Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 10:00 - Getting started in policy engagement (in-person)
  In this session, you will benefit from a combination of presentations, short exercises, and opportunities to discuss with peer researchers your motivations, plans, and challenges when it comes to engaging with policymakers and the public policy world.
  Naomi Gibson (Medical Sciences Division), Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Rohini Pande (Yale University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Completing Your DPhil (in-person)
  If you are nearing the end of your DPhil, this workshop will help you develop a plan for completing your DPhil and prepare for the viva.
  Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
• 14:15 - Traces of Maghribī Astronomy in Sources from Latin Europe (13th-14th Centuries)
  Dr Philipp Nothaft (All Souls College, Oxford)
  All Souls Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Science
• 17:00 - Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
  Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
  Professor Diana Allen (McGill University)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - “The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
  John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 09:30 - Podcast your science (in-person)
  From inception to publication this practical session delivered by Emily Elias, journalist and producer of the Oxford Sparks podcast series, is a whirlwind tour through the basics of how to share your research in an engaging manner through podcasting.
  Emily Elias (Podcast Producer)
• 10:30 - University Welcome Induction for Researchers (in-person)
  Dr Rachel Bray (University of Oxford ), Dr Claudio Cortes Rodriguez (DPAG, University of Oxford), Dr Anne Wolfes (University of Oxford)
• 12:00 - Identifying rare variants underlying human disease via high-throughput genome editing
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable on Teams.
  Dr Greg Findlay (Francis Crick Institute)
  WIMM THURSDAY SEMINARS
• 12:00 - Industry Insights Seminar - Novartis
  Dr Marta Cortes-Cros (Novartis)
  Industry Insight Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
  Bill Smith (DPhil History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Ideas to Action: Effective Public Engagement with Research (online)
  This 3-hour session is tailored to those looking to explore evidence-based strategies for designing activities/events, apply for Public Engagement with Research (PER) funding, or get practical tips for organising an activity.
  Dr Catherine Seed (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Insights into Scientific Publishing (Oxford Virology and Immunology Networks joint seminar)
  Booking required via email to sally.pelling-deeves@medsci.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Duc Le (Med journal), Dr Zoltan Fehervari (Springer Nature)
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Nicol Harper (DPAG, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Neurotheory Forum
• 16:30 - Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
  Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)
• 17:00 - Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian style
  David Scott (History of Parliament)
  Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
• 17:00 - The Peshitta and the Making of the Antioch Bible
  Dr George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
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