Department: Humanities Division
Talks:

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

Workshop in HSMTE: Madeline White
Date: 21 November 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Madeline White (Oxford)
Venue: 47 Banbury Road, 47 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From COVID-19 to MPox: lessons from the humanities?
Date: 21 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: 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
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Hosts: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford)

Family Stories and Secrets in memories of the UK 1984/85 Miners' strike
Date: 21 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Carly Guest (Northumbria University)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Medievalism in the Margins
Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Day 1: International Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
Date: 21 November 2024, 13:00 - 16:45 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College, and the Latin American Centre, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Susan Walton (Hull)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge's lifelong involvement in parochial education
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Susan Walton (University of Hull)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sopon Bezirdjian and Theodore Birch (Iskender Bezirdjian): a father and son story of creative and political action in the Ottoman Empire, England, and France
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Alyson Wharton (Lincoln)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Joe Leidy (Exeter), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“Desert wilds of India Africa”: Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod competitions and Empire, 1834–1853
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Marion Loeffler
Venue Details: CAWCS (online)
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The long life of the Trecento repertory
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Lucia Marchi (University of Trento)
Organisers: Joseph Mason (University of Oxford), Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Naudline Pierre: Imagination
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Naudline Pierre
Venue: 128 Bullingdon Road, 128 Bullingdon Road OX4 1QP
Venue Details: Ruskin School of Art (East Oxford site) Accessibility info: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Latin America in Catholicism's Global Cold War (Latin American History Seminar)
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Daniel McDonald (Oxford), Simon Unger (Roma), Jaime Pensado (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre, and online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Francis Bacon and Stuart Foreign Policy, 1621-1626
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Samuel Zeitlin (University College London)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

AI, Genomics, and the 21st Century Physician
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: John D Lantos, Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Ship Street Centre
Organisers: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Prof Dominic Wilkinson
Host: Prof Dominic Wilkinson

A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Date: 21 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga Room
Organisers: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Day 2: International Conference: Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America
Date: 22 November 2024, 8:30 - 16:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Sanctuaries without Temples: Temenoi and Natural Phenomena in Archaic Central Italy
Date: 22 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Corso Dominici
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford), Nikki Vellidis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Empires and everyday cultural coexistence: the Nineteenth century Ottoman Empire in comparative perspective
Date: 22 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Nicholas Doumanis (Illinois Chicago)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

The Shoah: Jewish faith rethought
Date: 25 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organiser: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
Date: 25 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:15 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

What’s in a table? Managing astronomical data in early modern Europe
Date: 25 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Gender Ventriloquism in Medieval India: the Writings of Amir Khusro
Date: 25 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Fouzia Farooq AhmedAzam (Oxford/Quaid-i- University, Islamabad)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
Date: 26 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A, Faculty of English
Organisers: Charlotte Wilson, Madhurima Sen
Hosts: TBA

Unbecoming the British Empire: Reconstituting Intergovernmental Relations in the American Revolutionary Era
Date: 26 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Grace Mallon (Lady Margaret Hall)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Reed, Edgar Snow, Herbert Matthews, and the Question of Journalistic Truth
Date: 26 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Simon Hall (Leeds)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“The Scientific Worldview”: Understandings of Science and their Geopolitical Implications
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Geert Somsen (Maastricht)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'Ancestral Crossfades: Affective Articulation in Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE'
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Jacob Kingsbury Downs (University of Oxford)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Denis Arnold Hall
Organisers: Betty Yan (Faculty of Music), Jessica Edgar (Faculty of Music)
Hosts: TBA

What are Poetical Essays?
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ted Tregear (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode
Date: 26 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

A Woman Doing Her Accounts: Some Lessons from a Peripatetic Early Modern Image
Date: 27 November 2024, 11:15 - 12:45 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dror Wahrman, Chair: Lyndal Roper
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Present and Future of US Politics: Shifting Voter Allegiances
Date: 27 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Richard Johnson (Queen Mary, University of London)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: Adam Smith (Oxford), Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Unraveling Stilfragen: Alois Riegl and the Crafting of Early Formalist Art History
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Jesse Lockard
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Out of Time: Ireland and Modernity
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Enda Delaney (Edinburgh)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sara Lopes Borga (St John's College)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Madeleine Rose (Corpus Christi College), Ronnie Pope (Linacre College)
Hosts: TBA

Audio(visual) Sources for Chinese Socialist Soundscapes: A Methodological Exploration
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jie Li (Harvard University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Queer History Reading Group
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : N/A
Venue Details: The Jolly Farmers pub
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Okinaga room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham, Oxford), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson)
Hosts: TBA

Poetry After Kafka
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Please email kafka@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk in advance if you have mobility or access requirements.
Organisers: TBA
Host: Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford)

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

Conceiving the Past at the GLBT Historical Society: Inside San Francisco’s Queer Museum & Archives
Date: 28 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Gerard Koskovich
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Science, Ecology and Romanticism in George Catlin’s travelling "Indian Gallery"
Date: 28 November 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ruka Hussain (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Sheila Byers (University of Oxford), Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
Date: 28 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Michael Ward
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Harold Macmillan and his grand designs
Date: 28 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Pippa Catterall (Westminster)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“An oare in every paper boat”: Thomas Lodge, Professional Writing and Rivalries in Elizabethan London
Date: 28 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Through Texts or Objects: How Classicists and Antiquarians Conceptualised the Chinese Ritual Jade cong
Date: 28 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Qin Yang (University of Nottingham)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Elizabeth Smithrosser (University of Oxford)

