Friday 25 April 2025

• 12:00 - Governing Digital China
  Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
  China Centre talks
• 18:00 - Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women
  Online via Zoom
  Emily Owens (Brown University), Kaisha Esty (Wesleyan University)

Monday 28 April 2025

• 11:00 - New research in the history of childhood by undergraduate and Masters students
  Shreya Ganguli (Oxford), Kate Harrison (Oxford), Camille Lund (Oxford), Rawdah Uddin (Oxford)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Cressida Jervis Read Seminar - Along the Thread of the Mosquito Ovary: Apprehending Malarias Lost and Regained
  Please note registration is required for online attendance only
  Ann Kelly (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 12:15 - Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
  Helen Appleton (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Truth-seeking AI
  Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford), Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford))
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:00 - Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
  Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
• 17:15 - ‘Editing Shakespeare’s Lyric Poetry’
  Lukas Erne (University of Geneva)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - The Press of the Royal Institution
  David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 12:30 - Writing the Environmental History of the Medieval Islamic East
  Thomas Laskowski (MPhil Islamic Studies)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Temperance Women and the Franchise: The New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union, The British Woman’s Temperance Association, and Women’s Suffrage, 1876-1914
  Danielle Van Dalen (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Growing Up Queer: 1837-1918
  Hannah Stovin (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - A Life Between "Enigma" and "Influence": Dona Torr Interprets Marx
  Sam Miller (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - 'The Forger’s Creed: Reinventing Art History in Early Modern China' by J P Park
  J P Park (Oxford)
  History of Art Events
• 17:15 - World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
  Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 2 May 2025

• 14:00 - Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
  Tania Bride (Exeter College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford), Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 12:15 - Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
  Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Inquiry Complex
  Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:30 - Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
  Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
  Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 14:00 - Pensions, Poverty, and Policy: Gendered Inequalities in Old Age, 1975–2005
  Janina Bechtold (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - Prelates as Political Appointees: Ecclesiastical patronage and its consequences for modern Britain, 1977-2009
  Kyle Siwek (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
  Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 12 May 2025

• 16:00 - Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
  Zoe Screti (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 12:15 - Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
  Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Privacy and the Future of AI
  Professor Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell), Carina Peng (Apple)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:30 - 'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
  Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 12:30 - Beyond Trump’s First 100 Days: What Comes Next Economically and Geopolitically?
  Robert Westcott (Former White House Special Assistant for Economic Policy)
• 17:00 - I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Mary Lou Williams and the Re-Imagining of Jazz’s History
  Tammy L. Kernodle (Miami University)

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 12:30 - The Depths of Dissent: Labor, Environmental, and Political Dynamics in the Donbas Miners’ Strikes
  Katerina Szylo (DPhil History)
  Environmental History Working Group
• 14:00 - Edward A. Freeman, History, and "Public Affairs", 1884-1892
  Gabriel Smith (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 14:00 - A Trip to India: Cultural Indophilia, British Hippiedom, and Post-Imperial Memory
  Robert Taylor (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)

Monday 19 May 2025

• 11:00 - Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
  This event has limited capacity - registration closes on Sunday 11 May
  Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 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
• 16:00 - Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
  Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 09:00 - The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025
  Sandra Leonie Field (Monash University), Pierre-François Moreau (ENS Lyon)
  The Oxford Spinoza Conference
• 12:15 - "Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
  Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Decentralization in Science & AI
  Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
  Global Priorities Institute (GPI) - Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Decentralization in Science & AI
  Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 15:00 - Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
  Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
  Carlo Ginzburg, Chair: Filippo de Vivo
  Oxford Centre for European History
• 17:15 - ‘Racial Capitalism in Early Modern England’
  Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
  Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 14:00 - The Oil Shock, Britain, and the Global Economy, 1973-1976
  Aled Davies (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 16:30 - The Winant-Mellon Symposium Keynote Address: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
  TBA
• 17:15 - Emergency as Genre
  Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 23 May 2025

• 16:00 - Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities across Muslim Eurasia, 1914–1925
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events

Monday 26 May 2025

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Workshop: Locating Central Asia in Global History: Some Thoughts on Writing Central Asia: A New History
  Professor Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College, MN)
  2025 Astor Lecturer events
• 12:00 - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
  Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 12:15 - Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
  Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Collective Intelligence
  Ivan Vendrov (Midjourney)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 16:00 - African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
  Brenna Greer (Wellesley College)
• 17:15 - ‘“That Follows Not”: The Non Sequitur in Hamlet’
  Prof. Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Byron and Consciousness
  Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 12:30 - Toward an Archaeology of Sustainability: Resource Packages and Landscape Management in Sphakia, Southwest Crete
  Lucia Nixon (Classical Archaeology, Senior Tutor, St Hilda's, Co-Director, Sphakia Survey)
  Environmental History Working Group

Monday 2 June 2025

• 11:00 - Will the real CND please stand up? Young people and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in late 1950s/1960s England
  Susannah Wright (Oxford Brookes)
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 12:15 - Messy Chaucer
  Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 14:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Habermas Machine
  Professor Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Michael Henry Tessler (Google Deepmind)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 16:00 - The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
  Stuart Delery (Former White House Counsel)
• 17:30 - Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
  Tom Jones (St Andrews)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
  Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin University), Joel Suarez (Harvard University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)

Friday 6 June 2025

• 10:00 - Early Modern History in the Making: The J H Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium
  Registration deadline is midday on 31 April 2025
  Various Speakers
  The J H Elliott History Forum
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Heather Demarest (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  Jowett Society

Monday 9 June 2025

• 16:00 - Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
  Laure Miolo (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 14:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
  Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:15 - In conversation with Prof Adam Smyth and Prof Lloyd Pratt on Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2025)
  Prof. Kirsten McFarlane (University of Chicago)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
  Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 12:30 - Chains of Control and Reins of Resistance: Nonhuman Animals and the Plantationocene in the American South
  Bill Smith (DPhil History)
  Environmental History Working Group

Friday 13 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Jake Nebel (Princeton)
  Jowett Society

Monday 16 June 2025

• 12:15 - End of term social event
  Social event
  Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
  Iris Clever (Chicago)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 14:00 - Project Clinic
  Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:00 - Esmond Harmsworth Lecture
  Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)

Friday 20 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Zoë A. Johnson King (Harvard)
  Jowett Society

Friday 7 November 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Potter (Cambridge)
  Jowett Society

Friday 5 December 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
  Jowett Society

Friday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Graham Priest (CUNY)
  Jowett Society

Friday 15 May 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Jennifer Nagel (Toronto)
  Jowett Society

Friday 29 May 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Selim Berker (Harvard)
  Jowett Society

Friday 12 June 2025

• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Eric Mandelbaum (CUNY)
  Jowett Society