Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - A Perilous Task? The Making of the Old English Heptateuch
  Francis Leneghan
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 16:00 - "We might even in time perhaps have a black President!!": The American Journal of Edward Stanley-Smith, the Future Prime Minster and Later 14th Earl of Derby, 1824-25
  Andrew O'Shaughnessy (University of Virginia)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:00 - Frances Thompson: Race, Gender Non-Conformity, and Scandal in the White Conservative Press During Reconstruction
  Elizabeth Barnes (Reading)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Politics of Sacrifice: Youth, Martyrs and Remembrance in Meloni's Italy
  Amy King (Bristol)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:30 - Atomic and Agential Airs: Finch, Smollett, Barbauld
  Dr Rowan Boyson (Kings College London University)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - The Damel Who Spoke like François Ier: Essay on a Dynamic of the French Colonial Empire, 16th-17th Centuries
  François-Joseph Ruggiu, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Debrief
  Adam Smith (Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 14:00 - Wartime Captivity and Colonial Counterinsurgency
  Dr Kevin Noles (Independent), Hendrik Willem Nelis (Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Professor Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi (Vanderbilt University) will discuss her new book When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (2023)
  Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford), Prof Rebecca Epstein-Levi (Vanderbilt University)
  Modern Jewish Thought
• 17:00 - Disobeying Arts and Crafts Studies Orthodoxy
  Dr Thomas Cooper
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:15 - Aztec Latin: Simon Ditchfield in Conversation with Andrew Laird
  Please note this will be at 17:15-18:45
  Simon Ditchfield (University of York), Andrew Laird (Brown University)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:15 - Solidarity in Starving: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s 'Nervous Conditions' and the Emergence of Third World Feminism.
  Alys Moody (Bard)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Workshop in HSMTE
  Various Speakers
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 11:15 - Changing subjects: Ottoman belonging in Armenian refugee print culture
  Coffee will be served from 11am.
  Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 12:30 - Ceramics and Resistance: Artistic Assertions of Black Caribbean Identity
  Olivia Holder (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
  Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 14:00 - “Democracy has come!” The Third Reform Act and the making of British democracy
  Rob Saunders (QMUL)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:30 - Infectious Ecologies: Exploring Biological Histories of Epidemics in Colonized Spaces
  Please note this seminar will be at 16:30 on THURSDAY 7 NOVEMBER, in the Lecture Theatre, Weston Library
  Dr Emily Webster (Durham University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The US Election: What Just Happened
  Registration required for online attendance
  Adam Smith (Oxford), Kimberly Johnson (University of Oxford), Jason Casellas (University of Houston), Mike Murphy, Clare Malone (The New Yorker)
• 17:00 - 2024 Besterman Lecture: Suicide and slavery in Enlightenment thought
  Cécile Vidal (EHESS, Paris)
• 17:00 - Research Speed Dating Workshop hosted by WGIQ
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 17:00 - “The Case of Thomas Coo Truly Stated”: Legal Practice, Petitioning and Prisons in Jacobean England
  Dr Felicity Heal (Jesus College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Uses of the Cinematic
  Eva Gold
  Contemporary Art Lectures
• 17:00 - Psychology and the individual in medieval Ireland
  Dr Elizabeth Boyle (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Efficacious Writing: The Workings of Talismans in Contemporary Daoist Practice
  Dr David Mozina (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - A Liberal Utopia I
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 16:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Erin O'Halloran (Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 11 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - American Judaism: from Pittsburgh to Pittsburgh
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7
• 16:00 - The Prediction Machine: science, technology, and futurology in British Government, c. 1970-2010
  Please note this seminar will be held in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, George Street
  Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
  Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Nelson Landry (University of Hamburg)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025
• 17:00 - 'Bogomils or Bogeymen?: Heresy between East and West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  Gregory Lippiatt (University of Exeter)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:15 - (Non-)expletive negation
  TBA
  General Linguistics Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - China in the Caribbean with Implications for Western Hemisphere Geopolitics
  Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie (The University of the West Indies)
  China Centre talks
• 12:15 - Enucleator venio, non pugnator": the uneven authority of pseudohistories in Gerald of Wales
  Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Inside American Politics 2024 Conference
  Registration required
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - The Reception of Confucianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Deists, Dissenters, and the Dao
  Ross Moncrieff (All Souls)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - Building Barrios and Seeking Sexual Justice: Women’s Activism during and in the Aftermath of Franco’s Spain
  Roseanna Webster (Cambridge)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - From Iceland to the World: Translating Flateyjarbók
  Professor Alison Finlay (Birkbeck)
  Old Norse Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Roots of American Authoritarianism
  Lisa McGirr (Harvard University)
• 17:00 - 2024 Harmsworth Lecture in American History: The Roots of American Authoritarianism
  Please note this lecture will be held at the Examination Schools at 17:00
  Professor Lisa McGirr (Harvard)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Exploring Positive and Negative Sublime Affect in the Alps: Combining Traditional and Digital Scholarship
  Sally Bushell and Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Oxford Wells Lectures
  Professor Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Letters, Archives, Precedent? Early Modern Rabbinic Responsa and Their Afterlives
  Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: The Urban-Suburban Divide
  Kimberly Johnson (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 13:00 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 14:00 - Reading, Writing, and Teaching Global History Now
  Professor Erica Charters (Oxford), Professor Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds), Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Oisin Meenan (Wolfson College), Hannah Fagan (Mansfield College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:00 - Fixers: Women and Housing Corruption in 1950s Belfast
  Professor Marianne Elliott (Professor emerita, Liverpool)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Brigid von Preussen
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Harmsworth Lecture Response
  Please note this seminar will take place on Thursday 14 November at 12:30
  Andrew Preston (Cambridge)
  American History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Plant Life from the Pre-Socratics to Theophrastus
  David Lepidi (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - The authors and styles of The Lord of the Rings
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 14:00 - “The age has passed, when nations can be SUNG into liberty”: the changing sounds of working-class radicalism, 1838-67
  David Kennerley (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:45 - What was New Sincerity?
  Adam Kelley (University College Dublin)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Fragility and Friability of “legality” in early modern England: a Practice-based Approach to Law-mindedness
  Dr Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Rural-to-Urban Migration, Gender and Familial Care in Post-Socialist China
  Professor Susanne Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - From Cologne to Lisbon: Translating the Cult of St Ursula
  Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar
• 17:15 - From Dánta Grá to Dante: Irish–Italian genealogies, 1350–1850
  Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Energy and Culture
  Barnabas Calder (University of Liverpool)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 16:00 - Picturing War: Art and Empire in the Late-Victorian Period
  Sean Willcock (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Children of South Asian Heritage in Interwar Britain: Race, Religion, Class and Belonging
  Sumita Mukherjee (Unversity of Bristol)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 11:00 - Zionism: Jewish messianism and nationalism rethought
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7
• 12:45 - Dialect in Translation
  Kotryna Garanasvili (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - Physical Pain in Early Modern Europe: Texts, Signs, and Emotions (Joint session with HSMT/NOTCOM ERC Project based at the Maison Francaise)
  Dr Raphaële Andrault (IHRIM-ENS de Lyon), Professor Ariane Bayle (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3; IHRIM)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
  Teena Purohit (Boston University)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - Kitchen Servants as Economic Actors at the court of the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia
  Molly Taylor-Poleskey (Harvard)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise?
  Professor Sungmin Rho (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - New perspectives on Gerald of Wales
  Moreed Arbabzedah (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age
  TBA
  General Linguistics Seminar

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Vernacular Theology in Thirteenth-Century Oxford: Robert Grosseteste and his Circle
  Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - In-house talk on digital eighteenth century in Oxford with NICOLE POHL and JACK ORCHARD (Electronic Enlightenment)
  Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965
  Harvey Cohen (KCL)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Explaining Famine and Grinding Poverty: Agricultural Experimentation (and Failure) in Feeding Britain, 1770-1800
  John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Exeter)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - New Directions in Topic Theory
  Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska (University of Chicago), Ben Major (Royal Holloway, University of London), James Donaldson (University of Oxford), Edward K. Spencer (Utrecht University)
  The Oxford Seminar in Music Theory and Analysis
• 17:00 - "The most Common and Fatal of all Diseases". Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
  Stefanie Gaenger (Heidelberg)
  Modern European History Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:15 - Living with Accusation: Families Navigating the Fallout of Sodomy Charges in Early Modern Spain
  Maayan Aner, Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Political Violence
  Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 14:00 - Networks of Refuge and Transnational Citizenship
  Pragya Kaul (Michigan), Vidura Jang Bahadur (Northwestern)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Professor Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina) will discuss his new book Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose (2023)
  Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford), Prof Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina)
  Modern Jewish Thought
• 16:30 - The Invention of the Sangley in the Early Modern Spanish Philippines
  Christina H Lee (Princeton University)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Queering Medieval Art at The Met Cloisters, New York
  Professor Nancy Thebaut
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Workshop in HSMTE
  Various Speakers
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 12:00 - From COVID-19 to MPox: lessons from the humanities?
  Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Utsa Bose, Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Dr Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan), Mofeyisara Omobowale
• 12:30 - Family Stories and Secrets in memories of the UK 1984/85 Miners' strike
  Carly Guest (Northumbria University)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - Medievalism in the Margins
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 14:00 - Sopon Bezirdjian and Theodore Birch (Iskender Bezirdjian): a father and son story of creative and political action in the Ottoman Empire, England, and France
  Coffee will be served from 2pm.
  Dr Alyson Wharton (Lincoln)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 14:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 14:00 - “The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge's lifelong involvement in parochial education
  Dr Susan Walton (University of Hull)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Joint meeting with the English Faculty’s Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: “The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge’s lifelong involvement in parochial education
  Susan Walton (Hull)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Francis Bacon and Stuart Foreign Policy, 1621-1626
  Dr Samuel Zeitlin (University College London)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - The long life of the Trecento repertory
  Lucia Marchi (University of Trento)
  All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• 17:00 - Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - “Desert wilds of India Africa”: Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod competitions and Empire, 1834–1853
  Marion Loeffler
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - AI, Genomics, and the 21st Century Physician
  John D Lantos, Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Sanctuaries without Temples: Temenoi and Natural Phenomena in Archaic Central Italy
  Corso Dominici
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 16:00 - Empires and everyday cultural coexistence: the Nineteenth century Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective
  Nicholas Doumanis (Illinois Chicago)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

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

• 11:00 - The Shoah: Jewish faith rethought
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7
• 12:00 - Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
  Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - What’s in a table? Managing astronomical data in early modern Europe
  Professor Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Gender Ventriloquism in Medieval India: the Writings of Amir Khusro
  Fouzia Farooq AhmedAzam (Oxford/Quaid-i- University, Islamabad)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

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

• 16:00 - John Reed, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, and the Question of Journalistic Truth
  Simon Hall (Leeds)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - Unbecoming the British Empire: Reconstituting Intergovernmental Relations in the American Revolutionary Era
  Grace Mallon (Lady Margaret Hall)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - “The Scientific Worldview”: Understandings of Science and their Geopolitical Implications
  Geert Somsen (Maastricht)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:15 - What are Poetical Essays?
  Dr Ted Tregear (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - 'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode
  Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

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

• 11:15 - A Woman Doing Her Accounts: Some Lessons from a Peripatetic Early Modern Image
  Dror Wahrman, Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Shifting Voter Allegiances
  Richard Johnson (Queen Mary, University of London)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:00 - Out of Time: Ireland and Modernity
  Professor Enda Delaney (Edinburgh)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - Queer History Reading Group
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - Audio(visual) Sources for Chinese Socialist Soundscapes: A Methodological Exploration
  Professor Jie Li (Harvard University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 17:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Sara Lopes Borga (St John's College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:00 - Unraveling Stilfragen: Alois Riegl and the Crafting of Early Formalist Art History
  Dr Jesse Lockard
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:15 - Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
  Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

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

• 12:30 - Conceiving the Past at the GLBT Historical Society: Inside San Francisco’s Queer Museum & Archives
  Gerard Koskovich
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Science, Ecology and Romanticism in George Catlin’s travelling "Indian Gallery"
  Ruka Hussain (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
  Michael Ward
  Tolkien seminars
• 13:00 - Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought
  Sheila Byers (University of Oxford), Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Harold Macmillan and his grand designs
  Pippa Catterall (Westminster)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - “An oare in every paper boat”: Thomas Lodge, Professional Writing and Rivalries in Elizabethan London
  Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Through Texts or Objects: How Classicists and Antiquarians Conceptualised the Chinese Ritual Jade cong
  Dr Qin Yang (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Looting, Confiscation, and Concealed Treasure in Dutch Guardroom Scenes of the 1640s
  Allison Stielau (UCL)
  Early Modern Visual and Material Culture Seminar
• 17:15 - Breton dialect variation: An opportunity to reflect on the emergence and formation of a language
  Tanguy Solliec
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - A Liberal Utopia III
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 12:30 - Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
  Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 12:30 - An Introduction to Digital 3D Modelling
  Dr John Hanson (Departmental Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 16:00 - Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
  Berny Sèbe (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

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

• 11:00 - The Sisterhood: Feminist critiques of patriarchy and inter-faith as a path forward?
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7
• 11:00 - "At this point in my inquiry I myself took a paper trumpet": Play, privacy, and intrusion in the domestic spaces of child study research
  Julia Gustavsson (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:15 - Speculative Biography: The Strange Case of Edith Cooper
  Carolyn Dever
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:45 - Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
  Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - Singapore pineapples: catch-cropping, Chinese capitalists, and the colonial state, 1900s-1930s
  Dr Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Food, Clothing, Shelter. Representing the King as Economical in Frederick William I’s Prussia (1713-1740)
  Benjamin Marschke (Humboldt)
  Economic History of Monarchy
• 17:00 - Harlot/saint: tracking the figure of Thais meretrix in medieval manuscript compilations
  Alicia Smith (Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Udayana's refutation of apoha
  Bogdan Diaconescu (University of Oxford)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025
• 17:15 - Language on Social Media: creative, dynamic and strategic
  TBA

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South
  Beth Wilson (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - From Québec to India: Constitutional Pluralism in British Imperial Ideology, 1773-1793
  Damien Bérubé (Lincoln)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Joint meeting with the Modern History Research seminar: Writing history after Brexit
  Please note this meeting is on TUESDAY 3 December at 17:00
  Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Robert Gildea (Oxford), Rob Saunders (QMUL)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Writing History After Brexit - Hosted in conjunction with the Modern British History Seminar
  Patricia Clavin, Anne Deighton, Robert Gildea, Rob Saunders (QMUL), Chair: Senia Paseta
  Modern European History Seminar

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

• 11:15 - The Future in the Archives: Catholic Minorities Preserving their Past in the Dutch Republic
  Liesbeth Corens, Chair: Giora Sternberg
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
  Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford), Gillian Peele (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 14:00 - Indentured Urbanity and Constitutional Law
  Dr Purba Hossain (York), Sahith Mandapalli (JNU)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Professor Yonatan Y. Brafman (Tufts University) will discuss his new book Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity (2024)
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford), Prof Yonatan Brafman (Tufts University)
  Modern Jewish Thought
• 16:30 - Reimagining the Black Iberian Atlantic: A Roundtable Discussion of Chloe Ireton’s Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (CUP, 2024)
  Chloe Ireton (UCL), Erica Field-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford), Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College, Oxford)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Zehra Jumabhoy
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:15 - DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

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

• 10:00 - Workshop in HSMTE
  Various Speakers
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 11:00 - Ecclesiastical History from an Early Medieval Perspective: Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Literature and Non-Literary Sources
  Rev’d Dr Jane Baun
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop
• 11:15 - The Constantinople realists and late nineteenth-century representations of the migrant worker from Ottoman Armenia
  Coffee will be served from 11am.
  Dr Vazken Davidian
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 12:30 - Materiality and Memorialisation in Queer Heritage
  Alison Oram (Institute of Historical Research)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
  Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:00 - A.I., Similarity, and Search in Medieval Music: New Methodologies and Source Identifications
  Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
  All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music
• 17:00 - Writing An Accidental History of Tudor England
  Professor Steven Gunn (Merton College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
  Please note that this seminar has been postponed
  Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

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

• 10:00 - Criticism and Conclusion
  TBA
  Reading Rorty
• 12:30 - Delving into Mediterranean Iron Age Societies through Mudbrick Architecture: Social and Geoarchaeological Approaches
  Benjamín Cutillas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
  Ancient Architecture Discussion Group
• 16:00 - The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
  Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
  Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 24 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - India and the Early Modern World
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Jagjeet Lally (UCL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 31 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 4 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
  Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 7 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 11 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
  Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
  American History Research Seminar

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

• 11:00 - Medieval Religion: What and How in a Flourishing Field of Research
  Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop

Friday 14 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 21 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 25 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
  Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
  American History Research Seminar

Friday 28 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 4 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Black American leisure time 20th century
  Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
  American History Research Seminar