Monday 12 October 2015

• 14:15 - 'Decolonising medicine: The Indonesian medical profession, 1900-1950'
  Hans Pol (University of Sydney)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 16 October 2015

• 12:30 - Labour and the everyday: historical reflections on an academic's time in politics
  Marc Stears (Univ, Oxford))
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 19 October 2015

• 14:15 - Using modern WHO and FAO health standards to understand the health of women and children from the past: Leipzig, 1917-1921
  Mary Cox (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 23 October 2015

• 12:30 - Liberal Toleration?: Locke and Rawls on concord.
  Teresa Bejan (Oriel, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 26 October 2015

• 14:15 - The place of the imagination in accounts of scientific creativity, 1620-1820
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 30 October 2015

• 12:30 - Community and religion: Catholic visions of democratic world order in the 1940s
  Or Rosenboim (Queens', Cambridge)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 2 November 2015

• 14:15 - Mentality or circumstance? The dilemmas of science-based industry in France, 1870-1920
  Robert Fox (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 6 November 2015

• 12:30 - Roman and neo-roman slavery in Milton's Samson Agonistes
  Martin Dzelzainis (Leicester)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 9 November 2015

• 14:15 - Pyrrhic progress: Antibiotics and Western food production, 1949-2015
  Claas Kirchhelle (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 13 November 2015

• 12:30 - The Proletariat in later C19th Political Thought: from Lorenz von Stein to Karl Kautsky
  Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 16 November 2015

• 14:15 - Healthy, respectable boys: Physical fitness in the Royal Navy, 1850-1905
  Elise Smith (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 20 November 2015

• 12:30 - 1815 in Scottish Political Thought
  Anna Plassart (Open University)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 23 November 2015

• 14:15 - Negotiating expertise at sea: The Board of Longitude in the age of reform
  Sophie Waring (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 27 November 2015

• 12:30 - Elie Halévy and the First World War
  Duncan Kelly (Jesus, Cambridge)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 30 November 2015

• 14:15 - Malthus and smallpox
  Alison Bashford (Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 18 January 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Reading the plague in seventeenth-century London’
  Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 22 January 2016

• 12:30 - ‘How (Not) to Draw Contemporary Insights from the History of Political Thought’
  Adrian Blau (King’s College, London)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 25 January 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Can we do a history of medicine for ancient Mesopotamia? A critical overview of cuneiform sources from the 1st millennium BCE’
  Moudhy Al-Rashid (Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 29 January 2016

• 12:30 - ‘A Democratic Nation? Scottish Nationalism and Scottish Philosophy, c. 1961-2014’
  Ben Jackson (University College, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 1 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Knowing animal health in the environment: UK government research on bovine TB, 1970-1995’
  Angela Cassidy (King’s College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 5 February 2016

• 12:30 - ‘International Law, Justice and Charity: from the Reformation to Hugo Grotius’
  Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 8 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Weights and measures: Some early-modern English tracts on ancient and modern mensuration'
  Will Poole (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 12 February 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Ideological Struggle During the Formative Years of the Turkish Republic (1922-25)’
  Banu Turnaoğlu (Cambridge)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 15 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Mind, body and soul in medieval discussions of nocturnal emissions’
  William MacLehose (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 19 February 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as Political Thinker’
  Joanne Paul (New College of the Humanities, London)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 22 February 2016

• 14:15 - 'Old age, sickness and poor relief in 17th century England’
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Jonathan Healey (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 26 February 2016

• 12:30 - Discussion of the 2016 Carlyle Lectures
  John Robertson (Clare College, Cambridge)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 29 February 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Lenin's Gulag hospitals: Caring for political prisoners in early Soviet concentration camps, 1921-1929’
  Dan Healey (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 4 March 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Rethinking the Origins of Marxism in Modern France’
  Julia Nicholls (Queen Mary’s, London)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 7 March 2016

• 14:15 - ‘Circulating knowledge and colonial modernity: the symbolic function of laboratory research in the British empire after 1945’
  Sabine Clarke (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 June 2016

• 14:15 - ‘The machine in the garden: The compressed-air bath and therapeutic landscapes in the 19th century’
  Jennifer Wallis (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 10 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Immunocapital: yellow fever, citizenship, and power in New Orleans, 1803 to 1860’
  Kathryn Olivarius (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 14 October 2016

• 12:30 - ‘The Civic Republican Response to Thatcherism’
  Stuart White (Jesus College, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 17 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Sex, health and state-supported treatment for venereal diseases in England, 1918–39’
  Anne Hanley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 21 October 2016

• 12:30 - ‘The Idiosyncratic Socialism of Karl Polanyi’
  Gareth Dale (Brunel University)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 24 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘“Upon my word, I do not see the use of having medical evidence here”: medical expertise, professional authority and homicide in nineteenth-century Edinburgh’
  Kelly-Ann Couzens (University of Western Australia)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 12:00 - ‘Plato’s Legacy and the Problem of Myth in Political Thought’
  Tae-Yeoun Keum (Christ Church, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 31 October 2016

• 16:00 - ‘The myth of the spotted sun and the blemished moon: a biosocial ethnohistory of syphilis and related diseases’
  Cesar Giraldo Herrera (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 4 November 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Liberalism, Empire and Islam: The View From Colonised Egypt, 1882- 1919’
  Hussein Omar (Merton College, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 7 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Traditional medicine and primary health care in Sri Lanka: policy, perceptions, and practice’ Week 6 14 November Kathleen Vongsathorn, University
  Margaret Jones (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• 12:00 - ‘Bringing the News From Nowhere: What is Utopia For?’
  David Leopol (Mansfield College, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 14 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘“A midwife should be welcoming”: personality, midwives, and shifting perceptions of healthcare in Uganda, 1918-1979’
  Kathleen Vongsathorn (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 18 November 2016

• 12:30 - ‘Property, Inheritance and the Problem of Irish Land, 1798-1839’
  James Stafford (St Hugh’s College, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 21 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘Antibiotics as infrastructure: rehearsing a counterfactual of convalescence’
  Clare Chandler (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 25 November 2016

• 12:30 - ‘The Dangers of Contempt, From Descartes to Hobbes’
  Ross Carroll (Exeter University)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 28 November 2016

• 16:00 - ‘William James and “the laws of health” in nineteenth-century America’
  Emma Sutton (Queen Mary University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 29 November 2016

• 12:00 - ‘The Person of the State: A Genealogy’
  Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 16 January 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Prophets of progress? Predicting the future of science and technology from H G Wells to Isaac Asimov’
  Peter Bowler (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - What was the comparative history of religion in seventeenth-century Europe? And why did Pierre Bayle believe in virtuous atheists?
  Dmitri Levitin (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 20 January 2017

• 12:30 - J. S. Mill on Liberty, Dialectics and the Logic behind Political Discourse
  Kazutaka Inamura (Hirosaki University)
  History of Political Thought Seminar
• 14:15 - Cultural History: The Italian Trade with the Frankfurt Book Fair around 1600
  Prof. Ian Maclean (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 23 January 2017

• 16:00 - ‘UK premature baby care 1947-1965, the Dr Isaac “Harry” Gosset collection at Northampton General Hospital – a case study’
  Andrew Williams/Fred O’Dell (Northampton General Hospital)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Chair of Ethics in the University of Naples, 1703–69
  Felix Waldmann (Christ’s College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 14:00 - 1. Family Literature and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France / 2. How Early Modern Private Prayer Develops Dramatic Techniques in Empathy, Across Rank and Occupation
  Neil Kenny (University of Oxford), Ceri Sullivan (Cardiff University)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 27 January 2017

• 12:30 - Moses Mendelssohn's Enlightenment and the Politics of Jewish Emancipation
  Charlotte Johann (King’s College, Cambridge)
  History of Political Thought Seminar
• 14:15 - History of Art: Parisian Early Printed Book Illustration (around 1500)
  Dr Louis-Gabriel Bonicoli (University of Paris)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 30 January 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Fears, phobias and obsessions in the late-nineteenth century’
  Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Biblical typology and Protestant scholarship, from Joseph Scaliger (d. 1609) to Jean Le Clerc (d. 1736)
  Nicholas Hardy (University Library, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 3 February 2017

• 12:30 - The Republican Ideal of Fraternity in the Political Thought of Toussaint Louverture
  Sudhir Hazareesingh (University of Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar
• 14:15 - Classics: Incunabular Stemmatics
  Prof. Stephen Oakley (University of Cambridge)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 6 February 2017

• 14:00 - 1. Literature Patronage and Hierarchy / 2. Learning and Theatre in the Italian Academies
  Richard McCabe (University of Oxford), Lisa Sampson (UCL)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 16:00 - ‘Stuck in the middle with you: scientist, state, and network in Chinese engagement with the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1957-1985’
  Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The publication of Newton’s Opera omnia in Geneva and Lausanne (1739–1761): a chapter in the reception of Newtonianism
  Niccoló Guicciardini (Bergamo University)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 10 February 2017

• 12:30 - A Case of Overlooked Communicative Interaction: Arendt’s Influence on Habermas’s Philosophical Project
  Peter Verovšek (Harvard & Sheffield Universities)
  History of Political Thought Seminar
• 14:15 - Economics: The Price of Books in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective
  Dr Jeremiah Dittmar (London School of Economics)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 13 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Precession or trepidation? The motion of the sphere of fixed stars as a problem in medieval Latin astronomy’
  Philipp Nothaft (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Two concepts of purity: limpieza de sangre and hebraica veritas in Renaissance Spain
  Theodor Dunkelgrün (CRASSH, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 17 February 2017

• 12:30 - The Theological Foundations of the Spiritual Resistance to Nazism in France’
  Sarah Shortall (University Collge, Oxford)
  History of Political Thought Seminar

Monday 20 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media’
  James Sumner (University of Manchester)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The image of man in the Comte de Buffon
  Catherine Wilson (York and All Souls College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 14:00 - 1. The [In]dignity of words: Learning to be politique in Sixteenth-Century France / 2. Wheatcroft's Written World: Elite and Non-Elite in Seventeenth-Century English Writting
  Emma Claussen (University of Oxford), Sue Wiseman (University of London)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 24 February 2017

