Events

The Faculty of History and its staff are involved in a number of different events including seminars, workshops and conferences. This feed looks to provide information on events which are relevant to those studying or interested in history which are running throughout the Humanities Division.

If you are running an event that you would like included on this feed, please contact comms@history.ox.ac.uk

Conference: Across Anti-Imperial Metropolises Nonstate Approaches to Modern Japan-France History

05 November 2026 to 06 November 2026

Saber/conocer: ways of knowing in the Hispanic Enlightenment

19 November 2026

Annual Besterman Lecture 2026

Carlo Ginzburg Reading Group Session Two: On a Different Scale

25 November 2026

A Renaissance Paradox: Art & Inequality

25 November 2026

Samuel Cohn (Glasgow)

Carlo Ginzburg Reading Group Session Three: Evidence, Distance

03 February 2027

Carlo Ginzburg Reading Group Session Four: High & Low, Inside Out

03 March 2027

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Book Launch - Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England

05 November 2026

Seminar: Manipulating Abundance after the Kimberley Diamond Rush

04 November 2026

Jarrod Hore (Koch History Centre)

The Call and the Answer: Travel and Literature in the Work of Addie B. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson

29 October 2026

Black History Month Lecture 2026

Carlo Ginzburg Reading Group Session One: Microhistory

28 October 2026

Francisco Goya, Alegoría de la Industria

A Social Question before the Social Question: Addressing Poverty in Enlightenment Europe

22 October 2026 to 23 October 2026

The future isn't neutral: Race, fairness and equality in the age of AI

21 October 2026

6th Annual Black History Month Lecture

Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics’

16 October 2026

5th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture

The Lessons of the Northern Ireland Peace Process

15 October 2026

Ewen Green Memorial Lecture

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Forecasting the weather, between divination and science Antiquity to the present

08 October 2026 to 09 October 2026

The D-Day forecast – From synoptic charts to the silver screen

08 October 2026

Catherine Ross (Met Office)

Before the Forecast: The Royal Society’s Meteorological Archive as Prelude to the Met Office

08 October 2026

Louisiane Ferlier (Royal Society, London)

Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September 2026 to 02 October 2026

Conference: Korea, East Asia and the World: Neo-Confucianism in Comparative Perspective

15 September 2026 to 16 September 2026

Lincoln College History and the Ancient World Study Day

13 August 2026 to 15 August 2026

For Year 12 students from UK State Schools. This study day provides prospective students on track to make an application to a competitive university the opportunity to explore everything Lincoln College has to offer.