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War & Peace Reading Group: Week 3

Date: Thursday 29 October
Time: 17:00-18:00
Venue: All Souls College, Bursars Study*

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 3: Russia and the French Influence

  • Mandatory reading: War and Peace, Volume I, Part 3

  • Optional reading: Alan Forrest, “The French at War: Representations of the Enemy in War and Peace,” in Tolstoy on War (PDF in this folder)

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
saih

Heena (University of Leicester), Beyond British Criticism: Religion, Print and Astrological Writings in 19th-century North India

19 October
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
leviathan

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
Image of Cairo citadel

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
africa

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
saih

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
leviathan

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
Image of Cairo citadel

Baroness Hale of Richmond, The Future of Human Rights in the UK?

28 October to 21 October
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies