Wednesday 18 February 2026

• 17:00 - Dependent Labour in the Late Antique Near East
  Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Transnational Japan in War and Fashion (Hybrid)
  Fanny Cornu (Edinburgh), Lian Huiqi (Korea)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:30 - Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
  Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 February 2026

• 17:00 - Not all Anthropocenes are the same: Politics , utopias, dystopias and futures in Amazonia
  Susanna Hecht (UCLA)
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Politics in the Peripheries: The Spatial and Relational Dimensions of China’s ‘Democratic Parties and Groups'
  Dr Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 20 February 2026

• 09:30 - The Valley Children: How collaborative creative practice can help us make sense of predictive genomics
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 14:00 - Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
  David Lambert (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 February 2026

• 12:00 - Emotions in the Politics of Water: China–India Tensions over Tibetan Rivers
  Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis (Jagiellonian University)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
  Josh Hollands (UCL)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Competition or Integration? Urban and Princely Diplomacy at times of Civil War in the Burgundian Low Countries (1380s vs. 1480s)
  Michael Depreter (UC Louvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800

Wednesday 25 February 2026

• 14:00 - Transnational Trade & Labour History
  Camille Neufville (University of Strasbourg), Amrit Deol (California State University, Fresno)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Old Customs and the Contest for Jurisdiction over Jews and Muslims in Late Medieval Iberia
  Rodrigo Garcia-Velasco (UCL)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
  Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Mapping Unholy Places in Late Antiquity
  Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Reading Power in Chosŏn Korea's Laws and Gardens (online)
  Wing Shan Chan (Esme) (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Zexing Zheng (Seoul National University)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Male Bodies for the Fatherland: Invalidity and Self-Mutilation in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
  Joint session with the History of War seminar. Please note the change in regular time and place. This seminar will take place at All Souls College at 17:15 on Wednesday 25 February.
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp), Chair: Peter Wilson
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:15 - Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
  Please note this session is in the Old Library, All Souls College
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 26 February 2026

• 17:00 - Chile’s Neoliberal Nationalization: How a Dictator Spooked Copper Investors, 1974-1989
  Margarita Fajardo (LAC/OSGA, Oxford, and Lawrence College, USA)
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
• 19:15 - An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Friday 27 February 2026

• 14:00 - Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
  Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Music and the Medical Humanities
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Tuesday 3 March 2026

• 16:00 - Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
  Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 March 2026

• 17:00 - Transnational ties of faith: Imdadullah’s letters and writings from the Hijaz during the late-19th century
  Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Ubiquitous and Universal? Rebellion and State Formation between Byzantium and Early Islam
  Alasdair Grant (Hamburg)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Putting nature on a path to recovery: how are we doing?
  Dr David Cooper (Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Thursday 5 March 2026

• 13:00 - 'Market humanism: towards a new paradigm for the economy and economics'
  Prof Eric Beinhocker (INET Oxford Executive Director), Nick Hanauer (Founder, Civic Ventures)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Ma mère as Journal intime and Sheng Cheng’s Journey of Self-Realization in France
  Dr Vivienne Xiangwei Guo (King's College London)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Black Monserrat: Race, Migration, and Real Estate in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires
  Michael Goebel (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Book talk - 'The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)'
  Maximilian Kasy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Friday 6 March 2026

• 14:00 - Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
  Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 March 2026

• 14:00 - Investigations of Women’s Suicides in the County of Henneberg: 1590-1612
  This presentation examines historical sources that address suicide in the early modern period. Although the analysis is academic and contextualised, the subject matter may be upsetting or triggering for some listeners. Audience members are encouraged to prioritise their well-being and step away if needed.
  Louisa Bergold, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 16:00 - "A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
  Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Personal correspondence and early modern diplomacy
  Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute, Paris), Vladimir Somov (Independent Researcher)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800

Wednesday 11 March 2026

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Presentations
  Please note these presentations will take place in the Schwarzman Centre, from 10:00-14:30
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Imperial and Postcolonial Regimes of Expertise: Medicine, Development, and Environmental Limits
  Sudarshana Banerjee (University of St Andrews), Rishabh Bajoria (National University of Singapore)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Title TBC
  Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile (Sorbonne)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
  Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Unbecoming Roman: Performative Ethnicity and Panspermía in the Byzantine World c.1190-1235
  Nathan Websdale (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Late Qing China and the Negotiation of Global Knowledge and Order (Hybrid)
  Leo Shen (Cambridge), Yuxuan Zhou (Geneva)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Thursday 12 March 2026

• 12:00 - Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
  Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Transnational Propaganda and Ethnic Polarization: Experimental Evidence from Malaysia
  Dr Jeremy Siow (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 13 March 2026

• 14:00 - Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
  Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 5 May 2026

• 14:00 - Toward a History of Misunderstandings: The Missionaries’ Dilemma
  This talk has been rescheduled from Michaelmas Term. Please note the change of venue
  Peter Burke (Cambridge), Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Early Modern World Seminar