Events of interest to Faculty of Theology and Religion
Talks:

Thursday 5 June 2025

English Reformers in German print, 1547-1603
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 June 2025

Bravery in Academia? A discussion led by Cerise Jackson
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Cerise Jackson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: 1st floor Ryle Room
Organisers: Dr Chantelle Lewis (University of Oxford), Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 6 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Ryle Room (first floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
Date: 6 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
Date: 9 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Prof Philipp Koralus (Philosophy, Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian style
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : David Scott (History of Parliament)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Peshitta and the Making of the Antioch Bible
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Dr George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Oxford Interfaith Forum (Oxford), Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum, AMES), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Interfaith Forum (Oxford)

Annual Lecture with Prof Jessica Riskin - The Onion Axiom: A History of the Outside-In Approach to Artificial (and Natural) Intelligence
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jessica Riskin (University of Stanford)
Venue Details: Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Market Street, Oxford
Organiser: Jacqueline Wright (Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford)
Host: Institute for Ethics in AI (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

Black Academic Futures (BAF) Research Panel
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Amunet Boafo (University of Oxford), Michelle Codrington-Rogers (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Jake Nebel (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
Date: 13 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 14 June 2025

Oxford Translation Day 2025
Date: 14 June 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Creative Workshop: Manifestos for Activism in Translation
Date: 14 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:45
Speaker : Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 9
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

"The One Who Has Arrived Late": Bengali Translation Workshop
Date: 14 June 2025, 9:30 - 10:45
Speaker : Utsa Bose (History, Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

Translating Multilingual Literature: Workshop with Dr Sheela Mahadevan
Date: 14 June 2025, 11:00 - 12:15
Speaker : Dr Sheela Mahadevan (University of Liverpool)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 9
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

Starting Out in Translation Studies: Early Career Reflections
Date: 14 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker s: Minna Jeffery, Aoife Cantrill, Dr Georgia Nasseh (University of Cambridge), Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

Between Tongues: Poetry and Self-Translation in Celtic Languages
Date: 14 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:15
Speaker s: Menna Elfyn, Petra Joana Poncarova, Mererid Puw Davies
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

In Conversation: Polly Barton and Monica Cure
Date: 14 June 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Polly Barton, Monica Cure
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

“This is Why”: Translators on Translating, Editors on Editing
Date: 14 June 2025, 16:45 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 7
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Short List Readings and Prize-Giving
Date: 14 June 2025, 18:30 - 19:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre
Organiser: OCCT
Host: OCCT

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Project Clinic
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Top floor, Porter’s Lodge, St. Catherine’s College, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UJ
Organiser: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

A Bridge to the Sky: From ibn Firnas (d. 887) and the Cordoban Court to Imagining Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

London public sermons and early modern emotional communities
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mary Morrissey (Reading University)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

End of Year Celebration
Date: 20 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 20 June 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room (second floor).
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
Date: 20 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: SUMMER COMMON ROOM
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Choosing open access for books: An author journey
Date: 25 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Judith Fathallah (Lancaster University, Coventry University, Open Book Collective)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts: Jacqueline Thompson (Bodleian Libraries), Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
Date: 25 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (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

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
Date: 7 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 24 July 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 November 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 November 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Michael Potter (Cambridge)
Organiser: Joshua Loo (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 5 December 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 5 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
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)

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

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

Friday 12 June 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 June 2026, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
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