Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Subject SPECIAL LECTURES Writing Global History: the Middle East, Minorities, Drugs (hashish) and the New International Order in the 1920s (The Special Faculty Lecture) Literary Life and Bookmarket in Germany under the Swastika 193345 (The Lyell Lectures in Bibliography) The institutions The authors The publishers The books The readers The war Stalin and Hitler: Dictatorship and Social Catastrophe
Lecturer
Time
Place
F. 5 (wk 2: 6 May)
Schools
Prof. R. Wittmann (Univ. of Munich) Prof. R. Wittmann Prof. R. Wittmann Prof. R. Wittmann Prof. R. Wittmann Prof. R. Wittmann Prof. R. Wittmann Prof. R. Gellately (Florida State Univ. and Bertelsmann Europeaum Visiting Professor in Jewish Politics and History in the Twentieth Century)
T. Th. 5 (wks 1 3) T. 26 Apr. Th. 28 Apr. T. 3 May Th. 5 May T. 10 May Th. 12 May M.T. Th. 5 (wk 4), M.T. W. Th. 5 (wk 5)
Taylor Lecture Theatre TLT TLT TLT TLT TLT TLT Mansfield (M. wk 4, T. Th. wk 5), RAI (T. wk 4, M. W. wk 5) Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies (Th. wk. 4) Mansfield RAI Centre for Jewish and Hebrew Studies RAI Mansfield RAI Mansfield
Stalin, Hitler and Ordinary Citizens The secret police and denunciations: the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany Nazi persecution of the Jews and German public opinion Soviet and Nazi concentration camps Social outsiders under Communism and Nazism Stalinism from below: the voices of ordinary people The Nuremberg trials and beyond
Subject Why Harriot was not the English Galileo (The Thomas Harriot Lecture)
Place Oriel
LANGUAGES FOR HISTORIANS Language Teaching Centre The University Language Teaching Centre, 12 Woodstock Road, offers to all students free of charge the following facilities: Taught classes in general language in French (3 levels), German (reading and speaking) (2 levels), Italian (3 levels), Spanish (2 levels), Russian (1 level) and Modern Greek (2 levels). There are materials for private study in 80 languages, and facilities for viewing live TV by satellite in French, German, Italian, and Russian. Undergraduates should visit the Centre in Noughth Week to obtain full information. Portuguese for Historians Dr Leal T. 11 Centre for Portuguese Language, Littlegate House, St Ebbes OTHER COURSES BRIDGE PAPERS FOR JOINT SCHOOLS CANDIDATES LECTURES AND CLASSES The list of Lectures and Classes is divided into sections for the Preliminary Examination (Sections 1 to 4), Final Honour School (Sections 5 to 10), Postgraduate Courses (Sections 10 to 23), and Courses for Research Students. The sections designed for undergraduate courses include general headings, History of the British Isles (Sections 1 and 5), General History (Sections 2 and 6), and specific headings, Optional Subjects (Section 3), Approaches, Historiography, Foreign Texts and Quantification (Section 4), Further Subjects (Section 7), Special Subjects (Section 8), Disciplines of History and Political Thought (Section 9), and The Compulsory Thesis (Section 10) Courses specifically designed for Optional, Further and Special Subjects are numbered (OS1, FS1, SS1, etc.), and these numbers may be added to other courses suitable for though not specific to these papers. Some courses of lectures are entered under more than one heading, while others not so entered may none the less be relevant to more than one subject in the Preliminary Examination or the Final Honour School. Undergraduates and graduates are recommended to read through all sections of the list and not to focus narrowly on those specifically designated for particular options in examinations. Lectures relevant to Modern History courses may also appear on other faculties lecture lists, which can be found on the University Web site at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/pub/lectures THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION (1) British History Lectures on the History of the British Isles are listed in Section 5; the same lectures are suitable for the Preliminary Examination and or the Final Honour School. (2) General History (3) Optional Subjects Theories of the State (OS 1)
Dr Blair
Kingship in the age of Bede A monastic golden age? The British and the Irish context Bede and Wilfrid The church: local organization and pastoral care Art and architecture in the age of Bede Early Gothic France (class) (OS 3) Conquest and Frontiers: England and the Celtic Peoples, 11501220 (OS 4) English Chivalry and the French War c. 1330 c. 1400 (OS 5)
Prof. Charles-Edwards Dr Blair Ms Edmonds Prof. Charles-Edwards Mr Pickles Dr Blair Dr Whittow Prof. Charles-Edwards Dr Vale
28 Apr. 5 May 12 May 19 May 26 May 2 June T. 11.30 M. W. 11 (wks 14) M. 10, W. 9.30 (wks 14)
Schools (wks 1 4) History Faculty (wk 5) Schools (wks 1 3) Queens (wks 46) Schools Schools Schools Queens Queens Queens St Peters Jesus History Faculty
MODERN HISTORY
Subject Gunpowder, Compass and Printing Press: Technology and Society in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (class) (OS 6) Witch-craft and Witch-hunting in Early Modern Europe (OS 7) Statistics of the European witch-hunt Sources for the witch-hunt in France and her borderlands 1 Sources for the witch-hunt in France and her borderlands 2 Sources for the witch-hunt in the Germanspeaking lands 1 Sources for the witch-hunt in the Germanspeaking lands 2 Sources for the English witch-hunt Scepticism The Boundaries of Witchcraft in Early Modern Lorraine Nobility and Gentry in England, 15601660 (OS 8) Conquest and Colonization: Spain and America in the Sixteenth Century (OS 9) Culture, Society and Politics, 170095 (OS 10) Culture, Society and Politics, 170095 (OS 10) Culture, Society and Politics, 170095 (OS 10) Revolution and Empire in France, 17891815 (OS 11) Theories of War and Peace in Europe, 1890 1914 (OS 12) Angell and Bloch Social Darwinism Socialism and Liebknecht Bernhardi Working-class Life and Industrial Work, 1870 1914 (class) (OS 13) Industrialization in Britain and France, 1750 1870 (for Preliminary Examination in Modern History and Economics) Industrialization in Britain and France, 1750 1870 (for Preliminary Examination in Modern History and Economics)
Time T. Th. 10 (wks 15) T. W. 11 (wks 13) T. 11 (wk 4) T. 26 Apr. W. 27 Apr. T. 3 May W. 4 May T. 10 May W. 11 May T. 17 May M. W. 11 (wk 5) M.W. 12 (wks 14) T. 10 (wks 16) M. 11 (wks 14) T. W. 11 (wks 12) T. W. 11 (wks 34) M. W. 10 (wks 14) Th. 12 (wks 1 3)W. 12 (wk 4) Th. 28 Apr. Th. 5 May Th. 12 May W. 18 May T. 5 M. 3 (wks 16)
Mr Briggs Mr Briggs Mr Briggs Prof. Roper Prof. Roper Ms Bayman Mr Southcombe Mr Briggs and Dr Maryse Simon Dr Ingram Dr Parrott and Dr Pollmann Ms Innes Dr Gauci Dr Mitchell Dr Broers Prof. Pogge von Strandmann and others Dr Gregory Prof. Strachan Dr Stargardt Prof. Pogge von Strandmann Mrs Howarth and Dr McKibbin Dr Grafe
Schools Schools
Schools Schools Schools Schools All Souls Brasenose Habbakuk Room, Jesus Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools St Hildas Chester Room, Nuffied Seminar Room, Nuffield
Dr Grafe
T. 4 (wks 16)
(4) Approaches, Historiography, Foreign Texts and Quantification Meinecke, Kehr, and the German Sonderweg Mr Nehring
Schools
FINAL HONOUR SCHOOL (5) History of the British Isles An Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Church The Making of the March of Wales, c. 1067 1300 Introduction: the political geography of Western Britain, c. 1300 The political frontier in Western Britain, 10661276 Social and economic marches in Wales, 10671300 The frontiers of peoples, 10671300
Dr Blair Mr Lieberman
Subject Kingdoms, countries and marches: the context of the British Isles Conclusion: the European perspective Politics and Kingship, 12161327: The Emergence of a National Community Religion, Society and Politics, 13301550
Dr B. Thompson
Heresy and Inquisition, 13801520 New Perspectives on British History, 1500 1700 Monarchical Republicanism? New approaches to Elizabethan politics Persuasion, policy and Protestantism: Henrician propaganda at home and abroad Sexual discourse as political discourse from the Reformation to the Restoration Was there a Calvinist consensus in Early Modern England? The Marian persecution: failure or success? Local engagement with the early English Reformation The Early Modern English and Welsh gentry in their European context Continuity and change in the Tudor parliament, 14851603
Dr Forrest Dr Gunn and others Alex Gajda (New College) Tracey Sowerby (Merton) Alex Lumbers (Brasenose) Leif Dixon (Lady Margaret Hall) Megan Wheeler (Christ Church) Katherine Halliday (New College) Tomasz Gromelski (Balliol) Paul Cavill (Corpus Christi) Dr Pelling Dr Doran Mr Southcombe and Dr Tapsell Dr Young Ms Innes Dr Paseta Prof. Bogdanor
W. 11 (wks 14) M. T. 2 (wks 1 4) M. 25 Apr. T. 26 Apr. M. 2 May T. 3 May M. 9 May T. 10 May M. 16 May T. 17 May W. 12 (wks 14) W. 11 (wks 14) T. Th. 12 (wks 14) Th. 11 (wks 13) M. 12 (wks 14) Th. 11 (wks 13) W. 11 (wk 4) W. F. 12 (wks 14)
Schools (wks 1 3 and T. wk 4) History Faculty (Th. wk 4) Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools (wks 1 3 and T. wk 4) Jesus (Th. wk 4) Schools Schools Schools Brasenose
Themes in Early Modern English Social History Elizabeth I Key Questions and Interpretations in Restoration History, 166088 Church, Politics and Society in England, 1660 1829 The End of the Long Eighteenth Century? British History, 17801830 Britain and Ireland, 18701922 British Politics and Government in the Twentieth Century
