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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

Alan Strathern Event

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

15 September to 16 September
Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September to 02 October
A man pointing at a weather map on the wall

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

09 October
The future isn't neutral

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

21 October
6th Annual Black History Month Lecture
Francisco Goya, Alegoría de la Industria

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

22 October to 23 October
book launch violent waters elly robson dezateux

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

05 November
Besterman Lecture 2026 Event

Annual Besterman Lecture 2026 - Saber/conocer: ways of knowing in the Hispanic Enlightenment

19 November

Lincoln College chapel

Lincoln College History and the Ancient World Study Day

13 August to 15 August
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.
Writing Queer History

Book Launch: Writing Queer History by Matt Cook

17 June
There will be a drinks reception following the launch.
Medieval Manuscript Hunters and the Second World War

Medieval Manuscript Hunters and the Second World War

11 June
Oliver Smithies Lecture (Two)
Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black

Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies 2026

21 May
Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black
Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) government Chiang Kai-shek met with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Mao Zedong in Chongqing for peace negotiations © Hsu Chung-mao

New China, New Asia 1945-49: The debates that shaped postwar China and their relevance today

15 May
2026 Dacre Lecture
Death of a Nun: Medieval Women Scribes and Networks of Piety

Death of a Nun: Medieval Women Scribes and Networks of Piety

14 May
Oliver Smithies Lecture (One)
Allegory of the 1st partition of Poland, Wikimedia Commons

"Poland was but a breakfast": or, why 1772 helps us to understand 1776

13 May
2026 Annual George Rousseau Lecture
Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926

Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926

30 April
2026 Ewen Green Memorial Lecture
Margoliouth Lecture poster 2026

Damascus Rebuilt: Margoliouth and Syria After the 1860 Massacre

29 April
Inaugural Margoliouth Lecture on the History of the Middle East
map of Early Formation of Atlantic Slavery

Gender, Population, and the Early Formation of Atlantic Slavery

28 April
2026 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
Godfrey Stafford

Godfrey Stafford: Physicist, Director, Master

11 March
HAPP Lecture
Observing suspicious suspects exchanging a bag on the street, Berlin, around 1975. MfS HA II Fo 865

Stasi Surveillance: Photography’s Material and Residual Traces

05 March
Oliver Smithies Lecture
Homefront, original illustration (European Studies Centre)

Morale on the home front, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction

26 February
Annual Oxford Centre for European History Lecture
Professor Jeremy Adelman (Cambridge)

Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World

13 February
A B Emden Lecture 2026
The Safe Repository

'The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute' Panel

24 November 2025
Antoine Lilti (Collège de France)

The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment

13 November 2025
Annual Besterman Lecture 2025
Professor Maria Misra

Femina Oeconomica: Global Gender Orders and the Rise of Neoliberal Woman

17 October 2025
4th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture

Annual Lectures

A teal stylised book with The Ford Lectures printed on it

The James Ford Lectures in British History

Carlyle Lectures 2026

Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought