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
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  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
• 17:00 - Annual Lecture with Prof Jessica Riskin - The Onion Axiom: A History of the Outside-In Approach to Artificial (and Natural) Intelligence
  Professor Jessica Riskin (University of Stanford)

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

Saturday 14 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Translation Day 2025
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 09:30 - Creative Workshop: Manifestos for Activism in Translation
  Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 09:30 - "The One Who Has Arrived Late": Bengali Translation Workshop
  Utsa Bose (History, Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 11:00 - Translating Multilingual Literature: Workshop with Dr Sheela Mahadevan
  Dr Sheela Mahadevan (University of Liverpool)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 12:30 - Starting Out in Translation Studies: Early Career Reflections
  Minna Jeffery, Aoife Cantrill, Dr Georgia Nasseh (University of Cambridge), Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Between Tongues: Poetry and Self-Translation in Celtic Languages
  Menna Elfyn, Petra Joana Poncarova, Mererid Puw Davies
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 15:30 - In Conversation: Polly Barton and Monica Cure
  Polly Barton, Monica Cure
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:45 - “This is Why”: Translators on Translating, Editors on Editing
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 18:30 - Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Short List Readings and Prize-Giving
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

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
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  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