Department: Gardens, Libraries and Museums
Talks:

Thursday 5 December 2024

A Woman’s Place in Wikipedia
Date: 5 December 2024, 10:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Centre for Digital Scholarship
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The historical and cultural importance of plants mentioned in the Qur'an
Date: 5 December 2024, 19:00 - 20:00
Speaker : Shahina Ghazanfar
Organiser: Dr Lauren Baker (Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 January 2025

Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock, and How It Can Revolutionize Your Sleep and Health
Date: 9 January 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Russell Foster (Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and The Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Ruth Holliday (History of Science Museum)
Host: Ruth Holliday (History of Science Museum)

Sunday 12 January 2025

Gilbert White’s Mammals
Date: 12 January 2025, 19:00 - 20:00
Speaker : Stephanie Holt (University of Oxford)
Venue: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road OX1 3PW
Organiser: Dr Joanna Bagniewska (Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford / Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences, Brunel University)
Host: Dr Joanna Bagniewska (Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford / Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences, Brunel University)

Thursday 30 January 2025

Map Readings – ‘Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities’
Date: 30 January 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Tania Rossetto (Università degli Studi di Padova), Laura Lo Presti (Università degli Studi di Padova), Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 February 2025

Title to be confirmed
Date: 13 February 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker s: Margriet Hoogvliet (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Anouk de Vries (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sunday 9 March 2025

More than a 1000 words: The Power and Pitfalls of Wildlife Images
Date: 9 March 2025, 19:00 - 20:00
Speaker : Diogo Veríssimo, PhD (University of Oxford)
Venue: University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road OX1 3PW
Organiser: Dr Joanna Bagniewska (Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford / Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences, Brunel University)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
Date: 15 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
Date: 29 May 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker : Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA