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

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Session 6: Horoscope : dating and interpretating medieval horoscopes
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Laure Miolo, Alexandre Tur
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Horton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Examining the causal role of circadian rhythms and sleep in physical and psychological health
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Richmond (University of Bristol)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0
Organiser: Sumeeta Maheshwari (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford), Dr Anya Topiwala (University of Oxford)

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organiser: Medical Humanities (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The BLACK-ARTS study: Creative Arts Therapies as a tool for flourishing
Date: 11 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Briana Applewhite (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Stoke House
Organiser: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Prof Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

Day 1: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2025: Magical Mystery Tour
Date: 12 June 2025, 9:45 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Greening the pharmaceutical sector: rhetoric or reality?
Date: 12 June 2025, 18:00 - 19:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Robin Beachy (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Translational Health Sciences Programme (University of Oxford), Green Templeton College (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

Day 2: HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2025: Magical Mystery Tour
Date: 13 June 2025, 9:30 - 13:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Speaker Event - Learning from the History of the Body
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Lyndal Roper
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Long Covid’s Long History: “ medically invisible disorders”, injustice, and stigma
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Anne Dowker (University of Oxford), Ilana Löwy
Venue Details: Desert Room, School of Geography and the Environment, SoGE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Iris Clever (Chicago)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

The CaTS-App: A new collaborative assessment tool for adolescent self-harm
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Prof. Ellen Townsend (University of Nottingham)
Venue Details: Seminar Room and Online
Organisers: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry), Shreena Patel (Department of Psychiatry), Mina Fazel (Department of Psychiatry)
Host: Galit Geulayov (Department of Psychiatry)

Demographic hysteria, rebellious wombs: The paradox of Iran's family planning project
Date: 17 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Saba Mirhoissein (Bielefeld University)
Venue: Institute of Human Sciences (The Pauling Centre), 58a Banbury Road OX2 6QS
Organisers: Avi Mikhaylov (University of Oxford), Dr Lys Alcayna-Stevens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Philip Kreager (Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Advanced meditation and the third wave of meditation research
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Matthew Sacchet (Harvard University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Navigating Contradictory Mandates in Primary Healthcare. What Can We Learn from Diabetes Prevention in a Rural Mexican Hospital? (Susana Kolb Cadwell)
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker s: Susana Kolb Cadwell (University of Oxford), Professor Mark Harrison (Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini
Host: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 18 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organiser: Medical Humanities (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Addressing equity challenges in the environmental governance of food supply chains: the case of deforestation-risk commodities in the tropics
Date: 18 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Rachael Garrett (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Designing Urban Futures: Can Communities Prosper Under Net Zero?
Date: 18 June 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)
Host: Dr Astrid Krisch (Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation, Kellogg College)

Friday 20 June 2025

Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities: Work in Progress Workshop
Date: 20 June 2025, 10:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: Hande Altinay (University of Oxford), Yuxin Peng (University of Oxford), Professor Erica Charters, Eleanor Kerfoot (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Precarious City: New Regimes of Death and Disease in Early Modern Istanbul
Date: 20 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University–Newark)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Erica Charters (History Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 June 2025

Colloquium 2025: Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences
Date: 23 June 2025, 9:15 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: and Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 June 2025

1-Day Exploratory Workshop: Material Culture in Global History
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ethox Seminar: The End of Family Authority? The Strange Case of Personalized Patient Preference Predictors in Healthcare (provisional title)
Date: 24 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Michiel De Proost (Ghent University)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

Oxford Health Economics Seminar
Date: 26 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Preventing the Preventable: Health Economic Case for Cardiovascular Disease
Date: 26 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Zanfina Ademi (Monash University)
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title Beyond Preventing the Preventable: Health Economic Case for Cardiovascular Disease
Date: 26 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Zanfina Ademi Delane (Monash University)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 30 June 2025

Thinking Outside the Box: Navigating Ethnicity in Genomic Medicine
Date: 30 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Anneke Lucassen (University of Oxford), Maxine Mackintosh (One HealthTech), Zeshan Qureshi, Trupti Patel (Genomics England), Elizabeth Young (West Midlands Genomics Laboratory)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Catherine Lidbetter (Centre for Personalised Medicine), Thea Perry (Centre for Personalised Medicine)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 3 July 2025

Annual Ethics in Film screening 2025
Date: 3 July 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford), Dr Victoria Bradley, Eleanor Kerfoot (University of Oxford)
Venue Details:
Organiser: Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 4 July 2025

Scenario Planning and the Medical Humanities: A Workshop for Uncertain Times
Date: 4 July 2025, 11:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 July 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 July 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Farirai Mutenherwa (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Rosemary Rue Rooms
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Call for Papers : Workshop on Immigration, Health and Wellbeing
Date: 15 July 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
Organiser: Dr Catia Nicodemo (CHSEO, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 16 July 2025

Oxfordshire Community Health and the Humanities
Date: 16 July 2025, 11:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Dr Sally Frampton (University of Oxford), Yuxin Peng (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Radcliffe Humanities, Seminar Room
Organiser: Dr Erica Charters (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

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

Tuesday 16 December 2025

Can we Predict the Future of Psychiatry?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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)
Hosts: TBA

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
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