(6) General History The periods of General History defined for the Final Honour School are: I. 285476, II. 476750, III. 700900, IV. 9001122, V. 11221273, VI. 12731409, VII. 14091525, VIII. 15171618, IX. 16181715, X. 17151799, XI. 17991856, XII. 18561914, XIII. 19141945, XIV. 19411973, XV. Britains North American Colonies: From Settlement to Independence, 16001914, XVI From Colonies to Nation: The History of the United States, 17761877; XVII The History of the United States since 1863; XVIII. Europe and the Wider World 18151914. So far as is possible these periods are indicated after the titles of courses. The Last Great War of Antiquity (I) Mr Howard-Johnston F. 12 History Faculty Aspects of Western Monasticism, c. 4301215 (IIV) Byzantine Art and Architecture, AD 6301453 (IIVII) Medieval Mediterranean Empires, c.10501300 (IVV) Dr Bombi Dr Mango W. 3 (wks 14) T. 12 Schools Seminar Room, Institute of Archaeology Schools
Dr C.J. Holmes
T. W 11 (wks 1 4)
MODERN HISTORY
Subject Papacy and Empire, 11221203 (VVI) Later Medieval France and Burgundy: Politics and Culture (VIVII) Religion and Politics in Sixteenth-century Europe (VIII) Reformation Theories of Revolution (VIII) Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (VIIIIX)
Time M. 3 (wks 14) T. 11 W. 11 (wks 14) M. 10 (wks 14) M. Th. 11 (wks 13) M. W. 11 (wk 4) M. 25 Apr. Th. 28 Apr. M. 2 May Th. 5 May M. 9 May Th. 12 May M. 16 May W. 18 May M. W. 11 (wk 5) M. W. 12 (wks 14) W. 11 W. 12 (wks 14) F. 12 W. F. 11 M. T. 2 W. 5 (wks 14)
The witch-hunt in Europe: patterns and problems Gender and the witch-hunt Possession Religion and magic The eye of the storm: Germany The fantasy of witchcraft Contrasts: England and Scotland Images of the witch in art and literature The Boundaries of Witchcraft in Early Modern Lorraine (VIIIIX) Europe, 17151799 (X) Italy in the Age of Revolution, 17501870 (X XII) Europe, 17991856 (XI) Metternich: Austria and Europe, 181548 (XI) Modern Chinese History, 18001989 (XIXIV and XVIII) The Soviet Union, 191741 (XIII) From the Clash of the Titans, 19141918, to Annihilating Civilians, 193945. First and Second World Wars Compared (XIIIXIV) Europe 191445: Political and Ideological Dynamics
Prof. Roper Prof. Roper Prof. Roper Prof. Roper Prof. Roper Prof. Roper Prof. Roper Prof. Roper Mr Briggs and Dr Maryse Simon Prof. Brockliss Dr Broers Dr Hippler Prof. Evans Dr Askew Dr Priestland Prof. Pogge von Strandmann Dr Conway and Dr Gerwarth
Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools All Souls Schools History Faculty Schools MacGregor Room, Oriel Institute for Chinese Studies Schools Schools
Introduction Revolution and counter-revolution Communism and Socialism Fascism Catholicism Democracy Modernity/Anti-modernism Europes Return to Peace and Democracy (a.k.a. World War II) The World 191445: Social and Cultural Dynamics (XIII) Nazi Germany (XIIIXIV)
Dr Conway Dr Gerwarth Dr Gerwarth Dr Conway Dr Conway Dr Gerwarth Dr Gerwarth Dr Conway Dr Gregory Dr Stargardt
T. 26 Apr. Th. 28 Apr. T. 3 May Th. 5 May T. 10 May Th. 12 May T. 17 May Th. 19 May W. F. 12 (wks 14) T. Th. 10 (wks 13), M. T. 10 (wk 4) M. T. 12 (wks 1, 34); T. 12 (wk 2) M. 25 Apr. T. 26 Apr. T. 3 May M. 9 May T. 10 May M. 16 May T. 17 May M. W. 11 (wks 14)
Schools (wks 1 3 and T. wk 4) Balliol (Th. wk 4) Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Balliol Schools Schools
Dr Priestland
Schools
Introduction The Soviet Bloc Western Europe Decolonisation Post-colonial states The American Civil Rights Movement Culture and the Cold War History of the United States since 1776 (XVI XVII)
Dr Priestland Dr Prielstand Dr Conway Dr Misra Dr Misra Dr Tuck Dr Buchanan Prof. Carwardine, Dr Scanlon, Dr Sexton, and Dr Tuck
Subject Vietnam Great Society Historians and American foreign relations Rise of modern Conservatism Black power and multiculturalism Religion Womens history American historical writing Americanization and Anti-Americanism in the Twentieth-century (Reading and Discussion Group) (XVII) The Emergence of Modern Africa
Lecturer Dr Sexton Dr Scanlon Dr Sexton Dr Scanlon Dr Tuck Prof. Carwardine Dr Tuck Dr Tuck Dr Sedlmaier
Time M. 25 Apr. W. 27 Apr. M. 2 May W. 4 May M. 9 May W. 11 May M. 16 May W. 18 May Th. 5 (wks 16)
Place Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools Schools History Faculty
Dr Deutsch
Th. 11.30
St Cross
(7) Further Subjects The arrangements for Further Subjects vary from one to another, but in some cases there will be both lectures and classes; and in some cases the number of candidates requires that classes be divided into two or three groups with different lecturers. The Near East in the Age of Justinian and Mr Howard-Johnston T. 9 (wks 12) History Faculty Muhammad (Revision class) (FS 2) Medieval Mediterranean Empires, c.10501300 Dr C.J. Holmes T. W 11 (wks 1 Schools (IVV) 4) Britain and Ireland, 18701922 (FS 20) Dr Paseta Th. 11 (wks 14) Schools Scholasticism and Humanism (class) (FS 24) Dr G. Garnett and others T. 11 (wks 14) History Faculty Aristotelianism Dr G. Garnett 26 Apr. History Faculty Canon law Dr Bombi 3 May History Faculty Conciliarism Dr G. Garnett 10 May History Faculty Humanism Dr Rundle 17 May History Faculty (8) Special Subjects Byzantium in the Age of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 913919 (SS 3) (Revision Class)