• 12:30 - John Adams and the Constitution de l'an III’
  Adam Lebovitz (Harvard University)
  History of Political Thought Seminar
• 14:15 - Manuscript Studies: Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth century. Demetrius Damilas between Milan and Florence
  Dr David Speranzi (Firenze, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 27 February 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Biology as technology: an unexpected history of innovation in living things’
  Helen Anne Curry (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The good, the bad, and the ugly: the problem of evil in early modern philosophy
  Mara van der Lugt (Göttingen University)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 3 March 2017

• 12:30 - Roundtable: The French Reception of Owenism Socialism
  Various Speakers
  History of Political Thought Seminar
• 14:15 - Theology: The Gutenberg Bible in the Context of Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Bibles
  Dr Paul Needham (Scheide Library, Princeton University Library)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 6 March 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Peer support, mental health activism, and changing doctor-patient relationships in Uganda’
  Yolana Pringle (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - What does Renaissance humanism have to do with Renaissance philosophy?
  Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute, London)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 14:00 - 1. Book Collecting, Social Connections and a Sense of the Past: The Tabourot Family / 2. God, Money and Posterity: The Uses of Writting Among Tradesmen in Early Modern England
  John O'Brien (Durham University), Brodie Waddell (University of London)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 10 March 2017

• 12:30 - Discussion of the 2017 Carlyle Lectures
  Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkley)
  History of Political Thought Seminar
• 14:15 - Law: Printing the Corpus iuris civilis in the Sixteenth Century
  Prof. Rodolfo Savelli (Università di Genova)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 24 April 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Django’s phrenologist: science, slavery and material culture, 1791– 1861’
  James Poskett (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 8 May 2017

• 16:00 - ‘A Corner in Wheat: large technological systems and the history of genetics, 1900-1930’
  Berris Charnley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 May 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Health, military service, and economic mobility of US Civil War soldiers’
  Chulhee Lee (Seoul National University/University of Oxford )
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 22 May 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Medical reform in Jamaica, 1826-43: imperial and colonial contexts’
  Aaron Graham (University College, London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 5 June 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Challenges to teaching the history of global health’
  Margaret Humphreys (Duke University, USA )
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 12 June 2017

• 16:00 - ‘Leviathan and the air rifle: the sclopetus pneumaticus in early modern
  Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 9 October 2017

• 16:00 - Presenting futures past: why historians of science should be reading (and talking about) science fiction
  Amanda Rees (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Presenting futures past: why historians of science should be reading (and talking about) science fiction
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 October 2017

• 16:00 - The okapi, the wolf, the fellow, and the baboons: thalidomide in South Africa, 1956-1976
  Julie Parle (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 23 October 2017

• 16:00 - Sciences and cults of the mind: hypnosis, psychiatry and modernity in Austro-Hungary
  Emese Lafferton (Central European University, Budapest)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 October 2017

• 16:00 - Alchemy and scribal publication: the legacy of a Leiden Rosicrucian
  Mike A Zuber (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 6 November 2017

• 16:00 - Science, reputation and controversy: Joseph Priestley through the crises of the Ancien Regime
  John Christie (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 November 2017

• 16:00 - (Re)configuring disease: computer as agent of disease definition
  Andrew Lea (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 November 2017

• 16:00 - Medicos, bandage wallahs and knights of the Red Cross: masculinity and military medicine in Britain in the era of the First World War
  Jessica Meyer (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 27 November 2017

• 16:00 - CANCELLED: James Dinwiddie, empire and the transit of science, 1760-1815
  Please note that, unfortunately, this lecture has been cancelled.
  Larry Stewart (University of Saskatchewan)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 15 January 2018

• 16:00 - James Bradley and Oxford science in the 18th century
  John Fisher (Independent Scholar)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon: a data-driven approach
  Chloe Edmondson (Stanford University)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - ‘Mechanics in the margins: an anonymous annotator, eclectic reading, and Galileo's Two New Sciences’
  RENÉE RAPHAEL (University of California, Irvine)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 22 January 2018

• 16:00 - Typologies of fatness: constitutional medicine in early- to mid-twentieth-century Europe
  Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Life and (love) letters: looking in on Winckelmann’s correspondence
  Katherine Harloe (Reading), Lucy Russell (Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - ‘Francis Bacon in Poland: for and against the “Great Instauration” in Second Reformation Europe'
  RICHARD SERJEANTSON (Trinity College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 14:15 - NUMISMATICS: Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy
  Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 14:00 - Puppets, Bibelots, and Ballad-sheets: Literature as Artefact in Early Modern Europe AND Reading, Writing, and Social Practice in Early Modern England
  Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), Phil Whitington (University of Sheffield)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 26 January 2018

• 14:15 - ARABIC: Scrolls into codices: Jilyani’s picture-poems for Saladin
  Prof. Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 29 January 2018

• 16:00 - A research enclave in 1940s Nigeria: the Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Research Institute at Yaba, Lagos, 1943-1949
  Megan Vaughan (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Philosophical kingship in eighteenth-century Europe: Frederick II, Catherine II, and the philosophes
  Shiru Lim (University College London)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - ‘Richard Simon and the remaking of biblical criticism, c. 1665–1685’
  TIMOTHY TWINING (Caius College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 2 February 2018

• 14:15 - EARLY MODERN PUBLISHING POLICIES: Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, 1664-75
  Prof. Ian Maclean (All Souls College)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 5 February 2018

• 14:00 - The Building of Knowledge and the Building of Society: Montaigne’s bastiment AND Assessing the Learning of the Early Modern English Middling Sort: Material and Textual Sources
  Jenny Oliver (St John’s College, Oxford), Catherine Richardson (University of Kent)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 16:00 - Inventive practices in 18th-century Europe: the public theater of technology and the mastery of the elements of nature
  Marie Thebaud-Sorger (CNRS)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - What are Jews for? Moses Mendelssohn and the problem of Jewish purpose
  Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - 'Novatores: negotiating novelty in early modern philosophy’
  DANIEL GARBER (Princeton)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 9 February 2018

• 14:15 - TRADE: Merchants’ books of Venice and Florence
  Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 12 February 2018

• 16:00 - Ibn al-Haytham (965-ca.1040; Latin: Alhazen): a Report
  Robert Hall (Academic Visitor, Faculty of History, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - How much did eighteenth-century Enlightenment owe to seventeenth-century Improvement?
  Paul Slack (Linacre College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - ‘Philosophical teaching in sixteenth-century Bologna’
  DAVID LINES (Warwick)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 19 February 2018

• 16:00 - The making of a Pastorian Empire: tuberculosis and bacteriological technopolitics
  Aro Velmet (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The end of the world in the eighteenth century: natural catastrophes and Enlightenment perspectives on the Last Judgment
  László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - ‘Enlightenment's Apocalypse: prophecy, providence and science in the work of Joseph Priestley’
  JOHN CHRISTIE (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 14:00 - It Takes One to Know One: Erasmian Ingenuity and the (Un)making of Scholarly Communities AND Amazons, Idlers, and the Republic of Letters
  Raphaële Garrod (University of Cambridge), Isabelle Moreau (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 23 February 2018

• 14:15 - POPULAR LITERATURE: From ephemeral to rare: 16th-Century Italian Popular Books in the British and the Bodleian Libraries
  Dr Laura Carnelos (Marie Curie Fellow, CERL and British Library)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 26 February 2018

• 16:00 - Ada Lovelace: an eminent Victorian in her mathematical context
  Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Maria Theresa and the Catholic Enlightenment
  Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (University of Münster)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - ‘The “Hairy War” (1640-1650) and the historicization of the Bible: the role of philology in a public debate on men wearing long hair in the Dutch Republic’
  DIRK VAN MIERT (Utrecht)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 2 March 2018

• 14:15 - HISTORY OF ART: The De Spira Brothers vrs. Nicolaus Jenson, 1469-1472: A Rivalry Traced through Hand-illuminated Copies of their Editions
  Prof. Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley College)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 5 March 2018

• 16:00 - UK premature baby care 1947-1965: the Dr Isaac ‘Harry’ Gosset Collection at Northampton General Hospital - a case study
  Andrew Williams & Fred O’Dell (Northampton General Hospital)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Do we need the concept of Enlightenment? A survey of older and more recent debates
  Elisabeth Décultot (University of Halle-Wittenberg)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - ‘Gassendi’s theory of vision: at the crossroads between Epicureanism and early modern empiricism’
  DELPHINE BELLIS (Sarton Centre, Ghent)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 14:00 - Literature, Learning, and the Family Function (La Croix du Maine, Scévole de Sainte-Marthe) AND The Social Status of Publishers in Europe (1560–1630) and Their Place in the World of Learning
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford), Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 9 March 2018

• 14:15 - DIGITAL TYPOGRAPHY: “Did you mean incurable? Searching and Finding Incunabula in the World Wide Web”
  Dr Falk Eisermann (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 23 April 2018

• 16:00 - How Darwin learned to theorize
  Professor Alistair Sponsel (Vanderbilt University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 17:00 - The late German Enlightenment and its temples
  Paul Kerry (Brigham Young University / Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 30 April 2018

• 16:00 - The Casebooks Project: http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/
  Dr Lauren Kassell (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 17:00 - Lighting the Enlightenment: public illumination and the Siècle des Lumières
  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 17:00 - Patterns of materialist thought: fragments and formulations from Diderot to Destutt de Tracy
  Caroline Warman (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 14 May 2018

• 16:00 - Looking through the Telectroscope: the material culture of the Victorian future
  Professor Iwan Morus (Aberystwyth University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 17:00 - Roundtable discussion of Anthony La Vopa’s book: The labor of the mind: intellect and gender in Enlightenment cultures (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
  Various Speakers
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 21 May 2018

• 16:00 - Things come together: science in the American West
  Elliott West (University of Arkansas, and The Queen’s College)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 4 June 2018

• 16:00 - Scientific networks and humanitarian ends: Dr Thomas Hodgkin and the protection of aborigines in mid-nineteenth century London
  Dr Zoe Laidlaw (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 11 June 2018

• 16:00 - Euclid in the world of early modern London's practical mathematicians
  Dr Philip Beeley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 8 October 2018

• 16:00 - “The few cubic centimetres inside your skull”: electro-convulsive therapy in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
  Dr Lisa Mullen (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 10 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘John Locke and America’
  MARK GOLDIE (Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 15 October 2018

• 16:00 - “Strange things may be accomplished:” Gurus between Science and Miracles
  Professor Ruth Harris
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Persecutors, judges, and defendants: defining libertinage in early seventeenth-century France’
  ADAM HORSLEY (Exeter)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 22 October 2018

• 16:00 - Archival ethics from below: the case of an African Cancer Hospital
  Dr Marissa Mika (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Secret and privy counsel in early modern England’
  JACQUELINE ROSE (St Andrews)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 29 October 2018

• 16:00 - Smallpox eradication in China and emerging narratives of global health, 1949-79
  Dr Mary Brazelton (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Leibniz’s Theodicy as religious therapy’
  PAUL LODGE (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 5 November 2018

• 16:00 - Catholicism, reproduction, and eugenics in interwar Hungary
  Dr Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Contemplation, reflection, and love of God: new perspectives on Jean Bodin’s ethics and theology'
  SARA MIGLIETTI (Warburg Institute)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 12 November 2018

• 16:00 - The intemperate brain: debates over habit and heredity in the 19th century
  Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:00 - 'Montpellier vitalism and vital materialism’
  CHARLES WOLFE (Ghent)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 19 November 2018

• 16:00 - Venereal disease in the British Empire
  Professor Katherine Paugh (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The archive of Constantijn L’Empereur (1591–1648): a microcosm of Christian Jewish scholarship in seventeenth-century Northern Europe'
  JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 26 November 2018

• 16:00 - The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and mathematical practice in early modern London
  Dr Rebekah Higgitt (University of Kent)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Early modern ideas of religion as “imposture”: the case of Islam’
  NOEL MALCOLM (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 14 January 2019

• 16:00 - Radical artisans, divine design, and evolution in Britain, 1819-36
  Dr Jonathan Topham (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Keeping characters: Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith between 18th-century British theatre and the novel
  Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Keeping characters: Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith between 18th-century British theatre and the novel
  Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 18 January 2019

• 14:15 - Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne
  Earle Havens (Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts at Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, and Director, The Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 21 January 2019

• 16:00 - The history of poisons: toxic matters, scientific actors and socio-political processes, 19th-20th c.
  Professor Judith Rainhorn (Universite Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne/Maison Française d'Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Images of Enlightenment: How visual representations contributed to the Enlightenment Agenda
  Daniel Fulda (Enlightenment Research Centre, Halle)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 14:00 - ‘Deaths of eminent persons’: Obituaries and Social Hierarchies in Early Eighteenth-Century England AND A Conversable Knowledge: Language-Learning in Early Modern Educational Travel
  REBECCA BULLARD (University of Reading), JOHN GALLAGHER (University of Leeds)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Monday 28 January 2019

• 16:00 - Murder in Palestine? Revisiting the causes of the Acre/Akka typhoid outbreak of 1948
  Dr Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Terrorists, anarchists and republicans: The Genevans in Ireland
  Richard Whatmore (St. Andrews)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 1 February 2019

• 14:15 - Scottish and British Authors Published Abroad 1470-1700
  Jane Stevenson (Senior Research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 4 February 2019

• 14:00 - Ore, Lore, Status: The Curious Case of the Baron and Baronne de Beausoleil AND French à la mode in Restoration England
  NEIL KENNY (All Souls College, Oxford), RICHARD SCHOLAR (Oriel College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 16:00 - “Whipping Boy” to “Envy of the World”: Promoting the NHS at Home and Abroad, 1948-1998
  Professor Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The flight from humanism? Botanists, book learning and the Enlightenment of ginseng
  Emma Spary (Cambridge)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 8 February 2019

• 14:15 - 15cBOOKTRADE tools for the History of Art
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 11 February 2019

• 16:00 - German science, French translations, and the global market of books (1810-1850)
  Professor Pietro Corsi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The birth of the story-ballet: Dancing literature in the long 18th century
  Julia Bührle (New College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 15 February 2019

• 14:15 - 15cBOOKTRADE tools for Modern Languages, History, and Classics
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 18 February 2019

• 16:00 - Charlatan epistemology (provisionally)
  Dr Koen Vermeir (CNRS Paris/Maison Française d'Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Writing the attentat on Louis XV, 5 January 1757
  Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 14:00 - Urban Literacies: Learning to Write in the London Livery Companies, c.1540–1640 AND The Figure of the Merchant in the Works of Miguel de Cervantes
  JENNIFER BISHOP (Peterhouse College, Cambridge), BRIAN BREWER (Trinity College Dublin)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Monday 25 February 2019

• 16:00 - Thrifty science: making the most of materials in the history of experiment
  Dr Simon Werrett (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Editing Charles Burney’s letters from Paris to Montreal, 1814-2019
  Peter Sabor (McGill)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 1 March 2019

• 14:15 - 15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 4 March 2019

• 16:00 - Transnational History of Clockwork Automata: Karakuri Ningyō and the Art of Artificial Life
  Dr Mateja Kovacic (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Locusts of love: Imagi(ni)ng insect reproduction in the 18th century
  Dominik Hünniger (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 14:00 - Christopher Beeston: His Plays and Place in the Social Hierarchy of Early Stuart London AND Une petite Venise: The Seventeenth-Century Beaver
  EVA GRIFFITH (Independent Scholar), KATHERINE IBBETT (Trinity College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 8 March 2019

• 14:15 - A very special book launch: Manuale Tipografico IV. A triumph of hand-printing aesthetics, paper and watermarks
  Enrico Tallone (Tallone Editore, Turin), Carlo Ossola (Collège de France, Prof. of Modern Literatures of Neo-Latin Europe), Stefano Salis (Il Sole 24 Ore)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 29 April 2019

• 16:00 - Signals from other worlds: the technological imagination in British wireless cultures, circa 1900-1940
  There will be no seminar next week, 6 May (Bank Holiday)
  Dr Richard Noakes (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism
  PLEASE NOTE: The session will be held at Magdalen College, preceded by an afternoon colloquium (1:30-4:30) on human rights and the Enlightenment, featuring Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht), Mark Philp (Warwick), Céline Spector (Paris) and Dan Edelstein.
  Dan Edelstein (Stanford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 6 May 2019

• 17:00 - Where is Rousseau? Tracking Enlightenment discourse in the French Revolutionary period
  Clovis Gladstone (ARTFL Project, University of Chicago)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 13 May 2019

• 16:00 - Women’s Labour and British Naval Hospitals and Hospital Ships 1775-1815
  Dr Erin Spinney (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Enlightenment and the northwest Pacific coast: Alexander Walker and José Mariano Moziño at Nootka Sound, 1785-1792
  Maxine Berg (Warwick)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 20 May 2019

• 16:00 - “Dead souls”: mortality, disability and early release on medical grounds from GULAG, 1930-1955
  There will be no seminar next week, 27 May (Bank Holiday)
  Mikhail Nakonechnyi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Enlightenment and migration politics
  Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile (Potsdam)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 3 June 2019

• 16:00 - Matters of choice? Writing a history of infertility, Germany c. 1900
  Christina Benninghaus (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 10 June 2019

• 16:00 - How much do ideas matter? The role of biological myths in the creation of social and ethnic hierarchies
  Dr John Waller (Michigan State University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 17 June 2019

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Thomist astrology: Robert Bellarmine and the debate over the Papal bull Coeli et terrae
  Dr Neil Tarrant (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 14 October 2019

• 16:00 - Seeing trauma: from invisible reality to emotional imagery
  Dr Harry Wu (University of Hong Kong)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 17:00 - Revolt and Fairies: The Case of Andrew Man and the Catholic Rebellion in the Highlands
  Diane Purkiss (Keble College)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 17:00 - ‘“Schools of Learning everywhere”: popular piety and the democratisation of Biblical scholarship in London and Massachusetts, c.1610-1660’
  KIRSTEN MACFARLANE (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 21 October 2019

• 16:00 - Normality: measuring practices and devices
  Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle & Dr Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 17:00 - Battle Flags as a Source for the Civil War Historian
  Clive Holmes (Lady Margaret Hall)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 17:00 - ‘What is wisdom? Leibniz’s view in the context of traditional debates’
  MARIA-ROSA ANTOGNAZZA (King’s College London)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 28 October 2019

• 16:00 - Instruments of early modern Iberian empires: towards a critical history of globalisation
  Dr Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (British Academy/University College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 17:00 - “So Much Environed with Ill Neighbouring Counties”: Isolation and Political Connection in Civil War Pembrokeshire, 1640-49
  Lloyd Bowen (Cardiff University)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Martin Seidel’s Origin and foundations of Christianity: text, contexts and fortunes of a late sixteenth-century “clandestine manuscript”’
  PABLO TORIBIO (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 4 November 2019

• 16:00 - Dissecting "Diegelman" (1945): Film, Medicine and the Cinematic Oeuvre of Kurt Goldstein
  With regret this talk has been cancelled.
  Dr Caitjan Gainty (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 17:00 - Innovation and Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England
  Rachel Foxley (University of Reading)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Critical patriotic Catholicism? The difficult place of German Benedictine scholarship in early modern intellectual history’
  THOMAS WALLNIG (Vienna)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 11 November 2019

• 16:00 - What was Einstein’s real achievement in his 1905 theory of special relativity?
  Professor Harvey Brown (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 17:00 - Engaging with the Parliamentarian State: The People and the Archives
  Ann Hughes (Keele University)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Orthodox history or historical orthodoxy? The study of early Christian heresies in late seventeenth-century scholarship'
  MARCELLO CATTANEO (Magdalen, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 18 November 2019

• 16:00 - Humanising the past: the case of the skeletons from Stonehenge
  Dr Simon Mays (Historic England)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 17:00 - Manuscript Circulation and Political Mobilisation in Covenanted Scotland
  Laura Stewart (University of York)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Divisibility and impenetrability of the spirit from Telesio to Conway’
  DOINA-CRISTINA RUSU (Groningen)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 25 November 2019

• 16:00 - Thatcherism and the Information Age: How the British Telecom Infrastructure Changed Politics
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 17:00 - Remembering Regicide before the Restoration: The Case of Bulstrode Whitelocke
  Jonathan Fitzgibbons (University of Lincoln)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Rome and the world in the correspondence of Marcello II Cervini (1501-1555)’
  SAM KENNERLEY (Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 2 December 2019

• 16:00 - Putting medicine and literature in dialogue: the case of the French doctor Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837)
  Dr Bénédicte Prot (Oxford and Swiss National Science Foundation)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 17:00 - "Calvinist conformists" and English religious politics, 1640-62
  Our speaker for the 8th week ‘Britain in Revolution seminar', Anthony Milton, has had to cancel his talk (3rd December '"Calvinist Confirmists" and English religious politics, 1640-62') due to unforseen issues.
  Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Newton on the Rules of Philosophising and hypotheses: new evidence, new conclusions’
  DMITRI LEVITIN (All Souls, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 20 January 2020

• 16:00 - Self-help and psychology
  Dr Michael Finn (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Religion and Enlightenment
  Maria Florutau, Henrique Laitenberger, Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 27 January 2020

• 16:00 - Proving violence: forensics and war crimes during the First World War
  Dr Taline Garibian (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Forms of federalism: Edward Gibbon’s Great Republic of Europe vs. Johannes von Müller’s Bundesrepublik
  Béla Kapossy (EPFL/Université de Lausanne)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 29 January 2020

• 14:00 - History, Memory and the Making of the European Aristocracy
  Hamish Scott (Jesus College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Lost and Found. Some Reflections on 18th-Century Foundling Archives
  Catriona Seth (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 31 January 2020

• 14:15 - Stories of Survival: The Lives and Afterlives of Eastern Christian Manuscripts in the Early Modern World
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 3 February 2020

• 16:00 - Some aspects of patient-doctor relationships in the Middle Ages: Consilia and Regimina sanitatis, a kind of individualised medicine
  Professor Marilyn Nicoud (Avignon)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Countering Islamophobia in the early 18th century
  Ann Thomson (European University Institute, Florence)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 7 February 2020

• 14:15 - ‘Vade, liber’: Textual Mobility and the History of Books
  Dr Stephanie Ann Frampton (MIT)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 10 February 2020

• 14:00 - Rabelais and Social Hierarchy
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - An Epic Poet and his Audience: Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, and the Early Stuart Literary System
  Andrew McRae (University of Exeter)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 16:00 - Medicine, Law, and the Lash: Militarized Medicine and Corporal Punishment in the Australian Colonies 1788-1850
  Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - "Beyond too much": Shakespearean excesses in 18th-century Germany
  Claudia Olk (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich/Exeter College)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 14 February 2020

• 14:15 - The price of books in early modern Europe
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 17 February 2020

• 16:00 - Astronomical instrumentation as a medium for the transmission of knowledge in the Islamic world
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - What does the new history of distributed cognition do for Enlightenment Studies?
  George Rousseau (Oxford/Bergen)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 24 February 2020

• 16:00 - No lone heroes: is there a place for life stories in the history of science?
  Georgina Ferry (Author)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - L’Hospitalité dans les romans d’émigration / Hospitality in novels of emigration
  Michèle Bokobza Kahan (Tel Aviv University)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 28 February 2020

• 14:00 - Learning Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Spanish Ethnic Villancicos
  Please note this talk is in the Old Library not the Hovenden Room
  Diana Berruezo-Sanchez (Balliol College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Quinquina in Favour at the Court of Louis XIV
  Please note this talk is in the Old Library not the Hovenden Room
  Emma Spary (University of Cambridge)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Digging into Data for Provenance Research
  NOTE: begins at earlier time of 14:00 and runs to 16:30 (with a tea break, refreshments provided)
  Dr Toby Burrows (Oxford, Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project)
  Seminar in the History of the Book
• 14:00 - Recycling in action: the many lives of a medieval prayerbook
  NOTE: begins at earlier time of 2.00 and runs to 4.30 (with a tea break, refreshments provided)
  Professor Henrike Laehnemann (Oxford), Carolin Gluchowski (Freiburg)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 2 March 2020

• 16:00 - Historical and anthropological reflections on collapse and seizures among KhoeSan of southern Africa
  Please note this seminar is in the Colin Matthew Room and NOT the Lecture Theatre
  Dr Chris Low (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Violence and the Enlightenment
  Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle, Australia/All Souls College)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 6 March 2020

• 14:15 - The Travels of Sir Thomas Phillipps's Swiss Manuscripts across Europe and North America
  Angeline Rais (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 9 March 2020

• 16:00 - Stars, Time, and Birth: The Temple and Astral Science in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Andreas Winkler (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The orang-utan and the limits of humanity in Enlightenment debates
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 13 March 2020

• 14:15 - John Clement (d. 1572) and his books
  Dr Grantley McDonald (Oxford, Music and Late Medieval European Courtly Cultures Project)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Wednesday 18 March 2020

• 14:00 - Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Problem of Publics between Latin and Vernacular
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  David Lines (University of Warwick)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Erasmus, Citizen of the—or of a—World?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dorine Rouiller (Swiss National Science Foundation/Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Monday 27 April 2020

• 17:00 - The Virgin’s republican turn: personification of the body politic in Britain and Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries
  This event has been cancelled.
  Thomas Maissen (German Historical Institute, Paris)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 4 May 2020

• 17:00 - D’Holbach: the many faces of an invisible author
  This event has been cancelled.
  Ruggero Sciuto (Voltaire Foundation)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 18 May 2020

• 16:00 - Hands-on Theory in a Sailing School: Dieppe, 1675
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Margaret Schotte (York University, Canada)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - John Locke, treaties, and the Two Treatises of Government
  This event has been cancelled.
  David Armitage (Harvard/King’s College London)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 1 June 2020

• 16:00 - The First Egyptian Society (1741-3): The Royal Society, natural philosophy, and antiquarianism
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Professor Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Radical translations and the transfer of Revolutionary culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
  This event has been cancelled.
  Sanja Perovic (King’s College London)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 8 June 2020

• 16:00 - William Playfair's cross-channel transfers in the 1780s (title TBC)
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Jean-François Dunyach (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - In the shadow of the public: Enlightenment and modernity
  This event has been cancelled.
  Antoine Lilti (EHESS, Paris)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 15 June 2020

• 16:00 - History of Chemistry: Who cares?
  Please email hsmt@history.ox.ac.uk to register
  Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Violence and the Enlightenment
  This event has been cancelled.
  Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle, Australia/All Souls College)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 12 October 2020

• 16:00 - “The Moslems want to see everything from close by”: seeing in pre-modern Eurasia
  Yusen Yu (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 19 October 2020

• 16:00 - Writing the rules of reason: inscriptive practice and the rise of mathematical logic
  David Dunning (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 17:00 - What is Mysticism?
  The Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali (Oxford)
  Monks and Mystics: Sufism and Eastern Christianity

Monday 26 October 2020

• 16:00 - The science of money: Isaac Newton’s mastering of the mint
  Alice Marples (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 2 November 2020

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology; case studies on ceramics
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Moujan Matin (Toronto)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 9 November 2020

• 16:00 - Milan Hašek and the discovery of immunological tolerance: an exclusive case of ideologisation in biology behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s
  Tomas Hermann (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 November 2020

• 16:00 - Imperial and empirical: crafting medicine in the 19th century
  Martin Robert (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 17:00 - The Origins and Development of Sufism
  Registration will close the day before the talk.
  The Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali (Oxford)
  Monks and Mystics: Sufism and Eastern Christianity

Monday 23 November 2020

• 16:00 - “Never so at Home:” Charles Elton and the Woods of Wytham
  Georgina Montgomery (Michigan State University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 30 November 2020

• 16:00 - Sonic emblems & magic squares: Atalanta fugiens and Ludic humanism in the 21st century
  Donna Bilak (Independent Scholar), Loren Ludwig (Scholar Performer)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 17:00 - The Sufi Orders in India
  Dr. Saqib Baburi (British Library)
  Monks and Mystics: Sufism and Eastern Christianity

Monday 18 January 2021

• 16:00 - “Think of the position I have been put in since first grade, just because I passed a silly test of describing pictures”: gifted children, intellect, and expertise in modern Britain and America
  Dr Jennifer Crane (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Nation and Its Discontents: The Poetics and Politics of Siraiki Nationalism in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Radical thought and political practice: Rethinking ideas of accountability in the English revolution
  Jason Peacey (UCL)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 17:00 - Lecture One: Empire, Property, and the New York Land Question
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
• 17:30 - The Beginnings of Islam
  Lena Salaymeh (Oxford), Respondent: Khaled Abou El Fadl (UCLA)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 14:00 - (Social) Places, Please! The Commedia dell’Arte and the Problem of "Class"
  Sarah Gwyneth Ross (Boston College)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Non-Elite Women and ‘the Network’: Compatible Categories?
  Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck, Unversity of London)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 22 January 2021

• 14:15 - Follow the Money: Wynkyn de Worde, Jacques Ferrebouc and the Bardi
  Matthew Payne (Keeper of the Muniments, Westminster Abbey)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 25 January 2021

• 16:00 - Compound words, synthetic world: an information history of modern chemistry
  Dr Evan Hepler-Smith (Duke University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Gandhian Satyagraha in the Mirror of Marxism
  Karuna Mantena (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - 'The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790' (2020) by Ritchie Robertson
  Joanna Innes (Oxford), Anthony La Vopa (North Carolina), Karen O'Brien (Oxford), Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 14:15 - Light Unto the Nations: The Idea of Jewish Purpose and the Emergence of Zionism
  Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London)
  Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Hilary Term 2021
• 17:00 - Lecture Two: Darien, the Scottish Empire, and Colonial Anthropology
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
• 17:30 - Before Sufism: Early Islamic Renunciant Piety
  Christopher Melchert (Oxford), Respondent: Michael Cooperson (UCLA)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 17:00 - The Perfect Man and the Incarnation in al-Jili
  Fitzroy Morrissey (All Souls College)
  Monks and Mystics: Sufism and Eastern Christianity

Friday 29 January 2021

• 17:00 - Special Session
  Please note this session is at 17:00 GMT
  Various Speakers
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 1 February 2021

• 16:00 - New under the sun: Jews and climate in Palestine 1897-1948
  Dr Netta Cohen (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Making of "Veer Savarkar": Methods for Writing an Intellectual History
  Vinayak Chaturvedi (University of California, Irvine)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Episcopalians and the Interregnum Church: Remembering Conformity after 1660
  William White (University of York)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 17:00 - Lecture Three: The Grievances of Virginia: Land, People, and Arbitrary Government
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
• 17:30 - Explorations into the Origins of Islam: Religious and Philosophical Worldviews of the Quranic Mushrikūn
  Ahab Bdaiwi (Leiden/Cambridge), Respondent: Nicolai Sinai (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 14:00 - Exile, Migration and Hospitality: Visions of a Cosmopolitan Society in the Poetry of the Sephardic Diaspora
  Imogen Choi (Exeter College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Peasants and Representation: The Case of Noël Du Fail
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 5 February 2021

• 14:15 - The Borromei’s trade unveiled: digging for information in fifteenth-century account-books
  Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli (University of Florence, Italy)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 8 February 2021

• 16:00 - How Joseph Banks made climate move
  Harriet Mercer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Curious Career of Shunya: Politics and Metaphysics of Caste Thinking in India
  Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - "'L'Héritage des Lumières: ambivalences de la modernité' (2019) by Antoine Lilti
  Margaret Jacob (UCLA), Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth), Antoine Lilti (EHESS, Paris)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 14:15 - Between Exclusion and Intersection: Heidegger’s Philosophy and Jewish Volkism
  Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Hilary Term 2021
• 17:00 - Lecture Four: Captain Kidd, Piracy, and the Sovereignty of the Seas
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
• 17:30 - Beyond the Mystical: how Hafiz’s poetry can help historians read post-Mongol Iran
  Dominic Brookshaw (Oxford), Respondent: Paul Losensky (Indiana)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 17:00 - Eastern Christian Encounters with Sufism
  Dr Anthony O’Mahony (Reader in the history of Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London)
  Monks and Mystics: Sufism and Eastern Christianity

Monday 15 February 2021

• 16:00 - Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773-1779)
  Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Bedil’s Bisemic Ghazal Poetics
  Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Before the Coffee House: The Political Tavern in Revolutionary England
  David Como (University of Stanford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 14:00 - “No Other Issue in the History of Ideas has ever been Subjected to the Same Degree of Scrutiny”. The Origins of the Synoptic Problem, from Palestine to Göttingen (via India)
  Please register by 12-noon on 15 February; you need only register once – subsequently, you will receive invitations to all the other sessions. You can unsubscribe at any time.
  Dmitri Levitin (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 17:00 - Lecture Five: William Molyneux, Improvement, and the Case of Ireland
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
• 17:30 - Redeeming Books: Christian-Muslim Relations through the Colophons of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts
  David Zakarian (Oxford), Respondent: Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 14:00 - Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Problem of Publics between Latin and Vernacular
  David Lines (University of Warwick)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - "Greatness going off": Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Plays
  Jonathan Patterson (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 19 February 2021

• 14:15 - Hidden in plain sight. Printed books from the Japanese Mission Press in the Bodleian Collections
  Alessandro Bianchi (Bodleian Libraries, Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 22 February 2021

• 16:00 - Lost in translation? Archaeological materials science as evidence for the study of the history of technology: case studies on ceramics
  Dr Moujan Matin (University of Toronto)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - On Violence or the Civil War of 1947 and the Importance of Indian Political Thought
  Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:30 - John Locke and Socinianism: Similarities and Differences
  Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria)
  Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
• 17:00 - 'Marie-Antoinette, Lettres inédites', ed. Catriona Seth (2019) / 'Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings', ed. Avi Lifschitz (2021)
  Tim Blanning (Cambridge), Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (University of Southern California), Catriona Seth (University of Oxford), Avi Lifschitz (University of Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 14:00 - The Making of a Materialist in Seventeenth-Century England: Scholarship, Society, and the Soul
  Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:15 - The Pragmatism of Proto-Zionism: Tracing Jewish Nation-building through a Cultural Sociological Framework
  Professor Maja Gildin Zuckerman (Copenhagen Business School)
  Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Hilary Term 2021
• 17:00 - Lecture Six: Africans, Native Americans, Slavery, and Christian Evangelism
  Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex)
  The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
• 17:30 - Ottoman Historiography and Topographical Illustration in Manuscripts attributed to Matrakçı Nasuh
  Zeynep Yürekli (Oxford), Respondent: Serpil Bağcı (Hacettepe)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 17:00 - Theism and Pantheism in Rumi
  The Rt Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali (Oxford)
  Monks and Mystics: Sufism and Eastern Christianity

Friday 26 February 2021

• 14:15 - Streets and Serendipity: “Locating” Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazar
  Kanupriya Dhingra (SOAS, University of London)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 1 March 2021

• 16:00 - Hermetic tradition and scientific revolution revisited: the case of Francesco Patrizi
  Dr Vojtěch Hladky (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - God's Vigilant Watchmen: The Oppositional Words of Episcopalian Clergy in Wales, 1646-1660
  Sarah Ward (UWE, Bristol)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 14:00 - Georgius Slatkonia and the Viennese Network of Humanists and Natural Philosophers around the Court of Maximilian I Habsburg
  Grantley McDonald (Faculty of Music, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 17:30 - The Language of Politics in Wā’iẓ Kāshifī’s Futuwwatnāma-i sulṭānī
  Neguin Yavari (Columbia/Oxford), Respondent: Alan Strathern (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 14:00 - Learning, Vernacular Cultures, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
  Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary, University of London)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Erasmus, Citizen of the – or of a – World?
  Dorine Rouiller (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Friday 5 March 2021

• 14:15 - Hunting for readers in sixteenth-century editions of the works of Euclid
  Benjamin Wardhaugh (University of Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 8 March 2021

• 16:00 - Astrological forecasting of epidemic disease in early modern England: a forgotten chapter in the history of public health?
  Dr Michelle Pfeffer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Graduate Student Research Presentations
  Various Speakers
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - 'Voltaire, Précis du siècle de Louis XV' (OCV, vols. 29 A-C, 2019-2020), eds. Janet Godden and James Hanrahan
  Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London/University of Chicago), Siofra Pierse (University College Dublin), Janet Godden (University of Oxford), James Hanrahan (Trinity College Dublin)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 14:00 - Gottfried Leibniz on the Querelle des anciens et des modernes and the Republic of Letters
  Audrey Borowski (The Queen's College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:15 - Berta Zuckerkandl and Her Circle: Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism
  Dr Elana Shapira (University of the Applied Arts, Vienna)
  Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Hilary Term 2021
• 17:30 - Tribes, bandits, & minstrels: A shared popular culture as a response to Ottoman and Safavid power
  Ali Aydın Karamustafa (Oxford), Respondent: Edmund Herzig (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Friday 12 March 2021

• 14:15 - Buying Incunabula at Gimbel Brothers Department Store: A Curious Chapter in the History of American Book Collecting
  William Stoneman (Cambridge, MA)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Tuesday 20 April 2021

• 14:00 - Launch Event: The Futures of Intellectual History
  Jon Parkin (Chair), Erica Charters, Mogens Laerke, Kirsten Macfarlane, Lesley Smith, Faridah Zaman (Chair), Zobia Haq, Paulina Kewes, Sophie Smith, Brian Young
  Oxford Centre for Intellectual History

Monday 26 April 2021

• 16:00 - Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History
  Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Jacques Rohault’s Traité de physique between Cartesianism and Newtonianism: historical and historiographical considerations
  Dr Mihnea Dobre (University of Bucharest)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - "They made a desert and they called it peace": Cromwell's War in Ireland
  John Morrill (University of Cambridge)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 14:00 - Mary Astell and Pierre Bayle: On the Margins of Toleration
  James Hooks (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 3 May 2021

• 16:00 - Emotions and Temporalities. On Ghosts, Jinns and their Exorcism
  Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 14:00 - Hiding Between the Lines: God, Causation, and Laws of Nature in the Works of the Baron d’Holbach
  Ruggero Sciuto (Wolfson College/Voltaire Foundation)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 10 May 2021

• 15:00 - "Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch
  Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Viruses in the making: the notion of emergence seen from the history of influenza
  Dr Frédéric Vagneron (University of Strasbourg)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Henry Marten and the "Original of all Just Power"
  Sarah Mortimer (University of Oxford), David Scott (History of Parliament)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 14:00 - Post-Ramist Method and the Reception of the New Philosophies: Intellectual History from the Ground Up
  Howard Hotson (St Anne's, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 17 May 2021

• 16:00 - Pure Kashmir: Nature in the Political Thought of Sheikh Abdullah, Muhammad Iqbal and Jawaharlal Nehru
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Food, Farming and Trade in Medieval Croatia: an archaeological perspective
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Kelly Reed (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 14:00 - The Life and Works of Jacques Du Roure. Hunting for an Unknown Cartesian
  Sophie Roux (École Normale Supérieure, Paris/All Souls College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 24 May 2021

• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Jyotirmaya Sharma (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Tarzan The Man Ape: chimpanzees, science and colonial memory at the Pasteur Institute in Kindia
  Dr Marion Thomas (University of Strasbourg & Maison Française d’Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Ordeal of William Sancroft: A conservative endures Britain in revolution
  Grant Tapsell (University of Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Monday 31 May 2021

• 16:00 - A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India
  Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 7 June 2021

• 16:00 - Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies
  Durba Ghosh (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Bearing Witness. Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000)
  Dr Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Further reformation? Episcopalian royalist rethinking in the 1650s
  Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Monday 14 June 2021

• 16:00 - Conceptual Problems in Distinguishing Global from Planetary Histories
  Dipesh Chakrabarty (The University of Chicago)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - Socialist medicine: rethinking the history of global health
  Dr Dora Vargha (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 11 October 2021

• 16:00 - Burn: an incendiary history of lockdown Britain
  Professor Mark Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The making of a populist: Entering politics and autonomy-seeking in contemporary India
  Dr Jean-Thomas Martelli (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - "O nos miseros!" George Stradling and Royalism in Interregnum Oxford
  Alex Beeton (University of Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Monday 18 October 2021

• 16:00 - The British Cotton Belt: carrying Mendel to the edge of empire, 1900-1914
  Dr Matthew Holmes (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva “Secularism”
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Huddersfield)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 25 October 2021

• 16:00 - Prestige asymmetry in the popular image of physics
  Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Feminist Historiography and the Political: Reflections on the Past and Future Tense
  Professor Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Regicide or Revolution: Political Ideas in the Petitions of September 1648-February 1649
  Norah Carlin
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Monday 1 November 2021

• 16:00 - A hospital of her own: interwar colonial nurses and the mobility of power
  Dr Hagit Krik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Nomos of the Globe: Currency, Empire and Financialization
  Professor Ritu Birla (University of Toronto)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 8 November 2021

• 16:00 - The origins of medicine in the prehistoric and archaic Greece
  Dr Tomáš Alušík (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Freedoms after Freedom: Lawyering as Political Practice in Post-Independent India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
  Professor Rohit De (Yale University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Catholic Sequestrations during the English Revolution
  Eilish Gregory (New College of the Humanities & Anglia Ruskin)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Monday 15 November 2021

• 16:00 - Manuscript cultures of mathematics: east-west networks of knowledge
  Dr Alessandra Petrocchi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - They Refused to Tell Me Their Dreams: Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Trans
  Dr Akshi Singh (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 22 November 2021

• 16:00 - Sacred histories of public health: leper asylums and the medical-evangelical state in twentieth-century British India
  Please note this talk is online, registration for which is required at the link below.
  Dr Shinjini Das (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - British Imperial Thought, British Nationality, and Overseas Indians after 1947
  Dr Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Church of England in 1660: Annus Mirabilis (for some)
  Ken Fincham (University of Kent)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
• 17:00 - Fords meet Carlyles: Ireland, Locke, and Empire: a discussion with Jane Ohlmeyer and Mark Goldie
  Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin), Professor Mark Goldie (Churchill College, Cambridge)

Monday 29 November 2021

• 16:00 - Rodents and the balance of nature: wildlife protection as public health in the interwar Union of South Africa
  Dr Jules Skotnes-Brown (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Option of Nonviolence
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 17 January 2022

• 16:00 - Isaac Newton as theologian, artisan, and roommate: some new documents
  Dr Dmitri Levitin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Rule by Fear: Conceptualizing Democracy and Authoritarianism in Pakistan
  Dr Ammar Ali Jan (Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Doing research in eighteenth-century France: private libraries as public resources
  Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Despiteful names, disreputable churches, and denominational formation in the "puritan" revolution
  Dr Joel Halcomb (University of East Anglia)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 19 January 2022

• 17:00 - Where is the Mechanic? Agency in the Age of the Mechanical Philosophy
  Please note: This session will be held on Zoom.
  Christoph Lüthy (Radboud University)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 21 January 2022

• 14:15 - The European Quran: the role of the Muslim Holy Book in writing European cultural history - Presentation of a project
  Mercedes García-Arenal (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 24 January 2022

• 16:00 - Adaptive environmental design and the landscape architecture of the British agricultural revolution: a case study of Brassica napus in England and Scotland, 1700-1850
  Note this seminar will be held online via Zoom - registration required
  Dr Amy R Coombs (University of Chicago)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - How 'Dynasty' Became a Modern Global Concept: Intellectual Histories of Sovereignty and Property
  Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Patrick Colquhoun and the Science of Society: magistracy and political economy in Glasgow and London
  Joanna Innes (Somerville College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 17:00 - Jean Gagnier: An Eighteenth-Century Oxford Arabist and “Enlightened” Views of Islam
  Simon Mills (University of Newcastle)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 28 January 2022

• 14:15 - On Robert Ashley (1565-1641)’s use of collections in Oxford in the 17th century
  Renee Satterley (Librarian, The Hon. Society of Middle Temple, London)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 31 January 2022

• 16:00 - Relaying Station for Empires’ Outcasts’: Managing ‘Lunatics’ in Pre-World War II Hong Kong
  Dr Harry Yi-Jui Wu (National Cheng Kung University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - "Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims
  Professor Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Securing Peace, Prosperity, and Population Growth in Scotland, 1745-1767
  Conor Bollins (Queen Mary University of London)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Nehemiah Wallington reads the news, 1645-7
  Professor Ann Hughes (Keele University)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 17:00 - Reason, Reading and Religion: Lord Robartes and the Restoration Church
  Sophie Aldred (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:00 - Replacing Europe? The Importance of India, Violence and Global Political Thought
  Please note this seminar has moved online - please register at the link below
  Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 4 February 2022

• 14:15 - Henry White (1822-1900): Collector of Second-Rate Manuscripts?
  Laura Cleaver (Senior Lectures in Manuscript Studies, The University of London)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 7 February 2022

• 16:00 - Computerized folk music in 1960s Hungary
  Dr Máté Szabo (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - A Debatable Empire
  Dr Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Theatrum criticum: Pierre Bayle, Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, and the early modern genealogies of Enlightenment critique
  Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 17:00 - Why Milton Rejected the Trinity: Education and Community in Paradise Lost
  Deni Kasa (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 11 February 2022

• 14:15 - The trade in type in Venice in the early decades of printing
  Riccardo Olocco (Bolzano)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 14 February 2022

• 16:00 - Origins of the “reproducibility crisis”: evidence-based medicine, drug development, and contemporary preclinical reform
  Note this seminar will be held online via Zoom - registration required
  Dr Nicole C Nelson (University of Winsconsin-Madison)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Waiting for the People: Anticolonialism and the Idea of Democracy in India
  Dr Nazmul Sultan (University of Cambridge)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Orangutans and the Borders of Humanity in the Enlightenment
  Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Leviathan and the Defence of the King
  Dr Jon Parkin (University of Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 17:00 - The Seal of Secrecy, the Seal of Confession: A Renaissance Problem
  Ingrid de Smet (University of Warwick)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 18 February 2022

• 14:15 - Bibliophobia
  Brian Cummings (Professor of English and Related Literature, University of York)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 21 February 2022

• 16:00 - Prevention and control of the influenza pandemic in imperial Japan: focusing on the colonial Korea’s preventive measures
  This seminar will now be held via Zoom - please register below
  Dr Young-Soo Kim (Yonsei University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Infrastructure of Rumor: Development and Democracy in a Postcolony
  Professor Nusrat S. Chowdhury (Amherst College)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Göttingen university Fachjournale from 1765 to 1825 – and a few remarks on information, organization, and history as evolution
  Martin Gierl (University of Göttingen)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 10:00 - New Intellectual Histories of the Global South
  Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews), Zobia Haq (Oxford), Emma Hunter (Edinburgh), Miles Larmer (Oxford), Adrita Mitra (Oxford), Faridah Zaman (Oxford)

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 17:00 - Worms: the Nature of Ships and the Nature of Humans in Early Modernity
  Dániel Margócsy (University of Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 25 February 2022

• 14:15 - The Virtual Library of Thormodus Torfæus, reconstructed from Danish and Icelandic collections
  Katarzyna Kapitan (Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College; Visiting Scholar The Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 28 February 2022

• 16:00 - Latin race science in a Mestizo State: racialized biopolitics in post-revolutionary Mexico
  Dr Carlos López Beltrán (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
  Professor J. Daniel Elam (University of Hong Kong)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The European network of Jean-Claude Pingeron (1730–1795), amateur and collectioneur of useful arts
  Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS, Paris)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - John Milton, Oliver Cromwell and Virtue Politics
  Professor Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 17:00 - Boyle and Locke on Natural Kinds
  Lodi Nauta (University of Groningen)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Friday 4 March 2022

• 14:15 - The Goldsmiths’ Register and other record books of various London Livery Companies
  Lisa Barber (Lisa Jefferson) (Oxford)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 7 March 2022

• 16:00 - Fragments of Insanity, Shattered Lives after the Armenian Genocide
  Dr Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Reflections on Gandhi’s Anti-Modernism
  Professor Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Language and Logos in the Writings of A. N. Radishchev
  Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (University of Southern California)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 17:00 - What is at Stake in a Natural History of the Air? Ways of Knowing and Ways of Believing
  Claire Crignon (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 17:00 - Rekindling the French Enlightenment in the embers of World War: internationalism, bibliography, and cultural policy in the origins of the critical edition of the Voltaire Correspondence
  Gregory S Brown (University of Nevada)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 11 March 2022

• 14:15 - Bodleian Materials for the teaching of Book History
  Alexandra Franklin (Bodleian Library), Andrew Honey (Bodleian Library)
  Seminar in the History of the Book

Monday 25 April 2022

• 16:00 - On reading a book of two halves: a long history of R A Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
  Alex Aylward (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Justice Beyond Rights
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 2 May 2022

• 16:00 - Seeing the People in Mughal India
  Professor Abhishek Kaicker (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 9 May 2022

• 09:15 - Workshop - From Research to Engagement: Social Sciences and Infectious Disease
  Margaret Pelling (Oxford), Roderick Bailey (Oxford), Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin), Emily Webster (University College Dublin), Atsuko Naono (Oxford), Javier Lezaun (Oxford), Jeong-Ran Kim (Oxford), Ethan Friederich (Oxford), Sam Martin (Oxford), Samantha Vanderslott (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The women's plague; or, narratives of survival during New York's yellow fever epidemics in the founding era
  Carolyn Eastman (Virginia Commonwealth University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Queer Azaadi and the origins of Indian homonationalism in Kashmir
  Anish Gawande (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 16 May 2022

• 16:00 - The Death Awareness Movement, taboo, and the “right to know” in twentieth-century Britain and the US
  Andrew Seaton (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Reading a Political Satire From India
  Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma (University of Hyderabad)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 23 May 2022

• 16:00 - Houses of Nature: cabinets and laboratories in late 16th-century Medici Florence
  Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Ma'na and War
  Dr James Caron (SOAS University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 30 May 2022

• 16:00 - Mary Somerville: being and becoming a mathematician in 19th-century Britain
  Brigitte Stenhouse (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - POSTPONED - The Poetics of Hindutva
  Professor Janaki Bakhle (UC Berkeley)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 6 June 2022

• 16:00 - The “American model” and the (re)foundation of French military transfusion medicine after the Second World War
  Benoît Pouget (Sciences Po Aix)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Pan-Nationalist Notions of Rights, Indian Khilafat Movement and the Treaty of Lausanne (1923)
  Professor Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 13 June 2022

• 16:00 - Sermons in stones: John Muir, American environmentalism, & Swedenborgian ecology
  Devin Zuber (Berkeley, California)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - ‘Jim-Crowed the World Over’: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Idea of the Global South
  Professor Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 10 October 2022

• 16:00 - A risky business: hydroxychloroquine, global health politics, and the bureaucratization of clinical trials
  Janelle Winters (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Westminster Assembly (1643-52): Time for a New Paradigm?
  Kirsten Macfarlane (Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Monday 17 October 2022

• 16:00 - Correcting readers in seventeenth-century natural philosophy
  Alice Leonard (University of Coventry)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 24 October 2022

