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Beyond the metropolis: Enlightenment learned societies in Batavia, Calcultta, and Manila

Date: Wednesday 25 November 
Time: 17:00
Venue: Magdalen, Summer Common Room

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Avi Lifschitz (Oxford): Holding a Monarch to Account: Frederick II's Writings in the Public Sphere

03 November 2026
Early Modern World Seminar
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

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

05 November 2026 to 06 November 2026
Global Intellectual History Seminar
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 4

05 November 2026
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Taushif Kara (Kings College London),Orthodoxy as Method: Islam, Pakistan, and Fazlur Rahman’s political philosophy

09 November 2026
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
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Geertje Bol (Freiburg): The Politics of Ambition

09 November 2026
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Strings and knots

Roger Chartier (Collège de France), Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus

10 November 2026
Maison Française d'Oxford
TMB

Teresa Bejan (Oxford): How did Equality become an Egalitarian Ideal?

10 November 2026
2026 Pharos Autumn Lectures
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Stéphane Van Damme (Maison Française d’Oxford), Materialist New York? French late Enlightenment in the early American Republic

11 November 2026
Enlightenment Workshop
Christ Church Library from R. Ackermann, History of Oxford (1813)

David Rundle (University of Kent): A House of God's Word: The Arrival of the Manuscript Bibles in Christ Church

11 November 2026
Christ Church Library
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 5

12 November 2026
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Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt): The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy

16 November 2026
New Book Panel - Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Luke Bretherton Inaugural

Luke Bretherton (Oxford): The Struggle to be Human: Christian Humanism and the Future of our Common Life

16 November 2026
Inaugural lecture