Events of interest to Faculty of Theology and Religion
Talks:

Wednesday 30 April 2025

2025 George Rousseau Lecture: On the logic of autocracy and the plasticity of history: the case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger ((Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute of Advanced Study))
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Political Economy and Economic Institutions of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Selecting, Arranging, Dressing and Aging the Saints in Ravenna’s S. Apollinare Nuovo
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 May 2025

The two swords: spiritual and temporal jurisdiction in henrician England
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Paul Cavill (Cambridge)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

Toward an Intellectual Black Women’s History | Reading Group
Date: 2 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 6 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Beyond Castes and Regions: The Socio-Economic Decline of Muslims in Contemporary India
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christophe Jaffrelot (Kings College, London)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tepekozis: A Medieval Cyclops Story in Pharasiot (Asia Minor Greek)
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mark Janse (Ghent)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Foundations of copyright for teaching
Date: 8 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

In times of ferment and flourishing: the livelihoods of Chapel Royal musicians, 1640s-80s
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Sam Teague (Oxford)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

In Conversation with Professor Mia Bay & Dr. Meleisa Ono-George
Date: 9 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Professor Mia Bay (University of Cambridge), Dr Meleisa Ono-George (The Queen's College)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: 2nd floor Lecture room
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 13 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty in Muslim Societies
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Ali Allawi (Former Minister of Finance, Defense, and Trade of Iraq)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Pro Meliori et pro Utilitate Terre: Venetian Crete and the Exploitation of the post-Byzantine Aegean
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Lorenzo Saccon (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

John Bale and Polydore Vergil: an encounter in Church history
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tim Wade (Warwick)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

Black "Alt" Cultural Memories, Archived Representations, and Digital Imaginaries
Date: 16 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Narsai’s Memra 49, on Adam and Eve: O Instructive Fault!
Date: 19 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Andrew Younan (ohn Paul the Great Catholic University in Escondido, California), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Oxford Interfaith Forum (Oxford), Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum, AMES), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Interfaith Forum (Oxford)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Building State Capacity in Fragile States
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rhetoric and Reality in the Imperial Orations of Niketas Choniates
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alicia Simpson (American College of Greece)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

On the Effects of Fiction on Social Cognition. Evidence from Human Experimentation, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College
Organisers: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Morgan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

A Caroline Catholic conversion: Francis Slingsby (1611-42)
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

Black Alternative Culture & Expression | Reading Group
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Persistent Identifiers
Date: 28 May 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Open Scholarship: Introduction to Open Science Framework at Oxford
Date: 28 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Framing the Word: presenting religious texts as "comely" ornament in post-Reformation England
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Book Talk - When We Ruled: The Rise and Fall of Twelve African Queens and Warriors by Paula Akpan
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Paula Akpan
Venue Details: 14 Bonn Square, Oxford OX1 1LQ
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Open Scholarship: Your thesis, copyright & ORA
Date: 3 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: David Watson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Thomas Mitchell (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Open scholarship: Playing in the open: Getting familiar with creative commons licences
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Rachel Scanlon (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Iran’s Crisis of Governance
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and onlin via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

English Reformers in German print, 1547-1603
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Open Scholarship: REF open access policy briefing
Date: 9 June 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

“The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 12 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Beth Saward (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Peterhouse Chapel and the Laudian style
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : David Scott (History of Parliament)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Peshitta and the Making of the Antioch Bible
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Dr George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study), Prof Sebastian Brock (Retired Reader in Syriac Studies at the Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: Oxford Interfaith Forum (Oxford), Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum, AMES), Dr Sebastian Brock (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Interfaith Forum (Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

Black Academic Futures (BAF) Research Panel
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Amunet Boafo (University of Oxford), Michelle Codrington-Rogers (University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

A Bridge to the Sky: Science and Arts in the Age of Ibn Firnas (d. 887)
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

London public sermons and early modern emotional communities
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mary Morrissey (Reading University)
Venue: Keble College, Parks Road OX1 3PG
Venue Details: Pusey Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

End of Year Celebration
Date: 20 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Organiser: Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Open Scholarship: Copyright the card game
Date: 25 June 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Chris Morrison (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), Georgina Kiddy (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue: Radcliffe Science Library, off Parks Road OX1 3QP
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Logistics of open scholarship
Date: 1 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:30
Speaker : Sarah Humphries (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Forum of open scholarship
Date: 7 July 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 July 2025

Open Scholarship: Fundamentals of open access
Date: 24 July 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford), David Phillips (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online via Microsoft Teams
Organiser: Sarah Humphreys (Bodleian Libraries)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2-Day Conference: Medieval Vestments
After Rome and Further East Seminar
Bampton Lectures 2023: Jesus and the Displaced: Christology and the Redemption of Habitation
Can there be Buddhist physicalism?
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts
Ecclesiastical History Workshop
George Rousseau Lectures
Greco-Roman and East-Asian Classics events (Janus Project)
Grinfield Lectures on The Septuagint 2024 | SÉBASTIEN MORLET - “The Plurality of the Biblical Text - Past and Present”
Interreligious Interactions in South Asia (Virtual Colloquium)
Islamicate Intellectual History Seminar Series
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
Magic, Maths, Mamluks, and Mongols: History of Islamic Science at the Boundaries
MANUSCRIPTS in Interfaith Contexts
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar
Modern Jewish Thought Seminar
Moving Stories - Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East
New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar Series
New Testament Seminar
No What Without a How: Theological Method and the Theologies of Original Sin in Modern Catholic Thought
'Opening the Angus' Seminars and Events
Open Scholarship
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture Michaelmas 2023 Term Programme
Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
Race & Resistance
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
Religion in Britain and Ireland, 1400-1700
Religion in the British Isles 1400 - 1700
Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar
Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
SEMINAR ON JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
The 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies: Material Religion in Byzantium & Beyond
The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Interdisciplinary Seminar
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2024: The World's Reformation
The Speaker’s Lectures in Biblical Studies 2023
Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar Series
Tolkien seminars
TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion - Religion Refracted and in Motion: On Pilgrimage in Present Times