War & Peace Reading Group: Week 6

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).

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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.

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Jim Bennett and John Heilbron as Historians of Science and Intellectual Historians

09 January 2024

pre modern history of east asia

Joachin Gentz: (University of Edinburgh): How useful is Translation Theory for a translation of a Classical Chinese text?

26 May

Carlyle 2023

John Hudson: Maitland, Common Law and Civil Law

17 January 2023

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John Samuel Harpham (University of Oklahoma): Book Discussion, The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

27 May

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Jokha Alharthi (Sultan Qaboos University), Novels and Women in Iran

18 November

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

jonathan sheehan

Jonathan Sheehan (UC Berkeley): On the Altar: a History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular

09 June

An illustration of Icaromenippus from the frontispiece of a book called A Voyage in Space.

Journeys to the Moon in Ancient Greece

09 May 2022

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Kaoruko Kawashima

DPhil Student

18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

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

karen stolley

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

19 November

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

12 October

Oxford Political Thought Seminar

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Kenneth Novis

DPhil Student