• 16:00 - “We cannot help laughing”: reflex, discomfort, and the comic in late-Victorian mental science
  Cora Salkovskis (Birkbeck University of London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Fiery Spirits and the coming of the English Revolution
  John Rees (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Monday 31 October 2022

• 16:00 - Images, tags and identities in ‘science’
  Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - ‘Power to the People?’: Citizens and the Everyday State in Early Postcolonial South Asia
  Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 7 November 2022

• 16:00 - Quantification, measurement and the rise of physics in Victorian Britain
  This seminar is online via Zoom for which registration is essential at the link below. You can also watch at the MFO.
  Daniel Jon Mitchell (IEEE History Center)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Who are the Muslims? Savarkar on Indian Muslim Origin
  Professor Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University - London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Whatever you do, don't mention the revolution: Samuel Clarke and the making of the puritan tradition
  Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Monday 14 November 2022

• 16:00 - Unveiling the invisible belt: the shareholders of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 1897-1901
  Please note this seminar is at the Weston Library
  Anna Guagnini (Independent Scholar)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 21 November 2022

• 16:00 - Medicine in Ancient Assur: outlining the career of a healer from the 7th century BCE
  Please note this seminar is now online, which you can watch at the MFO
  Troels Arboll (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - "The Wall and Glory of Jerusalem": The message of sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and City of London in the Commonweath and Protectorate, 1649-1660
  Elliot Vernon (Lincoln's Inn)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 16:00 - POSTPONED - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 28 November 2022

• 16:00 - Material culture and mathematical practice in astrology’s long 16th century
  Stephen Johnston (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 January 2023

• 16:00 - The edge of the self and the limits of the world: Nathaniel Fairfax's thought experiments
  Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Logic of Cruelty and Violence in Ambedkar and Gandhi
  Professor Uday Singh Mehta (The City University of New York)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 14:00 - Money Matters in Parnassus: Satirising in Fiction the Poets’ Ways to Achieve (16th and 17th Centuries)
  Raphaëlle Errera (Sorbonne Université)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 14:00 - Rabelaisian Hierarchy and its Reception
  Neil Kenny (All Souls College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 17:00 - Lecturing on pedagogy: Kant's creative use of Basedow’s educational philosophy
  Jürgen Overhoff (Münster)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 14:00 - Free will and change in the theory of causation
  Professor Thomas Pink (KCL)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 23 January 2023

• 16:00 - Will I have to mortgage my house? Reflections on gene therapy, innovation, and inequality in the USA
  Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 17:00 - «Fi! l[a] vilain[e] hypocrite»: picturing women atheists in eighteenth-century Paris
  Ruggero Sciuto (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 14:00 - The philosophy of sleep between paradoxes and thought experiments: Descartes, Gassendi, Locke and Leibniz
  Please note this seminar is in the Hovenden Room
  Professor Carla Rita Palmerino (Nijmegen)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 30 January 2023

• 16:00 - Absolute beginner? A relativistic take on Halford Mackinder’s geography, education and the popularization of knowledge
  Emily Hayes (Oxford Brookes University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Charles I and the French Connection, 1636-1639
  Fraser Dickinson
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 16:30 - ‘“Great” or otherwise, we don't use those terms here’: Social Hierarchy in the Dialogue of the Dead?
  Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 16:30 - Between Streets and Salons: The Social Status of Juggling and Conjuring in La Magie du Pont-Neuf (c. 1643–1651)
  Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 14:00 - “Enslaved by African angels”: Swedenborg on African superiority, evangelization, and slavery in the Swedish Age of Liberty
  Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Oxford and Stockholm)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 6 February 2023

• 16:00 - Framing medical knowledge on mineral waters - France, 1770s-1830s
  François Zanetti (Université Paris Cité)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 14:00 - Beastly Habitués: Animals and Exiles at the Salon of Hortense Mancini
  Please note change of date from 15 February to 8 February
  Annalisa Nicholson (The Queen's College, Oxford)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 17:00 - Radical translations: the transfer of revolutionary culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
  Sanja Perovic (King’s College London)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 14:00 - Early modern scholarship on idolatry and the Chinese Rites debate
  Dr Felix Schlichter (Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 13 February 2023

• 16:00 - The place of premodern public health
  Jane Stevens Crawshaw (Oxford Brookes)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Women and Warfare in 1640s Ireland
  Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 14:00 - Mapping the chiaroscuro: Marsilio Ficino on Plato’s allegory of the cave
  Dr Anna Corrias (Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 20 February 2023

• 16:00 - Evaluation in the Age of Production: The Origins of Gemmology in France, c. 1770-1830
  Michael Bycroft (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Islamic influences on European thought in the seventeenth century
  Please note this seminar is on a Monday.
  Luisa Simonutti (ISPF/CNR, Milan)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 14:00 - What makes early modern intellectual history “early modern”? Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), Plotinus and astrology in the transition from medieval to Renaissance astrology, magic and religion
  Dr Darrel Rutkin (Venice)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 27 February 2023

• 16:00 - Drawing as a pragmatist visual epistemology
  This seminar is cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Chiara Ambrosio (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Storm in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, 1638 (or the Global and Environmental Context of the English Civil War)
  George Southcombe (Sarah Lawrence College, New York and Wadham College, Oxford)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 17:00 - Anglo-Venetian views on cross-confessional alliances during the Thirty Years War
  Please note this seminar is in the Hovenden Room
  Professor Filippo de Vivo (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 6 March 2023

• 16:00 - Visualising Bloodletting Knowledge in Early Modern England
  Elaine Leong (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Book Launch and Roundtable Discussion: The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
  IN PERSON ONLY AT WORCESTER COLLEGE
  John Morrill, Ann Hughes, George Southcombe, Grant Tapsell
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 16:00 - Uncivil Liberalism and the Globalisation of Dadabhai Naoroji’s Ideas of Sociality
  Dr Vikram Visana (University of Leicester)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 14:00 - "learning has brought disobedience": Marginal Literacies and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Early Modern England
  Please note change of date from 1 March to 8 March
  Adam Bridgen (University of St Andrews)
  The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
• 17:00 - The Old Regime deck of playing cards
  Jeffrey Ravel (MIT)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 17:00 - The freedom to philosophize in the German Enlightenment from Christian Wolff to the Berlin Academy
  Dr Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 13 March 2023

• 16:00 - Nations Ascendant: Towards a Global Intellectual History of Self Determination
  Professor Zaib un Nisa Aziz (University of South Florida, Tampa)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 24 April 2023

• 16:00 - Fantasy or experiment? Reading alchemical imagery in early modern England
  Dr Jennifer M Rampling (Princeton/Oxford Universities)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 17:00 - Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and the law of nations
  David Armitage (Harvard)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 1 May 2023

• 16:00 - Along The Path To Gandhi's Neighbor
  Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 17:00 - Lessing, Voltaire and theodicy
  Friedrich Vollhardt (LMU, Munich)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 5 May 2023

• 16:00 - "We will have this cut out": The Making and Unmaking of Queer Zoology
  This is a joint event with the LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network on Friday 5 May
  Dr Ross Brooks (Oxford Brookes University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 8 May 2023

• 16:00 - A New Vision of Vivekananda?
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 17:00 - Discussion of the 2023 Ford Lectures, 'Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment'
  Colin Kidd (St Andrews)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 15 May 2023

• 16:00 - Forgotten Clones: The Birth of Cloning and the Biological Revolution
  This seminar is online via Zoom but can be watched at the Maison Française
  Dr Nathan Crowe (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Seduced by God or Man? Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan
  Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 17:00 - William Warburton’s Divine Legation of Moses (1738-1741) and theological learning in the public sphere
  Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 22 May 2023

• 16:00 - “Chains of invincible reasoning”? New approaches to the Newton manuscripts at New College
  Dr Jack Avery (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India
  Robert Travers (Cornell University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 17:00 - Herder and the French Revolution
  Eva Piirimäe (Tartu)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 29 May 2023

• 16:00 - Dharma, Artha, and the Politics of Law and Sovereignty in Colonial India
  Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 17:00 - Seven years of literary and artistic life (1737-1744): what Voltaire’s new letters to Marie-Louise Denis bring to light
  Nicolas Fréry (Strasbourg)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 5 June 2023

• 16:00 - Territorial soils: Egyptology, agriculture, and the colonial politics of field sites
  This seminar is online via Zoom but can be watched at the Maison Française
  Dr Meira Gold (New York University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - “His Soul was a Bird of the Divine Throne”: Persian Inscriptions on Mughal Imperial Tombs and Mosques
  A. Azfar Moin (The University of Texas at Austin)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 12 June 2023

• 16:00 - The international scientific conference: a social, cultural and political history
  Dr Charlotte Bigg (CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris), Professor Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck College, London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - CANCELLED - Red Maulanas: Islam and the Left in South Asia
  Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Thursday 6 July 2023

• 13:30 - Day 1 - Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations
  Benoit Pouget (Sciences Po Aix), Atsuko Naono (Oxford), Mark Harrison (Oxford), John DiMoia (Seoul National University), Insok Yeo (Yonsei University), Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Dongkue Lee (Kyung Hee University), Martin Bricknell (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 7 July 2023

• 09:30 - Day 2 - Workshop: Health, Medicine and Civil-Military Relations
  Insok Yeo (Yonsei University), Sophie Gueudet (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester), Dongkue Lee (Kyung Hee University), Martin Bricknell (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 9 October 2023

• 16:00 - Book Launch: The Muslim Secular by Dr Amar Sohal
  Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge), Faisal Devji (University of Oxford), Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 16:00 - “Deliver us from doctors”: The New Zealand model of midwifery and the politics of maternity from 1970
  Professor Linda Bryder (Auckland)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 16 October 2023

• 16:00 - How the Treasury Saved Britain: nationalism, liberalism and “high technology” in the post-war era
  Dr Thomas Kelsey (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 17:00 - Towards a Global Intellectual History of the Global: European Texts, Indigenous Contexts
  Zoltán Biedermann (University College London)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Monday 23 October 2023

• 16:00 - The Great Pox in Early Modern Italy: imagining and experiencing (Joint with Early Modern Italian World Seminar)
  Professor John Henderson (Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 17:00 - Turning the page on the reign of Frederick the Great: Mirabeau, Zimmermann and the "Berlin Enlightenment", 1786-1792
  Kevin Hilliard (St Peter's College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 30 October 2023

• 16:00 - Framing epidemic geographies and displacement after the Great East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Dr Baihui Duan (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 17:00 - Turkish Turbans, Greek Ceremonies, Catholic Friends: A Global History of Protestant Accommodation
  Richard Calis (University of Utrecht)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Monday 6 November 2023

• 16:00 - Abraham Bäck and Linnean racial science
  Dr Vincent Roy-Di Piazza (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Enlightenment origins of historicism
  Béla Kapossy (Lausanne)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 13 November 2023

• 16:00 - How students created their own curriculum: Oxbridge student clubs in the age of the research university
  Professor Arne Schirrmacher (Berlin)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 20 November 2023

• 16:00 - Cave Remedies: Ancient Wisdom in Stalactites
  Dr Jue Jin (Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 17:00 - Bodily Knowledge in Qing China: Anatomical "Translation" into Manchu and Mongolian?
  Sare Aricanli (Durham University)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 17:00 - Cosmopolitanism against revolution: counter-revolutionary legacies of the Enlightenment
  Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 27 November 2023

• 16:00 - Historical activism, autobiographies and life story work with people with learning disabilities - using history and stories for social change (Joint with Disability History Month Seminar)
  Professor Elizabeth Tilley and Nathaniel Lawford (The Open University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Scientific Revolution as Global History, 1200-1800
  James Poskett (Warwick University)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 17:00 - The animal question: from Bayle to Bentham
  Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 15 January 2024

• 16:00 - Pure, white, and uncontaminated: infectious diseases and microbiology in Antarctica
  Dr Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 14:00 - Fire, Vulcanus, Archeus: A Close-Distant Analysis of the Evolution of Paracelsus’s Thought on Active Agents
  Dr Georgiana Hedesen (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 22 January 2024

• 16:00 - Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Mathematics: Contrasting the Aims and Approaches of Mathematicians, Egyptologists, and Others
  Dr Chris Hollings (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:00 - The play’s the thing: Jean-François Ducis’s Hamlet (1769-1815)
  Joseph Harris (Royal Holloway, London)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 14:00 - Cardano the Pre-Cartesian
  Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 29 January 2024

• 16:00 - Medical Knowledge and Sanitation Measures in China in the Time of Cholera, 1820-1925
  Joint event with TORCH Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop, held at the China Centre, Dickson Poon Building
  Dr Xianbing Du (Tianjin Normal University, China)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Western Medical Missionaries in China, 1840s-1950s
  Joint event with TORCH Medical Humanities, Public Health in China: A Multidisciplinary Workshop, held at the China Centre, Dickson Poon Building
  Dr Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University and Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 14:00 - When Reason is against a Man: Anticlerical Legacies from Hobbes to Paine
  Dr Elad Carmel (Jyväskylä)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 5 February 2024

• 16:00 - Bloodletting under the ankle, post-mortem caesarean section, and the role of female expertise in medieval medicine
  Professor Maaike van der Lugt (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin - Paris Saclay)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:00 - Cataloguing the Enlightenment: classification, marginalisation, and digital scholarship
  Zoe Screti (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 14:00 - A World Maker Late to the Party: John Witty (c.1682-1712) and Mosaic Creation within a Pedagogic Context
  Dr Natasha Bailey (Erfurt)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 12 February 2024

• 16:00 - Gold and Mercury: unearthing a toxic partnership (1847-2023)
  Dr Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 11:30 - Materiality as Method: In Conversation with Dr Peter Oakley
  Dr Peter Oakley (Royal College of Art), Dr Catherine M Jackson (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 11:00 - Étienne-Géry Lenglet and the political economy of equality for the modern republic (online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
  Please note this session is online at 11:00 (GMT)
  Minchul Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 14:00 - Quakers, Collegiants, and Spinoza
  Dr Russ Leo (Princeton)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 19 February 2024

• 16:00 - Tracing the Legacies of Empires of Extinction
  Joint event with the Bodleian Library: We Are Our History Conversations, held at the Weston Library. Booking is required for this event.
  Professor Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 14:00 - Rethinking Renaissance Medicine
  Professor Vivian Nutton (UCL)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 17:00 - Putting the Enlightenment in its place: religion, moral leadership and the genealogy of the 18th-century age of improvement
  Please note the change of date from Wednesday 21 February to Thursday 22 February; all other details remain the same
  Damien Tricoire (Trier)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 26 February 2024

• 16:00 - Ancient Mesopotamian Plant Knowledge
  Dr Barbara Boeck (CSIC, Madrid)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 4 March 2024

• 16:00 - Presentism and the Historian of Science: Reflections from the Coalface
  Professor Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Imagined afterlives in eighteenth-century France
  Jessica Goodman (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 14:00 - Was Printing an Agent of Change? The Case of Academic Theology
  Dr Christa Lundbeg (St Catherine's College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Intellectual History

Monday 22 April 2024

• 16:00 - Inaugural Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - “Archives of Loss and Wonder”: Writing a History of Fossil Heritage in South Asia
  Please note change of venue for this seminar - Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History
  Dr Amelia Bonea (Manchester)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 29 April 2024

• 16:00 - Intercolonial Health Cooperation in the Pacific Islands and the British Empire
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - Philosophical narratives and the formation of national culture: the case of the Leibnizian-Wolffian tradition
  Paola Rumore (Turin)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 16:00 - Red Squirrels, Big Data, and the Birth of Behavioral Ecology
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday instead of Monday, which is a Bank Holiday, and will be held in the Lecture Theatre at the History Faculty, George Street
  Professor Erika L Milam (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Friday 10 May 2024

• 10:00 - Publishing in the History of Science: a Conversation
  Limited places so register soon.
  Professor Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton), Dr Joseph D Martin (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 11:20 - Workshop: Eugenics in the Academy
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 13 May 2024

• 16:00 - Austerity, Experimentation and Opposition: The Global and Local Politics of Biomedical Contraception in Uganda
  Dr Doreen Kembabazi (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 17:00 - Manners and political stability in a commercial republic: the case of France, c. 1795-1799
  Sonja Asal (Halle)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 20 May 2024

• 16:00 - The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL): a “République des lettres” in the twentieth century
  Professor Agustí Nieto-Galan (Barcelona/Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:00 - The dialectics of myth in the Enlightenment
  Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 17:00 - Doing things with poetry: uses and reuses of poésie fugitive in the long 18th century
  Roman Kuhn (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Friday 31 May 2024

• 08:30 - Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference: Methodology in Intellectual History (Hybrid event)
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for Intellectual History

Monday 3 June 2024

• 16:00 - The Soundscapes of Herb Women: Mapping Community Healthcare in Early Modern London
  Professor Kat Lecky (LUC)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 10 June 2024

• 16:00 - Victorian Women and Algology: The Case of Margaret Scott Gatty (1809–1873)
  Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse/CAK/MFO)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 14 October 2024

• 16:00 - Book Launch: New Under the Sun: Early Zionist Encounters with the Climate in Palestine by Netta Cohen
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Dr Netta Cohen (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Oriental Christ: What India did with Jesus and Why it is Important
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 17:00 - Bringing Attention to Tobacco: Health and Novelties in Early Modern North India
  Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 17:00 - Reinhart Koselleck’s Enlightenment reconsidered
  Hans Erich Bödeker (Göttingen)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 21 October 2024

• 16:00 - “There is a Fatal Facility in the Use of Technical Terms”: a Media History Perspective on First Aid in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  Dr Sally Frampton (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 17:00 - Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
  José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Monday 28 October 2024

• 16:00 - Can opium addiction be cured? Early cellular-level research in 1930s-China and its international impact
  Dr Meng Zhang (CHSTM, Manchester)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 17:00 - Natural History and Imperial Portugal: Intellectual Frameworks
  Jorge Flores (University of Lisbon and TORCH International Fellow)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:00 - How revolutionary was equality in the 18th Century?
  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 4 November 2024

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Ria Kapoor (Queen Mary University of London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 17:00 - Kings, Lords, and Housebuilders: Portuguese and Chinese debates over the status of early modern Macau
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jacob Fordham (LSE)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 16:30 - Infectious Ecologies: Exploring Biological Histories of Epidemics in Colonized Spaces
  Please note this seminar will be at 16:30 on THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER, in the Lecture Theatre, Weston Library
  Dr Emily Webster (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Monday 11 November 2024

• 16:00 - The Prediction Machine: science, technology, and futurology in British Government, c. 1970-2010
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
  Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 17:00 - Roundtable on The End of Enlightenment (2023) by Richard Whatmore
  Sofia Sanabria de Felipe, Cameron Bowman, Joanna Innes, Richard Whatmore (St. Andrews)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 18 November 2024

• 16:00 - Physical Pain in Early Modern Europe: Texts, Signs, and Emotions (Joint session with HSMT/NOTCOM ERC Project based at the Maison Francaise)
  Dr Raphaële Andrault (IHRIM-ENS de Lyon), Professor Ariane Bayle (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3; IHRIM)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Monday 25 November 2024

• 16:00 - What’s in a table? Managing astronomical data in early modern Europe
  Professor Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 17:00 - Productive Misunderstandings: Confraternities, Catholic liturgy and the reconfiguration of Andean native lordship in the early colonial period
  Isabel Yaya Mckenzie (EHESS)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - Colonialism, cosmopolitanism and Kant’s justification of territorial rights (joint session with the Oxford Political Thought seminar)
  Lea Ypi (LSE)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Monday 2 December 2024

• 16:00 - Singapore pineapples: catch-cropping, Chinese capitalists, and the colonial state, 1900s-1930s
  Dr Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 17:00 - Al-Damiri’s Life of Animals in the European-Ottoman Republic of Letters
  Simon Mills (University of Newcastle)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 16:30 - From SARS to COVID: What has changed in the Chinese healthcare system?
  Wenmin Li (Hubei University/Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - Robespierre speaks
  Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London/University of Chicago)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - Roundtable on The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History (2024) by J C D Clark.
  Caroline Warman, Jacob Chatterjee, John Robertson, J C D Clark
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:00 - Newton’s reception at the Berlin Academy
  Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - Montesquieu in East Asia (annual online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
  Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul National University)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Kant’s republicanism
  Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Bit-making and artisanal Enlightenment: the codification of practical knowledge from the pictorial rhetoric of bit-books to riding manuals and encyclopaedic knowledge
  Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
  Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop