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If you have any events that you feel may interest the intellectual history community please contact us at cih@history.ox.ac.uk.

 

Upcoming Events

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Avi Lifschitz (Oxford): Holding a Monarch to Account: Frederick II's Writings in the Public Sphere

03 November 2026
Early Modern World Seminar
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Conference: Across Anti-Imperial Metropolises: Nonstate Approaches to Modern Japan-France History

05 November 2026 to 06 November 2026
Global Intellectual History Seminar
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 4

05 November 2026
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Taushif Kara (Kings College London),Orthodoxy as Method: Islam, Pakistan, and Fazlur Rahman’s political philosophy

09 November 2026
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
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Geertje Bol (Freiburg): The Politics of Ambition

09 November 2026
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
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Roger Chartier (Collège de France), Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus

10 November 2026
Maison Française d'Oxford
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Teresa Bejan (Oxford): How did Equality become an Egalitarian Ideal?

10 November 2026
2026 Pharos Autumn Lectures
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Stéphane Van Damme (Maison Française d’Oxford), Materialist New York? French late Enlightenment in the early American Republic

11 November 2026
Enlightenment Workshop
Christ Church Library from R. Ackermann, History of Oxford (1813)

David Rundle (University of Kent): A House of God's Word: The Arrival of the Manuscript Bibles in Christ Church

11 November 2026
Christ Church Library
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 5

12 November 2026
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Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt): The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy

16 November 2026
New Book Panel - Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Luke Bretherton Inaugural

Luke Bretherton (Oxford): The Struggle to be Human: Christian Humanism and the Future of our Common Life

16 November 2026
Inaugural lecture
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Workshop on Gender and Global Intellectual History

17 November 2026
Global Intellectual History Seminar
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Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference

18 November 2026
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Programme
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Jokha Alharthi (Sultan Qaboos University), Novels and Women in Iran

18 November 2026
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
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Karen Stolley (Emory University), Saber/conocer: ways of knowing in the Hispanic Enlightenment

19 November 2026
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 6

19 November 2026
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Robert Cheah (Oxford): What was the Point of Ideal Theory?

23 November 2026
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
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Teresa Bejan (Oxford): How did Equality become an Egalitarian Ideal?

24 November 2026
2026 Pharos Autumn Lectures
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Maria Floruțău, Beyond the metropolis: Enlightenment learned societies in Batavia, Calcutta, and Manila

25 November 2026
Enlightenment Workshop
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Steve Monroe (National University of Singapore), Mirages of Reform: The Politics of Elite Protectionism in the Arab World

25 November 2026
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 7

26 November 2026
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Georgios Giannakopoulos (University of London):Interpreting Liberty: Empire, National Questions and the Politics of Knowledge at Europe’s Southeastern Frontiers

30 November 2026
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Rosario López (University of Málaga), J.G.A Pocock and the Politics of Going Global

01 December 2026
Global Intellectual History Seminar

Past Events

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Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September 2026
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Spiritual and Secular Authority in Early Modern Europe: Trans-Regional Perspectives

29 September 2026
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Intellectual History Across Borders

28 September 2026
A New and Correct Map of the United States (1784), map by Abel Buell

Sam Klug (Loyola University Maryland): A Colony Within? Debating Race, Class, and Empire in Midcentury America

10 July 2026
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Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham): Faith with a Flourish: Ornament and Visual Experience in Protestant Places of Worship in England, 1560-1700

18 June 2026
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Afifi Al-Akiti (University of Oxford): The Imago Dei and Human Dignity in Islamic Tradition

17 June 2026