Tuesday 14 January 2025

• 10:00 - Open scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
  Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Thursday 16 January 2025

• 09:30 - Pandemic Preparedness, Outbreaks, and Conflict
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities
• 12:00 - Open Scholarship: Navigating open access monographs: OAPEN and the OA books toolkit for researchers
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Silke Davison (OAPEN Foundation)
  Open Scholarship

Monday 20 January 2025

• 16:00 - Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
  Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Carl Schmitt and the History of the First World War: State Composition and the Collapse of the Second Reich (1934)
  Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 13:00 - Cultural Programme Medieval Afterlives Workshop
  Please RSVP by 7 January 2025
  Various Speakers
  Humanities Cultural Programme
• 16:00 - Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
  Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 13:30 - Referencing: Choosing and using software for referencing
  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)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 14:00 - iSkills: Introduction to online resources for historians: Show and tell
  Isabel Holowaty (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Rachel D'Arcy Brown (University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 17:15 - The Old English 'Apollonius of Tyre' and the Name of the Father
  Alice Jorgensen (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 14:30 - Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
  Sarah Humphreys (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Polly Bannister (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - Writing, psychoanalysis and history: Hannah Zeavin In Conversation
  Hannah Zeavin, Sarah Knott, Sloan Mahone, Joe Moshenka

Friday 24 January 2025

• 16:00 - Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
  Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - 2025 A B Emden Lecture: Slavery and capitalism across the C18 Atlantic world
  Professor Catherine Hall (UCL)

Monday 27 January 2025

• 11:00 - Reading Group – Childhood and Agency
  Hannah Stovin (Oxford), Shereece Linton-Ramsay (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 15:00 - iSkills: Getting started in Oxford libraries
  Alan Brown (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Natasha MacMahon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 15:00 - Portable Reliquaries? English Late Medieval Containment Jewellery
  Caroline Croasdaile
  Medieval Archaeology Seminar
• 16:00 - Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
  Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Beyond Antagonism: Converging Radicalisms in the 1930s Caribbean
  Dr Leslie James (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 16:00 - Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
  John Bird (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 13:00 - iSkills: Face your FEaR: Finding, Evaluating and Referencing scientific research
  Oliver Bridle (Radcliffe Science Library), Thomas Corrick (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Bodleian iSkills - Workshops in Information Discovery and Scholarly Communications
• 17:00 - Robespierre speaks
  Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London/University of Chicago)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:15 - Losing a War of Attrition: Developing Concepts of Warfare and the Realities and Perceptions of Axis Defeat in the Mediterranean War (1940-1943)
  Richard Hammond (Brunel)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - On Fragments: The Material and Textual Value of Manuscript and Print Binding Waste
  Professor Tamara Atkin (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 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)

Friday 31 January 2025

• 16:00 - Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
  Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

Monday 3 February 2025

• 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
• 16:00 - Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
  Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 17:00 - Jacobus Acontius's Stratagemata Satanae (1564) and the question of religious coercion
  Dr Odile Panetta (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 17:15 - The 'windsele' in Christ and Satan: Demonic Winds in Medieval Literature
  Professor Marilina Cesario (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

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
• 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

Friday 7 February 2025

• 16:00 - Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
  Nandini Das (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 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
• 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
• 17:15 - 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

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
• 16:30 - Title to be confirmed
  Margriet Hoogvliet (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Anouk de Vries (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  The Oxford Seminars in Cartography (TOSCA)

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

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
• 14:00 - Open scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship
• 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
• 17:00 - Kashmir Without History: Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah and Indian Political Thought
  Dr Amar Sohal (KCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 17:15 - Expecting the Worst: Beowulf and the End Times
  Dr Amy Faulkner (UCL)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Friday 21 February 2025

• 16:00 - The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
  Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

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 - Writing “Gifted Children” in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945
  Jennifer Crane (Bristol)
  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

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 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
• 17:30 - The Boundaries of Humanity Reading Group
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Medical Humanities

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:00 - Newton’s reception at the Berlin Academy
  Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 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

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
• 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
• 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

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for researchers
  Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 16:00 - The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
  Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
  American History Research Seminar

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
• 17:00 - Montesquieu in East Asia (annual online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
  Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul National University)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: ORCIDs from scratch
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship

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
• 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

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
• 16:00 - Black American leisure time 20th century
  Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
  American History Research Seminar

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Kant’s republicanism
  Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen)
  Enlightenment Workshop

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)