Thursday 30 January 2025

• 10:00 - Start of Term Coffee and Cake
  N/A
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 11:45 - Materialities of Care: Agency and the Asylum in nineteenth-century England
  Anna Jamieson (Birmingham)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Exploring the Evolutionary History of Domestic Ferrets
  Alice Dobinson (DPhil Archaeological Science)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - The Deuteronomic motive for religious intolerance in pre-modern Christian Europe
  Dr Jonathan Nathan
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:45 - The Political Economy of Strategic Technology Transfer: Security, Aid, and Benefit-Sharing in an Era of AI Competition
  Sumaya Nur Adan (Oxford Martin School AI Governance Initiative)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Marcella’s Jerome
  Neil McLynn (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 16:30 - Map Readings – ‘Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities’
  Tania Rossetto (Università degli Studi di Padova), Laura Lo Presti (Università degli Studi di Padova), Elizabeth Baigent (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
• 17:00 - The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It: A Hemispheric Perspective (Comparative American History Seminar organised jointly with the Rothermere American Institute)
  Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Langue des reines: The Importance of Women to French and French to Women
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:30 - Enfranchisement and the Rights of Freeborn Englishmen, c.1500-1800
  This meeting will start at 17:30 and will be held online only
  Professor Steve Hindle (Washington University St Louis)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:30 - History Lecture: Seats of Power: Sofas and Politics in Socialist China
  Professor Jennifer Altehenger (Oxford)
  Macintyre Society - the Magdalen History Society

Friday 31 January 2025

• 12:45 - Book Talk: A World More Equal. An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War
  Professor Sandrine Kott (Geneva University), Paul Betts, Patricia Clavin
• 13:00 - Magna Carta Lectures: Magna Carta: new discoveries
  Nicholas Vincent (UEA)
  Bodleian Events
• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 February 2025

• 09:30 - Referencing: EndNote
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:00 - iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - The Mind Besieged: Spectacle and Stoicism in Sixteenth-Century Cologne
  William Theiss (Connecticut)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 16:00 - Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
  Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Four Weddings and a Funeral: The Savoy Marriage of July 1559
  Richard Cooper (Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Jacobus Acontius's Stratagemata Satanae (1564) and the question of religious coercion
  Dr Odile Panetta (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Twelve migrant women and the history of early medieval Europe
  Alice Rio (KCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 19:00 - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 (OxHMD25)
  Annick Lever BEM (Holocaust survivor)

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Preparing for your literature review in the Social Sciences
  Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Katie Allen (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 10:30 - AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The Second Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 11:30 - The "Care" Series: 'Rethinking Care Work: (Dis)affection and the Politics of Caring’
  Sarah Knott (St John's College, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 1 journal metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - A New Axis of Upheaval? North Korea, Russia, China, and others—why we should care
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Southern Italian Renaissance
  Professor Bianca de Divitiis (Naples)
  Early Modern Italian World Seminar
• 14:00 - Surviving the Black Death: Social Connectivity and Disease Modelling in Medieval England
  Alex Brown (Durham)
  Europe in the Later Middle Ages
• 15:00 - iSkills: Keeping up to date with research
  Helen Worrell (Bodleian Libraries), Morwenna Broughton (Bodleian Libraries)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:00 - "Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
  Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:00 - 'Finding Endurance: adventures of a public historian'
  Dan Snow
• 16:15 - Antislavery before Abolition: Decoding Resistance in British Labouring-Class Verse, 1660-1800
  Adam Bridgen (Durham)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Inheritance and Inequality in a Pre-Modern Economy (with Sheilagh Ogilvie)
  Felix Schaff (European University Institute)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 1: The Conservative Dilemma
  Please note only this inaugural lecture will be held at Magdalen College and requires registration
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 09:00 - Ethical questions of pregnancy management following a positive NIPT/PND result - Perspectives from England, France, Germany and the Netherlands Type of event: international workshop
  Claudia Wiesemann (University of Göttingen), Christop Rehman-Sutter (University of Lübeck), Valerie Seror, Inserm (University Aix-Marseille), Tamar Nov-Klaiman (University of Augsburg), Adeline Perrot (University of Oxford), Felicity Boardman (University of Warwick), Lidewij Henneman (Amsterdam UMC), Jane Fisher (Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC)), Carine Vassy (University Paris 13), Angus Clarke (University of Cardiff)
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 09:30 - 1-Day Workshop: Disease and International Relations
  This event is in-person only and requires registration
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 12:45 - The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Long-Term Evolution of Landholding Inequality in Devon
  Nick Peyton (LSE)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 14:00 - iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
  Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:00 - Medieval recipe books at the Oxford Bodleian Libraries
  Marjory Szurko
  TORCH: Critical Food Studies Network
• 17:00 - Mirror of the Universe: The Evolution of the Astrolabe
  Dr Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Gaps in Images
  Professor Beate Fricke (University of Bern)
  Slade Lectures 2025: Gaps
• 17:00 - Chaos and Coexistence: managing "fascist" fallen soldiers in the German Democratic Republic
  Laura Tradii (Kent)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Death of an Informer, London 1974
  Professor Rob Savage (Boston College)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond a Boundary: Armenia and Byzantium in the Ninth Century
  Dan Gallaher (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - The 'windsele' in Christ and Satan: Demonic Winds in Medieval Literature
  Professor Marilina Cesario (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - The archaeology of the Romany Gypsies
  John-Henry Phillips (Romani Community Archaeology Trust)
• 18:00 - In a tough geopolitical climate, how can business and government change the UK's economic fortunes?
  Rain Newton-Smith (Chief Executive, Confederation of British Industry (CBI))
  Oxford Martin School Events

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:45 - The Future of Queer History
  Justin Bengry
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - EHWG & HSMTE Workshop Roundtable: History of Science and Environmental History at Oxford, Student Perspectives (Organized in association with the HSMTE Workshop)
  Various Speakers
  Environmental History Working Group
• 12:30 - EHWG x HSMTE Workshop Roundtable: History of Science and Environmental History at Oxford, Student Perspectives
  Various Speakers
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 14:00 - Pietro Carnesecchi (1508-67): papal protonotary, reformer, intelligencer, martyr
  Professor Susan Brigden
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:00 - Quakerism, morality, and the politics of peace in Victorian Britain: the case of John Bright
  Petros Spanou (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:15 - The Psychoanalysis of Survival: Rereading Hilde O. Bluhm's 1948 Article, "How Did They Survive?"
  Professor Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for teaching
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 15:00 - The Role of Internal Skills and Expertise in Public Sector Digital Transformation
  Dr Aaron Maniam (BSG, Univeristy of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - The choice of Nicaea for the council of 325
  Peter Norton (Independent Scholar)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 16:00 - 'Living Cities' Lecture Series: ‘Metamorphoses of Urban Metabolism. The Challenges of a New Urban Paradigm’
  Sabine Barles (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Dr Juliet Carpenter (Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation, Kellogg College)
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 17:00 - Discourses on Community in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
  Gabriel Entin (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Jorge Myers (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina), Inés de Torres (Universidad de la República, Uruguay), André Jockyman Roithmann (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - “Looke from Adam”: Genesis, History, and Religious Community in early modern England, 1590-1660
  Samuel Head (Wolfson College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - “Honor and deceit”: The Warres of Cyrus, Classical Persia, and Elizabethan Politics
  Ebrahim Hanifehpour (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - No Exit: Preventing Exit to Prevent Entry
  Note - this seminar takes place on a Thursday, not the usual Wednesday
  Professor Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Expansions: ‘Everyone knows that French is better understood and more widely used than Latin’: Matthew Paris (in French, 1253x59)
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:00 - The Politics of Global Vaccine Equity
  Dr Renu Singh (Durham University)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 7 February 2025

• 13:00 - Touch and Space
  Reading and Discussion Group
  Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
• 13:15 - Theatre and Translation Roundtable
  Minna Jeffery, Stephen Bailey, Tzen Sam
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:15 - The Queen’s College Library Visit
  Please sign up to attend by 1 February 2025
  N/A
  Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group

Monday 10 February 2025

• 11:00 - “Can They Ever Become Like Us?”: Conversion Narratives Featuring Romani in the Children’s Missionary Periodical Maaltrosten (1903-42)
  Idunn Victoria Rostøl (Oslo)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 13:00 - Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: On the Multiplicity and Innovations of Contemporary Chinese Literature and Subverting Expectations
  Xiao Yue Shan, Zuo Fei
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 14:00 - iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:15 - Poetry and education in medieval Southern Italy
  Ugo Mondini
  Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
• 15:00 - The Lenborough hoard
  Wendy Scott
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 16:00 - Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
  Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - The Divorce Tracts and Milton's Radical Affections
  Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Visualising the Lateran Patriarchium: Recent research by the Rome Transformed Project
  Ian Haynes (Newcastle/All Souls, Oxford)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reading Group: Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart
  N/A
  TORCH: Critical Food Studies Network

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 10:00 - iSkills: Data sources for research - discovery, access and use
  John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:30 - Fellows Forum
  Clare Arcenas (University of Montana)
• 13:00 - iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 2 article metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Corrick (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - The development of sea power thought in the early to mid Cold War
  Andrew Livsey (Kings College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Moving Between the City and the Cemetery: Funerary Processions in Late Medieval Cairo and Paris
  Caitlin John (UCL)
  Europe in the Later Middle Ages
• 14:30 - Referencing: RefWorks
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Kat Steiner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Sophie Lay (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:00 - Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
  Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - No Common Man: Searching for Shadrack Byfield, a Disabled Veteran of the War of 1812
  Eamonn O'Keeffe (Cambridge)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:15 - Reading week: rethinking early modern treaties
  N/A
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - The Emotions of Empire: Love, Desire, and the Moral Psychology of Cosmic Resonance in the Lǚshi Chunqiu and Huainanzi
  Dr Curie Virág (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Suez
  TBA
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 2: Conservatism and Theodicy
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 12:45 - The Bretton Woods System outside the G10: Multilateralisation of trade and payments in Latin America’s Southern Cone (1947-1962)
  Uziel González-Aliaga (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 14:00 - Global Diplomatic History
  Sujato Datta (Freie Universität Berlin), Jonathan Jackson (University of Cologne)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - A Sea of Lists: Materialising Travel Across the Mediterranean
  Ana Struillou (IHR, London)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Roundtable on The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History (2024) by J C D Clark.
  Caroline Warman, Jacob Chatterjee, John Robertson, J C D Clark
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Social, Cultural and Political Determinants of Riots
  Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Film Screening and Q&A: Chileans of the North
  Professor Ben Bollig (Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford), Dr Helia López Zarzosa (Sociologist and Independent Researcher), Chris Paul (Director, Chileans of the North)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Gaps in Space
  Professor Beate Fricke (University of Bern)
  Slade Lectures 2025: Gaps
• 17:00 - Revisiting "The Telling Touch"
  Elisabeth Hsu (ISCA, SAME, University of Oxford)
  ArgO-EMR Seminar
• 17:00 - The Ottoman roots of interwar youth politics in Lebanon
  Joe Leidy (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Soft Power, Old and New: Debating the Byzantine Commonwealth
  Jonathan Shepard (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - Trading during War. The Baltic in Europe, ca 1550-1850
  Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Reading Early Middle English Books
  TBA
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Queer History Reading Group
  N/A
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:30 - Applying for History of Science, Medicine, Technology, & Environment: An Early Career Panel (Organized in association with the HSMTE Workshop)
  Please register by midnight on Monday 10 February
  Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford), Dr Alex Aylward (Oxford), Dr John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter/Oxford), Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church College, Oxford), Dr Tom Kelsey (Oxford)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 12:30 - Applying for History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment: An Early Career Panel
  Please register by midnight on Monday 10 February
  Alex Aylward (Oxford), Hohee Cho (Oxford), Netta Cohen (Oxford), John Lidwell-Durnin (Exeter/Oxford), Tom Kelsey (Oxford)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 14:00 - Spiritual discipline in post-Reformation humanism: learning, religion and politics in the life of Johannes Caselius (1533–1613)
  Dr Tomás Valle (Hamburg)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:00 - Impressions of Disraeli: myths and the making of One Nation Conservatism
  Emily Jones (Manchester)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 15:00 - The Macro- and Micro-Politics of AI Standards-Making
  Huw Roberts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:30 - Relational Ethics and Shared Authority in the Making of But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
  Charlotte Schallié (Victoria), Meryem Kalayci (Oxford/Birkbeck)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 16:00 - How popular was the cult of St Peter?
  Robert Wiśniewski (Warsaw)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 16:30 - Discussing decolonising cartographic heritage: theory, maps, and Dutch Brazil
  Margriet Hoogvliet (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Anouk de Vries (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)
• 17:00 - A Peruvian History of the Old World: José Carlos Mariátegui and Europe
  Paulo Drinot (UCL)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Regulatory Failure and the Moral Antecedents of Public Banking in England, 1559-1642
  Raphael Adès (Christ Church, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Seventeenth-Century Foxe? Samuel Clarke and Presbyterian Historiography
  Matthew Leech-Gerrard (New College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - "That each may in his own tongue … know his God" (Grosseteste, in French, 1230s): Bible Translation in Medieval England
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:00 - Book talk: 'Science and Politics' - Sir Ian Boyd in conversation with Sir Charles Godfray and Dame Helen Ghosh
  Professor Sir Ian Boyd (University of St Andrews), Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Director, Oxford Martin School), Dame Helen Ghosh (Master, Balliol College)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Friday 14 February 2025

• 16:00 - Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
  Tara Alberts (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reading Group: Interpretation and meaning
  N/A
  Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group

Monday 17 February 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Unlocking critical thinking for undergraduates
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - Printing Up: The Career of the Frankfurt Printer-Publisher Nicolaus Bassaeus and the Sixteenth-Century Book World
  Oliver Kruk (Bamberg/Oxford)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:00 - Open scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 14:15 - Working with divinatory texts and manuscripts
  Jo Edge
  Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
• 16:00 - Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
  Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - Aristocrats without Borders: The Emergence of a Cosmopolitan Elite in the 17th-Century Habsburg Monarchy
  Bianca Lindorfer (University of Vienna)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Kashmir Without History: Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah and Indian Political Thought
  Dr Amar Sohal (KCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Re- and mis-gendering St Marina*us in high medieval Italy
  Michael Eber (Oxford/Cologne)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Kings, lords, and housebuilders: Portuguese and Chinese debates over the status of early modern Macau
  Jacob Fordham (LSE)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:30 - The "Care" Series - ‘Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship’
  Rossella Ciccia
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - iSkills: Research metrics and citation analysis tools: Part 3 researcher metrics
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - AI in strategic decision-making
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Digital History and 18th-Century Journeys to Italy
  Professor Giovanna Ceserani (Stanford)
  Early Modern Italian World Seminar
• 14:30 - iSkills: Discovering archives and modern manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries
  Matthew Neely (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jeremy McIlwaine (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 16:15 - The Informal Beginnings of the Partisan Expert Witness in English Common Law: Patent Specification, Natural Philosophy, and Courtroom Theatrics, 1763-1785
  Alex Aizenman (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Hilary Term Lecture 2025: Historical Justice under State Socialism
  Professor Daniel Leese (University of Freiburg)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events
• 17:00 - Alienated Intellectuals? Exploring the Political Consequences of the Educational Revolution in Early Modern England
  TBA
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - Winant Lecture: The End of Black Politics
  Kimberley Johnson (New York University)
• 17:00 - Lecture 3: Relational Conservatism
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism
• 17:15 - The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures’ Hilary Term "Work-in-Progress" colloquium
  Riccardo Mantalto (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), Holly Dempster-Edwards (University of Liverpool)
  Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 11:30 - iSkills: Newspapers and other online news sources from the 17th-21st centuries
  Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Jo Gardner (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 12:45 - Women and the Family Firm: Managing Financial Capital New Perspectives from Dutch department stores, 1870 – 1970
  Claudia Hacke (Utrecht)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 13:30 - Referencing: Zotero
  Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - Integrated Deterrence
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance
• 14:00 - Transnational and Global History Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law
  Professor Maja Janmyr (University of Oslo)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification, State Fragility, and Development in Muslim Societies
  Professor Adnan Khan (FCDO)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Gaps in Origins
  Professor Beate Fricke (University of Bern)
  Slade Lectures 2025: Gaps
• 17:00 - Taking the pulse between Early Modern China and Europe: The Drifting Touch
  Yijie Huang (University of Heidelberg)
  ArgO-EMR Seminar
• 17:00 - Elections as Surveillance: 'Soviet Democracy' and State-Building in the 1920s Russian Countryside
  Thomas Stevens (Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Of Scripts and Scribes: Investigating Practices of Writing in Late Antique Iran
  Olivia Ramble (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - The Jewish Recipes in a 13th-Century Andalusian Cookbook
  Hélène Jawhara Piñer
  TORCH: Critical Food Studies Network
• 17:15 - Expecting the Worst: Beowulf and the End Times
  Dr Amy Faulkner (UCL)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 18:00 - Scholars' Library: Keon West on the 'Science of Racism'
  Keon West
  Scholars' Library

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 10:00 - Referencing: EndNote
  Oliver Bridle (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Hannah Medworth (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 11:45 - The Peter Tatchell Archive: Peter Tatchell in Conversation about his Bodleian Collection
  This talk will be rescheduled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Tatchell
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Back Where We Began: Cyclical conceptions of human-environment relationships
  Andrew McNey (DPhil, History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - Magna Carter Lectures: Magna Carta and Jewish communities
  Dean Irwin (University of Lincoln)
  Bodleian Events
• 14:00 - A double observance: Michael Boym S. J. on his journeys to China (1643-1658)
  Professor Gianna Pomata (John Hopkins)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:00 - Friendship and youth culture in post-war Britain
  Hannah Charnock (Bristol)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:15 - Challenging the Discourse on Age and the Holocaust: Nelly Wolffheim and Archiving the Elderly
  Dr Christine Schmidt (The Wiener Holocaust Library)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 15:00 - Silicon Valley in Context: Technology Corporations as Political Actors
  Alina Utrata (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - In the palace of late Roman emperors: spaces, objects and rituals
  Ignazio Tantillo (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - Performing the Revolution. Politics and Theatre in Post-independent Argentina. 1810-1837
  Klaus Gallo (Universidad di Tella, Argentina)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Cranmer’s Homilies, and the Production of the Book of Common Prayer
  Professor Micheline White (Carleton University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - “Lette Frenchmen in their Frenche endyten” (Thomas Usk, c.1384-87): French in the Multilingual Fourteenth Century
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:00 - Feminism in International Security Discourses - How we argue for participation matters
  Karolin Tuncel (Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Friday 21 February 2025

• 13:00 - Animal Bodies & Animal Interactions
  Reading and Discussion Group
  Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Work-in-Progress Session
  Emma Nelson (Manchester), Blanche Darbord (Cambridge)
  Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group

Saturday 22 February 2025

• 10:00 - British Society for the History of Mathematics Research in Progress meeting
  Call for papers closes on 30 November
  Keynote speaker: Norbert Schappacher (Strasbourg)
• 10:30 - HAPP One-Day Conference: Physical Origins from the Big Bang to Earth
  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)
  HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics

Monday 24 February 2025

• 11:00 - Elementary education, disabled children and families c. 1890-1914
  Rachel O'Driscoll (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 15:00 - Old Windsor: A reassessment
  Gabor Thomas, Roland Smith, Darko Maricevic
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 16:00 - Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
  Becky Martin (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Book Presentation: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
  Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Economic and cultural connections within Mediterranean ecosystems
  Alexandra Sapoznik (KCL)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Student Spotlights
  Various Speakers
  TORCH: Critical Food Studies Network

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Working with sensitive research data
  John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:00 - iSkills: Searching for patents and standards
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 13:30 - China's Private Security Sector at a Crossroads: From Pakistan to Myanmar.
  Dr Alessandro Arduino (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Nomads or "Nomads"? Considerations on the Mode of Life of Medieval Populations of the European Steppe
  This meeting is online, but will take place at the normal time in the Dolphin Room
  Aleksander Paroń (Warsaw/Wrocław)
  Europe in the Later Middle Ages
• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
  Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - “In me you see the Almighty's wondrous Power”: Black Women’s Intellectual History in Georgian Britain
  Meleisa Ono-George (Queen's College, Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:15 - Roundtable discussion on pre-modern Chinese diplomacy
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick), Dr Thomas Barrett (University of Cambridge)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Early Modern Korea, 1392-1910
  Dr John Lee (University of Durham)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - TBC
  Professor Joachim Voth (UBS Professor of Macroeconomics and Financial Markets at the University of Zurich)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 4: The Paradox of Conservative Justice
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism
• 17:00 - OPEN Conversation: History, archives, and policymaking: getting humanities research to speak to policy
  Professor Patrick Salmon (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), Professor Patricia Clavin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN)
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 12:00 - Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
  Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 12:45 - Spread the Word: Mass Media, Language and Propaganda in Fascist Italy
  Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Transnational Left Solidarity
  Vladimir Bortun (University of Oxford), Mariana Steiner Farias (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:30 - Father Tomás de León: A Spanish Orientalist in Seventeenth Century Granada
  Fernando Rodríguez Mediano (CHSS-CSIC, Madrid)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Newton’s reception at the Berlin Academy
  Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Coinage of Mughal South Asia and the Muslim Chain of Being
  Professor Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Scattered: The making and unmaking of a refugee. A conversation with Aamna Mohdin
  Aamna Mohdi (The Guardian)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Gaps in Artefacts
  Professor Beate Fricke (University of Bern)
  Slade Lectures 2025: Gaps
• 17:00 - Gender-Based Violence in 20th century Central and Eastern Europe: A hidden history
  Maren Röger (Leipzig)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Dialogue and Debate between Syriac and Armenian Miaphysites in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
  Andy Hilkens (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:15 - What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
  Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - 'Biblical poetry and its place in medieval English culture
  Dr Cathy Hume (University of Bristol)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 09:00 - Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:45 - Queer Scholarship on Shakespeare and its Public: Will Tosh and Emma Smith in Conversation
  Will Tosh (Globe Theatre), Emma Smith (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Reimagining Arctic Environmentalism: From Legal Rights for Glaciers to Geoengineering for Justice
  Cody Skahan (St Hugh's College, Oxford)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 14:00 - England’s freedom: rethinking the 1650s
  Professor Michael Braddick
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:00 - Roads to economization: valuing life, limb, and leisure in the social democratic state
  Charles Troup (Yale)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:15 - Voices, Past and Present: Generational Patterns in Holocaust Memory and Representation
  Cailee Davies (St Anne's College, Oxford)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Haydn Belfield (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Proba and education in late antiquity
  Sigrid Cullhed (Uppsala)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - Histories of Solitude and Perplexity: Colombia, 19th to 21st Centuries
  Lina Britto (Northwestern University, USA), Ricardo López Pedrero (Western Washington University, USA), Ana María Otero-Claves (University of York, UK)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - What are we doing with Shakespeare? New approaches, new interpretations
  Ceola Daly, Laura Seymour, Caroline Taylor, Will Tosh, Elizabeth Sandis
  LGBTQ+ History Faculty Network
• 17:00 - English Politics and the Colonial Revolutions of 1689
  Dr Gabriel Glickman (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - “Et lors que parlerez anglois /Que vous n’oubliez pas le François” (manuscript dedication, c. 1445): Off-shoring French?
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  The James Ford Lectures 2025: French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History, c.1100-c.1500
• 17:15 - “God Will Not Stay Silent”: Gershom Scholem, Zionism, Messianism, and Binational Thinking
  All attendees must register in advance and agree to the terms and conditions of the event: www.worc.ox.ac.uk/fos/massada-2025
  Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
  Massada Public Seminars

Friday 28 February 2025

• 16:00 - Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
  Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Follow-on HAPP Lecture: Origin of Life on Earth
  Dr Mario Livio (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
  HAPP: St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics

Monday 3 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - The Innovation that Follows Open Scholarship: Examples from eLife and the Public Knowledge Project
  John Willinsky (Stanford University), Godwyns Onwuchekwa (eLife Sciences)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:30 - Jan Boeckhorst and the artistic practice of paper recycling “avant la lettre”
  An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
  Early Modern German Culture: An Interdisciplinary Seminar
• 14:00 - iSkills: Using AI to find, analyse and share information sources
  Luke Geraghty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Feeding Medieval England: A long "agricultural revolution"
  Helena Hamerow
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 15:00 - OxFOS25 - How To Start and Manage a Journal on the World’s Most Widely Used (Free) Journal Platform OJS
  John Willinsky (Stanford University)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
  Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:30 - “Kingless Progresses”: Locating Authority in the Regencies of Henry VIII’s Queens
  Kirsty Wright (Historic Royal Palaces)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Listing royal lands in the Carolingian Empire
  Simon MacLean (St Andrews)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Reading Group: Disordered Eating with Helena Aeberli
  Helena Aeberli
  TORCH: Critical Food Studies Network
• 17:00 - OxFOS25 Keynote - As Open as Possible, As Permanent as Necessary: Towards the Sustainability of Openness
  Professor Christopher Smith (AHRC), Richard Ovenden (Chair)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:00 - The Migrant as Human: Making the emotional turn in Middle East migration history
  Akram Khater (North Carolina State University)
  Religion and Mobility in Late Ottoman and Modern Middle Eastern History (The ‘Moving Stories’ Seminar)
• 11:30 - The "Care" Series - Reading: '“They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous’
  Sneha Krishnan
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - Economics and Experiments in Open Access Publishing
  Martin Paul Eve (Birkbeck, University of London), Dr Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Ronald Snijder (OAPEN)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:30 - The Impact of AI & Emerging Technologies on Future Defence Strategy
  Dr Robert Hercock (British Telecommunications Security Research Practice)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Italian Peninsula and the European Wars of Religion
  Nina Lamal (Huygens Institute, Amsterdam), Lana Martysheva (Ecole française de Rome)
  Early Modern Italian World Seminar
• 14:00 - Sacred Connections: The Eleven Thousand Virgins and Family Networks in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
  Sylvia Alvares Correa (Oxford)
  Europe in the Later Middle Ages
• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Undergraduate Thesis session
  Please note this session will be in-person only
  TBA
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - GDP per capita and Regional Differences in the Ottoman Empire, 1570-1914
  Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 5: Conservatism and The Way Things Are
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 10:30 - Open Scholarship: Open Monographs
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 12:45 - A demographic analysis of London capital markets from 1720 – 1800
  Russell Leibovitch (Oxford)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - Research Data Management - Show & Tell
  David Watson (University of Oxford), Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries), Damon Strange (Humanities, University of Oxford), Alexandra Rooney (University of Oxford), Peter Micklem (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford), Dr Meriel Patrick (Research Support team, IT Services, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 17:00 - Montesquieu in East Asia (annual online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
  Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul National University)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
  Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - The Monstrous and the Mortal Pulses: guaimai 怪脈 as recorded by Michał Boym (1612-1659)
  Hanzhi Zhang (History of Medicine, University of Oxford)
  ArgO-EMR Seminar
• 17:00 - Military justice, soldierly endurance and the "brutalising" effects of the First World War on France's North African combatants
  Claire Eldridge (Leeds)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Law versus Practice: Women and Property Ownership in Early Modern Ireland
  Dr Frances Nolan (UCD)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - New Approaches to the Byzantine Army of North Africa in the 7th Century: Organisation, Strategies, and Challenges
  Tommaso Giuliodoro (Durham University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - Nature narratives: Eden, spoils or garden
  Professor Sandra Diaz (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat
  Sir John Kiszely
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: ORCIDs from scratch
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:45 - Queer history and art history: making and curating; a conversation with Leah DeVun, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, & Nancy Thebaut
  Leah deVun (Rutgers), Gemma Rolls-Bentley (Oxford), Nancy Thebaut (Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Readers, workers, beetles: the impact of Karel Klostermann’s literary canonization of the forest of Šumava/Böhmerwald on local landscape and communities in the late 19th and early 20th century
  Emma Nabi-Bourgois (DPhil, History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - An introduction to Carpentries
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Leibniz in Holland, November 1676: zooming in, zooming out
  Professor Eric Jorink (Leiden)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:00 - Labour women and the women’s liberation movement in the 1970s
  Lyndsey Jenkins (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:15 - Mapping Wandering Routes: Using GIS to Analyze Refugee Movements in the Soviet Union during WWII
  Dr Na’ama Seri-Levi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 14:30 - Referencing: Zotero
  Andrew Kernot (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxord), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - The Ethics of AI for Intelligence
  Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford), Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Translators and Traditores: Confronting the Conference of Carthage
  Erika Hermanowicz (University of Georgia)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - A Third Path: Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
  Melissa Texeira (University of Pennsylvania)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Library Access in Early-Modern Europe: English and Scottish Scholars Abroad and the Limits of Knowledge Exchange
  Dr John-Mark Philo (University of East Anglia and Bodleian Library)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Food Studies: Surveying the Field through Potatoes
  Professor Heather J Sharkey (University of Pennsylvania)
  TORCH: Critical Food Studies Network
• 17:00 - French in Medieval Britain: Cultural Politics and Social History c. 1100-c. 1500: Discussion seminar with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University)
  Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The billionaire tax: a (modest) proposal for the 21st century
  Professor Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - Can Dialogue Bridge Divides? ‘Talking Peace’ with Palestinian & Israeli Peace Activists
  All attendees must register in advance and agree to the terms and conditions of the event: www.worc.ox.ac.uk/fos/massada-2025
  Mira Awad, Hamze Awawde, Magen Inon
  Massada Public Seminars

Friday 7 March 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Managing research data and Data Management Planning (DMPs)
  John Pilbeam (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), John Southall (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 10:00 - OxFOS25 - Building open research communities
  Professor Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford, Chair), Anna Guttesen (WIN Open Science Ambassador), Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS 2025 - Redefining Scientific Publishing
  Brian Nosek (Centre for Open Science), Alex Freeman (Octopus.ac), Allyson Lister (University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Workshop and Discussion
  Workshop and discussion
  Body in History Reading & Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Learning to Look: (Mis)reading the Visitatio sepulchri, ca. 900-1050
  Nancy Thebaut (Oxford)
  Oxford Medieval Manuscripts Group
• 18:00 - A Discussion on EU Expansion and the Balkans
  Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Jacek Czaputowicz (Former Foreign Minister, Poland), Ditmir Bushati (Former Foreign Minister, Albania)

Monday 10 March 2025

• 11:00 - Cultivating Youth in Bourgeois Beirut, 1860-1880
  Joseph Leidy (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Thinking Translation and Resistance: Making and Refusing Meaning
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 13:30 - OxFOS25 : How Research Security Matters for Participatory Science
  Paul Ayris (University College, London), Dr. Tiberius Ignat (SKS Knowledge Services)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:15 - Greek papyri in the Bodleian Library. A tale of lost texts and forgotten books
  Lucio del Corso
  Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Research Practice - Responsible Knowledge Exchange, Engagement and Impact
  Sarah Callaghan (Research Practice Group, University of Oxford), Dr Alis Oancea (Oxford University Department of Education)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
  Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - How to qualify as a notary in the early-16th century Mamluk Sultanate
  Daisy Livingston (Durham)
  Medieval History Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Preregistration and registered reports: What, why, and how
  Jackie Thompson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:30 - Cyber Sovereignty and the EU’s Securitisation
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Movement in the Mind: A Typology, Critique, and New Interpretative Model of Imagined Pilgrimage
  Katy Beebe (North Texas)
  Europe in the Later Middle Ages
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Open Knowledge Infrastructure
  Wolfram Horstman (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure “FIZ Karlsruhe” (Germany)), Caroline Edwards
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - An Exceptional Identity: The Role of US History Education in (Re)Producing American Exceptionalism
  Emma Hall (University of Warwick)
  American History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Hawksmooring and Townsending is All Out for this Century: Building for Oxford from the Sheldonian to the Schwarzman Centre
  William Whyte (St John’s College)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 16:15 - The Tsushima Domain and the Taiping Rebellion: Intelligence Networks and Information Circulation in Japan, 1853–1855
  Dr Yongchao Cheng (Tohoku University)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - Adachi and Amano: Local and National in the Wake of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
  Dr Philip Garrett (Newcastle University)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
• 17:00 - Traumatic Financial Experiences and Persistent Changes in Financial Behavior: Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank
  Vellore Arthi (UC Irvine)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - Lecture 6: The Legitimacy of Expectations
  Professor Eric Nelson (Robert M Beren Professor of Government, Harvard University)
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2025 - For the Way Things Are: In Search of a Defensible Conservatism
• 17:00 - OxFOS25: Lightning Talks
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 10:30 - OxFOS25: Past and Present of Open
  Sally Rumsey, Beth Montague-Hellen (Francis Crick Institute), Jenni Adams (University of Sheffield), Ric Campbell
  Open Scholarship
• 12:30 - OxFOS25 Reproducible Research Oxford lunch
  The RROx team
  Open Scholarship
• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Oliver Brufal (Groningen)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 13:30 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open
  TBA
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
  Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:30 - OxFOS25 Would I lie to you?
  Patricia Logullo, Marc Brouard, Mae Chester-Jones, Gaurav Bhalerao, Charles Rahal (RROx, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - Who Built the ‘Spanish’ Empire? Legislation, Toleration, and the Co-Creation of a Global Superpower
  Adrian Masters (University of Trier)
  Iberian History Seminar
• 17:00 - Kant’s republicanism
  Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - 'Wicked' Challenges in Migration Management: Weaponization, Politicization, and Hostile Influence Operations
  Professor Kelly Greenhill (Tufts University and MIT)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Notions of emergency under democratic and dictatorial rule. Experiences from the 20th century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - A Team of Palace Historians: the Final Redactions of Theophanes Continuatus and the De Cerimoniis
  Michael Featherstone (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
• 17:00 - OxFOS25 Posters and Wine
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 10:00 - OxFOS25 Peer Reviewing Peer Review
  Nick De Vito (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
  Open Scholarship
• 11:45 - Forced reproduction and the ‘value’ of enslaved women and girls in the antebellum US South, 1812-1865
  Aisha Djelid (RAI, Oxford)
  Centre for Women’s, Gender, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[formerly known as CGIS].
• 12:30 - Inventing Wartime Invention: The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors and Criteria for “Merit” in WWI Technology
  Aristotle Vainikos (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
  Workshop in the History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Environment
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open Publication: the publishers’ view
  Alessio Bolognesi, Rebecca Lawrence
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Promoting the coercion of heretics in early modern Reformed Protestantism
  Dr Odile Panetta
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 14:15 - Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America during the Holocaust
  Professor Laura Hobson Faure (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne-Paris 1)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 15:00 - Hacktivism? Predatory Sparrow and the Ambiguities of “Ethical” Cyber Operations
  After: Oxford Technology & Security Nexus End of Term Social
  Hannah Sophie-Weber (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Literary beginnings in Latin Late Antiquity (A Preface to St Jerome)
  Mark Vessey (The University of British Columbia)
  Late Roman Seminar
• 17:00 - Longing for Revolution: Women's Militancia and Post-Militancia in the Peruvian Revolutionary Left - 1960-2000
  Mercedes Crisóstomo (UCL)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - First year graduate presentations
  TBA
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Global religious change and patterns of ruler conversion, 1450-1850
  Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
  Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History

Monday 24 March 2025

• 09:00 - History, Eugenics, and Human Enhancement: How the Past Can Inform Ethical Debates in the Present
  TBA
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 13:00 - iSkills: Using Scopus for your research
  Alessandra Vetrugno (Radcliffe Science Library, University of Oxford), Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Wednesday 26 March 2025

• 14:30 - Equitable Admissions in Postgraduate Taught Courses
  Charles Greenhill (University of Oxford), Professor Angela Russell (Departments of Pharmacology and Chemistry, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Postgraduate Teaching Network (OPTN)

Thursday 27 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - Magna Carta Lectures: Magna Carta and England’s First Revolution, 1258-1265
  Sophie Thérèse Ambler (Lancaster University)
  Bodleian Events

Thursday 10 April 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 17:00 - The Intercultural “Morality Books” (善書) of Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Converts
  Valentina Yang (KU Leuven)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Bit-making and artisanal Enlightenment: the codification of practical knowledge from the pictorial rhetoric of bit-books to riding manuals and encyclopaedic knowledge
  Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 17:00 - Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 16:30 - Trans-Pacific maritime routes and Peruvian agency in three 17th-century nautical atlases
  Carolina Martínez (Universidad Nacional de San Martín-CONICET, Argentina)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 17:00 - Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
  Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 10:00 - iSkills: Scholarly literature for your research
  Helen Bond (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Pinelopi Flaouna (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Marija Babic (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 17:00 - The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
  Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:30 - Unmapping Africa in the Age of the Enlightenment
  Petter Hellström (Uppsala Universitet)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
  Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 16:30 - Geography and Catholic censorship in Europe at the end of the sixteenth-century
  Jean-Marc Besse (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)