Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - Building State Capacity in Fragile States
  Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Rhetoric and Reality in the Imperial Orations of Niketas Choniates
  Alicia Simpson (American College of Greece)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
  Professor Emanuele Castano (University of Florence)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 17:00 - A Caroline Catholic conversion: Francis Slingsby (1611-42)
  Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall, Oxford)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 18:00 - Book Talk: SIKH: Two Centuries of Western Women’s Art & Writing
  Professor Eleanor Nesbitt (University of Warwick), Professor Simran Jeet Singh (Union Theological Seminary)
  Womanhood in Interfaith Contexts

Friday 23 May 2025

• 13:00 - Black Alternative Culture & Expression | Reading Group
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 17:00 - Trees, Tales, and Tolkien: A Growing Environmental Consciousness from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings
  Andoni Cossio (Basque Country)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Collective Intelligence
  Ivan Vendrov (Midjourney)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
  Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
  Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 17:00 - Thomas Cromwell and William Tyndale: a lost relationship explored
  Please note change of speaker
  Diarmaid MacCulloch
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700

Friday 30 May 2025

• 13:00 - Book Talk - When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors by Paula Akpan
  Paula Akpan
  Race & Resistance
• 17:00 - Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (Book launch)
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Habermas Machine
  Professor Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Michael Henry Tessler (Google Deepmind)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
  Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Frustration and Failure: Medieval Images of Christ's Transfiguration (12th-13th c.)
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Professor Vincent Debiais (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 17:00 - English Reformers in German print, 1547-1603
  Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700

Friday 6 June 2025

• 13:00 - Bravery in Academia? A discussion led by Cerise Jackson
  Cerise Jackson (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  Jowett Society
• 17:00 - Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
  Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 9 June 2025

• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
  Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
  Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - “The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
  John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian style
  David Scott (History of Parliament)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - The Peshitta and the Making of the Antioch Bible
  Dr George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Friday 13 June 2025

• 13:00 - Black Academic Futures (BAF) Research Panel
  Amunet Boafo (University of Oxford), Michelle Codrington-Rogers (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Jake Nebel (Princeton)
  Jowett Society
• 17:00 - Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
  Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 14:00 - Project Clinic
  Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 17:00 - A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
  Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
  Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 17:00 - London public sermons and early modern emotional communities
  Mary Morrissey (Reading University)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700

Friday 20 June 2025

• 13:00 - End of Year Celebration
  TBA
  Race & Resistance
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
  Jowett Society
• 17:00 - The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
  Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
  Tolkien seminars

Wednesday 25 June 2025

• 13:00 - Choosing open access for books: An author journey
  Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University, Open Book Collective)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 1 July 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 7 July 2025

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 24 July 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 7 November 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Potter (Cambridge)
  Jowett Society

Friday 5 December 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
  Jowett Society

Friday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Graham Priest (CUNY)
  Jowett Society

Friday 15 May 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
  Jowett Society

Friday 29 May 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Selim Berker (Harvard)
  Jowett Society

Friday 12 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
  Jowett Society