Talks of interest to the Intellectual History community
Talks:

Wednesday 19 November 2025

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

Thursday 20 November 2025

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

Monday 24 November 2025

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

Tuesday 25 November 2025

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

Wednesday 26 November 2025

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

Monday 1 December 2025

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

Wednesday 3 December 2025

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

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

Wednesday 18 February 2025

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

Wednesday 25 February 2025

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

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

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