Events of interest to Faculty of Theology and Religion
Talks:

Tuesday 13 January 2025

Archiving and preservation for open access monographs
Date: 13 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Dr Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers), Dr Gareth Cole (University of Exeter), Dr Holly Turpin (Loughborough University)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Host: Office for Open Research

Monday 19 January 2025

Book Launch: A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford), Gaye Kynoch
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 8
Organisers: Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford), Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)
Host: Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 January 2025

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar: AI Skills Wanted: Why the Future of Work Needs Great Skills
Date: 21 January 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Fabian Stephany (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre/Remote
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Mobile manuscripts: Arabic learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
Date: 21 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Christopher Bahl (University of Durham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 January 2025

Week 1, Charles Taylor and Hermeneutics
Date: 23 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

Islamophobia, antisemitism, and the struggle for recognition
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

Wild Forms: Hermits, Saints and Rock Art in Medieval England
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Robert Mills (UCL)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Aquaculture: A Moral, Theological, and Scientific Assessment
Date: 2 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Clair Linzey (Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: The Cinema, Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
Date: 4 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Neli Frost (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre/Remote
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Worlds of Islam: a global history
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : James McDougall (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

Technologies of Reproduction and Sonderauftrag Bayeux: Re-Creating the Bayeux Tapestry for the Third Reich
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Millie Horton-Insch (Trinity College, Dublin)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

Palliating Uncertainty: Tools from the Pragmatism of William James
Date: 9 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Ariel Dempsey (Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079 (Ground Floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Playing in the open: Getting familiar with Creative Commons licences
Date: 11 February 2026, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker s: Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Hajj and the Art of Pilgrimage
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sir Nasser Khalili (Khalili Foundation)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 February 2025

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
Date: 18 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Felix Simon (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre/Remote
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Shaping the future of AI and Human Rights
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Yuval Shany (King's College, London)
Venue Details: Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens, Oxford
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)

Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Graham Priest (CUNY)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Host: Joshua Loo (Oxford)

Monday 23 February 2025

The Bible and the Earth: A Proposal for Ecotheological Hermeneutics
Date: 23 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Bethany Sollereder (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079 (Ground Floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2025

From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 March 2025

Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminar:
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : TBC
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre/Remote
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Anatomy of a Conversion: Nicolaus Steno and the Search for Religious Certainty in the “Scientific Revolution”
Date: 4 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, Oxford)
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Expert Insights Seminar - AI and human agency
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Christopher Summerfield (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens, Oxford
Organisers: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Graham Bagley (Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford), Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)

Transnational ties of faith: Imdadullah’s letters and writings from the Hijaz during the late-19th century
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 March 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor James Ladyman (Bristol)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2025

Quantum Worldviews - Believing and Belonging
Date: 9 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Shaun Henson (Faculty of Theology and Religion, Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079 (Ground Floor), Schwarzman Centre
Organiser: Ian Ramsey Centre for Science & Religion
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2025

Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Prof Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2025

Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Emily Guerry
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 7 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Cécile Voyer (Université de Poitiers)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 15 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2026, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 May 2025

The Many Lives of the Asante Ewers
Date: 28 May 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Lloyd Debeer (British Museum)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 29 May 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Selim Berker (Harvard)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 June 2025

Contemporary Art Meets the Medieval Monastery
Date: 4 June 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 11 June 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Meg Bernstein (University of East Anglia)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
After Rome and Further East Seminar
Bampton Lectures 2023: Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation
Can there be Buddhist physicalism?
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
Ecclesiastical History Workshop
George Rousseau Lectures
Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”
Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)
Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
Modern Jewish Thought Seminar
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
New Testament Seminar
No What Without a How: Theological Method and the Theologies of Original Sin in Modern Catholic Thought
'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events
Open Scholarship
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Race & Resistance
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700
Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
Tolkien seminars
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion - Religion Refracted and in Motion: On Pilgrimage in Present Times
Womanhood in Interfaith Contexts