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

Wednesday 23 April 2025

'Rare typicals and non-classical pathotypes: Insights from the genomes of enteric bacteria isolated in Nigeria' presented by Professor Iruka Okeke
Date: 23 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Professor Iruka Okeke (Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre Richard Doll Building
Organisers: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Host: Pandemic Sciences Institute

Thursday 24 April 2025

New Insights on the relationship between the brain, psychometric instruments and clinical measures
Date: 24 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Todd Constable (Yale University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organiser: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 April 2025

Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
Date: 28 April 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ann Kelly (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 April 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr David Popovic (Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

How to Build Wisdom
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Prof Ruben Laukkonen (Southern Cross University)
Venue Details: Stoke House, Linacre College, 7 Stoke Pl, Headington, Oxford OX3 9BX
Organisers: Professor Morten Kringelbach (Professor of Neuroscience and Director of Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford), Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)
Host: Katarina Jerotic (University of Oxford)

The discovery of ReNU syndrome
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 19:30
Speaker s: Nicola Whiffin (University of Oxford), Yuyang Chen (University of Oxford), Professor Stephan Sanders (IDRM, University of Oxford), Dr Susan Walker (Genomics England), Dr Sarah Wynn (Unique)
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

The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organiser: Andrew Moeller (Kellogg)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 30 April 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: gordon.barrett@history.ox.ac.uk, Professor Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture
Date: 30 April 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Mr Mitchell Warren (Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC))
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Robin Beachy (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

The changing mental health research funding landscape
Date: 6 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Andy Ratcliffe (MQ Mental Health)
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)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Health Economics and Policy Evaluation: Online Course, 2025
Date: 7 May 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue Details: online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoe Screti (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Rethinking nosology, diagnosis, and prognosis
Date: 13 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Paris Lalousis (King's College London)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Rachel Upthegrove (University of Oxford)

'Infection dynamics in a changing world: from climate drivers to immunity and vaccination’ presented by Jess Metcalf
Date: 13 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar room 0+1, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus
Organiser: Pandemic Sciences Institute
Hosts: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 May 2025

Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

GLP-1RAs for cognitive and mental disorders
Date: 20 May 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Riccardo De Giorgi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Catherine Harmer (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 9:30 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr Leah Rand (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Aileen Mooney (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder (iCT-SAD): Evaluation and Dissemination
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

Cognitive therapy coaching for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression in healthcare workers: Pilot development and evaluation
Date: 10 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker : Dr Aimee McKinnon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Andrea Cipriani (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Cathy Creswell (University of Oxford)

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 24 June 2025

Ethox Seminar: title tbc
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
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

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

This list contains talks from the following series:
Ancient Medicine Seminar
BDI seminars
Centre for Personalised Medicine Seminars
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
DSPI Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2023
Ethox Centre Seminars
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars
GCHU Public Seminar series
Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation
Global Health DPhil Discourse
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
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, Science and Technology in Muslim Societies
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