War Caribbean
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Emily Snyder (Cambridge)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lethal Violence Under the Auspices of Medicine: Criminolegal Insights Regarding Medical Experimentations on Humans
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Hava Dayan (Haifa University)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

The Carolingian Renaissance. Education and Learning
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Martina Carandino (Worcester College, Oxford)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Staircase 5 Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing Illness
Date: 16 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Reading and Discussion Group
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What is a “Trans Woman”?: Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis (Hybrid)
Date: 16 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jamey Jesperson (Victoria)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Three: Prison Abolition
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Old Library,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Dacre Lecture 2025: Notes for a history of sexualities in the Hellenistic age
Date: 16 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor John Ma (Columbia)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Al Jaber Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Gold in Medieval Illumination: Practiced-based Workshop
Date: 16 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Sara Charles (University of London)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Surviving in the archives: how to make sense of early medieval relic labels
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Julia Smith (All Souls College, Oxford), Ana Dias (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Opening of the Exhibition: ‘Breathing' with 'Breaths–Air Bladders’ - 19 May-26 June
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Exhibition
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, Norham Road, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

2025 Multidisciplinary Mill(s) Conference
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: Flora Anderson Hall, accessible by steps and ramp
Organiser: Sarah Butler (Librarian and Head of Information Services)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
Date: 20 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hybrid Warfare
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Seminar on Cavani’s I Cannibali
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How Do You Solve a (Diplomatic) Problem like Poland? Polish-Lithuanian Political Culture and Diplomacy in the late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Dr Anna Kalinowska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Chair: Dr Tracey Sowerby
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Taylorian Main Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Regina Grafe (University of Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Striking with hunger: the politics of the belly in Kyrgyzstan, 1989-1991
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Madeleine Reeves (Oxford)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Referencing: EndNote
Date: 21 May 2025, 9:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
Date: 21 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Date: 21 May 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker s: Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Referencing: RefWorks
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Bringing Digital Image Collections Together
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: In-person event: Centre for Digital Scholarship
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Session 4: Planetary motions and horoscope
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"An astrologus praedicere possit futura contingentia? Nego": Astrology in Student Disputations at Oxford and Cambridge
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Flooding and drought in early modern central Europe - Health, bodies, emotions
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anna Parker (Institute for Historical Research, University of London)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Islamic Spain and English Romanesque Architecture: The Fortunes of a Theory and the Construction of "the West"
Date: 21 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Tom Nickson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Building State Capacity in Fragile States
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rhetoric and Reality in the Imperial Orations of Niketas Choniates
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alicia Simpson (American College of Greece)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Performing the Wild West: Staging Indigeneity in Photography and Theatre
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Emanuele Castano (University of Florence)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College
Organisers: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Morgan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

20th Annual Roger Moorey lecture: Bacchylides' Journey: The afterlife of a lyric poet in Egypt and London
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Susan Walker (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 22 May 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Aled Davies (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Strategic Instability: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Narratives Fueling the Conventional and Emerging Tech
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Karuna Nandkumar (Oxford China Policy Lab)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Winant-Mellon Symposium Keynote Address: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR
Organisers: Professor Kimberley Johnson (Winant Professor, RAI), Professor Des King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A Caroline Catholic conversion: Francis Slingsby (1611-42)
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Symposium Day 1: The Komnenian Restoration of Byzantium & its Legacy
Date: 23 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: and Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Context of Carolingian Commerce: Trade and Coinage on the fringes of the Ninth Century
Date: 23 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Nathan Websdale (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Nazrin Shah Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Reading Group: Connoisseurship - ONLINE
Date: 23 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 24 May 2025

Symposium Day 2: The Komnenian Restoration of Byzantium & its Legacy
Date: 24 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: and Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
Date: 26 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Royal Court and the Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Katarzyna Kosior (Northumbria University)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

People as property? Captives and slaves in medieval Iberia
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Teresa Witcombe (St John's College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trapped By Experience, Freed By Imagination: Post-Capitalist Literature
Date: 26 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Shimon Adaf (Ben Gurion University in the Negev)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

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
Date: 27 May 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker s: Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Brenna Greer (Wellesley College)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

English Criminal Law and Practice, 12th–19th centuries
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Deborah Oxley (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Female Servants in early modern England: a new history in global, long-run perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (University of Sheffield)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rescuing the Basmachi from Ideology
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Adeeb Khalid (Carleton)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Work-in-Progress Colloquium
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Laure Miolo (Lincoln College, Oxford), Shazia Jagot (University of York)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Screening of Visconti’s Vaghe Stelle dell ’Orsa
Date: 27 May 2025, 19:30 - 20:30
Speaker : Film screening
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Referencing: Zotero
Date: 28 May 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
Date: 28 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Session 5: Conjunctions and eclipses
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Relations of Religious Experience and Scientific Practices in Albert the Great
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Katja Krause (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Indigenous Pictorialism: Richard Throssel’s Portrait of Apsáalooke Nation
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Erin Pauwels
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Sources for US history
Date: 29 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Bethan Davies (Vere Harmsworth Library)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Security Profile of Network Infrastructure in the High North and the Baltic Sea – Prospects for continued NATO-EU collaboration
Date: 29 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Anniki Mikelsaar (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 29 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Framing the Word: presenting religious texts as "comely" ornament in post-Reformation England
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pombal’s reforms in Brazil
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kenneth Maxwell (Harvard University)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Carolingian imperial expansion and religious minorities. Christian-Jewish relations under Charlemagne and Luisthe Pious
Date: 30 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Pilar Rivett (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Staircase 5 Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sex and Politics
Date: 30 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Reading and Discussion Group
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Work-in-Progress Session
Date: 30 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Irene Van Eldere (Leiden University), Elvira Miceli (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Hawkins Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
Date: 2 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Diu nocteque: Investigating Liturgical Programs of Prayer for Tenth-Century Ruling Women
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Megan Welton (UCD)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Messy Chaucer
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: John Southall (University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Seminar on Visconti’s Vague Stelle dell ‘Orsa
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Stuart Delery (Former White House Counsel)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Beyond a Lutheran Plague: Exploring Motivation and Intent in Early Modern Suicide by Proxy
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Andreas Berger-Gehringer (Universität Bern)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Italian Renaissance Cryptography
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Professor Marcello Simonetta (Medici Archive Project/NYU Florence), Chair: Antonio Pattori
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Merze Tate Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Tom Raster (LSE)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Oriental Despotism Reconsidered: The Georgian Monarchy in the 18th Century
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alex Mikaberidze (Louisiana State)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
Date: 4 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What next, if we lose 'the right to have rights'? A Roundtable Discussion
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Pablo Mukherjee (English), Venus Bivar (Oxford), Bernhard Malkmus (Languages), Nayanika Mathur (Anthropology), Amanda Power (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Agricultural Knowledge, the Pursuit of Public Utility, and Collaborative Epistemology in the Early Royal Society
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Niall Dilucia (CNRS, Maison Française d'Oxford/IHRIM)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

CMTC Social 'Tea'
Date: 4 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : N/A
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

There Is No Brazil Without Angola: Painting the Portuguese Atlantic in the Late Eighteenth Century
Date: 4 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Cécile Fromont (Harvard University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Iran’s Crisis of Governance
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Olukunle Owolabi (Villanova University)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and onlin via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Frustration and Failure: Medieval Images of Christ's Transfiguration (12th-13th c.)
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Vincent Debiais (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

The Source of Rivers: Writing Waterways in the Humanities
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Host: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)

The Securitisation of AI Safety Institutes
Date: 5 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Renan Araujo (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin University), Joel Suarez (Harvard University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

The Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government: The Second Republic: Remaking Egypt Under Sisi
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Yezid Sayigh (Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

English Reformers in German print, 1547-1603
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sir John Elliott Memorial Lecture - Between Imperial History and Global History: Sir John Elliott, Historian of the Americas
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Serge Gruzinski (CNRS, EHESS)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 June 2025

Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
Date: 6 June 2025, 10:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Cohen Quad, Walton Street
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tolle Lege. Discovering Carolingian Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library
Date: 6 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Martina Carandino (Worcester College, Oxford), Matthew Holford (Bodleian Library)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Connoisseurship and Medieval Manuscripts: A Roundtable
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Michael Michael (University of Glasgow), Emily Guerry (St Peter's College, Oxford), Peter Kidd (Independent Researcher)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
Date: 9 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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)
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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)
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Richard Schlag (Jesus College, Oxford)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Cult of Saint Frideswide in Medieval Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sensibility and Visual Culture in Scientific Illustrations of the Human Body, France and England, c.1770-1850
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Charlotte Dewarumez (Université Toulouse-II-Jean-Jaurès)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Echoes of the Amu-Darya: Information Management in Peter the Great’s Central Asian Ventures
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ulfat Abdurasulov (Vienna)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

2025 Massada Annual Lecture: Professor Mouna Maroun
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Professor Mouna Maroun (University of Haifa)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Screening of Pasolini’s Teorema
Date: 10 June 2025, 20:00 - 21:00
Speaker : Film screening
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Session 6: Horoscope : dating and interpretating medieval horoscopes
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Traces of Maghribī Astronomy in Sources from Latin Europe (13th-14th Centuries)
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:15 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Diana Allen (McGill University)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Vera Mensura: Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Aden Kumler (University of Basel)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Bill Smith (DPhil History)
Venue Details: ONLINE via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Budgeting for AI: Towards a Systematic Understanding of the Impact of Public Budgeting on Public
Date: 12 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Chloe Chadwick (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian style
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : David Scott (History of Parliament)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Richard L Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Legal Perspectives on the Tangible (and Decentralized) Manifestations of Charlemagne’s Empire
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Paolo Costa (Department of Law, University of Genoa)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Speaker Event - Learning from the History of the Body
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Lyndal Roper
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Platnauer Room
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Henry Charles Lea, the Inquisition, and the Origins of Scientific History in the United States
Date: 13 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

End of term social event
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:15 - 14:15
Speaker : Social event
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Old Kitchen Bar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Iris Clever (Chicago)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Extracting Wood, Extracting Life: Brazilwood and the Trope of Extreme Longevity in Early Modern European Colonial Maps
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Maria Berbara (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Seminar on Pasolini’s Teorema
Date: 17 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cows and Commons: An Environmental Approach to Witchcraft Belief in Switzerland
Date: 17 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Aaron Larsen (St Hilda's College, Oxford), Noé Vonlanthen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reconstructing the Lost Paper Trail of Habsburg First Councillor Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle
Date: 17 June 2025, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker : Dr Maxim Hoffman (Ghent University)
Venue Details: ONLINE only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Revolution of 1905 in Turkestan
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alexander Morrison (Oxford)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 4
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
Date: 18 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

London public sermons and early modern emotional communities
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mary Morrissey (Reading University)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 June 2025

One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)
Venue Details: English Faculty, Oxford
Organiser: Dr Caroline Anjali Ritchie (Exeter College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
Date: 25 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

History of Art study day - Image & Object: Reproduction
Date: 26 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Professor Geraldine Johnson, Dr Brigid von Preussen, Dr Vibe Nielson (Copenhagen), Dr Paul Taylor (The Warburg Institute)
Venue: Littlegate House, 16-17 St Ebbe's Street OX1 1PT
Venue Details: Department of History of Art
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
Date: 7 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 24 July 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2020 Durham Early Modern Conference
2022 Astor Lecture in Medical Humanities events
2022 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
2023 Astor Lecture in Global History
2023 Black History Month events
2023 International Symposium: Newton Geneva Edition
2024 Black History Month events
2024 Terra Lectures in American Art. The Politics of Place in American Art of the Vietnam Era
2025 Astor Lecturer events
2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: Unsettled Ground: Western Landscapes, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Spaces of US Photography
24-25 March - 2-Day Conference: Alliances in the history of armed conflict, 1642-present
2-Day Conference - Forgeries, Fakes, and Counterfeits in Print Culture: Texts, Editions, Copies
2-Day Conference: Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History
2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
2-Day Interdisciplinary Conference: Historical Drama in Early Modern Europe
2-Day Workshop: Global Interpolity Relations, c. 1400-1800
2-Day Workshop: Mountains and the Historian
3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures
3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
A B Emden Lectures
A Conflict of Allegiance? Lectures marking the Tercentenary of the death of Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724)
AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research
African History and Politics Seminar
Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
African Studies Centre events
African Studies Seminar Series
After Rome and Further East Seminar
Alice in Typhoidland Speaker Programme
American History Graduate Seminar
American History Research Seminar
Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
Ancient Greek Science Lectures
Ancient Medicine Seminar
Anglo-Norman Reading Group
Annual LGBT+ History Month Lecture
Anthropocene Histories
Antiquity After Antiquity: Appropriations of the Classical Tradition in Art and Culture from Byzantium to Modernism
Appeals to Nature Seminar
Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
ArgO-EMR Seminar
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group
Art History Radio Hour - Michaelmas Term 2021
Ashmolean Museum Gallery Talks - Talking Sense
Ashmolean Seminars and Events
Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
Astor Lectureship in Science and Capitalism events
Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities
Blavatnik School of Government Events
Bletchley Park Week
Bodleian Events
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Bodleian iSkills workshops: State Papers Online, Referencing, Open Scholarship, Literature searches
Bodleian Student Editions
Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
Brasenose College Ashmole Society
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
Byzantine Art and Archaeology - a French perspective
Campion Hall Events
Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Centre for Baptist Studies
Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
Centre for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University
Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
CGIS Discussion Group
Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminars and events
China Centre events
Christ Church History Society
Conference: Aspects of Collegiality and the Imperial Power in Rome (Principate and Late Antiquity)
CONFERENCE: From Colony to Republic: The Social History of Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Conference: Love and Lenses: Photographic Couples, Gender Relationships, and Transatlantic Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century
Conference: Noblesse Oblige? Barons and the Public Good in Medieval Afro-Eurasia, 10th-14th Centuries
Conference: Pasts and Futures of Sovereignty in Kurdistan
Conference: Rethinking Global Engagement - The Oxford-Berlin Partnership Symposium 2023
Conference: The Late Antique Cult of Saints in Eastern Christianity
Conference: Translation and the limits of Greek-Latin Bilingualism in Late Antiquity
Conservatism and All Souls Lecture Series
Contemporary Art Lectures
Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
Cortex Club: Oxford University Neuroscience Society - CorTech Seminar Series
Country House Work-in-Progress Seminar
Court Studies Seminar Series
Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
Critical Theory Seminar
Cultural Histories, Cultural Studies
Dahrendorf Programme - events
Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX)
Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) provides a major forum for dance scholarship in Europe, promoting dialogue between prominent academic disciplines and the worlds of dance theory and practice.
DANSOX Summer School 2021
David Patterson Lectures
Decolonisation in Motion - film season
Early Medieval Britain and Ireland Events
Early Medieval Britain Network
Early Modern Britain Seminar
Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
Early Modern European Seminar
Early Modern French Research Seminar
Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
Early Modern Intellectual History
Early Modern Italian World Seminar
Early Modern Politics and Religion Workshop
Early Modern Sensory Experiences: Conference 2023 (hybrid)
Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar
Early Modern World Seminar
Early Slavonic Webinar
Early Text Cultures Seminar
East Asia Seminar Series
Eastern Christianity: Historical, Literary & Cultural Heritage
Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
Economic and Social History Quantitative Method Surgeries
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
Economic and Social History Seminar
Economic History of Monarchy
Edinburgh-Oxford Modern Spanish History Doctoral Seminars
EMSE Annual Conference 2024: Sensory Subjectivities
EMSE Annual Conference: Early Modern Sensory Experiences
Encyclopédie Nouvelle Seminar
Enlightenment Workshop
Environmental History Working Group
Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
Environmental Humanities Research Hub
ERC-TIDE project (Travel, Transculturality, and Identity in England, c.1550-1700)
Ertegun Futures: Part of the Ertegun Graduate Programme in the Humanities
Ethics in AI Seminar
Ethics of Textual Criticism seminar
Europaeum events
Europaeum MA Seminar
European History and Civilisation Seminar
Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023
Faith to Faith: Muslim and Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
Gender in Classical Archaeology Seminar Series
Gender, Women and Culture Seminar
Geographies of Solidarity and Palestine
George Rousseau Lectures
GLAM Community Engagement
GLAM Research Seminar
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Correspondent Banking events
Global Gender: Pasts Presents Futures
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Globalising and Localising the Great War
Global Renaissance Reading Group
Governance of AI Seminar Series
Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850
Great Thinkers lecture series
Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
Green Templeton Lectures series 2020
GTC Medical Anthropology Film & Discussion Group
HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics
Heritage Pathway
Historians in the Public Sphere
Historiography Research Seminar
History Faculty Research Office Workshops
History of Art Events
History of Art Research Seminars
History of Art Research Seminars
History of Biology Reading Group
History of Mathematics Seminar
History of Political Thought Seminar
History of Science Museum Events
History of the Book events
History of the Gendered Body
History of War Seminar Series
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 (OxHMD23) Events: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories
HoM@50
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2020 - online
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2023: The Ox-cars
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Human Dignity and Bureaucracy Seminars
Humanities Cultural Programme
Humanities Researcher Training and Development Programme
Iberian History Reading Group
Iberian History Seminar
Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
IndOx Seminars and Lectures
Interdisciplinary Reading Group on Authenticity
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire
Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
Interdisciplinary Visual Culture Studies Group
International 2-Day Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
International Conference: What Was Iberian Asia? New Perspectives on Spanish and Portuguese Exploration 1500-1700
International History of East Asia Seminar
Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)
Intersectionalising Oxford Society
Islamic World Graduate Seminar
Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Italian Renaissance Seminar
Italian Studies Events
Jewish Country Houses at the Modern Jewish History Remote Seminar
Jewish Country Houses' Project Workshop: Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, 1850-1930
John Locke Lectures 2022: Reports of what we say, know, or believe
JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art
Khalili Research Centre Seminars
Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
Late Medieval Europe Seminar
Late Roman Seminar
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
Latin American History Seminar
Latin Correspondence of the Humanists
Latin Reading Group
Launch of the Ethics in AI seminar series
LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
Linacre Lectures 2024: Uncovering Women's History
Lincoln College Oxford History Society
Lincoln Leads 2023
Lincoln Unlocked - Events and Lectures
Lindisfarne Gospels: Materials, Workmanship, Historical Context, and Meaning
Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar
Literature and Mental Health
Litterae Graecae: The Oxford Latinitas Society
Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
Lumen Litterarum I & II: the Oxford Latinitas Society
Macintyre Society - the Magdalen History Society
Madden-Rooney Public Lecture Series
Magdalen Monday Movies and Oxford Film Studies Network
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Mansfield Lecture Series Trinity Term 2019
Mansfield Public Talks
Massada Fellowship Programme seminars
Massada Public Seminars
McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2023 - Conditions for Corrosion: How Are Good Healthcare Practitioners Made and Lost?
MEC SEMINAR SERIES
Medieval and Early Modern Science Seminar
Medieval Archaeology Seminar
Medieval Book Club
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar
Medieval Economic and Social History Seminar
Medieval English Research Seminar
Medieval French Research Seminar
Medieval History Research Seminar
Medieval Italian Seminar
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
Merton College History Society
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Migration Oxford Events
Modern British History Seminar
Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
Modern European History Seminar
Modern French Research Seminar
Modern History Research Seminar
Modern Jewish History Seminar
Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
MSt in Women's Studies cohort - Feminist Thinking Seminars
Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures 2020/21: Lyndal Roper on the German Peasants' War
Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux Events
NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
OCHJS: David Patterson Lectures
Oliver Smithies Lectures
'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events
OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
Open Scholarship
Oral History Seminar
Oxford and Empire
Oxford and Empire Tours Project
Oxford Architectural History Seminar
Oxford Art History Research Seminars
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research - events
Oxford Centre for European History
Oxford Centre for Global History
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity: After Rome
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity - Boethius
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity Special Lecture Series
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Oxford Chabad Society
Oxford Climate Research Network seminars
Oxford Climate Society Online Events
Oxford Community History Hub
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Oxford Early American Republic Seminar
Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
Oxford History of Emotions Seminar
Oxford History of Science turns 50
Oxford Holocaust Memorial Events Series: One Day When We Tell Their Stories
Oxford Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series - Online
Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group
Oxford International Relations Society Events
Oxford Irish History Seminar
Oxford Legal History Forum
Oxford Martin School Events
Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Medieval Commentary Network, Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Hilary 2023
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Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group
Oxford net zero: climate in the balance (Oxford Martin School and Oxford Net Zero Initiative Series)
Oxford Nightline 50th Workshop Series
Oxford Numismatic Society
Oxford Pilgrimage Studies Network: Pilgrimage Book Club
Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
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Oxford Relics Cluster Seminar
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Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
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Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University Heritage Network
Oxford University History Society
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
OxMEND (Oxford Middle Eastern Narratives and Discourse) - reading group
Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery
Patristics Seminar
Paul Seabright Seminars - Rivalry Within and Between Religions: Past, Present and Future
People’s Landscapes: Beyond the Green & Pleasant Land
PERLEGO
Perspectives on Education from the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean
Pitt Rivers Lunchtime Lectures
Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology
Political Thought Seminar
Professor Nicholas Terpstra, Visiting Fellow, events - 20 April-20 May 2023
Queer and Trans History Now: 2-Day Postgraduate Symposium
Queer Studies Network
Radical Histories of Anti-Racist Activism and Organizing
Reading Group on Iberian History (Medieval & Early Modern)
Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
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Re-imagining Democracy: Central and Northern Europe
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
Reproducibility and Open Research Seminar
Reproducible Research Oxford (RROx)
Research Cluster on Economic and Human Development in Muslim Societies
Researching Charlemagne
Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
Rethinking the Contemporary. The World Since the Cold War
Rothermere American Institute Events
RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
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Russian and Slavonic Research Seminar
SASA 2024 Annual Virtual Conference - Opening the Ancient World: Representations of the Past in Ancient and Modern Times
Scholae Latinae: Oxford Latinitas Society
Scholae Vergiliana: The Oxford Latinitas Society
Scholars' Library
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
SEESOX Seminar Series
Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science
Seminar in the History of the Book
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Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
Slade Lectures 2018
Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
Slade Lectures 2021: Material Histories of Medieval Iberia
Slade Lectures 2023: African Artists in the Age of the Big Man
Slade Lectures 2024: 'A Natural History of the Studio', William Kentridge
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Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Events (SHAC)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
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Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
Talks in Contemporary Art
Taunton Talks
Teddy Hall’s Fellowship Lunchtime Lectures
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art: A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War
Terra Lectures in American Art 2021: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914
Terra Lectures in American Art 2022: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art
Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait
The 2022 Leverhulme Lectures - Civil Wars in Europe 1912-1949
The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
The Bible in Art, Music, and Literature Seminar
The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism
The Carlyle lectures in the History of Political Thought 2023
The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation
The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2021: Ireland, empire, and the early modern world
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2022, Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain's Dogs and People
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
The J H Elliott History Forum
The Long History of Ethnicity & Nationhood Research Network
The Lyell Lectures 2022: From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900-1150
The Medieval Book Club
Themes in the Modern History of Religion
The Oxford-Berlin Partnership: Enlightenment Projects
The Oxford Diplomatic Society
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The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Philosophical Café
The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
The Second Short Wave of Democratisation in Latin America, 1943-63
The Slade Lectures: Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm
The Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature Lecture Series - Trinity Term 2019
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TORCH: Britain and the Soviet Union: Early Cultural Encounters Network
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TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
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TORCH goes Digital
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Translating Illness
Translating Illness
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Uncomfortable Oxford Project
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University of York Open Lectures
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Veiled Cities: Haunted Urban Realities in the Nineteen and Twentieth Centuries
Violence Studies Research Network
Voices in Late Latin Poetry
We Are Our History Converstions
Wednesday Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
What about Exclusion?
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Winch Lectures - "Normal for Norfolk": Two Legal Antiquaries on the Norman Conquest
Wolfson Thursdays
Women and Power? A Magdalen Story - Special Lecture Series 2020
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Women's Stories: Celebrating 50 Years of Co-education at Hertford College
Worcester College Decolonisation Lecture Series
Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
Workshop on the Theology of Work and Christian Materialism in St Josemaría Escrivá
Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts
Writing Jewish Women's Lives
Wytham Woods Seminar
York Festival of Ideas 2021: Infinite Horizons