Monday 20 January 2025

• 14:00 - Labor Omnia Vincit: The Pleasures and Perplexities of Didactic Poetry & Verse Translation
  A. E. Stallings (Professor of Poetry), Kimberly Johnson (Brigham Young University)
• 16:00 - The Past and Future of Vaccine Hesitancy Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
  Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia)
• 16:00 - Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
  Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 13:00 - Cultural Programme Medieval Afterlives Workshop
  Please RSVP by 7 January 2025
  Various Speakers
  Humanities Cultural Programme
• 16:00 - Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
  Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Pictures Seen and Unseen: The Art of Memory in the Age of Keats”
  Matthew Scott (Reading University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:15 - The Old English 'Apollonius of Tyre' and the Name of the Father
  Alice Jorgensen (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 17:15 - Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: a book conversation
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Dr Katherine Collins (University of Oxford), Dr Elizabeth Chant (Warwick), Dr Archie Davies (QMUL), Dr Emma Parker (Bristol), Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar
  Prof. Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 24 January 2025

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 27 January 2025

• 11:00 - Reading Group – Childhood and Agency
  Hannah Stovin (Oxford), Shereece Linton-Ramsay (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
  Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 16:00 - Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
  John Bird (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:15 - On Fragments: The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste
  Professor Tamara Atkin (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar
  Dr Abdul-Azim Ahmed (Cardiff University)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
  Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Art of Filmed Theatre: Greek Tragedy captured by the National Theatre
  Erin Lee (National Theatre), Jess Richardson (National Theatre)
  Greek tragedy between stage and screen

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 16:00 - "Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
  Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Gothic Democracy
  Robert Miles (University of Victoria)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 17:15 - The 'windsele' in Christ and Satan: Demonic Winds in Medieval Literature
  Professor Marilina Cesario (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar
  Dr Laura Arman (Cardiff University)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 7 February 2025

• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 10 February 2025

• 11:00 - “Can They Ever Become Like Us?”: Conversion Narratives Featuring Romani in the Children’s Missionary Periodical Maaltrosten (1903-42)
  Idunn Victoria Rostøl (Oslo)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
  Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 16:00 - Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
  Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Susanna Centlivre ‘The Busy Body’ (1709) revived for the 21st century stage
  Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford, Creation Theatre and others)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:15 - Reading Early Middle English Books
  TBA
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 11:00 - Medieval Religion: What and How in a Flourishing Field of Research
  Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 17:00 - Celtic Research Seminar
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Writing the Life of Author and Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi: Race, Class, and Multiculturalism
  Professor Ruvani Ranasinha (KCL)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 14 February 2025

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 17 February 2025

• 16:00 - Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
  Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 17:30 - William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination
  Caroline Ritchie (Exeter College), Luisa Cale (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 17:15 - Expecting the Worst: Beowulf and the End Times
  Dr Amy Faulkner (UCL)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 17:15 - Merlin, Gwenddydd, and the End of our Age
  Dr David Callander (Cardiff University)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 21 February 2025

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 24 February 2025

• 11:00 - Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
  Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
  Becky Martin (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 16:00 - Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
  Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Tangible Pasts: Antiquarian Culture and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century
  Prof. Katharina Boehm (University of Passau, Germany)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:15 - 'Biblical poetry and its place in medieval English culture
  Dr Cathy Hume (University of Bristol)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Friday 28 February 2025

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
  Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
  Prof. Julie Park (PPennsylvania State University)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
  Julie Park (Pennsylvania State University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 17:15 - Fanon Questions
  Robert Young (New York University)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - In search of the nineteenth-century Gaelic Caribbean
  Dr Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Monday 10 March 2025

• 11:00 - Cultivating Youth in Bourgeois Beirut, 1860-1880
  Joseph Leidy (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
  Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:30 - “The capital pen of a sister author”: Reading Frances Burney with Jane Austen
  Peter Sabor (McGill)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Black American leisure time 20th century
  Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
  American History Research Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 17:00 - Celtic Research Seminar
  Dr Kathryn Jones (Cardiff University)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 17:00 - Celtic Research Seminar
  Prof. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (University of the Highlands and Islands)
  Celtic Research Seminar