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

Monday 13 October 2025

“I call them all by the Malabar name”: communicating colonial flora before universal nomenclature
Date: 13 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Madeline White (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 October 2025

Harry Pack & The Purple UFO, Art as a Portal into Deeper Self Awareness and Connectivity
Date: 14 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
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Venue Details: Stoke House
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 October 2025

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2025
Date: 15 October 2025, 9:00 - 12:30
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Venue Details: Various
Organiser: Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Immune alterations in first-episode psychosis and the effects of natalizumab: A neuroimaging study with concurrent CSF measures
Date: 15 October 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Yuya Mizuno (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

Does Designing And Building With Nature Improve Our Health And Well-Being?
Date: 15 October 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: The Hub
Organisers: Dr Hannah Grove (Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation), Dr Astrid Krisch (Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation, Kellogg College), Professor Carl Heneghan (Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation, Kellogg College), Dr David Howard (Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation, Kellogg College), Dr Juliet Carpenter (Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation, Kellogg College)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

Navigating Health and Solidarity: Refugee Perspectives and Practical Challenges
Date: 16 October 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Organisers: Dr. Julian Natukunda (Global Health Solidarity Project, University of Oxford), Professor Caesar Atuire (University of Oxford), Claire-Lise Kessler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr. Julian Natukunda (Global Health Solidarity Project, University of Oxford), Professor Caesar Atuire (University of Oxford)

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Date: 16 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
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Organisers: TBA
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How 'place-based' are terroir products?: Reflections on scale, movement and change
Date: 16 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Harry West (University of Exeter)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 October 2025

Managing Cardiometabolic Comorbidity Among People With Severe Mental Illness
Date: 20 October 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Speaker : Professor Dan Siskind (The University of Queensland)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)

The Science of Why Human Excrement Matters. Pierre Leroux and the circulus
Date: 20 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Michael Drolet (Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 October 2025

Not all inflammation is the same: Observations from studying Inflammation Across Tissues
Date: 21 October 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Christopher Buckley (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Belinda Lennox (University of Oxford)

PSI seminar: ‘Quantifying social and environmental drivers of health in vulnerable communities from the Amazon to Ahmedabad’ presented by Professor Caroline Buckee
Date: 21 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Professor Caroline Buckee (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: St Cross College lecture theatre
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2025
Date: 22 October 2025, 9:00 - 12:30
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Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organiser: Gordon Barrett (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

IX Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
Date: 23 October 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Ian Preston (University College London), Hyejin Ku (University College London), Tamara Smith (Gov London)
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 23 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Rita Ginja (University of Bergen)
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 October 2025

Regulation of Anglo-American medical education and its effects on educational cultures
Date: 27 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Susan Lamb (Ottawa)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2025
Date: 28 October 2025, 9:00 - 12:30
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Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

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Date: 30 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
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PSI special guest seminar: ‘AI for antibody design - going beyond the static’ presented by Professor Charlotte Deane
Date: 30 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Prof. Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Hybrid event, MS Teams or Richard Doll Building - lecture theatre. The Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford OX3 7LF.
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Experiences of food provision in UK 'asylum hotels' and the implications for health
Date: 30 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Claire Thompson (University of Hertfordshire)
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 November 2025

From Teatime to TV: 200 Years of Science Communication at the Royal Institution
Date: 3 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Katy Duncan (Royal Institution)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Social Prescribing: a passing phase or a foundational pillar of the new Neighbourhood Health Service?
Date: 4 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Daisy Fancourt (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Gelder Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)

Exploring the Moral and Therapeutic Significance of Indifference: Examples from Community Mental Health
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Yuxin Peng (Oxford)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: Dr Alberto Giubilini, Alberto Giubilini (Uehiro Oxford Institute)
Hosts: TBA

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 4 November 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organiser: Andrew Moeller
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 6 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Rita Ginja (University of Bergen)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 November 2025

Multispecies Interactions in bridging Folk and Biomedical Knowledge: hookworm, roundworm and wormweed in Jamaica, 1913-1936
Date: 10 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jonathan David Roberts (Leeds)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Beyond the Scale: The Neuropsychiatry Weight of Obesity in SMI
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Tomas Hajek (Dalhousie University)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 13 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Kelli Marquardt (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Alternative proteins: progress, pitfalls and possibilities
Date: 13 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Cleo Verkuijl (Stockholm Environment Institute)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 November 2025

Baconian Alchemy: Making Gold in the Novum organum and the Sylva (Co-organised with the research project NOTCOM, at the Maison Française d’Oxford)
Date: 17 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Daniel Garber (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Computational specificity in psychotherapeutic interventions
Date: 18 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Quentin Huys (University College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (University of Oxford)

PSI seminar: 'Globalization, global change and emerging infectious diseases' presented by Professor John Drake
Date: 18 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor John Drake (Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow)
Venue Details: Hybrid event. MS Teams or Oxford Martin School - lecture theatre Address: Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford 34 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BD
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Thursday 20 November 2025

Anatomy of Covid-19 Hospital Quality: Determinants, Information, and Equilibrium
Date: 20 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Kelli Marquardt (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Online Health Econ Seminar - Kelli Marquardt
Date: 20 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Kelli Marquardt (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)
Host: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)

Opportunities offered by a new food strategy
Date: 20 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Anna Taylor (The Food Foundation)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of 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

Applying Nature Based Interventions to Populations with Complex Mental Health Needs
Date: 25 November 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker s: Dr Catriona Mellor (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Kathryn Rowsell (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Ilina Singh (University of Oxford)

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 25 November 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Reading Group
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Seminar Room 56, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

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Date: 27 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
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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: Room 0.018, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Cashing in on Network Psychiatry
Date: 2 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Giovanni Briganit (Université de Mons)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Kate Saunders (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 3 December 2025

PSI seminar: Bassam Hallis
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr Bassam Hallis (UK Health Security Agency)
Venue Details: Hybrid event. MS Teams or Big Data Institute - seminar rooms 0&1, BDI, Old Road Campus, OX3 7LF.
Organisers: James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Thursday 4 December 2025

The Effect of an Information Message on General Practitioners’ Reimbursement Behaviour
Date: 4 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Bjørn-Atle Reme (University of Oslo)
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Date: 16 December 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Professor Benoit Mulsant (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Karl Marlowe (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust)

Thursday 22 January 2025

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Date: 22 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 29 January 2025

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Date: 29 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 5 February 2025

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Date: 5 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 12 February 2025

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Date: 12 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 19 February 2025

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Date: 19 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 26 February 2025

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Date: 26 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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Thursday 5 March 2025

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Thursday 12 March 2025

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Thursday 30 April 2025

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Date: 30 April 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
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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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Thursday 21 May 2025

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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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Thursday 18 June 2025

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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
Richard Doll Seminars
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