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Professor Peter Ghosh Professor of the History of Ideas, Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History St Anne's College
Dr Conor O'Brien Associate Professor in the Early Medieval History of the British Isles and North Atlantic World The Queen's College
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Dr Ida Toth University Research Lecturer in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek and Byzantine Epigraphy Wolfson College
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21 Feb 'Nolumus mutare...': further reflections Custom, Common Law, and Civil Law South School, Examination Schools
14 Feb 'Secreted in the interstices of procedure': actions, ideas, and legal change Custom, Common Law, and Civil Law South School, Examination Schools
5 Nov Anniversary discussion of D’Holbach’s Système de la nature Prof. Alan Charles Kors (University of Pennsylvania), Dr Ruggero Sciuto (Voltaire Foundation) Online
15 Nov BESTERMAN LECTURES: ‘Writing Rights in 1789’ Keith M. Baker, Professor of Early Modern European History, Stanford University Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College, Oxford
19 Feb From the rights of man to human rights Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, Mansfield College, Oxford
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24 Jan Legal development in Europe: a view from the 1190s Custom, Common Law, and Civil Law South School, Examination Schools
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12 May The Dacre Lecture: ‘Thomas More’s Utopia and virtue politics’ The Old Library, All Souls College
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19 Jan The Carlyle Lectures 2021 - John Locke and Empire Mark Goldie (Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Sussex) Online
22 Jan The Carlyle Lectures 2022 - The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism Samuel Moyn (Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University) Examination Schools
19 Jan The James Ford Lectures 2023 - Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment: Ancients, Moderns and Pagan Pasts Professor Colin Kidd (Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews) South School, Examination Schools