War & Peace Reading Group: Week 1

Name: War & Peace Reading Group: Week 1
Start: 2026-10-15T17:00:00+0100
End: 2026-10-15T18:00:00+0100

Date: Thursday 15 October
Time: 17:00-18:00
Venue: All Souls College, Hovenden Room

This reading group explores the writing of history in the historical novel. In Michaelmas and Hilary Term will be exploring Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace (1869).

To join our mailing list, please contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Session 1: War and Peace in Intellectual History

Readings:

Mandatory reading: War and Peace, Volume I, Part 1
Optional reading: Leo Tolstoy, “A Few Words Apropos the Book War and Peace” (1868), appendix to the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation (PDF in this folder)

Karen Stolley (Emory University), Saber/conocer: ways of knowing in the Hispanic Enlightenment

19 November

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 6

19 November

Maria Floruțău, Beyond the metropolis: Enlightenment learned societies in Batavia, Calcutta, and Manila

25 November

Enlightenment Workshop

Steve Monroe (National University of Singapore), Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World

25 November

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 7

26 November

18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Rosario López (University of Málaga), J.G.A Pocock and the Politics of Going Global

01 December

Global Intellectual History Seminar

Kapil Raj (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Bringing the Elephant into the Room: Garcia de Orta's Colóquios (1563) and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Indian Ocean

02 December

Global Intellectual History Seminar and the Iberian History Seminar

HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, A New International Humanitarian Order: Dignity for All

02 December

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 8

03 December

Early-Career Workshop with Professor Kapil Raj

03 December

Global Intellectual History Seminar