Breton dialect variation: An opportunity to reflect on the emergence and formation of a language
Date: 28 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Tanguy Solliec
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Oxford (Memorial Room, Jesus College and online)
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Looting, Confiscation, and Concealed Treasure in Dutch Guardroom Scenes of the 1640s
Date: 28 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Allison Stielau (UCL)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

A Liberal Utopia III
Date: 29 November 2024, 11:00 - 13:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Rothermere American Institute, Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Ming Kit Wong (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

Bringing Criminological Imagination to China Studies
Date: 29 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:15 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jianhua Xu (University of Macau)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
Date: 29 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

An Introduction to Digital 3D Modelling
Date: 29 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr John Hanson (Departmental Lecturer in Roman Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford), Nikki Vellidis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Empire of Emptiness: Fortresses of the Colonial Conquest in the Sahara
Date: 29 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Berny Sèbe (Birmingham)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

The Sisterhood: Feminist critiques of patriarchy and inter-faith as a path forward?
Date: 2 December 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: Room 207
Organiser: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"At this point in my inquiry I myself took a paper trumpet": Play, privacy, and intrusion in the domestic spaces of child study research
Date: 2 December 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Julia Gustavsson (Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Speculative Biography: The Strange Case of Edith Cooper
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:15 - 14:15 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Carolyn Dever
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:45 - 13:45 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Singapore pineapples: catch-cropping, Chinese capitalists, and the colonial state, 1900s-1930s
Date: 2 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Udayana's refutation of apoha
Date: 2 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Bogdan Diaconescu (University of Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Food, Clothing, Shelter. Representing the King as Economical in Frederick William I’s Prussia (1713-1740)
Date: 2 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Benjamin Marschke (Humboldt)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Harlot/saint: tracking the figure of Thais meretrix in medieval manuscript compilations
Date: 2 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Alicia Smith (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Language on Social Media: creative, dynamic and strategic
Date: 2 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Taylor Institution, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Room 2
Organisers: Prof Colin Phillips (University of Oxford), Dr. Daniel Altshuler (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

From Québec to India: Constitutional Pluralism in British Imperial Ideology, 1773-1793
Date: 3 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Damien Bérubé (Lincoln)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South
Date: 3 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Beth Wilson (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Writing History After Brexit - Hosted in conjunction with the Modern British History Seminar
Date: 3 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Patricia Clavin, Anne Deighton, Robert Gildea, Rob Saunders (QMUL), Chair: Senia Paseta
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Joint meeting with the Modern History Research seminar: Writing history after Brexit
Date: 3 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Robert Gildea (Oxford), Rob Saunders (QMUL)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

The Future in the Archives: Catholic Minorities Preserving their Past in the Dutch Republic
Date: 4 December 2024, 11:15 - 12:45 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Liesbeth Corens, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

An Outlook for US-China-Taiwan Relations under Trump 2.0
Date: 4 December 2024, 12:00 - 13:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Lu Yeh-chung (National Chengchi University (NCCU),)
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 4 December 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford), Gillian Peele (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: Adam Smith (Oxford), Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Indentured Urbanity and Constitutional Law
Date: 4 December 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Purba Hossain (York), Sahith Mandapalli (JNU)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Professor Yonatan Y. Brafman (Tufts University) will discuss his new book Critique of Halakhic Reason: Divine Commandments and Social Normativity (2024)
Date: 4 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford), Prof Yonatan Brafman (Tufts University)
Organiser: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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)
Date: 4 December 2024, 16:30 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Chloe Ireton (UCL), Erica Field-Marchello (Exeter College, Oxford), Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford), Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Zehra Jumabhoy
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Workshop in HSMTE: More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
Date: 5 December 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (centre de recherches historiques)
Venue Details: Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Ecclesiastical History from an Early Medieval Perspective: Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Literature and Non-Literary Sources
Date: 5 December 2024, 11:00 - 12:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Rev’d Dr Jane Baun
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4
Organiser: Sophie Aldred (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Constantinople realists and late nineteenth-century representations of the migrant worker from Ottoman Armenia
Date: 5 December 2024, 11:15 - 12:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Vazken Davidian
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organisers: Joe Leidy (Exeter), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Materiality and Memorialisation in Queer Heritage
Date: 5 December 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Alison Oram (Institute of Historical Research)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: New Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
Date: 5 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Fitzhugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad
Organiser: Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

A.I., Similarity, and Search in Medieval Music: New Methodologies and Source Identifications
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
Organisers: Joseph Mason (University of Oxford), Margaret Bent (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

Writing An Accidental History of Tudor England
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Steven Gunn (Merton College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (Wadham, Oxford), Prof. Elleke Boehmer (Wolfson)
Hosts: TBA

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

Criticism and Conclusion
Date: 6 December 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Rothermere American Institute, Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Ming Kit Wong (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

Delving into Mediterranean Iron Age Societies through Mudbrick Architecture: Social and Geoarchaeological Approaches
Date: 6 December 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Benjamín Cutillas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Lower Lecture Room
Organisers: Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford), Nikki Vellidis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Statues of Robert Clive: The making and remaking of a supremacist icon
Date: 6 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
Date: 21 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
Date: 24 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
Date: 28 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : John Bird (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
Date: 31 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Leigh Jenco (LSE)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

"Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
Date: 4 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
Date: 7 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Nandini Das (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
Date: 11 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Medieval Religion: What and How in a Flourishing Field of Research
Date: 13 February 2025, 11:00 - 12:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Seminar Room 4
Organiser: Sophie Aldred (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Date: 14 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Tara Alberts (York)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
Date: 21 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 5th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
Date: 25 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Date: 28 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
Date: 4 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Black American leisure time 20th century
Date: 11 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA