War & Peace Reading Group: Week 6

Name: War & Peace Reading Group: Week 6
Start: 2026-11-19T17:00:00+0000
End: 2026-11-19T18:00:00+0000

Date: Thursday 19 November
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 6: The St Petersburg Court

Mandatory reading: War and Peace, Volume II, Part 3
Optional reading: Madame de Stael, Ten Years in Exile, or Memoirs, pp. 340-357, pp. 361-377 (PDF in this folder)
- More optional, for those who have already read Volume 4: Julie Mitchell, “Natasha and Hélène,” in The Novel, Volume 2 (Princeton University Press, 2022, link): 534–40.

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

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

"Chinese have no concept of human rights": revisiting the Universal Declaration

21 November 2025

arambol goa hippie ground arambol beach party

'Dropping Out' as Political Thought? Towards a Global Intellectual History of Hippies

01 July 2025

'Proximity' and the Continuities in Parliamentary Representation

15 December 2021

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

'To thrust such Monsters upon the English': The Grallae Controversy in the 1640s

16 September 2025

Contemporary Rendition of the Revolutionary Flag of Rio Grande do Sul

'Whence came this law of nations?' Emer de Vattel in the Confines of Brazil, 1835-1845

11 May 2021

A Conversation with Michael Lamb | A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine's Political Thought (Princeton, 2022)

28 April 2023

A Conversation with Professor Faisal Devji: South Asian Intellectual History

04 October 2025

A conversation with Quinn Slobodian | Crack-Up Capitalism (Penguin, 2023)

17 April 2023

A Conversation with Samuel Moyn: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

01 April 2022