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Seminars and Events of interest to the HSMT group
Talks:
Wednesday 15 January 2025
From bench to bedside - drug discovery for Parkinson's disease
Date: 15 January 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Professor Oliver Bandmann (Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: This seminar will be held in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Ground Floor Seminar Room (20-138). Email: opdc.administrator@dpag.ox.ac.uk for more details.
Organiser:
Lorraine Dyson (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Richard Wade-Martins (Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Oxford)
Monday 20 January 2025
Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
Date: 20 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 January 2025
Referencing: Choosing and using software for referencing
Date: 22 January 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Matthew Henry (Bodleian Health Care Libraries, University of Oxford),
Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord),
Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
iSkills: Introduction to online resources for historians: Show and tell
Date: 22 January 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 24 January 2025
Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
Date: 24 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 27 January 2025
iSkills: Getting started in Oxford libraries
Date: 27 January 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Natasha MacMahon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 28 January 2025
The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, TORCH
Organiser:
Andrew Moeller
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 29 January 2025
iSkills: Face your FEaR: Finding, Evaluating and Referencing scientific research
Date: 29 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library),
Thomas Corrick (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 31 January 2025
Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
Date: 31 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Leigh Jenco (LSE)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 February 2025
iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
Date: 3 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford),
Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 4 February 2025
iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
Date: 4 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
iSkills: Keeping up to date with research
Date: 4 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries),
Morwenna Broughton (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 5 February 2025
iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
Date: 5 February 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 7 February 2025
Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
Date: 7 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Nandini Das (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 10 February 2025
iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 10 February 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Towards Unequal Care: Developing Sex Informed Treatments for Psychotic Disorders
Date: 11 February 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Dr Bodyl Brand (University of Oxford)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Robert McCutcheon (University of Oxford)
iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
Date: 11 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Thomas Corrick (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Referencing: RefWorks
Date: 11 February 2025, 14:30 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 14 February 2025
Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Date: 14 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Tara Alberts (York)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 February 2025
iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
Date: 17 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker
s:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 18 February 2025
iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
Date: 18 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
iSkills: Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
Date: 18 February 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Jeremy McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Weston Library, Broad Street OX1 3BG
Venue Details: Lecture theatre
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 19 February 2025
iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
Date: 19 February 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker
s:
Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Referencing: Zotero
Date: 19 February 2025, 13:30 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord),
Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 21 February 2025
The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
Date: 21 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Saturday 22 February 2025
British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress meeting
Date: 22 February 2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Keynote speaker: Norbert Schappacher (Strasbourg)
Venue: The Queen's College, High Street OX1 4AW
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
HAPP One-Day Conference: Physical Origins from the Big Bang to Earth
Date: 22 February 2025, 10:30 - 17:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Erminia Calabrese (Cardiff University),
Professor Richard McMahon (University of Cambridge),
Professor John Bridges (University of Leicester),
Professor Sara Russell (Natural History Museum, London),
Professor Thomas Gernon (University of Southampton),
Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford),
After Dinner Speaker: Pat Daly (Gemmological Association of Great Britain)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 25 February 2025
Population health impact of new medicines recommended by NICE in England, 2000-2020
Date: 25 February 2025, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker
:
Dr Huseyin Naci (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)
Venue: Department of Psychiatry, Headington OX3 7JX
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Rania Elgarf (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, TORCH
Organiser:
Andrew Moeller
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 28 February 2025
Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Date: 28 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Follow-on HAPP Lecture: Origin of Life on Earth
Date: 28 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Mario Livio (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Venue Details: ONLINE via Zoom
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 March 2025
iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
Date: 3 March 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: 11-13 Banbury Road,
Venue Details: Isis room
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 24 March 2025
History, Eugenics, and Human Enhancement: How the Past Can Inform Ethical Debates in the Present
Date: 24 March 2025, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford
Organisers:
Jose Porras (Faculty of History),
Andrew Moeller,
Alberto Giubilini (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Hosts:
TBA
iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
Date: 24 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford),
Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 26 March 2025
Equitable Admissions in Postgraduate Taught Courses
Date: 26 March 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker
s:
Charles Greenhill (University of Oxford),
Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Teams
Organisers:
Hubert Lam (University of Oxford),
Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford),
Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
Hosts:
Hubert Lam (University of Oxford),
Dr Barbara Zonta (Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford),
Dr Delia O'Rourke ( University of Oxford )
Thursday 22 May 2025
iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
Date: 22 May 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker
s:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford),
Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser:
Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
This list contains talks from the following series:
2022 Astor Lecture in Medical Humanities events
2022 - Oxford Festival of Open Scholarship
2023 Black History Month events
2023 International Symposium: Newton Geneva Edition
2024 Black History Month events
24-25 March - 2-Day Conference: Alliances in the history of armed conflict, 1642-present
2-Day Conference: Infecting the Ancient Mesopotamian Cosmos
2-Day Conference: Medical Identities in Global History
3-Day Workshop: Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s
A Conflict of Allegiance? Lectures marking the Tercentenary of the death of Henry Sacheverell (1674-1724)
African Studies Centre events
Alice in Typhoidland Speaker Programme
All Souls Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Science
Ancient Medicine Seminar
Annual LGBT+ History Month Lecture
Anthropocene Histories
'Antidemocratic Politics vs. Democratising Democracy: New Political Imaginaries in the 21st Century'
ArgO-EMR Seminar
BDI seminars
Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities
Blavatnik School of Government Events
Bodleian Events
Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
Bodleian iSkills workshops: State Papers Online, Referencing, Open Scholarship, Literature searches
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
'Channels of Digital Scholarship' Seminar I: New tools and old questions in the analysis of textual corpora
Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminars and events
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Seminar Series
Cooling for COP26
Early Modern Intellectual History
Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
Economic and Social History Research Seminar
Environmental History Working Group
Ethox Centre Seminars
Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2023
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Globalising and Localising the Great War
Governance of AI Seminar Series
GTC Medical Anthropology Film & Discussion Group
HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics
Historians in the Public Sphere
History of Biology Reading Group
History of Mathematics Seminar
History of Science Museum Events
History of the Gendered Body
History of War Seminar Series
HoM@50
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2020 - online
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2022: A Theatre of Knowledge
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2023: The Ox-cars
HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2024: A Night at the Museum
Infection and Disease Processes Seminar Series
Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Interdisciplinary Seminars in Psychoanalysis
Jenner Seminars
Knowledge in Motion – Science and Medicine in the Islamic World Online Lectures
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020
Literature and Mental Health
Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
Mansfield Public Talks
McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2023 - Conditions for Corrosion: How Are Good Healthcare Practitioners Made and Lost?
Medical Anthropology
NOTCOM Research Hub (The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century)
OPDC Seminar Series (DPAG)
Oxford Centre for Global History events
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Oxford Climate Research Network seminars
Oxford Climate Society Online Events
Oxford Ethics and Humanities Events
Oxford History Graduate Network (OHGN)
Oxford History of Science turns 50
Oxford Martin School Events
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Oxford Martin School Virtual Series: Building back better - lessons and opportunities from the COVID-19 pandemic
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
Oxford Medical Humanities
Oxford Postgraduate Teaching Network (OPTN)
Oxford SDG Impact Lab Lectures, Seminars & Events
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University History Society
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
Population Health Seminars
Postdoc Power Hour (PoPoH)
Practical Ethics and Law Lectures
Probability seminar
Psychiatry Seminar Series
Richard Doll Seminars
'Science and the Public Sphere' Seminar
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
Seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Science
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Seminar in the History of the Exact Sciences
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Events
TDI Seminar Series
The Changing Character of War Centre Seminar
The Construction of Ageing
The George Institute for Global Health UK Seminars
The McGovern Lecture
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The Philosophical Café
TORCH: Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences
TORCH Doctoral Network: Oxford Technology in Society Forum (OTIS)
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
TORCH Environmental Humanities Research Hub
TORCH Network: Writing Technologies
TORCH: Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network
Translating Illness
Translating Illness
Tropical Medicine Seminars
Uncomfortable Oxford Project
University of York Open Lectures
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
What about Exclusion?
Women’s Equality and Inequality Research Programme (WEIR)
Workshop: Histories of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment