Department: Humanities Division
Talks:

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

A Perilous Task? The Making of the Old English Heptateuch
Date: 5 November 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Francis Leneghan
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford), Professor Marion Turner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Frances Thompson: Race, Gender Non-Conformity, and Scandal in the White Conservative Press During Reconstruction
Date: 5 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Elizabeth Barnes (Reading)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"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
Date: 5 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Andrew O'Shaughnessy (University of Virginia)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Politics of Sacrifice: Youth, Martyrs and Remembrance in Meloni's Italy
Date: 5 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Amy King (Bristol)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Atomic and Agential Airs: Finch, Smollett, Barbauld
Date: 5 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Rowan Boyson (Kings College London University)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor David Francis Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English)
Hosts: TBA

Èṣù at the Library: Yorùbá, AI and Mistranslation
Date: 5 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford)

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

The Damel Who Spoke like François Ier: Essay on a Dynamic of the French Colonial Empire, 16th-17th Centuries
Date: 6 November 2024, 11:15 - 12:45 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: François-Joseph Ruggiu, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Present and Future of US Politics: Debrief
Date: 6 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Adam Smith (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

Wartime Captivity and Colonial Counterinsurgency
Date: 6 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Kevin Noles (Independent), Hendrik Willem Nelis (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Professor Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi (Vanderbilt University) will discuss her new book When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics (2023)
Date: 6 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:15 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford), Prof Rebecca Epstein-Levi (Vanderbilt University)
Organiser: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Disobeying Arts and Crafts Studies Orthodoxy
Date: 6 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Thomas Cooper
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Solidarity in Starving: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s 'Nervous Conditions' and the Emergence of Third World Feminism.
Date: 6 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Alys Moody (Bard)
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

Aztec Latin: Simon Ditchfield in Conversation with Andrew Laird
Date: 6 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:45 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Simon Ditchfield (University of York), Andrew Laird (Brown University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Workshop in HSMTE
Date: 7 November 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 47 Banbury Road, 47 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Changing subjects: Ottoman belonging in Armenian refugee print culture
Date: 7 November 2024, 11:15 - 12:15 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Old Common Room
Organisers: Joe Leidy (Exeter), John-Paul Ghobrial
Hosts: TBA

Ceramics and Resistance: Artistic Assertions of Black Caribbean Identity
Date: 7 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Olivia Holder (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: North Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
Date: 7 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Mark Williams (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

“Democracy has come!” The Third Reform Act and the making of British democracy
Date: 7 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Rob Saunders (QMUL)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Infectious Ecologies: Exploring Biological Histories of Epidemics in Colonized Spaces
Date: 7 November 2024, 16:30 - 17:45 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Emily Webster (Durham University)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Uses of the Cinematic
Date: 7 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Eva Gold
Venue: Ruskin School of Art, 74 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: 128 Bullingdon Rd, Oxford OX4 1QP. Accessibility information: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The US Election: What Just Happened
Date: 7 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Adam Smith (Oxford), Kimberly Johnson (University of Oxford), Jason Casellas (University of Houston), Mike Murphy, Clare Malone (The New Yorker)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Research Speed Dating Workshop hosted by WGIQ
Date: 7 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Psychology and the individual in medieval Ireland
Date: 7 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Elizabeth Boyle (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Venue Details: CAWCS (online)
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

2024 Besterman Lecture: Suicide and slavery in Enlightenment thought
Date: 7 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Cécile Vidal (EHESS, Paris)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Grove Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Efficacious Writing: The Workings of Talismans in Contemporary Daoist Practice
Date: 7 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr David Mozina (University of Cambridge)
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: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

“The Case of Thomas Coo Truly Stated”: Legal Practice, Petitioning and Prisons in Jacobean England
Date: 7 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Felicity Heal (Jesus College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Fiction and Other Minds: Contingent Minds: Companions, Proxies and Nobodies in Literary Writing
Date: 7 November 2024, 17:15 - 19:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Morgan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Morgan (University of Oxford)

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

A Liberal Utopia I
Date: 8 November 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Rothermere American Institute, Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Ming Kit Wong (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
Date: 8 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Erin O'Halloran (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

American Judaism: from Pittsburgh to Pittsburgh
Date: 11 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 5th 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

The Prediction Machine: science, technology, and futurology in British Government, c. 1970-2010
Date: 11 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Jacob Ward (Maastricht University)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
Date: 11 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Venue Details: Online with Zoom
Organisers: Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Bogomils or Bogeymen?: Heresy between East and West in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Date: 11 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Gregory Lippiatt (University of Exeter)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 11 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Nelson Landry (University of Hamburg)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

(Non-)expletive negation
Date: 11 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:30 (Monday, 5th 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 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The First Symposium
Date: 12 November 2024, 10:00 - 13:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Prof Andrew Rothwell (Swansea University), Dr Ana Valdivia (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Robert Laidlow (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10 and Outreach Room
Organisers: Dr Joseph Hankinson (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

China in the Caribbean with Implications for Western Hemisphere Geopolitics
Date: 12 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie (The University of the West Indies)
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)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Enucleator venio, non pugnator": the uneven authority of pseudohistories in Gerald of Wales
Date: 12 November 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford), Professor Marion Turner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Inside American Politics 2024 Conference
Date: 12 November 2024, 13:00 - 17:15 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Reception of Confucianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Deists, Dissenters, and the Dao
Date: 12 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ross Moncrieff (All Souls)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

2024 Harmsworth Lecture in American History: The Roots of American Authoritarianism
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Lisa McGirr (Harvard)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From Iceland to the World: Translating Flateyjarbók
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Alison Finlay (Birkbeck)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book
Organisers: Prof. Gareth Evans (University of Oxford), Prof. Sian Gronlie (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford)
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)

Building Barrios and Seeking Sexual Justice: Women’s Activism during and in the Aftermath of Franco’s Spain
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Roseanna Webster (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Roots of American Authoritarianism
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Lisa McGirr (Harvard University)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Oxford Wells Lectures
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Exploring Positive and Negative Sublime Affect in the Alps: Combining Traditional and Digital Scholarship
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sally Bushell and Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gilles Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Letters, Archives, Precedent? Early Modern Rabbinic Responsa and Their Afterlives
Date: 13 November 2024, 11:15 - 12:45 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, Chair: Giora Sternberg
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Present and Future of US Politics: The Urban-Suburban Divide
Date: 13 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Kimberly Johnson (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

Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
Date: 13 November 2024, 13:00 - 15:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Maria Gomez Ruiz, Leonor-Jo Barnard
Hosts: TBA

Reading, Writing, and Teaching Global History Now
Date: 13 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Erica Charters (Oxford), Professor Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds), Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 13 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Brigid von Preussen
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Fixers: Women and Housing Corruption in 1950s Belfast
Date: 13 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Marianne Elliott (Professor emerita, Liverpool)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 13 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Oisin Meenan (Wolfson College), Hannah Fagan (Mansfield 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

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

Plant Life from the Pre-Socratics to Theophrastus
Date: 14 November 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : David Lepidi (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Harmsworth Lecture Response
Date: 14 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Andrew Preston (Cambridge)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The authors and styles of The Lord of the Rings
Date: 14 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (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

“The age has passed, when nations can be SUNG into liberty”: the changing sounds of working-class radicalism, 1838-67
Date: 14 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : David Kennerley (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

What was New Sincerity?
Date: 14 November 2024, 16:45 - 17:45 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Adam Kelley (University College Dublin)
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

The Fragility and Friability of “legality” in early modern England: a Practice-based Approach to Law-mindedness
Date: 14 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rural-to-Urban Migration, Gender and Familial Care in Post-Socialist China
Date: 14 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Susanne Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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

From Dánta Grá to Dante: Irish–Italian genealogies, 1350–1850
Date: 14 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Jesus College, Turl Street OX1 3DW
Venue Details: Online and in person at Memorial Room, Jesus College
Organisers: Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford), Professor David Willis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

From Cologne to Lisbon: Translating the Cult of St Ursula
Date: 14 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:15 (Thursday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Christ Church, Oxford)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Energy and Culture
Date: 15 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Barnabas Calder (University of Liverpool)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Ruairí Matheson-Kiernan (University of Oxford), Joel Bellviure (University of Oxford), Nikki Vellidis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Picturing War: Art and Empire in the Late-Victorian Period
Date: 15 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sean Willcock (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Zionism: Jewish messianism and nationalism rethought
Date: 18 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Monday, 6th 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

Children of South Asian Heritage in Interwar Britain: Race, Religion, Class and Belonging
Date: 18 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:15 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Sumita Mukherjee (Unversity of Bristol)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dialect in Translation
Date: 18 November 2024, 12:45 - 13:45 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Kotryna Garanasvili (University of East Anglia)
Venue Details: Online, Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Charismatic Paradigm and Modernist Muslim Thought
Date: 18 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Teena Purohit (Boston University)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old Fellows’ Dining Room, St Antony’s College, Oxford AND Zoom
Organisers: Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Physical Pain in Early Modern Europe: Texts, Signs, and Emotions (Joint session with HSMT/NOTCOM ERC Project based at the Maison Francaise)
Date: 18 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Raphaële Andrault (IHRIM-ENS de Lyon), Professor Ariane Bayle (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3; IHRIM)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise?
Date: 18 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Sungmin Rho (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
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 Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford)

New perspectives on Gerald of Wales
Date: 18 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Moreed Arbabzedah (Jesus College, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Kitchen Servants as Economic Actors at the court of the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia
Date: 18 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Molly Taylor-Poleskey (Harvard)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mapping Swiss German: Creating a Dialect Atlas in the Digital Age
Date: 18 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th 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 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Vernacular Theology in Thirteenth-Century Oxford: Robert Grosseteste and his Circle
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:15 - 13:15 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford), Professor Marion Turner (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

In-house talk on digital eighteenth century in Oxford with NICOLE POHL and JACK ORCHARD (Electronic Enlightenment)
Date: 19 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Prof. Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965
Date: 19 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Harvey Cohen (KCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Explaining Famine and Grinding Poverty: Agricultural Experimentation (and Failure) in Feeding Britain, 1770-1800
Date: 19 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : John Lidwell-Durnin (University of Exeter)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"The most Common and Fatal of all Diseases". Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
Date: 19 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Stefanie Gaenger (Heidelberg)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Rees Davies Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

New Directions in Topic Theory
Date: 19 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska (University of Chicago), Ben Major (Royal Holloway, University of London), James Donaldson (University of Oxford), Edward K. Spencer (Utrecht University)
Venue: Faculty of Music, St Aldate's OX1 1DB
Venue Details: Committee Room
Organisers: Dr Esther Cavett (University of Oxford), Professor Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Living with Accusation: Families Navigating the Fallout of Sodomy Charges in Early Modern Spain
Date: 20 November 2024, 11:15 - 12:45 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Maayan Aner, 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: Political Violence
Date: 20 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:45 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Desmond Kind (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

Networks of Refuge and Transnational Citizenship
Date: 20 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Pragya Kaul (Michigan), Vidura Jang Bahadur (Northwestern)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Suchintan Das (Oxford), Sana Shah (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Professor Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina) will discuss his new book Ruth Blau: A Life of Paradox and Purpose (2023)
Date: 20 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:15 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford), Prof Motti Inbari (University of North Carolina)
Organiser: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Invention of the Sangley in the Early Modern Spanish Philippines
Date: 20 November 2024, 16:30 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Christina H Lee (Princeton University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Queering Medieval Art at The Met Cloisters, New York
Date: 20 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Nancy Thebaut
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Workshop in HSMTE
Date: 21 November 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
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

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

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

Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00 (Thursday, 6th 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

“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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
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
Date: 5 December 2024, 10:00 - 12:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 47 Banbury Road, 47 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
Venue Details: Seminar 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

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)

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

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)

India and the Early Modern World
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Jagjeet Lally (UCL)
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