War & Peace Reading Group: Week 8

Date: Thursday 3 December
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 8: The Comet of 1812 and a Star Without Atmosphere

Mandatory reading: War and Peace, Volume II, Part 5
Optional reading: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Uses and Abuses of History in Life (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