Mr Howard-Johnston
T. 10 (wks 12)
History Faculty
(9) Disciplines of History and Political Thought Varieties of History: the Modern History of Dr G. Garnett, Mr Ghosh, History Dr Robertson, and Dr Young Writing the history of this world: the Enlightenments expulsion of God from history Historismus: the German conception of History The history of ideas: from Collingwood to Quentin Skinner The Whig idea of history: progress and its critics Total history: economy, society and Marxism A critical history of cultural history Reformation Theories of Revolution Dr Robertson
W. 12
27 Apr.
(10) The Compulsory Thesis Writing a History Thesis Sources for Theses in Oxford
Schools Schools
POSTGRADUATE COURSES The seminars and classes listed in sections 11 to 23 are designed for M.St., M.Sc., and M.Phil. students in Modern History and associated areas of study. Persons not reading for these degrees, including undergraduates in Modern History and its associated Joint Schools, may attend the seminars and classes listed in sections 11 to 23 but are asked to seek prior permission from the seminar Convenor. Probationer research students in Modern History are reminded that they are required to attend the core seminar relevant to their period or area of study. M.Phil. students are advised that offerings listed in section 12 may be relevant to their course of study.
MODERN HISTORY
Subject
Lecturer
Time
Place
(11) M.St. in Historical Research and Probationer Research Students Core Seminars Medieval History Seminar Dr Vale British History 16801840 Dr Gauci, Ms Innes, and Dr Stevenson PRS In-house European History Seminar Research Seminar in American History
1
W. 11 W. 5 To be arranged W. 4 (wks 1, 3 5, 7), W. 5 (wks 2, 6) F. 9.30 am 4.45 pm (wk 3: 13 May) T. 2 W. 5 (wks 15)
Dr Caplan Dr Sexton
Commonwealth History Workshop: Globalization and Imperial History South Asian History Seminar Staff-Graduate Seminar in Economic and Social History
Prof. J. Brown, Dr Darwin, and Dr Deutsch Dr Washbrook Prof. Allen, Dr Harley, Prof. Humphries, and Prof. Offer Mr Willoughby Dr Vale and Dr Bombi Dr Pollmann Dr Sedlmaier
History Faculty
Other Seminars English Medieval Libraries and the Survival of Manuscripts Documentary Sources and their Interpretation, 12501500 Graduate Presentations in Early Modern European History Americanization and Anti-Americanism in the Twentieth Century (Reading and Discussion Group (12) M.St. in Modern History Core Seminars Medieval History Seminar British History, 16801840 PRS In-House European History Seminar Research Seminar in American History
1
Commonwealth History Workshop: Globalization and Imperial History South Asian History Seminar Staff-Graduate Seminar in Economic and Social History
Prof. J. Brown, Dr Darwin, and Dr Deutsch Dr Washbrook Prof. Allen, Dr Harley, Prof. Humphries, and Prof. Offer Dr Vale and Dr Bombi Prof. Carwardine Dr Sedlmaier
History Faculty
Other Seminars Documentary Sources and their Interpretation, 12501500 Graduate Workshop in American History Americanization and Anti-Americanism in the Twentieth Century (Reading and Discussion group) (13) History of Art and Visual Culture Core Seminars Interrogating the Classical Tradition from the Renaissance to Post-Modernism Interrogating the Classical Tradition from the Renaissance to post-modernism (class for BA students only) Departmental Research Seminar Other Seminars and Lectures 1 Ashmolean Art History Lecture Series
T. W. 3 (wks 1 4) To be arranged
History of Art, St Ebbes History of Art, St Ebbes History of Art, St Ebbes Ashmolean Museum
Prof. Kemp and Ana Finel Honigman Dr Kornmeier, Dr Jachec, and Dr Whistler
T. 4.15
W. 5 (wks 1, 3, 5, 7)
Subject Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Philosophy and Theory of the Visual Arts (14) M.St., M.Phil. in Byzantine Studies The Last Great War of Antiquity 1 Byzantine Studies Seminar
Time F. 5
Place Trinity
Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar: Architecture Byzantine Art and Architecture, AD 6301453
Mr Howard-Johnston Mr Howard-Johnston, Prof. Jeffreys, and Dr Mango Mr Howard-Johnston and Mr Danny Mr Howard-Johnston and Mr Ward-Perkins Dr Mango
F. 12 F. 5
History Faculty New Seminar Room, St Johns Fraenkel Room, Corpus Christi Trinity Seminar Room, Institute of Archaeology Seminar Room, Institute of Archaeology 47 Wellington Square 47 Wellington Square 47 Wellington Square
M. 11.30 Th. 5 F. 12
Dr Mango
T. 12
(15) M.Sc., M.Phil. in Economic and Social History Staff-Graduate Seminar in Economic and Social Prof. Allen, Dr Harley, History Prof. Humphries, and Prof. Offer (16) M.Sc., M.Phil., in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
W. 5 (wks 15)
(17) Advanced papers available as part of the M.Sc. and M.Phil. in Economic and Social History and in the M.Sc. and M.Phil in History of Science, Medicine and Technology Advanced papers will be taught at times to be arranged by individual tutors. Teaching will normally take the form of tutorials or small classes. Other postgraduates who wish to attend these may do so by agreement with the tutors concerned. Undergraduates will not normally be admitted to tutorials or small classes associated with Advanced Papers. Contemporary Russian Polity, Society and Dr Leonard To be arranged To be arranged Economy in Historical Perspective Economy and Society in Colonial Africa, Dr Deutsch To be arranged To be arranged c.18801960 Macro-economic Behaviour of the British Mr Dimsdale To be arranged To be arranged Economy since 1870 The Industrialization of Germany, 18501914 Prof. Pogge von To be arranged To be arranged Strandmann Industrailization in Europe, North America and Dr Grant To be arranged To be arranged East Asia since 1700 Social and Cultural Change in France 1600 Mr Briggs To be arranged To be arranged 1720 Violence and Historical Memory in Eastern Dr Anderson To be arranged To be arranged Africa Problems in European Historical Demography, Dr Landers To be arranged To be arranged 15601914 Comparative Reception of Evolutionary Prof. Weindling To be arranged To be arranged Biology and Eugenics in Britain, France and Germany, 18501918 Knowledge, Science and Empire Dr Chakrabarti To be arranged To be arranged The Birth of the Clinic, 17501850 Prof. Brockliss To be arranged To be arranged Disease, Medicine and Colonial Expansion Dr Harrison To be arranged To be arranged Electrotherapy: A Case Study in Nineteenth Dr Senior To be arranged To be arranged and Twentieth-century Science, Technology and Medicine International Health and Welfare Organizations Prof. Weindling To be arranged To be arranged in the Twentieth Century
MODERN HISTORY
Lecturer Dr Harrison
Time To be arranged
Place To be arranged
(18) M.Sc. in History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology Science, Technology and Instrumentation, since Dr Bennett and M. F. 10 1850 Dr S. Johnston
(19) M.St. in Women's Studies (20) M.Sc. in English Local History (21) M.Phil in Modern European History (22) M.Phil in Latin American Studies (23) M.Phil in Russian and Eastern European Studies Russian Cultural History Seminar Dr Priestland RESEARCH SEMINARS Core Seminars Medieval History Seminar British History, 16801840 PRS In-house European History Seminar Research Seminar in American History
M. 5
St Antonys
Dr Vale Dr Gauci, Ms Innes, and Dr Stevenson Dr Caplan Dr Sexton Prof. J. Brown, Dr Darwin, and Dr Deutsch Prof. Tom Tomlinson (SOAS, London) Dr Gareth Austin (LSE)
W. 11 W. 5 To be arranged W. 5 (wks 1, 3 5, 7) F. 9.30 am 4.45 pm (wk 3: 13 May) 9.30 am 10.10 am 10.10 am 10.50 am 11.20 am 12.00 noon 2.00 pm 2.40 pm 2.40 pm 3.20 pm T. 2 W. 5 (wks 15)
Commonwealth History Workshop: Globalization and Imperial History Was the British Empire a global system? Imperialism, globalization, and economic development: the experience of British West Africa, 18071960 Reflections on the global and the postcolonial A selective globalization of values: the case of India under the Raj Global Goans: circulating home in an imperial and post-imperial world South Asian History Seminar Staff-Graduate Seminar in Economic and Social History
Prof. Catherine Hall (University College, London) Prof. Tapan Raychaudhuri Dr Margaret Frenz (St Cross) Dr Washbrook Prof. Allen, Dr Harley, Prof. Humphries, and Prof. Offer Mr Howard-Johnston, Prof. Jeffreys, and Dr Mango Prof. M. Jeffreys (Oxford and London) Dr J. Bardill (Newcastle) Dr M. Mango (St Johns) Frederick Lauritzen (Columbia, New York) Niels Gaul (Dumbarton Oaks and Bonn) Alexander Sarantis (St Annes) Judith Gilliland (St Johns)
History Faculty
F. 5
Psellos and the year, not the schism, of 1054 The great palace: archaeology, text and topography Anderin and the town in Syria A courtier in the womens quarters: the rise and fall of Psellos Manuscripts and meaning: suggestions for a material support reading of Byzantine texts Justinians Balkans Demetrius Kydones career and writings: religion and politics in mid-fourteenthcentury Byzantium
3 June 10 June
St Johns St Johns
Subject Literacy and political culture in Byzantium, 9501250 Byzantine Church History Why did people found hospitals in Byzantium? Faith and charity: the ecclesiastical elites of the Palaiologan period and their attitudes towards the poor Monastic Florilegia of the eleventh and twelfth centuries Typika and other texts The Council of Florence (14389) revisited: failure or success? The church and the law courts in the Palaiologan period Photios as a theologian Enforcing orthodoxy in Byzantium
Lecturer Catherine Holmes (University) Dr Baun Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, London) Dr Dennis Stathakopoulos (Kings College, London) Ms Evangeli Skaka (Oxford) Prof. Margaret Mullett (Belfast) The Right Revd. Kallistos Ware (Oxford) Dr Ruth Macrides (Birmingham) The Revd. Prof. Andrew Louth (Durham) Prof. Averil Cameron (Oxford) Dr Mango
Place St Johns Wharton Room, All Souls All Souls All Souls
All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls Seminar Room, Institute of Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Institute of Archaeology Trinity Danson Room, Trinity Trinity Trinity
Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar: Architecture The bath in late antiquity
Dr Mango Dr Mango Dr Judith McKenzie Dr Tassos Papacostas Hanaa Bou Nasr Elif Keser Kayaalp Elizabeth Montgomerie Mr Howard-Johnston and Mr Ward-Perkins Peter Heather (Worcester) Richard Sharpe (Wadham) Andrew Marsham (Pembroke) Stephen Emmel (Univ. of Mnster) Clive Foss (Georgetown Univ., Washington) Elias Khamis (Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem) James Howard-Johnston (Corpus Christi) Luke Lavan (Univ. of Leuven) Dr Brand and Dr Whittow Dr Judith Pfeiffer (Oriental Institute)
29 Apr. 6 May 13 May 20 May 27 May 3 June 10 June Th. 5 28 Apr. 5 May 12 May
The church of St Polyeuktos: archaeology and interpretation The late antique (fifthseventh century) lecture rooms in Alexandria Aspects of eleventh-century Byzantine architecture Liturgy verses architecture in the Constantinopolitan church The layout and buildings of the cities of northern Mesopotamia Ecclesiastical representations in Byzantine art After Rome Seminar Law in the Burgundian kingdom Rome, Vivarium, Bobbio: centres of learning in late antique Italy Ritual and the establishment of the Abbasid state: oaths of allegiance to al-Mansur and alMahdi Shenoute vs. Gesios: a monastic leader undertakes to ruin a pagan notable in early fifth-century Egypt Byzantine survivals in Umayyad Syria Measures and weights from Scythopolis Global politics in late antiquity The late antique city: change or decline?
19 May
Trinity
Trinity Trinity Trinity Trinity Wharton Room, All Souls All Souls
Medieval History Research Seminar A thirteenth-century endowment deed from Central Anatolia in the context of the social, economic, and intellectual networks in the region
10
MODERN HISTORY
Subject Powers and ceremonies: the meetings of kings of France and England, 1066-1204 How much state does a medieval nation need? Some reflections on the German evidence, c. 1250-c. 1450 Hiberno-Saxon Contact in the west of the Northumbrian Kingdom, c. 650950 The Empire of Muawiya The authority of Matilda of Boulogne: sources and uses Princely power in the Principality of CapuaBenevento in the tenth century Genetic evidence for a substantial AngloSaxon contribution to the modern gene pool
Fiona Edmonds (New College) Prof. Clive Foss (Georgetown) Patricia Dark (St Hildas) Luke Ramsden (University) Dr Mark Thomas (University College, London) Dr Blair and Dr Forrest Benjamin Dodds David Harrison John Blair David Hinton Round Table Dawn Hadley Robert Peberdy Matt Tompkins
All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls
Medieval Social and Economic History Seminar Who brought tithes in the later middle ages? Bridges and economic development in preindustrial England Canal-building and water-transport in early medieval England Economic implications of new discoveries of medieval artefacts Present and future practice: are we making the best use of the sources? Writing social history from later AngloSaxon burial practices Economic development in the mid-Thames Valley in the tenth to twelfth centuries Sub-tenancies and inter-manorial landholdings in south Buckinghamshire: Do manorial records provide a full picture of medieval peasant landholdings Documentary Sources and their Interpretation, 12501500 Medieval Church and Culture
All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls All Souls
Th. 11 T. 5
St Johns Garrard Room, Harris Manchester Seminar Room, Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Corpus Christi
Witchcraft, sodomy and the Bishop of Waterford The ecclesiastical politics of postRestoration Scotland Secret presses, radical Puritanism, and the crisis of 1640 Presbyterianism and print culture, c. 1643 c.1680 What, more lollardy? Possible new directions in lollard studies Deprivation and restoration: the fortunes of married clergy in the Diocese of London, 15541564 Death and dying in the writings of Thomas More Dr Temples pew: sex and clerical status in the 1630s Medicine, Surgery and Culture
Dr Haigh, Dr Heal, Prof. MacCulloch, and Dr Maltby Peter Marshall (Univ. of Warwick) Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) David Como (Stanford Univ.) Ann Hughes (Univ. of Keele) Ian Forrest (All Souls) Brett Usher (Univ. of Reading) Craig DAlton (Univ. of Melbourne) Christopher Haigh (Christ Church) Dr Pelling
Th. 5
Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 47 Banbury Road
11
Subject The importance of towns to the seriously ill and dying in seventeenth-century Kent From foetic air to filth: the cultural transformation of British epidemiological thought, c. 1780c.1848 Surgery and empire: Listers students in imperial service More Copious, and less Unaccurate: Robert Boyles planned second edition of his Memoirs for the History of Human Blood Pills, balms and elixirs: making and selling new medicines in later seventeenth-century London Eye surgery in thirteenth- and fourteenthcentury Europe Gender, Culture and Society in Britain and Europe, 14501900 Witchcraft and the western imagination The disenchantment of the world? The ambiguous legacy of the Reformation Dust and curses: witchcraft in the early modern Isle of Man Reason, revelation and women in the writings of Mary Astell Self-fashioning and changes of identity in early modern Italy An ideal marriage after Trent Restoration to Reform Seminar Trusting in the Book Way: How Franklin & Hall imagined their transatlantic book trade Plagiarism and John Dunton The media response to Stephen Duck, 1730 31 Charles Dodd and the rhetoric of Catholic historiography Warburton and the idea of the philosophic historian Themes in the Modern History of Religion
Lecturer Dr Ian Mortimer (Univ. of Exeter) Dr Michael Brown (Univ of York) Prof. Anne Crowther (Univ. of Glasgow) Dr Harriet Knight (Queen Mary, Univ. of London) Dr David Haycock (LSE)
16 May 23 May
6 June
Wellcome Unit
Dr Laurence Eldridge (Univ of Ottawa) Prof. Dame Olwen Hufton and Prof. Roper Lyndal Roper Alex Walsham James Sharpe Sarah Trethewey Kim Siebenuener Simone Laqua Dr Ballaster, Dr Gleadle, and Dr Williams Nicholas Wrightson (Jesus)
13 June T. 5 26 Apr. 3 May 10 May 17 May 24 May 31 May M. 5.15 (wks 2, 4, 6, 8) 2 May
Wellcome Unit History Faculty History Faculty History Faculty History Faculty History Faculty History Faculty History Faculty Council Room, Mansfield Mansfield
Liam Condon (Exeter) Jennifer Batt (St. Hughs ) Kendra Packham (Wadham) Mary Brereton, (Wadham) Dr E.J. Garnett and Dr S.C. Williams and Dr M. Grimley Alana Harris (Wadham)
The family that prays together, stays together: English Catholic spirituality, social identity and secularisation The religion of Englishness: Puritanism, providence and national character 191860 Popular music and English theology, 1940 90 Ostentation is always out of place, but especially so in the vicarage: Anglican and Wesleyan Methodist clerical homes,1850 1910 Spirituality, mankind and modern communities in the metaphysics of Semyon Frank 190953 Mere religious hallucination: Julia Wood and the New Forest Shakers Sceptical afterlives: Hume and Gibbon in the nineteenth century East and East-Central Europe Seminar
25 Apr.
History Faculty
Matthew Grimley (Royal Holloway) Ian Jones (Manchester University) and Peter Webster (IHR) Jane Hamlett (ARHUL)
2 May 9 May
16 May
History Faculty
Stephanie Solywoda (Pembroke) Janet Rose (Harris Manchester) Brian Young (Christ Church) Prof. Evans
23 May
History Faculty
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Subject Pleasing Britain, serving Hitler: the Hungarian political elite and the revision of the Treaty of Trianon, 193341 An empress thwarted Maria Theresa and the Jews of Prague, 1745 The sword hanging over their heads: the significance of pogrom for Jewish life and self-understanding in fin-de-sicle Eastern Europe The polish underground and the Jews during World War Two: the historiographical controversy Geza von Hoffman: founder of Hungarian racial hygiene? The Duke of York as King of Hungary? Britain and the Hungarian conspiracy of 178890 From despised to protected: Yiddish in the language strategy of orthodox Jewry in Hugarny (eighteenthtwentieth century) Keeping the peace of the manor: manor court and villages in early seventeenth-century Hungary Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Britain (Students interested in taking part in this seminar must contact he convenor first, if possible before the start of term) Modern British History and Politics Seminar: The politics of the English constitution 184867 Wizards of the North: Gladstone, Scott and Scottish Identity Revisionism revisited: egalitarian strategy and the Keynesian Welfare State 194564 Clever little devils are more dangerous than the stupid ones. The cultivation of character, the curriculum and the question of Religion in the 1944 Education Act Against Engineers of the Human Soul: Isaiah Berlins anti-managerial Liberalism Gender and History Reading Group
Lecturer Tibor Frank (ELTE, Budapest) Lionel Kochan (Oxford) Natan Meir (Southampton)
Time 29 Apr.
Place Oriel
6 May 13 May
Oriel Oriel
Joshua Zimmerman (Yeshiva Univ., New York) Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes Univ.) Orsolya Szkly (London)
20 May
Oriel
27 May 3 June
Oriel Oriel
Szonja Komorczy
10 June
Oriel
17 June
Oriel
Ms Innes
T. 2
Somerville
Dr Davis, Dr Goldman, and Mrs Howarth Robert Saunders (Magdalen) Ruth Clayton (St Hildas) Ben Jackson (Mansfield) Greg Dochuk (St Johns)
History Faculty History Faculty History Faculty History Faculty History Faculty
Joshua Cherniss (Balliol) Dr Gleadle Prof. Foster Daithi O Corrin (Trinity College, Dublin) Prof. Anthony Fletcher Prof. R. Gellately Dr Priestland Shaun Morcom (Birkbeck College, London) Hubertus Jahn (Clare College, Cambridge) Andrei Zorin (New College, Oxford) Alexander Morrison (All Souls) Catherine Merridale (Queen Mary, London)
Peace promoters or Iscariots of Ulster? The churches, ecumenism and the Northern Troubles, 196273 The politics of a Young Irish Nationalist: Cesca Chenevix Trench 191416 Communism and Nazism: Perspectives from the twenty-first century Russian Social and Cultural History Seminar People and power in post-war Russia: popular attitudes towards Soviet authority, 19451953 Representations of the poor: The world of St Petersburg beggars The origins of the cult of Minin and Pozharskii and Russian political mythology Russian views of Empire in Turkestan and the example of British India, c. 18601910 Why did Ivan fight? Combat motivation and the Red Army in world war
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Subject From geneaology to generation: The birth of Cohort Thinking in Russia Heavenly letters and tales of the forest: superstition against Bolshevism Stalinism and the culture of violence
Lecturer Stephen Lovell (Kings College, London) Steve Smith (University of Essex) Jrg Baberowski (Humboldt University, Berlin) Dr Sedlmaier
Americanization and Anti-Americanism in the Twentieth Century (reading and discussion group) History, Culture and Politics of the Islamic World African Studies Seminar Africa Research Seminar African History and Politics Seminar
History Faculty
Dr Nizami and Prof. Piscator Dr Anderson, Prof. Beinart and Dr Mustapha Dr Deutsch Daniel Branch and JanGeorge Deutsch
W. 5 Th. 5 W. 2 M. 5
Centre for Islamic Studies St Antonys St Cross Library Wing Seminar Room, Queen Elizabeth House QEH QEH
Awakening the sleeping giant: African universities and the African Renaissance Intelligence, political authority, and dissent in the one-party states of East Africa, 1960 80 Language work and colonial politics in eastern Africa: the making of standard Swahili and School Kikuyu Punishing the Native in Inter-war Rhodesia Going for cai at Gatundu, 19689: reversion to a Gikuyu ethnic past or building a national future for Kenya? Local politics in eastern Uganda, 194562 Weber, entrepreneurial values and vigilantes: identity and economic action in Africa The fragmentation of ethnic communities in contemporary Kenya: the case of the Kalenjin Postcolonial Graduate Seminar Graduate Workshop in Commonwealth History Nissan Seminar in Japanese Studies Graduate Seminar in Japanese Studies
25 Apr. 2 May
Derek Peterson (Univ. of Cambridge) Jocelyn Alexander (Univ. of Oxford) Ben Knighton (Univ. of Oxford) Stuart McConnel (SOAS) Kate Meagher (Univ of Oxford) Gabrielle Lynch (Univ. of Oxford) Dr Sunder Rajan and Prof. Young Mr Sebe Dr Waswo Prof. Goodman and Dr Waswo Dr Kornmeier, Dr Jachec, and Dr Whistler Dr Marika Lenio
9 May
QEH
16 May 23 May
QEH QEH
QEH
QEH
Wadham History Faculty St Antonys Seminar Room, Nissan Institute Ashmolean Museum Ashmolean
Italian Renaissance plaquettes: the origins and functions of the small relief in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Jospeh Wrights images of the Orrery and air pump: a documentary reassessment of the meaning of two of British art historys canonical images Scientific photographs from W.H.F. Talbot to Bernice Abbott The uses of landscape painting in Rome c.1600 St Johns 450: Moments in the History of St Johns Sir Thomas White From Campion to Laud Richard Rawlinson
11 May
Ashmolean
Dr Kelley Wilder (History of Art Department) Thierry Morel (History of Art Department) Dr Emerson and Dr Whyte Malcolm Vale (St Johns) Michael Riordan (St Johns) Roey Sweet (Leicester)
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Time 18 May
Place St Johns
FOOTNOTE REFERENCES For details of individual seminars, see below under Research Seminars.
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