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If you have any events that you feel may interest the intellectual history community please contact us at cih@history.ox.ac.uk.

 

Upcoming Events

Duncan Kelly

Duncan Kelly (Univeristy of Cambridge), Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics

16 October
5th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture 2026
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Heena (University of Leicester), Beyond British Criticism: Religion, Print and Astrological Writings in 19th-century North India

19 October
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
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Book Discussion: Teresa Bejan (Oxford), First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism

19 October
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Amsterdam), Consider the Mantis: IKaggen, Means of Subsistence, and Misunderstanding Across the Cape Colonial Frontier

20 October
Global Intellectual History Seminar
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Richard Laremont (State University of New York), From Ideology to Governance: The Transformation of Political Islam in the Twenty First Century

21 October
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 2

22 October
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Adom Getachew (University of Chicago), The Iconicity of Africa

22 October
Black History Month Lecture
Christ Church Library from R. Ackermann, History of Oxford (1813)

Translating the Bible: A Study Afternoon

24 October
Christ Church Library
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Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza (University of Manchester), 'The thrice born': The rise of Indian sociology and social anthropology circa 1920-1980

26 October
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
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Money, Markets and Merit: Conversations about Lessius with Wim Decock

27 October
Oxford Political Thought & Legal History Forum
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Sarah Dunstan (University of Glasgow),Dismantling the Intellectual Equipment of Mankind? Scientific Authority, Bandung, and the Problem of Race

27 October
Global Intellectual History Seiminar
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Baroness Hale of Richmond, The Future of Human Rights in the UK?

28 October to 21 October
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 3

29 October
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Shmuel Feiner (Bar-Ilan University), The emotional experience of Jewish secularization

29 October
Enlightenment Workshop and the Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies
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Fatima Naveed (University of Edinburgh), Censoring a Nation

02 November
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

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

05 November to 06 November
Global Intellectual History Seminar
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 4

05 November
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Taushif Kara (Kings College London),Orthodoxy as Method: Islam, Pakistan, and Fazlur Rahman’s political philosophy

09 November
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
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Roger Chartier (Collège de France), Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus

10 November
Maison Française d'Oxford
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Stéphane Van Damme (Maison Française d’Oxford), Materialist New York? French late Enlightenment in the early American Republic

11 November
Enlightenment Workshop
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 5

12 November
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Workshop on Gender and Global Intellectual History

17 November
Global Intellectual History Seminar
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Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference

18 November
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Programme
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Jokha Alharthi (Sultan Qaboos University), Novels and Women in Iran

18 November
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Past Events

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Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September
john rogers herbert assertion of liberty of conscience by the independents of the westminster assembly of divines

Spiritual and Secular Authority in Early Modern Europe: Trans-Regional Perspectives

29 September
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Intellectual History Across Borders

28 September
A New and Correct Map of the United States (1784), map by Abel Buell

Sam Klug (Loyola University Maryland): A Colony Within? Debating Race, Class, and Empire in Midcentury America

10 July
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Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham): Faith with a Flourish: Ornament and Visual Experience in Protestant Places of Worship in England, 1560-1700

18 June
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Afifi Al-Akiti (University of Oxford): The Imago Dei and Human Dignity in Islamic Tradition

17 June