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

Wednesday 28 January 2025

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 28 January 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI (Rothermere American Institute)
Date: 28 January 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Making of a Syriac Study Bible: New Frontiers in Digital and Public Humanities
Date: 28 January 2026, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Katherine Painter
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Revolutionary Worlds: Fascism, Anti-Imperialism, and Transnational Political Imaginaries
Date: 28 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Daiki Kaba (Hitotsubashi University), Ashkan Hashemipour (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Panel Title: Revolutionary Worlds: Fascism, Anti-Imperialism, and Transnational Political Imaginaries
Date: 28 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Ashkan Hashemipour (Oxford), Daiki Kaba (Hitotsubashi University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Date: 28 January 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

PSI guest seminar: Speakers from Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal
Date: 28 January 2026, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Dr Emily Adams (University of Oxford), Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall (Director of Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD), Senegal), Dr Cheikh Tidiane Diagne (MD DiaTropix, IPD, Senegal), Dr Joe Fitchett (IPD, Senegal)
Venue: Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Headington OX3 7BN
Venue Details: The Centre for Human Genetics - Room A/B, Old Road Campus, Headington, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7BN
Organisers: Dr Emily Adams (University of Oxford), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Jerusalem in Early Christian Hope (Recollection Lecture)
Date: 28 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:25
Speaker : Prof Markus Bockmuehl (Keble College)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

America’s Jews of Islam: Middle Eastern Jews and American Jewish Politics
Date: 28 January 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Geoffrey Levin (Oxford)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tomexicanantzin in Nican Tepeyacac: Initial Reflections on a Forgotten Nahuatl Manuscript from the Bodleian Library
Date: 28 January 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Michael Bax (Magdalen College, Oxford), Tania Bride (Balliol College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Making the space to think about society – more than an Enlightenment story
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : John Robertson (Universities of Oxford and Cambridge)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Biodiversity, ecosystem services and sustainability: is it time for a reset?
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : David Obura (IPBES)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Islamophobia, antisemitism, and the struggle for recognition
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Steven Sarson (Université Jean Moulin - Lyon), Professor Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Constitutionalism and Democracy: Reappraising the Political Thought of W. E. H. Lecky
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Adam Coleman (Trinity College, Cambridge)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medieval Epiros and Albania: Geopolitical and Economic Reflections in the Light of Coinage
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Julian Baker (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

'AI in Quebec Newsrooms: Prudence Over Hype' by Colette Brin (Université Laval/Reuters Institute for Journalism)
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

Bodleian Student Editions
Date: 29 January 2026, 10:00 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Oxford
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Shifting Landscapes and Shape Changing Trees: Political Geomorphologies of Pastoralism and Tree Care in Italy
Date: 29 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Andrew Matthews (University of California Santa Cruz)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dearth
Date: 29 January 2026, 12:30 - 13:45
Speaker s: Meleisa Ono-George (Oxford), Alice Rio (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

(Un)bordering "old" Commonwealth migration after 1962
Date: 29 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Freddy Foks (Manchester)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Accidental Historian: the Case of Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-85)
Date: 29 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Ditchfield (York)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable discussion to mark the publication of 'Worlds of Islam' by James McDougall
Date: 29 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: James McDougall (Oxford), Faisal Devji (Oxford), Raihan Ismail (Oxford), Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Levine Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch ‘Every Monument Will Fall’ (Penguin, 2025)
Date: 29 January 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wild Forms: Hermits, Saints and Rock Art in Medieval England
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Robert Mills (UCL)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 2: Media
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Early Tudor Nobility to 1529: some reflections on a problem
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr James Ross (University of Winchester)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Mexican Intellectuals Lobby in the United States During the 1920s and 1930s
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jesus Velasco (Tarleton State University/LAC Visiting Academic)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The hidden life of Kūfī scripts: practice-based insights and theories
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Joumana Medlej (Independent Scholar)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 January 2025

Choosing and using software for referencing
Date: 30 January 2026, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Oliver Bridle (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

Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
Date: 30 January 2026, 13:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Miguel Arana-Catania (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

Towards a Supernatural History of the British Empire
Date: 30 January 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : John Slight (Open University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 30 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Date: 2 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 2 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Designing a conference poster in medicine: Getting started
Date: 2 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lithic New York: Scientific Groundings of the Metropolis in the Age of Revolutions (Soils, Surfaces, Depths)
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Stéphane van Damme (MFO)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Radical Empire: Tilak, Jinnah and Indian Home Rule
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Amar Sohal
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Nuns’ Financial Literacy and the Private Banking Activities of Female Religious Organisations in the Later Middle Ages
Date: 2 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Anna Molnár (Reading)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 February 2025

Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 3 February 2026, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Craig Finlay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Bad books in medieval Bristol: alchemy, liturgy and Thomas Norton’s ordinals
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Joe Stadolnik (U of Chicago)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Event with Taiwanese Poet Yen Ai-Lin
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:45
Speaker s: Yen Ai-Lin 顏艾琳, Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford), Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford), Samir Ng Sum Leung
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 8
Organiser: Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“He hath payd his part”: The Political Economy of Fishing Doles in Late-Medieval England
Date: 3 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Tom Johnson (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 3 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
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

Introduction to Zotero for medicine
Date: 3 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Americanism to Maga: redefining the bounds of citizenship
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford's Koch Centre)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Money in Modern War and the Blockade of Germany, 1914-18
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jonathan Boff (Birmingham)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

“Of myself alone”: Inventing the Written Proposal of Marriage in Long Eighteenth-Century England
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Sally Holloway (Warwick)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sonic identities and cohabitation in Venetian Crete (1453-1669)
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:30 - 18:15
Speaker : Alexandros Hatzikiriakos (Sheffield)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 2: Coming to Terms
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Great Ming as Dynasty and Family
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Craig Clunas (Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Sophie Lam (St John's College), Paul Napier (Christ Church), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Organizing across the imperial and global space. Women’s organizations and networks at the end of the French Empire
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Anna Nasser (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Natalya Vince (University College, Oxford))
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Reevaluating the Paris Commune, 1871: Social, Micro-Historical and Global Approaches
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Quentin Deluermoz (Cambridge/Paris Cité)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How Can We Creatively Document Life in a Time of Genocide
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Saeed Taji Farouky (Filmmaker)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Visual Contemplation: The Rabbula Gospels and Severus of Antioch
Date: 4 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Roey Porat (HUJI)
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Lost Miaphysite History from Late Antique Egypt
Date: 4 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Phil Booth
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trump 2.0 and Threats to American Democracy
Date: 4 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Workshop - Tschirnhaus: Invention, Logic, and Medicine of the Mind
Date: 4 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Michael Jaworzyn (CNRS-MFO, Oxford), Mogens Laerke (CNRS-IHRIM/MFO, Lyon/Oxford), Pablo Montosa Molinero (Barcelona)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: Mogens Laerke (CNRS-IHRIM/MFO, Lyon/Oxford), Michael Jaworzyn (CNRS-MFO, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Bringing Digital Image Collections Together
Date: 4 February 2026, 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

Workshop 'Tschirnhaus: Invention, Logic, and Medicine of the Mind'
Date: 4 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reading the Old Testament through the lens of the Icelandic Sagas (Recollection Lecture)
Date: 4 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:25
Speaker : Prof. Sian Gronlie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Worlds of Islam: a global history
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor James McDougall (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyrius of Gaza (in collaboration with Translated Texts for Historians and LUP)
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Claudia Rapp (Vienna), Michael Whitby (Birmingham)
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

Koch History Centre Lecture: Theocracy Now!
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Bethany Moreton
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

Copyright the card game
Date: 5 February 2026, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ami Pendergrass (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

Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Date: 5 February 2026, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Subjectivity
Date: 5 February 2026, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Getting started in Oxford libraries
Date: 5 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Wanne Mendonck (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Environing from Below — Supplications, Denunciations, and Other Sources for Rewriting Early Modern Environmental History
Date: 5 February 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Niklas Groschinski (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dunhuang and the Silk Roads in UK collections: Stewardship, digital discovery and collaboration
Date: 5 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Hybrid event: Weston Library Lecture Theatre and Online
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Falling families: downward social mobility in the middle class, 1840-1930
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Christina de Bellaigue (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Moral responsibilities of the wealthy
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Michael Sandel (Harvard University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Enlightenment and the History of Deep Time. The Making of a Historiographical Myth
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Ivano Dal Prete (Yale)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Enlightenment and the History of Deep Time (NOTCOM/All Souls Joint Session)
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ivano Dal Prete (Yale)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

No Safe Place? “Privileged Refugees” and Narratives of Jewish Flight After 7 October 2023
Date: 5 February 2026, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker : Alice Gaya (Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Discussion Group: 'The Body in Performance’
Date: 5 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Discussion Group
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.056 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How do we successfully encourage dietary change?
Date: 5 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Louise Dye (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1, ground floor
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 3: Self
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Technologies of Reproduction and Sonderauftrag Bayeux: Re-Creating the Bayeux Tapestry for the Third Reich
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Millie Horton-Insch (Trinity College, Dublin)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Farmyard Medicine and Agricultural Expertise in early modern Britain
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Leah Astbury (University of Bristol)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : TBC
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘How the space of the brain shapes the mind’
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

God and Silicon Valley: The Place of Religion in the Development of AI
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Andrew Davison (Christ Church, University of Oxford), Bartek Papiez (Big Data Institute, Oxford)
Venue: Reuben College,
Venue Details: Reuben College (Lecture Theatre)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The silk core, or lessons from medieval Iberian textile studies
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Maria Judith Feliciano (CSIC, Madrid)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 February 2025

Undergraduate critical thinking with academic sources
Date: 6 February 2026, 9:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Rhodes (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Zotero for referencing
Date: 6 February 2026, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Katie Allen (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

Lives under the microscope: scientific obituaries dissected (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
Date: 6 February 2026, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Georgina Ferry (Author)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.424, English Faculty, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
Date: 6 February 2026, 11:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Bureaucracies of Violence: Asians leaving Uganda in 1972
Date: 6 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ria Kapoor (QMUL)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 6 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Book Presentation: 'Venice Requiem' by Khalid Lyamlahy, translated by Ros Schwartz
Date: 6 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

“Fairies and Music, Gipsies and Flowers”: Music Pedagogy and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century Convent School
Date: 9 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Emma Arthur (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Petitions to Protest: Popular Politics and Its Limits
Date: 9 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:45
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Dining Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OCCT Discussion Group: Hallucination, Contemplation, and ‘Ideal Realism’: British Romanticism in Dialogue with Daoism
Date: 9 February 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Serena Qihui Pei (UCL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses in medicine
Date: 9 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Eli Harriss (Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Semiar Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 9 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Disease and the Dead Body in Britain in the Long-Eighteenth Century
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Eleanor Kerfoot (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Sikh Engagements with Islam and Classical Sufi Thinkers
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Satnam Singh
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room & Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Medieval Racism? Social Practices in Colonial Contact Zones in Greenland and Sápmi (900-1500)
Date: 9 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Cordelia Heß (Aarhus)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch ‘Judges before history/Les juges devant l’histoire’ Jean-Paul Jean (Président de chambre honoraire à la Cour de cassation)
Date: 9 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Mathematics of Card Shuffling: A Journey Towards Randomness
Date: 9 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Itay Glazer (Technion)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Preparing for your literature review in the Social Sciences
Date: 10 February 2026, 9:30 - 11:15
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

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 10 February 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Date: 10 February 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker s: Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Neal Thurley (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

SDS Introduction & Demonstration
Date: 10 February 2026, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online Event
Organisers: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries), Sustainable Digital Scholarship service (SDS)
Hosts: TBA

Fellows’ Forum - Citizenship and Conquest: Hawaiʻi and the Architecture of U.S. Expansion
Date: 10 February 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Maye Henning (Suffolk University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Power and conversion in middle English romance
Date: 10 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Kirsty Bolton (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Case for India: Restating Eighteenth-Century Oriental Despotism from a History of Knowledge Perspective
Date: 10 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Stéphane Van Damme (ENS Paris/MFO), Chair: Giuseppe Marcocci
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Jewish Women's Voices Seminar: Narrating Lives, from Photograph to Photographer: 'Seeing Daylight: The Photography of Dorothy Bohm'
Date: 10 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Aviva Dautch (JW3 and London School of Jewish Studies), Monica Bohm-Duchen (Independent Scholar)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Host: Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (University of Oxford)

“God forebede that a wylde Yrishe wyrlynge shulde be chosene for to be there kynge”: Gaelic Recovery in a North Atlantic Context, c.1350-c.1550
Date: 10 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Simon Egan (Queen's University Belfast)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 10 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
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

Day 1: Conference - The Past and Future of Anglo-Catholic Socialism
Date: 10 February 2026, 15:30 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Catholicism and the Labour Party
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Jon Cruddas (former MP for Dagenham and Rainham)
Venue: Pusey House,
Venue Details: Ursell Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Remnants (in collaboration with the Rothermere American Institute)
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Regina Kunzel (Yale)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large Seminar Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

Strategic Net Assessment
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford), Dr Edward Howell (CCW, Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Skill Workshop: Humanities Beyond Academia: Skills for Competing
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Pegram Harrison (Said Business School)
Venue Details: Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Industrial Revolution as a dramatic event: a review of the evidence
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Objects of Informal Diplomacy: Gift-Giving and Cultural Exchange between Tudor England and the Italian peninsula, 1500-1550
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker : Teresa Callaioli (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 3: The Capacity of Power
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Panel Discussion: 'Measuring what matters: biodiversity metrics for business and finance'
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Prof Nathalie Seddon (Director, Nature-based Solutions Initiative), Dr Elizabeth Boakes (RSPB Conservation Science Monitoring Team), Prof Andy Purvis (Natural History Museum, London), Prof Kate Jones (University College London), Prof Mark Blaxter (Wellcome Sanger Institute), Prof Anjali Goswami (DEFRA)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Revisiting Labour Protest: Cultures of Conflict and Italian Workers since 1945
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ilaria Favretto (ILCS, University of London/Kingston)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Public Lecture: Professor Nicholas Royle, 'Life-Writing and the New Fantastic: Possibilities and Pleasures for Life-Writers and Readers'
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Nicholas Royle (University of Sussex)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: The Buttery and via Zoom; accessibility information available here: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/accessibility-wolfson-college
Organisers: Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (University of Oxford), Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (University of Oxford)

A Discussion on the Desirability of Life Extension with Professor John K. Davis
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor John K. Davis
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Host: TORCH (University of Oxford)

Humanities Beyond Academia: Neurodivergent Retail and Entrepreneurship
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Olly and Amelia Markeson (Founders & CEOs of Neurohaus)
Venue Details: Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Day 2: Conference - The Past and Future of Anglo-Catholic Socialism
Date: 11 February 2026, 7:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
Date: 11 February 2026, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Georgina Kiddy (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: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 11 February 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Date: 11 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Animals in Syriac Ascetic Spirituality
Date: 11 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Shafiq Abouzayd (ARAM)
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imperial Circulations: Climate Knowledge, Port Labor, and Material Worlds
Date: 11 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Cherry Briggs (Independent Researcher), Alison Bennett (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.513, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Imperial Circulations: Climate Knowledge, Port Labor, and Material Worlds
Date: 11 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Cherry Briggs (Independent Researcher), Alison Bennett (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 11 February 2026, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Film Screening and Roundtable on New Book (Enlightenment Workshop, convenors Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee)
Date: 11 February 2026, 15:30 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Messianism and History: A View from Nineteenth-Century Sudan
Date: 11 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Hengameh Ziai
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dominican Gifts of Mesoamerican Things in Early Modern Italy: Circulation and Reception
Date: 11 February 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Davide Domenici (University of Bologna)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hajj and the Art of Pilgrimage
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sir Nasser Khalili (Khalili Foundation)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Civil Servants and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: “Keep People Talking”
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Giada Lagana (Cardiff)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Excavations of the Church of St Polyeuktos at Sarachane Revisited
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Pamela Armstrong (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

Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Margot Tudor (City)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 February 2025

Undergraduate critical thinking with newspaper and social media sources
Date: 12 February 2026, 9:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Elizabeth McIntosh (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Publishing the Environmental Humanities
Date: 12 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Professor Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford), Professor Amanda Power (University of Oxford), Rebecca Brennan (Princeton University Press), Dr Anna Henderson (ARC Humanities Press)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Keeping up to date with research
Date: 12 February 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker s: Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Louise Wetherill (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Love’s labour: a history of childcare
Date: 12 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Emily Baughan (Sheffield)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Milton’s Of Education: Training the Vir Civilis
Date: 12 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Daniel Fried (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Map Readings – Lies of the Land: Painted maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France
Date: 12 February 2026, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University), In conversation with: Elizabeth Baigent (Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom Webinar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 4: State and Economy
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Last words: migration, death, and languages in early modern London
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr John Gallagher (Leeds)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In the Name of "La ética judeocristiana": On Latin America’s New Right and its Support of Israel (1973-2023)
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Daniel Kressel (Koch History Centre, Oxford)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Oliver Smithies Lecture: Disaster, Sensation and the Zeppelin Sublime.
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Donna West Brett (University of Sydney)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch - Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Federica Gigante (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 February 2025

Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 13 February 2026, 11:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Italian Fascism, the Holy See and the Nationalist Government During the First Apostolic Delegation to China (1922-1933)
Date: 13 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Chiara D'Auria (UNISA)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 13 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 13 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A B Emden Lecture 2026 - Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World
Date: 13 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Jeremy Adelman (Cambridge)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Doctorow Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 February 2025

Graduate Seminar: A chance to hear short papers from graduate students working on the study of the body
Date: 16 February 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Oscar Wilde Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Date: 16 February 2026, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Chronic Constitutions: Experts, Disease Risks and Remaking Indian Bodies in Post Colonial India (1940-70s)
Date: 16 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Right-wing decoloniality and civilizational discourses
Date: 16 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Queen Melisende of Jerusalem and the Wages of Sin
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Cultural Impact of Visits to the Roman Metropolis: Jews and the Big City
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (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

'Legal humanism across nationalisms and transnational history' Presentation of the ISTHisFrench project (ERC-2024-COG 101170233)
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2025

Maritime Risk Management and Aequitas: the long life of the principle of General Average
Date: 17 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Maria Fusaro (Exeter)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 17 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
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

PSI seminar: ‘From local to continental: how vector ecology shapes tick‑borne disease emergence in Europe’ presented by Dr Helen Esser
Date: 17 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Helen Esser (Assistant Professor, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation group, Wageningen University)
Venue Details: Hybrid event: MS Teams or The Richard Doll Building Lecture Theatre, Old Road Campus.
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Poster clinic for medicine
Date: 17 February 2026, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

BELARUS: Autocracy, War and Diplomacy. A British Diplomat’s Observations of Life Inside Belarus
Date: 17 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jack Hands
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

The Death of Dragons: Faith and Fairy Tales in early eighteenth-century Taxonomy c.1665-1750
Date: 17 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Thomas Wood (Independent)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Romes of Thomas Jones (1742-1803)
Date: 17 February 2026, 16:30 - 18:15
Speaker : Melissa Calarescu (Cambridge)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 4: Making Equality
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Epidemics and Politics: Relieving the People in Post-Imjin War Korea
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Baihui Duan (Lancaster University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Sophie Lam (St John's College), Paul Napier (Christ Church), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ibadism and Medieval Maghrib: a View form Within
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Cyrille Aillet (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: Lecture Room B
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Winant Lecture ni American Government: States and American Constitutional Development
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Emily Zackin (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Governing a multi-ethnic state: Minority rights in early twentieth-century Baltics
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Timo Aava (St Antony’s College, Oxford)), Martin Conway (Balliol College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford)

Rethinking Max Weber’s Politics
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Ghosh (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trans studies and medieval literatures
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: François.e Charmaille (University of Cambridge), Prof. Gareth Evans (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: THE MAISON FRANÇAISE
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 February 2025

Museums in Revolutionary France as Sites of Encouragement and Emulation
Date: 18 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Hangyul Kim (Chonnam National University)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Open monographs
Date: 18 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Date: 18 February 2026, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker s: Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Interreligious Polemic and the Virgin Mary: Two Late Medieval East Syrian Treatises
Date: 18 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Shane Patrick
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dependent Labour in the Late Antique Near East
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille)
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

Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2025

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Materiality
Date: 19 February 2026, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to Zotero for medicine
Date: 19 February 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Timely Courts and Immediate Responses: Waste Management as a Temporal Issue in Late Medieval England
Date: 19 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Louis James Henry (University of Stavanger/KCL)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Your thesis, copyright & ORA
Date: 19 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries), Ami Pendergrass (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable on the methodologies and historiographies of ‘The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life’
Date: 19 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Peter Mandler (Cambridge), Various Discussants
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground Floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Peter Berault and the Low-Life of Philosophy in Early Modern London
Date: 19 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Edwards (Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pets and Cinematic Animal Witnessing in "The Zone of Interest"
Date: 19 February 2026, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker : Emily Rose Baker (Southampton)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

RefWorks for referencing
Date: 19 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 5: Self and Society
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

REGNAT POPULUS IN ARKANSAS: The partnership to lead on state constitutional history
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Family Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Imogen Peck (Birmingham)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Not all Anthropocenes are the same: Politics , utopias, dystopias and futures in Amazonia
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Susanna Hecht (UCLA)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

2026 Hilary Term Campion Lecture: 1758 - The Secret History of a Papal Election
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Jane Stevenson (Oxford)
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room, and streamed online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wall painting in the Islamic West and the aesthetic of naqsh
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Umberto Bongianino (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 February 2025

EndNote for referencing
Date: 20 February 2026, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library, 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

The Valley Children: How collaborative creative practice can help us make sense of predictive genomics
Date: 20 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:45
Speaker
Venue Details: Learning centre (00.018)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilty' (Faith in Public Life Lecture)
Date: 20 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Nigel Biggar
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Date: 20 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : David Lambert (Warwick)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 20 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 21 February 2025

HAPP 1-Day Conference: Heritage Physics: Illuminating the Past - in person and livestreamed online
Date: 21 February 2026, 10:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: and livestreamed on YouTube
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2025

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 23 February 2026, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Workshop ‘Beyond the Body of the Church: Formalisations of Social Ideas in Medieval Christianity’
Date: 23 February 2026, 9:30 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Setting the Children to Work in Early Modern London: Some Methodological Challenges
Date: 23 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Ian Archer (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Religious Encounters
Date: 23 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:45
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Room 8.5
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OCCT Discussion Group: On the Trail of the Detective: Testing a New Comparative Methodology in World Literature
Date: 23 February 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Oliver Eccles (UCL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Designing a conference poster in medicine: Getting started
Date: 23 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Knowledge Centre, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Group Study Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Termly update on open scholarship
Date: 23 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Scholarly mobility and Sufi authority: Imdadullah's intellectual world between South Asia and the Hijaz
Date: 23 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room & Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

The Mental After-Care Association, Recovery and Psychotherapy
Date: 23 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Hannah Blythe (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

International commerce and regional development: pepper in the Indian Ocean
Date: 23 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Chris Wickham (Birmingham/Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Shepherding away from Home': The Role of the Prison Chaplain (Faith in Public Life Lecture)
Date: 23 February 2026, 18:15 - 19:30
Speaker s: Rosalind Lane, Paul Cowley
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2025

Zotero for referencing
Date: 24 February 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘Motes of gold’: early English poetry and its modern recollection
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Elaine Treharne (Stanford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Using Scopus for your research
Date: 24 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, 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

The Mortar Wreck: A Thirteenth Century shipwreck outside of Poole Harbour, Dorset
Date: 24 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Tom Cousins (Bournemouth)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Josh Hollands (UCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Josh Hollands (UCL), Chair: Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Large Seminar Room (SR 2.3)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Skill Workshop: Humanities Beyond Academia: Skills for Teams
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Pegram Harrison (Said Business School)
Venue Details: Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Will someone please think of the children!”: Child Custody and Mediation in the Court for Matrimonial Causes, 1800-1923
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Jennifer Aston (Northumbria)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Competition or Integration? Urban and Princely Diplomacy at times of Civil War in the Burgundian Low Countries (1380s vs. 1480s)
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker : Michael Depreter (UC Louvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Naval Strategy in the Pacific: Balancing not Challenging China
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Lt Cdr Andrew Ward (CCW & Royal Navy)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 5: The Sense of Beauty
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Divine Beasts as Translational Agents: Figurist Renderings of Dao and the Prophetic Recasting of the Yijing
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Prof Sophie Ling-chia Wei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Sophie Lam (St John's College), Paul Napier (Christ Church), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Inaugural Sir Howard Colvin Lecture, 2026 - Wren, Vanbrugh, and Hawksmoor: the minds that made the English Baroque
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anthony Geraghty (York)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Free Public Transport: The View From 1976
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Daniel Gordon (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Humanities Beyond Academia: Publishing and Entrepreneurship
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Alice Curry (Lantana Publishing)
Venue Details: Oxford Edge, 37 St Giles, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing in the Museum
Date: 24 February 2026, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker
Venue: History of Science Museum, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: Please note there is no step-free access to the museum.
Organiser: Ruth Holliday (History of Science Museum)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2025

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Date: 25 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Political Cultures of Christian Slavery in the Early Medieval East Syriac Legal Tradition
Date: 25 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Seth Stadel
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Trade & Labour History
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Transnational Trade & Labour History
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Day 1: Conference - Confession - The Church's Gift to the World?
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:30 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Date: 25 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Dr. Pusey on the Effects of Absolution: Catholic but not Roman (Recollection Lecture)
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:25
Speaker : Ben Jefferies (Trinity Anglican Seminary)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Christians, Jews, and Muslims' resistance to the Spanish Monarchs in 15th c. Malaga
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Celine Dauverd
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Old Customs and the Contest for Jurisdiction over Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Iberia
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco (UCL)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"The Kingdom of Liberty": the Dutch Remonstrants on Christianity and Natural Law
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

One History or Many? Transitional Justice Theory and the Politics of Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Louise Mallinder (QUB)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mapping Unholy Places in Late Antiquity
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw)
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

‘What’s on a Vase? When French Feminism Meets Chinese Art’
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male Bodies for the Fatherland: Invalidity and Self-Mutilation in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

Sunderland Collection Symposium: MAPS Digital/Analogue
Date: 26 February 2026, 9:15 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Day 2: Conference - Confession - The Church's Gift to the World?
Date: 26 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Glut
Date: 26 February 2026, 11:45 - 13:00
Speaker s: Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Koch History Centre), Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

The Worst Bird in Britain? Gamekeepers, bird protection, and the Little Owl controversy in England, c.1900-1954
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Max Long (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The “Continuation” of Aristotle’s Problemata in the English Seventeenth Century
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Kathryn Murphy (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Talk: Order without Hegemony
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Manjeet S. Pardesi (Victoria University of Wellington), Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College), Faisal Devji
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room
Organiser: Nandini Gooptu (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 6: Self vs. Society
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Film Screening: Victim (1961)
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Film screening and discussion
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 20.421 (second floor), History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“Commerce has taught us more humanitie”? Enslaved Black people, Jewish people, and the conditional rightslessness of ‘infidels’ in seventeenth-century England
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Kathleen Commons (Sheffield)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Morale on the home front, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Sheldon Garon (Princeton) (Princeton University)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre, Nissan Building
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Chile’s Neoliberal Nationalization: How a Dictator Spooked Copper Investors, 1974-1989
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Margarita Fajardo (LAC/OSGA, Oxford, and Lawrence College, USA)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Debt in stone: architectures of finance in late Ottoman Istanbul
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Eva Schreiner (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Feeling Safe but Not Ready: Disaster Risk Perception and Urban Resilience in Baltic Capitals
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr. Didzis Kļaviņš (University of Latvia)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Emily Usherwood (Oxford Department of International Development), Jo Boyce (University of Oxford, Oxford Dept of International Development)
Host: Professor Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford)

An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
Date: 26 February 2026, 19:15 - 20:15
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 February 2025

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 27 February 2026, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care 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

Writing the Oxford lives of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
Date: 27 February 2026, 10:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Simon Horobin (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.424, English Faculty, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
Date: 27 February 2026, 13:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Evenlode room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
Date: 27 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Music and the Medical Humanities
Date: 27 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Host: TORCH (University of Oxford)

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 27 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions
Date: 27 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2025

Searching for patents and standards
Date: 2 March 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Alessandra Vetrugno (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

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 2 March 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 2 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Cairns Library, Headington OX3 9DU
Venue Details: Beeson Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Popular Science Writing: Literary Approaches
Date: 2 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Michael Whitworth (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Family, Historical Memory and Cultural Capital in Late Colonial India
Date: 2 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Polly O'Hanlon (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room & Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Insular manuscripts: why membrane matters
Date: 2 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jo Story (Leicester)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2025

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 3 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

NO SEMINAR
Date: 3 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : No seminar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

National Resilience and Preparedness
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Rowena Hill (Nottingham Trent University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Book presentation ‘Cultural expertise. Theories, Laws and Practices’ (Routledge, 2025)
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Undergraduate Thesis session (in-person only)
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Polyphony or Cacophony? Tumult and Order in the Political Culture of Venice’s Empire during the Italian Wars
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:30 - 18:15
Speaker : Monique O'Connell (Wake Forest)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Doctorow Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 6: Democratic Form
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Jill Frank (Cornell University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Songs of Life and Death: Musical Communications Between the Dead and the Living in Early China
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Avital Rom (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Sophie Lam (St John's College), Paul Napier (Christ Church), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Mistakes were made: The EU’s relations with Russia and Turkey in the 1990s
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Ayşe Zarakol (Emmanual College, Cambridge), Roy Allison (St Antony’s)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford)

Reflections on writing the history of Europe under German occupation during World War II
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tatjana Tönsmeyer (Wuppertal)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail with author Hélène Giannecchini
Date: 3 March 2026, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker s: Hélène Giannecchini (Author), Discussant: Katie Burke (Oxford), Discussant: Eszter D Kovács (Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Old Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special Film Screening 'Le dernier Canadien français'
Date: 3 March 2026, 19:00 - 22:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2025

Introduction to Zotero for medicine
Date: 4 March 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Minicolloquium: A Genealogy of Post-Liberalism
Date: 4 March 2026, 14:00 - 17:25
Speaker s: Professor John Milbank (Emeritus Professor, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Nottingham), Professor Paul Kelly (London School of Economics), Joao Pinheiro da Silva (St Andrew's), Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Regionalism in Modern European History
Date: 4 March 2026, 16:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dr Terence Cudbird (Oxford), Peter George (Oxford), Discussant: Dr Talitha Ilacqua (Durham), Discussant: Dr Timo Aava (Estonia/Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational ties of faith: Imdadullah’s letters and writings from the Hijaz during the late-19th century
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ubiquitous and Universal? Rebellion and State Formation between Byzantium and Early Islam
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alasdair Grant (Hamburg)
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

Koch History Centre Lecture: Church, State and Hierarchy
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : David d'Avray
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Putting nature on a path to recovery: how are we doing?
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr David Cooper (Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2025

EndNote for referencing
Date: 5 March 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
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

Magazine Methodologies Postgraduate Workshop: Community
Date: 5 March 2026, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Correcting the Climate: Jules Verne’s Planetary Apocalypse
Date: 5 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Sebastian Egholm Lund (University of Oxford), Claire Qu (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Burning Issues: Fire Management in Metropolitan Los Angeles, 1892-1938
Date: 5 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Jessica Chirboga (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign: Race, Healthcare and Citizenship in late Twentieth Century Britain
Date: 5 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Saima Nasar (Bristol)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Confrontations with the Nazi Past in Early Post-War West Germany
Date: 5 March 2026, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker : Sandra Lipner (UCL)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

First year graduate presentations
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Control an Idea
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : George Lewis (University of Leicester)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Black Monserrat: Race, Migration, and Real Estate in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book talk - 'The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)'
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Oliver Smithies Lecture: Stasi Surveillance: Photography’s Material and Residual Traces.
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Donna West Brett (University of Sydney)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Picturing marvels, magic and monsters at the Ottoman court, 1574–1603
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Günseli Gürel (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2025

Working with sensitive research data
Date: 6 March 2026, 11:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue: Social Science Library, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Information Skills Training Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Date: 6 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Nia Roberts (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Neal Thurley (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Keynote Lecture: Professor Cora Gilroy Ware
Date: 6 March 2026, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Cora Gilroy Ware (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Schwarzman Centre OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

ICHM: Celebration of honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 6 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 7 March 2025

British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress Meeting
Date: 7 March 2026, 10:30 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2025

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries in Childhood Studies
Date: 9 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker s: Kiera Vaclavik (QMUL), Sophie Ratcliffe (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Order of Knowledge
Date: 9 March 2026, 12:15 - 13:45
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OCCT Discussion Group: Teaching the Coloniality of the Climate Crisis in Translation: Indonesian and Dutch Flood Narratives
Date: 9 March 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucelle Pardoe (UCL)
Venue Details: Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The quantification of famine in the British Empire, 1770-1801
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Prostitution and the Politics of Presence in Colonial India
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoya Sameen (Aga Khan University)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Abraham Murad (University of Oxford), Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)
Hosts: TBA

Cowries, Cloth and Coins: Currency in Medieval Economic Anthropology
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Nick Evans (Birkbeck)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Children’s Week - A week exploring new frontiers, infant cognition, emotions, and care, including the history of children’s health, while rethinking classic themes such as work, children’s art and literature, and naturalist approaches to learning.
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2025

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 10 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Designing a conference poster in medicine: Getting started
Date: 10 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Investigations of Women’s Suicides in the County of Henneberg: 1590-1612
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Louisa Bergold, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Popes, Ambassadors and Falcons: Trade and Diplomacy between Latin Europe and the Mamluk Sultanate in the Fourteenth Century
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Mike Carr (Edinburgh)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How to End a Nuclear War: Deterrence and Provocation in War Termination
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Lauren Sukin (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

The Making of Marie Antoinette Style at The V&A
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker s: Sarah Grant (The V&A), Oliver Cox (The V&A)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Personal correspondence and early modern diplomacy
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:45
Speaker s: Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute, Paris), Vladimir Somov (Independent Researcher)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reading the Qur ʾān across the Mediterranean: Toward a Maghribī School of Tafsīr in Early Islam
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Conor Dube (UCL)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: Clément Salah, Umberto Bongianino, Christian Sahner
Hosts: TBA

Artistic Exchanges during the Global Cold War: Algeria and the Eastern Bloc
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Katarzyna Falęcka (Newcastle)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2025

Postgraduate Presentations
Date: 11 March 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Latest Intersections Reading Group with the RAI
Date: 11 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

PSI seminar: 'What makes evidence credible in policymaking?’ presented by Kathryn Oliver
Date: 11 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Kathryn Oliver (Professor of Evidence and Policy, LSHTM)
Venue Details: Hybrid event. MS Teams or LG 1 Seminar room, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus Oxford OX3 7LF.
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Date: 11 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Venue Details: Room 20.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
Date: 11 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Sacrifice to Creation: Two Paradigms of Indian Political Thought
Date: 11 March 2026, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Salmoli Choudhuri
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 11 March 2026, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile (Sorbonne)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

לְ†רבּי†: John Locke, Christ Church, and the Herbarium Exercises, 1660-1665
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Felix Waldmann (Cambridge)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

HAPP Lecture: Godfrey Stafford: Physicist, Director, Master
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Norman McCubbin (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, and livestreamed online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Making Ireland Catholic: Morality and Modernity in the Free State
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Fearghal McGarry (QUB)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Unbecoming Roman: Performative Ethnicity and Panspermía in the Byzantine World c.1190-1235
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Nathan Websdale (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 12 March 2025

Advanced searching clinic for systematic reviews, scoping reviews and evidence syntheses in medicine
Date: 12 March 2026, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care 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

Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labor along British and Colonial Indian Railways
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Mattie Armstrong-Price (Fordham University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (Ground floor), Schwarzman Centre, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Dogmatic Understanding of the Human Body in Early Modern Catholicism
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Christoph Sander (Ruhr University, Bochum)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Archival Fragments, Experimental Modes in Oxford
Date: 12 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker s: Sara Johnson (UC San Diego), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott, Matt Cook, Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Lyndal Roper
Hosts: TBA

The unique large-format print of the General Map of the Qing Empire by Li Mingche李明徹 (1751–1832) in Göttingen: tracing its cartographical origins and journey to a German university
Date: 12 March 2026, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom Webinar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Emily Guerry
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

First year graduate presentations
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: LAC Main Seminar Room, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Greek-Orthodox monastery in the desert: Mount Sinai and the material culture of its Arabic (and Islamic) manuscripts
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Let's Talk About: Surveillance How should we track disease?
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History of Science Museum, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: No level access
Organiser: Ruth Holliday (History of Science Museum)
Host: Dr Silke Ackermann (History of Science Museum, Oxford)

Friday 13 March 2025

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 13 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
Date: 13 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 13 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 March 2025

Poster clinic for medicine
Date: 16 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Health Care Libraries - Knowledge Centre, Headington OX3 7DQ
Venue Details: Group Study Room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 March 2025

Science communication: An introduction to translating your research for a non-specialist audience
Date: 17 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Hannah McGivern (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 March 2025

America 250: What Makes A Revolution?
Date: 19 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Mancall (University of Southern California)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 March 2025

‘The Renaissance on Board, Really? Revisiting Jean and Raoul Parmentier’s Mythified Voyage to Sumatra in 1529’
Date: 20 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

America 250: The Declaration of Independence and American Identity at 250
Date: 20 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 March 2025

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 23 March 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 March 2025

Introduction to EndNote for medicine
Date: 25 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
Date: 25 March 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 March 2025

Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 26 March 2026, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Literature searching in medicine: getting started
Date: 26 March 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 April 2025

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 7 April 2026, 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: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 April 2025

‘Michel Serres, historian of science despite himself’
Date: 9 April 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 April 2025

SHAC Spring meeting - Remembering Bill Brock: Chemistry and Culture
Date: 10 April 2026, 9:30 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 April 2025

Systematic reviews, scoping reviews and other evidence reviews in medicine: getting started
Date: 15 April 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 April 2025

Searching systematically in medicine
Date: 22 April 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Carolyn Smith (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Suzannah Bridge (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 May 2025

Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
Date: 5 May 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 7 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Cécile Voyer (Université de Poitiers)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 May 2025

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 12 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
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

Mitigating Dimensionality and Uncertainty in Systems: A Transition from Classical Control to AI
Date: 12 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 13 May 2025

Book Talk: Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror (2025)
Date: 13 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Keith Michael Baker (Stanford University)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 19 May 2025

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 19 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
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

Wednesday 20 May 2025

Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought
Date: 20 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jessica Patterson (Cambridge)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 26 May 2025

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 26 May 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
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

Thursday 28 May 2025

The Many Lives of the Asante Ewers
Date: 28 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Lloyd Debeer (British Museum)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 June 2025

Dancing with the Stars: Adam Smith and Lucian on Philosophical, Moral, and Pantomime Spectatorship
Date: 3 June 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Maksymilian Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 June 2025

Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth century
Date: 4 June 2026, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom Webinar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Contemporary Art Meets the Medieval Monastery
Date: 4 June 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 11 June 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Meg Bernstein (University of East Anglia)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 June 2025

Ordnance Survey: twenty-first-century National Mapping Agency
Date: 18 June 2026, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Nick Bolton (CEO, Ordnance Survey)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom Webinar
Organisers: TBA
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 Black History Month 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 Conference: “Torna a Surriento”: Return Migration to Southern Italy from 1876 to Today
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 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
ANTITHESES Seminars and Events
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 Network
Brasenose College Ashmole Society
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
Byzantine Art and Archaeology - a French perspective
Campion Hall Events
CaribOx: Caribbean Oxford Initiative
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
Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2026: The Shape of Democracy
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
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
Clarendon Lectures in English - English from Below: The Rise and Fall of a Discipline
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
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 Art and Visual Culture Seminar
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 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 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
European Studies 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
Feminist Thinking Seminar Series
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
Future of Food seminar series
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 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, Medicine, Technology, and Environment Work in Progress Group
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 2-Day Workshop: Between Techniques, Politics, and Memory: The Identification of Dead Bodies of Violence (19th–21st Century)
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 Research 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
Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
LAC Main Seminar Series
Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
Late Antique and Byzantine 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
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop
Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshops
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
Maghrib History Seminar
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
Margaret MacMillan North American Lectures
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 Society and Landscape
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 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
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
Oakeshott Lectures
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
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