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 : Katie Attwell (University of Western Australia and Visiting Scholar, Uehiro Oxford Institute)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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 : Matti Leprêtre (Sciences Po Paris/EHESS)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 January 2025

Robespierre speaks
Date: 29 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London/University of Chicago)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 February 2025

Fabricating Facts in Behavior Genetics
Date: 3 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Emily Merchant (UC Davis)
Venue Details: Online via Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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 : Peregrine Horden (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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 : Judith Rainhorn (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 February 2025

Reconsidering HMS Challenger at 150: Race science, anatomy, and scientific seafaring
Date: 24 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Becky Martin (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2025

Newton’s reception at the Berlin Academy
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 March 2025

Eugenics and Religion; Eugenics as a Religion
Date: 3 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Andrew Moeller (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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 : Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul National University)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 March 2025

Mapping Animal Motion in the Time of Galileo
Date: 10 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Nuno Castel-Branco (Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 March 2025

Kant’s republicanism
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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 : Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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 : Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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