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

Thursday 23 October 2025

2-Day Workshop, 23 & 24 October - Reimagining Indigenous Legal History: New Methods and Approaches
Date: 23 October 2025, 9:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Saliha Belmessous (Oxford), Claudia Brittenham (Chicago), Matthew Fletcher (Michigan), Kathy Hermes (Oxford), Ria Holmes (Victoria University of Wellington), Carwyn Jones (Victoria University of Wellington), Amanda Kearney (San Diego), Jonathan Lainey (Montreal), Uahikea Maile (Chicago), Sven Ouzman (Western Australia), Jessica Russ-Smith (Australian Catholic University)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 23 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Bodleian Student Editions
Date: 23 October 2025, 10:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: In-person event: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Oxford
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Everybody’s History of Sexuality
Date: 23 October 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Colin Johnson (Indiana University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Waste : Methodologies
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Eiko Soga (Fine Art, Oxford), Aishwarya Mukhopadhyay (Anthropology, Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Geography, Oxford), Dr Martha Swift (English, Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar room 63
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Induction session for graduate students in modern British history
Date: 23 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Induction
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

What's happening in the United States? Historians' Reflections
Date: 23 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:45
Speaker s: Colin Johnson (Indiana University), Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What' s happening in the United States? Historians ' Reflections
Date: 23 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:45
Speaker s: Professor Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford's Koch Centre), Professor Colin Johnson (Indiana University), In converstion with Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Early Modern Selfhood Revisited: the Case of Feminism
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Hannah Dawson (KCL)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Jungle Cities: The Urbanization of Amazonia
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Adrian Lerner Patrón (Cambridge)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Collecting Iznik: the Benaki Museum, its patrons and influences in twentieth-century Greece
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Mina Moraitou (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men Book Launch
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker : Mara Gold (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road OX1 3PP
Venue Details: Clore Balcony. Wheelchair accessible.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Opting for Literalism: Foreignizing Arabic Idioms into Hebrew to Enhance the Prestige of Arab Culture
Date: 23 October 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Aadel Shakkour (Al-Qasemi Academy)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Almost Nothing But Blue Ground - a performative Lecture with Tom Pope and Matthew Benington
Date: 23 October 2025, 18:30 - 19:45
Speaker s: Tom Pope (Artists Council member), Matthew Benington (Norwich University of the Arts)
Venue: History of Science Museum, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 October 2025

Choosing and using software for referencing
Date: 24 October 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care 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 traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
Date: 24 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Natalya Vince (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Health Histories and Local Policy
Date: 24 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sally Frampton, Erica Charters, Dan Leveson, Stuart Bell
Venue Details: Museum of Oxford, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1BX
Organiser: Priya Atwal (Community History, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Two: Origins, Omelas, Odo
Date: 24 October 2025, 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 25 October 2025

International Academic Conference: Memory and Responsibility in History, and the Role of the International Community
Date: 25 October 2025, 12:30 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: FitzHugh Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 October 2025

What about Exclusion? – Censorship and Self-censorship
Date: 27 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Professor Richard McCabe (Oxford), Dr Yewande Okuleye (Medical Humanities Specialist), Rawz (Multimedia Artist), Professor Mark Harrison (Oxford)
Venue Details: Old Fire Station Theatre, 40 George Street, Oxford OX1 2AQ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 27 October 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7
Organiser: Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Host: Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Regulation of Anglo-American medical education and its effects on educational cultures
Date: 27 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Susan Lamb (Ottawa)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book Launch ‘Otherwhere Ethnography. An Introduction to Outer Space Studies’ (OUP, 2025)
Date: 27 October 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Perig Pitrou (CNRS/Collège de France), Istvan Praet (Durham University)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Princess of House d’Este at the English Court: Mary of Modena Between Religious-Political Alienation and Cultural Transfer
Date: 27 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Elena Taddei (University of Innsbruck)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ex urbe et ab Hierosolomis: The Materiality and Portability of Place in Pre-Reformation Europe
Date: 27 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Lucy Donkin (University of Bristol)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Problem with Human Rights
Date: 27 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Sir Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford), Daniel Hannan
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Compassion at the Crossroads: Ethics, Emotion & Human Care
Date: 27 October 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Daniel Sperling (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

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2025
Date: 28 October 2025, 9:00 - 12:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Preparing for your literature review in the social sciences
Date: 28 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:45
Speaker s: Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

On the Life and Work of Vincent Gillespie
Date: 28 October 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker s: Prof. Mishtooni Bose (University of Oxford), Denis Renevey (Lausanne), Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford), Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Nicholas Watson (Harvard U)
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
Date: 28 October 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
Date: 28 October 2025, 13:30 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Harrison Room
Organiser: Dr David Taylor (St Hugh's College)
Hosts: TBA

Military strategy and complex uncertainty
Date: 28 October 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Maria de Goeij (CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 28 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
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

The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Jake Richards (LSE)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

On and Off the Canvas: Street Life in Early Modern Rome
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:30 - 18:15
Speaker : Elizabeth Currie (Central St Martins and V&A)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ignacio Arana Araya (Carnegie Mellon University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Thinking and Sensing with the Small: A Material History of Ideas in the Indian Ocean
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Value and Worthlessness: Why Blurring Anthropology and History is still essential
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Don Kalb (Bergen)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Economy, the Ghost in your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dora Costa (UCLA)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Foundations of copyright for teaching
Date: 29 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
Date: 29 October 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Cult of Shmuni In and Out of Church: Liturgy, Domestic Piety, and Memoryscapes
Date: 29 October 2025, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Yael Nu'emah-Kremer
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 29 October 2025, 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

Symposium: Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe
Date: 29 October 2025, 15:15 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Gilly Leventis Meeting Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joshua Travis Brown (John Hopkins)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution' (Oxford, 2025)
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Catriona Kennedy (York), Maria Luddy (Warwick), Ian McBride (Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What makes Qumm special in the architecture of 14th-century Iran?
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Palais Stoclet
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Deborah Silverman
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Will mechanisation change research mathematics?
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L5
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Synaxarion of Constantinople as Historiography
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Stratis Papaioannou (Athens)
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

The English Revolutionary Tradition
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor John Gray (Cambridge), Prof Robert Tombs (Cambridge)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Public Lecture: Two swords or one? On the Byzantine theology of power
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr György Geréby (Central European University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Nicholas Wright (Georgetown University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

"Listen. Time Passes": Literature and Radio, a conversation with Geoff Bird
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Geoff Bird, Chair: Lucy Powell (Trinity College, Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Levine Lecture Theatre - in-person only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Kellogg College Black History Month Annual Lecture: Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century, 147 years Before the British Slavery Act 1833
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: The Hub
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

Solitude, Female Labour and the Lifecycle in Early Modern Britain
Date: 30 October 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Naomi Pullin (Warwick)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951
Date: 30 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Rebecca Goldsmith (Cambridge)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

More than Kindling: Algarrobo Posts and Social Memory on the Peruvian North Coast
Date: 30 October 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Madeleine Fyles (PhD Anthropology, University of Toronto)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"Schön ist die Welt!": Amateur Photography on the Front Lines and Documenting Female Impersonation
Date: 30 October 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker : Paola Medina-Gonzalez (Warwick)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Experiences of food provision in UK 'asylum hotels' and the implications for health
Date: 30 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Claire Thompson (University of Hertfordshire)
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Nepal’s Gen-Z ‘Revolution’: What Happened and What Lies Ahead?
Date: 30 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker s: Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford), Dr Krishna Adhikari (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Book talk - 'Roadkill : Unveiling The True Cost Of Our Toxic Relationship With Cars'
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore (Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL), Arthur Kay (Director, Innovo), Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford ), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sailing upon Storied Seas: The Maritime Environment in Seafarers’ Writings, 1650-1750
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Seeing Double: Visualising La Cité des dames and La Cité de Dieu
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Hannele Hellerstedt (Oxford)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mathematics and Meaning in the Art of Dürer and Holbein
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jeanne Nuechterlein (York)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Lecture Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

División de poderes, diseño institucional y actores políticos. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Laura Cucchi (Lateinamerika-Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and LAC), Eduardo Zimmermann (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Clothing the Caliphate: dress cultures of the early Islamic period
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Jochen Sokoly (VCUarts Qatar)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 2: Translating English: On Shakespeare and Bunyan in Africa
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Music in Theresienstadt Concert
Date: 30 October 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Concert
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 October 2025

‘A Harlem Library Life: The beginning of the story’ (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
Date: 31 October 2025, 11:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Body in History Talks + Troubleshooting
Date: 31 October 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism
Date: 31 October 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Feminist Thinking Seminar Series: Dr Geraldine Fela, ‘Blood Politics: Nurses and Australia’s AIDS crisis’
Date: 31 October 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Geraldine Fela (Macquarie University)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Learning Centre (Room 00.018). Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organiser: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Eleri Anona Watson (University of Oxford), TORCH (University of Oxford), Dr Pelagia Goulimari

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Three: Construction
Date: 31 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

AfOx Insaka with Tolulope Osayomi and Caesar Atuire
Date: 31 October 2025, 17:30 - 21:00
Speaker s: Dr Tolulope Osayomi (AfOx-TORCH Visiting Fellow, Oxford; University of Ibadan), Professor Caesar Atuire (Oxford Global Health/University of Ghana)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Organiser: Africa Oxford Initiative (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 November 2025

Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
Date: 3 November 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Miguel Arana-Catania (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

Workshop ‘Re-discovering Natural History'
Date: 3 November 2025, 9:30 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Maison Française d'Oxford
Hosts: TBA

Children on the streets. Conceptual thoughts on a history of modernity and empirical explorations on the example of the late German Empire
Date: 3 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Joey Rauschenberger (University of Heidelberg)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online vya Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Isolated Barrows in Early Medieval England: A Spatial Analysis
Date: 3 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Wyatt Wilcox
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Decade of Digitizing Democracy: Exhibition
Date: 3 November 2025, 15:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Various (See programme)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Pichette Auditorium
Organiser: Quill Project (Pembroke College)
Hosts: TBA

From Teatime to TV: 200 Years of Science Communication at the Royal Institution
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Katy Duncan (Royal Institution)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Non-Binary Gender in Abbasid Baghdad: Reality vs. Fiction
Date: 3 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Anna Chrysostomides (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

The Darker Side of the Middle Ages
Date: 4 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Kathy Lavezzo (U of Iowa)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Russia's Hybrid War
Date: 4 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Bob Seely MBE
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Working with sensitive research data
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
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

The Social Roots of Religious Violence in Sixteenth-Century Paris
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Tom Hamilton (Durham), Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Transformation of the Corn Milling Trade in Early Modern England, 1540-1800
Date: 4 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Mike Braddick (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Discussion session on sub-ambassadorial diplomatic actors
Date: 4 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Discussion session
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Chinese Gazette in European Sources: Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Nicolas Standaert (KU Leuven)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The International Labour Organization and its Treatment of Colonial Workers after 1919
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ulrike Linder (Cologne)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The BBC in Latin America: Aligning Journalism and Academia to Make Sense of Today's World
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH, 1892- 1939
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Tim Guinnane (Yale)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Exploring the Moral and Therapeutic Significance of Indifference: Examples from Community Mental Health
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Yuxin Peng (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Dr Alberto Giubilini, Alberto Giubilini (Uehiro Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organiser: Andrew Moeller
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 3: The Other Victorians: What If Jane Eyre was a Missionary?
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 November 2025

The House Always Wins: Arms Trafficking, Settler Capitalism, and the Making of Ottoman Jolan, 1878-1918
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Ayşe Polat (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : David Hopkin (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Methodological Inquiry into Syriac Social History: The Case Study of Syriac Legal Literature
Date: 5 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Carlo Emilio Biuzzi
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Getting started in Oxford libraries
Date: 5 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
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

The Oxford Ministry for the Future Presents: The Arctic at the Crossroads
Date: 5 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Bathseba Demuth (of Floating Coast), Joanna Kavenna (of The Ice Museum), Laline Paull (of The Ice)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: The Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Translation, Religion, and Law
Date: 5 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (Australian National University), Itamar Toussia Cohen (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 5 November 2025, 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

Crowdsourced Digital Collections in the Age of AI: Keywords, Maps and Memories
Date: 5 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Catherine Conisbee (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online Event
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Difference at the Margin: Religion and Race in the History of the Middle East
Date: 5 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Henry Clements
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
Date: 5 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Adolfo Polo y La Borda (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Girlhood in the Contemporary American Novel: Coming-of-Age 1990-2020
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Angelica de Vido (New York Historical Society)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Early-modern orientalism and the recreation of the Islamic canon: from collections to catalogues
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Claire Gallien (Tubingen)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Iris Moon
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The energy transition: too little/too late or a new hope?
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Alan Haywood (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin School)
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Why Did the Byzantine Empire Forbid Slave-Owners from Making Eunuchs of their Slaves? Castration, Masculinity, and Identity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Erin Thomas Dailey (Leicester)
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

A minor power in a total war: Sweden’s system of military procurement during the campaigns against Napoleon, 1805-1807 and 1813-1814
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Patrik Winton (Örebro)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

The Challenge of Historical Distance: Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art International Conference
Date: 6 November 2025, 9:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Armin Bergmeier (University of Leipzig), Saida Bondini (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz), Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge), Heiko Droste (Stockholm University), Jas Elsner (University of Oxford), Michael Ann Holly (Clark Institute), Maria Loh (Princeton), Keith Moxey (Barnard College), Susie Nash (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Caspar Pearson (The Warburg Institute), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Nancy Thebaut (University of Oxford), Ben Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue Details: Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI) Florence, Viale Torricelli 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Undergraduate critical thinking with academic sources
Date: 6 November 2025, 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

Copyright the card game
Date: 6 November 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Workshop ‘Idols, Methods and the Organisation of knowledge: A Seminar on the De augmentis scientiarum’
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: Alan Stewart (Columbia University), Dana Jalobeanu (Technische Universität Nürnberg), Daniel Garber (Princeton), Mogens Laerke (CNRS)
Hosts: TBA

Queering the Très Riches Heures: Sexual Ethics, Service, Ganymede, and Dogs
Date: 6 November 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Bob Mills (UCL)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

FLAGSHIP LECTURE. "Are the Dogs Running Today?" by Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
Date: 6 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
Venue Details: Seminar room 63
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“Foreign agitators” in Britain: overseas students and the British student movement in the 1960s
Date: 6 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Olana Peters (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

Fundamentals of open access
Date: 6 November 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Peter Tatchell Archive: an in-conversation with Matt Cook
Date: 6 November 2025, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker s: Peter Tatchell, Matt Cook (University of Oxford)
Venue: Bodleian Library,
Organiser: Jeremy McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Banned Histories: Indigenous Life In Death Records C. 1815 Mexico
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Miriam Melton-Villanueva (University of Nevada, USA)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Bosphorus to Nile: mapping, depicting, and portraying the Ottoman imperial world in the late eighteenth century
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Ayşe Hilal Uğurlu (MEF University, Istanbul)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lecture 4: Decolonizing English: An Incomplete Project
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Bleeding Corpse, A Grim Grimm Fairy Tale with Early Modern Shivers: The Dubious Margaret of Pforzheim (1267), A Singular Female Blood Libel
Date: 6 November 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Emily Rose (Academic Visitor, OCHJS)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 November 2025

Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
Date: 7 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Four: Time
Date: 7 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Discussion of Lars Behrisch, Democracy's Double Helix. Participation, equality and revolution in early modern Europe (CUP 2025)
Date: 7 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Lars Behrisch, Martin Ingram (Oxford), Joanna Innes (Oxford)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: New Powell Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 November 2025

Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Her Material World: Queens’ Stuff in the Global Seventeenth-Century
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Susannah Lyon-Whaley (University of York)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Inscriptive Economy in Fifteenth-Century England
Date: 10 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom Johnson (Oriel College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable: The Nature of Post-Western Order with Amitav Acharya
Date: 10 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker s: Professor Amitav Acharya (The American University), Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford), Professor Andrew Hurrell (University of Oxford), Chair: Professor Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: and online via Crowdcast and YouTube
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

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

Bodleian Student Editions
Date: 11 November 2025, 10:00 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: In-person event: Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Oxford
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Open monographs
Date: 11 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Hosted jointly with the Medieval French Seminar
Date: 11 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Julia Mattison (U of Georgia)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

OPEN Workshop: From Research to Policy Writing
Date: 11 November 2025, 13:30 - 17:00
Speaker : Rosaleen Cunningham (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Nash Suite
Organiser: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)

Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi
Date: 11 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Shashank Joshi (The Economist)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
Date: 11 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Harrison Room
Organiser: Dr David Taylor (St Hugh's College)
Hosts: TBA

Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
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

Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: Susan Kahn, 'Canine Pioneer: The Extraordinary Life of Rudolphina Menzel'
Date: 11 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Prof Susan Kahn (Harvard)
Venue Details: The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium 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), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (University of Oxford)

Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 11 November 2025, 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

Panel on the 2026 Elections in Brazil
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Timothy Power (University of Oxford, OSGA), Andreza de Souza Santos (King's College London), Saul Tourinho, Malu Gatto (University College London), Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Fear and Fortune: Gypsy Women between Image, Devotion, and Control in Early Modern Italy
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:15
Speaker : Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Translating the Image: Art, Science and Global Imagination in the first Islamic Description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbī / History of the West Indies)
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sinem Casale (University of Minnesota)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Maria Loh
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

NO MEETING
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Harmsworth Lecture 2025: The Declaration of Independence and the Difficult Birth of American International Relations
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Doina Anca Cretu (Warwick)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : David de la Croix (UCLouvain)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Date: 12 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Lived Spaces: The Natural Environment in the Syriac Tradition (ca. 4th-13th c. CE)
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Nidanu O'Shea
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Women and the magic of silence in the Roman Gaul'
Date: 12 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Soazick Kerneis (Maison Française d'Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Revolts as rituals of political communication in ‘Abbāsid Baghdad (908-991)
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Fanny Bessard (Trinity)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Art History and Projective Tests (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Whitney Davis
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

James Martin Memorial Lecture: 'Environment, health, society and economics in the new era of geopolitics'
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Lord Hague (Chancellor, University of Oxford)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Hodology, Wayfinding, and Geographic Knowledge in Late Antique Pilgrimage Accounts
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marlena Whiting (Groningen)
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

Forgotten Currents and Kitchen Tables: The Tales of the Subaltern
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Samuel Ramapuram (Goethe University), Ying Yue (Tsinghua University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room (1/F), University of Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford)

Composing a Defence Review on Tech by Richard Barrons
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : General Sir Richard Barrons
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Lester B. Pearson Inaugural Lecture: Passions, Preferences, and the Politics of Self-Binding
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division: Stakeholder Mapping for Academic-Policy Engagement
Date: 13 November 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)

Women’s and Gender History: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Form - An Event with Professor Lyndal Roper
Date: 13 November 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Lyndal Roper (Oxford), Hannah Skoda (Oxford), Daniel Pick (Birkbeck), Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Feminism and the genderquake: “new” feminism in 1990s Britain
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Sarah Crook (Swansea)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

What are White Storks (Ciconia ciconica) Doing in High and Late Medieval Calendars?
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Ryan Mealiffe (DPhil History, Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.421, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Using Scopus for your research
Date: 13 November 2025, 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 Holocaust in the North African literary imaginary
Date: 13 November 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker : Rebecca Glasberg (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Alternative proteins: progress, pitfalls and possibilities
Date: 13 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Cleo Verkuijl (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking the 1650s
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Michael Braddick (All Souls College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The 2025 Besterman Lecture of the Voltaire Foundation - The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Antoine Lilti (Collège de France)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Grove Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Abstract Figures and Bodily Change: Giving Form to Unseen Things in Late Medieval England
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Carly Boxer (Bucknell University)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Riverside Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Framing in Museums
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Schade (The National Gallery, London)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Lecture Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Translating the image: art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi)
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Sinem Arcak Casale (Minnesota)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 November 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 November 2025

14-16 November - CHASE MEMRN Winter Conference 2025: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories
Date: 14 November 2025, 8:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, in-person and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Zotero for referencing
Date: 14 November 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'The Body as Data' reading group
Date: 14 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
Date: 14 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Five: Revolution
Date: 14 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Keith Griffin Lecture
Date: 14 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gillian Tett (Cambridge, FT)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 15 November 2025

Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture 2025: Atrocity, justice and reconciliation in the English Civil War
Date: 15 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Ismini Pells (Oxford)
Venue Details: National Army Museum, London SW3 4HT
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 November 2025

Crossing Borders, Reshaping Lives: Jewish Orphan Migrations and Humanitarian Relief Before the Holocaust (late nineteenth - early twentieth century)
Date: 17 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Charlotte Canizo (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medieval Ritual Landscapes (title tbc)
Date: 17 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Roberta Gilchrist
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Book Launch)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Between truth and justice: towards an intellectual history of post-Mongol Rus
Date: 17 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Angus Russell (King's College, Cambridge)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 18 November 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Vulnerable Bodies: The Old English Verse Charms, Again
Date: 18 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Caroline Batten (New College)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Cyber Security
Date: 18 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jen Easterly (former Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA))
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Survivors: The Converted Jews of Lisbon after the Massacre of 1506
Date: 18 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Giuseppe Marcocci (Oxford), Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 18 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
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

Three scholars will join Bob Harris to discuss his work ahead of his retirement in 2026
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A French Resident at the Nawab's Court: Indo-French Diplomacy in Early Colonial India
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Aditi Gupta (University of Oxford)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Women’s organizations and social rights in France and its empire (1946-1958)
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Anna Nasser (Deakin, St Antony's)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Round table on Brazilian elections
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Albrecht Ritschl (LSE)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

“My Copyist Pretends to Have Misunderstood Me”: Writing émigré Arabic journals in 1880s Paris
Date: 19 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organiser: John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Book Talk: 'Nationalism: A World History'
Date: 19 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker s: Eric Storm (University of Leiden), Discussant: Faisal Devji (Balliol College, Oxford), Discussant: Abigail Green (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Heavenly Powers and Agency in Late Antique Thought: Narsai and Eznik
Date: 19 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Amin Royatvand
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Undergraduate critical thinking with newspaper and social media sources
Date: 19 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
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

