Wednesday 14 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “Byzantine refugees as crusade propagandists: The travels of Nicholas Agallon, 1454-5”
  Jonathan Harris (Royal Holloway, London)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 21 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “John of Cappadocia and the ‘Gift from God’”
  TBA
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 28 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “Byzantine Concentric Churches of Jerusalem and their Impact on Palestine and Beyond”
  Vered Shalev (Wolfson)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Tuesday 3 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - 2015 Loebel Lectures: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure - Neurobiological materialism collides with the experience of being human
  All are welcome to attend these public lectures but BOOKING IS REQUIRED
  Professor Steven E Hyman (Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “Androna and the Late Antique Cities of Oriens”
  Marlia Mango (St John’s)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 18:00 - 2015 Loebel Lectures: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure - Science is quietly, inexorably eroding many core assumptions underlying psychiatry
  All are welcome to attend these public lectures but BOOKING IS REQUIRED
  Professor Steven E Hyman (Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - 2015 Loebel Lectures: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure - What is the upshot?
  All are welcome to attend these public lectures but BOOKING IS REQUIRED.
  Professor Steven E Hyman (Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research)
  Psychiatry Seminars

Wednesday 11 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “Lessons from a New History of Byzantium, 955-1097 AD”
  TBA
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “How Constantinople stopped its emperors going the way of the way of the fifth-century West”
  Adrastos Omissi (Oriel)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “The Vlachs in the French chronicles, Constantinople, and the echo chamber”
  Florin Curta (University of Florida)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 2 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “Between Conquest and History: Arabic Memory of the Fall of Byzantine Egypt”
  Edward Zychowicz-Coghill (Worcester)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 20 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Book Epigrams, Metrical Paratexts, and ‘Inscriptional’ Verses in Byzantine Manuscripts”
  Andreas Rhoby (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 27 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Publishing Byzantine historiography in early modern Europe: a historical and bibliographical survey.”
  Geri della Rocca de Candal (ERC Research Fellow, Bodleian Library)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 3 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Divine-theurgic Unions of Individuals with their Personal Daimons and Internalised Gods in the Greek Magical Papyri”
  Eleni Pachoumi (North-West University, South Africa)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "Continuity and Tradition in Greek Orthodox Monasteries in the Crusader States”
  Andrew Jotischky (Lancaster University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “The chimaera of the grammarians: middle voice in the Byzantine grammatical tradition, some insights.”
  Juan Signes Codoñer (University of Valladolid)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 24 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Reliques of Old Rhetoric: Artistic Elements in the Homilies of Sophronius of Jerusalem”
  John Duffy (Harvard University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 2 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Between Roman latifundia and the Late Medieval Black Sea: was slavery widespread in middle Byzantium?”
  Marek Jankowiak (Wolfson)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 9 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Glimpses of Shared Sacred Sites in the Levant”
  Miranda Williams (Faculty of Classics), Judith McKenzie (St. Hugh’s)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - OUBS Fieldtrip to Armenia: Report
  Matthew Kinloch et al. (OUBS)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Fall of the House of Constantine, 324-366 A.D.
  George Woudhuysen (All Souls College)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Eustathios at Prodromos Petra? Some Remarks on the Manuscript Tradition of the Exegesis in Canonem lambicum Pentecostalem
  Silvia Ronchey (University of Rome)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Violence against Christians and Shi'is in the Early Islamic Period: Formation of a Persecuting Society
  Christian Sahner (St John's College, Cambridge)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Reading about Writing about Heretics: Recent Scholarship on Heresiology and Some Ideas for Moving Forward
  Tia Kolbaba (Rutgers University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The lives of the women of the Komnenian house under Manuel I, as seen in the poems of Mangeneios Prodomos
  Michael Jeffreys (University of Sydney/ Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dominic Brookshaw (Wadham College)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Cappadocian churches; hubs of monasteries or civic shrines
  Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “The Material Forms of Cultural Transfer: Migrations of People and Books in the Early Medieval Mediterranean. Greek Texts from East to West”
  Filippo Ronconi (EHESS, Paris)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “Andronikos II and an-Nāṣir Muḥammad: Byzantine-Mamluk relations and the situation of Orthodox Christians under Mamluk rule at the beginning of the 14th century”
  Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “Working-drawings of Icon Painters”
  Maria Vassilaki (Crete)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “The Byzantine harbour and shipwrecks at Yenikapı, Istanbul: Recent research”
  CANCELLED: Unfortunately, Prof. Ufuk and Işıl Kocabaş, who were scheduled to speak today WED at 5 in the Ioannou on the Yenikapı shipwrecks, have been unable to secure UK visas in time to travel. The seminar has had, therefore, with great regret to be cancelled.
  Ufuk Kocabaş (Istanbul), Işıl Kocabaş (Istanbul)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 9 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “At the periphery of the Empire: the Byzantine provinces of southern Italy and Constantinople”
  Vera von Falkenhausen (Rome)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "Historical symbolism of the Great Palace of Constantinople"
  Michael Featherstone (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “Not Just Cheese and Potatoes: Recent Research on Naxos and the Byzantine Aegean”
  Jim Crow (Edinburgh)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “All the Emperor’s Men (and His Nephews): Paideia and Networking Strategies at the Court of Andronikos II Palaiologos, 1290–1320”
  Niels Gaul (Edinburgh)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 18 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Democracy and Social Decisions
  Amartya Sen (Harvard)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar
• 17:00 - OCBR SPECIAL LECTURE: How to spend it? Wealth, Charity and Remembrance in the late Byzantine period
  Dionysios Stathakopoulos
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - The Metaphysical Transparency of Truth
  TBA
  The Jowett Society and The Philosophical Society

Monday 23 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Claimability of Directed Duties
  Tom Sinclair (University of Oxford)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar
• 16:30 - The substitutional theory of logical consequence
  Volker Halbach (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Egypt in the Sasanian Empire (619–629): Stability, Continuity, and Tolerance?
  Phil Booth (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 27 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - How to Individuate Concepts
  Cressida Gaukroger (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress
• 15:30 - Ambiguity in Disjunctive Antecedents
  TBA
  The Jowett Society and The Philosophical Society

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Limits in the Revision Theory
  Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol)
  Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
• 16:30 - Is Close Enough Good Enough?
  Campbell Brown (London School of Economics)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Silencing and Poetry
  Maximilian de Gaynesford (University of Reading)
  The Aesthetics Seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Distinction between Erotica and Pornography (1) & The Dangers of 'Make-up' Sex (2)
  Charlotte Figueroa (University of Oxford), James Kirkpatrick (University of Cambridge), Daisy Dixon (University of Cambridge)
  The Ockham Society
• 17:00 - Invaders and Neighbours. The Beginnings of the First
  Daniel Ziemann (University of Budapest)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - What is the difference between a claim of justice and any other kind of moral claim?
  Samuel Bruce (University of Oxford)

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Free from desire?
  TBA
  The Jowett Society and The Philosophical Society
• 15:30 - Free from desire?
  Prof Richard Holton (University of Cambridge)
  The Philosphical Society

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Chapter four of Zoopolis by Donaldson and Kymlicka: 'Domesticated Animals Within Animal Rights Theory'.
  TBA
  Animal Ethics Reading Group
• 14:30 - Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit - Perception §§ 420–421
  TBA
  Hegel Reading Group
• 16:30 - In Defence of Spies – Espionage in War
  Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The demon of the city: Ernst Cassirer on myth and Plato
  Dr. Tae-Yeoun Keum (University of Oxford)
  The Post-Kantian Seminar

Wednesday 8 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Belief, Credence and Intention (1) & Outline of a Mereology for Activities (2)
  Matthew Hewson (University of Oxford), Alexander Heape (University of Oxford)
  The Ockham Society
• 17:00 - The organization of sacred space in a Constantinopolitan church: the case of Saint John the Baptist of Oxeia
  Michel Kaplan (University of Paris)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 18:00 - Type Theory & Set Theory
  TBA
  The MLE Seminar

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Title TBC
  Terence Irwin (University of Oxford)
  Ancient Philosophy Workshop
• 16:30 - How multiverses might undercut the fine-tuning argument
  Alastair Wilson (University of Birmingham)
  Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Friday 10 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Text: The World as Will and Representation (v.I/II)
  TBA
  Schopenhauer Reading Group
• 09:30 - Heidegger Reading Group Week 4 HT17
  TBA
  Heidegger Reading Group
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Tom McClelland (Warwick)
  Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress
• 15:30 - Physics and Fundamentality
  TBA
  The Jowett Society and The Philosophical Society

Monday 13 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Animal Ethics Reading Group
• 14:30 - Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit - ‘Understanding/Intellect §§ 422–423’
  TBA
  Hegel Reading Group
• 16:30 - Consistency, a catchword making the second incompleteness theorem more spectacular than the first: Comments on a comment by Georg Kreisel
  Doukas Kapantais (Athens)
  Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
• 16:30 - Revolution and Intervention
  Massimo Renzo (King's College London)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Aesthetic testimony, understanding and virtue
  Prof Alison Hills (University of Oxford)
  The Aesthetics Seminar
• 16:00 - The Neuroscience of Moral Agency (Or: How I Learned to Love Determinism and Still Respect Myself in the Morning)
  William Casebeer (Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories)

Wednesday 15 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Myth of the Given Advice - Does the Well-being of the animals matter just as much as ours?
  Dr Michael Bruckner (University of Oxford)
• 16:30 - Rethinking agreement in Plato
  Dr Lesley Brown (University of Oxford)
  Ancient Philosophy Workshop
• 17:00 - Byzantium in the West: roundabout Apulia
  Paul Arthur (University of Lecce)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - An anthropic explanation for the nearly equal angular diameters of the Sun and Moon.
  Steven Balbus (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy of Physics Seminar

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Meta-Ethics Behind Animal Liberation - “Peter Singer, R.M. Hare, and the Trouble With Logical Consistency” – Rhys Southan
  Gary O'Brien (University of Oxford)
  Animal Ethics Reading Group
• 14:30 - Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit - Self-Consciousness §§ 424–425
  Susanne Herrmann-Sinai (University of Oxford)
  Hegel Reading Group
• 16:30 - Generality explained: A truth-maker semantics
  Øystein Linnebo (Oslo)
  Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
• 16:30 - Cats, Vagabonds, and True Feelings
  Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Contingent Brutalist answer to the Special Composition Question
  Tomi Francis (University of Oxford)
  The Ockham Society
• 16:30 - Particles in a Quantum Ontology of Properties
  Daniel Kodaj (University of Oxford)
  The Metaphysics of Entanglement

Wednesday 22 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The twelfth-century chronicle ofJohn Zonaras and its audience
  Theofili Kampianaki (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - ‘Making best systems best for us.’
  Christian Loew (University of Luxembourg)
  The Metaphysics of Entanglement
• 16:30 - Quantum monads
  Simon Saunders (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy of Physics Seminar
• 16:30 - The Protagoras on the Nature of Akratic Error
  Naly Thaler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
  Ancient Philosophy Workshop
• 18:00 - Frege’s puzzle - Andrew BaconThe Logic of Opacity (manuscript)
  Dr Andrew Bacon (University of Oxford)
  The MLE Seminar

Friday 24 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - The World as Will and Representation (v.I/II)
  Laurenz Casser (University of Oxford)
  Schopenhauer Reading Group
• 09:30 - ‘Modern Science, Metaphysics, and Mathematics’ (from What is a Thing?)
  Maciej Czerkawski (University of Oxford)
  Heidegger Reading Group
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Sophie Archer (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress
• 14:00 - Wolfgang Blankenburg, First steps toward a psychopathology of ‘common sense’, in: The Maudsley Reader, 158-165 (also in: Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 8(4), 2001, 303-15).
  Marcin Moskalewicz (University of Oxford)
  Phenomenological Psychopathology
• 15:30 - ‘Into the Frying Pan: the Power of Excuses’
  Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge)
  The Jowett Society and The Philosophical Society

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit - ‘Desire §§ 426–429’
  Susanne Herrmann-Sinai (University of Oxford)
  Hegel Reading Group
• 16:30 - Temptation and Preference-Based Instrumental Rationality
  Johanna Thoma (London School of Economics)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - ‘When Moral Intuitions go on Holiday’ - ‘Liability and Overdetermination’
  Gary O'Brien (University of Oxford), Benjamin Lange (University of Oxford)
  The Ockham Society
• 16:00 - The 3rd Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation and Reception
  Jonas Haeg (Graduate), Andreas Masvie (Undergraduate), Paul de Font-Reaulx (Undergraduate), Romy Eskens (Graduate)
• 17:00 - The Septuagint in the Biblical Catenae
  Gilles Dorival (University of Aix-Marseille)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - ‘How to explain non-local correlations in entangled states.’
  Tomasz Bigaj (University of Warsaw)
  The Metaphysics of Entanglement
• 13:00 - Philosophy of Physics Graduate Lunch Seminar
  Katie Robertson (University Oxford)
• 16:30 - How ψ-ontic are ψ-ontic models?
  Ronnie Hermens (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy of Physics Seminar
• 16:30 - Reality is Not Structured (forthcoming in Analysis)
  Jeremy Goodman (University of Oxford)
  The MLE Seminar
• 17:30 - Autism and Moral Responsibility: Executive Function and the Reactive Attitudes
  Professor Kenneth Richman (MCPHS University, Boston)

Friday 3 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - The World as Will and Representation (v.I/II)
  Laurenz Casser (University of Oxford)
  Schopenhauer Reading Group
• 09:30 - ‘Modern Science, Metaphysics, and Mathematics’ (from What is a Thing?)
  Maciej Czerkawski (University of Oxford)
  Heidegger Reading Group
• 14:00 - : Viktor Emil von Gebsattel, The world of the compulsive, in: The Maudsley Reader, 233-240 (also in: Existence, ed. R. May et. al. New York 1958).
  Marcin Moskalewicz (University of Oxford)
  Phenomenological Psychopathology
• 15:30 - ‘Breaking the Chain of Causation’
  Alex Kaiserman (University of Oxford)
  The Jowett Society and The Philosophical Society

Monday 6 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Animal Ethics Reading Group
• 16:00 - The Power of Pictures
  Anne Eaton (U. Illinois at Chicago)
  The Aesthetics Seminar
• 16:30 - An Aristotelian approach for contemporary mathematics
  Donald Gillies (King’s College London)
  Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar
• 16:30 - The Option Value of Life
  Susanne Burri (London School of Economics)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Kant, Teleology and Natural History: “Race” in the Critique of Pure Reason
  Professor Stella Sandford (Kingston University, London)
  The Post-Kantian Seminar

Wednesday 8 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Recognizant Self-consciousness §§ 430
  Please contact the convenor regarding the venue
  TBA
  Hegel Reading Group
• 13:00 - (1) The Secret Doctrine in Plato's Theaetetus, (2) A categorical logic of expression for Leibniz
  Guus Eelink (University of Oxford), Matthew McMillan (University of Oxford)
  The Ockham Society
• 16:30 - Is Mereology Empirical? Composition for Fermions (presented by the author)
  Adam Caulton (University of Oxford)
  The Metaphysics of Entanglement
• 17:00 - Constantinople between the Ottomans, the Bulgarians, and the West: the creation of the last Byzantine monetary system in 1372
  Julian Baker (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Explanatory (A)symmetries and Humean Laws
  Michael Hicks (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy of Physics Seminar
• 17:00 - Kalon, Sumpheron, Hêdu in the Nicomachean Ethics
  Please note this is the Ackrill Lecture being held in Lecture Room XI, Brasenose College
  Richard Kraut (Northwestern)
  Ancient Philosophy Workshop
• 18:00 - Higher-Order Logic & Modality
  Dr Andrew Bacon (University of Oxford)
  The MLE Seminar

Friday 10 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  John Michael (Warwick)
  Philosophy of Mind Work in Progress

Monday 13 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy 2017
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Two Kinds of Culpability
  Dr David Brink (UCSD)
  Moral Philosophy Seminar
• 16:30 - Craing the mathematical machine
  Professor Ursula Martin (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “OUBS Fieldtrip to Bulgaria: Report”
  Mirela Ivanova et al. (OUBS)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - From the human condition to a standard of judgement
  Michael Smith (Princeton University)
  The 2017 John Locke Lecture
• 17:00 - Sizing up Julian: the Christian Cappadocian Perspective
  Neil McLynn (University of Oxford)
  The Metaphysics of Entanglement

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - On Emergence and Emergent Powers
  TBA
  The Metaphysics of Entanglement

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Basil of Caesarea reinvented in Byzantium? From the holy bishop to the father of the monks”
  Olivier Delouis (Paris)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Seven Hellenes and one Christian in the Endless Peace treaty of 532: a reappraisal of the protecting clause about the philosophers ”
  Ekaterina Nachaeva (Zurich)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Framing a Narrative: Synagogue Conversion in the Late Antique Mediterranean”
  Simon Ford (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Murder or a Legitimate Medical Procedure: the Withdrawal of Artificial Nutrition & Fluids from a Patient in a Persistent Vegetative Condition
  Professor John Paris (Boston College)
• 17:30 - TT17 St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: John Paris
  Dr. John J. Paris (Boston College)

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Dobrynia Iadreikovich’s 1200 pilgrimage to Constantinople: Byzantine ceremonial culture through the eyes of travellers from Rus”
  Alexandra Vukovich (Cambridge)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Christ, Fire, Gospels: images of theophany in the Chapel of Galla Placidia in Ravenna ”
  Maria Lidova (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 2 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Solving the Replication Crisis in Psychology: Insights from History and Philosphy of Science
  Brian Earp (Yale University)
• 16:00 - TT17 Uehire Special Public Lecture: Brian Earp
  Brian Earp (Yale University)

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Aiming for Moral Mediocrity
  Professor Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California Riverside)

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “The Byzantine Text of the Greek New Testament”
  Georgi Parpulov (London - Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Working on the Greek Anthology”
  Arianna Gullo (Durham)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - On Moral Experts
  Professor John-Stewart Gordon (Vytautas Magnus University)

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Obligations to the Needy: Effective Altruism, Pluralism, and Singer’s Pond Example
  The first lecture is jointly organised with Professor McMahan's Moral Philosophy Seminar Series. Booking is required.
  Professor Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Obligations to the Needy: Singer’s Pond Example versus Supporting International Aid Organizations—Some Disanalogies and Their Normative Significance
  Booking required.
  Professor Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Obligations to the Needy: Some Empirical Worries and Uncomfortable Philosophical Possibilities
  Booking is required.
  Professor Larry S. Temkin (Rutgers University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'Alexander's legacy. The Hellenistic justification of monarchy'
  György Geréby (Central European University)
  Isaiah Berlin Lectures in the History of Ideas
• 17:00 - The Killing of Mani, Crippled by the ‘Lie’: Zoroastrian Hermeneutics as Sasanian Historiography
  Yuhan Vevaina
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'Theocracy and the Kingdom of God. Biblical and early Christian polities'
  György Geréby (Central European University)
  Isaiah Berlin Lectures in the History of Ideas
• 17:00 - Anatomy of a murder: Patriarch John VII of Jerusalem († 966) and Melkite status in early Islamic Palestine
  Dan Reynolds
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Religious dress
  The Right Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'Christianity for and against the empire. Eusebius or Augustine?'
  György Geréby (Central European University)
  Isaiah Berlin Lectures in the History of Ideas
• 17:00 - Narrating the Eleventh-Century Crisis from Constantinople to Caucasia: Aristakes Lastivertsi and Michael Attaleiates Compared
  Nicholas Matheou
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Collective inaction and group-based ignorance
  Dr Anne Schwenkenbecher (Murdoch University)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - '"No church without an emperor". The Byzantine symphony'
  György Geréby (Central European University)
  Isaiah Berlin Lectures in the History of Ideas
• 17:00 - Some ways in which to think about Byzantium as global
  Catherine Holmes
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Life and Growth
  Prof Chad Jones (Stanford University)
  Global Priorities Seminars

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'Two swords and two luminaries. The conflict in the Latin West'
  György Geréby (Central European University)
  Isaiah Berlin Lectures in the History of Ideas
• 17:00 - The accounting in the Book of Ceremonies
  Constantin Zuckerman
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Special Lecture: Palestine/Israel: history is undecided...
  Ambassador Afif Safieh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action
  Dr Tom Buller (Illinois State University)

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Axioms and Mechanisms for Donor Coordination
  Dominik Peters (University of Oxford)
  Global Priorities Seminars

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cultural Mobility in Late Antique Armenia
  Emilio Bonfiglio
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Special Lecture: Dialogue in action: the witness of St Francis of Assisi
  Cardinal Vincent Nichols (Archbishop of Westminster)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond the periphery: the Byzantine Insular World between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (ca. 600-ca. 900)
  Luca Zavagno
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - What is Later Byzantium? Towards a New Periodization of Byzantine Cultural History
  Foteini Spingou
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Eliciting Values to Build a Multidimensional Index: Women's Empowerment in Tunisia
  Dr Natalie Quinn (University of Oxford)
  Global Priorities Seminars

Friday 16 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Love and Vulnerability: In Memory of Pamela Sue Anderson
  Various Speakers

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Special OCBR Lecture: The Caucasian Alans between Byzantine Christianity and traditional paganism
  Richard Foltz
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall: Qur’an translator and novelist’
  Dr Peter Clark (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'The right to freedom of religion: cases and controversies’
  The Lord Pannick QC (Distinguished Fellow)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Long-termism for risk averse altruists
  TBA
  Global Priorities Seminars

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Procreative Beneficence: The Moral Obligation to Select the Best Child
  Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Recognising the true Lord: a Confucian approach to Islamic theology in the writings of the Chinese Muslim scholar Liu Zhi’
  Dr James Frankel (Hong Kong)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Anna Komnene: Gender and authorship in 12th-century Byzantium
  Leonora Neville
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The psychology of (in)effective giving
  Dr Stefan Schubert, Lucius Caviola (University of Oxford)
  Global Priorities Seminars

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Al-Azhar and the Ulama’
  Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Copenhagen)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Special OCBR Lecture: The Author of the Patria
  Paul Magdalino
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The Future of Mobility: How and why will we transport ourselves in the next decades
  Carlo van de Weijer (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Program Evaluation in the Presence of Strategic Interactions
  Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan (Nuffield College)
  Global Priorities Seminars

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Speculative men: thinking analogically about Islam and Christian sectarianism in seventeenth and eighteenth century England’
  Professor Ros Ballaster
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Reports on the LABS Trip to Iran
  Various Speakers
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - 2018 Uehiro Lecture One: Dementia & The Social Scaffold Of Memory
  Prof Richard Holton (University of Cambridge)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘1918: The fall of the Ottomans and the beginning of a century of conflict’
  Professor Eugene Rogan
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - A Muslim contribution to the development of naval arsenals
  David Blackman, Carlos Tejedor
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 2018 Uehiro Lecture Three: Illness And Attitude
  Prof Richard Holton (University of Cambridge)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - What Good Is Imprecision?
  Prof Miriam Schoenfield (MIT)
  Global Priorities Seminars

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'The moral economy: why good incentives are no substitutes for good citizens’
  Professor Samuel Bowles (Sante Fe Institute)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The formation of a Turco-Islamic world region in and around the Oipchaq Steppe in the early modern age’
  Dr Joo-Yup Lee (Toronto )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The officium stratoris in the Palaiologan period. New reflections on the nature of imperial power in the 13th-15th centuries
  Raul Estangui
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Intertheoretic comparisons and effective altruism
  Dr Stefan Riedener (University of Zurich)
  Global Priorities Seminars

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis
  Professor Matthew Adler (Duke University)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Humanitarianism, gender and religion in forced migration’
  Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - , Old statues, new meanings. Literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence for Christian re-interpretation of classical statuary
  Ine Jacobs
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Altruistic capital
  Prof Nava Ashraf (LSE)
  Global Priorities Seminars

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - The REF policy for Open Access - why and what?
  Claire Fraser (Research England)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Help! I'm an author, get me out of here
  Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Play the Publishing Trap game
  Jane Secker (UK Copyright Literacy), Chris Morrison (UK Copyright Literacy)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - NIHR Open Access policy and progress
  Justin Riordan-Jones (Department of Health & Social Care)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:30 - OUC-WEH Double Seminar: Rethinking "Disease" ; Invertebrate Animal Ethics
  Asst Prof Russell Powell (Boston University), Asst Prof Irina Mikhalevich (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Openness and humanities
  Pip Willcox (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:15 - Digital theses and open access
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Latest developments in altmetrics
  Jean Liu (Altmetric)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Byzantine scribes and their paratexts
  Georgi Parpulov
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:45 - Publishers, papers and peer review
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - A New Argument for Ethical Pluralism With a Surprising Implication for Ideal Moral Theory
  Professor Allen Buchanan (Duke University)

Friday 15 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The EU and open access: OpenAire and Horizon 2020
  Frank Manista (JISC)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:00 - A theory of good intentions
  Prof Paul Niehaus (UC San Diego)
  Global Priorities Seminars
• 13:00 - Open Access: A pubisher's perspective
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 17:30 - Book launch: The Evolution of Moral Progress
  Professor Allen Buchanan (Duke University), Asst Prof Russell Powell (Boston University)

Thursday 21 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Panel Discussion: Neurotech Now, and Beyond the Horizon
  Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University), Dr Hannah Maslen (Oxford Martin School ), Dr Emilian Mihailov (University of Bucharest), Dr Cristian Iftode (University of Bucharest), Dr Hazem Zohny (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford - what's happening?
  Andy Kernot (Bodleian Libraries), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 23 July 2018 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford - what's happening?
  Judith Ames (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 27 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Fake News and the Politics of Truth
  Professor Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut)

Tuesday 2 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Global Legal Epidemiology: Developing a Science Around Whether, When and How International Law Can Address Global Challenges
  Professor Steven J. Hoffman (Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Global Strategy Lab at the University of Ottawa)

Thursday 4 October 2018 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Book Launch for 'Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children'
  Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Prof Dominic Wilkinson

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Byzantine literature in the Slavic world: serendipity or intention?
  Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - 'Islamic charities since the 1970s: a record of growth and suppression’
  Mr Jonathan Benthall (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Predator and Virtue
  MAJ Joe Chapa (University of Oxford)

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Non-identity, times infinity
  Dr Christian Tarsney (GPI, University of Oxford)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Centres, peripheries and networks: an impossible triangle to square in Byzantium?
  Dr Catherine Holmes
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘”Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology and trade in Eastern Ethiopia’
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Principles of Spying: The Ethics of Intelligence Collection and Analysis
  Professor Seumas Miller (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford - what's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Looking east: Christian art outside the world of Christian hegemony
  Professor Jaś Elsner
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The world in the year 1000: new connections within and beyond the Islamic world’
  Professor Valerie Hansen (Yale)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Autonomous Weapons and Societal Responsibility
  Dr Michael Robillard (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: Digital Theses and open access
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 10:30 - Two Types of Long-Termism
  Tatjana Visak (Goethe University of Frankfurt)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series
• 11:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  Jason Partridge (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The typology of nomad empires
  Dr James Howard-Johnston
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Jeddah 100 years ago…through the French lense’
  Dr Louis Blin (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Political Bioethics
  Dr Benjamin Gregg (University of Texas at Austin)

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Story-telling east and west
  Professor Marc Lauxtermann
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The Russian conquest of Central Asia in Persianate historiography’
  Dr Alexander Morrison
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Killing in the Gray Zone: Who Should Die When We Can't 'Kill Our Way to Victory'?
  LTC Bob Underwood (University of Oxford)

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Risk and the regulation of new technologies
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Byzantium and the Miaphysite commonwealth
  Dr Phil Booth
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The political legacy of Islamic conquest’
  Dr Faisal Z. Ahmed (Princeton )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time
  Helen Small (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Antiquity and identity in Byzantine, Italian and Ottoman cultures
  Dr Ida Toth
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The politics of Islamic law: colonialism, mobility, translation’
  Dr Iza Hussin (Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - The African Way of War
  Please note change of speaker (Prof Mitt Regan no longer available)
  LTC Jospeh Guido (US Army)

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Empire and commonwealth today
  Professor Dame Averil Cameron
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Siyasa Shari-iyya: some insights from nineteenth-century Egypt’
  Professor Khaled Fahmy (American University of Cairo )
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Joint OUC-WEH Seminar: Utilitarianism about Animals and the Moral Significance of Use
  David Killoren (Australian Catholic University), Robert Streiffer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "Becoming Muslim”: The archaeology of Islamisation and trade in Eastern Ethiopia
  Professor Timothy Insoll (Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Vienna Euchologia Project: New Sources for the Social History of Byzantium (OCBR LECTURE)
  Claudia Rapp (Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:30 - Regulating War: Does Timing Matter?
  Sarah Percy (University of Western Australia)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The ontological (in)security of similarity: Islamism in Saudi foreign policy
  Dr May Darwich (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Byzance après Byzance? Metrical inscriptions c. 1450-1650
  Andreas Rhoby (Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Some proposals on the textual transmission of Barlaam and Ioasaph
  Sergio Basso (Rome)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:30 - Military Lives and Transformative Experiences
  Sam Clark (Lancaster University)

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - History in tables: Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī's “synoptic account” of the Timurid history and its complete manuscript
  Dr İlker Evrim Binbaş (Bonn)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Manzikert, Dandanqan, and Somnath: Nomadic and sedentary warfare in medieval Eurasia
  George Malagaris (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe’s Cholera Outbreak 2008/09
  Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Why we should guarantee a not-so-bad world for future generations
  Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access and Plan S: a talk by David Sweeney
  David Sweeney (Research England)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Mongol empire and Islamisation
  Professor Andrew Peacock (St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Applied poetry and prose: Greek incantations and amulets in Byzantium
  Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:30 - The Problem of Personal Force
  Dr Emilian Mihailov (University of Bucharest)

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - What can effective altruists and decolonial activists learn from each other?
  Joanna Burch-Brown (Bristol University)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - British-Islamic identity: third-generation Bangladeshis from East London
  Dr Aminul Hoque (Goldsmiths)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - New light on the seventh century: the corpus of seals from Carthage
  Vivien Prigent (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - First steps towards prioritisation in animal welfare and effective environmentalism
  Laura Scherer (Leiden University)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The making of Ottoman kingship at the dawn of empire
  Dr Christopher Markiewicz (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Byzantine Imitation Coins and the Emergence of Rus
  Alexandra Vukovich (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:30 - The Ethics of the Chemical Weapons Taboo
  Michelle Bentley (University of London)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Is there a Moral Problem with the Gig Economy?
  Dr Daniel Halliday (University of Melbourne)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Axiology, identity, and lifespan
  David Manley (University of Michigan)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Convergence of Open: Open Access, Education, Data & Culture
  Martin Poulter (Wikimedia UK)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:15 - Corporate Insecthood
  Dr Nina Strohminger (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access and Monographs: publishers, policies, practicalities
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Paywall: the movie
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Qur’an in English: challenges and choices for Surat an-Nisa
  Professor Bruce Lawrence (Duke University), Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Festschrift Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys – book launch
  Teresa Shawcross (Princeton), Ida Toth (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Learned Societies and the transition to Open Access
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 17:30 - Xenia: Refugees, Displaced Persons and Reciprocity
  Professor John Harris (University of Manchester)

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - A new approach to effect heterogeneity for clinical trials
  Anders Huitfeldt
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Play the 'Publishing Trap' board game
  Jane Secker (UK Copyright Literacy), Chris Morrison (UK Copyright Literacy)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 12 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Bodleian iSkills: Open Access Oxford - what's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:30 - The Ethics of Stress, Resilience, and Moral Injury Among Police and Military Personnel
  Professor Seumas Miller (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Simon's Story: Delusion as a Case Study in Neuroscience and Values-based Practice
  Professor Bill Fulford

Wednesday 24 April 2019 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: what's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Religion, War and Terrorism
  Professor Tony Coady (University of Melbourne)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Seals and Identity in Byzantium
  Claudia Sode (Cologne)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  Jason Partridge (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - Islamization and the formation of a vernacular tradition: Muslim funerary monuments in 15th-century northern Sumatra
  R. Michael Feener (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Richard Baxter Reminiscent: life writing in the Reliquiae and other works
  Eamon Duffy (Magdalene College, Cambridge)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - SPECIAL SEMINAR: Futures of the Past: the secondary versions of the Chronicle of the Logothete from a philologist´s point of view
  Staffan Wahlgren (Trondheim)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 12:00 - How to Challenge Common-Sense Morality
  Andrew Sepielli (University of Toronto)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Variation in Learned Byzantine Greek
  Staffan Wahlgren (Trondheim)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "The godlye election of a Kyng": Debating the Succession, 1549-1558
  Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - The Character & Consequences of Today’s Technology Tsunami
  Richard Danzig (Center for a New American Security)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'What a "Textual Forensics" Might Tell us about How Arabic Writers Conserved the Past (ca. 900-1200)'
  Sarah Savant
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Report on the trip to Greece
  Katerina Vavaliou et al
  Katerina Vavaliou (OUBS)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Technology Roulette: The Danger of the Pursuit of Technological Superiority
  Richard Danzig (Center for a New American Security)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Fulke Greville and the intellectual culture of Puritanism
  Freya Sierhuis (University of York)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'Escaping the Nafs in Socialist Egypt: Abd al-Halim Mahmud’s Search for a Sufi Master'
  Hatsuki Aishima
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Cyril and Methodios, apostles to the Slavs? Missionary Hagiography between Rome and Constantinople
  Mirela Ivanova (OUBS)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - British Reformations Compared
  Henry Jefferies (Thornhill College, Derry)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700
• 17:30 - Health, self-management and empowerment: mHealth technologies from a public health perspective
  Dr Tereza Hendl (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: what's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - '"A most thrilling drama hastening to a tragic end": The Spectacle of Ottoman Decline in Early Twentieth-Century India'
  Faridah Zaman
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Arithmetic Texts and Networks of Learning: From Medieval India Through the Mediterranean World
  This seminar will be in the First Floor Seminar Room
  Alessandra Petrocchi (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Matters overlooked: straightening out the story of the Reformation
  Diarmaid MacCulloch
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE: Homer and Late antique Poetry in the light of new poems by Dioscorus of Aphrodite
  Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France, Paris)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:30 - When Speed Kills: Autonomous Weapon Systems, Deterrence, and Stability
  Prof. Michael Horowitz (University of Pennsylvania)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - England's abortive reformation 1640-42
  Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Valuing (far) future generations
  Prof Marc Fleurbaey (University of Princeton )
• 17:30 - Can spying be principled in this digital age?
  Professor Sir David Omand (King's College London)

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'Another Genealogy of Critique: On Islam and Reason'
  Irfan Ahmad
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Cross-cultural transfer of medical knowledge in the medieval Mediterranean: from the Islamic world to Byzantium
  Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (Edinburgh)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sacred signs in Reformation Scotland
  Stephen Holmes (Rector of the United Benefice of Padstow, St Merryn, and St Issey with St Petroc Minor, Little Petherick, Hon Fellow in the History of Christianity at Edinburgh University School of Divinity (New College))
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers with Bruce Schneier
  Bruce Schneier (Harvard Kennedy School)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Orthodox Death, Burial and Commemoration in Late Byzantium and under Ottoman Rule, ca. 1300-1600
  Zachary Chitwood (Mainz)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Natural religion and political thought in Reformation Britain
  Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Friday 19 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Robotics has a race problem
  Professor Rob Sparrow (Monash Bioethics Centre)

Monday 19 August 2019 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access: Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 28 August 2019 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: what's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - 2019 Uehiro Lecture 1: What Has Gone Wrong? Populist politics and the mobilization of fear and resentment
  Professor Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
  2019 Uehiro Lectures: Can We Talk? Communicating Moral Concern in an Era of Polarized Politics

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - 2019 Uehiro Lecture 2: Improving Political Discourse (1): Re-learning how to talk about facts across group identities
  Professor Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
  2019 Uehiro Lectures: Can We Talk? Communicating Moral Concern in an Era of Polarized Politics

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - 2019 Uehiro Lecture 3: Improving Political Discourse (2): Communicating moral concern beyond blaming and shaming
  Professor Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
  2019 Uehiro Lectures: Can We Talk? Communicating Moral Concern in an Era of Polarized Politics
• 17:00 - Light and Fire: Hesychast hagiography and editorial practice in late Byzantium
  Mihail Mitrea (Newcastle)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - OCCT Welcome Drinks
  Organising Committee
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  Jason Partridge (University of Oxford, Bodleian Libraries), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group
  OCCT
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening? (Part of International Open Access Week 2019)
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access: Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you (Part of International Open Access Week 2019)
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sally Rumsey (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The fictive mosaics of medieval Serbia
  Ivan Drpić (Pennsylvania)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Slovenian novelists Dušan Šarotar and Dino Bauk - in conversation with Patrick McGuiness
  Please note room change to Seminar Room 11
  Patrick McGuiness
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 30 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - New approaches to the 13th century: Prosopography, networks and tree rings
  Ekaterini Mitsiou (Göttingen)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Erin Mouré Discusses an Extract from Her Latest Translation
  Erin Moure, has a life-threatening peanut allergy and anyone who wishes to attend the session must not eat or bring anything with peanuts on the day. Lunch will be cancelled as a precautionary measure.
  Erin Mouré
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Commerce in Byzantium in the long eleventh century
  Chris Wickham (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Translation Workshop
  Peter Cole
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - John Mystikos – an underrated envoy to Rus?
  Jonathan Shepard (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Hearing the Drawing: Ekphrastic Poetry and Translation, A Reading and Conversation
  Peter Cole
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Kyoko Yoshida Discusses the Translation and Re-translation of Yoshimasu Gozo’s Alice Iris Red Horse
  Dr Kyoko Yoshida
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Fiction and Other Minds: “Operationalising the interactive turn of Social Neuroscience through Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction paradigms”.
  Guillame Dumas (Institut Pasteur)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From "successor state" to "empire"? The relationship between Trebizond and Constantinople during the Palaiologan period
  Annika Asp (Birmingham)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Seeing, reading and understanding a metrical inscription in late Antiquity
  Gianfranco Agosti (Rome)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - CANCELLED - Special Session of the Discussion Group: Conversation on the two Transcript Monographs
  EVENT CANCELLED
  Julia Caterina Hartley (Warwick University), Amy Xiaofan Amy Lin (UCL)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Representations of Romanness in Byzantine civil wars
  Yannis Stouraitis (Rome)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 15 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Yeogeun Kim
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Vitriolic attacks in twelfth-century Byzantium: Poetry, satirical strands, and intellectual antagonism
  Nikos Zagklas (Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Julia Caterina Hartley (Warwick University), Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Last border of Byzantium? Byzantine-Seljuk border zone in lower Sakarya valley from Komnenoi to Palaiologoi
  Roman Shlyakhtin (Mainz)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds
  Professor Dan Zahavi (St Hilda's College), Naomi Rokotnitz (Worcester College)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:30 - Why is mental healthcare so ethically confusing? Clinicians and institutions from an anthropological perspective
  Dr Neil Armstrong (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - On the History, improperly styled “Secret”, of Nicetas of Paphlagonia, and the power of anathema over books
  Constantin Zuckerman (Paris)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Jennifer Croft discusses and reads from Homesick and her translations
  Jennifer Croft
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:30 - Debating Forced Medical Feeding: a Critical Examination of Israeli Responses to Hunger Strikes
  Professor Noam Zohar (Bar Ilan University)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Saturday 22 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Translational Spaces: Language, Literatures, Disciplines Conference
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  Discussion group
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Christians, Turks, and the origins of the First Crusade
  Alexander Mallett (Waseda, Tokyo)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - African Classics: Translating texts, translated contexts
  Antjie Krog, Nkosinathi Sithole, Chris Dunton
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Is textual criticism dead? A report on the forthcoming edition of Nikephoros Choumnos’ letter collections
  Alexander Riehle (Harvard)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Book Launch - Prismatic Translation
  Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - CANCELLED - Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Discussion Group
  This event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Margherita Laera (University of Kent)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Plan S and cOAlition S (Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020)
  Sally Rumsey (Jisc & cOAlition S)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - The International FAIR movement for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable research data (Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020)
  Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Oxford e-Research Centre & Dept of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Implementing the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) - Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020
  David Carr (Open Research, Wellcome Trust), Professor Alis Oancea (University of Oxford), Professor Anne Trefethen (University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Excerpta Constantiniana and the editor of the fragmentary historians: New fragments from Dexippus and Polybius
  Andras Nemeth (Vatican)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:30 - Making Trustworthy Science: Some Philosophical and Ethical Puzzles
  Open to the public – booking required.
  Brian Earp (Yale University)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Robust research: a practical guide (Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020)
  Dr Verena Heise (Nuffield Dept of Population Health, Univ of Oxford; & Reproducible Research Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you (Part of Open Access Oxford Week 2020)
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 27 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB)
  Jointly organised with the Moral Philosophy Seminars
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The case for collective defined contribution (CDC)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions

Thursday 30 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAYG) pension
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions
• 17:00 - The Re-establishment of the Church of England 1660-3 Revisited
  Prof Kenneth Fincham (University of Kent)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Mehmed II’s Patria, Byzas’ Palace, and Ottoman Hellenism in the Fifteenth Century
  If you don't have an Oxford email address please email marek.jankowiak@history.ox.ac.uk
  Aslıhan Akışık (Wolfson)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 7 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Medically Assisted Dying in Canada: from where we’ve come; to where we’re heading
  Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z1wEPMJHT36-omb9-HEC4Q After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
  Professor Arthur Schafer (University of Manitoba)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Anglicanism and "Occasional Nonconformity" in South-West Wales, c.1660-1700
  Dr James Harris (Newcastle University)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700
• 17:00 - The dilemmas of Bishop John Williams
  This seminar will take place on Microsoft Teams; please contact Sarah Mortimer (sarah.mortimer@chch.ox.ac.uk) for an e-invitation
  Clive Holmes, Felicity Heal
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Wednesday 13 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Dockerty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Transmission of Monumental Art: Travelling Saints and Monastic Networks
  If you don't have an Oxford email address please email marek.jankowiak@history.ox.ac.uk
  Pamela Armstrong (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 14 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What has Purgatory to do with the Persian Monarchy? Chronology and Theology in late Elizabethan England
  Dr Kirsten Macfarlane (University of Oxford)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Oxford Translation Day: Parwana Fayyaz on the Poets of Herat
  Parwana Fayyaz (University of Cambrige)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 20 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A New Key to Understanding the Schism?
  If you don't have an Oxford email address please email marek.jankowiak@history.ox.ac.uk
  Alessandra Bucossi (Venice)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Popular Devotion? The O bone Jesu Prayer in English Books of Hours in the Fifteenth Century
  Dr Rob Lutton (University of Nottingham)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700
• 17:00 - Discussion of the Reformation, art and visual culture
  This seminar will take place on Microsoft Teams; please contact Sarah Mortimer (sarah.mortimer@chch.ox.ac.uk) for an e-invitation
  Roisin Watson, Sarah Mortimer, Katie McKeogh
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Monday 25 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Translation Day – Ghost Letters: A Poetry Reading with Baba Badji
  Baba Badji
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Dockerty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Representations of Romanness in Byzantine Civil Wars
  If you don't have an Oxford email address please email marek.jankowiak@history.ox.ac.uk
  Yannis Stouraitis (Edinburgh)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Petitioning for the Settling of the Church: The Lancashire and Cheshire Presbyterian Campaign of 1646 and its Contexts
  Dr James Mawdesley (Lancaster University)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Monday 1 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Dramaturgy, Translation, and Reception around/in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
  Estelle Baudou (University of Oxford), Giovanna Di Martin (St Anne's College, Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 4 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Inventing the Anglican Reformation: Scholarship, Rivalry, and the Fate of English Protestantism
  Prof Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700
• 17:00 - Body or spirit? Practical and spiritual responses to illness in early modern England
  This seminar will take place on Microsoft Teams; please contact Sarah Mortimer (sarah.mortimer@chch.ox.ac.uk) for an e-invitation
  Elizabeth Hunter (QMUL), Hannah Cleugh (Diocese of Ely)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Excerpta Constantiniana: Revisiting Constantine VII’s Cultural Enterprise
  This meeting will be held with Google Meet - meet.google.com/dqa-ytsv-okk
  Andras Nemeth (Vatican)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Choosing Now for Later: Precedent Autonomy and Problem of Surrogate Decision-Making After Severe Brain Injury
  Dr Mackenzie Graham (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Origins of the 1641 Irish Rebellion: Religion and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
  Dr Joan Redmond (KCL)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700

Saturday 13 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Oxford Translation Day – Sophie Hughes Discusses the Novel Hurricane Season
  Sophie Hughes
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 15:00 - Oxford Translation Day: A.E. Stallings
  A.E Stallings
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 15:00 - Oxford Translation Day: Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Shortlist
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - OCCT Discussion Group: Translation and the Zsolnay Publishing House, 1924-1938
  Tatsiana Haiden (University of Vienna)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 17 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  This session will be delivered through Microsoft Teams
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Catherine Dockerty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Writing a New History of Byzantium
  This meeting will be held with Google Meet - meet.google.com/dqa-ytsv-okk
  Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio SU)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 18 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 'A Wall of Defence unto the Realm': Conformity and the Early Elizabethan State
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (University of Oxford)
  Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700
• 17:00 - 'Violence and religion in seventeenth-century Britain
  This seminar will take place on Microsoft Teams; please contact Sarah Mortimer (sarah.mortimer@chch.ox.ac.uk) for an e-invitation
  Jacob Chatterjee (Oxford), Floris Verhaart (Queen's, Belfast), Karie Schultz (Queen's, Belfast)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Wednesday 15 July 2020 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Juliet Ralph (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 30 September 2020 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Shortlisted Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize Translators Reading and Discussing Their Translations
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 19:00 - Award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 7 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - GovAI Webinar - Economic Growth in the Long Run: Artificial Intelligence Explosion or an Empty Planet?
  Ben Jones, Chad Jones

Monday 12 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating conscientious objection in healthcare
  Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - AI: simulation and dissimulation
  Dr Yaqub Chaudhary (Cambridge Muslim College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Saudi Arabia and the rise and fall of Political Islam
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Bernard Haykel (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Monday 19 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Poetry Reading with Jennifer Wong
  Jennifer Wong
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamist transformations after the Arab Uprisings: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement
  Dr Rory McCarthy (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 22 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Our Moral Fate: Evolution and the Escape From Tribalism
  Professor Allen Buchanan (Duke University)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Archives and archival sensibilities in medieval Arabic Historiography
  Dr Fozia Bora (Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Censorship’s Implications for Artificial Intelligence
  Jeffrey Ding (University of Oxford), Margaret Roberts (UC San Diego)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Bioethics and the Public: Graduate Discussion Meeting
  Various Speakers

Monday 2 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - OCCT Review on Transdisciplinary Modernism
  Niamh Burns, Rowan Anderson
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (1/3): The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB)
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Money, markets and monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and political economy of the Middle East
  Dr Adam Hanieh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (2/3): The case for collective defined contribution (CDC)
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islam, liberalism and national identity: Lessons from British Islamic institutions
  Dr Stephen H. Jones (Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Monday 16 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Transitioning into the vernacular: China and Greece in parallel
  Claudio Russello
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (3/3): The case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAYG) pension
  Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Counting Shaykhs in hadith collections
  Professor Christopher Melchert
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Affect, Value and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity
  Assoc. Professor Jennifer Hawkins (Duke University)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Using field experiments to learn about religious behavior
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Adam Osman (Illinois (Urbana-Champaign))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Nana Asma’u (d. 1864): The erudite poet and mystic of the Sokoto Caliphate
  Dr Minlib Dallh
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Monday 30 November 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What script teaches us about the state of world literary studies
  Dr Sowon S Park (UCSB)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Alchemical interpretations of the Qur’an in the Shudhūr al-dhahab (Shards of Gold) and its commentaries
  Dr Richard Todd (Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Book talk: Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Ahmet Kuru (San Diego State)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Tuesday 8 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 10 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 6 January 2021 (-1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 11 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access: New Welcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 15 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access: New Wellcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: New Welcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines
  David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ioana Marinescu (University of Pennsylvania), Katya Klinova (The Partnership on AI)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series
• 17:00 - P.Lond I 113.10, the tribute of Cyrus, and the Muslim conquest of Egypt
  Marek Jankowiak (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived
  Dr Morten Kringelbach (Associate Professor, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Discussion Group - Translation and Gender
  Eleonora Colli (Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Imperial Piety, Warfare and Eschatology in the Age of Heraclius
  Nadine Viermann (Heidelberg)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: New Welcome Trust Policy
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Jonathan Shea (Dumbarton Oaks)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Discussion Group - Book Launch of Colonial and Postcolonial Cyprus
  Daniele Nunziata (Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 10 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Why "Galata”? New epigraphic evidence on the toponomastics of a suburb of Constantinople
  Paweł Nowakowski (Warsaw)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Fasting in eleventh-century Byzantium: a crisis of authority
  Dirk Krausmüller (Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Discussion Group – Translating Haruki Murakami
  David Karashima (University of Tokyo)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Deification for all: Rethinking the role of Palamas in the history of Hesychasm
  Rei Hakamada (Okayama/Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Towards a plasticity of the mind – New-ish ethical conundrums in dementia care, treatment, and research
  David Lyreskog (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - George Pachymeres and the decline of the restored Byzantine empire
  Warren Treadgold (St Louis)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Discussion Group - Work Practices and the Construction of Truth in the Translation of Marxist Texts
  Christina Delistathi (Westminster)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Tuula Lindgren (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 10:00 - The Frontier of Democracy: Audrey Tang on Taiwan’s digital democracy, collaborative civic technologies, and beneficial information flows
  Audrey Tang (Digital minister of Taiwan), Hélène Landemore (Yale University)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Collected from all kinds of places: Building and exploring a corpus of Byzantine book epigrams
  Kristoffel Demoen (Ghent), Floris Bernard (Ghent)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Fictions of Retranslations: Retranslating Language and Style in Prose Fiction
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 28 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Of Fleas and Men. Byzantine Cultural Entomology
  Przemysław Marciniak (Katowice)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access: How to make CC licences work for you
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Re-establishment of the Church of England 1660-3 Revisited
  Professor Kenneth Fincham (University of Kent)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - The Byzantine Near East: Opportunities and Hesitations
  Scott Johnson (University of Oklahoma)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 3 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Translating Walis Nokan: Intertextuality, Hybridity, and Minimalism in Contemporary Flash Fiction from Taiwan
  Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - AI and Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz in discussion with Anton Korinek
  Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University), Anton Korinek (University of Virginia)
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  TBA
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 5 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Open Access: Authors, copyright and open access - making it work for you
  Sarah Barkla (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Why do Methods change? On the Significance of 815 for Byzantine Thought
  Christophe Erismann (Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Anglicanism and "Occasional Nonconformity" in South-West Wales, c.1660-1700
  Dr James Harris (Newcastle University)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Monastic Documents and Islamic Governance in Abbasid Egypt
  Cecilia Palombo (Leiden University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What has Purgatory to do with the Persian Monarchy? Chronology and Theology in late Elizabethan England
  Dr Kirsten Macfarlane (University of Oxford)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Manichaean Roads
  Étienne de la Vaissière (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Book Launch of Speaking Politically: Adorno and Postcolo-nial Fiction
  Eleni Philippou (University of Oxford), Daniele Nunziata (Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - What is in the Bath: Pilgrims, Brides, and Baptism in the Early Byzantine Passion of Barbara
  Daria Resh (NYU/Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Fighting diseases of poverty through research: Deadly dilemmas, moral distress and misplaced responsibilities
  Professor Maureen Kelley (Nuffield Department of Population Health)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Criminal Justice Reform and Religious Reformation in Early Tudor England
  Professor Margaret McGlynn (Western University)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Written Literature in the Kingdom of the Persian Sasanids
  Kevin van Bladel (Yale University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:30 - The Gratitude of the Suffering Earth
  Professor John Behr (Senior Visiting Fellow, The Laudato Si' Research Institute)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Word as Bond in an Age of Division. John Eugenikos as Orator, Partisan, and Poet
  Krystina Kubina (Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Petitioning for the Settling of the Church:The Lancashire and Cheshire Presbyterian Campaign of 1646 and its Contexts
  Dr James Mawdesley (Lancaster University)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - The Making of the Marwanid "Language Reform": Translations, Economic Incentives, and Scribal Training in the Umayyad State
  Marie Legendre (University of Edinburgh)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 28 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Tuula Lindgren (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 31 May 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Curse of Knowledge: The Translator as Perpetual Stu-dent
  Anton Hur (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity
  Grace Stafford (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Waiver or understanding? A dilemma for autonomists about informed consent
  Professor Gopal Sreenivasan (Duke University)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Inventing the Anglican Reformation: Scholarship, Rivalry, and the Fate of English Protestantism
  Professor Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Applying the Lens of Unfreedom to Early Islamic History: Possibilities and Challenges
  Elizabeth Urban (West Chester University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Wednesday 9 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Who wants a union? Rethinking the negotiations between the Armenians and the Byzantines for an ecclesiastical union in the 12th century
  Karen Hamada (Tokyo/Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 10 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Religious Responses to Epidemic Disease in Scotia nd,1348-1648
  Professor Richard Oram (University of Stirling)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - "Those Who Pray Without Ceasing": Ascetic Reading and Recitation in the Qur'an
  Nora K Schmid (Oxford)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Translating’ Mother Courage and Her Children to Africa and the UK
  Oladipo ‘Dipo’ Agboluaje (Goldsmiths), Tiziana Morosetti (Goldsmiths)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:30 - Should welfare equality be a global priority? (Parfit Memorial Lecture 2021)
  Prof. Orri Stefansson (Stockholm University and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study)

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Theodore Prodromos: Towards an edition of his Letters and Speeches
  Michiel Op de Coul (Tilburg)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 17 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Stealing Bibles in Early Modern London
  Professor Ethan Shagan (nUniversity of Califoria, Berkeley)
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Prosopgraphy as a Tool for Microhistory and Macrohistory. A Close Examination of P. Lond. IV 1447
  Naïm Vanthieghem (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 21 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Redesigning AI for Shared Prosperity: An Agenda by Stephanie Bell and Katya Klinova
  TBA
  Governance of AI Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Open Access: UKRI Policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group - Modernism in Trieste
  Denis Topalović
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: what's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: The ‘human element’ in the social space of the courtroom: Framing and influencing the deliberative process in mental capacity law
  This event will be held both online and in-person. See webpage for booking/registration links. If attending in-person, please note the following: Please do not attend the seminar if you are displaying any symptoms of COVID-19. Social distancing is no longer mandatory, however we will be running at a reduced capacity until further notice to allow people to maintain a comfortable distance and be considerate of others’ space. The wearing of face coverings is no longer mandatory however we strongly encourage the use of face coverings when moving around the building and using communal spaces, corridors, bathrooms etc. Regular symptom-free testing will continue to be strongly encouraged for all staff who are working on site.
  Professor Michael Dunn
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Book Launch – Stefano Evangelista's Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere
  Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Poetry Reading – Yousif M. Qasmiyeh's Writing The Camp
  Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Preaching in the Second Iconoclasm. The homilies of Joseph of Thessalonica
  Theodora Antonopoulou (Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - People and Power in Hagia Sophia (532-1204)
  Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: UKRI Policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Open Access: UKRI Policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:45 - Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100-1250 – Ayoush Lazikani
  Ayoush Lazikani
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Writing and reading anti-Islamic polemics in Byzantium: the "Conversation of the monk Euthymios with a Saracen philosopher" (12th c.)
  Luisa Andriollo (Pisa)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Vaccine policies and challenge trials: the ethics of relative risk in public health
  This event will be held both online and in-person. See webpage for booking/registration links. If attending in-person, please note the following: Please do not attend the seminar if you are displaying any symptoms of COVID-19. Social distancing is no longer mandatory, however we will be running at a reduced capacity until further notice to allow people to maintain a comfortable distance and be considerate of others’ space. The wearing of face coverings is no longer mandatory however we strongly encourage the use of face coverings when moving around the building and using communal spaces, corridors, bathrooms etc. Regular symptom-free testing will continue to be strongly encouraged for all staff who are working on site.
  Dr Sarah Chan (University of Edinburgh)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Saturday 20 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Queer Poetry Workshop – Stuart Bell and Sophie Seita
  Stuart Bell, Sophie Seita
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Everyday life beyond Symeon the Fool
  Luke Lavan (Kent)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - From Constantinople and its hinterland to Theophanes and Procopius
  Geoffrey Greatrex (Ottawa)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Vincenzo Ruggieri (Pontificio Istituto Orientale)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - History on the Margins: The Problem of Persian Historiography in the Deccan Sultanates
  Dr Roy Fischel (Department of History, SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Queer Poetry Reading – Édith Azam, Laura Doyle Péan, Calliope Michail, Lola Olufemi, Azad Ashim Sharma
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Jamie McKendrick's exhibition 'The Years and After'
  Jamie McKendrick
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Production, trade and networks in southern Italy
  Elisabetta Neri (Liège)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 16 December 2021 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Ruth Mallalieu (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Gibbs (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 19 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - M. Whiting, E. Turquois, M. Ritter (Mainz and Halle), Introduction to the DFG project “Procopius and the Language of Buildings”
  Marlena Whiting (Mainz and Halle)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - What is Shona? Investigating a Language
  Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Reworking the Buildings: The shorter recension as a later epitome
  Elodie Turquois (Mainz)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Long Walls and Linear Barriers in the South Balkan Provinces
  Efthymios Rizos (Serres)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Translating Vladimir Sharov
  Dr Oliver Ready (St Antony's College)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Abrahamic Interpretations of the Sacrifice of Abraham’s Son
  Dr Edward Kessler MBE (Founder-President of the Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Procopius, De Aedificiis and Eastern Thrace: Is absence the highest form of presence?
  Jim Crow (Edinburgh)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Dr Theodore M. Lechterman
  Dr Theodore M. Lechterman (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Procopius and the reflection of water landscapes in the 6th century
  Alkiviadis Ginalis (Istanbul)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 19:30 - Amnesty International and the rise of human rights activism in post-war Britain
  Professor Tom Buchanan (Oxford)
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Monday 21 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - American Literature and Politics of Reception in Iran between Two Revolutions
  Behnam M. Fomeshi
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reflections on the Arab Spring Ten Years On
  Sir Geoffrey Adams KCMG (British Ambassador to Egypt (2018-2021))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Building Stories: Constantinople in Malalas and Procopius
  Olivier Gengler (Tübingen)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Against Legalizing Female 'Circumcision' of Minors
  Dr Brian D Earp (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Saturday 26 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Metaphors in Translation Conference
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 2 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Polish World Literature
  Dr Karolina Watroba, Professor Tamara Trojanowska (Toronto), Dr Stanley Bill (Cambridge), Ola Sidorkiewicz (Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Smallpox, Polio, and Muslim "Resistance": reconsidering trust in global health
  Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya (York)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - Re-building Byzantium: Archaeological evidence on the construction activities under Justinian in Constantinople and its neighbourhoods
  Kerim Altuğ (Istanbul)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The Diasporic Canon
  Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Moral Creditworthiness and Moral Obligation
  Professor Robert N Audi (University of Notre Dame)

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Daulat, Saltanat and the Sultan in the Mughal and Ottoman Worlds
  Dr Gagan Sood (Department of International History, LSE)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:30 - “He restored all the dismantled fortresses in Libya” (Aed. vi.5.7): Reassessing the Justinianic fortification programme in North Africa
  Miranda Williams (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - How to Overcome Global Crises: Climate Change and Pandemics
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Nelson Mandela Fellow)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 24 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Paton (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 31 March 2022 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:30 - The Word Became Image: The Use of Magic Lanterns in Mission and Evangelism by British Baptists
  Rev Dr Karen Smith (Cardiff University)
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Monday 11 April 2022 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The puzzles: what we are trying to understand
  Professor Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  John Locke Lectures 2022: Reports of what we say, know, or believe
• 17:00 - Twelfth-Century Scholars on the Moral Value of Ancient Poetry
  Baukje van den Berg (Central European University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Islam and the Strategic Global Rivalry over Energy: Illustrations from Afghanistan
  Dr Mohammad Talib (OCIS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 28 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Dissolution of the Monasteries and its Legacies in the Early Modern Historical Imagination
  Harriet Lyon
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Friday 29 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Kantian Aesthetics, week 1: Kantian aesthetic judgments
  Maya Krishnan (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
  Kantian Aesthetics

Monday 2 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Rewriting the Rules in Translation - Mohini Gupta
  Mohini Gupta
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Reporting what we say
  Professor Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  John Locke Lectures 2022: Reports of what we say, know, or believe
• 17:00 - The siege of Constantinople in 717-718: the embarrassing memory of a triumph
  Marie-France Auzépy (emerita, Université Paris 8)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 5 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Religion and political thought in early modern Britain - and beyond
  Sarah Mortimer
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (Lecture 1/3)
  These lectures may be attended in-person (booking via Bookwhen) or online (register in advance on Zoom). Booking/registration details for each lecture are on our website.
  Professor Peter Railton (Michigan)
  2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics

Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Open Access: Your Thesis, Copyright & ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Modal building blocks
  Professor Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  John Locke Lectures 2022: Reports of what we say, know, or believe
• 17:00 - Kosmokrator: the origins of the iconographic tradition, between East and West
  Anca Dan (CNRS, Paris Sciences & Lettres)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Islam and Child Rights: The Role of Religion in the Development of the Law
  Justice Imman Ali (Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Appellate Division)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds Seminar
  Professor Joseph Glicksohn (Bar-Ilan University), Professor Chanita Goodblatt (Ben Gurion University)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:30 - Alibi: Italian Poets in the UK - Marta Arnaldi, Gëzim Hajdari, Luca Paci
  Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford), Peter Hainsworth, Luca Paci, Gëzim Hajdari
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Coming to Synodical Grips with John Cotton’s Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven in Westminster, London, and Cambridge, Massachusetts
  Michael Winship
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Friday 13 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Kantian Aesthetics, week 3: The Sublime -- Aesthetics and morality
  Maya Krishnan (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
  Kantian Aesthetics

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (Lecture 2/3)
  These lectures may be attended in-person (booking via Bookwhen) or online (register in advance on Zoom). Booking/registration details for each lecture are on our website.
  Professor Peter Railton (Michigan)
  2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics
• 17:00 - George Rousseau Lecture: Edward Gibbon and Lausanne
  Professor Béla Kapossy (University of Lausanne & EPFL)
  George Rousseau Lectures
• 18:00 - Translation in Multilingualism, Multilingualism in Translation: Two Versions of Giannina Braschi's Yo-Yo Boing!
  Ellen Jones
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Reporting what we know
  Professor Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  John Locke Lectures 2022: Reports of what we say, know, or believe
• 17:00 - From Princes Islands to Oxford: Greek Manuscripts from the Holy Trinity of Halki
  Matthieu Cassin (CNRS-IRHT)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Truth, Knowledge, and Power in Islam Before the Nineteenth Century: A Heuristic Perspective on the Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law
  Professor Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 19 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Open Access Oxford: What's happening?
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Family chapels in post-Reformation England
  Richard Cusk
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Kantian Aesthetics, week 4: The divine mind, imagination, and poetry
  Maya Krishnan (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
  Kantian Aesthetics

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (Lecture 3/3)
  These lectures may be attended in-person (booking via Bookwhen) or online (register in advance on Zoom). Booking/registration details for each lecture are on our website.
  Professor Peter Railton (Michigan)
  2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Open Access: British Heart Foundation (BHF) Open Access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Reporting what we believe
  Professor Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  John Locke Lectures 2022: Reports of what we say, know, or believe
• 17:00 - Architecture and Sculpture in the Early Byzantine Peloponnese: Defining a Regional Context
  Priscilla Ralli (French School of Archaeology, Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Caliph, Sultan and Scholar: The Political Career of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210)
  Dr Ayman Shihadeh (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 26 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Peacemaking and the Clergy during the English Revolution
  William White
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Towards a typology
  Professor Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  John Locke Lectures 2022: Reports of what we say, know, or believe
• 17:00 - The Byzantine Dark Ages at Aphrodisias
  This seminar has been postponed until Michaelmas Term
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ine Jacobs (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Mr Simon Collis (Former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (2015-20))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 2 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Looking East: Greek Christian Influences on the English Reformations
  Anastasia Stylianou
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Monday 6 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Co-Translating Polish Literature
  Professor Michael Parker (University of Oxford), Aleksandra Parker
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 8 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Greek letters from the Arab chancery: who wrote the governors’ missives in eight-century Fusṭāṭ
  Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - The Quest for Reforms of Islamic Systems of Education in Nigeria
  Professor Kabiru Chafe (Ahmadu Bello University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 9 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Two Kingdoms Theology and Political Duties: The Intellectual Framework of the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
  Karie Schultz
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Bitesize ethics: Introduction to practical ethics
  Emma Dore-Horgan, Emma Dore-Horgan
  Bitesize ethics (Festival of Arguments)
• 12:45 - After Liberation: Militarised Masculinities and Intergenerational Conflicts in Angolan and Algerian Narratives
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 14 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Bitesize ethics: Reproductive decision making
  Dr Katrien Devolder (University of Oxford)
  Bitesize ethics (Festival of Arguments)
• 17:30 - Hope in Healthcare
  Dr Stephen Clarke (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:45 - Uehiro Mini-Workshop: The Ethics of Behavioural Influence & Discrimination
  Professor Thomas Douglas (Oxford), Dr Gabriel De Marco (Oxford), Professor Lucia Zedner (Oxford), Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)
• 12:30 - Bitesize ethics: Authenticity and neurointerventions
  Dr Muriel Leuenberger
  Bitesize ethics (Festival of Arguments)
• 15:00 - The Shallow Pond and the Fat Man: Two thought experiments
  Dave Edmonds
• 17:00 - John Mauropous: verse, structure, and poetry book
  Ugo Mondini (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - The Reconstruction of the Awliya Domes in Hadramut, Yemen (2019-2021)
  Professor Salma Damluji (American University of Beirut)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 19:00 - “Trust me, I am an expert”. How to understand expertise during a public health crisis
  Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford), Dr Maru Mormina (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Bitesize ethics: Contested decisions in healthcare
  Dr Benjamin Davies
  Bitesize ethics (Festival of Arguments)
• 17:00 - Justifying Rebellion: Violence and Religion in Ireland, 1641-2
  Joan Redmond
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Friday 17 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Bitesize ethics: Hedonism and pleasure
  Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford)
  Bitesize ethics (Festival of Arguments)
• 15:00 - What's the point of ethics? The new generation of philosophers discusses.
  Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Avital Freid, Lily Moore-Eissenberg, Matthew Price, Leo Rodgers

Thursday 23 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Disinformation, Information Warfare and the Roles of Epistemic Institutions
  TBA
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Thursday 30 June 2022 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:30 - William Carey and Botany: a Critical Cosmopolitan-Transnational Apprenticeship
  Professor Saptarshi Mallik (Kolkata University)
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Wednesday 6 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Ending a Romantic Partnership: Towards an Ethics of Divorce
  THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE FOR LATER IN THE YEAR.
  Professor Monika Betzler (LMU Munich)

Thursday 7 July 2022 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Open Access: National Institute for Health and Care Research open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How Artifical Intelligence is Changing our Newsrooms
  Ms Subhransu Priyadarshini (Chief Editor, Nature India)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 12 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Continuity and Change in US Strategy toward the Middle East and the Islamic World
  Professor Vali Nasr (Johns Hopkins University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Oxford conundrum: Cyril Mango and Byzantine elitism, or: what about popular culture?
  Claudia Rapp (Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Cultural Translations of the Ten Commandments in Late Ming and Early Qing Jesuit Catechisms
  Dr Giulia Faluto (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Muslim Values and End of Life Care Decision Making
  Dr Mehrunisha Suleman (The Ethox Centre and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ben Ali’s Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime
  Dr Anne Wolf (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - “Manuscripts don’t burn”: Composition and story of the text of John Tzetzes’ Homeric Allegories
  Alberto Ravani (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Reconfiguring the Cloisters Cross: art and crusading in Cnut VI’s Denmark
  Sandy Heslop (University of East Anglia)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:30 - Dimensions of valuation: Contrasting moral expansiveness and moral capacity
  Dr Josh Rottman (Franklin & Marshall College)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Righteous Demagogues: The Moral Economy of Populism
  Dr Adnan Naseemullah (Kings College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Byzantine Dark Ages at Stauropolis/Karia (FKA Aphrodisias)
  Ine Jacobs (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Translation and Mountaineering
  Anna Saroldi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - After: Vivek Narayanan in Conversation with Alice Oswald
  Alice Oswald (Professor of Poetry, Oxford), Vivek Narayanan
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Turkey’s Economic Development and Political Economy since 1980
  Professor Şevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Middle-Byzantine Evangelist Portraits
  Georgi Parpulov (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The market for medieval illuminated manuscripts and the making of a canon, c. 1900-1925
  Laura Cleaver (University of London), Danielle Magnusson (University of London)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:30 - The Moral Machine Experiment
  Dr Edmond Awad (University of Exeter)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Food System Transformation, Food Futures and Climate Change
  Dr Monika Zurek (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 9 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Actualizing Ideal Islam: Principles of Islamic Revival at the Dawn of Modernity
  Dr Fitzroy Morrisey (All Souls, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Before isometry: metrics and style of Ignatios the Deacon (and Pseudo-Ignatios)
  Federica Scognamiglio (Scuola Normale Superiore)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 19:30 - Charles Spurgeon and Wintering in Menton
  Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Space and the Experimental Work of Saihate Tahi
  Sarah Puetzer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Open Access: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians Still Don’t Have a State, and Why Their Need is More Urgent Than Ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Byzantine World in the Palaeologan Era: Empire(s) and Emerging Nation-States
  Marie-Hélène Blanchet (CNRS), Raúl Estangüi Gómez (Sorbonne)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Why the Palestinians still don't have a State, and why their need is more urgent than ever
  Lord McDonald of Salford (Christ's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Seven Ages; a medieval theory of growing up and aging, as illustrated by artists’ lives
  Spike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Prohibition, National Regulations and International Norms
  Dr Elife Biçer-Deveci (Universität Bern)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Connecting Mosaics
  Liz James (Sussex)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Islamic Values and Disruptive Technologies
  Mr Ehsan Masood
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Islamic Socialism: Radical Individuality and Equality?
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Imperial ceremonies away from the Great Palace, 1148-1159: the evidence of Manganeios Prodromos
  Michael Jeffreys (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The iconography of the Mass of St Gregory in England
  Julian Luxford (University of St Andrews)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 8 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The Concept and Ethics of Laziness Workshop
  Gwen Bradford (Rice University), Joel Anderson (Utrecht University), Dr Lisa Forsberg, Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University), Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford), Tom Parr (University of Warwick), Dr Katrien Devolder (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 December 2022 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 January 2023 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 17 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The challenge of providing healthy, sustainable and equitable diets for all
  Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Syria: The glory and the agony
  Ghayth Armanazi (Former Ambassador of the Arab League)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Poetics of Age in Twelfth-Century Byzantine Literature
  Joshua Hitt (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Translating Vertiginously with Polly Barton, Queen's College Translation Exchange Translator-in-Residence and TORCH HCP Visiting Fellow
  Chair: Polly Barton (Translator-in-Residence)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Mind Shift: How culture transformed the human brain
  Associate Professor John Parrington (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - States of subsistence: the politics of bread in contemporary Jordan
  Jose Ciro Martinez (University of York)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Teaching Greek grammar to one’s son: an unpublished manual by Nikolaos Artabasdos Rabdas (14th c.)
  Olivier Delouis (Maison Française d’Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - From Hours to Ages: Time in the Large-scale Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c.1352)
  Sarah Griffin (Lambeth Palace Library, London)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:15 - In a Punctum: Miniature Worlds in Late Medieval Art and Literature
  Anya Burgon (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:30 - St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Shallow Cognizing for Self-Control over Emotion & Desire (hybrid talk)
  Dr Lawrence Lengbeyer (United States Naval Academy)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the age of global imperialism
  Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Warwick)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Diegesis: a Hagiographical Text for Commemoration of the Encaenia of Hagia Sophia
  Kateryna Kovalchuk (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Customary rules, values, and principles
  Professor Timothy Endicott (Oxford Law Faculty), Professor Roger Crisp (University of Oxford)

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Translation as a Political Gesture in Ukraine
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - An Ethics Framework for Brain-Computer Interface Devices
  Stephen Rainey (Delft University of Technology)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Social cohesion and integration of minorities in post-conflict Muslim societies
  Salma Mousa (Yale University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Theodore Prodromos’ Epigrams on the Old and New Testament: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Classical Mimesis
  Yan Zaripov (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - In the Flat Round: Brain Diagrams in Late Medieval Manuscripts
  Lauren Rozenberg (UCL)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:15 - Christian Motifs in Fifteenth-Century Alchemical Iconography
  Sergei Zotov (University of Warwick)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Russian colonialism and the Ismailis: The exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1879 - 1905
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - In the name of the ...lotus? Reinventing Christian monumental art and elite culture in the long 15th century
  Lilyana Yordanova (Ecole française d’Athènes)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Discussion Group: Jeremy Tiang and Zhang Yueran in conversation about Cocoon
  Jeremy Tiang, Zhang Yueran
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Religious rights and freedom of speech
  Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (Former President of the Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The labourer is worthy of his hire? Clerics and their income in Late Antiquity
  Robert Wiśniewski (Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Reading)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Paton (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:15 - Visualising Wombs and Obstetrical Fantasies in Late Medieval Germany
  Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Tuesday 28 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds: Towards a Co-Modelling of Cognition
  Marco Bernini (Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies at Durham University)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Climate policy in Muslim societies
  Adil Najam (Boston University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Τhe Cinderella of Byzantine Literature: Rethinking Schedography in Middle and Late Byzantine Periods
  Nikos Zagklas (Vienna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 19:30 - Moses Roper: Fugitive, Slave, Abolitionist, and Possibly Baptist Missionary, 1861-82
  Dr Bruce Baker (Newcastle University)
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Reuben Woolley and Panayiotis Xenophontos in conversation about Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
  Reuben Woolley, Panayiotis Xenophontos
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Objectionable Obligations
  Sophia Moreau (University of Toronto)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 17:00 - The economic origins of ascetic values: evidence from Medieval Europe
  Please note this seminar is now online due to travel disruption.
  Elise Huillery (Paris Dauphine)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - *EPHF* ‘Jordan: on the practice of Istijarah for human flourishing’
  Dr Abdullah Awad (The Institute for Critical Thought)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
• 17:00 - It might have been otherwise: Divine power and Wisdom in Aquinas’s Theology
  Dr Simon Gaine (OP Blackfriars)
  Aquinas and the Future of Christian Thought

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Fictions of Repair: Patches, Insertions, and Imagined Forms
  Leah Whittington (Harvard)
  Ethical Reading Seminar
• 15:00 - Jean-Luc Marion: Liturgical Disruption of Onto-Theology
  Dr Oliver Keenan (University of Oxford), Dr Daniel De Haan
  Life before God: Truth and the Liturgy
• 17:00 - Varieties of Islamic constitutionalism
  Clark B. Lombardi (National University of Singapore)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - A Cloister for the (Grand) Komnenoi: Dynastic Rivalry and Memoria at the Foundation of Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos
  Zachary Chitwood (Mainz)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Christian Yijing: James Legge's Moral and Religious Interpretation of The Book of Changes
  Professor John T. P. Lai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Day 1: Medieval Vestments Conference - The Textiles at St John's, their Liturgical Uses, and the Commercial Context
  Malcom Vale (St John's, Oxford), Michael Riordan (St John's, Oxford), Matthew Cheung-Salisbury (University of Oxford), Katherine Wilson (University of Chester)
  2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
• 13:00 - Day 1: Medieval Vestments Conference - Embroidering her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
  Clare Hunter
  2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
• 14:30 - Day 1: Medieval Vestments Conference - The Aesthetics of the Collection
  Kate Heard (Royal Collections), Richard de Beer (University of Utrecht), James Clark (University of Exeter), Ingela Wahlberg (University of Uppsala)
  2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
• 15:30 - Missionary (Re)collecting from a Collapsing Empire: Museum Collections and the Dutch Spiritan Fathers in Late Colonial Angola
  Rita Almaral (Utrecht University)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - “The Understanding of a Man”: Reason and Religious Politics in Nathaniel Culverwell, George Rust and Henry Hallywell’s writings (c.1641-1671)
  Please note this last session is in the Ship Street Centre
  Samuel Head (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:15 - Envisioning Thinking: Geometry and Meditation in the Twelfth Century
  Mary Carruthers (NYU and Oxford)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:30 - St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Is AI bad for democracy? Analyzing AI’s impact on epistemic agency
  Professor Mark Coeckelbergh (University of Vienna)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Creation Beyond Creativity
  Professor Tim Ingold
• 18:00 - Day 1: Medieval Vestments Conference - Opus Anglicanum Workshop
  Tanya Bentham
  2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
• 20:30 - Session 4: The Global Renaissance and Religion
  Please note this session is on Thursday at 20:30
  N/A
  Global Renaissance Reading Group

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Day 2: Medieval Vestments Conference - Details on the Textiles in St John's Collection
  Helen Wyld (University of Glasgow), Mary Brooks (University of Durham)
  2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
• 11:30 - Day 2: Medieval Vestments Conference - Reconstructing Medieval Textiles
  Jane Malcom Davies (University of Copenhagen), Lesley O'Connell Edwards (Independent Scholar)
  2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
• 14:00 - Day 2: Medieval Vestments Conference - Medieval Tapestry Demonstration
  Rudi Richardson (University of Glasgow)
  2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
• 14:30 - Jesus in Christian Discipleship and Ethics
  Rebekah Eklund (Loyola University Maryland)
  New Testament Seminar
• 16:00 - Day 2: Medieval Vestments Conference - Medieval Embroidery Demonstration
  Tanya Bentham
  2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments

Wednesday 15 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Islamophobia: Discourse, Debates, and Future Directions
  Ms Nazila Ghanea (UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief), Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol), The Lord Khan of Burnley (House of Lords), Professor Tarunabh Khaitan (University of Oxford), Dr Suriyah Bi (University of Oxford)

Friday 17 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Day 1 - The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
  Various Speakers
  The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond

Saturday 18 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Day 2 - The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
  Various Speakers
  The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond

Sunday 19 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Day 3 - The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
  Various Speakers
  The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond

Tuesday 21 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Ethox Seminar - The moral value of diversity. An intersectional ethical analysis of diversity and discrimination in medicine and health care
  Dr Merle Weßel (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Thursday 23 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Conference: Jesuits and the Natural World
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Infecting Minds - end-of-project celebration
  Please RSVP by 13 March at the latest
  Various Speakers

Friday 24 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Óscar Romero: the Witness of Relics
  Dr Jan Graffius

Monday 3 April 2023 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Nur, Darshan & Enlightenment: Three Approaches to Connecting Texts and Textiles in 18th century Bengal
  Samia Khatun (SOAS, University of London)
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Tuesday 4 April 2023 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - A Bhakti Mahabharata for Aurangzeb? Sabalsingh Chauhan’s Bhasha Retelling of the Epic
  Sohini Sarah Pillai (Kalamazoo College)
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Wednesday 5 April 2023 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Seeking Allah and Krishna: Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia
  Kashshaf Ghani (Nalanda University)
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Thursday 6 April 2023 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Contests over the Boundaries of Hindu-Muslim Friendship
  SherAli Tareen
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Friday 7 April 2023 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Socio-Political Dimensions of Spiritual Practice in Gujarat: Notes from Two 15th century Sufi silsilahs
  Jyoti Gulati Balachandran (Penn State University)
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Wednesday 12 April 2023 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Consciousness: An Interdisciplinary Conference
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - Rāma and Sītā as Adam and Eve: The Rāmāyaṇa through the Prism of the Persian Romance
  Shankar Ayillath Nair
  Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)

Thursday 20 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 21 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Does non-commitment undermine the hypocrite’s standing to blame?
  Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - J.J. Scoles, the Jesuits, and the Gothic Revival. English and Jesuit Architectural History: John Scoles' architectural commissions for the English Province of the Society of Jesus (1832-1862).
  Stephen Withnell (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 25 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Hope in Hopeless Situations: Agency and Meaning in Conflict, Displacement and Climate Change
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Social World of Traders: Commerce and Social Differentiation in Pre-conflict Aleppo
  Dr Paul S. Anderson (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Eastern Christian Thought and Scholarship on the Syriac Orient, Jerusalem and the Christian encounter with Islam: Youakim Moubarac (1924-1995) in dialogue with Louis Massignon (1883-1962)
  Anthony O'Mahony (Blackfriars Hall)
  Faith to Faith: Muslim and Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
• 17:00 - The Parliament of England and the Protestant Reformation: 1547-1571
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  Alexandra Gajda
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Goldsmith of Golden Ages: Masked Innovation by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Immolated in AH 139–140/757–758 CE)
  István Kristo-Nagy (Exeter)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - The Economics of Religious Competition in the 21st century
  Paul Seabright (All Souls College and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse)
  Daisy Circle Talks
• 17:30 - TS Eliot Lecture 2023 with Lyndall Gordon
  Dr Lyndall Gordon (St Hilda's College)

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - David Weil talk: Population Catastrophe: Explosion, Implosion, and Replacement
  Dr David Weil (Brown University)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) - Seminar Series

Saturday 29 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Learning from Ukraine: origins, impacts, and lessons for peacebuilding
  Registration: this is strongly advised. It will probably be possible to walk in on the day (bring cash, Students £5, others £10, and donations are welcome) but please register in advance if possible to help with numbers for catering. Coffee/tea breaks and sandwich lunch are included.
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Monday 1 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group - Modernist Afterlives: Living Forth a Century Later - Dr. Ian Ellison (Kent)
  Dr. Ian Ellison (Kent)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Visualisation of Archaeological Hypotheses with Digital Technologies - An Architectural View on Islamic and Other Heritage
  Prof. Dominik Lengyel (Brandenburg University of Technology)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lessing, Voltaire and theodicy
  Friedrich Vollhardt (LMU, Munich)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Tunisia’s Democratic Transition: Autonomous Activism and Accountability
  Dr Rory P. McCarthy (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sacrifice and the beauty of grace in Abraham Cowley's Davideis
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  Deni Kasa
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - A Greek commemorative Inscription from Tafah (Lower Nubia): A Contribution to the History of Nubia in the Sixth/Seventh Centuries
  Adam Łajtar (Warsaw)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - British Medieval Illuminators’ Blues
  Richard Gameson (Durham University)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:30 - St Cross Special Ethics Seminar: Not for me: On the external function of guilt
  Professor Shaun Nichols (Cornell University)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:30 - [The Campion Lecture 2023] T. S. Eliot, Terrible Celibate: Suffering and Sexuality in the Letters to Emily Hale
  Prof Jayme Stayer, SJ

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - O'Donnell Lecture
  Rowan Williams

Monday 8 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - 2023 George Rousseau Lecture - Conversations about Roads: A R J Turgot and Economic Enlightenment
  Professor Emma Rothschild (Harvard)
  George Rousseau Lectures

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and the East: The New Geopolitics of Religion and Identity
  Prof Peter Mandaville (George Mason University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - When the Health of the People was the Highest Law: Have Coronavirus Restrictions Damaged the Authority of Laws for the Public’s Health?
  Professor John Coggon (University of Bristol Law School)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 17:00 - The Philosophy and Theology of ‘Allama Iqbal
  Monsignor Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali (St Edmund Hall)
  Faith to Faith: Muslim and Christian Thought in the Modern Middle East and South Asia
• 17:00 - The Wife of Bath and the clerics, 1400-1700
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  Marion Turner
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Flattery and Conflict in al-Buḥturī’s Poems for Ṣāliḥ ibn Waṣīf
  Gabrielle Russo (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 1: Manuscripts and Rituals: The Written Transmission of the Zoroastrian Rituals
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures
• 17:30 - What to Give Up for the Climate: Asceticism and Ecological Justice
  Dr Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group - Self-Translation and Language-Making in Li Kotomi/Li Qinfeng's The Island Where the Spider Lily Blooms - Dr Aoife Cantrill (Manchester)
  Dr Aoife Cantrill (Manchester)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - William Warburton’s Divine Legation of Moses (1738-1741) and theological learning in the public sphere
  Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Writing the History of Saladin
  Prof Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Translating Under Pressure: A Roundtable Discussion
  Kateryna Dysa, Hanna Komar, Mujib Mehrdad
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Oversimplification in population axiology: How highly idealized models risk bad outcomes for humans and nonhuman animals
  Professor Oscar Horta (University of Santiago de Compostela)
• 17:00 - Rowland Heylin, London-Welsh Puritan networks and the 1630 Welsh Bible
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  Lloyd Bowen
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Between Philology and Philosophy: The accommodation of Islamicate sciences in Late Imperial China
  Dror Weil (Cambridge)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
• 17:00 - Entangled urban history beyond Rome post-AD 500. Narratives from Gerasa on the Gold River
  Rubina Raja (Aarhus University/All Souls College, Oxford)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Ruled Lines and the Making of Manuscript Images
  Hanna Vorholt (University of York)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:30 - Lecture 2. “The Questioned Antiquity of the Zoroastrian Rituals: Their Reception in Western Academia” – Thurs 18 May 2023 at 5:30pm
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures
• 19:30 - Reevaluating William Ward's Early Radicalism: An Archival Reassessment of the Thelwall Riot in Derby
  Landon Adams
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Moral Frameworks and Collective Action in Epidemics
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Mary, Jesus, and the Dwelling Condition: An Interpretation
  Revd Dr Willie James Jennings (Yale Divinity School)
  Bampton Lectures 2023: Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation
• 11:30 - Deconstructing the Fearful Condition
  Revd Dr Willie James Jennings (Yale Divinity School)
  Bampton Lectures 2023: Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of Open Access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Islam and Empire in India: The Padshah's Sacred Authority and Religious Pluralism in Mughal Times
  Prof Corinne Lefevre (Centre for South Asian Studies (CNRS-EHESS))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - When Beliefs Don’t Seem True
  Dr. Laura Gow (University of Liverpool)
  Humane Philosophy Project

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The English Reformation in Wittenberg
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  Charlotte Methuen
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - The science of silence: alchemy, astronomy, and heresy in the work of al-Safadi
  Yusuf Tayara (Oxford)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
• 17:00 - The History of Theology and the Social and Political History of the Church in Early Islam
  in collaboration with the MFO
  Bastien Dumont (Lorraine)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 26 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Being Christian in China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:30 - From Black Theology to Black Lives Matter and Back Again
  Professor Anthony Reddie (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Discussion Group - Language and Imagery in Contemporary Korean Cinema - Dr Haneul Lee (Oxford)
  Dr Haneul Lee (Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Uterus Transplants in the Mexican Context
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Overcoming the Delusion Condition of Home Ownership
  Revd Dr Willie James Jennings (Yale Divinity School)
  Bampton Lectures 2023: Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation
• 11:30 - Addressing the Hateful Condition of the Line
  Revd Dr Willie James Jennings (Yale Divinity School)
  Bampton Lectures 2023: Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation
• 17:00 - Women’s movements and citizenship in the Middle East
  Dr Roel Meijer (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands), Professor Marilyn Booth (Discussant) (University of Oxford)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Institutions, Guilds, and Economic Prosperity
  Prof Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Online Launch of Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature: Relational Worlds
  Professor Annmarie Drury (CUNY), Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Johns Hopkins), Professor Galin Tihanov (QMUL), Dr Joseph Hankinson (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Conference on 'Liberty, Equality, Religion'
  Various Speakers
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 17:00 - Biblicism, radicalism and conversion: the case of Robert Everard truly stated
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  George Southcombe
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Ilm al-Nujūm in the fifteenth century Sultanate of Cairo Islamic astronomy/astrology and the importance of boundary work
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Fien de Block (Ghent University)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
• 17:00 - The First Mourners of Zion: From Iran to Jerusalem in the Ninth Century
  Eve Krakowski (Princeton)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Visual Exegesis and its Deployment in Insular Illumination
  Michelle Brown (University of London)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Friday 2 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Medical Treatment Decisions and Children: Judicial Values and Determining Best Interests
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Imogen Goold
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures

Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Pregnancy as an Opportunity to Improve Women’s Lifelong Health
  Dr Jane Hirst (Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Book Launch and Discussion: V. Calzolari - The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Armenia
  Professor Valentina Calzolari (University of Geneva/University of Oxford)
• 17:30 - J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language Inaugural Lecture: Holidaying in the Middle Ages
  Professor Marion Turner (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:45 - Memorial Event: Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) & Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023)
  Various Speakers

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Virtue and vice in seventeenth-century England
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  John Spurr
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - “To predict the success or failure of something, they use no other instrument than the astrolabe": astrology and artistry at the Safavid court
  Federica Gigante (History of Science Museum, Oxford)
  Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
• 17:00 - The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road
  Xin Wen (Princeton)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Monday 12 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of Copyright for Researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - Parfit Memorial Lecture 2023 - Reasons and Caution in Moral Deliberation
  This event will be in-person and also streamed online. In either case, please register for this event - online participants will receive a link for viewing after registering. The in-person event will be followed by a drinks reception in Foyer A, located in the Ruth Deech Building, St Anne's College.
  Professor Katie Steele (Australian National University)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) - Seminar Series

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - New Model theologians: soldiers and religious ideas in the English Revolution
  Registration is required to receive the Teams link
  David Como
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
• 17:00 - Power and Science in Late Antique Iran: Zoroastrian Apologetic Discourse on Access to Universal Knowledge
  Samra Azarnouche (EPHE, Paris)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:15 - Blood Piety and Anti-Judaism in an Early Fourteenth-century Illuminated Prayer Book from Liège
  Sara Lipton (Stony Brook University)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:30 - St Cross Seminar: Genomic Data in Law Enforcement Investigations: Joint Moral Rights and Collective Moral Responsibilities
  Professor Seumas Miller (University of Oxford)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series

Friday 16 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The structure of racism and the mould of common law
  Shreya Atrey (Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures

Monday 19 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - MANUSCRIPTS: British Library Hebrew Treasures Reveal Interfaith Narratives: The Sana’a Pentateuch
  Ilana Tahan OBE (British Library)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 27 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Public Lecture: Conditions for Corrosion - Cultivating Hope as a Condition for Correction
  Lydia Dugdale (Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons)
  McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2023 - Conditions for Corrosion: How Are Good Healthcare Practitioners Made and Lost?

Thursday 29 June 2023 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:15 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the Card Game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 3 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Forum of Open Scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Dead Sea Scrolls at 75: The Texts, their Contexts, and the Coalescence of Jewish and Christian Scholarship
  Professor Gary Rendsburg (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Alison Salvesen, John Goldingay (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Revd Dr Andrew Bowyer (Magdalen College)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 4 July 2023 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 18 July 2023 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - A Medieval Franciscan Consults the Jews: Nicholas of Lyra on how to Imagine the Temple
  Lesley Smith (HMC), Professor James McGrath (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 27 July 2023 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 10 August 2023 (16th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
  Reverend Professor John Behr (Regius Chair in Humanity at University of Aberdeen), Andrew Louth (Emeritus Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, University of Durham ), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 17 August 2023 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - A Book for All Seasons: Medieval Liturgical Psalter
  Dr Elisabeth Solopova (University of Oxford)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 5 September 2023 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Clinical ethics symposium: Choice and autonomy in obstetrics
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 12 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Saturday 16 September 2023 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Individuality in the Work of Plotinus
  Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)

Monday 25 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Hadith, Piety, and Law: A Conference in Honour of Christopher Melchert
  E-mail ruth.macdonald@humanities.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Various Speakers

Thursday 28 September 2023 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - The Early English Jesuit Mission: Lingering Doubts
  Professor Gerard Kilroy (Campion Hall)

Tuesday 3 October 2023 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Vincent Strudwick Lecture: Evil and the God of Love
  Rupert Shortt (The Times Literary Supplement)

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for researchers
  Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Science and Islam: A Perspective from Rural Bangladesh
  Dr Abed Chaudhury (Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Genofax, Australia & USA; Chairman, Krishan Foundation, Bangladesh)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘How to write The Lord of the Rings’
  Dr Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Arabic's Easternmost Frontier: Arabic Manuscripts, Sufism and Courtly Culture in Southeast Asia, 17th-18th Centuries
  Prof Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Portraits of the Reader during the Middle Byzantine Period
  Stratis Papaioannou (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Mary’s Ordeal: A Syriac Narrative Poem on Many and Joseph
  Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Welcome Event
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 15:00 - Practical Ethics and Law Lecture: Should Doctors Disobey Abortion Bans?
  Professor Kimberley Brownlee (University of British Columbia), Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT DG Week 2: The Short Story and Strange Tone with Iris Pearson (Oxford)
  Iris Pearson
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - The Binding of Isaac According to the Elohist: Biblical and Theological Resonances in A New Cantata
  Prof. Delvyn Case (Massachusetts)
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 18:30 - Remembering Metropolitan Kallistos
  Fr Stephen Platt

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Artificial Intelligence - Hopes and Fears
  Dr Christopher Ganz (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - On the Sublime: Poetic Theory in the Age of Dryden
  Jane Cooper (All Souls)

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the Climax of The Lord of the Rings’
  Dr Michael Ward (University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology and Religion)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Beyond Self Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE: Byzantine Princess Ruling Rus
  Adrian Jusupovic (The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - "Illuminavit hunc diem": Natural Lighting, Liturgical Time and Frescoes in late Medieval Italian Churches
  Note this seminar is on Wednesday
  Giosuè Fabiano (Courtauld Institute of Art)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Dr Madeleine Pennington - Head of Research at Theos
  Dr. Madeleine Pennington (Theos)
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 19:30 - 'Female Missionary; A Challenge for Two Nations
  Dr Reid Trulson
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Henri de Lubac. Methodological Ressourcement.
  Dr Philip Moller SJ (University of Oxford)
  No What Without a How: Theological Method and the Theologies of Original Sin in Modern Catholic Thought
• 17:00 - The Buddhist Body of the King: Ritual practices of consecration in medieval Japan
  Prof. Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - “Hurricanes Roar Poetry: Celebrating Black Poetry in Western Spirituality” (week 1)
  Revd. Professor Emilie Townes (Dean and Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Divinity School)
  Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Lecture 1: “Martin Luther King, Jr as Apocalyptic Seer”: Placing King in Conversation with 1 Enoch, The Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah, The Apocalypse of Abraham, and Mosaic Traditions
  Dr. Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
• 16:00 - Literal Sense and Spiritual Intelligence in St Thomas Aquinas's Biblical Hermeneutics
  Fr. Ignacio Manresa (Instituto Superior de Estudios Teológicos San Ildefonso (Toledo, Spain))

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Fulfulde as a Language of Religious Expression in the Islamic Religious Culture of West Africa
  Prof Louis Brenner (SOAS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - More than “the last monument of Byzantine rule in Cyrenaica”: Taucheira in Late Antiquity
  Miranda Williams (Oxford), Tim Penn (Oxford), Ine Jacobs (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - Thesis Into Book: Karolina Watroba’s Mann’s Magic Mountain: World Literature and Closer Reading
  Dr Karolina Watroba, Professor Ben Morgan (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - “Hizmet, Education and Nonradicalization": Seminar 1 on “Religious and Moral Themes in Hizmet Thought and Action Preventing Radicalization”
  Dr. Kamil Yilmaz (Postdoctoral Research Officer in Law, Swansea University, Hilary Rodham Clinton School of Law), Dr. Recep Dogan (Adjunct, Charles Sturt University Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme
• 12:00 - Lecture 2: “Martin Luther King, Jr and the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21”
  Dr. Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
• 13:00 - “Hizmet, Education and Nonradicalization": Seminar 2 on “Nonradicalization through Education: Pak-Turk Schools 1995–2018”
  Dr. Seema Arif (Head of Education Department at University of Management and Technology in Pakistan;), Dr. Naweed Ahmad (Research fellow at Rasanah International Institute of Iranian Studies), Mrs. Meral Kaçmaz (Mrs. Meral Kaçmaz, former biology teacher at PakTurk Schools and human rights activist)
  Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for teaching
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Black Feminist Methodologies Discussion Group
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 15:00 - Bernard Lonergan. Soteriology
  Dr Patrick Riordan SJ (University of Oxford)
  No What Without a How: Theological Method and the Theologies of Original Sin in Modern Catholic Thought

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: 'Translating Otherness and the Remaking of Poetic Language in Contemporary Anglophone Chinese Diaspora Poetry'
  Jennifer Wong
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - ‘Imag(in)ing Jesus in the Universal or Particular: Cross-Cultural Bible Film Reception of The Lumo Project: The Gospel of Mark (2014) and Son of Man (2006)’
  Dr Victoria Omotoso (Exeter)
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 19:00 - “Hurricanes Roar Poetry: Celebrating Black Poetry in Western Spirituality” (week 2)
  Father Jarel Robinson-Brown (Assistant Curate at St Botolph-without-Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories and a Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury), Dr. Beth Dodd (Sarum College, Salisbury)
  Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Lecture 3: “All Things New: The Apocalyptic Project of Revolution in Revelation 21”
  Dr. Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Hidden Things: A Biblical Context for the Exeter Book Riddles’
  Dr Rachel A. Burns (Hertford College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: ‘ Bernard Picart, the Image about Religion, and the Production of a New Truth Social’
  Dr Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Tolkien and the Classics’
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The David Nicholls Memorial Lecture: “Race, Rubber, Revolution: Haiti’s 1940s Revisited”
  Dr. Matthew Smith (Professor of History and Director, Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, Department of History, University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme
• 17:00 - The Significance of the Dome in Islamic Architecture
  Prof Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World
  Leah Clark (Kellogg College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Future Perfect? The Ontology of the Future in Sidonius’ Imperial Panegyrics
  Michael Hanaghan (Australian Catholic University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Prof Sarah Mortimer - Professor of Early Modern History, Christ Church
  Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 12:00 - Lecture 4: “The Knock of Christ in Revelation 3: Divine and Human Agency in Conquering Evil”
  Dr. Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)
  The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Personality and Morality
  HYBRID EVENT see website link below for both online and in-person registration
  Professor Predrag Cicovacki (The College of the Holy Cross)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Topographical Realism in Winchester’s Holy Sepulchre
  John Munns (Cambridge University)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Black Radical Women Panel
  Tionne Parris (University of Hertfordshire), A.S. Francis (University of Chichester), Paula Akpan
  Race & Resistance
• 15:00 - Schillebeeckx
  Prof. Stephan van Erp
  No What Without a How: Theological Method and the Theologies of Original Sin in Modern Catholic Thought

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - “Hurricanes Roar Poetry: Celebrating Black Poetry in Western Spirituality”
  The Rev. Professor Willie James Jennings (Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School)
  Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme
• 19:00 - “Hurricanes Roar Poetry: Celebrating Black Poetry in Western Spirituality”
  The Rev. Professor Willie James Jennings (Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School)
  Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Open scholarship: your thesis, copyright and ORA
  Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - The Past, Present, and Future of Earthquake Risk in Asia
  Prof Richard Walker (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England?
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Power, Knowledge, and the Illusion of Control: Western Counterinsurgency in the Muslim World 1954-2014
  Dr Christian Tripodi (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Positions of Considerable Emolument: Cataloguing Greek Manuscripts in Oxford
  Georgi Parpulov (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Dimitris Skrekas (University of London/Oxford University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:30 - Finding Spurgeon in the Angus and Beyond
  Rev Ray Rhodes
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Black Feminist Movements Panel
  Dr Rita Gayle (University of Birmingham), Olivia Wyatt (QMUL), Dr Amber Lascelles (Royal Holloway)
  Race & Resistance
• 15:00 - Rene Girard/James Alison
  Prof. Michael Kirwan SJ
  No What Without a How: Theological Method and the Theologies of Original Sin in Modern Catholic Thought

Saturday 11 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Holy Women of the East and West
  Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford), Cressida Marcus, Dr. Paula Clifford

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: 'Poetry as Choreography: Translating Dance with Susana Thénon and Iris Scaccheri'
  Georgina Fooks
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - ‘“I am the one who knocks”: Revelation’s Knocking Christ in Reception History and Apocalyptic Perspective’
  Dr. Jamie Davies (Bristol)
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present (Youshaa Patel)
  Prof. Youshaa Patel (Lafayette College)

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Tolkien and Beowulf’
  Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Green Industrialization: Evidence from and for Muslim Societies
  Dr Amir Lebdioui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Punitive Mutilation in Byzantine Law: The case of nose amputation in Byzantium and beyond
  Mike Humphries (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Story of a Multiracial Jewish Family'
  Professor Laura Arnold Leibman (Reed College)
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Dr Jane Baun (Wadham College Chaplain) 'Late antique and early medieval apocryphal religious texts and why we should read them'
  Rev’d Dr Jane Baun
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 17:00 - Should people have indefinite lifespans? Ethical and social considerations in life-extension
  HYBRID EVENT see website link below for both online and in-person registration
  Professor João Pedro de Magalhães (University of Birmingham)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Remembrance of God’: Theologising Wall Mosaics
  Liz James (Sussex)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Black British Womanhood, Politics and Organising
  Stella Dadzie
  Race & Resistance
• 14:15 - ‘Still Human? Transhumanism and Christian Hope in the Twenty-First Century.’
  Please e-mail in advance if you are interested in attending
  Dr Stephen Goundrey-Smith (Ripon College Cuddesdon)
• 15:00 - Eleonore Stump. A Neo-Thomist Approach to Atonement.
  Dr Patrick Zoll SJ
  No What Without a How: Theological Method and the Theologies of Original Sin in Modern Catholic Thought

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Manuscript Project at the Coptic Monastery of St Paul the Hermit at the Red Sea, Egypt
  Dr Lisa Agaiby (University of Divinity, Australia), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - 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 - The use of Behavioural Science Models to shift diets for Health and Climate
  Dr Cother Hajat (Director, Real World Health; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: A celebration to mark the publication of The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam Chapters 11-12 of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār by Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād Translated Texts for Historians Volume 83
  DAME AVERIL CAMERON (Former Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History & Former Warden, Keble College, Oxford), Prof Nicolai Sinai (Pembroke College), Yuhan Vevaina, Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist’
  Professor Simon Horobin (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Can international law make a difference in time of war?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Greek Fathers in Print: the AGAPE Database and the Early Modern Patristic Editions
  Paolo Sachet (L’Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, Geneva)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: UKRI open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Symposium: Karl Rahner. Employing Modern Philosophy Theologically
  Various Speakers
  No What Without a How: Theological Method and the Theologies of Original Sin in Modern Catholic Thought
• 13:00 - Colourism: How Skin Shade Prejudice is Sustained and Reproduced Within Families
  Dr Aisha Phoenix (King’s College London)
  Race & Resistance

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: 'Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France'
  Dr Julia Hartley (University of Glasgow)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - ‘William Blake: Bible of Heaven, Bible of Hell’
  Dr Valentin Gerlier (Dartington)
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: UKRI open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Translators, Patrons, Scholars: Greek Texts in Latin Translations from Production to Audience, ca. 1050–1350
  Peter Bara (The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Prof Clare Carlisle - Professor of Philosophy, King's College London
  Professor Clare Carlisle
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 14:00 - "Confronting the Obstacles to a Buddhist Physicalism"
  Prof. Mark Sederits (Seuol National University)
  Can there be Buddhist physicalism?
• 17:00 - Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
  This seminar will be held on Thursday, 30 November
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Theodechilde, Potentin and Osanna: Saints and Cult at Jouarre Abbey in the Middle Ages
  Alexandra Gajewski (The Burlington Magazine)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:30 - Tulkus, Titles, Disagreements — Succession by Reincarnation in Tibetan Societies
  Prof Jim Rheingans (University of Vienna)
  Annual Aris Lecture

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - "The Problem of Ownerless Consciousness"
  TBA
  Can there be Buddhist physicalism?
• 13:00 - Global Blackness and Transnational Solidarity
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - "A Buddhist Physicalist Dissolution of the ‘Hard Problem’?"
  TBA
  Can there be Buddhist physicalism?
• 15:00 - How Nudging Upsets Autonomy
  Professor David Enoch (University of Oxford), Professor Thomas Douglas (Oxford)
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures

Monday 4 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Mapping the City of the Gods: Bangkok, Ethnicity, and the Galactic Polity 
  Dr. Justin McDaniel
  Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series

Tuesday 5 December 2023 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Crossing Ancient Sacred Landscapes: Contacts and Continuities in the Ancient Desert Cults and Beliefs of Northern Arabia and the Arid Southern Levant
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 12 December 2023 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 11 January 2024 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ephrem the Syrian and a New Beginning in Syriac Poetry
  Professor Alberto Rigolio (Durham University, UK), 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

Wednesday 17 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Civilian Casualties in War
  Professor Neta Crawford (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - How Zoroastrians Debated Muslims in the Early Islamic Period
  Christian Sahner (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 1: Propagation
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Friday 19 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - In Conversation - Dr. Gail Lewis
  Gail Lewis (Yale University)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 15:00 - My body, my choice: exploring the limits of consent
  Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) (39 Essex Chambers)
  Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - 'The Arkenstone and the Ring: wilful objects in Tolkien's The Hobbit’
  Mark Atherton
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Discussion Group: The Saxon ‘Other’ and the Saxon ‘Self’ in the Translation of Genesis B with Elliot Vale
  Elliot Vale
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Rev Dr Mark Chapman (Oxford) - David Paynter and the art of mission in Sri Lanka
  CANON PROFESSOR MARK CHAPMAN
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar

Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Is The World Making Progress in Malaria Control?
  Professor Kevin Marsh (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Khilafat and the Pan-Islamic Imagination
  Professor Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Byzantine Craft of Enamelling and its Links with Islamic Metalwork, c. 800-1204
  This seminar is cancelled - to be rescheduled in Trinity Term
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Natalija Ristovska (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Dr Conor O’Brien Associate Professor in the Early Medieval History of the British Isles and North Atlantic World ‘The Rise of Christian Kingship and the De-Secularisation of the Latin West’
  Dr Conor O’Brien
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 11:15 - ‘A Syrian diasporic private archive: the Mishaqa family collection’
  Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 14:00 - Open scholarship: UKRI open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 2: Apocalypse
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill on Women’s Place in Society: Differences, Affinities, and Inspirations
  Elżbieta Filipow (University of Warsaw), Dr Lisa Forsberg
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Diplomacy and Devotion in the Gothic Wall Paintings of Angers Cathedral
  Please note change of venue - now C Day Lewis Room, Wadham College
  Emily Guerry (Kent)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Black Queer Presence Panel
  Sue Lemos (University of Warwick), Carlie Pendleton (Goldsmiths, University of London), Wasuk Sule-Pearce (University of West London)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Tolkien's 'Sellic Spell' and Beowulfian Poetics: the Artist and the Critic
  Elena Vermeer
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - How can genetics and breeding help feed 10 billion people?
  Professor Cristobel Uauy (John Innes Institute)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Medieval Syria and the Onset of the Crusades: The Political World of Bilad al-Sham 1050-1128
  Dr James WIlson (University of Konstanz)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The "Timeless Empire": Sasanian Iconography as a Historical Source
  Michael Shenkar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - ‘Calendars, hats and buttons: Marking authority, identity and time among Eastern Catholics at the end of the Ottoman Empire’
  Dr Anaïs Massot (Leiden and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 3: Allurement
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Friday 2 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Radical Reasoning | Black Queer Diaspora, Place and Politics
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  TBA
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Mr. Underhill: Topography and the Ring's Temptation
  Bond West
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Saturday 3 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Icons: a Way of Truly Seeing
  Joanna Tulloch, Andrew Williams, Revd Dr Dobromir Dimitrov

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Traversing Cosmovision(s): Notes to an English Rendition of a 16th Century Nahuatl Song of War, ‘Icuic Nezahualpilli’
  Javaria Abbasi (DPhil Candidate, Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Dr Susanna Avery-Quash (London) - Faith in Museums: Using images to explore biblical and other sacred texts
  Dr Susanna Avery-Quash
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024 — Véronique Tadjo on Freeing the Imagination
  Véronique Tadjo
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Festive Discipline and Punishment in a Global Late Antiquity: The Iranian Political Sensorium as an Afro-Eurasian Technology of Power
  Matt Canepa (University of California, Irvine)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:00 - Prof Julia Smith - ‘Ecclesiastical History as Material Culture’
  Julia Smith (All Souls College)
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 11:15 - ‘Bridging and branding the Holy Lands: Arabs from Greater Syria and Palestine in Europe (1900s-1950s)’
  Professor Karène Sanchez Summerer (Groningen)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for teaching
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 4: Language
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - Sacred Space and Imperial Authority in 'Medieval' Ethiopia: The Portrait of Yekunno Amlak in Gannata Maryam
  Jacopo Gnisci (UCL)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 18:00 - Christian Images and Jewish Desecrators: The History of the Allegation in Manuscript Illustrations
  Dr Katherine Aron-Beller (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Friday 9 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - UG Thesis Panel
  Benoit Mes (University of Oxford), Ella Ozkan (University of Oxford), Indigofera Rosen-Hunt (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:00 - HT24 Week 4: Graduate Discussion Group
  Required Reading: Hass, B. (2023), Reasonableness in Capacity Law. Mod Law Rev., 86: 1447-1471. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12823
  TBA
  Graduate Discussion Group
• 16:00 - “Fundamentally religious and Catholic"? Authorial Intent and the Intentional Fallacy
  Holly Ordway
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Saturday 10 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - The Role of Symbols in St Ephrem the Syrian and St Teresa of Avila
  Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford), Julienne McLean

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Coping with Crisis – rescuing academics in the 21st century
  Stephen Wordsworth (Executive Director, Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA))
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:30 - The Weidenfeld Lectures 2024 — Véronique Tadjo on Freeing the Imagination
  Véronique Tadjo
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Muslim Justice Under Christian Rule: The Banū Rajā’ Qādīs of Norman Sicily
  Professor Jeremy Johns (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Automated Dialogues: Diplomacy, Technology, and Power in Late Antique and Medieval Eurasia
  Alessia Zubani (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Hotelling's Spatial Model with Discrete Consumers - Julian Jamison
  Julian Jamison (University of Exeter)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) - Seminar Series
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 5: Enslavement
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation

Friday 16 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Retelling the Histories we Know? | Tej Adeleye
  Tej Adeleye (BBC)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 15:00 - The Rule of Law after the Anthropocene
  Professor Vincent Chiao (University of Toronto)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 16:00 - Ents and Ecological Entanglements
  Dion Dobrzynski
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - (Re)Producing the Concept: On Arabic Critical Theory with Ziad Kiblawi (Oxford)
  Ziad Kiblawi (St Antony’s College)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Setting the Stage: The Rose of Performance in Studying Late Ancient Hymnody
  Prof Laura Lieber (Duke Univeristy, USA)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
• 17:00 - Professor John Barton (Oxford) - Translation as reception: How translators reflect and shape our understanding of the Bible
  Professor John Barton (University of Oxford)
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Sébastien Morlet’ (Sorbonne Université) - Textual plurality and manuscripts: the views of ancient commentators
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne Université)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From the Higher Objectives of Islamic Law to the Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology
  Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (SOAS, University of London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - PAIXUE Byzantine and Tang/Song literati culture
  Niels Gaul (Edinburgh)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Prof. Sébastien Morlet - The plurality inside the text: ancient views on the coherence or incoherence of the Biblical text
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne Université)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Rev David Sheen - ‘The Reverend Dr William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796- 1877): An Evangelical Catholic’
  Rev David Sheen
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 11:15 - ‘Daheshism, a religious movement for golden-age Beirut’
  Dr Raphael Cormack (Durham)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 16:00 - The Bible inside the plurality of texts: its relation to other texts according to ancient commentators
  Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre (please consult at Porter’s lodge to gain 4-digit code for access) (Early Biblical Interpretation Seminar)
  Sébastien Morlet (Sorbonne, Paris IV)
  Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”
• 17:00 - James Ford Lecture 6: A new phase
  Professor Alec Ryrie, FBA (Durham University)
  The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
• 17:00 - The Vagueness of Demandingness Objections
  Hybrid event - all welcome, please register to join in-person or online
  Professor Marcel van Ackeren (Oxford Uehiro Centre Research Associate; Senior Lecturer for Ethics at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at Wuerzburg University)
  New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Henry III’s Bed: Peace and Sacred Space at Westminster
  Paul Binski (Cambridge)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Friday 23 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Retelling the Histories we Know? Panel
  Annabelle Gilmore (University of Birmingham), Montaz Marche (University of Birmingham), Jessica Nyassa (University College London)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Inventing on the hoof: How the Riders of Rohan suddenly became Anglo-Saxon
  John Garth
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Professor Mark Jordan | After Their Kind: Sexual Identities in Christian Theology
  Professor Mark Jordan (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Special Session of the OCCT Discussion Group: How We Translate Ourselves and Others
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Rowan Williams | Creating an Ideal: Solidarity and Catholic Social Thought
  Rowan Williams
  The Bampton Lectures 2024 | Rowan Williams - Recognizing Strangers: Solidarity and Christian Ethics
• 11:30 - 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

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The First Friday Sermons of Islam as a Nexus of Piety, Ethics, and Politics
  Professor Tahera Qutbuddin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Elite captives and defectors between Rome and Sasanian Iran. A prosopographical approach
  Ekaterina Nechaeva (Université de Lille)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:15 - ‘The moving business: people smugglers, agents, and the work of Ottoman migration, c.1890-1914’
  Professor Andrew Arsan (Cambridge)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 1 March 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - PG Thesis Panel
  Zaiba Patel (University of Oxford), Stephanie Ormond (University of Oxford), Rachel Robinson (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - Tolkien Beyond Tolkien: Unleashing the Sub-Creative Imagination in an Era of Bridge Building
  Eduardo Gutierrez
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Translating Turn-of-the-Century Sex Work for the Contemporary Stage
  Minna Jeffery
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Organic Goods (1/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Dr Anthony Swindell (Chester) - Radical literary rewritings of the Bible from Genesis B to Jeanette Winterson
  Dr Anthony Swindell
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 18:00 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue
  Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman (New York University, USA)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Degrees of Value in Knowledge and Achievement (2/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Written in the Margins – Articulating Islam in Early Modern China
  Dr Dror Weil (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Byzantine Medicine in Light of the Global Middle Ages: Current Trends and Future Avenues
  Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - Open scholarship: copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:00 - Prof John Barton - ‘Does writing A History of the Bible: The Book and its Faiths (Penguin: 2019) make me a historian?’
  Professor John Barton (University of Oxford)
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 16:00 - Roundtable Discussion of Mooring the Global Archive, in conversation with Professor Martin Dusinberre, Zurich
  Jennifer Altehenger, John-Paul Ghobrial, Catherine Holmes, Giuseppe Marcocci, Jessica Fernandez Lara de Harada
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 17:00 - The Miracle of Pilgrimage: A Coptic Journey to the Holy Land During the Ottoman Period
  Professor Febe Armanious (Middlebury College, USA)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
• 17:00 - “‘Do this in Remembrance of Me’: Memory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Embodied Remembrance of God in Liturgical Action.”
  Buki Fatona (University of Oxford)

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - In Conversation - Dionne Brand
  Dionne Brand (University of Guelph)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Reading Group: Angelo Zottoli’s Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae
  N/A
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 16:00 - “In the halls of Mandos”: Death, Deathlessness and Inter-Racial Relations in Beren and Lúthien
  Anine Englund
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
• 16:30 - 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Public Policy Goals (3/3)
  Professor Thomas Hurka
  Annual Uehiro Lectures

Monday 11 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Przywara Symposium
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 18 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - A Curious Megillat Esther or How to Find a Needle in a Haystack
  Revd Prof Ignacio Carbajosa (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Alison Salvesen
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 19 March 2024 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 4 April 2024 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Nikos Kazantzakis and Orthodox Christianity
  Professor Basilius Jacobus (Bert) Groen (University of Graz), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 11 April 2024 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Prof. Alister McGrath - The Development of Early Christology: Reflections from the Philosophy of Science
  Alister McGrath (Oxford)
• 19:30 - The Photographic Archive of the Upoto Mission, Congo Free State: Some Reflections on Using Visual Sources to Expand Mission Histories
  Dr Amy King
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Wednesday 17 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Recollection Lecture: The Gospels Against Slavery: The Jesus tradition in the 19th Century Abolition Debates | Esau McCaulley (Professor of New Testament, Wheaton College).
  Prof Esau McCaulley (Wheaton College)
  Recollection Lectures

Thursday 18 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 19:30 - Baptist women and the doctrine of universal salvation in seventeenth-century England
  This seminar has been CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Sarah Apetrei (Oxford)
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Saturday 20 April 2024 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Prayer Book and Revolution
  Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford), Professor Richard Cust (University of Birmingham), Ken Fincham (University of Kent), Dr William White (University of Hertfordshire)

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “Being a cult figure in one’s lifetime is not at all pleasant”: Tolkien’s relationship with his fans
  Catherine McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Crisis in the Sahel: Causes and Consequences for Africa, Europe and the Muslim World
  Dr Jonathan Guiffard (Institute Montaigne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Imperial benefaction, sanitary and religious practices in 4th-century Rome. The archaeology of the Baptistery of St. John Lateran revisited
  Thea Ravasi (University of Newcastle)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:15 - Love as the Reason We Need Abortion
  Professor Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Paulina Kewes, University of Oxford, The First Tudor Succession Tract?
  Professor Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Colour Conventions and Material Hierarchies on Late-Medieval Rood Screens
  This seminar has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lucy Wrapson (Cambridge)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
  Garth Fowden (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:00 - Professor Garth Fowden (University of Cambridge) | Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
  Garth Fowden (Cambridge)

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - In conversation with Professor Anthony Reddie
  Prof Anthony Reddie (Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Christian scriptural and classical translation and transmission in Asia before the Jesuits
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Finding Onesimus: Historical Imagination, Reconstruction and Reception of Paul’s Letter to Philemon
  Prof Esau McCaulley (Wheaton College)
  New Testament Seminar
• 15:00 - Mental Capacity: Why it doesn't and shouldn't matter much in medical law and ethics
  Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford)
  Uehiro Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
• 17:30 - Cloistered
  Catherine Coldstream
  Mansfield Public Talks

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Helen Mitsios: “Contemporary Greek Fiction in Translation — New Greek Voices: The Best Short Fiction from Greece”
  Helen Mitsios
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Tolkien’s Lancelot in The Fall of Arthur: the living memory of a decaying world
  Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe (Exeter College, University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Climate Change News Audiences: Analysis of News Use and Attitudes
  Dr Waqas Ejaz (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - 2024 George Rousseau lecture: Images of Jews' Economic Roles from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution
  Francesca Trivellato (IAS, Princeton)
  George Rousseau Lectures
• 17:00 - Dr Anahita Arian (Cambridge/ONGC) Encounters in the Persianate World: The Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam
  Anahita Arian
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Colloquium | Why Middle-Sized Matters to Science, Theology and Metaphysics
  Participants of the Colloquium should be familiar with physics and metaphysics. Applications by graduate students and academics welcome at pusey.conference@stx.ox.ac.uk.
  Various Speakers
  Colloquium | Why Middle-Sized Matters to Science, Theology and Metaphysics
• 10:00 - Open scholarship: introduction to open science framework at Oxford
  Neil Jeffries (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Public Lectures | Why Middle-Sized Matters to Science, Theology and Metaphysics
  Prof George Ellis (University of Cape Town), Robert C Koons (Civitas Institute Faculty Fellow, UT Austin)
  Colloquium | Why Middle-Sized Matters to Science, Theology and Metaphysics
• 17:00 - Sufism in Al-Sanusi’s Theological Works
  Dr Tobias Andersson (Uppsala University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Church of the Holy Apostles (Hagioi Apostoloi) at Kavousi, Crete: Aspects of Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule
  Polymnia Synodinou (University of Crete)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Prof. Martin Shuster, North Carolina University, will be discussing his book How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism
  Prof Martin Shuster
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar
• 17:15 - Prof Simon Coleman | Lecture 1 - ‘Trivial Religion?: From Liminal to Lateral’
  Prof Simon Coleman (University of Toronto), Prof Simon Coleman (University of Toronto)
  Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion - Religion Refracted and in Motion: On Pilgrimage in Present Times

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Book Launch: Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront
  Dr Rachel Williams (University of Hull)
• 16:15 - Loving Someone Whose Death Wouldn’t Matter
  Professor Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University)
  Annual Uehiro Lectures
• 17:00 - Shakespeare and the Jesuits: Spiritual Direction in King Lear, Alison Shell, UCL
  Professor Alison Shell (UCL)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Re-Framing the Umayyad Empire: Pastoralists, Plague, and Peripheries
  Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Work In Progress | Student Panel
  Holly Cooper (University of Oxford), Joseph Ward (University of Oxford), Jean Beesley (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - The Jesuits and Neo-Confucianism: A Comparative Philosophical Approach to Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
  Ross Moncrief (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:00 - Prof. Martin Goodman (Wolfson/OCHJS) “Herod and his many Wives”
  Professor Martin Goodman
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 14:15 - TT24 Week 2: Graduate Discussion Group
  This session is for all University of Oxford Graduate students whose work has an applied ethics dimension.
  Anne Fenoy (Sorbonne University (Paris)), Dr Thomas Mitchell (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
• 16:30 - Luke Treadwell (AMES/ St Cross) | Coin Legends and Protocol Texts in the 70s/690s: Emblematic Identity and Monetization of Exchange in the Umayyad State
  Luke Treadwell (University of Oxford)

Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - ‘I always felt that something ought to be done about the word…’: Tolkien's latchwords
  Edmund Weiner (Oxford English Dictionary)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge and Common Sense
  Dr Mazhar Ali Bari (Ghulam Bari Foundation and Cognovation), Dr Biliana Popova (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Aydogdy Kurbanov – Dehistan (South-West Turkmenistan) in the first half of the 1st Millennium CE
  Aydogdy Kurbanov (University of Lyon)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Science, Theology, and Humane Philosophy
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Modernity, Disenchantment, and the Mediaeval Discovery of Nature.
  Hans Boersma (Professor in Ascetical Theology, Nashotah House).
  Recollection Lectures
• 17:00 - Chinggis Khan’s Empire Restored? The Conquests of Tamerlane in a Mongol Perspective
  Professor Peter Jackson (Keele University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Byzantine Craft of Enamelling and its Links with Islamic Metalwork, ca. 800-1204
  Natalija Ristovska (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - Prof Simon Coleman | Lecture 2 'Spirit and Blood: Between Communitas and Kinship’
  Prof Simon Coleman (University of Toronto)
  Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion - Religion Refracted and in Motion: On Pilgrimage in Present Times
• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds: Place and Memory: The Aesthetics of Constructing the Past
  Professor John Sutton (University of Stirling)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: introduction to persistent identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for teaching
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Lizzie Swarbrick, University of Edinburgh - “A fag end of the international medieval tradition”? – The Quality and Worth of Scottish Pre-Reformation Churches
  Lizzie Swarbrick (University of Edinburgh)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Medieval Arabic Literature: What Do You Know, and What Can You Do with It?
  Julia Bray (Oxford)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity
  Dr Chantelle Lewis (University of Oxford), Professor Jason Arday (University of Cambridge)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Plato’s and Zhuangzi’s shared argument against the view that only one thing exists
  Lea Cantor (Cambridge)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Deification in Greek Philosophy and the New Testament
  James Bernard Murphy (Dartmouth)
  New Testament Seminar
• 17:00 - The Dacre Lecture 2024 | Dmitri Levitin - The Origins of Modern Eurocentrism: Erudition, Theology, Philosophy, and Race, 1700-1800
  Dmitri Levitin

Saturday 11 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - ‘Have salt in yourselves’! A first Garden Party
  Professor Henry Mayr-Harting, Rev Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos: “What is this Literature? The Case of ‘Greek’ Writing from Ukraine”
  Dr Panayiotis Xenophontos
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Tolkien and the Anglo-Saxon Calendar
  Dr. Eleanor Parker (Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Periodizing Global History: What is Early Modernity? What is Modernity?
  Craig Clunas (Oxford; China), Faisal Devji (Oxford; Modern Islamic World), Azfar Moin (Texas; Mughals), Kiri Paramore (Cork; Japan/Confucianism), David Priestland (Oxford; Communist World), Joan-Pau Rubiés (Barcelona; Global Renaissance), Sadia Saeed (San Francisco; Historical Sociology), Alan Strathern (Oxford; Organiser)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Dr. David Friedman (Cambridge/Darwin College) “Asinaeus and Anilaeus in Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities”
  Dr. David Friedman (Cambridge/Darwin College)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 17:00 - Annual Zernov Lecture | Dr Sebastian Brock - The Ecumenical Journey of St Isaac the Syrian’s Writings
  Sebastian Brock
• 17:00 - Selbi Durdieva - ‘Hauntology, Inheritance, and Women’s Writing: Entangled Pasts in Turkmen Family Archives’
  Selbi Durdieva
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Colloquium: Liberty & Natural Law.
  Various Speakers
• 10:00 - Open scholarship: preregistration and registered reports: what, why, and how
  Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan
  Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Fourteenth-Century Byzantine History-Writers and the Problem of Emperors’ Family Ties
  James Cogbill (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Prof. Yuval Jobani, Tel Aviv University, will be discussing his book The First Jewish
  Dr Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv University)
  Modern Jewish Thought Seminar
• 17:15 - Prof Simon Coleman | Lecture 3 ‘Religious Real Estate: Properties of the Sacred’
  Prof Simon Coleman (University of Toronto)
  Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion - Religion Refracted and in Motion: On Pilgrimage in Present Times

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - OCCT Literature and Language Difference Conference
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 15:00 - Islam in the Age of Post-Historical Reason
  Sohabe Mojaddidy (University of Oxford)
  Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Peter Davidson in collaboration with Jane Stevenson, University of Oxford; The Aberdeen Reformations: Glimpses of an Alternative History
  Professor Peter Davidson (Campion Hall)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Artistic Practice and the Emergence of the Architect in Italy, c. 1300 – c. 1480
  Livia Lupi (Warwick)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - “Behold! Quraysh is praying behind Bakr!” Kharijite Rebellion and Bakri Tribalism from al-Jazira to Iran 7th-9th c.
  Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Radical Reasoning | Neurodiversity & Race in HE
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Greece as Mirror: Reassessing China’s Cultural Identity through Classical Scholarship in the Early 20th Century
  Kai Chen (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:15 - TT24 Week 4: Graduate Discussion Group
  This session is for all University of Oxford Graduate students whose work has an applied ethics dimension.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Garrett Norwood (University of Oxford), Dr Rebecca Brown
• 14:30 - Wages from God in Matthew and Paul
  Zachary Wagner
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "I am a link in the chain": Victorian Transformations of British Romanticism and their Influence on Tolkien
  Will Sherwood (University of Glasgow)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Dr. Thomas Nelson (Wolfson) “(Re)constructing Tradition in the Hellenistic Jewish Epics by Philo and Theodotus”
  Dr. Thomas Nelson (Wolfson)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 15:00 - Open scholarship: your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:45 - 2024 McCandless Lecture
  Dr Derek C. Hatch (Howard Payne University)
• 17:00 - Air Pollution in the 21st Century – Time for a New Approach
  Dr Gary Fuller (Imperial College, London)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls) An Armenian Liberal in Revolutionary Samarkand
  Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Post-Globalism and the Ulama: Contestation of Authority
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Prof Simon Coleman | Lecture 4 'A New Pilgrimage Ethic: On the Secular and the Serious’
  Prof Simon Coleman (University of Toronto)
  Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion - Religion Refracted and in Motion: On Pilgrimage in Present Times
• 17:15 - Creating the Louvre’s New Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art: Issues and Challenges in a Turbulent World
  Please note this seminar is in the Auditorium, Corpus Christi College at 17:15
  Maximilien Durand (Musée du Louvre), Jannic Durand (Musée du Louvre)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The Sultan of New York: An Ottoman Armenian in Nineteenth-Century America
  Nora Lessersohn (Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 17:00 - Karl Gunther, University of Florida, “My Simple Opinon”: Lay Belief and the Bible in the Reign of Henry VIII
  Karl Gunther (University of Florida)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence
  Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Amelia Newsham & 18th century Black British histories
  Dr Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - The Latin Confucius. The Translation techniques of the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687)
  Simone Mollea (Università di Torino), Elisa della Calce (Università di Torino)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Jewish Hospitality as Counter-Cultural Masculinity in Luke and Acts
  Benjamin Isachsen (Balliol)
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 27 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: William Blythe: “Comparing on the Scaffold — Genetic Insights from Qian Zhongshu’s Notes on Laozi and Hegel during the Cultural Revolution”
  William Blythe
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Riddles in the Grass: the characterisation and narrative value of landscape over the fields of Rohan
  David Bernabé (University of Oxford/University of the Basque Country)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Sebastian Kenny (Corpus Christi) “Language Contact in Ezekiel’s Exagoge: The Case for Pattern Replication”
  Sebastian Kenny (Corpus Christi)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 17:00 - Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
  Professor Noam Angrist (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (ONGC) Connections and Dis/continuities in Contemporary Aşıq Practice in Georgia
  Stefan Williamson Fa:
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
• 18:00 - BOOK TALK about the Greatest Medieval Masoretic Pentateuch: The Lailashi Codex—the Crown of Georgian Jewry
  Author Thea Gomelauri in conversation with Prof Geoffrey Khan, Prof Ori Soltes, and Debra Band.
  Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum, AMES), Professor Ori Soltes (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge), Debra Band (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Dr Ben Outhwaite FRAS FSA (Director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge)
  MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Prof Mark Harris | Quantum Fundamentalism and Theological Liberty
  Prof Mark Harris (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Revisiting Rashīd al-Dīn al-Hamadhānī's Theological Works
  Yusuf Chaudhary (University of Cambridge)
  Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Cybersecurity, Ethics and Collective Responsibility
  Professor Seumas Miller (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Sophie Aldred, University of Oxford, Reading and Religion in the Civil wars: Lord Robartes and the Library at Lanhydrock
  Sophie Aldred (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Irrational, Feminine, Subversive: The Cult of Miraculous Images in Medieval England
  Gervase Rosser (Oxford)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period
  Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 19:30 - Life Writing as Spiritual Legacy: Lessons from the Steele Collection
  Dr Cindy Aalders
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Friday 31 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - On Palestine - Why Solidarity Matters
  Caroline Raine (Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign), Nikki Marriott (Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Daring translation and mistranslation: Stephen Weston and the Qianlong emperor’s poetry on chicken cups (with a note on Keats’s reception of Eastern and Western Classics)
  Justine Potts (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:15 - TT24 Week 6: Graduate Discussion Group
  This session is for all University of Oxford Graduate students whose work has an applied ethics dimension.
  Lydia Tsiakiri (Aarhus University), Prof Dominic Wilkinson
• 14:30 - The Annunciation (PNTC 2/3)
  Prof Mark Wynn (Oxford)
  New Testament Seminar

Saturday 1 June 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Exploring Prayer and Ways of Praying: Silence, Music, and Icons
  Free tea and coffee are available at Study Days from 10 am and in the lunch break 1-2 pm. Bring packed lunch, or forage nearby in North Parade. If you can help serve coffee you will have a free place – please leave a message on 01865 310341 or email Claire MacLeod@theology.ox.ac.uk. Please do send a Newsletter Subscription for costs and postage, suggested £5 pa, by cash, or cheque to ‘St Theosevia Trust’, to: Newsletter, St Theosevia House, 2 Canterbury Rd, OX2 6LU. For bank details please ask Claire.
  Joanna Tulloch, Rev Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford), Prof. Delvyn Case (Massachusetts), Sr Clare-Louise SLG (Sisters of the Love of God)

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A grandson's reflections on J.R.R. Tolkien
  Michael G.R. Tolkien (Poet and Critic)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - 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
• 14:00 - Dr. Rebekah van Zant-Clark (Oriel) “’New Exodus’ Typology and Supersessionism in 20th Century Isaiah Scholarship”
  Rebekah Van Sant-Clark (University of Oxford)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 17:00 - Vali Kaleji: Iran’s Relations with the Republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in the First Period of Independence (1917-1921)
  Vali Kaleji
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
  Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The Washout Argument Against Longtermism
  Professor Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California Riverside)
• 17:00 - John Colley, University of Cambridge, Early Christianity, Confessionalization, and the Translation of Greek in Mid-Tudor England
  John Colley (University of Cambridge)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - Objects of Desire: The Byzantine Art of Dining as Social and Romantic Agents
  Lara Frentrop (Heidelberg)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:00 - Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”
  Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar

Friday 7 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Intersecting Identities: Race and Queerness in South African Cinema
  Dr. Gibson Ncube (Stellenbosch University)
  Race & Resistance
• 14:00 - Latinizing Chinese and Sinicizing Latin: a joint examination of Angelo Zottoli’s translations of Tang poetry
  Cynthia Liu (Oxford), Xiaojing Miao (Oxford)
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
• 14:30 - Paul, Divestment, and Salvific Almsgiving
  Hunter Brown (Keble)
  New Testament Seminar

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - OCCT Discussion Group: Atharva Argade-Miskin: “Translating the (Un)translatable: The Case of Khadilkar’s Mānāpamān (1911) and Marathi Musical Drama”
  Atharva Argade-Miskin
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - A Veritable “Middle Earth”’: Tolkien and the Palaeoanthropological Imagination
  John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
  Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Prof. Paul Michael Kurtz (Universiteit Gent) “Another View on Ancient Judaism: Catholic Scholarship in the German South, 1820–1880”
  Prof. Paul Michael Kurtz (Universiteit Gent)
  SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - The Uses of 'Tafsira' in the Cambridge Library Aljamiado MS
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Fadoua El-Heziti (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Disagreeing on Ethical Questions, Fruitfully and Otherwise
  Professor Peter Singer
• 17:00 - Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC) | Stalinabad 1930: Aleksandr Semenov and the convergence of scholarship and politics at the Tajik language congress
  Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Future Suffering and the Non-Identity Problem
  Professor Theron Pummer (University of St Andrews)
• 17:00 - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
  Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Open scholarship: preregistration and registered reports: what, why, and how
  Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Ibn al-Qayyim’s Approach to Critiquing Maghāzī in Zād al-Maʿād
  Oumama Emad Hamasha (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Scott Sowerby, Northwestern University, The Demographic Crisis and Religious Toleration in Britain and Europe after 1650
  Scott Sowerby (Northwestern University)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE Justinian: Between East and West
  Please note this lecture will be on Thursday 13 June at Trinity College
  Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Justinian Between East and West
  Peter Sarris (Cambridge)
  After Rome and Further East Seminar
• 17:00 - Professor Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge) | JUSTINIAN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
  Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)

Friday 14 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Religion, Race, and Concepts of Difference in the Modern Middle East
  The deadline for all proposals is 7 March 2024
  TBA
• 13:00 - End of Year Reflections
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 14:15 - TT24 Week 8: Graduate Discussion Group
  This session is for all University of Oxford Graduate students whose work has an applied ethics dimension.
  Rei Takahashi (University of Tokyo), Prof Thomas Douglas (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
• 14:30 - The Consciousness of the Historical Jesus (PNTC 3/3)
  Austin Stevenson (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
  New Testament Seminar

Saturday 15 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Oxford Translation Day 2024
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 12:30 - Conference Day 1: Janus: Language and text between East Asian and Greco-Roman Classics
  Various Speakers
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)

Sunday 16 June 2024 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Conference Day 2: Janus: Language and text between East Asian and Greco-Roman Classics
  Various Speakers
  Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)

Monday 24 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Who was Mary, the Blessed Virgin and Mother of God? A Byzantine hagiographical narrative by the ninth-century Monk Epiphanio
  Professor Mary Cunningham (University of Nottingham), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Wednesday 26 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: open monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 27 June 2024 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Minoritisation in South Asia: Religion, Caste, Gender
  Abraham Akhter Murad (Kellogg College), Dr Faisal Devji, Justin Jones (Pembroke), Ruth Harris (University of Oxford ), Soheb Niazi (Freie Universität), Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University), Yaqoob Khan Bangash (Lahore), Madhurima Sen, Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Uday Chandra (Georgetown, Qatar), Shikoh Zaidi (Georgetown University, Qatar), Radhika Hettiarachchi (Collective for Historical Dialogues and Memory), Ipshita Basu (University of Westminster), Dr Meera Sabaratnam (New College, Oxford), S Akbar Zaidi (Institute of Business Administration Karachi), Thiruni Kelagama (Wolfson College, Oxford), Madura Rasaratnam (University of London), Maria Misra, Shehan Karunatilaka, Yasmin Khan (Kellogg College, Oxford), Adnan Hossain (University of Glasgow), Afiya S Zia (Wesleyan University), Daanish Mustafa (Kings College London), Julian Kuttig (Ghent University), Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge), Mukesh Kumar (University of Zurich), Mathilde Maitrot (University of Bath), Joe Devine (University of Bath), Arif Naveed (University of Bath), Ajmal Khan AT (Shiv Nadar University)

Monday 1 July 2024 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - CONFERENCE - Music and Majesty: Chapels Royal, Cathedrals, and Colleges, c.1485-1688
  Booking deadline: Friday 21 June 2024
  Various Speakers

Monday 8 July 2024 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Finding a Home: The West Syriac Context of the Clementine Epistles on Chastity
  Dr Dan Batovici (KU Leuven), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 16 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 18 July 2024 (13th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School 2024: Mind, Value and Mental Health (2 Day event)
  This interactive two-day programme will focus on the following themes: Delusion (keynote topic), Philosophical Perspectives on Depression, Mental Disorder and Creativity, Neurodiversity and the Political Economy of Normal Functioning, The 'Insanity Defence' and the Criminal Law, What is Expertise by Experience? and Precision Psychiatry Throughout the event, participants will engage in an intellectually stimulating environment featuring guest lectures and seminars. Presentations – each of which pairs a philosopher with an expert from outside philosophy including clinicians, scientists and people with lived experience – are informal and designed to encourage substantial dialogue with and among the audience. To be held in the state-of-the-art new Anniversary Building situated alongside the river at St Hilda’s College.
  Lucy O'Brien (Richard Wollheim Professor of Philosophy, UCL), Philip McGuire (Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Academic Director, SPRINT. Principal Investigator, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging), Alexander Bird (Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge), Robert Chapman (Assistant Professor, Critical Neurodiversity Studies, Durham University), Claire Hogg (Lecturer in Law, University of Surrey), Dr Edward Harcourt (Fellow & Tutor in Philosophy, Radcliffe Humanities, University of Oxford), Cecily Whiteley (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews)

Thursday 22 August 2024 (18th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Origins of the First Anti-Jewish Good Friday Hymns
  Prof George Demacopoulos (Fordham Univeristuy), 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

Thursday 5 September 2024 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 10 September 2024 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Writing & Meditation
  Every other Tuesday from 10th September 2024
  Dr. Chantelle Jessica Lewis (University of Oxford)
  Race & Resistance

Thursday 19 September 2024 (22nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Dialogue and Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative
  Dr Ephrem Aboud Ishac (University of Graz), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 24 September 2024 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Book Launch: Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom
  ANNA SAPIR ABULAFIA (PROFESSOR OF THE STUDY OF THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS, LADY MARGARET HALL), Prof Aaron Koller (Oxford Interfaith Forum)
  Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts

Thursday 26 September 2024 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - Open scholarship: foundations of copyright for teaching
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 11 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:30 - Clinical ethics symposium: "Taking a risk? When is it ethical for patients to be fed 'at risk'?"
  Prof Dominic Wilkinson, Dr Tina Kauchenen (John Radcliffe Hospital, Speech and Language Team, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust), Dr Helen Turnham (Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care, Oxford), Alex Ruck Keene KC

Monday 14 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Church, The Far Right, and The Claim to Christianity
  Rev Dr Helen Paynter (Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence), Dr Maria Power (Blackfriars), Dr. Paul Weller (Regent’s Park College), Dr Paul Fiddes (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Oriental Christ: What India did with Jesus and Why it is Important
  Registration Required
  Ruth Harris (University of Oxford )
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - Christian Trees
  Dr Thomas Arentzen (Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
• 17:00 - Christian Trees
  Dr Thomas Arentzen (Stockholm School of Theology), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts

Tuesday 15 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: open monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:15 - Ascetic Theory and the Impaired Christ: Peter Damian, Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich
  Amy Appleford (Boston University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Rome Branded: The Politics of Heraldic Devices in the Early Modern Papal Capital
  Toby Osborne, Chair: Natalia Nowakowska
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Moral Atmospheres: Islam and Media in a Marketplace
  Timothy Cooper (King's College, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Extraordinary Medieval Monuments of Georgia: A Report by the Oxford University Byzantine Society Research Trip, July 2024
  Alexander Sherborne (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture
  Holly Ordway
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:15 - Dante and the Art of Divine Light
  Martin Kemp (History of Art, Oxford)
  Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Forgotten Stories of Oxford with Rawz
  Rawz (Urban Music Foundation)
  Race & Resistance

Monday 21 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The Cosmopolitan Queer: Renée Vivien's Translations as De/Construction
  Rebecca Boyd (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 22 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - ‘Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental Orthodox Christians in Europe, 1970-2020’: Before and After
  Coffee will be available from 2.45pm.
  Professor Heleen Murre-van den Berg (Radboud Universiteit)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 17:00 - COVID-19 in India: Epidemic, Inequality and Propaganda
  Dr Murad Banaji (University of Oxford)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - On Genocide: Then and Now
  Professor Phillipe Sands (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - From Temple to Church: New Evidence for the Christianization of the Hephaisteion in Athens
  Anne McCabe (Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 19:30 - William Carey and Sati: A Baptist Missionary's Interrogation against a Social Evil
  Dr Saptarshi Mallick (University of Graz, Austria)
  'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Peasants, migrant workers, survivors and perpetual exiles: Ottoman Armenians
  Coffee available from 11am.
  Dr Talin Suciyan (Ludwig Maximilian)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 13:00 - JRR Tolkien and GB Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
  Please note that John Garth can now not talk at this seminar as planned. The speaker will now be Stuart Lee
  Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Digital Currents, Creations, and Collaborations with Dr. Francesca Sobande
  Dr Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University)
  Race & Resistance

Monday 28 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Documentary Screening | Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea
  TBA

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Iran’s Crisis of Governance
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - What sort of Late Antiquity? Reflections on P. Brown, Journeys of the Mind
  Geoffrey Greatrex (Ottawa)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Thinking Activism and Translation in the Twenty-First Century
  Georgie Fooks, Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Taha Yasin Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:30 - Èṣù at the Library: Yorùbá, AI and Mistranslation
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Open scholarship: copyright the card game
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - History and the Modern Middle East: Do Policy Makers Need a Sense of the Past?
  Sir John Jenkins (Former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Gone with the Wind: Ambition, Scatology, and Violence in Acclamations for Albinos at Aphrodisias
  Arkadiy Avdokhin (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - 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
• 11:15 - Changing subjects: Ottoman belonging in Armenian refugee print culture
  Coffee will be served from 11am.
  Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 13:00 - A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
  Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:00 - Religious Storytelling and the Rise of Marginalia
  Elena Lichmanova (University of Oxford)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - English Judges in Muslim Countries: Synergies and Sensitivities in Promoting the Rule of Law
  Sir Peter Gross (Former Lord Justice of Appeal)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Rebirth of Byzantine Anatolia in the Twelfth Century
  Max Lau (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
  Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Like Lockdown Never Happened: Music and Culture during COVID’
  Dr. Joy White (University of Bedfordshire)
  Race & Resistance

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Dialect in Translation
  Kotryna Garanasvili (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:15 - Vernacular Theology in Thirteenth-Century Oxford: Robert Grosseteste and his Circle
  Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: preregistration and registered reports: what, why, and how
  David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Threats to the Rule of Law
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury (Former President, UK Supreme Court)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Recent Research on Baptism and Baptisteries in Late Antiquity
  Lucia Orlandi (Paris/Rome)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:00 - From COVID-19 to MPox: lessons from the humanities?
  Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Utsa Bose, Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Dr Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan), Mofeyisara Omobowale
• 13:00 - Medievalism in the Margins
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 14:00 - Sopon Bezirdjian and Theodore Birch (Iskender Bezirdjian): a father and son story of creative and political action in the Ottoman Empire, England, and France
  Coffee will be served from 2pm.
  Dr Alyson Wharton (Lincoln)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 17:00 - Visual Storytelling in 14th-century London: Subtexts, Pretexts, Contexts
  Alixe Bovey (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
• 17:15 - AI, Genomics, and the 21st Century Physician
  John D Lantos, Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Using Story Completion to Understand Gen Z’s Religious and Spiritual Role Models
  Dr Edward David (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Blackness, Creativity & Subjectivity Panel
  Dr Renée Landell, Jacob V Joyce
  Race & Resistance

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future
  Dr Suzanne Bartington (University of Birmingham)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
  Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Rise of the Memrā in Syriac Literature
  Alberto Rigolio (Durham)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
  Michael Ward
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
  Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - The Future in the Archives: Catholic Minorities Preserving their Past in the Dutch Republic
  Liesbeth Corens, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 17:00 - Engaging with the Contemporary World: A Multi-Religious Perspective
  Professor Tomáš Halik (Charles University, Prague)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Methodologies of Commensuration: Poetry, History, and Knowledge
  Zdenka Stahuljak (UCLA)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - The Constantinople realists and late nineteenth-century representations of the migrant worker from Ottoman Armenia
  Coffee will be served from 11am.
  Dr Vazken Davidian
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 13:00 - The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
  Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 14:00 - Open scholarship: open monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - What Art Does When It’s Doing Nothing: Stillness, Perdurance, and Agency in Medieval Art
  Ben Tilghman (University of Edinburgh)
  Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Imagining Revolutionary Humanism and Worlds Otherwise
  Professor Levi Gahman (University of Liverpool)
  Race & Resistance

Tuesday 17 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 14 January 2025 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - 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

Monday 17 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 29 May 2025 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - 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