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Seminars and Events of interest to the Faculty of History
Talks:
Friday 3 October 2025
Shared pre-war histories of the British and German Pharmacological Societies
Date: 3 October 2025, 12:00 - 17:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Frances Platt, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology (Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Oxford),
Professor Antony Galione (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford),
Professor Shelley McKeown-Jones (University of Oxford),
Professor Rod Flower (Queen Mary University of London),
Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University),
Dr Lizzie Burns (Department of Pharmacology),
Professor Roland Seifert (Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School),
Nina Goebels (Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School),
Hannes Schneider (Institute of Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School)
Venue: Pharmacology, off Mansfield Road OX1 3QT
Venue Details: Lecture theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Mansfield Road, OX1 3QT (there is ramped and stepped access to the entrance)
Organisers:
Dr Lizzie Burns (Department of Pharmacology),
Professor Fran Platt (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford )
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 October 2025
Warriors in Washington: World War II and the Politics of American Power
Date: 7 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Grant Golub (U.S. Army War College)
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:
events (University of Oxford)
Host:
Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Thursday 9 October 2025
Thanks for the Memories: a panel event exploring collective memory, music, and public health
Date: 9 October 2025, 18:30 - 20:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford),
Zakiya Leeming (Royal Northern College of Music),
Prof. Paul Klenerman (Peter Medawar Building, NDM, Oxford),
Lisa Ciacchi (University of Oxford)
Venue: History of Science Museum, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 13 October 2025
“I call them all by the Malabar name”: communicating colonial flora before universal nomenclature
Date: 13 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Madeline White (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Constructing a Queen: The Career of Jane Seymour from Gentlewoman, to Queen, to Central Dynastic Figure
Date: 13 October 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Elizabeth Norton (Independent Researcher)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Fundamentals of open access
Date: 14 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker
:
Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts:
TBA
Introduction to online resources for historians: show and tell
Date: 14 October 2025, 11:00 - 13:00
Speaker
s:
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
Mirror Man: Orrm and his Words
Date: 14 October 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
Richard Dance (St Catherine's College, Cambridge)
Venue Details: The Margaret Thatcher Centre
Organisers:
Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford),
Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Jewish Women’s Voices Seminar: Vera Fine-Grodzinski, ‘Peggy Guggenheim: American Heiress, Feminist, and Champion of Modernist Art’
Date: 14 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Vera Fine-Grodzinski (Oxford Centre for Life-Writing)
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)
On The Peculiarities Of Latin American Culture
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Héctor Abad Faciolince
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
The Global South in the East? Imagining a Transnational Political Subject in the Japanese Empire
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Yu Sakai (University of 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
James Ford Special Lecture - Navigating foreign environments and linguistic challenges: long-distance travel from early medieval Britain
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Professor Francesca Tinti (University of the Basque Country)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: The Shulman Auditorium
Organiser:
The Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
Host:
The Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
Romanes Lecture: Empire, Identity and the Search for Reason
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Mishal Husain (Bloomberg News)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser:
Events Office (Public Affairs Directorate)
Host:
Professor Irene Tracey (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2025
Date: 15 October 2025, 9:00 - 12:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Various
Organiser:
Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Ford Bequest Workshop on Early Medieval 'Global Britain'
Date: 15 October 2025, 9:15 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Jörg Drauschke (Mainz),
Maria Duggan (Newcastle),
Helen Gittos (Oxford),
Caitlin Green (Cambridge),
Jane Kershaw (Oxford),
Robert Klapper (Oxford),
John Angus MacAulay (Oxford),
Francesca Tinti (Basque Country)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Venue Details: Memorial Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Foundations of copyright for researchers
Date: 15 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker
s:
Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts:
TBA
Arabic Thought, Syriac culture: The Challenges of Editing and Translating Ps. Aristotle’s Epistle on the Craft
Date: 15 October 2025, 12:15 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Salam Rassi
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Trump 2.0 and America’s Role in the World
Date: 15 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Peter Feaver (Duke University)
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)
Host:
Rothermere American Institute
Book talk - 'How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, And The Fate Of Nations'
Date: 15 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Carl Frey (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre (and Online)
Organiser:
Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Rediscovering Mughal archives: documents from temples in northern India
Date: 15 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 16 October 2025
From Temple to Holocaust and Back: The Linear History of Zionism and Its Problematization on Mount Zion
Date: 16 October 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker
:
David Borabeck (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Prosperity, Petitions, and Parliament: Peace, Union and Economic Debate in Early Jacobean England
Date: 16 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College),
Dr Ellen Paterson (Keble College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 17 October 2025
Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence
Date: 17 October 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Andrew O'Shaughnessy (University of Virginia)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room. Our lift is currently out of order and is accessed by a flight of stairs
Organiser:
Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host:
Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Oxford Centre for Global History 4th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture - Femina Oeconomica: Global Gender Orders and the Rise of Neoliberal Woman
Date: 17 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Maria Misra (Oxford)
Venue: H B Allen Centre,
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 20 October 2025
Welcome seminar and discussion of approaches to ‘play’ within histories of childhood and youth
Date: 20 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker
:
N/A
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Re-excavating an 11th-century Yaozhou ware sherd in the Ashmolean Museum: A journey from China to al-Fustat to North Oxfordshire
Date: 20 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Eleanor Sandley
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
The Science of Why Human Excrement Matters. Pierre Leroux and the circulus
Date: 20 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Michael Drolet (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Edward, Second Duke of York’s Master of Game: A New Edition for EETS
Date: 21 October 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
:
David Scott-Macnab (North-West U)
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
Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
Date: 21 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
Towards a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
Date: 21 October 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Peter Burke (Cambridge),
Chair: Filippo de Vivo
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Spatial Solidarity: Anarchy, Geography, and the Search for a Science of Global Sociability
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Pascale Siegrist (German Historical Institute)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room, All Souls College
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality?
Date: 21 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
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
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2025
Date: 22 October 2025, 9:00 - 12:30
Speaker
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organiser:
Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
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)
Host:
Rothermere American Institute
Reviving Arab governance through structural policy reform
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Mr Raed Charafeddine (Former First Vice Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tudor Liveliness? Discovering Vividness in Post-Reformation England
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Christina Faraday
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Military entrepreneurs, foreign soldiers, and Sweden’s wars of emergence 1560–1630
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Jaakko Björklund (Helsinki)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Scholars' Library: Jaz Brisack on 'Get on the Job and Organize'
Date: 22 October 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Jaz Brisack (Rhodes Trust)
Organiser:
Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)
Host:
Rhodes Trust (University of Oxford)
Thursday 23 October 2025
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
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
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
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
Saturday 25 October 2025
Opening of Surface Tension exhibition
Date: 25 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Kendrick Barn
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 27 October 2025
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: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
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
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
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
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
Title TBC
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
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 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
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
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
Title TBC
Date: 30 October 2025, 14:15 - 15:15
Speaker
:
TBA
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organisers:
TBA
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
“The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Surface Tension public talk
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Isabel Gregory,
In conversation with Justine Varga
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
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
Photo Oxford Festival symposium
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 31 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Organisers:
TBA
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
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
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: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
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
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 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 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
Wednesday 5 November 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sailing upon Storied Seas: The Maritime Environment in Seafarers’ Writings, 1650-1750
Date: 6 November 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
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
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: Room 0.018, 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
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
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
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: 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)
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 Brazilian Elections
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)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser:
Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
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
Wednesday 12 November 2025
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
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
Thursday 13 November 2025
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
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
Friday 14 November 2025
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 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
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
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: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam (Book Launch)
Date: 17 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
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
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
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
Title TBC
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
Wednesday 19 November 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
Various Speakers
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
Tuesday 25 November 2025
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Friday 28 November 2025
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
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: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
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
Wednesday 3 December 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 25 February 2025
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
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
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
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
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
Appeals to Nature Seminar
Arabic Epigraphy and Palaeography Reading Group
ArgO-EMR Seminar
Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group
Art History Radio Hour - Michaelmas Term 2021
Ashmolean Museum Gallery Talks - Talking Sense
Ashmolean Seminars and Events
Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
Astor Lectureship in Science and Capitalism events
Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities
Blavatnik School of Government Events
Bletchley Park Week
Bodleian Events
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Bodleian iSkills workshops: State Papers Online, Referencing, Open Scholarship, Literature searches
Bodleian Student Editions
Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
Brasenose College Ashmole Society
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
Byzantine Art and Archaeology - a French perspective
Campion Hall Events
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
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 Britain Seminar
Early Modern Central European Seminars (EMCESS)
Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
Early Modern European Seminar
Early Modern French Research Seminar
Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
Early Modern Intellectual History
Early Modern Italian World Seminar
Early Modern Politics and Religion Workshop
Early Modern Sensory Experiences: Conference 2023 (hybrid)
Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar
Early Modern World Seminar
Early Slavonic Webinar
Early Text Cultures Seminar
East Asia Seminar Series
Eastern Christianity: Historical, Literary & Cultural Heritage
Eastman Professor's Seminar: New crossings and combinations
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
Economic and Social History Quantitative Method Surgeries
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
Economic 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
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
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
NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
OCHJS: David Patterson Lectures
Oliver Smithies Lectures
'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events
OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
Open Scholarship
Oral History Seminar
Oxford and Empire
Oxford and Empire Tours Project
Oxford Architectural History Seminar
Oxford Art History Research Seminars
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research - events
Oxford Centre for European History
Oxford Centre for Global History
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity: After Rome
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity - Boethius
Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity Special Lecture Series
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Oxford Chabad Society
Oxford Climate Research Network seminars
Oxford Climate Society Online Events
Oxford Community History Hub
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Oxford Early American Republic Seminar
Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
Oxford History of Emotions Seminar
Oxford History of Science turns 50
Oxford Holocaust Memorial Events Series: One Day When We Tell Their Stories
Oxford Holocaust Memorial Lecture Series - Online
Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group
Oxford 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
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: 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
