Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025

Date: Thursday 5 June 2025
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, 25 Banbury Road, OX2 6NN

Registration is required. Please register here to attend. 

The Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference will take place on Thursday 5 June 2025. The conference will be run as a hybrid event, with the opportunity for all attendees to join us online or in person at Keble College, University of Oxford. This year's theme is 'Anachronism and History'. Below is the programme for the day: 

Opening remarks by Laura del Alisal (Reuben College)

09:30-11:00: Time

Chaired by Jack Jacobs (Oriel College)

• Riccardo Brighenti, 'Which Came First? Anachronistic Chronologies in Late Renaissance Italy: Two Case Studies'
• George Noel Mariam, 'Anachronism as Method: Ambedkar, Buddhism, and the Struggle Against Time'
• Avery Jayne Benton, 'The Anachronism of American Political Identity: Founding Myths & Sacred Texts of the United States of America'

11:20-12:50: Power

Chaired by Sam Miller (Jesus College)

• Sofía Sanabria de Felipe, 'Legitimising Monarchical Power: History as aesthetic, discursive signifier in the French Restoration 1814-1830'
• Michael O'Connor, 'Melian Anachronisms'
• Apeike Umlu, 'Patriotism and Anachronistic Claims of Nineteenth Century Pan-Africanism'

12:50-14:00: Lunch (sandwich lunch provided)

14:00-15:30: Tradition

Chaired by Ivi Fung (Exeter College)

• Thomas Sherman, 'Imperial Liberalism? Property and Empire in the Thought of John Locke and James Mill'
• Cheugn Wai Chung (Douglas), '(Mis)placing Chinese traditions: Tang Yue唐鉞and the Debates On Science and Metaphysics科玄論戰 in China'
• Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa, 'The History of 'History and Tradition': Feminism, Anachronism, and the Codification of Family Law'

16:00-17:15: Keynote Address
Speaker: Tania Shew (Wolfson College)

17:15-19:00 Drinks

Registration is required. If you wish to attend the conference, please sign up here.