Wednesday 24 September 2025

• 13:00 - The Future is Now: Addressing Multidimensional Poverty for Sustainable Development (UNGA 80)
  Claver Gatete (Executive Secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)), Sidi Ahmed Ould Bouh (Minister of Economy and Finance, Mauritania), Yorleni León Marchena (Minister of Human Development and Social Inclusion, Costa Rica), Ali Haidar Ahmed (Minister of Higher Education, Labour and Skills Development, Maldives), Obid Khakimov (Deputy Advisor to the President, Director of Centre for Economic Research and Reforms (CERR), Uzbekistan), Paula Poblete (Undersecretary of Social Evaluation, Ministry of Social Development and Family, Chile), Claudia Maldonado (Coordinator of Evaluation and Policy, National System of Statistical and Geographical Information, Mexico), Nardos Bekele-Thomas (Chief Executive Officer, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)), Bjørg Sandkjær (Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)), Lin Yang (Deputy Executive Secretary, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)), Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski (Director of Gender, Poverty, & Social Policy, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA))

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 11:00 - Introduction to online resources for historians: show and tell
  Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 12:30 - No CSAE Seminar today
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 14:00 - Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 22 October 2025

• 12:30 - Training to end Poverty?
  Stefano Caria (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:15 - Military entrepreneurs, foreign soldiers, and Sweden’s wars of emergence 1560–1630
  Jaakko Björklund (Helsinki)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 24 October 2025

• 09:30 - Choosing and using software for referencing
  Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - "The traitor and agent Tshombe is in the hands of the Algerian revolution": 1960s plane hijackings between global anti-imperialism and international law
  Natalya Vince (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 10:00 - Preparing for your literature review in the social sciences
  Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Beyond the Mountains: Social and Political Imaginaries in Gilgit-Baltistan
  Dr Nosheen Ali (NYU)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 12:30 - The Social Consequences of Traditional Religion in Contemporary Africa
  Sara Lowes (University of California, San Diego)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Friday 31 October 2025

• 14:00 - Anti-apartheid in the international imagination: Capitalism, Socialism, Liberalism
  Saul Dubow (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 November 2025

• 09:30 - Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Miguel Arana-Catania (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 14:00 - Working with sensitive research data
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 12:30 - No Place Like Home? The Causal Effect of Forced Relocation from Central Addis Ababa
  Simon Franklin (Queen Mary University of London)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:00 - Getting started in Oxford libraries
  Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Wanne Mendonck (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 17:15 - A minor power in a total war: Sweden’s system of military procurement during the campaigns against Napoleon, 1805-1807 and 1813-1814
  Patrik Winton (Örebro)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 09:30 - Undergraduate critical thinking with academic sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Rhodes (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Friday 7 November 2025

• 14:00 - Daring To Be Free: Enslaved Resistance in the Atlantic World
  Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 10:00 - Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
  Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jeremy McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
  Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 12:30 - The Power of Persuasion: Causal Effects of Household Communication on Women’s Employment
  Madeline McKelway (Dartmouth College)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 13:00 - Using Scopus for your research
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Friday 14 November 2025

• 13:30 - Zotero for referencing
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - The Oppressed Assemble: Socialist Anti-Colonialism and the Promise of Post-Imperial Modernity
  Zaib un Nisa Aziz (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 15:00 - Scholarly literature for your research
  Craig Finlay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:30 - Undergraduate critical thinking with newspaper and social media sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Elizabeth McIntosh (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Keeping up to date with research
  Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Louise Wetherill (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 17:15 - Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
  Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 21 November 2025

• 09:30 - EndNote for referencing
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Using AI to find, analyse, and share information sources
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
  Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 11:00 - Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Dan Crane (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 09:30 - EndNote for referencing
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:30 - No CSAE Seminar today
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 09:30 - Zotero for referencing
  Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - RefWorks for referencing
  Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Friday 28 November 2025

• 14:00 - Art and Decolonial Love: Visualizing Just Futures in the Chicanx Civil Rights Movement
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:00 - Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 12:30 - No CSAE Seminar today
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:15 - The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
  Marc Howard (Independent Scholar)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 5 December 2025

• 14:00 - The Americas in Catholicism’s Global Cold War
  Daniel McDonald (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 9 December 2025

• 13:00 - Searching for patents and standards
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 21 January 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 28 January 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 4 February 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Ahmed Elsayed (The American University in Cairo)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 17 February 2025

• 15:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 18 February 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 4 March 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 29 April 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Nina Buchmann (Princeton University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 6 May 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 12 May 2025

• 11:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 13 May 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 19 May 2025

• 11:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 20 May 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  David Lagakos (Boston University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 26 May 2025

• 11:00 - Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 27 May 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Lydia Assouad (London School of Economics)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 3 June 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 10 June 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 17 June 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars