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

• 10:00 - Workshop in HSMTE: Madeline White
  Madeline White (Oxford)
  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 - Day 1: International Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
  Various Speakers
  International 2-Day Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
• 13:00 - Medievalism in the Margins
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 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)
• 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 - “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
• 17:00 - “Desert wilds of India Africa”: Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod competitions and Empire, 1834–1853
  Marion Loeffler
  Celtic Research 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 - Latin America in Catholicism's Global Cold War (Latin American History Seminar)
  Daniel McDonald (Oxford), Simon Unger (Roma), Jaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame)
  International 2-Day Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
• 17:00 - Francis Bacon and Stuart Foreign Policy, 1621-1626
  Dr Samuel Zeitlin (University College London)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Naudline Pierre: Imagination
  Naudline Pierre
  Contemporary Art Lectures
• 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)

• 08:30 - Day 2: International Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
  Various Speakers
  International 2-Day Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
• 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)

• 15:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 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
• 16:00 - John Reed, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, and the Question of Journalistic Truth
  Simon Hall (Leeds)
  American History Research Seminar
• 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
• 17:15 - 'Ancestral Crossfades: Affective Articulation in Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE'
  Dr Jacob Kingsbury Downs (University of Oxford)
  Graduate Research Colloquium
• 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 - Unraveling Stilfragen: Alois Riegl and the Crafting of Early Formalist Art History
  Dr Jesse Lockard
  History of Art Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Sara Lopes Borga (St John's College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 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
• 17:15 - Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
  Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Poetry After Kafka
  Various Speakers

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

• 12:30 - Science, Ecology and Romanticism in George Catlin’s travelling "Indian Gallery"
  Ruka Hussain (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 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].
• 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
• 13:00 - C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
  Michael Ward
  Tolkien seminars
• 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 - Through Texts or Objects: How Classicists and Antiquarians Conceptualised the Chinese Ritual Jade cong
  Dr Qin Yang (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - “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
• 17:15 - 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
• 12:00 - Bringing Criminological Imagination to China Studies
  Professor Jianhua Xu (University of Macau)
  China Centre talks
• 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
• 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
• 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 - Udayana's refutation of apoha
  Bogdan Diaconescu (University of Oxford)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025
• 17:00 - Harlot/saint: tracking the figure of Thais meretrix in medieval manuscript compilations
  Alicia Smith (Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 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
• 17:15 - 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
• 12:00 - An Outlook for US-China-Taiwan Relations under Trump 2.0
  Professor Lu Yeh-chung (National Chengchi University (NCCU),)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
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  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: More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
  Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (centre de recherches historiques)
  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 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Writing An Accidental History of Tudor England
  Professor Steven Gunn (Merton College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 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 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  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