Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Sun Sets in the West: The Battle for Soft Power in a Multipolar World
  Mr Simon Anholt (Anholt & Co.)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - John of Ephesus: Historian on the Edge
  Phil Booth (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025

• 08:30 - Writing & Meditation
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 13:00 - Social Co-Working
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 17:00 - ‘The Dwarves are a race apart’: Tolkien’s contribution to the specialisation of dwarves in popular fantasy’
  Kit Richards (University of Birmingham)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 10:30 - AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The Second Symposium
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 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 - Beyond a Boundary: Armenia and Byzantium in the Ninth Century
  Dan Gallaher (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine 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

• 08:30 - Writing & Meditation
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 13:15 - Theatre and Translation Roundtable
  Minna Jeffery, Stephen Bailey, Tzen Sam
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - ‘Tolkien's Forms of Detachment’
  Rebekah Lamb (University of St Andrews)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 10 February 2025

• 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

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

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 - Social, Cultural and Political Determinants of Riots
  Professor Kamaldeep Bhui (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Soft Power, Old and New: Debating the Byzantine Commonwealth
  Jonathan Shepard (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine 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
• 11:00 - Medieval Religion: What and How in a Flourishing Field of Research
  Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
  Ecclesiastical History Workshop

Friday 14 February 2025

• 08:30 - Writing & Meditation
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 13:00 - Dr. Adriel Elijah Miles | Music as Method
  Dr. Adriel Elijah Miles
  Race & Resistance

Monday 17 February 2025

• 14:00 - Open scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 17:00 - Economic Diversification, State Fragility, and Development in Muslim Societies
  Professor Adnan Khan (FCDO)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Of Scripts and Scribes: Investigating Practices of Writing in Late Antique Iran
  Olivia Ramble (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Friday 21 February 2025

• 08:30 - Writing & Meditation
  TBA
  Race & Resistance
• 13:00 - Radical Reasoning | Music as Method
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 17:00 - ‘Tolkien and old English prosody’
  Rafael Pascual (University of Granada)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 15:00 - Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright and ORA
  David Watson (Bodleian Libraries), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

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
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship
• 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 - 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

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

• 08:30 - Writing & Meditation
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 13:00 - Panel Discussion | Music as Method
  Luke Bacchus, John Pfumojena FRSA, Dr. Cheraine Donalea Scott (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  Race & Resistance
• 17:00 - ‘Themes in The Lord of the Rings: A Defence and an Exploration'
  Patrick Curry (University of Wales Trinity St David)
  Tolkien seminars

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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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 - 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 - 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

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 10:00 - Open Scholarship: ORCIDs from scratch
  Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
  Open Scholarship
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 - An introduction to Carpentries
  Various Speakers
  Open Scholarship

Friday 7 March 2025

• 08:30 - Writing & Meditation
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 09:00 - Resistance, Renewal, Reimagination: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain | 2025 Conference
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 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
• 17:00 - ‘'Alight Here for Middle-earth!': Tolkien, Place, and the Past’
  Carl Phelpstead ((University of Cardiff)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 10 March 2025

• 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
• 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

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
• 15:00 - OxFOS25: Open Knowledge Infrastructure
  Wolfram Horstman (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure “FIZ Karlsruhe” (Germany)), Caroline Edwards
  Open Scholarship
• 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
• 13:30 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open
  TBA
  Open Scholarship
• 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
• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 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
• 13:00 - OxFOS25 The Future of Open Publication: the publishers’ view
  Alessio Bolognesi, Rebecca Lawrence
  Open Scholarship
• 14:00 - Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
  Neil Jefferies (Open Scholarship Support, Bodleian Libraries)
  Open Scholarship

Friday 14 March 2025

• 08:30 - Writing & Meditation
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 13:00 - Conference Debrief | ‘Resistance, Renewal, Reimagination: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain’
  Various Speakers
  Race & Resistance
• 17:00 - ‘Languages on the Move: Tolkien's Invented Languages and Their Use in Adaptations’
  Mareike Huber (University of Freiburg)
  Tolkien seminars

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

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