Medical Humanities
Description: Seminars and Events of interest to Medical Humanities Oxford
Talks:

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

Tuesday 3 February 2025

Digital Innovation in Metabolic Psychiatry: AI-enabled Ketogenic and GLP-1-Supported Lifestyle Interventions
Date: 3 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Megan Kirk Chang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile, Artificial Intelligence-Led Mental Health Intervention for Adolescent Depression and Anxiety
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Alissa Davis (Columbia University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Online (Zoom)
Organiser: Tanya Manchanda (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

Is it acceptable to restrict patients’ welfare for physicians’ profit motive?
Date: 5 February 2026, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Julia Koenig (University hospital Heidelberg)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Richard Doll Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Data Engineers meeting
Date: 5 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker s: Vincent Straub (University of Oxford), Dr Yurika Sakai (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Innovation and Healthcare Efficiency: Evidence from weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery.
Date: 5 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Raf Van Gestel (Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

How do we successfully encourage dietary change?
Date: 5 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Louise Dye (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1, ground floor
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

God and Silicon Valley: The Place of Religion in the Development of AI
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Andrew Davison (Christ Church, University of Oxford), Bartek Papiez (Big Data Institute, Oxford)
Venue: Reuben College,
Venue Details: Reuben College (Lecture Theatre)
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

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Nationwide studies on COVID-19 and brain disorders in Denmark
Date: 10 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Clara Springhorn Grønkjær (University of Copenhagen)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)

Strengthening Parents to Protect Children in An Age of Increasing Wars and Displacements: A Randomised Controlled Trial in Jordan
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Sydney Tucker (DPhil student) (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online & Lecture theatre 2, Life and Mind Building (LaMB) Ground floor
Organiser: Nora Skjerdingstad (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 February 2025

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Date: 12 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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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

Tuesday 17 February 2025

PSI seminar: ‘From local to continental: how vector ecology shapes tick‑borne disease emergence in Europe’ presented by Dr Helen Esser
Date: 17 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Helen Esser (Assistant Professor, Wildlife Ecology & Conservation group, Wageningen University)
Venue Details: Hybrid event: MS Teams or The Richard Doll Building Lecture Theatre, Old Road Campus.
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Thursday 19 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 19 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Libertad González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 February 2025

The Valley Children: How collaborative creative practice can help us make sense of predictive genomics
Date: 20 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Learning centre (00.018)
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

Tuesday 24 February 2025

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Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Benjamin Perry (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)

Friends, foes and the missing ties: Social relationships as determinants of mental health and socio‑economic futures
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Prof Louise Arseneault (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Online & Gelder Room
Organiser: Tanya Manchanda (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

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Date: 26 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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An Interfaith Discussion on the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Testing
Date: 26 February 2026, 19:15 - 20:15
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Friday 27 February 2025

Music and the Medical Humanities
Date: 27 February 2026, 15:00 - 16:30
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Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Host: TORCH (University of Oxford)

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

Tuesday 3 March 2025

Excitation-inhibition balance in psychosis - what does it really mean, and can we really measure it?
Date: 3 March 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Rick Adams (University College London)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

The cognitive model of PTSD in children and adolescents: the maths, the myths, and the market
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof Richard Meiser-Stedman (King’s College London)
Venue Details: Online & Lecture theatre 2, Life and Mind Building (LaMB) Ground floor
Organiser: Nora Skjerdingstad (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2025

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Date: 5 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Why Sustainability in Health Care Cannot Be Implemented: From Implementation Failure to Ongoing Mediation
Date: 5 March 2026, 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker : Prof Eivind Engebretsen (University of Oslo)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Mawby Pavilion and Online
Organiser: Robin Beachy (University of Oxford)
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

Tuesday 10 March 2025

Advancing Data Science to Examine the Causal Relationship Between Social Media Content and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours’
Date: 10 March 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Amrit Kaur Purba (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Tanya Manchanda (Department of Psychiatry)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2025

PSI seminar: 'What makes evidence credible in policymaking?’ presented by Kathryn Oliver
Date: 11 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Kathryn Oliver (Professor of Evidence and Policy, LSHTM)
Venue Details: Hybrid event. MS Teams or LG 1 Seminar room, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus Oxford OX3 7LF.
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Thursday 19 March 2025

Beyond Barriers and Enablers: Mechanisms as the Missing Middle in Implementation Science
Date: 19 March 2026, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Carolyn Steele-Gray (University of Toronto)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Tawney Room and Online
Organiser: Robin Beachy (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 26 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Paolo Li Donni (Palemo University)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 April 2025

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Date: 9 April 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Wei Huang (Pekin University)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 April 2025

What is data cosmopolitanism?
Date: 28 April 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jon Rueda (President’s Cabinet and the Ethics in Research Department, Spanish National Research Council)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lower Ground Seminar Room 0 OR Zoom
Organiser: Olivia Lush (University of Oxford)
Host: The Ethox Centre

Personalised Medicine: A Primary Care Perspective
Date: 28 April 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Trish Greenhalgh (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L2
Organiser: Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 May 2025

Direct-to-Consumer Medical Testing: Exploring Opportunities & Challenges
Date: 5 May 2026, 9:30 - 17:30
Speaker s: Professor Anneke Lucassen (University of Oxford), John Powell (NDPCHS, University of Oxford), Dr Helen O'Neill (University College London), Mark Bartlett (StoreGene), Dr Sharon Dixon (University of Oxford), Prof. Tim Child (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Horton (University of Oxford), Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Professor Anthony Harnden (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 May 2025

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Date: 7 May 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 14 May 2025

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Date: 14 May 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 21 May 2025

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Date: 21 May 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 28 May 2025

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Date: 28 May 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 4 June 2025

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Date: 4 June 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 11 June 2025

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Date: 11 June 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 18 June 2025

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Date: 18 June 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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This list contains talks from the following series:
Ancient Medicine Seminar
Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health Seminar Series
BDI seminars
Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series: Trinity Term
Dharma in Service: Bringing Ancient Wisdom to Modern Spiritual Care
DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023
DSPI Trinity Term Seminar Series 2025
Ethox Centre Seminars
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars
Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group
Future of Food seminar series
GCHU Public Seminar series
Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation
Global Health DPhil Discourse
Health Economics
Health Economics Seminar
Hilary 2023 Seminar Series: Methodological Advances in Social and Health Care Research
Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
Interdisciplinary talks at Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing
Management in Medicine Programme
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
Michaelmas 2023 Seminar Series | Ageing with a Disability
Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2022-23
New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
Psychiatry Seminar Series
Public Health Humanities at St Cross
Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim Societies
Richard Doll Seminars (2015 - 2024)
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
TORCH network "Sleep and the Rhythms of Life"
Translational Health Sciences
Trinity 2023 Seminar Series | Caring communities: configuring local support for healthy ageing in place
Tropical Medicine Seminars
Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts