Events of interest to Faculty of Theology and Religion
Talks:

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Shoah: Jewish faith rethought
Date: 25 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organiser: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
Date: 25 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Air Quality in Oxford: Past, Present and Future
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Suzanne Bartington (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Rise of the Memrā in Syriac Literature
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Alberto Rigolio (Durham)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Michael Ward
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Sisterhood: Feminist critiques of patriarchy and inter-faith as a path forward?
Date: 2 December 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organiser: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:45 - 13:45 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Future in the Archives: Catholic Minorities Preserving their Past in the Dutch Republic
Date: 4 December 2024, 11:15 - 12:45 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Liesbeth Corens, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Professor Yonatan Y. Brafman (Tufts University) will discuss his new book Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity (2024)
Date: 4 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford), Prof Yonatan Brafman (Tufts University)
Organiser: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Engaging with the Contemporary World: A Multi-Religious Perspective
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Tomáš Halik (Charles University, Prague)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Methodologies of Commensuration: Poetry, History, and Knowledge
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Zdenka Stahuljak (UCLA)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Ecclesiastical History from an Early Medieval Perspective: Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Literature and Non-Literary Sources
Date: 5 December 2024, 11:00 - 12:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Rev’d Dr Jane Baun
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4
Organiser: Sophie Aldred (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Constantinople realists and late nineteenth-century representations of the migrant worker from Ottoman Armenia
Date: 5 December 2024, 11:15 - 12:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Vazken Davidian
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organisers: Joe Leidy (Exeter), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
Date: 5 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Open scholarship: open monographs
Date: 5 December 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

What Art Does When It’s Doing Nothing: Stillness, Perdurance, and Agency in Medieval Art
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ben Tilghman (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Arumugam Building 1.2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Imagining Revolutionary Humanism and Worlds Otherwise
Date: 6 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Levi Gahman (University of Liverpool)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: 3rd floor seminar room
Organisers: Dr Chantelle Lewis (University of Oxford), Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 December 2024 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
Date: 17 December 2024, 10:00 - 11:30 (Tuesday, 10th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 January 2025 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

Open scholarship: fundamentals of open access
Date: 14 January 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 (Tuesday, 0th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Open scholarship: playing in the open: getting familiar with creative commons licences
Date: 13 February 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (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

Medieval Religion: What and How in a Flourishing Field of Research
Date: 13 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4
Organiser: Sophie Aldred (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Open scholarship: forum of open scholarship
Date: 17 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025 (19th Week, Hilary Term)

Open scholarship: playing in the open: getting familiar with creative commons licences
Date: 29 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 (Thursday, 19th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (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

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
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 and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
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