Talks of interest to the Intellectual History community
Talks:

Friday 2 May 2025

Early Career Workshop for Global Early Modern Intellectual History
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: Euan Huey (Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
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

Friday 9 May 2025

A Panel Discussion: Museum Careers for Historians
Date: 9 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Danielle Czerkaszyn (Oxford University Museum of Natural History), Sydney Robinson (MSc HSMT, formerly Ralph Appelbaum Associates), JC Niala (History of Science Museum), Chair: Catherine M Jackson (Oxford Centre for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Gerry Martin Room
Organisers: Hohee Cho, Alex Aylward, Sloan Mahone, Catherine Jackson, Rob Iliffe, Mark Harrison, Erica Charters
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

Science in Cinders: Destruction in scientific correspondences of the long eighteenth century
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Zoe Screti (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Energy, Environment and Society: In conversation with Dr Matthew N Eisler
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker s: Dr Matthew N Eisler (University of Strathclyde), Chair: Dr Catherine M Jackson (OCHSMT, Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Paths to ecological thinking: Reflections on situating social relations in energy and environmental context
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Matthew Eisler (Strathclyde)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
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

Monday 9 June 2025

Learning and practising astronomy and astrology in fourteenth-century Paris and Oxford
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Laure Miolo (Oxford)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

From Skull Science to Biometrics: The Making of the Modern Statistical Identity (Hybrid)
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Iris Clever (Chicago)
Venue Details: Maison Française d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE, and online via Zoom
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