Events

The Faculty of History and its staff are involved in a number of different events including seminars, workshops and conferences. This feed looks to provide information on events which are relevant to those studying or interested in history which are running throughout the Humanities Division.

If you are running an event that you would like included on this feed, please contact comms@history.ox.ac.uk

Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

30 September to 02 October

A man pointing at a weather map on the wall

Forecasting the weather, between divination and science Antiquity to the present

09 October

Lincoln College chapel

Lincoln College History and the Ancient World Study Day

13 August to 15 August

For Year 12 students from UK State Schools. This study day provides prospective students on track to make an application to a competitive university the opportunity to explore everything Lincoln College has to offer.

Writing Queer History

Book Launch: Writing Queer History by Matt Cook

17 June

There will be a drinks reception following the launch.

Medieval Manuscript Hunters and the Second World War

Medieval Manuscript Hunters and the Second World War

11 June

Oliver Smithies Lecture (Two)

Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black

Rex Nettleford Lecture on Colonialism and its Legacies 2026

21 May

Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black

Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) government Chiang Kai-shek met with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Mao Zedong in Chongqing for peace negotiations © Hsu Chung-mao

New China, New Asia 1945-49: The debates that shaped postwar China and their relevance today

15 May

2026 Dacre Lecture

Death of a Nun: Medieval Women Scribes and Networks of Piety

Death of a Nun: Medieval Women Scribes and Networks of Piety

14 May

Oliver Smithies Lecture (One)

Allegory of the 1st partition of Poland, Wikimedia Commons

"Poland was but a breakfast": or, why 1772 helps us to understand 1776

13 May

2026 Annual George Rousseau Lecture

Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926

Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926

30 April

2026 Ewen Green Memorial Lecture

Margoliouth Lecture poster 2026

Damascus Rebuilt: Margoliouth and Syria After the 1860 Massacre

29 April

Inaugural Margoliouth Lecture on the History of the Middle East

map of Early Formation of Atlantic Slavery

Gender, Population, and the Early Formation of Atlantic Slavery

28 April

2026 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History

Godfrey Stafford

Godfrey Stafford: Physicist, Director, Master

11 March

HAPP Lecture

Observing suspicious suspects exchanging a bag on the street, Berlin, around 1975. MfS HA II Fo 865

Stasi Surveillance: Photography’s Material and Residual Traces

05 March

Oliver Smithies Lecture

Homefront, original illustration (European Studies Centre)

Morale on the home front, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction

26 February

Annual Oxford Centre for European History Lecture

Professor Jeremy Adelman (Cambridge)

Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World

13 February

A B Emden Lecture 2026

The Safe Repository

'The Safe Repository: Sex, Gender and Reproduction at the Kinsey Institute' Panel

24 November 2025

Antoine Lilti (Collège de France)

The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment

13 November 2025

Annual Besterman Lecture 2025

Professor Maria Misra

Femina Oeconomica: Global Gender Orders and the Rise of Neoliberal Woman

17 October 2025

4th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture

Annual Lectures

The James Ford Lectures in British History

Carlyle Lectures 2026

Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought