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Talks of interest to the Intellectual History community
Talks:
Monday 20 January 2025
Vaccine Hesitancy: The History of an Idea
Date: 20 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
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Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
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Monday 27 January 2025
Of Herbs and Pharmaceuticals: Rethinking the Rise of the Pharmaceutical Industry after the Plant Turn
Date: 27 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
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Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Wednesday 29 January 2025
Robespierre speaks
Date: 29 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
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Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London/University of Chicago)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
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Monday 3 February 2025
Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
Date: 3 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
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Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
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Monday 10 February 2025
Darkest before Dawn? Medicine in the English Universities in the Later Middle Ages
Date: 10 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
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Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Wednesday 12 February 2025
Roundtable on The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History (2024) by J C D Clark.
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Caroline Warman,
Jacob Chatterjee,
John Robertson,
J C D Clark
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
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Monday 17 February 2025
Beautifying the City, Poisoning the Lady. About an Odd Victorian Scientific Conversation (1869)
Date: 17 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
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Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Monday 24 February 2025
Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
Date: 24 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
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Becky Martin (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Wednesday 26 February 2025
Newton’s reception at the Berlin Academy
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
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Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
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Monday 3 March 2025
Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
Date: 3 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
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Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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Wednesday 5 March 2025
Montesquieu in East Asia (annual online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
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Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul National University)
Venue Details: Online
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Monday 10 March 2025
Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
Date: 10 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
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Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
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Wednesday 12 March 2025
Kant’s republicanism
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
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Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
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Wednesday 7 May 2025
Bit-making and artisanal Enlightenment: the codification of practical knowledge from the pictorial rhetoric of bit-books to riding manuals and encyclopaedic knowledge
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
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Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
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Wednesday 21 May 2025
Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
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Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
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This list contains talks from the following series:
Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660
Early Modern Intellectual History
Enlightenment Workshop
History of Political Thought Seminar
Monks and Mystics: Sufism and Eastern Christianity
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Global Intellectual History
Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Hilary Term 2021
Seminar in the History of the Book
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
The Carlyle Lectures 2021: John Locke and Empire
The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar
The Relation of Literature and Learning to Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe