📣 Call for Abstracts
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine
Medical Humanities DPhil & ECR Workshop
🗓 Workshop dates: 18–19 June 2026
📍 University of Oxford
⏰ Deadline for submissions: Sunday 17 May 2026 Details: tinyurl.com/ym56v4d7 @oxmedhum.bsky.social
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social
Call For Abstracts | We are pleased to announce a call for papers for an interdisciplinary workshop on "Plague in the 19th century: Epidemiological & Epistemological Connections." tinyurl.com/5ypyrmhm @oxmedhum.bsky.social; @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @oxhumanities.bsky.social @albertogiubilini2.bsky.social
@bodyinhistoryox.bsky.social announced the new date for their keynote lecture. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/4t7yf9ju @oxhumanities.bsky.social s.bsky.social; @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image by Jack Hartnell
Jack Hartnell
Next week, 25 March at 2:00 pm GMT, see Jack Hartnell at the Oxford Literary Festival! He will be in converation with Ruben Verwaal about medical imagery and mythology, as well as his latest book, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image.
This is an in-person, ticketed event: buff.ly/4pvyDYG
A warm, natural-light outdoor portrait of Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942), the groundbreaking American mathematician and the first woman to win the Abel Prize (2019) for her foundational contributions to geometric analysis, gauge theory, and partial differential equations. Captured in her later years, she stands confidently with arms crossed in a relaxed yet assertive pose under a concrete architectural overhang on a university campus (likely the University of Texas at Austin, where she is Professor Emerita and holds the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair). Uhlenbeck has shoulder-length silver-white hair, wire-rimmed glasses, and a gentle, knowing smile that conveys warmth, intelligence, and quiet authority. She wears a long charcoal-gray cardigan over a dark top with an intricate geometric pattern (echoing her work in mathematical geometry), paired with dark pants, standing on a paved walkway with autumnal trees and a modern brutalist building in the blurred background. The soft daylight highlights her approachable yet formidable presence as a trailblazing figure in mathematics—renowned for proving regularity theorems in minimal surfaces, advancing nonlinear analysis, and inspiring generations of women in STEM through her mentorship and advocacy.
Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck is one of the founders of modern geometric analysis.
#OTD in 2019, she became the first woman to win the Abel Prize, the "Nobel Prize of Math." She donated half the prize money to orgs promoting more engagement of women in research #mathematics.
#WomenInSTEM #WHM
Join us for an interactive evening blending theatre, ethics, and real‑time audience decision‑making, with this award-winning play from Jamie Hale. Tickets: shorturl.at/lWJSr
📅 Fri 27 Mar | ⏰ 6–9pm
📍 Jesus College, Cheng Yu Tung Building, Oxford
Just a reminder that we're trialling this new Theology database by Brill for just three more weeks! ⌛
See below for further details on where to send any feedback you may have 🤗
I’m now looking forward to finalising the exhibition I am curating for @batecollection.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social, teaching, meeting my new DPhils, and finishing up some research projects... @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
#EarlyModernHistory #academiclife
Informative interview with Nick Cullinan the Director of the British Museum www.thetimes.com/article/c0bc...
The 2026 Holberg Prize is awarded to Australian-British scholar Lyndal Roper of the University of Oxford for her ground-breaking research into early modern European history.
holbergprize.org/laureates/ho...
🎥 This year's Manchester Lecture is now available to watch online. Delivered by @ox.ac.uk Professor of Social and Architectural History William Whyte, it tells the fascinating story of the Worthington family of architects, who built the College's original buildings. www.youtube.com/live/ohzAvyS...
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Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.
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Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist Support by Lorenza Antonucci
Lorenza Antonucci
@chasm-uob.bsky.social hosts Lorenza Antonucci next week, 26 March at 3:00 pm GMT, for a talk on their book, Insecurity Politics. This work explores the everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism.
Learn more about this hybrid event: buff.ly/4v1heOc
Distinguished Lecture Series, 2025-26 Sem 2
Matthew Reynolds, Professor of English and Comparative Criticism, University of Oxford
Constraints as a Route to Creativity with GenAI (and In General)
Mar 20, 2026, 4pm
Rm 7.45, 7/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU
Let James Freemantle of the St James Park Press, the current Printer in Residence, introduce you to Artists' Books from the Bodleian and from his from his private Collection. Watch the full presentation from last Friday's Coffee Morning at the Weston Library here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tafb...
A victim, a witness, a sacrifice? Listen to the latest Coffee Morning presentation by Jana Lammerding from the University of Vienna to learn more about the presence of the child in books on witchcraft in the Bodleian's Francis Douce Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMj... #witch #douce
Climate Crisis and Western Capital in the Tropics: Can Resources Allocated to Indigenous-led Funds Make a Difference?
Read our latest blog post by Deborah Delgado Pugley
here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
New blogpost written by medical students Catherine Wang and Mahdi Murtaza on the relaunch of the Medical School Gazette, the world’s oldest and longest-running medical student journal. Its discussions intersect and develops important themes in the medical humanities
torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
What does it means when we say someone has great stage presence, charisma, flair and musicality? Giles Underwood will be untangling this question with our students from 3.30pm on Friday. Observers welcome!
www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/26-03-...
Call For Abstracts | We are pleased to announce a call for papers for an interdisciplinary workshop on "Plague in the 19th century: Epidemiological & Epistemological Connections." tinyurl.com/5ypyrmhm @oxmedhum.bsky.social; @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @oxhumanities.bsky.social @albertogiubilini2.bsky.social
Poster advertising the DPhil Crafty Connections event, with bright blue and orange colours. The text reads, 'DPhil Crafty Connections. 5:30-7pm Wednesday, 18th March, Radcliffe Science Library. Get to know other DPhil students while crafting and eating snacks! Book online go.glam.ox.ac.uk/craftyconnections.'
The end of term approaches, but excellent library events continue!
If you're a DPhil looking to decompress, book into @radcliffescilib.bsky.social next Weds evening for a special edition of Crafty Connections. Crafting materials and snacks provided! Booking here ox-ac.libcal.com/calendar/rsl... 🌷
Info at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/ihr-london-summer-school-26-sickness-health
#Bursary applications for the 2026 @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool are open until 26 March! Join us this June to explore 'Sickness and Health' in London #history: from the Black Death to the Covid-19 pandemic, with lectures, trips and visits. All welcome. See www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and the wife of Percy Shelley, Mary was exposed to many of the latest scientific ideas of the time, including the idea that matter might be animated into life through chemical and/or electrical means mycandles.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-...
Photo of Rachel Carson.
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 12 - Conservationist and writer Rachel Carson helped spark the #environmental movement with her book 'Silent' Spring', about the dangers of pesticides.
Where in the World...did she write 'Silent Spring'?
Click to find out: www.whereintheworldgame.com?id=214&type=q
#Science
It was great to host historian Elena Conis (UC Berkeley) for a MedHum lecture guiding the audience through the history of vaccination and vaccines, both as a medical technology and as the focus of cultural and ethical tensions.
Thanks to @torchoxford.bsky.social and @uehiro.ox.ac.uk for the support
Last Friday, we had the pleasure of listening to artist and art historian Ashkan Sepahvand presenting the 'Irradiant Archive' from WW2 Iran, including an unpublished epic romance manuscript by a an Iranian peasant. 📖 Watch the latest Coffee Morning presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWye...
You've read our booklet and watched our TikToks, but have you ever wondered what Oxford Medieval Studies is actually meant to be?
We've put together a short promotional video to explain exactly who we are and why you should join us! Watch it now at youtu.be/Jy1M4pP5cAc?...
Our latest blog post is now available to read and is connected to the event “The Valley Children – How Collaborative Creative Practice Can Help Us Make Sense of Predictive Genomics”, which took place on 20 February. tinyurl.com/3erzryfc @oxmedhum.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social
