War & Peace Reading Group: Week 3

Name: War & Peace Reading Group: Week 3
Start: 2026-10-29T17:00:00+0000
End: 2026-10-29T18:00:00+0000

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).

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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)

Forecasting the Weather Between Divination and Science

08 October to 09 October

Catherine Ross (Met Office), The D-Day forecast – From synoptic charts to the silver screen

08 October

Louisiane Ferlier (Royal Society, London), Before the Forecast: The Royal Society’s Meteorological Archive as Prelude to the Met Office

09 October

Michael Nazir-Ali (OXTRAD), Mystics, Monks and Mosques: Christian Perspectives on Sufism

12 October

South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Kate East (Newcastle), Factionalism and Legitimate Political Debate in the British Enlightenment

12 October

Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Practices of knowledge production in 18th century Europe (book discussion)

14 October

Enlightenment Workshop

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 1

15 October

Ian McBride (Oxford), The Lessons of the Northern Ireland Peace Process

15 October

Ewen Green Memorial Lecture

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

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

19 October

South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

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