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The transition to colonialism in South Asian history has been a vibrant and hotly contested part of India’s history. The role of scribes as historical actors of change in India’s history has only recently been[...]
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminar series. All welcome, no booking required. Dr James Emmott, Oxford Brookes University, will be speaking on On The Stratification of Language. ‘There are few sensations more[...]
In this opening workshop in the One Belt One Road programme, a multidisplinary group of scholars will reassess the Old Silk Road, the centuries-old, pan-continental trading route that helped to establish China as a world[...]
A one-day colloquium convened by Oliver Cox & Sandra Mayer, and hosted by OCLW in collaboration with TORCH will bring together academics, biographers and curators to explore the ways in which the life stories of[...]
This talk examines the writings of Jamal al-din al-Afghani (1838-1897) with particular attention to his polemical piece against Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), entitled “The Refutation of the Materialists” (1881). Scholars have assumed that al-Afghani was[...]
A Roundtable Conversation with Akeel Bilgrami (Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University), Shruti Kapila (Fellow and Director of Studies, Corpus Christi College; Faculty of History, University of Cambridge) and Saeed Naqvi (Foreign Correspondent and[...]
Exploring the emotional terrain of the citizenship experiences of groups in Goa this paper will argue that through the linguistic choices made by the government of Goa it is not merely caste that is at[...]
Science, Medicine and Culture in the 19th Century seminar series. All welcome, no booking required. Professor Oliver Zimmer, University of Oxford will be speaking on Time Tribes: How The Railways Made Communities (1840-1900) When it[...]
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published initially in 2004, is the work of roughly 10,000 scholars, runs to 60 volumes in print, and is made up of more than 62 million words. So immense[...]
Speakers: Richard Sorabji Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College Peter Adamson Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, King’s College London Schedule: 2-3.30: Professor Sir Richard Sorabji 3.30-4: Tea break 4-5.30: Professor Peter Adamson
Biography is only one of many disciplines that have been deeply influenced by advances in digital media and computing, and that have required new theoretical approaches to help understand the changes. Yet the digital revolution[...]
Speakers: Ivor Crewe (Master, University College, Oxford) Anne Deighton (Emeritus Professor of European International Politics, St Antony’s College, Oxford) Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford) Iain McLean (Emeritus Professor of Politics,[...]
Award-winning historian MARGARET MACMILLAN, Warden of St Antony’s College, considers how, a century after the First World War, we are still coming to terms with what that prolonged conflict meant for European society and the[...]
Edmund Birch is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and works on French literature and cultural history. In his talk at the Reuters Institute, he will explore key points of his research on the[...]
Join renowned chef Tom Kerridge and nutrition scientist, Susan Jebb, to discuss connections between emotions, food and weight. Tom explores how a diet of meat, eggs, fish, nuts and dairy can help us lose weight.[...]
Science is a universal and global endeavour with developments shared and interpreted among cultures, across language and throughout history. Witness the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment that[...]
An interesting talk planned for our monthly spot in July. Sylvia Vetta will visit us to talk about China under Mao. Doors open at 7.30 so the talk will start promptly at 8pm, so that[...]
On Monday, 24 July 2017, Kathy Chater, the author of Tracing Your Huguenot Ancestors (2012), will give a talk to Oxfordshire FHS titled ‘Huguenots in the British Isles’. Kathy says: ‘Five hundred years ago Martin[...]
Numerous free talks, walking tours and workshops over two days in central Oxford. Visit the webpage to find out more and book into sessions.
Numerous free talks, walking tours and workshops over two days.
Dr John Naylor, from the Asmolean Museum, is the National Finds Advisor for Post Roman Coinage: together with James Mather, metal detectorist and the finder of the Watlington Hoard, they will be offering this lecture[...]
As the Portuguese’s entry opened up a turbulent time in the Indian Ocean, Muslim scribal elites across the region presented them within the image of idolatrous infidels. Writing in Arabic, the scribes from Malabar categorised[...]
The predominance of the state is overstated. In Burma and other countries, pockets of territory remain under the control of non-state actors. The processes through which these counter state orders emerge are varied and often[...]
Join us for what promises to be an amazing evening filled with passion and opportunity to have fun! The evening will feature a panel discussion on the experiences of the generation that became known as[...]
Speaker(s): Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Faisal Devji (St Antony’s) Gautham Shiralagi (St Antony’s) Adam Roberts (Balliol) Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s) An event held under the auspices of St Antony’s College and the[...]
Speaker: Michael Heaney Percy Manning (1870-1917) was an extraordinary collector of all things Oxfordshire; his diverse interests ranged from archaeology and local buildings history to cricket and Morris dancing. Manning was interested in all periods[...]
Can the world be thought of in terms of sepia and light? This talk will explore the relationship between archaic labour and photography in colonial Ceylon with an emphasis on pearlescence and how this might[...]
Talk followed by questions and discussion All welcome Oxford Communist Corresponding Society
What does it mean to be a feminist? Who can be a feminist? And is there a right and wrong way of doing it? Join us on a unique journey through feminist history, adding your[...]
TOAST is a great story as well as a great beer – join us at Oxford Hub for a lunch time drink and some social enterprise conversation with Rob Wilson, entrepreneur and Chief Toaster. Rob[...]
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