Monday 2 February 2025

• 14:00 - Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - Aquaculture: A Moral, Theological, and Scientific Assessment
  Wine Reception for attendees
  Dr Clair Linzey (Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford)
  Science and Religion Lecture Series | Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 12:30 - Event with Taiwanese Poet Yen Ai-Lin
  Yen Ai-Lin 顏艾琳, Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford), Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford), Samir Ng Sum Leung
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Galadriel: an empty vessel?
  Ryan Syler (Marquette University)
  Tolkien seminars

Wednesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - Worlds of Islam: a global history
  Professor James McDougall (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyrius of Gaza (in collaboration with Translated Texts for Historians and LUP)
  Claudia Rapp (Vienna), Michael Whitby (Birmingham)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 5 February 2025

• 17:00 - Technologies of Reproduction and Sonderauftrag Bayeux: Re-Creating the Bayeux Tapestry for the Third Reich
  Millie Horton-Insch (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Friday 6 February 2025

• 13:00 - "Fascism meant hunger and war": New research into Black-British anti-fascist, Charlie Hutchison
  Daniel Poole (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance

Monday 9 February 2025

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Hallucination, Contemplation, and ‘Ideal Realism’: British Romanticism in Dialogue with Daoism
  Dr Serena Qihui Pei (UCL)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - Palliating Uncertainty: Tools from the Pragmatism of William James
  Dr Ariel Dempsey (Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford)
  Science and Religion Research Seminars | Ian Ramsey Centre Lectures

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 17:00 - Tolkien's Animism
  Erik Jampa Andersson
  Tolkien seminars

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 09:30 - Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Hajj and the Art of Pilgrimage
  Professor Sir Nasser Khalili (Khalili Foundation)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Excavations of the Church of St Polyeuktos at Sarachane Revisited
  Pamela Armstrong (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 13 February 2025

• 13:00 - 'Our “woman talk” was about Marxism and anti-imperialism': Charting the Thought Worlds of the Black Women’s Movement in Britain
  Jade Bentil (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance

Wednesday 18 February 2025

• 17:00 - Dependent Labour in the Late Antique Near East
  Arietta Papaconstantinou (Aix-Marseille)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:30 - Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
  Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 20 February 2025

• 13:00 - Police Power, Plantation Principles: Racialized Expendability and Regional Policing in the Post-Slavery Caribbean Basin
  Morgan DaCosta (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance

Monday 23 February 2025

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: On the Trail of the Detective: Testing a New Comparative Methodology in World Literature
  Oliver Eccles (UCL)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - The Bible and the Earth: A Proposal for Ecotheological Hermeneutics
  Dr Bethany Sollereder (University of Oxford)
  Science and Religion Research Seminars | Ian Ramsey Centre Lectures

Tuesday 24 February 2025

• 17:00 - Beauty and Peril and Sorrow: A Web in Tolkien's Thinking
  Anders Stenström
  Tolkien seminars

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 17:00 - From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
  Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Mapping Unholy Places in Late Antiquity
  Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 27 February 2025

• 13:00 - Race & Resistance: Informal Writing Session
  TBA
  Race & Resistance
• 17:00 - Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions
  Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 2 March 2025

• 14:00 - Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - OxFOS26: AI versus open research: Exploring the evolving tensions
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 3 March 2025

• 11:00 - OxFOS26: The future of Rights Retention to protect researchers' copyright
  Please note: This session is intended for colleagues working in UK higher education libraries and research support roles, including scholarly communications, open research, copyright, and library policy. To enable open discussion, the session will be run as a closed meeting.
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - OxFOS26: Future of open research in humanities and social sciences
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Modes of Remembering in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fictional World
  Mina Lukić Gunner (University of Belgrade)
  Tolkien seminars

Wednesday 4 March 2025

• 10:00 - OxFOS26: Oxford Forum of Open Scholarship - Conference day
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - The Anatomy of a Conversion: Nicolaus Steno and the Search for Religious Certainty in the “Scientific Revolution”
  Wine reception for attendees
  Dr Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Science and Religion Lecture Series | Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
• 17:00 - Transnational ties of faith: Imdadullah’s letters and writings from the Hijaz during the late-19th century
  Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Ubiquitous and Universal? Rebellion and State Formation between Byzantium and Early Islam
  Alasdair Grant (Hamburg)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 5 March 2025

• 13:00 - OxFOS26: Cultivating FAIR data across disciplines: Examples of collaborative initiatives and practical tools
  Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Allyson Lister, Dan Crane, Beth Knazook
  Open Scholarship

Friday 6 March 2025

• 11:00 - OxFOS26: How to do open research safely
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Book Talk | Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
  Dr Brian Kwoba (University of Memphis)
  Race & Resistance

Monday 9 March 2025

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Teaching the Coloniality of the Climate Crisis in Translation: Indonesian and Dutch Flood Narratives
  Lucelle Pardoe (UCL)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - Quantum Worldviews - Believing and Belonging
  Dr Shaun Henson (Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford)
  Science and Religion Research Seminars | Ian Ramsey Centre Lectures

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 17:00 - Habitatio est omen - or: like land, like people
  Thomas Honegger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
  Tolkien seminars

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 17:00 - Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
  Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Unbecoming Roman: Performative Ethnicity and Panspermía in the Byzantine World c.1190-1235
  Nathan Websdale (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum
  Emily Guerry
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Cécile Voyer (Université de Poitiers)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Many Lives of the Asante Ewers
  Lloyd Debeer (British Museum)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - Contemporary Art Meets the Medieval Monastery
  Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 11 June 2025

• 09:00 - Day 1 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
  Various Speakers
  McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026: Reimagining Humanism
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Meg Bernstein (University of East Anglia)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Reimagining Humanism | McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026
  Register for the conference on Eventbrite. Please note that upon completing the Eventbrite registration, we will be in touch regarding payment methods.
  Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Slavica Jakelić (Richard P. Baepler Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Valparaiso University), Randi Rashkover (Nathan and Sofia Gumenick Chair of Judaic Studies, William & Mary), Eric Gregory (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Religion, Princeton University), Ufuk Topkara (Professor of Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin), Professor Joshua Hordern, Aaron Stalnaker (Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University), Chammah Kaunda (Academic Dean at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS))

Friday 12 June 2025

• 09:00 - Day 2 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
  Various Speakers
  McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026: Reimagining Humanism