Symposium ‘Exercises in Early Modern Thought: Philosophy, Arts, Science, Theology, Politics’
Date: 19 November 2025, 13:30 - 12:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford & All Souls College
Organisers: Dr Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford), Mogens Laerke (CNRS)
Hosts: TBA

Keeping up to date with research
Date: 19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
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

War, Empire, and Displacement
Date: 19 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Megan Hamilton (King's College London), James Hua (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 20.501, Department of History of Art, The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Coca-Cola – a Religious History?
Date: 19 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Uta Balbier
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New Christian Materiality: Reflections on a New Project
Date: 19 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Francisco Bethencourt (King's College London)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Natural History of Style: Specimens, Albums, and the History of Art in Early Modern Japan (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kris Kersy
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: A Discussion
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Peter Frankopan (Oxford), Jonathan Shepard (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

Revolutionary Aesthetics and Affective Politics in Maoist East Asia
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Harry Chi Hang CHO (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sijie Ren (University of Bristol)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room (1/F), University of Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford)

Representations of Origins in Enlightenment Thought: the Voltairean Exception
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : James Hanrahan (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Burgess Brock Lecture 2025 - The factory on the couch: psychoanalysing work in mid twentieth-century Britain
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Auditorium, and livestreamed
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Your thesis, copyright & ORA
Date: 20 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Lightening Round: We gather for flash discussions of research
Date: 20 November 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Liberal worlds: James Bryce and the democratic intellect’ [New book talk]
Date: 20 November 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Stuart Jones (Manchester)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

Opportunities offered by a new food strategy
Date: 20 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anna Taylor (The Food Foundation)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Writing an Intellectual History from below: Methodological and theoretical reflections from "Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge, 2025)”
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Chloe Ireton (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Dr Sonia Tycko (University of Edinburgh), In discussion with Professor Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: A talk and handling session
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A (London)), Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers Museum)
Venue Details: Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street Oxford, OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Asesor en las sombras: Alvaro Puga, un propagandista de los servicios de inteligencia de Pinochet
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Juan Cristóbal Peña (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: a talk and handling session
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 November 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Dr Patrick Koch (University of Hamburg)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 November 2025

EndNote for referencing
Date: 21 November 2025, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 7-19 Banbury Road, 13 Banbury Road OX2 6NN
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Incommensurable histories: Mexican Japanese life experiences during the Second World War - XIIth Guerra Seminar (In Paris)
Date: 21 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker : Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada (Oxford)
Venue Details: Paris
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Life-writing and the far south: rhythm, disruption, and sensory extremes’ (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
Date: 21 November 2025, 11:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10.402, The Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Charles Pidgeon (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
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: Isis room
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
Date: 21 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Six: The University
Date: 21 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 22 November 2025

HAPP 1-Day Conference: A Physical History of Navigation
Date: 22 November 2025, 10:30 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 November 2025

Roundtable: The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute
Date: 24 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:45
Speaker s: Professor Justin Garcia (Director), Rebecca Fasman (Curator), Liana Zhou (Librarian), Professor Matt Cook (History, Oxford), Professor Sarah Knott (History, Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable - The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute
Date: 24 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Rebecca Fasman (Curator), Professor Justin Garcia (Director), Liana Zhou (Librarian), Professor Matt Cook (Oxford), Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Marie Curie and public histories of science
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Sarah Dry (Oxford), Stéphane van Damme (CNRS/MFO)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male Marriage Gaps, Dynastic Centralisation and Habsburg Trust Fund Babies: Analysing Early Modern Dynasties from a Long(er)-Term Perspective
Date: 24 November 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker : Liesbeth Geevers (Lund University)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

NO SEMINAR
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : No seminar
Venue Details: No Seminar
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Professor Sarah Knott's Inaugural Lecture: Why a History of Care?
Date: 24 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Sarah Knott (Oxford)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Roundtable: The Politics of Care
Date: 25 November 2025, 10:30 - 11:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
Date: 25 November 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Environmental Impact of Digital
Date: 25 November 2025, 11:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Organiser: Centre for Digital Scholarship (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
Date: 25 November 2025, 13:30 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: Harrison Room
Organiser: Dr David Taylor (St Hugh's College)
Hosts: TBA

How the global operating system is a sea-based phenomenon, ocean anarchy and why the sea matters to everyone
Date: 25 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Sean Andrews (CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: 'The Third Reich of Dreams': Amanda Rubin-Lewis and Devorah Baum in Conversation
Date: 25 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton), Amanda Rubin-Lewis (Director)
Venue: Buttery,
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), Dr Kate Kennedy (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (University of Oxford)

Workshop ‘The Spinoza Clan: An Afternoon with Spinoza’s Friends and Followers’
Date: 25 November 2025, 14:00 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Mogens Laerke (MFO)
Hosts: TBA

Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752) – Jacobitism, Philosophy and Knowledge of the World
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Please ask the lodge for directions
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tadhg Ó Neachtain (1671–c.1752): Jacobitism, Philosophy, and Knowledge of the World
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Fionntán De Brún (Maynooth)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Who did Renaissance people think they were? Class consciousness, sense of belonging, and social categories in Venice 1400-1600
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:30 - 18:15
Speaker : Claire Judde de Larivière (Toulouse)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Old Dining Hall
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Scholars' Library: Robert McGill on 'Simple Creatures'
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Robert McGill (Rhodes Trust)
Organiser: Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)
Host: Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)

Institutions and Civil Society Organizations: Experimental evidence from Peru
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Paula Muñoz Chirinos (Universidad del Pacífico)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Barbarism, religion, and the tsars: Eighteenth-century Europe imagines the Treaty of Nerchinsk
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Shiru Lim (Leiden University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The End of Europe: A Global History of European Integration
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marlène Rosano-Grange (Sciences Po)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The success of the informal state in England
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Leander Heldring (Northwestern University)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 November 2025

EndNote for referencing
Date: 26 November 2025, 9:30 - 11:30
Speaker s: Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, 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

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning from Policy Engagement - Part 1
Date: 26 November 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 8
Organiser: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)

Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
Date: 26 November 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Date: 26 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Revelation of Ezra Prognostic in Syriac: a Translation From Three Newly Identified Fragments
Date: 26 November 2025, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker : Abigail Pearson
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Williams: A Composer's Life
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tim Grieving (University of Southern California)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and the room is accessed via a flight of stairs
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Waning crescent: The rise and fall of global Islam
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Everywhen: Photography and Indigeneity
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geoffrey Batchen
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Estates, Economy, and 'Holy Men' in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Thomas Laver (Cambridge)
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

Embodied Objects: Vaginal Technologies and Missionary Collections in East Asia
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Ruoyu Jia (Durham University), Yoo Jin Choi (University of Delaware)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room (1/F), University of Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford)

Liberty and its Limits in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch-Spanish-Mapuche Triangle
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Lisa Kattenberg (University of Amsterdam)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Strategic Leadership Seminar
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

Zotero for referencing
Date: 27 November 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘Songs of Seven Dials’ [New book talk]
Date: 27 November 2025, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker : Matt Houlbrook (Birmingham)
Venue Details: TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Songs of Seven Dials, *Shared Seminar with Modern British History*
Date: 27 November 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Matt Houlbrook (Birmingham)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : TBA
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, History Hub, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

RefWorks for referencing
Date: 27 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sensory memoryscapes: a framework to disrupt truisms of sexual violence in Holocaust Studies
Date: 27 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Lauren Cantillon (King's College London)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What was modern Islamic art?
Date: 27 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : William Gallois (Exeter)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Royal Attitudes to Raphael and Renaissance Art from Henry VIII to Victoria and Albert
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Lecture Room 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Documenting Multiculturalism: The Arabic Documents of Sicily
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Jeremy Johns (Khalili Research Centre), Dan Burt (Khalili Research Centre)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Zamość – an Experiment in Geopolitical Engineering. The Sephardic Community in Late-Sixteenth-Century Poland and the Interplay between Geography, Diasporic Agency, and Trade
Date: 27 November 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Susanne Marten-Finnis (University of Portsmouth)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 November 2025

Keynote Lecture: Professor Helen King on Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies
Date: 28 November 2025, 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Helen King
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
Date: 28 November 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Seven: Unbuilding Walls
Date: 28 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Platnauer Room
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Underground Network of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Date: 28 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Niall Geraghty (UCL), Pablo Bradbury (Greenwich)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

Enslaved Children, “Adultification,” and Resistance in the antebellum US South, 1812-1861
Date: 1 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Aisha Djelid (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppart Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Termly update on open scholarship
Date: 1 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Re-thinking the “Green Revolution” in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th-16th centuries)
Date: 1 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Aleks Pluskowski
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Anxious nurses and forgotten patients: psychoanalysing the hospital in mid-century Britain
Date: 1 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Margins, marginality, and marginalisation: drawing lines within and around late medieval Catholicism
Date: 1 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Robert Swanson (University of Birmingham)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

German Mining Science and the Quest for Metals in the Early Modern World
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Gabriele Marcon (Vienna), Chair: Howard Hotson
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OPEN Conversation: What Can Researchers Learn from Science Advice at the European Union Level?
Date: 2 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Prof Nicole Grobert (Chief Scientific Advisor to the EU), Professor Dimitra Simeonidou (Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission, University of Bristol), Karen Fabbri (Deputy Head of Unit, Science for Policy, Advice & Ethics at the European Commission)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)

“Of myself alone”: Inventing the Written Proposal of Marriage in Long Eighteenth-Century England
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Sally Holloway (Warwick)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Macartney and the Manchus: The Impact of British understandings of Qing Ethnic Tensions on Sino-British Relations
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Ross Moncrieff (University of Oxford)
Venue: University College, High Street OX1 4BH
Venue Details: Swire Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing the History of an Invisible Group: Old Women in Germany, 1950-2010
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL/QMUL)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.402, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

US and Latin America
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Michael McKinley (Former US Ambassador in Perú, Brazil and Colombia)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What Did the Romans Ever do for Them? Aqueducts and the Administration of the Empire
Date: 2 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Andrea Papadia (York)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Learning Centre, Room 00.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning from Policy Engagement - Part 2
Date: 3 December 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 8
Organiser: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) (University of Oxford)

Modern Transimperial History: An Introduction
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Prof Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Host: John-Paul Ghobrial

Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Knowledge, Science, and Development across Global Contexts
Date: 3 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Madeline White (Oxford), Koyna Tomar (University of Pennsylvania)
Venue Details: Room 20.421, Faculty of History
Organisers: Asma Shakeel (Oxford), Asmita Sarkar (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

People as property? Captivity and conflict in medieval Iberia
Date: 3 December 2025, 16:15 - 17:15
Speaker : Teresa Witcombe
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Art and Sustainability in the Early Modern Iberian World
Date: 3 December 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Charlene Villaseñor Black (Worcester College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The role of media in a changing world
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Nic Robertson (CNN International)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Byzantium in Correspondence: 171 Letters of Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus to Non-Greek Byzantinists (1875–1911)
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Olivier Delouis (Paris)
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

Peripheral Voices: Local Identity Formation and Alternative Politics in Imperial Japan
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (University of Oxford), DONG Zi’ang (Hokkaido University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Room (1/F), University of Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Host: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford)

Robert Sharrock and the Transformation of Christian Epicureanism in England and Western Europe, 1642–1732
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Jacob Donald Chatterjee (New College, Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Marc Howard (Independent Scholar)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Book presentation ‘Réflexions sur le despotisme impérial de la Russie/Reflections on the Imperial Despotism of Russia’ (Payot, 2025)
Date: 3 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Sabine Dullin (SciencesPo, Paris)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organiser: Maison Française d'Oxford
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
Date: 4 December 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Madwoman in the Factory: Valerie Solanas and the Feminist Imagination
Date: 4 December 2025, 11:45 - 12:45
Speaker : Marybeth Hamilton (History Workshop)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: History Seminar Room, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reclaiming Land for the Future: Coal, Environmentalism, and Population in Post-1945 Britain
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker s: Dr Andrew Seaton (History, University College London), Professor Danny Dorling (Geography, Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar room 56
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Religion as a liberating force? Black British feminist movements, localised activism, and faith communities in London, 1970-1990
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Hannah Elias (Goldsmiths)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: Joshua Bennett, Matthew Grimley
Hosts: TBA

Writing James VI and I
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Seeing Anew: Digital Methods and the Return to the Medieval Object
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Kristine Tanton (University of Montreal)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Federal Interventions and the Making of a Bourgeois Republic under Getúlio Vargas’ administrations in Brazil (1930–1945) - XIIIth Guerra Seminar (in Oxford)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Ana Laura Fraga (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Fuchsia Hart (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Resear Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Ornament: The Shifting Role of Melitsah in Hebrew Thought from the Middle Ages to the Haskalah
Date: 4 December 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Amir Banbaji (Ben Gurion University)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
Date: 5 December 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Eight: Resistance
Date: 5 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 9 December 2025

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 9 December 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Searching for patents and standards
Date: 9 December 2025, 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

Monday 15 December 2025

2-Day International conference - 15-16 December: Island and Empire: Revolts, Repressions, Memories From the Mediterranean to the Caribbean (18th–21st Centuries)
Date: 15 December 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 2-10 Norham Road, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford
Organisers: Christine Chivallon, Marcandria Peraut
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 January 2025

REF open access policy briefing
Date: 20 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 January 2025

Daily Bread: Thinking Comparatively about Food Protests, Social History, Gender, and Archival Politics
Date: 27 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

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

Thursday 29 January 2025

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

Tuesday 3 February 2025

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

Tuesday 10 February 2025

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

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

Wednesday 11 February 2025

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

Tuesday 17 February 2025

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

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

Wednesday 25 February 2025

"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

Joint session with the History of War seminar. Title TBC
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

Tuesday 10 March 2025

Postgraduate presentations - title TBC
Date: 10 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2025

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

Thursday 12 March 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Centre for Baptist Studies
Centre for Digital Scholarship Events
Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
Centre for War and Diplomacy at Lancaster University
Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
CGIS Discussion Group
Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminars and events
China Centre events
Christ Church History Society
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
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 Conference: What Was Iberian Asia? New Perspectives on Spanish and Portuguese Exploration 1500-1700
International History of East Asia Seminar
Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)
Intersectionalising Oxford Society
Islamic World Graduate Seminar
Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Italian Renaissance Seminar
Italian Studies Events
Jewish Country Houses at the Modern Jewish History Remote Seminar
Jewish Country Houses' Project Workshop: Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market, 1850-1930
John Locke Lectures 2022: Reports of what we say, know, or believe
JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art
Khalili Research Centre Seminars
Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
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 Medieval Europe Seminar
Late Roman Seminar
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
Latin American History Seminar
Latin Correspondence of the Humanists
Latin Reading Group
Launch of the Ethics in AI seminar series
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
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 History Research Seminar
Modern Jewish History Seminar
Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
MSt in Women's Studies cohort - Feminist Thinking Seminars
Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures 2020/21: Lyndal Roper on the German Peasants' War
Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux Events
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
Oxford Climate Research Network seminars
Oxford Climate Society Online Events
Oxford Community History Hub
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Oxford Early American Republic Seminar
Oxford Health Histories
Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
Oxford History of Emotions Seminar
Oxford History of Science turns 50
Oxford Holocaust Memorial Events Series: One Day When We Tell Their Stories
Oxford Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series - Online
Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group
Oxford Interdisciplinary Conference on Embodiment, Materiality, and Religion
Oxford International Relations Society Events
Oxford Irish History Seminar
Oxford Legal History Forum
Oxford Martin School Events
Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Medieval Commentary Network, Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, Hilary 2023
Oxford Medieval Commentary Network, Trinity Term Lecture Series
Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group
Oxford net zero: climate in the balance (Oxford Martin School and Oxford Net Zero Initiative Series)
Oxford Nightline 50th Workshop Series
Oxford Numismatic Society
Oxford Pilgrimage Studies Network: Pilgrimage Book Club
Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Oxford Postgraduate Teaching Network (OPTN)
Oxford Relics Cluster Seminar
Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures, Seminars & Events
Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University Heritage Network
Oxford University History Society
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
OxMEND (Oxford Middle Eastern Narratives and Discourse) - reading group
OxMEND (Oxford Middle Eastern Narratives and Discourse) - speaker events
Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery
Patristics Seminar
Paul Seabright Seminars - Rivalry Within and Between Religions: Past, Present and Future
People’s Landscapes: Beyond the Green & Pleasant Land
PERLEGO
Perspectives on Education from the Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean
Pitt Rivers Lunchtime Lectures
Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology
Political Thought Seminar
Professor Nicholas Terpstra, Visiting Fellow, events - 20 April-20 May 2023
Public Health Humanities at St Cross
Queer and Trans History Now: 2-Day Postgraduate Symposium
Queer Studies Network
Radical Histories of Anti-Racist Activism and Organizing
Reading Group on Iberian History (Medieval & Early Modern)
Reading Jews in Late Antiquity
Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
Re-imagining Democracy: Central and Northern Europe
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
Reproducibility and Open Research Seminar
Reproducible Research Oxford (RROx)
Research Cluster on Economic and Human Development in Muslim Societies
Researching Charlemagne
Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
Rethinking the Contemporary. The World Since the Cold War
Rewley House Lecture Series
Rothermere American Institute Events
RSC Trinity Term Public Seminar Series
Ruskin Events
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Seminar
Russian and Slavonic Research Seminar
SASA 2024 Annual Virtual Conference - Opening the Ancient World: Representations of the Past in Ancient and Modern Times
Scholae Latinae: Oxford Latinitas Society
Scholae Vergiliana: The Oxford Latinitas Society
Scholars' Library
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
SEESOX Seminar Series
Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music
Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science
Seminar in the History of the Book
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
Seminar on Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period
SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History
Slade Lectures 2018
Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
Slade Lectures 2021: Material Histories of Medieval Iberia
Slade Lectures 2023: African Artists in the Age of the Big Man
Slade Lectures 2024: 'A Natural History of the Studio', William Kentridge
Slade Lectures 2025: Gaps
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Events (SHAC)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Southeast Asia Seminar
Stateless Sovereignties: Forms, Trajectories, Futures
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
Syriac Lunch Seminar
Talks in Contemporary Art
Taunton Talks
Teddy Hall’s Fellowship Lunchtime Lectures
Terra Foundation Lectures in American Art: A Contest of Images: American Art as Culture War
Terra Lectures in American Art 2021: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914
Terra Lectures in American Art 2022: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art
Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait
The 2022 Leverhulme Lectures - Civil Wars in Europe 1912-1949
The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
The Annual Besterman Lecture of the Voltaire Foundation
The Bible in Art, Music, and Literature Seminar
The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism
The Carlyle lectures in the History of Political Thought 2023
The Isaiah Berlin Lectures
The Italian Film Seminar: Italian Film, Greek Tragedy, and Adaptation
The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2021: Ireland, empire, and the early modern world
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2022, Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain's Dogs and People
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
The J H Elliott History Forum
The Long History of Ethnicity & Nationhood Research Network
The Lyell Lectures 2022: From Memory to Written Record: English Liturgical Books and Musical Notations, 900-1150
The Medieval Book Club
Themes in the Modern History of Religion
The Oxford-Berlin Partnership: Enlightenment Projects
The Oxford Diplomatic Society
The Oxford Early American Republic Seminar
The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar
The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Philosophical Café
The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
The Second Short Wave of Democratisation in Latin America, 1943-63
The Slade Lectures: Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm
The Weidenfeld Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature Lecture Series - Trinity Term 2019
TIDE online Seminar: Polyglot Encounters in Early Modern English Narratives of Distant Travels
TORCH: Britain and the Soviet Union: Early Cultural Encounters Network
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
TORCH Conversations on Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood Network
TORCH Creative Industries Programme
TORCH: Critical Food Studies Network
TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
TORCH Doctoral Network: Oxford Technology in Society Forum (OTIS)
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
TORCH goes Digital
TORCH: Heritage Pathway Programme
TORCH HUMOUR NETWORK: WRITING GROUP MEETINGS
TORCH: Image and Thought Network
TORCH International Fellowship series: The Globe Seen from Iberian Asia, 1500-1700
TORCH: Neoclassicism, Race and Empire (Online seminar series)
TORCH Network: Migration and Mobility
TORCH Network: Rent Cultures
TORCH Network: Writing Technologies
TORCH New Critical Approaches to the Byzantine World
TORCH Oxford and Empire Network Travel and Translation
TORCH: Oxford Comics Network
TORCH Oxford Medieval Studies Programme
TORCH: Oxford Network for Armenian Genocide Research
TORCH Rent Cultures Network
TORCH: Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network
TORCH Syria and Silence
TORCH: Syrian Voices Project events
TORCH Theatre and Performance Network
Translating Illness
Translating Illness
Translation Exchange: International Book Club
Transnational & Global History Seminar
Uncomfortable Oxford Project
Universal Histories Research Seminar
University of York Open Lectures
Urban History Seminar
Utopia Reading Group
Veiled Cities: Haunted Urban Realities in the Nineteen and Twentieth Centuries
Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Jewish Women's Voices
Violence Studies Research Network
Voices in Late Latin Poetry
We Are Our History Converstions
Wednesday Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History
What about Exclusion?
Who Makes History series
Winch Lectures - "Normal for Norfolk": Two Legal Antiquaries on the Norman Conquest
Wolfson Thursdays
Women and Power? A Magdalen Story - Special Lecture Series 2020
Women, Gender and Culture Seminar Series
Women’s Equality and Inequality Research Programme (WEIR)
Women's Rights Research Seminars
Women's Stories: Celebrating 50 Years of Co-education at Hertford College
Worcester College Decolonisation Lecture Series
Workshop on the Theology of Work and Christian Materialism in St Josemaría Escrivá
Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts
Writing Jewish Women's Lives
Wytham Woods Seminar
York Festival of Ideas 2021: Infinite Horizons