Talks of interest to the Intellectual History community
Talks:

Thursday 22 January 2025

Hugo Grotius, Johannes Wtenbogaert and Dutch Debates about Church-State Relations in the late 1620s: An Archival Approach to Printed Polemics
Date: 22 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Martine Van Ittersum (Dundee)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Hovenden Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 January 2025

Debunking three myths concerning Albert Einstein
Date: 26 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dennis Lehmkuhl (Bonn)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 00.063 (ground floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

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

Thursday 29 January 2025

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

Monday 2 February 2025

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

Thursday 5 February 2025

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

Monday 9 February 2025

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

Thursday 12 February 2025

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

Monday 16 February 2025

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

Wednesday 18 February 2025

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

Thursday 19 February 2025

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

Monday 23 February 2025

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

Wednesday 25 February 2025

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

Thursday 26 February 2025

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

Monday 2 March 2025

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

Monday 9 March 2025

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

Wednesday 11 March 2025

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

Thursday 12 March 2025

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

Wednesday 13 May 2025

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

Wednesday 20 May 2025

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

Wednesday 3 June 2025

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

This list contains talks from the following series:
Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
Early Modern Intellectual History
Enlightenment Workshop
History of Political Thought Seminar
Monks and Mystics: Sufism and Eastern Christianity
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Oxford Seminar in Global Intellectual History
Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Hilary Term 2021
Seminar in the History of the Book
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar
The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe